Master Rank #490

Nashville

1975

GCML Total8.4040% Greatness · 40% Engagement · 20% Ease

Directed by Robert Altman

CastDavid Arkin · Barbara Baxley · Ned Beatty

USAEnglishDrama / Music159 minNot Rated
Sight & Sound; AFI 100Narrative FeatureDeliberate pace
Original poster artwork · Great Cinema Master List
Oscar · 1Globe · 1BAFTA · 1

Spoiler-free premise

Performers, politicians, and drifters converge in Nashville during a hectic week of music and campaigning.

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Over five days in Nashville, twenty-four singers, musicians, politicians, fans, journalists, workers, and drifters cross during concerts and a populist presidential campaign. Public performance and private ambition converge toward a large outdoor rally.

Why it belongs

Robert Altman makes a city audible through overlapping dialogue, live songs, political noise, and twenty-four characters sharing no single center.

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Airport arrivals, recording studios, hospitals, clubs, campaign vans, open microphones, and songs performed in full let public culture emerge from simultaneous lives. The mobile camera continually discovers relationships inside crowds.

Major award record

Metadata only · zero points in 40/40/20

Plus 1 additional win

No headline-category win to name

Plus 1 additional win

No headline-category win to name

Plus 1 additional win

No headline-category win to name

Totals include every recorded competitive win. Only Picture or top-film honors, Direction, Screenplay, and lead or supporting performances are named.

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