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class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>Filming</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Filming-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Soundtrack" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Soundtrack"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.6</span> <span>Soundtrack</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Soundtrack-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Historical_background" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Historical_background"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Historical background</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Historical_background-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Analysis_and_interpretation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Analysis_and_interpretation"> <div 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id="toc-Box_office-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Critical_response" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Critical_response"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2</span> <span>Critical response</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Critical_response-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Accolades" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Accolades"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Accolades</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Accolades-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Accolades subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Accolades-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Other_honors" 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vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bibliography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bibliography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13</span> <span>Bibliography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bibliography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" 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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%A8" title="চায়নাটাউন – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="চায়নাটাউন" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%96%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%96_%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB_(%D1%84%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC)" title="Кітайскі квартал (фільм) – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Кітайскі квартал (фільм)" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%96%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%96_%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB_(%D1%84%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC)" title="Кітайскі квартал (фільм) – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Кітайскі квартал (фільм)" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB_(%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BC)" title="Китайски квартал (филм) – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Китайски квартал (филм)" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kineska_%C4%8Detvrt_(film)" title="Kineska četvrt (film) – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Kineska četvrt (film)" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_(pel%C2%B7l%C3%ADcula)" title="Chinatown (pel·lícula) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Chinatown (pel·lícula)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8C%C3%ADnsk%C3%A1_%C4%8Dtvr%C5%A5_(film)" title="Čínská čtvrť (film) – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Čínská čtvrť (film)" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_(film)" title="Chinatown (film) – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Chinatown (film)" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_(Film)" title="Chinatown (Film) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Chinatown (Film)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_(%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%AF%CE%B1)" title="Chinatown (ταινία) – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Chinatown (ταινία)" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eml mw-list-item"><a href="https://eml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_(film)" title="Chinatown (film) – Emiliano-Romagnolo" lang="egl" hreflang="egl" data-title="Chinatown (film)" data-language-autonym="Emiliàn e rumagnòl" data-language-local-name="Emiliano-Romagnolo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Emiliàn e rumagnòl</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_(pel%C3%ADcula)" title="Chinatown (película) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Chinatown (película)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_(filmo)" title="Chinatown (filmo) – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Chinatown (filmo)" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_(filma)" title="Chinatown (filma) – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Chinatown (filma)" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%87_%DA%86%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%87%D8%A7_(%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%85_%DB%B1%DB%B9%DB%B7%DB%B4)" title="محله چینی‌ها (فیلم ۱۹۷۴) – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="محله چینی‌ها (فیلم ۱۹۷۴)" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_(film)" title="Chinatown (film) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Chinatown (film)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B0%A8%EC%9D%B4%EB%82%98%ED%83%80%EC%9A%B4_(1974%EB%85%84_%EC%98%81%ED%99%94)" title="차이나타운 (1974년 영화) – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="차이나타운 (1974년 영화)" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%89%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%A9%D5%A1%D5%B2%D5%A1%D5%B4%D5%A1%D5%BD" title="Չինական թաղամաս – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Չինական թաղամաս" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kineska_%C4%8Detvrt_(1974.)" title="Kineska četvrt (1974.) – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Kineska četvrt (1974.)" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_(film_1974)" title="Chinatown (film 1974) – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Chinatown (film 1974)" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_(film)" title="Chinatown (film) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Chinatown (film)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A6%27%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%94%D7%98%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9F_(%D7%A1%D7%A8%D7%98)" title="צ'יינהטאון (סרט) – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="צ'יינהטאון (סרט)" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A9%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98_%E1%83%99%E1%83%95%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A2%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98_(1974_%E1%83%AC%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%A4%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98)" title="ჩინური კვარტალი (1974 წლის ფილმი) – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ჩინური კვარტალი (1974 წლის ფილმი)" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown" title="Chinatown – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" data-title="Chinatown" data-language-autonym="Kreyòl ayisyen" data-language-local-name="Haitian Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kreyòl ayisyen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B6%C4%ABnie%C5%A1u_kvart%C4%81ls_(filma)" title="Ķīniešu kvartāls (filma) – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Ķīniešu kvartāls (filma)" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin%C5%B3_kvartalas_(filmas)" title="Kinų 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data-title="チャイナタウン (映画)" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_(film)" title="Chinatown (film) – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Chinatown (film)" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown" title="Chinatown – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Chinatown" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_filmi_(1974_filmi)" title="Chinatown filmi (1974 filmi) – Uzbek" 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(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="font-size: 125%; font-style: italic;">Chinatown</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Chinatownposter1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/38/Chinatownposter1.jpg/220px-Chinatownposter1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="323" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/Chinatownposter1.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="242" data-file-height="355" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Theatrical release poster by Jim Pearsall</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Directed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Roman_Polanski" title="Roman Polanski">Roman Polanski</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Written by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Towne" title="Robert Towne">Robert Towne</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Produced by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Evans" title="Robert Evans">Robert Evans</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Starring</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Nicholson" title="Jack Nicholson">Jack Nicholson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faye_Dunaway" title="Faye Dunaway">Faye Dunaway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hillerman" title="John Hillerman">John Hillerman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perry_Lopez" title="Perry Lopez">Perry Lopez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burt_Young" title="Burt Young">Burt Young</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Huston" title="John Huston">John Huston</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Cinematography</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_A._Alonzo" title="John A. Alonzo">John A. Alonzo</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Edited by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sam_O%27Steen" title="Sam O'Steen">Sam O'Steen</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Music by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Goldsmith" title="Jerry Goldsmith">Jerry Goldsmith</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Production<br />companies</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="vertical-align: middle;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>Long