DK's Best Achievements in Cinema - 1974


Best Director
Mel Brooks    Young Frankenstein,
Blazing Saddles
Martin Scorsese    Alice doesn't Live Here Anymore
Bob Fosse    Lenny
John Cassavetes    A Woman Under the Influence

Best Actor
Dustin Hoffman    Lenny
Also worth mentioning
Gene Wilder    Young Frankenstein
Alfred Lutter III    Alice doesn't Live Here Anymore
Peter Falk    A Woman Under the Influence

Best Cinematography
Gerald Hirschfeld    Young Frankenstein
Also worth mentioning
Bruce Surtees    Lenny

Best Score
John Morris    Young Frankenstein,
Blazing Saddles

Best Production Design
Robert De Vestel,
Dale Hennesy
   Young Frankenstein
Best Picture
Young Frankenstein
Lenny
Blazing Saddles
Also worth mentioning
Alice doesn't Live Here Anymore

Best Actress
Ellen Burstyn    Alice doesn't Live Here Anymore
Gena Rowlands    A Woman Under the Influence
Cloris Leachman    Young Frankenstein
Valerie Perrine    Lenny
Diane Ladd    Alice doesn't Live Here Anymore
Madeline Kahn    Blazing Saddles,
Young Frankenstein

Best Writing
Julian Barry    Lenny
Gene Wilder,
Mel Brooks
   Young Frankenstein
Mel Brooks,
Norman Steinberg,
Andrew Bergman,
Richard Pryor,
Alan Uger
   Blazing Saddles

Leading movies:
None

Movies that were considered (13):
A Woman Under the Influence | Alice doesn't Live Here Anymore | Arabian Nights | Blazing Saddles | Dark Star | Gone in 60 Seconds | Lenny | The Groove Tube | The Man with the Golden Gun | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | The Towering Inferno | Thunderbolt and Lightfoot | Young Frankenstein.

Movies that were not considered (and should have):
Chinatown | Earthquake | Murder on the Orient Express | The Conversation | The Godfather: Part II | The Great Gatsby.