The recent anniversary of the 50th anniversary of the launch of Taxi Driverby Martin Scorsese, made me revisit the paradoxical, somewhat ironic context of his consecration. Immediate consecration, understand, since it won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. What is certain is that at the Oscars for the 1976 production (awarded on March 28, 1977), Taxi Drivernominated in four categories, including best film, received no distinction — it was Rockywhich turned Sylvester Stallone into a global star, winning the Oscar for Best Film.
Even considering Taxi Driver a superior film, nothing moves me against heroism naive (classic, I mean) of this first adventure of boxer Rocky Balboa. It is not, therefore, about giving in to the ideological primarism of “fair” or “unfair” results. It turns out that, in the US cinematic universe, 1976 was a very rich year. It will be enough to mention the other candidates for the Oscar for Best Film to confirm this. Namely: The President’s Menby Alan J. Pakula, remarkable dismantling of the scandal Watergate; Path of Gloryby Hal Ashby, a pedagogical biographical evocation of Woody Guthrie; and Networkby Sidney Lumet, a clinical and incisive vision of television populism — among us it debuted as TV scandal.
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