Network
Network theatrical poster
Directed by	Sidney Lumet
Produced by	Howard Gottfried
Written by	Paddy Chayefsky
Starring	Faye Dunaway William Holden Peter Finch Robert Duvall Ned Beatty Beatrice Straight
Music by	Elliot Lawrence
Cinematography	Owen Roizman
Editing by	Alan Heim
Distributed by	USA: MGM (theatrical), Warner Bros. (through Turner Entertainment) (DVD) non-USA: United Artists (theatrical), MGM (DVD)
Release date(s)	November 27, 1976 (premiere)
Running time	121 min.
Language	English
Budget	USD$ 3,800,000 (estimated)
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Network is a 1976 satirical New Hollywood film about a fictional television network, Union Broadcasting System (UBS), and its struggle with poor ratings. It was written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, and stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty and Beatrice Straight. The film won four Academy Awards, including Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. Image File history File links Network (1976) movie poster File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Portrait of Sidney Lumet, May 7, 1939. ... Sidney Aaron Chayefsky (January 29, 1923 – August 1, 1981) known as Paddy Chayefsky was an acclaimed dramatist who transitioned from the golden age of American live television in the 1950s to have a successful career as a playwright and screenwriter for Hollywood. ... 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Network has continued to receive recognition, decades after its initial release. In 2000, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2002, the film was inducted into the Producers Guild of America Hall of Fame as a film that has "set an enduring standard for American entertainment."^[1] In 2006, Chayefsky's script was voted one of the top ten movie scripts of all-time by the Writers Guild of America. In 2007, the film was 64th among the Top 100 Greatest American Films as chosen by the American Film Institute, a ranking slightly higher than the one AFI gave it ten years earlier. The National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. ... Construction of the Thomas Jefferson Building, from July 8, 1888 to May 15, 1894. ... 13th Producers Guild of America Awards March 3, 2002 The 13th PGA Golden Laurel Awards, given at the Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA on 3 March 2002, honored the best film and television producers of 2001. ... Producers Guild of America (PGA) is a trade organization representing the television and film producers in the United States. ... The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is the collective bargaining representative, or labor union, for writers in the motion picture and television industries in the United States. ... AFI’s 100 Years. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The first of the AFI 100 Years. ...

Plot

The story opens with long-time "UBS Evening News" anchor Howard Beale (played by Peter Finch) being fired because of the show's low ratings. The following night, Beale announces on the air that he will commit suicide during an upcoming live broadcast.^[2] A news anchor (US,Can. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Peter Finch (September 28, 1912 – January 14, 1977) was an English-born actor with strong Australian connections. ...

UBS immediately fires him after this incident, but they let him back on the air, ostensibly for a dignified farewell, with persuasion from Beale's producer and best friend, Max Schumacher (played by William Holden), the network's old guard news editor. Beale promises that he will apologize for his outburst, but instead rants about how life is "bullshit." While there are serious repercussions, the program's ratings skyrocket and, much to Schumacher's dismay, the upper echelons of UBS decide to exploit Beale's antics rather than pulling him off the air. William Holden (April 17, 1918 – ca. ... In Politics, Old Guard refers to the Old Right group of libertarian, free-market anti-interventionists. ...

Howard Beale (Peter Finch) delivering his "mad as hell" speech

In one impassioned diatribe, Beale galvanizes the nation with his rant, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" and persuades Americans to shout out their windows during a spectacular lightning storm. Soon Beale is hosting a new program called The Howard Beale Show, top-billed as a "mad prophet of the airways." Ultimately, the show becomes the highest rated (Duvall's character calls it "a big fat, ... big-titted hit!") program on television, and Beale finds new celebrity preaching his angry message in front of a live audience that, on cue, repeats the Beale's marketed catchphrase en masse. His new set is lit by blue spotlights and an enormous stained-glass window, supplemented with segments featuring astrology, gossip, opinion polls, and yellow journalism. Image File history File linksMetadata Network12. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Network12. ... Strictly speaking, stained glass is glass that has been painted with silver stain and then fired. ... Hand-coloured version of the anonymous Flammarion woodcut (1888). ... Neighborly gossips in the Altstadt in Sindelfingen, Germany Gossip consists of casual or idle talk of any sort, usually slanderous and/or devoted to discussing others. ... Nasty little printers devils spew forth from the Hoe press in this Puck cartoon of Nov. ...

