JAWS AT THE BAFTAs
When it comes to Jaws and film awards, everyone always talks about the Oscars, but the Steven Spielberg directed shark thriller was also nominated for a clutch of British Academy of Film and Television Awards - better known as the BAFTAs.
Jaws may not have been released in the UK until Boxing Day 1975, the day after Christmas Day, but just as it did in the US and across the world, it made quite the impact.
Infamous for the omission of Spielberg not being nominated in the best director category at the Oscars, that wasn't the case at the BAFTAs.
Unlike the Oscars, Jaws also scored BAFTA nominations in Best Actor, interestingly for Richard Dreyfuss and not Roy Scheider or Robert Shaw, and also saw Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb get nods in the Screenplay category.
That was just three of seven awards it was nominated for that evening, which meant it had the joint highest nominations alongside Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (directed by Spielberg's good friend Martin Scorsese).
Jaws Production Designer Joe Alves won a BAFTA for his work on Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977)
Here's the list of all the categories it was nominated in, the nominees and the winners.
Best Direction
Barry Lyndon
Stanley Kubrick WINNER
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Martin Scorsese
Dog Day Afternoon
Sidney Lumet
Jaws
Steven Spielberg
Best Film
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore WINNER
Barry Lyndon
Dog Day Afternoon
Jaws
Best Actor
Al Pacino WINNER
The Godfather Part II/Dog Day Afternoon
Richard Dreyfuss
Jaws
Gene Hackman
French Connection 2/Night Moves
Dustin Hoffman
Lenny
Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music
Jaws/The Towering Inferno
John Williams WINNER
The Godfather Part II
Nino Rota
The Taking Of Pelham 123
David Shire
The Wind And The Lion
Jerry Goldsmith
Best Film Editing
Dog Day Afternoon
Dede Allen WINNER
The Godfather Part II
Peter Zinner, Barry Malkin, Richard Marks
Jaws
Verna Fields
Rollerball
Antony Gibbs
Best Screenplay
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Robert Getchell WINNER
Dog Day Afternoon
Frank Pierson
Jaws
Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb
Nashville
Joan Tewkesbury
Best Sound Track
Nashville
William A Sawyer, Jim Webb, Chris McLaughlin, Richard Portman WINNER
Dog Day Afternoon
Jack Fitzstephens, Richard Cirincione, Sandy Rackow, Stephen A Rotter, James Sabat, Richard Vorisek
Jaws
John R Carter, Robert Hoyt
Rollerball
Les Wiggins, Archie Ludski, Derek Ball, Gordon K McCallum
Jaws may have been nominated for more awards than it was at the Oscars but only came away with one win, for John Williams and his mighty score.
Words by Dean Newman.
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