Airport (1970)

Plot Summary

This precursor to later "epic" 1970s disaster films presents 12 hours in the lives of the personnel and passengers at the "Lincoln Airport." Endless problems, professional and personal, are thrown at the various personnel responsible for the safe and proper administration of air traffic, airline management, and aviation at a major US airport. Take one severe snowstorm, add multiple schedules gone awry; one elderly Trans Global Airlines stowaway; shortages; an aging, meretricious pilot; unreasonable, peevish spouses; manpower issues, fuel problems, frozen runways; and equipment malfunctions, and you get just a sample of the obstacles faced by weary, disgruntled personnel and passengers at the Lincoln Airport. Toss in one long-suffering pilot's wife, several stubborn men, office politics and romance, and one passenger with a bomb, and you have the film "Airport" from 1970.

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Awards

Golden Globes, USA (1971)

Golden Globe 1971

Nominated

Best Motion Picture - Drama

Golden Globe 1971

Nominated

Best Original Score - Motion Picture

Alfred Newman

Academy Awards, USA (1971)

Oscar 1971

Nominated

Best Sound

Ronald Pierce David H. Moriarty

Oscar 1971

Nominated

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

Alexander Golitzen E. Preston Ames Jack D. Moore Mickey S. Michaels

Oscar 1971

Nominated

Best Costume Design

Edith Head

Oscar 1971

Nominated

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

George Seaton

Oscar 1971

Nominated

Best Picture

Ross Hunter

Oscar 1971

Nominated

Best Music, Original Score

Alfred Newman

Oscar 1971

Nominated

Best Film Editing

Stuart Gilmore

Oscar 1971

Nominated

Best Cinematography

Ernest Laszlo