Road Productions</li> <li>Robert Evans Company</li></ul> </div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Distributed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Paramount_Pictures" title="Paramount Pictures">Paramount Pictures</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Release date</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist film-date"> <ul><li>June 20, 1974<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1974-06-20</span>)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Running time</div></th><td class="infobox-data">131 minutes<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Budget</th><td class="infobox-data">$6 million<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Box office</th><td class="infobox-data">$29.2 million<sup id="cite_ref-BOM_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BOM-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Chinatown</b></i> is a 1974 American <a href="/wiki/Neo-noir" title="Neo-noir">neo-noir</a> <a href="/wiki/Mystery_film" title="Mystery film">mystery</a> film directed by <a href="/wiki/Roman_Polanski" title="Roman Polanski">Roman Polanski</a> from a screenplay by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Towne" title="Robert Towne">Robert Towne</a>. The film stars <a href="/wiki/Jack_Nicholson" title="Jack Nicholson">Jack Nicholson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Faye_Dunaway" title="Faye Dunaway">Faye Dunaway</a>. It was inspired by the <a href="/wiki/California_water_wars" title="California water wars">California water wars</a>: a series of disputes over southern California water at the beginning of the 20th century that resulted in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a> securing water rights in the <a href="/wiki/Owens_Valley" title="Owens Valley">Owens Valley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Robert_Evans" title="Robert Evans">Robert Evans</a> production, released by <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Pictures" title="Paramount Pictures">Paramount Pictures</a>, was Polanski's last film in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> and features many elements of <a href="/wiki/Film_noir" title="Film noir">film noir</a>, particularly a multi-layered story that is part mystery and part <a href="/wiki/Psychological_drama" title="Psychological drama">psychological drama</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Wasson,_Sam_2020_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wasson,_Sam_2020-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Chinatown</i> was released in the United States on June 20, 1974, to acclaim from critics. At the <a href="/wiki/47th_Academy_Awards" title="47th Academy Awards">47th Academy Awards</a>, it was nominated for 11 Oscars, with Towne winning <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Original_Screenplay" title="Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay">Best Original Screenplay</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Golden Globe Award">Golden Globe Awards</a> honored it for <a href="/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Motion_Picture_%E2%80%93_Drama" title="Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama">Best Drama</a>, <a href="/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Director" title="Golden Globe Award for Best Director">Best Director</a>, <a href="/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Actor_%E2%80%93_Motion_Picture_Drama" class="mw-redirect" title="Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama">Best Actor</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Screenplay" title="Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay">Best Screenplay</a>. The <a href="/wiki/American_Film_Institute" title="American Film Institute">American Film Institute</a> placed it second among the <a href="/wiki/AFI%27s_10_Top_10" title="AFI's 10 Top 10">top ten mystery films</a> in 2008. In 1991, the film was selected by the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a> for preservation in the United States <a href="/wiki/National_Film_Registry" title="National Film Registry">National Film Registry</a> as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is also often cited as one of the <a href="/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_best" class="mw-redirect" title="List of films considered the best">greatest films of all time</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian.co.uk_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian.co.uk-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A sequel, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Two_Jakes" title="The Two Jakes">The Two Jakes</a></i>, was released in 1990, again starring Nicholson, who also directed, with Robert Towne returning to write the screenplay. The film failed to match the acclaim of its predecessor. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chinatown_(1974_film)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1937, a woman named "Evelyn Mulwray" hires private investigator J.J. "Jake" Gittes to trail her husband Hollis, whom she suspects of infidelity. After Gittes photographs Hollis in the company of a young woman, the pictures appear in the <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a></i> with a story exposing their supposed "love nest". Gittes is confronted by the real Evelyn Mulwray, who threatens to sue him after her imposter used him to discredit Hollis, chief engineer at the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Department_of_Water_and_Power" title="Los Angeles Department of Water and Power">Los Angeles Department of Water and Power</a>. </p><p>Gittes visits a reservoir where he sees his former colleague, <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Police_Department" title="Los Angeles Police Department">LAPD</a> Lieutenant Lou Escobar, as Hollis's dead body is dragged from the water. Evelyn officially hires Gittes to investigate Hollis's death as a homicide. He finds that huge quantities of water are being released from the reservoir every night, despite a drought. He is warned off by Water Department Security Chief Claude Mulvihill and is attacked by his henchman, who deeply cuts Gittes' nose with a switchblade. The next morning, Gittes receives a call from Ida Sessions, the woman who posed as Evelyn Mulwray. She refuses to say who hired her but tells him to check that day's obituaries. </p><p>Gittes learns that Hollis once privately owned L.A.'s water supply with his wealthy father-in-law and former business partner, Noah Cross, until a bitter feud. Cross offers to double Gittes' fee if he finds the girl who disappeared after the "love nest" story was published. </p><p>Gittes discovers that much of the Northwest Valley has recently changed ownership. He visits an orange grove in the valley, where he is attacked by landowners who believe him to be an agent of the Water Department. He finds the department is sabotaging the water supply to force farmers off their land so it can be bought at a cheap price. He suspects Hollis was murdered when he uncovered the plan. </p><p>Some Northwest Valley property was seemingly purchased by a recently deceased retirement-home resident. Jake and Evelyn bluff their way into the home and confirm that other real estate deals were closed in the names of unknowing residents, with one former resident's name appearing in the previous day's obituaries. Their visit is interrupted by the suspicious director, who calls Mulvihill to confront Gittes. </p><p>After escaping Mulvihill and his thugs, Jake and Evelyn hide at her house, where they sleep together. Evelyn receives a phone call during the night and leaves. Gittes follows her to a house and sees her comforting the missing girl. A furious Gittes accuses Evelyn of holding the woman hostage, but she claims the woman is her sister, Katherine. </p><p>The next day, an anonymous call draws Gittes to Ida's apartment, where he finds her body. Escobar, who is waiting there, tells Gittes he knows that Ida hired him to follow Hollis and accuses him of extorting "hush money" from Evelyn to keep him from revealing that she is the real murderer. He adds that saltwater was found in Hollis's lungs, indicating that he did not drown in the freshwater reservoir. Escobar tells Gittes to produce Evelyn quickly. At the Mulwray mansion, Gittes finds Evelyn gone and the servants packing up the house. He finds a pair of eyeglasses in the saltwater garden pond. </p><p>Gittes confronts Evelyn about Katherine, who she now claims is her daughter. Frustrated by her seeming dishonesty, Gittes repeatedly hits her. Evelyn breaks down sobbing and reveals that Katherine is both her sister and daughter; Cross, her father, had <a href="/wiki/Rape" title="Rape">raped</a> her when she was 15. She tells Gittes that the eyeglasses he found in the pond at her mansion are not Hollis's, since he did not wear bifocals. </p><p>Gittes arranges for Evelyn and Katherine to flee to <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a> and instructs Evelyn to meet him at her butler's home in <a href="/wiki/Chinatown,_Los_Angeles" title="Chinatown, Los Angeles">Chinatown</a>. He summons Cross to the Mulwray residence to settle their deal. Cross reveals that he plans to incorporate the Northwest Valley into the City of Los Angeles, then irrigate and develop it with funds from a sham ballot measure that L.A. residents are misled to believe will bring them more water. Gittes realizes the bifocals are Cross's and accuses him of murdering Hollis. Cross has Mulvihill retrieve the glasses from Gittes at gunpoint. </p><p>Gittes then arranges for one of his clients, Curly, to pick up Evelyn and Katherine's belongings and take them to Chinatown. Gittes is forced to drive Cross and Mulvihill to Chinatown, where Evelyn awaits. The police are there and detain Gittes. Cross advances on Katherine as she gets into Evelyn's car, identifies himself as her grandfather, and attempts to take her away. Desperate to escape her abusive father, Evelyn shoots him in the arm. The police open fire on Evelyn as she drives away with Katherine, killing her. Cross clutches a screaming Katherine and leads her away, while Escobar orders the traumatized Gittes released. As he is led away by his associates, one of them urges him to "Forget it, Jake, it's <a href="/wiki/Chinatown,_Los_Angeles" title="Chinatown, Los Angeles">Chinatown</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>" </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cast">Cast</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chinatown_(1974_film)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Cast"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Nicholson" title="Jack Nicholson">Jack Nicholson</a> as J. J. "Jake" Gittes</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faye_Dunaway" title="Faye Dunaway">Faye Dunaway</a> as Evelyn