There were many accolades for this stunning film, including eleven Academy Award nominations, although only one took the Oscar home, Best Original Screenplay for Robert Towne""s superb work (the losses were partly attributed to the intense competition from Coppola""sThe Godfather, Part II (1974))." Later, while recovering in his hospital room, Paulie and Rocky reviewed the fight together: "You had him in the 10th, and in the 15th, he was gone.Plot SynopsisThe film opens on a wall of four color television monitors, each displaying the evening network news on the four networks: Howard K.Reportedly, the 32 reels of edited negatives were melted down by MGM to extract the valuable silver nitrate from the film stock.He hurtles o the floor with a loud, frightful crash, and is left sprawled flat on his face [the first of many slapstick pratfalls for Pike in the film].