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• Filmmaker Roman Polanski

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Nominees

• Chinatown

  • Roman Polanski
• The Conversation

  • Francis Ford Coppola
• Lacombe Lucien

  • Louis Malle
• Murder On The Orient Express/Serpico

  • Sidney Lumet