... Charles Webb, produced by Lawrence Turman, screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry, starring: Anne Bancroft (Mrs. Robinson), Dustin Hoffman (Benjamin Braddock), Katherine Ross (Elaine Robinson), William Daniels (Mr. Braddock), Murray Hamilton (Mr. Robinson), Elizabeth Wilson (Mrs. Braddock), Norman Fell (Mr. McCleery), and Buck ... several categories including Best Actor (Hoffman), Best Actress (Bancroft), Best Adapted Screenplay (Henry, Willingham), Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Ross), Best Cinematography (Robert Sutees), and only won the Oscar for the Best Director (Mik...

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... a non-violent outlaw, who used his head to negotiate and out-talk his enemies. This was far different from the classic westerns, who's hero was a gun slinger. Etta Place (Katherine Ross), the films leading female character, plays a new type of woman character. While she was still portraying the "stand by your man" style female character that takes care of her man ... dies, skewing the classic portrait of the western hero, who was immortal, in essence. In McCabe and Mrs. Miller, another of the revisionist westerns, these inversions are even more apparent. Robert Altman, Director of the f...

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