How many Oscars did "The French Connection" win?

"The French Connection" was nominated for eight awards that night, and swept Best Picture, Best Actor for Gene Hackman, Best Director, Best Film Editing, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Popeye Doyle became an icon of 1970s cinema, and the movie features one of the most famous car chase sequences that had audiences white-knuckling their armrests. It beat out "A Clockwork Orange," "Fiddler on the Roof," "The Last Picture Show," and "Nicholas and Alexandra" for Best Picture, and proved that audiences were hungry for more realistic crime stories. They certainly got that a few months later in "Dirty Harry" and again in later '70s films like "Serpico," "Chinatown," and "Dog Day Afternoon."