Cross-Mulwray</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Huston" title="John Huston">John Huston</a> as Noah Cross</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perry_Lopez" title="Perry Lopez">Perry Lopez</a> as Lieutenant Lou Escobar</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hillerman" title="John Hillerman">John Hillerman</a> as Russ Yelburton</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darrell_Zwerling" title="Darrell Zwerling">Darrell Zwerling</a> as Hollis I. Mulwray</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diane_Ladd" title="Diane Ladd">Diane Ladd</a> as Ida Sessions</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Jenson" title="Roy Jenson">Roy Jenson</a> as Claude Mulvihill</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Polanski" title="Roman Polanski">Roman Polanski</a> as Man with Knife</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Bakalyan" title="Richard Bakalyan">Dick Bakalyan</a> as Detective Loach</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Mantell" title="Joe Mantell">Joe Mantell</a> as Lawrence Walsh</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Glover" title="Bruce Glover">Bruce Glover</a> as Duffy</li> <li>Nandu Hinds as Sophie</li> <li>James O'Reare as Lawyer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Hong" title="James Hong">James Hong</a> as Kahn, Evelyn's Butler</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beulah_Quo" title="Beulah Quo">Beulah Quo</a> as Maid</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Fujikawa" title="Jerry Fujikawa">Jerry Fujikawa</a> as Gardener</li> <li>Belinda Palmer as Katherine Cross</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Roberts" title="Roy Roberts">Roy Roberts</a> as Mayor Bagby</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noble_Willingham" title="Noble Willingham">Noble Willingham</a> as Councilman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rance_Howard" title="Rance Howard">Rance Howard</a> as Irate Farmer</li> <li>George Justin as Barber</li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._O._Erickson" title="C. O. Erickson">Doc Erickson</a> as Customer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fritzi_Burr" title="Fritzi Burr">Fritzi Burr</a> as Mulwray's Secretary</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jesse_Vint" title="Jesse Vint">Jesse Vint</a> as Farmer in the Valley #2</li> <li>Charles Knapp as Mortician</li> <li>Claudio Martinez as Boy on Horseback</li> <li>Federico Roberto as Cross's Butler</li> <li>Allan Warnick as Clerk</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burt_Young" title="Burt Young">Burt Young</a> as Curly</li> <li>Elizabeth Harding as Curly's Wife</li> <li>John Rogers as Mr. Palmer</li> <li>Cecil Elliott as Emma Dill</li> <li>Bob Golden as Policeman #3</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Holland_(actor,_born_1908)" title="John Holland (actor, born 1908)">John Holland</a> as Farmer in the Valley</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Jenkins_(actor)" title="Paul Jenkins (actor)">Paul Jenkins</a> as Policeman #1</li> <li>Denny Arnold as Farmer in the Valley #3</li> <li>Jim Burk as Farmer in the Valley #4</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lee_de_Broux" title="Lee de Broux">Lee de Broux</a> as Policeman #2</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Production">Production</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chinatown_(1974_film)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Production"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Background">Background</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chinatown_(1974_film)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1971, producer <a href="/wiki/Robert_Evans" title="Robert Evans">Robert Evans</a> offered Towne $175,000 to write a screenplay for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby_(1974_film)" title="The Great Gatsby (1974 film)">The Great Gatsby</a></i> (1974), but Towne felt he could not better the <a href="/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald" title="F. Scott Fitzgerald">F. Scott Fitzgerald</a> <a href="/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby" title="The Great Gatsby">novel</a>. Instead, Towne asked Evans for $25,000 to write his own story, <i>Chinatown</i>, to which Evans agreed.<sup id="cite_ref-dvd_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dvd-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Thomson_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thomson-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Towne had originally hoped to also direct <i>Chinatown</i>, but realized that by taking Evans' money, he would lose control of the project's future and his role as a director.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Chinatown</i> is set in 1937 and portrays the manipulation of a critical municipal resource—water—by a cadre of shadowy oligarchs. It was the first part of Towne's planned <a href="/wiki/Trilogy" title="Trilogy">trilogy</a> about the character J. J. Gittes, the foibles of the Los Angeles power structure, and the subjugation of public good by private greed.<sup id="cite_ref-inter_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-inter-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The second part, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Two_Jakes" title="The Two Jakes">The Two Jakes</a></i>, has Gittes caught up in another grab for a natural resource—oil—in the 1940s. It was directed by Jack Nicholson and released in 1990, but the second film's commercial and critical failure scuttled plans to make <i>Gittes vs. Gittes</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> about the third finite resource—land—in Los Angeles, circa 1968.<sup id="cite_ref-inter_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-inter-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Origins">Origins</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chinatown_(1974_film)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Origins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The character of Hollis Mulwray was inspired by and loosely based on Irish immigrant <a href="/wiki/William_Mulholland" title="William Mulholland">William Mulholland</a> (1855–1935) according to Mulholland's granddaughter.<sup id="cite_ref-beast_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-beast-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-catherine_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-catherine-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-brook_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brook-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mulholland was the superintendent and chief engineer of the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Department_of_Water_and_Power" title="Los Angeles Department of Water and Power">Los Angeles Department of Water and Power</a>, who oversaw the construction of the 230-mile (370-km) <a href="/wiki/Aqueduct_(bridge)" title="Aqueduct (bridge)">aqueduct</a> that carries water from the <a href="/wiki/Owens_Valley" title="Owens Valley">Owens Valley</a> to Los Angeles.<sup id="cite_ref-catherine_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-catherine-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mulholland was considered by many to be the man who made Los Angeles possible by building the Los Angeles Aqueduct in the early 1900s.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 233 mile long feat of engineering brought the water necessary for urban expansion from the Owens Valley to a Los Angeles whose growth was constrained by the limits of the Los Angeles River.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mulholland credits Fred Eaton, then mayor of Los Angeles, with the idea to secure water for the city from the Owens Valley.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although the character of Hollis Mulwray was relatively minor in the film and he was killed in the early part of the movie, the events of Mulholland's life were portrayed through both the character of Mulwray and other figures in the movie. This portrayal, along with other changes to actual events that inspired <i>Chinatown</i>, such as the time frame which was some thirty years earlier than that of the movie, were some of the liberties with facts of Mulholland's life that the movie takes.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Author Vincent Brook considers real-life Mulholland to be split, in the film, into "noble Water and Power chief Hollis Mulwray" and "mobster muscle Claude Mulvihill",<sup id="cite_ref-brook_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brook-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> just as Land syndicate and Combination members, who "exploited their insider knowledge" on account of "personal greed", are "condensed into the singular, and singularly monstrous, Noah Cross".<sup id="cite_ref-brook_21-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brook-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the film, Mulwray opposes the dam wanted by Noah Cross and the city of Los Angeles, for reasons of engineering and safety, arguing he would not repeat his previous mistake, when his dam broke resulting in hundreds of deaths. This alludes to the <a href="/wiki/St._Francis_Dam" title="St. Francis Dam">St. Francis Dam</a> disaster of March 12, 1928.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Unlike the character of Mulwray, who was concerned about the dam in <i>Chinatown</i>, Mulholland's role in the disaster diverged from the events in the film. Mulholland had inspected the St. Francis Dam after the dam keeper Tony Harnischfeger requested that Mulholland personally inspect the dam after Harnischfeger became concerned about the safety of the dam upon discovering cracks and brown water leaking from the base of the dam, which indicated to him the erosion of the dam's foundation.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mulholland inspected the dam at around 10:30 in the morning, declaring that all was well with the structure.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Just before midnight that same evening, a massive failure of the dam occurred.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_27-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The dam's failure inundated the <a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara_River_Valley" title="Santa Clara River Valley">Santa Clara River Valley</a>, including the town of <a href="/wiki/Santa_Paula,_California" title="Santa Paula, California">Santa Paula</a>, with flood water, causing the deaths of at least 431 people. The event effectively ended Mulholland's career.