ward for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Debbie. Just recently, the American Film Institute selected AMERICAN GRAFFITI as one of the best 100 films ever made. Other notable awards include a Golden Globe Award for Best Picture and Most Promising Newcomer (male) for Paul Le Mat; a Bronze Leopard awarded by the Locarno International Film Festival to George Lucas; the National Society of Film Critics gave Williard Huyck, Gloria Katz and George Lucas their award for best screenplay; and the National Film Preservation Board added AMERICAN GRAFFITI to the National Film Registry in 1995. For you trivia fans, check out the license plate on Paul Le Mat's car - it reads thx 138. George Lucas' first film was THX-1138 and it is a film he references in all his later films. AMERICAN GRAFFITI - a true classic that never goes out of style. AMERICAN GRAFFITI A Universal Release 1973 Directed by George Lucas Produced by Francis Ford Coppola Written by Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck, and George Lucas With Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Candy Clark. Mackenzie Phillips, Cindy Williams, Harrison Ford, Suzanne Somers and Wolfman Jack...
