The French Connection Wins Best Picture | 44th Oscars (1972)
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- "The French Connection" producer Philip D'Antoni winning the Oscar® for Best Picture at the 44th Annual Academy Awards® in 1972. Presented by Jack Nicholson.
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The French Connection Wins Best Picture | 44th Oscars (1972)
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Nicholson presented Best Picture because nobody wanted to do it cause of the possibility that A Clockwork Orange could win and were afraid it would ruin their reputation. Jack being a new star and also Jack didn't worry given his image as a rebel.
and he became a superstar not long after ^^
A legend.
It's funny, as I started watching this it immediately popped into my head that Jack would not have been well enough established as a big name actor at this point to be in the prestigious position of awarding the Best Picture Oscar. I scrolled down in hopes of finding some explanation in the comments and yours came up straight away.
@@Fordham1969 By early 1972, Jack's biggest movies -- or most memorable -- were "Five Easy Pieces" and "Easy Rider," though he'd been in the biz since the late 1950s.
I suppose he had nothing left to lose - after appearing in public wearing that horrendous shirt and all!!!
The French Connection still holds up nearly fifty years later. It rewrote the rulebook on cop movies and action films in general. Every cop show made since owes it a great debt of gratitude
It has the best car scene I have ever seen. And it was real. They didn't stopped the traffic for it. Crashes were real too.
I believe it is credited with being one of the first along with the midnight cowboy and easy rider that brought movies out of the cookie cutter 50s 60s mold of guy meets girl into the new Era of social change
And Gene Hackman was a shit hot actor.
Much respect 🙏
To prawda, chociaż Bullitt tego samego producenta wyznaczył zasady gatunku jeszcze wcześniej. French connection był jedynie rozwinięciem pomysłów poprzednika.
And then Nicholson would go on to work with the great Stanley Kubrick!
Just saw THE FRENCH CONNECTION in a revival house in downtown Manhattan last week. Seeing it with an enthusiastic foot-stomping New York crowd, there's nothing like it.
Yes I was truly impressed by this film.. wow is it a memorizing film to watch my favorite film William Friedkin Directed.. this is definitely one of the best films ever made... Truly a masterpiece..
I loved A Clockwork Orange, but French Connection was a real tour de force and still a masterpiece to this day.
Fun Fact: The reason Jack Nicholson (relatively unknown at that time) presented the Best Picture Oscar is because "A Clockwork Orange" was so controversial that no A-list actor at the time wanted their named tied to it, if it did happen to win Best Picture.
What do you mean unknown? He already had two Oscar nominations up to that time with Easy Rider and Five Easy Pieces.
Angel a Cinephile Well Robert De Niro was already an Oscar winner when he drove Taxi for a role & still no one recognised him.
@@angelcastaneda529 I think Jack was considered as a new comer at that time... at least not too recognized enough to present the best picture.. Charlie Chaplin wouldve been a great presenter along with his award that night. ^^
@@angelcastaneda529 He didn't have his first leading man role until just two years later with Chinatown.
jlg395, What about The Last Detail, Five Easy Pieces. Are we pretending those don’t exist?
RIP Philip D'Antoni (February 19, 1929 - April 15, 2018), aged 89
And
RIP William Friedkin (August 29, 1935 - August 7, 2023), aged 87
You both will be remembered as legends.
One must see "The French Connection" on the big screen to appreciate it. Seeing it the way it was meant to be seen, on a big movie theater screen, is a totally different experience. The car chasing the train is out of this world. See it on the big screen.
That sounds like a great idea. It was before my time so I never got to see it in a theater
'The French Connection' was not only a universal critical success and box office hit (and commercial success is and always has been a key requisite for Oscar success), it was recognised at the time by both critics and fellow filmmakers as one of the best action pictures ever made and one of the best genre movies ever made. Like 'Godfather', it rewrote the book in its particular genre and most cop and urban contemporary action movies following it owe it some kind of debt.
'Clockwork Orange' was a commercial success and is still hugely influential in terms of its visuals. No one doubted that this was the work of a master filmmaker. But it also divided critics and audiences and was hit by censorship both at the hands of British censors and by Kubrick himself. It was not a universal critical success - the storytelling was attacked as incoherent and the scenes of sexual assault were rightly criticised for being gloatingly exploitative. The Academy doesn't give Oscars to X-rated movies and Clockwork Orange was very much an X-rated movie.
