The Katie-Bar-The-Door Awards (1974)

Chinatown, not One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, is the best performance of Jack Nicholson's career, and I almost gave him the award for best actor of 1974. But The Conversation is the best performance of Gene Hackman's career and that's who I'm going with. But fret not, Jack wins next year.

PICTURE (Drama)
winner: Chinatown (prod. Robert Evans)

PICTURE (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Young Frankenstein (prod. Michael Gruskoff)

PICTURE (Foreign Language)
winner: Angst essen Seele auf (Ali: Fear Eats The Soul) (prod. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

ACTOR (Drama)
winner: Gene Hackman (The Conversation)

ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Gene Wilder (Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein)

ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Gena Rowlands (A Woman Under The Influence)

ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Diahann Carroll (Claudine)

DIRECTOR (Drama)
winner: Roman Polanski (Chinatown)

DIRECTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder (Young Frankenstein)

SUPPORTING ACTOR
winner: John Cazale (The Godfather Part II)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
winner: Madeline Kahn (Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein)

SCREENPLAY
winner: Robert Towne (Chinatown)