Editing Fred Zinnemann (section)

===1970s===
By the early 1970s, Zinnemann had been out of work since the cancellation of ''Man's Fate''; he believed it had "marked the end of an era in picture making and the dawn of a new one, when lawyers and accountants began to replace showmen as head of the studios and when a handshake was a handshake no longer."<ref name="Zinnemann dies at 89"/> However, [[Universal Pictures|Universal]] then offered him the chance to direct ''[[The Day of the Jackal (film)|The Day of the Jackal]]'' (1973), based on the best-selling suspense novel by [[Frederick Forsyth]]. The film starred [[Edward Fox (actor)|Edward Fox]] as an English assassin hired to kill French president [[Charles de Gaulle]], and [[Michael Lonsdale]] as the French detective charged with stopping him. Zinnemann was intrigued by the opportunity to direct a film in which the audience would already be able to guess the ending (the Jackal failing his mission), and was pleased when it ultimately became a hit with the public.<ref>Arthur Nolletti, ed., [https://books.google.com/books?id=X2rpAGzeD-cC&pg=PA20&lpg=PA20 The Films of Fred Zinnemann: Critical Perspectives], SUNY Press, 1999, p. 20</ref>

''The Day of the Jackal'' was followed four years later by ''[[Julia (1977 film)|Julia]]'' (1977), based on a story in the book ''[[Pentimento: A Book of Portraits]]'' by [[Lillian Hellman]]. The film starred [[Jane Fonda]] as a young Hellman and [[Vanessa Redgrave]] as her best friend Julia, an American [[Beneficiary|heiress]] who forsakes the safety and comfort of both her homeland and great wealth to devote her life with fatal consequences to the [[Austrian Resistance]] to [[Nazism]]. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won three, for Best Screenplay ([[Alvin Sargent]]), Best Supporting Actor ([[Jason Robards]]), and Best Supporting Actress ([[Vanessa Redgrave]]); Zinnemann thought that Fonda's acting was extraordinary enough to merit consideration for an award as well.<ref name=Zinnemann/>{{rp|226}}