Malcolm McDowell should have been nominated and deserves at least an Honorary Oscar for his body of work, but when you work with certain 'above the title' directors you always run the risk of being seen as just a talking dummy and not as an artist in your own right. The exception to that rule is of course Woody Allen. When you work with an 'above the title' director it's the director who gets all the attention and all the credit for the film's success, not the actors, writers, photographers or art directors. Don't forget also that he was playing a villan (Kubrick doesn't have heroes in his movies) and villans dont get nominations either.
The Academy gave the Best Picture award to an X-rated movie two years before this.
And box-office success is not a dependable metric, at least not lately. Green Book, The Hurt locker, No Country For Old Men, Moonlight...
Joker is a villain and both Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix won for the role. I haven't seen A Clockwork Orange but your argument that villains don't get nominated, is very naive. It's the depth of the performance and how good the actor is playing that particular character. It doesn't matter if you play Hitler or Gandhi.
Kathy bates got an Oscar for Annie Wilkes, one of Stephen King’s greatest villains. Anthony Hopkins got an Oscar for Hannibal lector, the greatest villain in film of all time
@@tommytimp wouldn't consider Green Book or Moonlight comparable to such iconic films that won Oscars because nobody even talks about those movies anymore and they made no real impact on film since.
Yeah, Midnight Cowboy was X and won. Clockwork was R. Lots of villains have won. Thanks for your input!
Jack Nicholson first time presenting the Best Picture award. One of eight times, I believe that he has presented the award. Hope he does it again at the 85th Oscars!!!!!
I loveeeeeeee Jack's speaking voice
I sleep with that voice
Me too
As opposed to his singing voice?
no one applaud for a clockwork orange WTF?
Dean Costa A Clockwork Orange is a masterpiece.
no one applauded because when it came out it was highly controversial
Dean Costa no
+Dean Costa Shut up kid, Go watch Transformers
The Hustler Yeah it was mostly for alex being so young commiting such acts such as rape and ultra violence but even if it was contervarsial doesnt mean its bad
Why no one applauds when Jack mentions A Clockwork orange?
"A Clockwork Orange" was a controversial film in 1971.
+smit4459 I know the synopsis was not very nice, but that is not a good reason to not clap. And in my opinion the movie was the best on these year
Not to mention it was successful in America; it was in the UK where it got all the backlash.
Positively shocking
@@Jack-zk5xi It's not the premise but but out of fear od copycats, Clockwork orange was basically the "joker" of its day, however unlike Joker, people actually did try and emulate violence the film.
Jack Nicholson used to be so hot, and that voice is lovely!😍
Imagine having a year with that many classics! Hard to pick. 😳
McCabe & Mrs Miller (which is brilliant) wasn't even nominated! Should have swapped out one of the other nominations for it
Jack was stoned.
he is the last stone
It was the '70s. I bet everybody was stoned tbh.
Yes noticed that lol.
why do people always have to point this out. is it that big of a deal?
no you are
Jack Nicholson was good looking back then
NOW CLOCKWORK ORANGE IS WIDELY CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE GREATEST MASTERPIECE EVER!!!!
Yes it is. So is the French Connection
As it should!
A clockwork orange shouldn't have won, however, I agree that Malcom Mcdowell should've at least recieved a nomination for his brillian performance.
The dedication alone to put those metal clips in his eyes for God only knows how many takes. He deserved to win.
I'm so glad that The French Connection won Best Picture... My favorite movie of all time
@@RealSuperNintendan i respect your opinion and i liked or loved Argo.
A clockwork orange should have one.
Should have one of what ?
Won*
I agree for both director and best picture. However Friedkin deserved best picture and director for The Exorcist. That’s the only way I’d want ACO to take this home. Btw, ACO is my #3 film of all-time. It’s just how highly I view Friedkin’s work that there’s no way he should be empty handed. Kubrick is the biggest snub along with Hitchcock ever though.
@@foosbooze263
Totally agree.
And good though the Sting is, it’s really a reheat of the elements of Butch Cassidy; the Exorcist was the seminal Artwork that year.