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Reisner_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reisner-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The plot of Chinatown is also drawn not just from the diversion of water from the Owens Valley via the aqueduct but also from another actual event. In the movie, water is being purposely released in order to drive the land owners out and create support for a dam through an artificial drought. The event that the movie refers to occurred in late 1903 and 1904 when underground water levels plummeted and water usage rose precipitously.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rather than a deliberate release, Mulholland was able to figure out that because of faulty valves and gates in the water system, large quantities of water were being released in the overflow sewer system and then into the ocean.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mulholland was able to stop the leaks.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Script">Script</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chinatown_(1974_film)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Script"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to Robert Towne, both <a href="/wiki/Carey_McWilliams_(journalist)" title="Carey McWilliams (journalist)">Carey McWilliams</a>'s <i>Southern California Country: An Island on the Land</i> (1946) and a <i>West</i> magazine article called "<a href="/wiki/Raymond_Chandler" title="Raymond Chandler">Raymond Chandler</a>'s L.A." inspired his original screenplay.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a letter to McWilliams, Towne wrote that <i>Southern California Country</i> "really changed my life. It taught me to look at the place where I was born, and convinced me to write about it".<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Towne wrote the screenplay with <a href="/wiki/Jack_Nicholson" title="Jack Nicholson">Jack Nicholson</a> in mind.<sup id="cite_ref-dvd_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dvd-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He took the title (and the exchange "What did you do in Chinatown?" / "As little as possible") from a Hungarian vice cop, who had worked in Los Angeles's Chinatown, dealing with its confusion of dialects and gangs. The vice cop thought that "police were better off in Chinatown doing nothing, because you could never tell what went on there" and whether what a cop did helped or furthered the exploitation of victims.<sup id="cite_ref-dvd_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dvd-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Polanski first learned of the script through Nicholson, as they had been searching for a suitable joint project, and the producer Robert Evans was excited at the thought that Polanski's direction would create a darker, more cynical, and European vision of the United States. Polanski was initially reluctant to return to Los Angeles (it was only a few years since the <a href="/wiki/Tate_murders" class="mw-redirect" title="Tate murders">murder of his pregnant wife</a> <a href="/wiki/Sharon_Tate" title="Sharon Tate">Sharon Tate</a>), but was persuaded on the strength of the script.<sup id="cite_ref-dvd_13-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dvd-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Towne wanted Cross to die and Evelyn Mulwray to survive, but the screenwriter and director argued over it, with Polanski insisting on a tragic end: "I knew that if <i>Chinatown</i> was to be special, not just another thriller where the good guys triumph in the final reel, Evelyn had to die".<sup id="cite_ref-TCM_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TCM-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They parted ways over this dispute and Polanski wrote the final scene a few days before it was shot.<sup id="cite_ref-dvd_13-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dvd-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The original script was more than 180 pages and included a narration by Gittes; Polanski cut and reordered the story so the audience and Gittes unraveled the mysteries at the same time. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Characters_and_casting">Characters and casting</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chinatown_(1974_film)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Characters and casting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>J. J. Gittes was named after Nicholson's friend, producer Harry Gittes.</li> <li>Evelyn Mulwray is, according to Towne, intended to initially seem the classic "black widow" character typical of lead female characters in <a href="/wiki/Film_noir" title="Film noir">film noir</a>, but is eventually revealed to be a tragic victim. <a href="/wiki/Jane_Fonda" title="Jane Fonda">Jane Fonda</a> was strongly considered for the role, but Polanski insisted on Dunaway.<sup id="cite_ref-dvd_13-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dvd-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Noah Cross: Towne said that Huston was, after Nicholson, the second-best-cast actor in the film and that he made the Cross character menacing, through his courtly performance.<sup id="cite_ref-dvd_13-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dvd-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Polanski appears in a cameo as the gangster who cuts Gittes' nose. The effect was accomplished with a special knife which could have actually cut Nicholson's nose if Polanski had not held it correctly.</li> <li>In 1974, after making Chinatown and while filming <i><a href="/wiki/The_Fortune" title="The Fortune">The Fortune</a></i>, Nicholson was informed by <i>Time</i> magazine researchers that his "sister" was actually his mother, similarly to the revelation made in the film regarding Evelyn and Katherine.<sup id="cite_ref-seducer_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-seducer-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Filming">Filming</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chinatown_(1974_film)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Filming"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Principal_photography" title="Principal photography">Principal photography</a> took place from October 1973 to January 1974.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/William_A._Fraker" title="William A. Fraker">William A. Fraker</a> accepted the cinematographer position from Polanski when Paramount agreed. He had worked with the studio previously on Polanski's <i><a href="/wiki/Rosemary%27s_Baby_(film)" title="Rosemary's Baby (film)">Rosemary's Baby</a></i>. Robert Evans, never consulted about the decision, insisted that the offer be rescinded since he felt pairing Polanski and Fraker again would create a team with too much control over the project and complicate the production.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Between Fraker and the eventual choice <a href="/wiki/John_A._Alonzo" title="John A. Alonzo">John A. Alonzo</a>, the two compromised on <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Cortez" title="Stanley Cortez">Stanley Cortez</a>, but Polanski grew frustrated with Cortez's slow process, old fashioned compositional sensibility, and unfamiliarity with the Panavision equipment. Alonzo had worked on documentaries and shot film for <i>National Geographic</i> and for Jacques Cousteau.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alonzo was chosen for his fleetness and skill with natural light a few weeks into production. Alonzo understood that Polanski wanted realism in his lighting; "He wants the soft red tile to look soft red."<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ultimately, only a handful of scenes in the finished film, including the orange grove confrontation, were shot by Cortez.<sup id="cite_ref-Wasson,_Sam_2020_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wasson,_Sam_2020-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Because Polanski's English was poor, Alonzo and Polanski would communicate in Italian, which Alonzo would then translate for the crew.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Polanski was rigorous in his framing and use of Alonzo's vision, making the actors strictly adhere to blocking to accommodate the camera and lighting.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In keeping with a technique Polanski attributes to <a href="/wiki/Raymond_Chandler" title="Raymond Chandler">Raymond Chandler</a>, all of the events of the film are seen subjectively through the main character's eyes; for example, when Gittes is knocked unconscious, the film fades to black and fades in when he awakens. Gittes appears in every scene of the film.<sup id="cite_ref-dvd_13-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dvd-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This subjectivity is the same construction used in Francis Coppola's <i><a href="/wiki/The_Conversation" title="The Conversation">The Conversation</a></i> in which the main character, Harry Caul (Gene Hackman), appears in every scene in the film. <i>The Conversation</i> began shooting eleven months prior to <i>Chinatown</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Soundtrack">Soundtrack</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chinatown_(1974_film)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Soundtrack"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li:last-child::after{content:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox vevent haudio"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary album" style="font-style: italic; color: inherit; background-color: gainsboro; font-size: 125%;">Chinatown</th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description" style="color: #202122;background-color: gainsboro"><a href="/wiki/Film_score" title="Film score">Film score</a> by <div class="contributor" style="display:inline"><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Goldsmith" title="Jerry Goldsmith">Jerry Goldsmith</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Released</th><td class="infobox-data published">1974</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Music_genre" title="Music genre">Genre</a></th><td class="infobox-data category hlist"><a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">Jazz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Soundtrack" title="Soundtrack">soundtrack</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Record_label" title="Record label">Label</a></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/wiki/Var%C3%A8se_Sarabande" title="Varèse Sarabande">Varèse Sarabande</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Goldsmith" title="Jerry Goldsmith">Jerry Goldsmith</a> composed and recorded the film's score in ten days, after producer Robert Evans rejected Phillip Lambro's original effort at the last minute. It received an <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy Award">Academy Award</a> nomination and remains widely praised,<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-empire_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-empire-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ranking ninth on the <a href="/wiki/American_Film_Institute" title="American Film Institute">American Film Institute</a>'s list of the <a href="/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years_of_Film_Scores" title="AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores">top 25 American film scores</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Goldsmith's score, with "haunting" trumpet solos by Hollywood studio musician and MGM's first trumpet <a href="/wiki/Uan_Rasey" title="Uan Rasey">Uan Rasey</a>, was released through <a href="/wiki/ABC_Records" title="ABC Records">ABC Records</a> and features 12 tracks at a running time just over 30 minutes. It was later reissued on CD by the <a href="/wiki/Var%C3%A8se_Sarabande" title="Varèse Sarabande">Varèse Sarabande</a> label. Rasey related that Goldsmith "told [him] to play it sexy — but like it's not good sex!"