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...Screenplay by ERNEST LEHMAN...
Directed by TOM CRIES Screenplay by ALISTAIR MACLEAN
Directed by LAMONT JOHNSON Screenplay by DAVID RAYFIEl
Fletcher's acceptance was the third stage of a five-way sweep for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Before her award, the movie had already won statuettes for best-adapted screenplay and for Milos Forman's direction. Cuckoo would proceed to win Jack Nicholson his long-deferred Best Actor Oscar and, finally, take the Best Picture prize. Not since It Happened One Night in 1934 had one film copped the five principal Oscars and, lest this point be overlooked, Cuckoo Co-Producer Michael Douglas hastened to remind everyone...
...Unacknowledged and unhonored, Kesey maintains that he has also been ripped off. He has filed suit claiming that he is entitled to 5% of the film's gross receipts and a cool $869,000 for damages. He has received, he says, a $10,000 advance for a screenplay that was not used, and has become financially hard-pressed. Kesey, his wife Faye and some friends watched the Oscars on TV at their Oregon farm, noting that, save for a passing mention by Forman, nobody had anything to say about book or author. "These people, they're like pump...