Winners
- Best Film:
- Best Foreign Film:
- Best Actor:
- Best Actress:
- Best Supporting Actor:
- Best Supporting Actress:
- Best Director:
- Special Citation:
- The Golden Voyage of Sinbad , Earthquake and The Towering Inferno , for outstanding special effects
- Robert Youngson, for his 25-year work with tasteful and intelligent compilation of films
- The Film Industry, for increasing care in subsidiary casting in many films
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad is a 1973 British fantasy film directed by Gordon Hessler and featuring stop motion effects by Ray Harryhausen. It is the second of three Sinbad films released by Columbia Pictures, the others being The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) and Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977). The film stars John Phillip Law, Tom Baker, Takis Emmanuel and Caroline Munro. It won the first Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film.
Earthquake is a 1974 American ensemble disaster film directed and produced by Mark Robson. The plot concerns the struggle for survival after a catastrophic earthquake destroys most of the city of Los Angeles, California.
Robert Youngson was a film producer, director, and screenwriter.
The Conversation is a 1974 American mystery thriller film written, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman with supporting roles by John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams, Frederic Forrest, Harrison Ford, Teri Garr and Robert Duvall.
Amarcord is a 1973 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini, a semi-autobiographical tale about Titta, an adolescent boy growing up among an eccentric cast of characters in the village of Borgo San Giuliano in 1930s Fascist Italy. The film's title is a univerbation of the Romagnolo phrase "a m'arcord". The title then became a neologism of the Italian language, with the meaning of 'nostalgic revocation'.
Eugene Allen Hackman is a retired American actor and novelist. In a career that spanned nearly five decades, Hackman was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning Best Actor in The French Connection and Best Supporting Actor in Unforgiven. He won four Golden Globes, one SAG Award and two BAFTAs.
