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American Gigolo

Just One Oscar

Paul Schrader; Scarfiotti

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  • Paul Schrader receives the initial Oscar choices.
  • Scarfiotti is an alternative for designing the film; his nonunion visual-consultant status is said to have prevented an art-direction or production-design nomination.
  • Schrader could have displaced one of the directing nominees: Redford for Ordinary People, Scorsese for Raging Bull, Lynch for The Elephant Man, Rush for The Stunt Man, or Polanski for Tess. First Reformed is recalled as his first nomination.