<sup id="cite_ref-empire_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-empire-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ol><li>"Love Theme from Chinatown (Main Title)"</li> <li>"Noah Cross"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Easy_Living_(song)" title="Easy Living (song)">Easy Living</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Ralph_Rainger" title="Ralph Rainger">Rainger</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leo_Robin" title="Leo Robin">Robin</a>)</li> <li>"Jake and Evelyn"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I_Can%27t_Get_Started" title="I Can't Get Started">I Can't Get Started</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Vernon_Duke" title="Vernon Duke">Duke</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ira_Gershwin" title="Ira Gershwin">Gershwin</a>)</li> <li>"The Last of Ida"</li> <li>"The Captive"</li> <li>"The Boy on a Horse"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Way_You_Look_Tonight" title="The Way You Look Tonight">The Way You Look Tonight</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Jerome_Kern" title="Jerome Kern">Kern</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Fields" title="Dorothy Fields">Fields</a>)</li> <li>"The Wrong Clue"</li> <li>"J. J. Gittes"</li> <li>"Love Theme from Chinatown (End Title)"</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historical_background">Historical background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chinatown_(1974_film)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Historical background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> In his 2004 film essay and documentary <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Plays_Itself" title="Los Angeles Plays Itself">Los Angeles Plays Itself</a></i>, film scholar <a href="/wiki/Thom_Andersen" title="Thom Andersen">Thom Andersen</a> lays out the complex relationship between <i>Chinatown</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s script and its historical background:</p><blockquote><p><i>Chinatown</i> isn't a docudrama, it's a fiction. The water project it depicts isn't the construction of the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Aqueduct" title="Los Angeles Aqueduct">Los Angeles Aqueduct</a>, engineered by <a href="/wiki/William_Mulholland" title="William Mulholland">William Mulholland</a> before the First World War. <i>Chinatown</i> is set in 1937, not 1905. The Mulholland-like figure—"Hollis Mulwray"—isn't the chief architect of the project, but rather its strongest opponent, who must be discredited and murdered. Mulwray is against the "Alto Vallejo Dam" because it's unsafe, not because it's stealing water from somebody else... But there are echoes of Mulholland's aqueduct project in <i>Chinatown</i>... Mulholland's project enriched its promoters through insider land deals in the <a href="/wiki/San_Fernando_Valley" title="San Fernando Valley">San Fernando Valley</a>, just like the dam project in <i>Chinatown</i>. The disgruntled San Fernando Valley farmers of <i>Chinatown</i>, forced to sell off their land at bargain prices because of an artificial drought, seem like stand-ins for the Owens Valley settlers whose homesteads turned to dust when Los Angeles took the water that irrigated them. The "Van Der Lip Dam" disaster, which Hollis Mulwray cites to explain his opposition to the proposed dam, is an obvious reference to the collapse of the <a href="/wiki/Saint_Francis_Dam" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Francis Dam">Saint Francis Dam</a> in 1928. Mulholland built this dam after completing the aqueduct and its failure was the greatest man-made disaster in the history of California. These echoes have led many viewers to regard <i>Chinatown</i>, not only as docudrama, but as truth—the real secret history of how Los Angeles got its water. And it has become a ruling metaphor of the non-fictional critiques of Los Angeles development.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Analysis_and_interpretation">Analysis and interpretation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chinatown_(1974_film)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Analysis and interpretation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In a 1975 issue of <i><a href="/wiki/Film_Quarterly" title="Film Quarterly">Film Quarterly</a></i>, Wayne D. McGinnis compared <i>Chinatown</i> to <i><a href="/wiki/Oedipus_Rex" title="Oedipus Rex">Oedipus Rex</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Sophocles" title="Sophocles">Sophocles</a>. He suggested that a "wasteland <a href="/wiki/Motif_(narrative)" title="Motif (narrative)">motif</a> predominates in both works", in which a character (Noah Cross in <i>Chinatown</i> and <a href="/wiki/Oedipus" title="Oedipus">Oedipus</a> in <i>Oedipus Rex</i>) uses "a plague on a city" to get into public power and then harbor corruption. McGinnis wrote that both works allude to "a sterility of moral values in its own era": of <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a> in "a time of intellectual upheaval [...] after the heroic <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Marathon" title="Battle of Marathon">battle of Marathon</a>" in <i>Oedipus Rex</i> and of America in the <a href="/wiki/Watergate_scandal" title="Watergate scandal">Watergate era</a> in <i>Chinatown</i>. He also argued that in the film, director Roman Polanski splits Sophocles' Oedipus into two morally polar figures, with the film's protagonist Detective Jake Gittes paralleling the "good" Oedipus: the one uncovering the source of corruption. McGinnis asserted that after "confronting the web of evil perpetrated by Cross [...] Gittes is the Oedipus whose success, to the use the words of <a href="/wiki/Cleanth_Brooks" title="Cleanth Brooks">Cleanth Brooks</a> and <a href="/wiki/Robert_B._Heilman" title="Robert B. Heilman">Robert B. Heilman</a>, 'has tended to blind [him] to possibilities which pure reason fails to see'". McGinnis concluded that "There is finally pity for the doomed, ignorant Gittes, just as there is pity for the blind Oedipus in Sophocles", however, "Gittes' real sight, like Oedipus, comes too late".<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chinatown_(1974_film)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Box_office">Box office</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chinatown_(1974_film)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Box office"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Expand_section plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="[icon]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/20px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/30px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/40px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="44" data-file-height="31" /></a></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs expansion</b>. You can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chinatown_(1974_film)&action=edit&section=">adding to it</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">April 2018</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The film earned $29 million at the North American box office.<sup id="cite_ref-BOM_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BOM-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Critical_response">Critical response</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chinatown_(1974_film)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Critical response"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On <a href="/wiki/Rotten_Tomatoes" title="Rotten Tomatoes">Rotten Tomatoes</a>, <i>Chinatown</i> holds an approval rating of 98% based on 147 reviews, with an average rating of 9.40/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "As bruised and cynical as the decade that produced it, this noir classic benefits from Robert Towne's brilliant screenplay, director Roman Polanski's steady hand, and wonderful performances from Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway".<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Metacritic" title="Metacritic">Metacritic</a> assigned the film a weighted average score of 92 out of 100, based on 23 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Roger_Ebert" title="Roger Ebert">Roger Ebert</a> added it to his "Great Movies" list, saying that Nicholson's performance was "key in keeping <i>Chinatown</i> from becoming just a genre crime picture", along with Towne's screenplay, concluding that the film "seems to settle easily beside the original noirs".<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although the film was widely acclaimed by prominent critics upon its release, <a href="/wiki/Vincent_Canby" title="Vincent Canby">Vincent Canby</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> was not impressed with the screenplay as compared to the film's predecessors, saying, "Mr. Polanski and Mr. Towne have attempted nothing so witty and entertaining, being content instead to make a competently stylish, more or less thirties-ish movie that continually made me wish I were back seeing <i><a href="/wiki/The_Maltese_Falcon_(1941_film)" title="The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)">The Maltese Falcon</a></i> or <i><a href="/wiki/The_Big_Sleep_(1946_film)" title="The Big Sleep (1946 film)">The Big Sleep</a></i>", but noted Nicholson's performance, calling it the film's "major contribution to the genre".