Parallel to the story of Beale is the tale of the rise within UBS of Diana Christensen (played by Faye Dunaway). Beginning as a producer of entertainment programming, Diana acquires footage of terrorists robbing banks for a new television series, charms other executives, and ends up controlling a merged news and entertainment division. To advance this, Christensen has an affair with the long-married Schumacher, but remains obsessed with the success of the network, even in bed. Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941, in Bascom, Florida) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. ...

Upon discovering that the conglomerate that owns UBS will be bought out by an even larger Saudi Arabian conglomerate, Beale launches an on-screen tirade against the two corporations, encouraging the audience to telegram the White House with the message, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this any more" in the hopes of stopping the merger. Beale is then taken to meet with Arthur Jensen (played by Ned Beatty), chairman of the company which owns UBS, who explicates his own "corporate cosmology" to the now nearly delusional Beale. Jensen delivers an lecture - almost a sermon - beginning by declaring to Beale, "You have meddled in the primal forces of nature" before describing the interrelatedness of the participants in the international economy, and the illusory nature of nationality distinctions. Jensen ultimately persuades Beale to abandon his populist messages. However, audiences find his new views on the dehumanization of society to be depressing, and ratings begin to slide. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a country on the Arabian Peninsula. ... Conglomerate is the term used to describe a large company which consists of divisions of often seemingly unrelated businesses. ... Telegraphy (from the Greek words tele = far away and grapho = write) is the long distance transmission of written messages without physical transport of letters, originally over wire. ... This page is about the official residence of the President of the USA. For other White Houses see White House (disambiguation). ... Ned Thomas Beatty (born July 6, 1937) is an Academy Award-nominated American character actor. ... Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Pope · Archbishop of Canterbury Patriarch of Constantinople Christianity Portal This box:      A sermon is an oration by... Look up Populism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Although Beale's ratings plummet, the chairman will not allow executives to fire Beale as he spreads the new gospel. Obsessed as ever with UBS' ratings, Christensen arranges for Beale's on-air murder by a group of urban terrorists who now have their own UBS show, "The Mao-Tse Tung Hour," a dynamite addition to the new fall line-up. This mirrors a drunken and sardonic conversation between Beale and Schumacher at the start of the film, that they should have a show featuring suicides and assasinations. Urban guerrilla refers to someone who fights a government using unconventional warfare in an urban environment. ... Mao redirects here. ...

Cast

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Production and transfer of rights

The script was written by Paddy Chayefsky and the producer was Howard Gottfried. The two had just come off a lawsuit against United Artists, challenging the studio's right to lease their previous film, The Hospital, to ABC in a package with a less successful film. Despite recently settling this lawsuit, Chayefsky and Gottfried agreed to allow UA to finance the film. But after reading the script, UA found the subject matter too controversial and backed out. Sidney Aaron Chayefsky (January 29, 1923 – August 1, 1981) known as Paddy Chayefsky was an acclaimed dramatist who transitioned from the golden age of American live television in the 1950s to have a successful career as a playwright and screenwriter for Hollywood. ... This article is about the film studio. ... The Hospital is a 1971 black comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring George C. Scott as Dr. Herbert Bock. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American television network. ...

Undeterred, Chayefsky and Gottfried shopped the script around to other studios, and eventually found an interested party in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Soon afterwards, UA reversed itself, and looked to co-finance the film with MGM, who for the past several years had distributed through UA in the US. MGM agreed to let UA back on board, and gave them the international distribution rights, with MGM controlling North American rights. For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ...

