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Best Cinematography | 1977 | Haskell
Best Music Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score | 1977 | Leonard
Best Actor | 1976 | David
Best Cinematography | 1976 | Haskell
1998 | Garrett
Best Cinematography | 1977 | Haskell
Best Film Editing | 1977 | Robert C.
Best Writing Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | 1977 | Robert
Best Costume Design | 1977
Best Picture | 1977
Best Director Motion Picture | 1977 | Hal
Best Actor in Motion Picture Drama | 1977 | David
Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture Female | 1977 | Melinda
Best Motion Picture Drama | 1977
Best Actor | 1977 | David
Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium | 1977 | Robert
The pivotal Steadicam sequence that first captivated industry insiders involved David Carradine's amble through a migrant camp. The Steadicam operator, Garrett Brown, descends into the scene on a Chapman crane and follows Woody Guthrie (Carradine) as he gets off a pickup truck and walks past some 900 extras. The sequence, which looks quite simple on film, posed a challenge to operator and crew in that, just as Brown stepped off the crane platform laden with his weighty armature, grips had to simultaneously counterbalance the crane arm to prevent it from becoming a human catapult.
Singer Tim Buckley was cast as Woody Guthrie, but died before shooting took place.
The first film to use a long Steadicam tracking shot as operated by its inventor Garrett Brown under DP Haskell Wexler's supervision.
Hal Ashby offered Jack Nicholson the lead role, but he turned it down, saying that he didn't see himself as Woody Guthrie. He suggested Bob Dylan for the part.
Almost every character, including Ozark Bule, are fictional. Only Woody and wife, Mary, are based on real people.
"Woody Guthrie: This land is your land/This land is my land/From California to the New York Island/From the Redwood forests to the Gulf Stream waters/This land was made for you and me"
"[first lines] Hank - Man in Gas Station: ['California Water Tastes Like Cherry Wine' plays in the background'] What's the matter? Carl - Man in Gas Station: Hey, Wood. Woody Guthrie: Yeah. Old Man Jenkins - Gas Station Owner: Cherry wine. Old Man Jenkins - Gas Station Owner: [Jenkins turns off the record player] Goddamit, Woody. I got half a notion to pull up stakes and hit the road for California. Carl - Man in Gas Station: I been thinking about down the Gulf of Mexico... or the Rio Grande valley. Just somewheres I can grow some fruit, peaches. Them Indian blood peaches with that red meat. Old Man Jenkins - Gas Station Owner: Shit fire, Carl! Why down there? In California you just plop a seed into the ground, you find a sprout the very next day. Hank - Man in Gas Station: Well, it seems I sure gotta do something. I just don't know what's going to happen to everybody around here. Woody Guthrie: You folks... sure are depressing."
