1966 Oscar Shouldabeens

[Precious Doll]

Best Film

1. Au Hasard Balthazar
2. Blow-Up
3. Persona
4. The Battle of Algiers
5. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best Director

1. Robert Bresson, Au Hasard Balthazar
2. Michelangelo Antonioni, Blow-Up
3. Ingmar Bergman, Persona
4. Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers
5. Mike Nichols, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best Actor

1. Richard Burton, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. David Hemmings, Blow-Up
3. Rock Hudson, Seconds
4. David Warner, Morgan
5. Donald Pleasence, Cul-De-Sac

Best Actress

1. Elizabeth Taylor, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. Bibi Andersson, Persona
3. Anna Karina, The Nun
4. Vanessa Redgrave, Morgan
5. Jean Moreau, Mademoiselle

Best Supporting Actor

1. Robert Duvall, The Chase
2. Jack Gilford, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
3. Michael Hordern, A Funny Thing Happened on Way to the Forum
4. Walter Matthau, The Fortune Cookie
5. George Segal, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best Supporting Actress

1. Sandy Denis, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. Janice Rule, The Chase
3. Vanessa Redgrave, Blow-Up
4. Angie Dickinson, The Chase
5. Patricia Jessel, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Best Screenplay

1. Persona
2. The Battle of Algiers
3. Cul-De-Sac
4. The Hunt
5. La Guerre est Finie

Best Screenplay Adaptation

1. Blow-Up
2. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
3. The Nun
4. The Chase
5. Seconds

Best Cinematography

1. Blow-Up
2. Seconds
3. Fahrenheit 451
4. The Pornographers
5. Au Hasard Balthazar

Best Editing

1. Blow-Up
2. The Battle of Algiers
3. Au Hasard Balthazar
4. Seconds
5. La Guerre est Finie

Best Sound

1. Blow-Up
2. The Battle of Algiers
3. Seconds
4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
5. La Guerre est Finie

Best Art Direction

1. Blow-Up
2. The Nun
3. The Battle of Algiers
4. Fahrenheit 451
5. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Best Costume Design

1. Blow-Up
2. Fahrenheit 451
3. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
5. The Nun

Best Music

1. Blow-Up
2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
3. Seconds
4. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?
5. The Chase

[Bruce_Lavigne]

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[MCAR]

Picture:
Band Of Outsiders
Blowup
Red Beard
The Shop On Main Street
*Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?*

Actor:
Richard Burton – Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Michael Caine – Alfie
Josef Kroner – The Shop On Main Street
Walter Matthau – The Fortune Cookie
Toshiro Mifune – Red Beard

Actress:
Ida Kaminska – The Shop On Main Street
Anna Karina – Band Of Outsiders
Lynn Redgrave – Georgy Girl
Vanessa Redgrave – Morgan!
*Elizabeth Taylor – Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?*

Supporting Actor:
Denholm Elliot – Alfie
James Mason – Georgy Girl
George Segal – Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Robert Shaw – A Man For All Seasons
Lionel Stander – Cul-de-Sac

Supporting Actress:
Sandy Dennis – Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Wendy Hiller – A Man For All Seasons
Vivien Merchant – Alfie
Charlotte Rampling – Georgy Girl
Anastasiya Vertinskaya - Hamlet

Director:
Michelangelo Antonioni - Blowup
Jean-Luc Godard – Band Of Outsiders
Jan Kadar & Elmar Klos - The Shop On Main Street
Akira Kurosawa – Red Beard
*Mike Nichols – Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?*

Original Screenplay:
Gerard Brach & Roman Polanski - Cul-de-Sac
Bruce Brown - The Endless Summer
Susso Cecchi d’Amico, Enrico Medioli & Luchino Visconti - Sandra Of A Thousand Delights
I.A.L. Diamond & Billy Wilder - The Fortune Cookie
Milos Forman, Jaroslav Papousek, Ivan Passer & Vaclav Sasek - Loves Of A Blonde

Adapted Screenplay:
Michelangelo Antonioni & Tonino Guerra - Blowup
Jean-Luc Godard - Band Of Outsiders
Ladislav Grossman, Jan Kadar & Elmar Klos - The Shop On Main Street
Masato Ide, Ryuzo Kikishuma, Akira Kurosawa & Hideo Oguni - Red Beard
*Ernest Lehman - Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?*

Foreign Film:
Band Of Outsiders (France)
Loves Of A Blonde (Czechoslovakia)
Nayak (India)
Red Beard (Japan)
*The Shop On Main Street (Czechoslovakia)*

[Big Magilla]

Except that the truncated version of The Rules of the Game was not shown internationally until 1950. The Vichy government was thought to have destroyed the original after its premiere in Paris in 1939. The restored version, which is most likely the one you saw, was not shown internationally until 1961.

