Always interesting to see which Oscar winners have stood the test of time. A Man for all Seasons is such a typical Hollywood Oscar winner. But who remembers it today? Actor: I would have voted for Michael Caine or Richard Burton. Supporting Actor: Matthau is as good a choice as any. Actress: Taylor was pretty good here. Sandy Dennis was perfect in her role. Mike Nichols got robbed. Interesting at this point in time they had categories for black and white and color films for categories like cinematography. 1966 was not a particularly strong year, was it? I think we have much better films this year than that one. Unless there are gems not on here.
Actor
Winner
Paul Scofield
A Man for All Seasons
Nominees
Alan Arkin
The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming
Richard Burton
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Michael Caine
Alfie
Steve McQueen
The Sand Pebbles
Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner
Walter Matthau
The Fortune Cookie
Nominees
Mako
The Sand Pebbles
James Mason
Georgy Girl
George Segal
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Robert Shaw
A Man for All Seasons
Actress
Winner
Elizabeth Taylor
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Nominees
Anouk Aimee
A Man and a Woman
Ida Kaminska
The Shop on Main Street
Lynn Redgrave
Georgy Girl
Vanessa Redgrave
Morgan!
Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner
Sandy Dennis
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Nominees
Wendy Hiller
A Man for All Seasons
Jocelyne Lagarde
Hawaii
Vivien Merchant
Alfie
Geraldine Page
You're a Big Boy Now
Directing
Winner
A Man for All Seasons
Fred Zinnemann
Nominees
Blow-Up
Michelangelo Antonioni
A Man and a Woman
Claude Lelouch
The Professionals
Richard Brooks
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Mike Nichols
Foreign Language Film
Winner
A Man and a Woman
France
Nominees
The Battle of Algiers
Italy
Loves of a Blonde
Czechoslovakia
Pharaoh
Poland
Three
Yugoslavia
Music (Original Music Score)
Winner
Born Free
John Barry
Nominees
The Bible
Toshiro Mayuzumi
Hawaii
Elmer Bernstein
The Sand Pebbles
Jerry Goldsmith
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Alex North
Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment)
Winner
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Ken Thorne
Nominees
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Luis Enrique Bacalov
Return of the Seven
Elmer Bernstein
The Singing Nun
Harry Sukman
Stop the World--I Want to Get Off
Al Ham
Music (Song)
Winner
Born Free
Born Free in "Born Free" Music by John Barry; Lyrics by Don Black
Nominees
Alfie
Alfie in "Alfie" Music by Burt Bacharach; Lyrics by Hal David
Georgy Girl
Georgy Girl in "Georgy Girl" Music by Tom Springfield; Lyrics by Jim Dale
Hawaii
My Wishing Doll in "Hawaii" Music by Elmer Bernstein; Lyrics by Mack David
An American Dream
A Time For Love in "An American Dream" Music by Johnny Mandel; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
Best Picture
Winner
A Man for All Seasons
Fred Zinnemann, Producer
Nominees
Alfie
Lewis Gilbert, Producer
The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming
Norman Jewison, Producer
The Sand Pebbles
Robert Wise, Producer
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Ernest Lehman, Producer
Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium)
Winner
A Man for All Seasons
Robert Bolt
Nominees
Alfie
Bill Naughton
The Professionals
Richard Brooks
The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming
William Rose
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Ernest Lehman
Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen)
Winner
A Man and a Woman
Story by Claude Lelouch; Screenplay by Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
Nominees
Blow-Up
Story by Michelangelo Antonioni; Screenplay by Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Edward Bond
The Fortune Cookie
Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
Khartoum
Robert Ardrey
The Naked Prey
Clint Johnston, Don Peters
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Winner
George Bagnall
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Winner
Robert Wise
16 comments:
So interesting to look back at the films and people making the news that year.
50 years? Wow. Seems like only a few months ago. I remember a lot of these movies and performances very well.
I'll take those Best Song nominees over any recent year's mostly awful choices.
And stay off my lawn!
VIRGINIA WOOLF was, believe it or not, where we went on our first actual date, January 14, 1967. And yet we survived that.
Most of the nominees were the cream of the crop, because if you check Wikipedia, for instance, for the list of 1966 film releases you won't see any overlooked gems there. There just wasn't much.
Goldsmith's Sand Pebbles was a much better score, but Born Free had the popular song...
Cool idea to look back. I would have given SAND PEBBLES best picture, STEVE MCQUEEN best actor, and MAKO from the same film, best supporting actor. I think they got the actresses right, although LYNN REDGRAVE really was good in GEORGY GIRL. ANTONIONI should have gotten best director for BLOW UP. DAVID HEMMINGS, the lead in that one, was not even nominated. Amazing that A MAN AND A WOMAN beat THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS for best foreign film, and BATTLE's director, Gillo Pontecorvo, did not get a nomination.
For what it's worth (maybe nothing), I thought Paul Scofield's performance was among the greatest I've seen. Although perhaps not as great as his King Lear!
The quality of movies in 1967 was way better than today. Better actors, too!
Oh no, now I can't get the 'A man and a woman' theme song out of my brain, serious earworm. The movie still makes me feel kind of romantic and happy... ahhh, the French!
And now I have it too!
The posting at 2:54 is not mine.
My favorites would be The Sand Pebbles or Blow Up and Steve McQueen.
Hated Born Free-such an awful song.
"Limey" was a giveaway. But I decided to wait just in case.
I love THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING. Should have been best film. But comedies rarely got chosen back then.
I thought WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOLFE so overwrought and over-acted. Actually I didn't think much of any of these pictures except THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING, etc.
I think the song from ALFIE should have won.
I love ALFIE. It reminds me of 1966 more than any of the rest. Except perhaps GEORGIE GIRL. I think my head was in London then.
Patti, dont kid yourself, London in the sixties was a literal hell-on-earth, Los Angeles and New York were a hundred times better.
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