Network
A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit.
Drama
United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Faye Dunaway as Diana Christensen, William Holden as Max Schumacher, Peter Finch as Howard Beale, Robert Duvall as Frank Hackett, Wesley Addy as Nelson Chaney, Ned Beatty as Arthur Jensen, Beatrice Straight as Louise Schumacher, Jordan Charney as Harry Hunter, William Prince as Edward George Ruddy, Arthur Burghardt as Great Ahmed Kahn, Conchata Ferrell as Barbara Schlesinger, Jerome Dempsey as Walter C. Amundsen, Ed Crowley as Joe Donnelly, Kathy Cronkite as Mary Ann Gifford, Marlene Warfield as Laureen Hobbs, Darryl Hickman as Bill Herron, Ken Kercheval as Merrill Grant, Ted Sorel as Giannini, Lane Smith as Robert McDonough, Cindy Grover as Caroline Schumacher, Michael Lombard as Willie Stein, Lance Henriksen as Network Lawyer at Khan's Place (uncredited), Roy Poole as Sam Haywood