I love "The French Connection," but it should've been "A Clockwork Orange" to take home Best Picture.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. It tells us what's what.
I agree, even though the disturbing subject it was more inovator.
No. I loved Clockwork Orange back in 1981 when it was a forgotten film and no one in GenX had heard of it yet. It’s great but the French Connection is just a bit better.
@@Ausomedays Agreed. Though A Clockwork Orange was a phenomena when it opened in the early 1970s but it was too violent for critics and The Establishment. I think both are great films but of the two "The French Connection" holds up as the groundbreaking and quintessential crime/police flick of the latter 20th century, in my humble opinion.
This was back when they actually awarded Best Picture to what was actually the best film.
Then why isn’t Kubrick up there getting the little gold man?
Oh really? Like Oliver! in 1968?
@@Mayhem5150Get over it, dude.
The Last Picture Show and A Clockwork Orange are brilliant but The French Connection was the best directed film that year. Friedkin was at the pinnacle of his career - The Exorcist was one helluva follow-up.
Why nobody talks about the great Peter Bogdanovich's Last Picture Show? That movie is absolutely amazing!
Nicholson should have been nominated for the kitchy 70's-style shirt !
What a classy and humble acceptance speech from a great producer and a fantastic film !!!!!
I saw most of these 1971 classics (and many more) at my local movie theater in NY. It was a mostly Black crowd. I remember the various audience reactions. Shaft, The French Connection, Billy Jack and Dirty Harry got the biggest responses. A great year for films.
A great year and a great decade, the '70s.
jack nicolson in the young version face look alike leonardo di caprio! They both like father and son!!!
34 years later, they did a film together.
I had no ideia French Connection beated Clockwork Orange
The ultimate height of Hollywood artistry was in early to mid seventies. Thanks for the memories (and the torrents).
This movie totally deserved it amazing film.. I am totally in love with the direction and acting... the sequel was really good to.. I can't wait to get them both on Blu Ray..
Clockwork Orange was ROBBED also Stanley Kubrick for directing
The problem is A Clockwork Orange was waaaay ahead of its time. It was one of the most controversial films of the 70s, you know why.
Although it came out in 1971 it's awards were in 1972 just in case you people get confused..
Thank you
Gosh 1:13 that scream. LMAO Someone just died of victory.
young jack nicholson
This was the first of a record 17 Oscar telecasts that the late Marty Pasetta would direct, taking over for Richard Dunlap, who directed 11.
Nine people pick their feet in Poughkeepsie.
I suppose that for teenagers, Clockwork Orange is a better film. Wait a few years till you grow up, Boyzos, you'll finally realize that French Connection is the superior film.
French Connection hasn't aged that well
@Diego Pisfil No, this is based on the fact that I saw The French connection not that long ago and while entertaining wasn't more than that and it the fact it simply hasn't aged well.
Now A Clockwork Orange is the 70th greatest film ever made according to the AFI (American Film Institute)... The French Connection is the 93th one...
@@juanucedaperez9614 A Clockwork Orange is also currently 102 on the imdb top 250 while the French connection is not on the list.
When best picture award actually meant something.
He look alike Leonardo di Caprio!
Look at the Attitude and Charisma of "Mr. Jack Nicholson"
That scream at 1:13 has to be Roy Scheider 😅
What I love about this is Nicholson is straight to the point. No witticisms, cute jokes or asides. More award shows should be like this today.
AFI's Top 100 Films
70th: A Clockwork Orange
93th: The French Connection
So...
Wow, Jack, greatest actor ever, Gene Hackman is also great, but Jack could've starred in French Connection, too,
I wish Nicholson and Hackman had been in at least one film together.
Jack could never have played Popeye Doyle. Hackman is simply the GOAT.
That was some roll call of films.