<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Accolades">Accolades</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chinatown_(1974_film)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Accolades"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <tbody><tr> <th>Award </th> <th>Category </th> <th>Nominee(s) </th> <th>Result </th> <th>Ref. </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="11"><a href="/wiki/47th_Academy_Awards" title="47th Academy Awards">Academy Awards</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture" title="Academy Award for Best Picture">Best Picture</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_Evans" title="Robert Evans">Robert Evans</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td> <td align="center" rowspan="11"><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <br /> <sup id="cite_ref-NY_Times_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NY_Times-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Director" title="Academy Award for Best Director">Best Director</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Roman_Polanski" title="Roman Polanski">Roman Polanski</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Actor" title="Academy Award for Best Actor">Best Actor</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jack_Nicholson" title="Jack Nicholson">Jack Nicholson</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Actress" title="Academy Award for Best Actress">Best Actress</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Faye_Dunaway" title="Faye Dunaway">Faye Dunaway</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Original_Screenplay" title="Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay">Best Original Screenplay</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_Towne" title="Robert Towne">Robert Towne</a> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Production_Design" title="Academy Award for Best Production Design">Best Art Direction</a> </td> <td>Art Direction: <a href="/wiki/Richard_Sylbert" title="Richard Sylbert">Richard Sylbert</a> and <a href="/wiki/W._Stewart_Campbell" title="W. Stewart Campbell">W. Stewart Campbell</a>; <br /> Set Decoration: <a href="/wiki/Ruby_R._Levitt" title="Ruby R. Levitt">Ruby R. Levitt</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Cinematography" title="Academy Award for Best Cinematography">Best Cinematography</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_A._Alonzo" title="John A. Alonzo">John A. Alonzo</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Costume_Design" title="Academy Award for Best Costume Design">Best Costume Design</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Anthea_Sylbert" title="Anthea Sylbert">Anthea Sylbert</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Film_Editing" title="Academy Award for Best Film Editing">Best Film Editing</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sam_O%27Steen" title="Sam O'Steen">Sam O'Steen</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Original_Score" title="Academy Award for Best Original Score">Best Original Dramatic Score</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Goldsmith" title="Jerry Goldsmith">Jerry Goldsmith</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Sound" title="Academy Award for Best Sound">Best Sound</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charles_Grenzbach" title="Charles Grenzbach">Charles Grenzbach</a> and <a href="/wiki/Larry_Jost" title="Larry Jost">Larry Jost</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Bodil_Awards" title="Bodil Awards">Bodil Awards</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bodil_Award_for_Best_American_Film" class="mw-redirect" title="Bodil Award for Best American Film">Best Non-European Film</a> </td> <td rowspan="3">Roman Polanski </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td align="center"><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="11"><a href="/wiki/28th_British_Academy_Film_Awards" title="28th British Academy Film Awards">British Academy Film Awards</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Film" title="BAFTA Award for Best Film">Best Film</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td> <td align="center" rowspan="11"><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Direction" title="BAFTA Award for Best Direction">Best Direction</a> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Actor_in_a_Leading_Role" title="BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role">Best Actor in a Leading Role</a> </td> <td>Jack Nicholson <span style="font-size:85%;">(also for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Detail" title="The Last Detail">The Last Detail</a></i>)</span> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Actress_in_a_Leading_Role" title="BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role">Best Actress in a Leading Role</a> </td> <td>Faye Dunaway </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Actor_in_a_Supporting_Role" title="BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role">Best Actor in a Supporting Role</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Huston" title="John Huston">John Huston</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Screenplay" title="BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay">Best Screenplay</a> </td> <td>Robert Towne <span style="font-size:85%;">(also for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Detail" title="The Last Detail">The Last Detail</a></i>)</span> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Production_Design" title="BAFTA Award for Best Production Design">Best Art Direction</a> </td> <td>Richard Sylbert </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Cinematography" title="BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography">Best Cinematography</a> </td> <td>John A. Alonzo </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Costume_Design" title="BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design">Best Costume Design</a> </td> <td>Anthea Sylbert </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Editing" title="BAFTA Award for Best Editing">Best Film Editing</a> </td> <td>Sam O'Steen </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Original_Music" title="BAFTA Award for Best Original Music">Best Original Music</a> </td> <td>Jerry Goldsmith </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/27th_Directors_Guild_of_America_Awards" title="27th Directors Guild of America Awards">Directors Guild of America Awards</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Directors_Guild_of_America_Award_for_Outstanding_Directing_%E2%80%93_Feature_Film" title="Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film">Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures</a> </td> <td>Roman Polanski </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td> <td align="center"><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Awards" title="Edgar Awards">Edgar Allan Poe Awards</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/List_of_Edgar_Allan_Poe_Award_for_Best_Motion_Picture_Screenplay_winners" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay winners">Best Motion Picture</a> </td> <td>Robert Towne </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td align="center"><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Fotogramas_de_Plata" title="Fotogramas de Plata">Fotogramas de Plata</a> </td> <td>Best Foreign Movie Performer </td> <td>Jack Nicholson <span style="font-size:85%;">(also for <i><a href="/wiki/Five_Easy_Pieces" title="Five Easy Pieces">Five Easy Pieces</a></i>)</span> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td align="center"> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="7"><a href="/wiki/32nd_Golden_Globe_Awards" title="32nd Golden Globe Awards">Golden Globe Awards</a> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Motion_Picture_%E2%80%93_Drama" title="Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama">Best Motion Picture – Drama</a> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td align="center" rowspan="7"><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Actor_%E2%80%93_Motion_Picture_Drama" class="mw-redirect" title="Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama">Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama</a> </td> <td>Jack Nicholson </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Actress_%E2%80%93_Motion_Picture_Drama" class="mw-redirect" title="Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama">Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama</a> </td> <td>Faye Dunaway </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actor_%E2%80%93_Motion_Picture" title="Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture">Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture</a> </td> <td>John Huston </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Director" title="Golden Globe Award for Best Director">Best Director – Motion Picture</a> </td> <td>Roman Polanski </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Screenplay" title="Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay">Best Screenplay – Motion Picture</a> </td> <td>Robert Towne </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Original_Score" title="Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score">Best Original Score – Motion Picture</a> </td> <td>Jerry Goldsmith </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/International_Film_Music_Critics_Association" title="International Film Music Critics Association">International Film Music Critics Awards</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/International_Film_Music_Critics_Association_Award_for_Best_New_Archival_Release_of_an_Existing_Score_%E2%80%93_Re-Release_or_Re-Recording" title="International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best New Archival Release of an Existing Score – Re-Release or Re-Recording">Best Re-Release/Re-Recording of an Existing Score</a> </td> <td>Jerry Goldsmith, Douglass Fake, Roger Feigelson, <br /> Jeff Bond, and Joe Sikoryak </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td> <td align="center"><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards </td> <td>Best Actor </td> <td>Jack Nicholson </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td align="center" rowspan="2"><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Best Supporting Actor </td> <td>John Huston </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Board_of_Review_Awards_1974" title="National Board of Review Awards 1974">National Board of Review Awards</a> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/National_Board_of_Review:_Top_Ten_Films" title="National Board of Review: Top Ten Films">Top Ten Films</a> </td> <td style="background:#CDE; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-draw">3rd Place </td> <td align="center"><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Film_Preservation_Board" title="National Film Preservation Board">National Film Preservation Board</a> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/National_Film_Registry" title="National Film Registry">National Film Registry</a> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Inducted </td> <td align="center"> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1974_National_Society_of_Film_Critics_Awards" title="1974 