One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: 1975 Best Picture

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” took all 4 top honors at the 48th Academy Awards. In addition to Best Picture, it won Best Director (Miloš Forman), Best Actor (Jack Nicholson) and Best Actress (Louise Fletcher). It also won Best Adapted Screenplay (Bo Goldman and Laurence Hauben).

The other films nominated for Best Picture were “Barry Lyndon”, “Dog Day Afternoon”, “Jaws” and “Nashville”. The Supporting Actor and Actress Oscars went to George Burns in “The Sunshine Boys” and Lee Grant in “Shampoo”.

More 1975 film titles: “Tommy”, “The Return of the Pink Panther”, “Funny Lady”, “The Apple Dumpling Gang”, “Nashville”, “Farewell, My Lovely”, “The Hindenburg”, “The Man Who Would Be King” and “Mandingo”.

One 1975 foreign film, “The Story of Adele H” (France), was notable for the fact that its star, Isabelle Adjani, was a nominee for Best Actress and also a presenter at the ceremony. Another one, “Seven Beauties” (Italy) was not released in the USA until Jan. 1976 and its star, Giancarlo Giannini was nominated for Best Actor the following year.

Jeopardy! clues on “Cuckoo’s Nest”
WE’RE CUCKOO $400: In this 1975 film Jack Nicholson commented, “I must be crazy to be in a looney bin like this!”
MOVIE MANIA $200: In this 1975 Jack Nicholson film, a feisty misfit enters an insane asylum & inspires his fellow patients
THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $200: Before playing Jim on “Taxi”, Christopher Lloyd debuted as a mental patient in this 1975 Jack Nicholson film
CHOCK FULL O’ NUTS $400: A feisty prisoner enters an insane asylum, stirs up the other inmates & gets lobotomized in this 1975 film
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1000: Inmates at the Oregon State Mental Hospital played extras in this 1975 Oscar winner

More 1975 film clues:
OSCARS OF THE ’70s $2000: This son of a famous French impressionist painter received an honorary Oscar in 1975
MOVIES $200: In his first screen role since 1939, he won the 1975 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for “The Sunshine Boys”
AN ODD CAST OF CHARACTERS $1200: The 1975 film: Magenta, Columbia, Janet Weiss
THAT ’70s FILM $400: Devotees bring toilet paper, rice, rubber gloves & other props to midnight showings of this 1975 film
FRANKENSTEIN $800: Mick Jagger wanted to play Dr. Frank-N-Furter in this 1975 film; Tim Curry got the role instead
L-M-N $1000: Ken Russell’s 1975 film send-up of Hungarian composer Franz
AT THE MOVIES $1200: Don Johnson & a talking pooch were the stars of this 1975 film based on a Harlan Ellison story
HERE’S WALDO $800: In a 1975 film this actor was just great as “The Great Waldo Pepper”
THE CANINE FILM FESTIVAL $200: This 1975 Al Pacino film was based in part on an actual bank robbery
THE “LAST” PICTURE SHOW $2000: Who could forget Cybill Shepherd & Burt Reynolds in this 1975 Bogdanovich film, a tribute to the old musicals
AT THE MOVIES $200: Let’s all do the Time Warp again while watching this 1975 film starring Tim Curry
AT THE MOVIES $800: This 1975 film classic contains the line “Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries”
DIANA ROSS $100: Diana played a fashion designer in this 1975 film & also sang its theme, “Do You Know Where You’re Going To”
“OO”, SORRY! $400: Carrie Fisher made her film debut in this 1975 Warren Beatty-Julie Christie movie
HARDPODGE $800: In 1965 the highest grossing movie of all time was “The Sound of Music”; 10 years later it was this 1975 film
FILMS OF THE ’70s $1000: In 1975 John Huston co-starred with Sean Connery in “The Wind and the Lion” & directed him in this film
INTERNATIONAL ACTRESSES $1000: Sharon Stone’s “Diabolique” co-star, this French actress was an Oscar nominee for “The Story of Adele H.”
WESTERNS $600: “Rooster Cogburn” was a 1975 sequel to this 1969 John Wayne film
HE WAS IN THAT? $600: Look for Jeff Goldblum as the Tricycle Man in this 1975 Robert Altman film set in Tennessee
“DAY”S OF WRATH $600: Al Pacino angrily bursts into a New York bank in this 1975 film about hostage-taking
TIM CONWAY FILMS $1000: In a 1975 film, Tim played Amos, a bumbling bank robber, who joins this title gang named for a dessert
FILMS OF THE ’70s $1000: A 1975 Robert Altman film centers on a music festival & political rally in this title city
LESSER-KNOWN MOVIES $600: In a 1975 film Sally Kellerman & Mackenzie Phillips are the “Gold Dust Twins” who kidnap this title character
THE “ROCKY”s $300: This 1975 cult film featured such songs as “Dammit, Janet” & “Over At The Frankenstein Place”
SEAN CONNERY FILMS $400: As Danny to Michael Caine’s Peachy, Connery was this title character in a 1975 John Huston film
“GREAT” FILMS $800: Robert Redford was flying high as a barnstorming pilot in this 1975 film
“BLACK” MOVIES $500 (Daily Double): George Segal played Sam Spade Jr. in this 1975 film satirizing “The Maltese Falcon”
AWARDS $800: In 1975 “The Towering Inferno” won the Cinematographer Oscar, & this disaster film won for Sound
1979 $400: Amity Island was the setting for this 1975 film that topped 1979’s TV ratings
FRENCH ACTRESSES $800: Isabelle Adjani played the obsessive daughter of this author in “The Story of Adele H.”
THE SOUTH ON FILM $100: A 1975 Robert Altman film was set in this cultural capital of country music
LONG-RUNNING FILMS: Playing in theaters since 1975, this film has had the longest continuous theatrical run in movie history