I didn't think Bugsy was very good.
JFK is one of the best films of the 90s.
But I am glad Palance won it for City Slickers.

Bugsy really wasn’t worth the hype it got at the time. It was a Beatty plug.
Norman! What did you put in my tea?

I’m not sure if Hopkins initially being seen as supporting blocked Ted Levine from getting his own momentum
Academy loved seeing Ben Kingsley so opposite Gandhi
In 1991 Keitel was also in Thelma and Louise

They are all great actors. What actors do you think should have been nominated?

Abysmal lineup. Michael Lerner is the only deserving performance out of them.

That's typical of the scumbag pinheads in Hollyweird.
MAGA! FAFO! Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder.

The nominees were:
Tommy Lee Jones, JFK
Harvey Keitel, Bugsy
Ben Kingsley, Bugsy
Michael Lerner, Barton Fink
Jack Palance, City Slickers
Seriously, what a crappy set of nominees. Where's Ted Levine in Silence Of The Lambs? John Goodman in Barton Fink? Joe Pesci or Donald Sutherland in JFK?

Jaws
Homo No Homo, ask how Stonekeeper banned me.
MAGA
4
L1F3

rocky or network

I liked network the most

You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
It's Going To Be A Bumpy Night!

1976: David Carradine stars in Best Picture Nominee
Two years later…

Bound For Glory!
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
It's Going To Be A Bumpy Night!

Nice, thanks for the website. I will try again later.
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I read the book too
You rascal, Toastie 🥰
If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana

Check out this site. It gives screen time percentages and amount of minutes time for Oscar nominees:
https://www.screentimecentral.com/leading-actress-oscar-nominees
Spacek had approximately 45mins screen time in a 98min movie. Her presence was well dispersed throughout the runtime and the narrative was pretty much always about Carrie, even when not on screen.
That is what I find impressive about the film. It packs in a lot of detail and characterisation within a moderate/average runtime, without ever feeling under-developed or rushed. It conveyed what it needed too.
I used to have my gripes about the film. That is only because I read the book first and had expectations for it. I saw the film at a tiny retro theatre about 7yrs after its initial release. I was too young in 1976 to be able to see it and it was Restricted 18+ where I lived.
It was a double feature with Poltergeist. Carrie was on first and I was still technically underage. After Poltergeist, hid in the front toilets behind the screen and watched Carrie again before my last bus home…
Norman! What did you put in my tea?

I thought they were just okay. Sissy Spacek didn't have enough screen time, probably because she was somewhat new of an actress at that time. Piper Laurie had come back from a 15 year hiatus, movie-wise, after The Hustler. I'll probably give Carrie another go in the future and see if my opinion can be improved.
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So you’re not a fan of Sissy Spacek or Piper Laurie in
Carrie?
Burnt Offerings
has decent performances and is an interesting supernatural horror film, but it is also cheesy at the same time.
As horror, I don’t feel BO holds a candle to De Palma’s classic teen angst supernatural horror thriller. Your personal call though.
Norman! What did you put in my tea?

https://thecineviewer.com/FilmsOf1976.html
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Really good question.
Taking a look at it right now, in 2026 - I think "Taxi Driver" was the best film released in 1976.
I believe "Rocky" won.
Yeah, I think it should have been "Taxi Driver"

Of those films,
Network
, though I can understand
Rocky’s
win.
My personal choice, the near perfect
Carrie
would have been nominated and won best picture, actress, supporting actress and screenplay.
Norman! What did you put in my tea?

I have not seen Bound for Glory but the winner should have been Network.
I love Rocky and I can see why it won but Network was so clearly the best film of those I have seen.
All the President's Men would be second.
And then Rocky.
Taxi Driver? Nah.

This is the strongest and tightest Best Picture field in the history of the Oscars. I go back and forth between Taxi Driver and Rocky. Today, I'll take Taxi Driver.

Network
Are you okay?