All of the Best Picture Nominees of 1971 except for Nicholas and Alexandra have appeared at least one AFI's 100 Years...list except for AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs, AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions, AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs, AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes, AFI's 25 Greatest Film Scores, and AFI's 25 Greatest Movie Musicals:
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies:
A Clockwork Orange #46
The French Connection #70
AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills:
The French Connection #8
A Clockwork Orange #21
AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains:
A Clockwork Orange:
Alex De Large #12 Villain
The French Connection:
Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle #44 Hero
AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers:
Fiddler on the Roof #82
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies 10th Anniversary Edition:
A Clockwork Orange #70
The French Connection #93
The Last Picture Show #95
AFI's 10 Top 10:
Science Fiction:
A Clockwork Orange #4
need to see Clockwork Orange. Love every other Kubrick film I've seen. I would have given it to Last Picture Show. Great movie.
God this movie is amazing.. I really wish I had the blu ray..
"A Clockwork Orange," "Fiddler On The Roof," "The French Connection," "The Last Picture Show," and "Nicholas and Alexandra"
A Clockwork Orange is more remembered then the French Connection!
JONATHAN PINZON agreed it is
+JONATHAN PINZON I they're both wonderful films!
This is a time when the Academy got it correct! Overall, good films.
Nah, Clockwork Orange and Last Picture Show remain more well known classics than The French Connection which is an enjoyable affair but quite hollow.
I'm not convinced. I prefer both The Last Picture Show and especially A Clockwork Orange.
Jack Nicholson spent too much time "in the nest", if you know what I mean.
Yeah he was stoned.
I really enjoy The French Connection so I'm happy the film won Best Picture and I said "In The Memory of Roy Scheider (from Jaws) and to real life police mans that was in the film and really life story Eddie Egan & Sonny Grosso.
There no husky voice from Jack Nicholson back then, his voice is so clear at that time!! Why his voice so changed drastically...?
Probably just deepened more with age. Either that or tons of cigars/cigarettes
Why did D'Antoni stop producing films not long after this? He had a pretty good career, it seems to me.
I just can´t believe that A Clockwork Orange didnt won.
That movie is burned into my soul. Absolutely flawless. I grew up in NYC and that movie epitomizes what NYC use to be. Today, it's another story. All of the cop flicks of yesteryear depicted what the Big Apple use to be. The very Best. Now?... Just take a walk on 42nd or 34th streets from 5th Ave to 7th Ave and you'll see what I mean.
I think I wouldn't be so obsessed with the French connection if it wasn't early 70s NYC. I visited all of the sites once. Even the empty lot with the church in the background that is still standing
Um filme que mostra realmente a realidade da limitada força policial ante a péssima burocracia governamental.
Jacks voice has gotten deeper
The gritty realism of The French Connection came from real locations and people. It’s like a time capsule of 1970s NYC! 🗽📸
The French Connection was the 1st R-rated movie to win Best Picture. I was & still am happy it won Best Picture, Best Actor & Director. I also love A Clockwork Orange but it also suffered from being released in the 70s a decade that saw other classics like Chinatown, Taxi Driver, Deliverance, Jaws, Network, Apocalypse Now, Dog Day Afternoon & many others not win Best Picture.
No,the first r Rated movie won best picture was midnight cowboy
@@hadiputraw8083 Midnight Cowboy was rated X
It's not like it was a huge achievement to be the first R-rated movie to win best picture less than 4 years after MPAA introduced the rating. Before that Midnight Cowboy won best picture which was in fact Rated X.
The Oscars were much biased in favour of all things Hollywood and American actors in general in those days . A Clockwork Orange , Kubrick and Malcolm McDowell should all have won their individual categories .
You are in the minority, dummy.
They still are, if anything they have gotten worse despite them trying to expand the academy to international voters. The categories are filled with supbar biopics and basic ass shit while amazing foreign films get snubbed (European cinema especially).
you guys think Clockwork Orange should have won, but my guess is that that is probably the only film you saw and recognize from the nominations.
High as a kite, oh jack
All the nominees were great movies, sadly, only one could get the accolade in the end. For me, however, all the movies compiting here for best picture were equally remarkable, cinema always wins.
The beginning of gene hackman fame!!!!
That was an amazing year for films
Great clips. But where is the great Hal David's win for Raindrops...?
You mean from Butch Cassidy? 2 years before...
0:35 his face looks kinda green. Alex the Alien.
have you seen all of the nominees?
You never hear about Nicholas & Alexandra anymore.
