KCFCC Award Winners – 1970-79

1970

Best Film – Tie: Patton & Five Easy Pieces
Best Director: Robert Altman, M*A*S*H
Best Actor: George C. Scott, Patton
Best Actress: Jane Fonda, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Best Supporting Actor: Gig Young, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Best Supporting Actress:  Sally Kellerman, M*A*S*H
Best Foreign Film: Z (France)

1971

Best Film: The French Connection
Best Director: Sam Peckinpah, Straw Dogs
Best Actor – Tie: Gene Hackman, The French Connection & Walter Matthau, Kotch
Best Actress: Jane Fonda, Klute
Best Supporting Actor: John Mills, Ryan’s Daughter
Best Supporting Actress: Margaret Leighton, The Go-Between
Best Foreign Film: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Italy)

1972

Best Film: A Clockwork Orange
Best Director: Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather
Best Actor – Tie: Marlon Brando, The Godfather & Stacy Keach, Fat City
Best Actress – Tie: Katharine Hepburn, The Trojan Women & Cicely Tyson, Sounder
Best Supporting Actor: Joel Grey, Cabaret
Best Supporting Actress: Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture Show
Best Foreign Film: Murmur of the Heart (France)
Best Director of a Foreign Film: Vittorio De Sica, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Italy)
Best Documentary: Marjoe

1973

Best Film: American Graffiti
Best Director: Ingmar Bergman, Cries and Whispers
Best Actor: George Segal, A Touch of Class
Best Actress: Joanne Woodward, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Best Supporting Actor: Robert Ryan, The Iceman Cometh
Best Supporting Actress: Madeline Kahn, Paper Moon
Best Foreign Film: Cries and Whispers (Sweden)
Best Documentary: The Sorrow and the Pity

1974

Best Film: The Conversation
Best Director: Francis Ford Coppola, The Conversation & The Godfather Part II
Best Actor: Jack Nicholson, Chinatown
Best Actress: Joanne Woodward, Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
Best Supporting Actor: John Huston, Chinatown
Best Supporting Actress: Sylvia Sidney, Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
Best Foreign Film: Amarcord (Italy)
Best Documentary: That’s Entertainment!

1975

Best Film: Nashville
Best Director: Robert Altman, Nashville
Best Actor: Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon
Best Actress: Gena Rowlands, A Woman Under the Influence
Best Supporting Actor: Max von Sydow, Three Days of the Condor
Best Supporting Actress: Lily Tomlin, Nashville
Best Foreign Film: Scenes from a Marriage (Sweden)
Best Documentary: Hearts and Minds

1976

Best Film: Rocky
Best Director: Milos Forman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Best Actor: Sylvester Stallone, Rocky
Best Actress: Faye Dunaway, Network
Best Supporting Actor: Jason Robards, All the President’s Men
Best Supporting Actress: Jodie Foster, Taxi Driver
Best Foreign Film: Small Change (France)
Best Documentary: That’s Entertainment! Part 2

1977

Best Film: Annie Hall
Best Director: Woody Allen, Annie Hall
Best Actor: Richard Dreyfuss, The Goodbye Girl
Best Actress: Diane Keaton, Annie Hall
Best Supporting Actor: Jason Robards, Julia
Best Supporting Actress: Vanessa Redgrave, Julia
Best Foreign Film: Cousin, Cousine (France)
Best Documentary: Pumping Iron

1978

Best Film: Interiors
Best Director: Woody Allen, Interiors
Best Actor: Brad Davis, Midnight Express
Best Actress: Geraldine Page, Interiors
Best Supporting Actor: Peter Firth, Equus
Best Supporting Actress: Maggie Smith, California Suite
Best Foreign Film: Bread and Chocolate (Italy)
Best Documentary: The Last Waltz

1979

Best Film: Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Director: Robert Benton, Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman, Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Actress: Sally Field, Norma Rae
Best Supporting Actor: James Woods, The Onion Field
Best Supporting Actress: Meryl Streep, Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Foreign Film: The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Italy)
Best Documentary: The Children of Theatre Street

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