Five Easy Pieces of four: The title of "Five Easy Pieces" refers not to the women its hero makes along the road, for there are only three, but to a book of piano exercises he owned as a child. The film, one of the best American films, is about the distance between that boy, practicing to become a concert pianist, and the need he feels 20 years later to disguise himself as an oil-field rigger. When we sense the boy, tormented and insecure, trapped inside the adult man, "Five Easy Pieces" becomes a masterpiece of heartbreaking intensity... The movie is joyously alive to
1970 National Society of Film Critics Awards Bob Rafelson – "Five Easy Pieces" (9 points) George C. Scott – "Patton" (18 points) 2. George Segal – "Loving", "The Owl and the Pussycat", and "Where's Poppa?" (14 points) <br> 3. Jean-Louis Trintignant – "My Night at Maud's" (12 points) <br> 4. Jack Nicholson – "Five Easy Pieces" (11 points) <br> 5. Alan Arkin – "Catch-22" (9 points) Glenda Jackson – "Women in Love" (27 points) 2. Françoise Fabian – "My Night at Maud's" (20 points) <br> 3. Liv Ullmann – "The Passion of Anna" (15 points) <br> 4. Barbra Streisand – "The Owl and the Pussycat" (9 points)