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In 1980, UA's then-parent, Transamerica Corporation, put the studio up for sale following the disastrous release of Heaven's Gate, which was a major financial flop and public relations nightmare. Transamerica had become very nervous about the film industry as a result. The next year, MGM purchased UA, and consequently gained UA's international rights to Network. Transamerica Corporaion is an insurance and investment company in the United States. ... Heavens Gate is a 1980 western movie, which depicts a highly fictionalized account of the Johnson County War, a dispute between land barons and European immigrants in Wyoming in the 1890s. ...

Then, in 1986, media mogul Ted Turner purchased MGM/UA. Without any financial backers, Turner soon fell into debt, and sold back most of MGM, but keeping the library for his own company, Turner Entertainment - this included the US rights to Network, but international rights remained with MGM, who retained the UA library (or, at least UA's own releases from 1952 onward, plus a few pre-1952 features, as other libraries which had been acquired by UA - such as the pre-1948 Warner Bros. library - were retained by Turner). Turner soon made a deal with MGM's video division for home distribution of most of Turner's library, allowing MGM to retain US video rights to Network for 13 more years. For other persons named Ted Turner, see Ted Turner (disambiguation). ... Turner Entertainment Company was established August 4, 1986 to oversee Turner Broadcastings film library after its acquisition of MGM/UA. In addition to the studio, Turner got its library, which included all of MGMs films, Warner Bros. ... “WB” redirects here. ...

In 1996, Turner merged with Time Warner. Consequently, WB assumed TV and theatrical distribution rights to the Turner library, with video rights being added in 1999. Time Warner Inc. ...

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Critical reception

Vincent Canby, in his November 1976 review of the film for The New York Times, called the film "outrageous...brilliantly, cruelly funny, a topical American comedy that confirms Paddy Chayefsky's position as a major new American satirist" and a film whose "wickedly distorted views of the way television looks, sounds, and, indeed, is, are the satirist's cardiogram of the hidden heart, not just of television but also of the society that supports it and is, in turn, supported."^[3] Vincent Canby (July 27, 1924 – September 15, 2000) was an American film critic. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. ...

In a review of the film written after it received its Academy Awards, Roger Ebert called it a "supremely well-acted, intelligent film that tries for too much, that attacks not only television but also most of the other ills of the 1970s," though "what it does accomplish is done so well, is seen so sharply, is presented so unforgivingly, that Network will outlive a lot of tidier movies.^[4] Seen a quarter-century later, Ebert said the film was "like prophecy. When Chayefsky created Howard Beale, could he have imagined Jerry Springer, Howard Stern and the World Wrestling Federation?"; he credits Lumet and Chayefsky for knowing "just when to pull out all the stops."^[5] Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ... This article is about Jerry Springer himself. ... This article is a biography of Howard Stern as an individual; for information regarding his radio show see The Howard Stern Show. ... World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ...

Trivia

• Techincally, there is no incidental music score for this movie, however, the music for the "Network News Hour" by Elliot Lawrence serves as the film's original music.
• Henry Fonda, John Chancellor, Walter Cronkite, and George C. Scott each turned down the role of Howard Beale.
• James Stewart turned down a role offered him, objecting to the film's strong language.
• The Mary Ann Gifford character was inspired by that of real-life Patty Hearst, and Laureen Hobbes by real-life communist activist Angela Davis. Coincidentally, Warfield's warning expletive "Don't Fuck with me!" is echoed (in context and voice-impression) by actress Faye Dunaway, five years later, in Mommie Dearest.
• Similarly, the Max Schumacher character appears to have been inspired by Edward R. Murrow, Howard Beale by Walter Cronkite, Edward George Ruddy by William S. Paley, and Nelson Cheney by Frank Stanton, all of CBS. Coincidentally, CBS was the first network to air this film (in 1978).
• Actors Holden and Dunaway appeared two-years earlier in the film The Towering Inferno.
• According to author Shaun Consadine's biography of Paddy Chayefsky, Holden and Glenn Ford were offered to play Max Schumaker, but Ford considered the role too hysterical.
• Many aspects of the story share similarity with the real-life on-air suicide of Christine Chubbuck, which took place two years before the film's release.

