Film Awards

1968 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerIn the Heat of the NightRod SteigerAn African-American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.Amazon1968 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesBonnie and ClydeWarren BeattyAmazonCool Hand LukePaul NewmanAmazonGuess Who's Coming to DinnerSpencer TracyAmazonThe GraduateDustin HoffmanAmazon

1969 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerCharlyCliff RobertsonAn intellectually disabled man undergoes an experiment that gives him the intelligence of a genius.Amazon1969 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesOliver!Ron MoodyAmazonThe FixerAlan BatesAmazonThe Heart Is a Lonely HunterAlan ArkinAmazonThe Lion in WinterPeter O'TooleAmazon

1970 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerTrue GritJohn WayneA drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian territory.Amazon1970 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesAnne of the Thousand DaysRichard BurtonAmazonGoodbye, Mr. ChipsPeter O'TooleAmazonMidnight CowboyDustin HoffmanAmazonMidnight CowboyJon VoightAmazon

1971 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerPattonGeorge C. ScottThe World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.Amazon1971 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesFive Easy PiecesJack NicholsonAmazonI Never Sang for My FatherMelvyn DouglasAmazonLove StoryRyan O'NealAmazonThe Great White HopeJames Earl JonesAmazon

1972 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerThe French ConnectionGene HackmanA pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.Amazon1972 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesFiddler on the RoofTopolAmazonKotchWalter MatthauAmazonSunday Bloody SundayPeter FinchAmazonThe HospitalGeorge C. ScottAmazon

1973 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerThe GodfatherMarlon BrandoThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.Amazon1973 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesSleuthLaurence OlivierAmazonSleuthMichael CaineAmazonSounderPaul WinfieldAmazonThe Ruling ClassPeter O'TooleAmazon

1974 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerSave the TigerJack LemmonA disillusioned aging decent man and once proud WWII veteran is dealing with midlife crisis as well as a tough moral dilemma. If he wants his small near-bankrupt clothing company to survive, he has two days to let go of his shaken morals.Amazon1974 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesLast Tango in ParisMarlon BrandoAmazonSerpicoAl PacinoAmazonThe Last DetailJack NicholsonAmazonThe StingRobert RedfordAmazon

1975 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerHarry and TontoArt CarneyWhen his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.Amazon1975 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesChinatownJack NicholsonAmazonLennyDustin HoffmanAmazonMurder on the Orient ExpressAlbert FinneyAmazonThe Godfather: Part IIAl PacinoAmazon

1976 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestJack NicholsonA criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.Amazon1976 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesDog Day AfternoonAl PacinoAmazonGive 'em Hell, Harry!James WhitmoreAmazonThe Man in the Glass BoothMaximilian SchellAmazonThe Sunshine BoysWalter MatthauAmazon

1977 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role WinnerNetworkPeter FinchA television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.Amazon1977 Academy Awards - Actor in a Leading Role NomineesNetworkWilliam HoldenAmazonRockySylvester StalloneAmazonSeven BeautiesGiancarlo GianniniAmazonTaxi DriverRobert De NiroAmazon