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VIDEO: Network (1976) -- (Movie Cip) Middle Of Act Two

Beatrice Straight (as "Louise") in the scene that won her Academy Award, with husband Max (William Holden) who's just confessed his affair with a younger TV executive, in Paddy Chayefsky's Network, 1976. watch

VIDEO: Network

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Network
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Length: 02:01:20
Posted: 11/21/2008

Academy Award, Emmy and Golden-Globe winner Faye Dunaway ("Chinatown," "Bonnie and Clyde") and Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Peter Finch ("Sunday Bloody Sunday," "The Nun's Story") star in this powerful and still-relevant satire of the news industry. When a news anchor has a nervous breakdown on live television, and threatens to kill himself on a following live newscast, the event is manipulated by his driven producer into a ratings smash. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay and two for Actor (it won for Actor, Actress, Supporting Actress and Original Screenplay), and winner of four Golden Globe awards, including Best Director, Actor and Actress. Also starring Academy Award-winner William Holden ("Sunset Boulevard," "The Wild Bunch"), Academy Award-winner Beatrice Straight ("Poltergeist," "The Nun's Story"), Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner and Emmy-nominee Robert Duvall ("Falling Down," "The G watch

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Year Title Description
1991 Deceived Movie, Actor - Adrienne's Mother
1986 Power Movie, Actor - Claire Hastings
1985 Chiller Movie, Actor - Marion Creighton
1983 Two Of A Kind Movie, Actor - Ruth
1982 King's Crossing TV Show Series, Actor - Louisa Beauchamp

more Beatrice Straight credits (26 total credits)