Its a big Roadshow melodrama that tried so hard to Doctor Zhivago but failed on most levels.
this was a really great year for films, and tough choices!! I really wished Clockwork Orange won, but I guess it's not for everybody, so I can see why the French Connection won, can't go wrong with the chase scene though!!!
Yes but as you said the Clockwork Orange is NOT FOR EVERYBODY.
Nicholson mispronounces the name " Philip D'Antoni" adding an extra "o" at the end : "Philip D'Antonio"
A Clockwork Orange should have won :D
The exorcist should've won the best picture too
Jack was handsome then 😎
William Friedkin was, simply put, a legend.
His technical prowess, mastery of tone and commitment to storytelling were unparalleled. And so was his willingness to push the boundaries of what was acceptable. It wasn’t that he was merely challenging good taste; it was that he wanted to go beyond what had come before. And sometimes that made people very uncomfortable. Friedkin’s career is largely defined by this kind of artful provocation, and it makes his passing - especially in the current age of pre-packaged, vacuum-sealed mass entertainment - all the more devastating. We didn’t just lose one of the greatest filmmakers of his generation; we lost an outspoken advocate for the kind of movies they just don’t make anymore.
Thankfully, Friedkin
Got that one right great Movie
It was great to see "The French Connection" win the Best Picture Academy Award in 1971. Everyone who was associated with that picture (including its director William Friedkin), was convinced that it wasn't going to be a commercial and critical success. On how wrong he was. Friedkin himself had won for Best Director.
1972. 🙃
@@shieldsluck1969 the 72 Oscar's were for the year of 71
@@amyh3873 In my unsignificant opinion (😉) he won the award in '72. No matter if someone named it 'Best Picture Award *in* 71'. 🙂
I haven't seen the other films nominated for Best Picture, I have only seen A Clockwork Orange. Malcolm McDowell should have at least gotten a nomination for Best Actor. He was phenomenal as Alex Delarge.
Agreed. Walter Matthau is unconvincing as a 70 something in Koch and McDowell is sensational in A Clockwork Orange.
Leonardo Dicaprio back in the 70s
Still immently watchable..a masterpiece! Joe Carnahan who directed a great movie Called 'Narc' in 2002 said he fashioned his style for the movie after William Freidkin's 'french connection'...connection 2 was 'disappointing'
You know that the film didn’t deserve the award when Jack Nicholson doesn’t smile or gives a very forced and shallow smile, clockwork Orange
A clockwork orange was voted by the academy in order to become a nominee but wasn’t applauded for? I don’t get that, yeah it was a highly controversial film at the time but how come it got all these Oscar nominations but no one seemed to give it the respect it deserves??
A Clockwork Orange should have won. Hands down.
'Last Picture Show.' And Jack is obviously not stoned, as he said in
Easy Rider,' it leads to harder stuff.
"The French Connection" was a good movie, but better than "Last Picture Show" or "A Clockwork Orange"? No way.
And the winner 🥇 is Jack's shirt 👚 👍
Also the Great group The Three Degrees Music !!!
The only action film to ever win Best Picture.
+BBReviewsRIn No, in the heat of the night is the action movie to!
I wouldn't call In the Heat of the Night an action movie. That was a racial drama.
+BBReviewsRIn but there so much action scene in that movie,,,,!!!
I respectfully disagree. Five films to have won Best Picture at Oscars are action films: "Platoon", "Braveheart", "Gladiator", "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", and "The Hurt Locker".
Platoon is a war movie not an action movie
How long will it be until an actual French language movie wins Best Picture. Amour could have won and La Vie En Rose should have won instead of No Country For Old Men that year.
a clockwork orange best picture ever made
goose brain jajaja you have a reason
A Clockwork Orange, for the many nominations it got, didn't even win at least one award! The film is a piece of Crime Drama Sci-Fi Art people from 1972, it's the Mona Lisa of Film (in a way) but still should've at least win one award! (No hate to The French Connection, also a good film)
Also I know it was very controversial back then but still it's the mother freakin Oscars! Film is an Art!
Dirty Harry was also controversial in that time period...and also a great flick!
No applause at Clockwork Orange. Shame.
Great Film 🎥
This guy could play a gangster with his looks a voice.
Dantoni sounds like Michael Wincott
He was looking so cute than .