Academy Award, Emmy and Golden-Globe winner Faye Dunaway and Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Peter Finch star in this powerful and still-relevant satire of the news industry. When a news anchor has a nervous breakdown on live television, and threatens to kill himself on a following live newscast, the event is manipulated by his driven producer into a ratings smash. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay and two for Actor (it won for Actor, Actress, Supporting Actress and Original Screenplay), and winner of four Golden Globe awards, including Best Director, Actor and Actress. Also starring Academy Award-winner William Holden, Academy Award-winner Beatrice Straight, and Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner and Emmy-nominee Robert Duvall.