National Society of Film Critics Awards">National Society of Film Critics Awards</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Society_of_Film_Critics_Award_for_Best_Actor" title="National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor">Best Actor</a> </td> <td rowspan="2">Jack Nicholson <span style="font-size:85%;">(also for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Detail" title="The Last Detail">The Last Detail</a></i>)</span> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td align="center"><sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/1974_New_York_Film_Critics_Circle_Awards" title="1974 New York Film Critics Circle Awards">New York Film Critics Circle Awards</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/New_York_Film_Critics_Circle_Award_for_Best_Actor" title="New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor">Best Actor</a> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td align="center" rowspan="2"><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/New_York_Film_Critics_Circle_Award_for_Best_Screenplay" title="New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay">Best Screenplay</a> </td> <td>Robert Towne </td> <td style="background: #DFF; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-cast">Runner-up </td></tr> <tr> <td>Online Film & Television Association Awards </td> <td colspan="2">Hall of Fame – Motion Picture </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Inducted </td> <td align="center"><sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/11th_Golden_Laurel_Awards" title="11th Golden Laurel Awards">Producers Guild of America Awards</a> </td> <td>PGA Hall of Fame – Motion Pictures </td> <td>Robert Evans </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td align="center"> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sant_Jordi_Awards" title="Sant Jordi Awards">Sant Jordi Awards</a> </td> <td>Best Foreign Film </td> <td>Roman Polanski </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td align="center"> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/27th_Writers_Guild_of_America_Awards" title="27th Writers Guild of America Awards">Writers Guild of America Awards</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Writers_Guild_of_America_Award_for_Best_Original_Screenplay" title="Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay">Best Drama – Written Directly for the Screen</a> </td> <td>Robert Towne </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td align="center"><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_honors">Other honors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chinatown_(1974_film)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Other honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>2010 – Best film of all time, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-guardian.co.uk_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian.co.uk-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2012 – In the <a href="/wiki/British_Film_Institute" title="British Film Institute">British Film Institute</a>'s 2012 <i><a href="/wiki/Sight_%26_Sound" class="mw-redirect" title="Sight & Sound">Sight & Sound</a></i> polls of <a href="/wiki/The_Sight_%26_Sound_Greatest_Films_of_All_Time_2012" title="The Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2012">the greatest films ever made</a>, <i>Chinatown</i> was 78th among critics and 91st among directors.</li> <li>2015 – The film ranked 12th on <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>'s "100 Greatest American Films" list, voted on by film critics from around the world.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p><b><a href="/wiki/American_Film_Institute" title="American Film Institute">American Film Institute</a> recognition</b> </p> <ul><li>1998 – <a href="/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years...100_Movies" title="AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies">AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies</a> – Ranked 19th</li> <li>2001 – <a href="/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years...100_Thrills" title="AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills">AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills</a> – Ranked 16th</li> <li>2003 – <a href="/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years...100_Heroes_and_Villains" class="mw-redirect" title="AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains">AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains</a>: <ul><li>Noah Cross – Ranked 16th Villain</li> <li>J.J. Gittes – Nominated Hero</li></ul></li> <li>2005 – <a href="/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years...100_Movie_Quotes" title="AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes">AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes</a>: <ul><li>"Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown" – Ranked 74th</li></ul></li> <li>2005 – <a href="/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years_of_Film_Scores" title="AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores">AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores</a> – Ranked 9th</li> <li>2007 – <a href="/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years...100_Movies_(10th_Anniversary_Edition)" title="AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)">AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)</a> – Ranked 21st</li> <li>2008 – <a href="/wiki/AFI%27s_10_Top_10" title="AFI's 10 Top 10">AFI's 10 Top 10</a> <a href="/wiki/Mystery_film" title="Mystery film">mystery film</a> – Ranked 2nd</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Subsequent_works">Subsequent works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chinatown_(1974_film)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Subsequent works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A sequel film, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Two_Jakes" title="The Two Jakes">The Two Jakes</a></i>, was released in 1990, again starring Nicholson, who also directed, with Robert Towne returning to write the screenplay. It was not met with the same financial or critical success as the first film. </p><p>A prequel television series by <a href="/wiki/David_Fincher" title="David Fincher">David Fincher</a> and Towne for <a href="/wiki/Netflix" title="Netflix">Netflix</a> about Gittes starting his agency was reported to be in the works in November 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A film about the making of <i>Chinatown</i>, based on the non-fiction book <i>The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood</i>, was reported in August 2020 to be in the works, with <a href="/wiki/Ben_Affleck" title="Ben Affleck">Ben Affleck</a> as director and writer.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chinatown_(1974_film)&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Towne's screenplay has become legendary among critics and filmmakers, often cited as one of the best examples of the craft,<sup id="cite_ref-inter_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-inter-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> though Polanski decided on the fatal final scene. While it has been reported that Towne envisioned a happy ending, he has denied these claims and said simply that he initially found Polanski's ending to be excessively melodramatic. He explained in a 1997 interview: "The way I had seen it was that Evelyn would kill her father but end up in jail for it, unable to give the real reason why it happened. And the detective [Jack Nicholson] couldn't talk about it either, so it was bleak in its own way". Towne retrospectively concluded that "Roman was right",<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> later arguing that Polanski's stark and simple ending, due to the complexity of the events preceding it, was more fitting than his own, which he described as equally bleak but "too complicated and too literary".<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Chinatown</i> brought more public awareness to the land dealings and disputes over water rights, which arose while drawing Los Angeles' water supply from the Owens Valley in the 1910s.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chinatown_(1974_film)&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_American_films_of_1974" title="List of American films of 1974">List of American films of 1974</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chinatown_(1974_film)&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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Chinatown," almost certainly refer to "<a href="/wiki/Old_Chinatown,_Los_Angeles" title="Old Chinatown, Los Angeles">Old Chinatown</a>", or at least the popular perception thereof.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Old Chinatown was gradually demolished, starting in 1933, to allow for construction of <a href="/wiki/Union_Station_(Los_Angeles)" title="Union Station (Los Angeles)">Union Station</a>, with the grand opening of "<a href="/wiki/Chinatown_(Los_Angeles)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinatown (Los Angeles)">New Chinatown</a>" in 1938. </span> </li> </ol></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Knife_in_the_Water" title="Knife in the Water">Knife in the Water</a></i> (1962)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Repulsion_(film)" title="Repulsion (film)">Repulsion</a></i> (1965)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Cul-de-sac_(1966_film)" title="Cul-de-sac (1966 film)">Cul-de-Sac</a></i> (1966)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fearless_Vampire_Killers" title="The Fearless Vampire Killers">The Fearless Vampire Killers</a></i> (1967)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Rosemary%27s_Baby_(film)" title="Rosemary's Baby (film)">Rosemary's Baby</a></i> (1968)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Macbeth_(1971_film)" title="Macbeth (1971 film)">Macbeth</a></i> (1971)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/What%3F_(film)" title="What? 