The Graduate
(1967)
Rusty: National Film RegistryAward nominations: Academy Award for Best Actor (Dustin Hoffman)
Academy Award for Best Actress (Anne Bancroft)
Academy Award for Best Cinematography (Robert L. Surtees)
Academy Award for Best Picture (Lawrence Turman)
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (Katharine Ross)
Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (Calder Willingham, Buck Henry)Award details: (details at IMDb)
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The Graduate is a 1967 American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols. It is based on the 1963 novel The Graduate by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College. The screenplay is by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry, who appears in the film as a hotel clerk. The film tells the story of 20-year-old Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate with no well-defined aim in life, who is seduced by an older woman, Mrs. Robinson, and then proceeds to fall in love with her daughter Elaine. In 1996, The Graduate was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Initially, the film was placed at number 7 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies list in 1998. When AFI revised the list in 2007, the film was moved to number 17. Adjusted for inflation, the film is number 21 on the list of highest-grossing films in the United States and Canada.