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FXF007: Sidney Lumet\'s NETWORK- Alan Heim, Mark Laub, Michael Jacobi and Jeffrey Wolf.

In 1976, an American satirical film written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, called Network, about a fictional television network, UBS, and its struggle with poor ratings, starring Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch,  Robert Duvall and Beatrice Straight was nominated for 12 Academy Awards including best film, best director and best editor. Network, won four Academy Awards, including Oscars for Chayefsky\\u2019s script, Beatrice  Straights\\u2019 performance as an outraged wife, Faye Dunaway\\u2019s performance as a cynical programming executive and Peter Finch\\u2019s frenetic portrayal of Howard Beale, the troubled \\u201cmad prophet of the airwaves.\\u201d

 Thirty-five years later, \\u201cNetwork\\u201d remains an incendiary if influential film, and its screenplay is still admired as much for its predictive accuracy as for its vehemence and a relentless sense of purpose. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, cited Chayefsky when he accepted his Oscar for the screenplay of \\u201cThe Social Network,\\u201d and wrote later that \\u201cno predictor of the future \\u2014 not even Orwell \\u2014 has ever been as right as Chayefsky was when he wrote \\u2018Network.\\u2019 \\u201d

 Alan Heim, the picture editor of the film, Mark Laub, one from a team of sound editors, Michael Jacobi and Jeffrey Wolf, the first assistant editor and the apprentice editor on the film at the time, tell their stories of how the film came together and what it was like in various stages working with director Sidney Lumet, writer Paddy Chayefsky and Producer Howard Gottfried.