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Awards

Academy Awards

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Won:

• Best Actor in a Leading Role - Peter Finch
• Best Actress in a Leading Role - Faye Dunaway
• Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Beatrice Straight
• Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen - Paddy Chayefsky

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Nominated:

• Best Actor in a Leading Role - William Holden
• Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Ned Beatty
• Best Cinematography - Owen Roizman
• Best Film Editing - Alan Heim
• Best Director - Sidney Lumet
• Best Picture

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Golden Globes

Won:

• Best Motion Picture Actor-Drama - Peter Finch
• Best Motion Picture Actress-Drama - Faye Dunaway
• Best Director - Sidney Lumet
• Best Screenplay - Paddy Chayefsky

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• Best Motion Picture-Drama

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BAFTA Awards

Won:

• Best Actor - Peter Finch

Nominated: 1952 British Ralph Richardson for his part in The Sound Barrier Foreign Marlon Brando for his part in Viva Zapata! 1953 British John Gielgud for his part in Julius Caesar Foreign Marlon Brando for his part in Julius Caesar 1954 British Kenneth More for his part in Doctor in the...

• Best Film
• Best Actor - William Holden
• Best Actress - Faye Dunaway
• Best Supporting Actor - Robert Duvall
• Best Director - Sidney Lumet
• Best Editing - Alan Heim
• Best Screenplay - Paddy Chayefsky
• Best Sound Track - Jack Fitzstephens, Marc Laub, Sanford Rackow, James Sabat, & Dick Vorisek

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References in popular culture

• Hardcore act The Effort used Howard Beale's speech as part of the intro track "Transmit" on their debut album "Iconoclasm" in 2008
• The film spawned the popular phrase "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore," though the actual quote in the film, as uttered by Howard Beale, is "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" However, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore" was uttered by some of Beale's viewers. It is frequently parodied, and used by the New York Mets and the Florida Marlins to rev up the crowd. It placed 19th on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American movie quotes.
• In October 2005, actor George Clooney was said to be planning to produce a live made-for-television remake of the film, just as he did with Fail Safe.^[6] As of 2007 the remake has not yet been produced.
• The pseudonymous correspondent who covered television network skulduggery in "The Webs" column of Spy Magazine was named "Laureen Hobbs," after the radical black activist who is corrupted by television in the film.
• William Holden only received the full text of his famous long speech the day before it was shot.
• The television show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip referred to this film in the pilot episode, having a similar on-air breakdown on the show-within-a-show in this episode. The opening scene involved the executive producer having an on-air rant regarding television, leading to his firing. Network executives explicitly referred to Network as they discussed this outburst.
• The first issue of the The Nightly News, a comic similarly themed on the subject of media abuse, is entitled I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore.
• Alternative metal act System of a Down re-enacted a part of the movie in the opening of the music video for their song "Sugar".
• UK Indie band Travis used part of Howard Beale's "I'm as mad as hell" speech as an introduction for their gigs on a tour in 2008.
• Howard Beale's famous speech serves as part of the introduction track for Era of Diversion, an album by the Drum and Bass trio, Evol Intent.
• Clips from the movie can be heard after commercial breaks on The Richard Syrett Show, a talk radio show broadcast on CFRB in Toronto
• The documentary Zeitgeist, the Movie(2007), about conspiracy theories take two clips from this film, one of them is the "I'm as mad as hell" speech
• Portions of Howard Beale's rants were sampled in the track "Television" by seminal cut-and-paste hip-hop artist Steinski

References

Christine Chubbuck[1] (August 24, 1944 – July 15, 1974) was an American television news reporter who committed suicide during a live television broadcast. ... is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. ... Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ... is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Washington Post is the largest newspaper in Washington, D.C.. It is also one of the citys oldest papers, having been founded in 1877. ...

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