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One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975 Best Picture Winner)

Published: July 19, 2023, 6 a.m.

The tenth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1975 features the Academy Awards Best Picture winner, Milos Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Directed by Milos Forman, based on the novel by Ken Kesey and starring Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Will Sampson, William Redfield, Brad Dourif and Sydney Lassick, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was nominated for nine Oscars and won five, including Best Picture.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest-1975), Vincent Canby in The New York Times (https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/packages/html/movies/bestpictures/cuckoo-re.html), and A.D. Murphy in Variety (https://variety.com/1975/film/reviews/one-flew-over-the-cuckoo-s-nest-2-1200423518/).

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