1974 - The Towering Inferno
The first phase of this year's awards season is under way with many critics associations announcing their picks, including the journalists from the Golden Globe Foundation, who revealed their nominations earlier this week. As such, frontrunners are slowly emerging, and while I still have plenty of contenders to see, I'm excited to get stuck into the discussion in the coming weeks. Time now to discuss our next Best Picture contender from 1974... The Towering Inferno Director : John Guillermin Screenplay : Stirling Silliphant (based on the novels The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson) Starring : Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely, Richard Chamberlain, Jennifer Jones, O.J Simpson, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner Academy Awards : 8 nominations 3 wins, including Best Song San Francisco plays host to the opening of The Glass Tower, a 138-storey skyscraper that is now ...