The Conversation
Accolades
The Conversation won the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, the highest honor at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also nominated for three Academy Awards for 1974, but the Academy preferred Coppola's The Godfather Part II, unlike critics in the National Board of Review and the National Society of Film Critics.

The Conversation

Section Title: Accolades
Table Section Text: The Conversation won the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, the highest honor at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also nominated for three Academy Awards for 1974, but the Academy preferred Coppola's The Godfather Part II, unlike critics in the National Board of Review and the National Society of Film Critics.

Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Recipient(s)	Result	Ref(s)

Academy Awards	April 8, 1975	Best Picture	Francis Ford Coppola	Nominated

Best Original Screenplay	Nominated

Best Sound	Walter Murch and Art Rochester	Nominated

British Academy Film Awards	1975	Best Direction	Francis Ford Coppola	Nominated

Best Actor	Gene Hackman	Nominated

Best Screenplay	Francis Ford Coppola	Nominated

Best Editing	Walter Murch, Richard Chew	Won

Best Soundtrack	Art Rochester, Nat Boxer, Mike Ejve, Walter Murch	Won

Cannes Film Festival	May 9–24, 1974	Grand Prix du Festival International du Film	Francis Ford Coppola	Won

Directors Guild of America	1974	Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures	Nominated

Golden Globes	January 25, 1975	Best Motion Picture - Drama	Nominated

Best Director - Motion Picture	Francis Ford Coppola	Nominated

Best Screenplay	Nominated

Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama	Gene Hackman	Nominated

National Board of Review	December 25, 1974	Best Film	Won

Best Director	Francis Ford Coppola	Won

Best Actor	Gene Hackman	Won

Top Ten Films	Won

National Society of Film Critics	January 5, 1975	Best Director	Francis Ford Coppola	Won

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The Conversation was nominated for three Academy Awards.

final_sentence: The Conversation was nominated for three Academy Awards.