I've noticed that many sites, professional and non-professional, resort to year of copywrite, as opposed to actual year of release. For example, almost everyone including hte AFI, cite Little Caesar as a 1930 release when it was not shown anywhere until January, 1931.

In the future I suspect all references will cite year of copywrite and talk about how audiences were enthralled by some film or another that year when no one actually saw it until some later time. Such are the vagaries of history, even modern history which is so well chronicled.

[Okri]

For me, it's all about context. For the past five years or so, I'll use the American release date because that's more likely when I would've gotten to see the film. I saw The Piano Teacher in context, not of the films of 2001, but of 2002 films, for example.

The older a film gets, though - the chances of me being able to see it in it's original context in any form is zilch. I saw The Rules of the Game for the first time in 2001 - so far removed from the initial release dates that I just place it with the original (read: International) year of release.

[Big Magilla]

Temprorary insanity. I went back to using year of first theatrical showing in New York or Los Angeles shortly after this discussion with Sabin.

I use New York and L.A., rather than any U.S. showing, because that's when films first become eligible for the big prizes, whether they are critics' awards or Oscars. They have to be public venue showings as well. For example, Last Tango in Paris played the New York Film Festival in October, 1972, but was deliberately not released to theatres until 1973. The Great Santini was shown in limited release in the South in 1979, but did not play New York or L.A. until 1980, after it was shown on HBO. Oscar eligibility rules were different then.

[MCAR]

Magilla, just curious, why did you decide to go by world release dates? I struggled with that issue with my own lists and decided to go by U.S. release dates, which means that Picnic At Hanging Rock becomes a 1979 film and Lovers On The Bridge a 1999 film and Persona a 1967 film. I suppose I felt I should go by when I would have been able to see the film....

[Reza]

1966
Best Picture
Blow-Up
*A Man for All Seasons
Persona
The Professionals
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best Actor
Richard Burton, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Michael Caine, Alfie
Rock Hudson, Seconds
Donald Pleasance, Cul de Sac
*Paul Scofield, A Man for All Seasons

Best Actress
Bibi Andersson, Persona
Lynn Redgrave, Georgy Girl
Sharmila Tagore, Anupama
*Elizabeth Taylor, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Liv Ullmann, Persona

Best Supporting Actor
James Mason, Georgy Girl
*Walter Matthau, The Fortune Cookie
George Segal, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Lionel Stander, Cul de Sac
Robert Shaw, A Man for All Seasons

Best Supporting Actress
Sandy Dennis, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
*Wendy Hiller, A Man for All Seasons
Vivien Merchant, Alfie
Charlotte Rampling, Georgy Girl
Susannah York, A Man For All Seasons

Best Director
*Michelangelo Antonioni, Blow-Up
Ingmar Bergman, Persona
Richard Brooks, The Professionals
Mike Nichols, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Fred Zinnemann, A Man for All Seasons

[Big Magilla]

1966

Best Picture
Alfie
Blow-Up
*A Man for All Seasons
The Sand Pebbles
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best Actor
Richard Burton, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Michael Caine, Alfie
Rock Hudson, Seconds
Steve McQueen, The Sand Pebbles
*Paul Scofield, A Man for All Seasons

Best Actress
Anne Bancroft, 7 Women
Lynn Redgrave, Georgy Girl
Vanessa Redgrave, Morgan!
Sylvie, The Shameless Old Lady
*Elizabeth Taylor, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best Supporting Actor
Mako, The Sand Pebbles
James Mason, Georgy Girl
Walter Matthau, The Fortune Cookie
George Segal, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
*Robert Shaw, A Man for All Seasons

Best Supporting Actress
Sandy Dennis, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
*Wendy Hiller, A Man for All Seasons
Jocelyne LaGarde, Hawaii
Margaret Leighton, 7 Women
Vivien Merchant, Alfie

Best Director
Michelangelo Antonioni, Blow-Up
Lewis Gilbert, Alfie
Mike Nichols, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Robert Wise, The Sand Pebbles
*Fred Zinnemann, A Man for All Seasons