![]() ![]() So Frank came out and said that the Academy wished to disassociate itself from the preceding. Offstage, Bob Hope was mad, and scribbled some lines for his co-host Frank Sinatra. Instead of an acceptance speech, he read out a telegram conveying fraternal greetings to the American people from Dinh Ba Thi of the Vietnamese Provisional Revolutionary Government. On April 8th 1975, Bert Schneider’s film Hearts And Minds won the Oscar for Best Documentary. ![]() Truly, that was the golden age of Academy Awards ceremonies. There followed Five Easy Pieces and The Last Picture Show.īut, as much as I like the latter, I prefer to remember the late Mr Schneider for his contribution to the gaiety of 1970s Oscar nights. That flopped, but the next film he produced, Easy Rider, cost less than 400 grand and within three years had made $60 million. He started in TV in the mid-Sixties, helped create “The Monkees” and then took them to the big screen in the feature film Head. This is a unique portrait of an iconoclastic period of movie history when filmmakers made a huge impact on the whole of American culture.Bert Schneider was an obscure figure by the time of his death, but back in “New Hollywood” – that interlude between the end of the studio system and the dawn of the Jaws/ Star Wars era – he was briefly a significant figure. However, this newfound freedom gave birth to an explosion of ego, soaring budgets and a seemingly endless supply of drugs and the filmmakers' mutual support and encouragement degenerated into bitter rivalry. With each success the filmmakers were allowed more creative control. Hopper, Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas were among its main heroes. This was a golden age of American cinema. It all began with Dennis Hopper's "Easy Rider" in 1969, and came to a close with Martin Scorsese's "Raging Bull" in 1980. Those times gave birth to a new generation of filmmakers who breathed new life into Hollywood. ![]() Section: Landmarks of American Mass Cultureīased on Peter Biskind's best-selling book, the documentary examines 1970’s Hollywood, when the director was the star of the movie. Add to favourites Screening schedule Screenings: ![]()
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