Jeremiah Johnson

The cabin-building montage, final peace gesture, and first Crow-camp attack are explicit favorites among a broad set of frontier and action nominees.

Postwar disillusionment, the opening overture, and the late intermission

The final nod; John Milius dialogue; voiceover and music; facial hair; Crow memorial; Redford’s unique catalog entry.

Swan’s hot pockets; raw fish and frontier meals.

Del Gue’s buried head and the bear chase into the cabin

Paints His Shirt Red; Jeremiah Johnson.

Snow extinguishing the fire; falling into the creek; burial by Blackfeet warriors; the Mexican War

Jeremiah crossing the burial ground and surviving repeated severe injuries

The daughter-as-repayment custom, dated Native representation, slower Bear Claw passages, and songs narrating visible action

Del Gue

Jeremiah’s Crow-war kill count is far larger than the montage suggests.

Redford

Charles Tyner and Paul Benedict

No final selection: Bear Claw and Del

Harrison Ford, Daniel Day-Lewis, Russell Crowe, Brad Pitt, and several current actors are considered by decade.

Utah locations, Pollack’s financial commitment, severe cold, Del Gue’s behavior, Cannes premiere, and illnesses

Mountains in movies; Crow burial grounds; Will Geer’s transition to The Waltons.

Hanks

Steven Spielberg.

Food, burial-ground communication and timing, leaving the family, Crow tactics, and Jeremiah joining the rescue

Untouchable

Robert Redford

Jeremiah’s war past, the chief’s retaliation, Bear Claw’s romantic history, and a possible death-vision ending

The Hawken rifle, Jeremiah’s red coat, and Swan’s bear coat

Do not cross a Crow burial ground; do not leave family alone; avoid camping if unprepared.

Robert Redford