George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes, Richard A. Dysart, Stephen Elliott, Andrew Duncan, Donald Harron, Nancy Marchand, Jordan Charney, Roberts...
Herbert Block is chief of medicine in a major teaching hospital. His wife has left him, he is impotent and his children have both disowned him. He is toying with the idea of suicide when patients begin dying, not from complications, but from the erroneous treatments the Hospital is giving them. People in the wrong beds are given wrong medicines, sent to operating theatres for incorrect surgery, and found in waiting rooms dead of natural causes. Barbara Drummond has come to take her comatose father back to the Souix reservation where he operates a clinic and they each reach out to each other for emotional support, as a shadowy figure stalks the patients and staff of the hospital.
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AWARDS FOR THE HOSPITAL (1971):
- Academy Awards, USA
1972
Won
Oscar
Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced
Paddy Chayefsky
Nominated
Oscar
Best Actor in a Leading Role
George C. Scott
- BAFTA Awards
1973
Won
BAFTA Film Award
Best Screenplay
Paddy Chayefsky
Nominated
BAFTA Film Award
Best Actor
George C. Scott
- Berlin International Film Festival
1972
Won
OCIC Award - Recommendation
Competition
Arthur Hiller
Silver Berlin Bear
Special Jury Prize
Arthur Hiller
Nominated
Golden Berlin Bear
Arthur Hiller
- Golden Globes, USA
1972
Won
Golden Globe
Best Screenplay
Paddy Chayefsky
Nominated
Golden Globe
Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
George C. Scott
Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
Diana Rigg
- National Film Preservation Board, USA
1995
National Film Registry
- Writers Guild of America, USA
1972
Won
WGA Award (Screen)
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
Paddy Chayefsky