Network

Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky\'s 1976 satire imagined live televised breakdowns, terrorism-as-content, and corporate ventriloquism as the network business model. Every prediction the film made about American media has come true with terrifying precision.

• Won four Academy Awards including all four acting categories considerations.
• Peter Finch died before the Oscars ceremony.
• Faye Dunaway based her performance on real network executives.
• Paddy Chayefsky personally produced the film to protect the script.
• Widely cited by media critics as the most prescient film ever made.

• "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
• "We're in the boredom-killing business."
• "Television is not the truth."
• "You have meddled with the primal forces of nature."
• "It is the individual that is finished."