Network (1976)

Network (1976)

"I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore" (#19 on AFI’s 100 Greatest Movie Quotes list) says the Best Actor Oscar winner Peter Finch (the first posthumous winner his last film) in this Oscar winning story by Paddy Chayefsky which looks behind the scenes into the world of network television. Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight swept the Actress Oscars that year making this only the second film (after A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)) to win three acting awards. William Holden and Ned Beatty were nominated. The picture and its director Sidney Lumet were also nominated. Holden is a programming executive no longer making it in Beatty’s organization run by Robert Duvall. Dunaway plays a ruthless businesswoman who’s got Duvall’s ear that has an affair with Holden whose wife is played by Straight. Finch is an old school anchor from Holden’s day that goes insane on air thrilling the ratings driven organization until he goes too far and must be reigned in. Added to the National Film Registry in 2000. #66 on AFI’s 100 Greatest Movies list.

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