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(1999)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Pianist_(2002_film)" title="The Pianist (2002 film)">The Pianist</a></i> (2002)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Twist_(2005_film)" title="Oliver Twist (2005 film)">Oliver Twist</a></i> (2005)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ghost_Writer_(film)" title="The Ghost Writer (film)">The Ghost Writer</a></i> (2010)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Carnage_(2011_film)" title="Carnage (2011 film)">Carnage</a></i> (2011)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Venus_in_Fur_(film)" title="Venus in Fur (film)">Venus in Fur</a></i> (2013)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Based_on_a_True_Story_(film)" title="Based on a True Story (film)">Based on a True Story</a></i> (2017)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/An_Officer_and_a_Spy_(film)" title="An Officer and a Spy (film)">An Officer and a Spy</a></i> (2019)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Palace_(2023_film)" title="The Palace (2023 film)">The Palace</a></i> (2023)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Short films</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/A_Toothy_Smile" title="A Toothy Smile">A Toothy Smile</a></i> (1957)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Rozbijemy_zabaw%C4%99" title="Rozbijemy zabawę">Rozbijemy zabawę</a></i> (1957)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Morderstwo" title="Morderstwo">Morderstwo</a></i> (1957)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Two_Men_and_a_Wardrobe" title="Two Men and a Wardrobe">Two Men and a Wardrobe</a></i> (1958)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Lampa_(film)" title="Lampa (film)">Lampa</a></i> (1959)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/When_Angels_Fall" title="When Angels Fall">When Angels Fall</a></i> (1959)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fat_and_the_Lean" title="The Fat and the Lean">The Fat and the Lean</a></i> (1961)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Ssaki" title="Ssaki">Ssaki</a></i> (1962)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/The_World%27s_Most_Beautiful_Swindlers" title="The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers">"La rivière de diamants" in <i>The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers</i></a> (1964)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/To_Each_His_Own_Cinema" title="To Each His Own Cinema">"Cinema Erotique" in <i>To Each His Own Cinema</i></a> (2007)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/A_Therapy" title="A Therapy">A Therapy</a></i> (2012)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Family</th><td 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Polanski sexual abuse case</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Mia_and_Roman" title="Mia and Roman">Mia and Roman</a></i> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/Roman_P" title="Roman P">Roman P</a>"</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Roman_Polanski:_Wanted_and_Desired" title="Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired">Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Polanski_Unauthorized" title="Polanski Unauthorized">Polanski Unauthorized</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Roman_Polanski:_A_Film_Memoir" title="Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir">Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Girl:_A_Life_in_the_Shadow_of_Roman_Polanski" title="The Girl: A Life in the Shadow of Roman Polanski">The Girl: A Life in the Shadow of Roman Polanski</a></i> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tate%E2%80%93LaBianca_murders" title="Tate–LaBianca murders">Tate–LaBianca murders</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Films_by_Robert_Towne" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Robert_Towne" title="Template:Robert Towne"><abbr title="View this 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title="Without Limits">Without Limits</a></i> (1998)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ask_the_Dust_(film)" title="Ask the Dust (film)">Ask the Dust</a></i> (2006)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Written only</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Last_Woman_on_Earth" title="Last Woman on Earth">Last Woman on Earth</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Tomb_of_Ligeia" title="The Tomb of Ligeia">The Tomb of Ligeia</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Villa_Rides" title="Villa Rides">Villa Rides</a></i> (1968)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Detail" title="The Last Detail">The Last Detail</a></i> (1973)</li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Chinatown</a></i> (1974)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Yakuza" title="The Yakuza">The Yakuza</a></i> (1974)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shampoo_(film)" title="Shampoo 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Bernadette (film)">The Song of Bernadette</a></i> (1943)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Going_My_Way" title="Going My Way">Going My Way</a></i> (1944)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lost_Weekend" title="The Lost Weekend">The Lost Weekend</a></i> (1945)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Best_Years_of_Our_Lives" title="The Best Years of Our Lives">The Best Years of Our Lives</a></i> (1946)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Gentleman%27s_Agreement" title="Gentleman's Agreement">Gentleman's Agreement</a></i> (1947)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Belinda_(1948_film)" title="Johnny Belinda (1948 film)">Johnny Belinda</a></i> / <i><a href="/wiki/The_Treasure_of_the_Sierra_Madre_(film)" title="The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film)">The Treasure of the Sierra Madre</a></i> (1948)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a 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<li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Around_the_World_in_80_Days_(1956_film)" title="Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film)">Around the World in 80 Days</a></i> (1956)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bridge_on_the_River_Kwai" title="The Bridge on the River Kwai">The Bridge on the River Kwai</a></i> (1957)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Defiant_Ones" title="The Defiant Ones">The Defiant Ones</a></i> (1958)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Ben-Hur_(1959_film)" title="Ben-Hur (1959 film)">Ben-Hur</a></i> (1959)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Spartacus_(film)" title="Spartacus (film)">Spartacus</a></i> (1960)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Guns_of_Navarone_(film)" title="The Guns of Navarone (film)">The Guns of Navarone</a></i> (1961)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_of_Arabia_(film)" title="Lawrence of Arabia (film)">Lawrence of Arabia</a></i> (1962)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cardinal" title="The Cardinal">The Cardinal</a></i> (1963)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Becket_(1964_film)" title="Becket (1964 film)">Becket</a></i> (1964)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_Zhivago_(film)" title="Doctor Zhivago (film)">Doctor Zhivago</a></i> (1965)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/A_Man_for_All_Seasons_(1966_film)" title="A Man for All Seasons (1966 film)">A Man for All Seasons</a></i> (1966)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/In_the_Heat_of_the_Night_(film)" title="In the Heat of the Night (film)">In the Heat of the Night</a></i> (1967)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lion_in_Winter_(1968_film)" title="The Lion in Winter (1968 film)">The Lion in Winter</a></i> (1968)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Anne_of_the_Thousand_Days" title="Anne of the Thousand Days">Anne of the Thousand Days</a></i> (1969)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Love_Story_(1970_film)" title="Love Story (1970 film)">Love Story</a></i> (1970)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_French_Connection_(film)" title="The French Connection (film)">The French Connection</a></i> (1971)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Godfather" title="The Godfather">The Godfather</a></i> (1972)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Exorcist" title="The Exorcist">The Exorcist</a></i> (1973)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Chinatown</a></i> (1974)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo%27s_Nest_(film)" title="One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)">One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest</a></i> (1975)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #CFB53B;width:1%;background: #CFB53B">1976–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Rocky" title="Rocky">Rocky</a></i> (1976)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Turning_Point_(1977_film)" title="The Turning Point (1977 film)">The Turning Point</a></i> (1977)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Midnight_Express_(film)" title="Midnight Express (film)">Midnight Express</a></i> (1978)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Kramer_vs._Kramer" title="Kramer vs. Kramer">Kramer vs. Kramer</a></i> (1979)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Ordinary_People" title="Ordinary People">Ordinary People</a></i> (1980)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/On_Golden_Pond_(1981_film)" title="On Golden Pond (1981 film)">On Golden Pond</a></i> (1981)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial" title="E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial">E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial</a></i> (1982)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Terms_of_Endearment" title="Terms of Endearment">Terms of Endearment</a></i> (1983)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Amadeus_(film)" title="Amadeus (film)">Amadeus</a></i> (1984)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Out_of_Africa_(film)" title="Out of Africa (film)">Out of Africa</a></i> (1985)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Platoon_(film)" title="Platoon (film)">Platoon</a></i> (1986)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Emperor" title="The Last Emperor">The Last Emperor</a></i> (1987)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Rain_Man" title="Rain Man">Rain Man</a></i> (1988)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Born_on_the_Fourth_of_July_(film)" title="Born on the Fourth of July (film)">Born on the Fourth of July</a></i> (1989)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Dances_With_Wolves" title="Dances With Wolves">Dances With Wolves</a></i> (1990)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Bugsy" title="Bugsy">Bugsy</a></i> (1991)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Scent_of_a_Woman_(1992_film)" title="Scent of a Woman (1992 film)">Scent of a Woman</a></i> (1992)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Schindler%27s_List" title="Schindler's List">Schindler's List</a></i> (1993)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Forrest_Gump" title="Forrest Gump">Forrest Gump</a></i> (1994)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Sense_and_Sensibility_(film)" title="Sense and Sensibility (film)">Sense and Sensibility</a></i> (1995)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_English_Patient_(film)" title="The English Patient (film)">The English Patient</a></i> 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