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Film Data for 1966

The Film Daily's "Ten Best" of 1966
1) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2) The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming
3) Alfie
4) Born Free
5) Harper
6) A Man for all Seasons
7) The Professionals
8) Georgy Girl
9) The Bible . . .in the Beginning
10) How to Steal a Million
 The Honor Roll:
11) Hawaii
12) John F. Kennedy: Years of Lighting, Days of Drums
13) The Blue Max
14) The Sand Pebbles
15) Khartoum
16) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
17) Morgan!
18) Follow Me, Boys!

 Filmdom's Famous Fives

Best Performances by Male Stars
1) Richard Burton in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2) Paul Scofield in A Man for all Seasons
3) Michael Caine in Alfie
4) Paul Newman in Harper
5) Alan Arkin in The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming

 Best Performances by Female Stars
1) Elizabeth Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2) Lynn Redgrave in Georgy Girl
3) Julie Andrews in Hawaii
4) Vanessa Redgrave in Morgan!
5) Sophia Loren in Arabesque

 Best Performances by Supporting Actors
1) George Segal in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2) Paul Ford in The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming 
3) Robert Shaw in  A Man for all Seasons
4) Jonathan Winters in The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming
5) Jeremy Kemp in The Blue Max

Best Performances by Supporting Actresses
1) Sandy Dennis in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2) Ruth Gordon in Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
3) Lila Kedrova in Torn Curtin
4) Julie Harris in Harper
5) Jocelyne Lagarde in Hawaii


 Best Male Juvenile Performances 
1) Kurt Russell in Follow Me, Boys!
2) Pat Cardi in Let's Kill Uncle
3) Alberto Lucantoni in The Bible . . . in the Beginning
4) Gerald Michenaud in A Big Hand for the Little Lady
5) Jay North in Maya

 Best Female Juvenile Performances
1) Mary Badham in This Property is Condemned
2) Hayley Mills in The Trouble with Angels
3) June Harding in The Trouble with Angels
4) Susan Gordon in Picture Mommy Dead
5) Robin Matson in Namu, the Killer Whale
  
Finds of the Year
1) Lynn Redgrave in Georgy Girl
2) Alan Arkin in The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming
3) Vanessa Redgrave in Morgan!
4) Sandy Dennis in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
5) Kurt Russell in Follow Me, Boys!


New York Film Critics Awards (Winners announced on December 27, 1966. Awards presented on January 29, 1967 at Sardi's restaurant in New York. Sources: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001 and Donald Lyons, "The Lights of New York," Film Comment, March-April, 1993)

Best Picture:
A Man for All Seasons (10 votes on Ballot I)

Runner-ups: 
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (3 votes)
Blow-Up (1 vote)

Best Director:
Fred Zinnemann for A Man for All Seasons (10 votes on Ballott I)

Runner-ups: 
Michelangelo Antonioni for Blow-Up (1 vote)
Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos for The Shop on Main Street (1965) (1 vote)
Mike Nichols for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?  (1 vote)
Karel Reisz for Morgan! (1 vote)

Best Actor:
Paul Scofield in A Man for All Seasons (10 votes on Ballot II)
Runner-up:
Richard Burton in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (3 votes)
Alan Arkin in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1 vote)

Best Actress (tie)
Elizabeth Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (7 votes on Ballot VI)
Lynn Redgrave in Georgy Girl (7 votes on Ballot VI)

Best Screenplay:
Robert Bolt for A Man for All Seasons (12 votes on Ballot I)
Runner Up: David Mercer for Morgan! (2 votes)

Best Foreign Film:
The Shop on Main Street (1965- Czechoslovakia)


National Board of Review (Winners announced on January 10, 1967. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001)

Best Picture
A Man for All Seasons

Rest of the top ten (in order of preference)
Born Free
Alfie
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Bible
Georgy Girl
Years of Lightning, Days of Drums
It Happened Here
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
Shakespeare Wallah

Best Director
Fred Zinnemann for A Man for All Seasons

Best Actor
Paul Scofield in A Man for All Seasons

Best Actress
Elizabeth Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best Supporting Actor
Robert Shaw in A Man for All Seasons

Best Supporting Actress
Vivien Merchant in Alfie

Best Foreign Film
The Sleeping Car Murders (France)

Runners-up (in order of preference)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964- France/Italy)
The Shameless Old Lady (1965- France)
A Man and a Woman (France)
Hamlet (1964- U.S.S.R.)


National Society of Film Critics (Winners announced on January 4, 1967, at the Algonquin Hotel in New York. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001)

Best Picture
Blow-Up

Best Director
Michelangelo Antonioni, Blow-Up

Best Actor
Michael Caine, Alfie

Best Actress
Sylvie, The Shameless Old Lady (1965)



The Golden Globes (Nominations announced on January 16, 1967. Awards presented on February 15th at the Cocoanut Grove in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The ceremony was telecast by NBC. Source: Tom O’Neil’s Movie Awards) Winners listed in bold print.

Best Drama Picture
Born Free
A Man for All Seasons
The Professionals
The Sand Pebbles
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best Comedy or Musical Picture
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Gambit
Not with My Wife, You Don't
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
You're a Big Boy Now

Best Director
Lewis Gilbert for Alfie
Claude LeLouch for A Man and a Woman
Mike Nichols for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Robert Wise for The Sand Pebbles
Fred Zinnemann for A Man for All Seasons

Best Actor, Drama
Richard Burton in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Michael Caine in Alfie
Steve McQueen in The Sand Pebbles
Paul Scofield in A Man for All Seasons
Max von Sydow in Hawaii

Best Actress, Drama
Anouk Aimee in A Man and a Woman
Ida Kaminska in The Shop on Main Street
Virginia McKenna in Born Free
Elizabeth Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Natalie Wood in This Property is Condemned

Best Actor, Comedy or Musical
Alan Arkin in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
Alan Bates in Georgy Girl 
Michael Caine in Gambit
Lionel Jeffries in The Spy with a Cold Nose
Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie


Best Actress, Comedy or Musical
Jane Fonda in Any Wednesday
Elizabeth Hartman in You're a Big Boy Now
Shirley MacLaine in Gambit
Lynn Redgrave in Georgy Girl
Vanessa Redgrave in Morgan!

Best Supporting Actor
Richard Attenborough in The Sand Pebbles
Mako in The Sand Pebbles
John Saxon in The Appaloosa
George Segal in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Robert Shaw in A Man for All Seasons

Best Supporting Actress
Sandy Dennis in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Jocelyne LaGarde in Hawaii
Vivien Merchant in Alfie
Geraldine Page in You're a Big Boy Now
Shelley Winters in Alfie


Best Original Score
Elmer Bernstein for Hawaii

Best Song
"Alfie" from Alfie. Music by Burt Bacharach. Lyrics by Hal David 
"Born Free" from Born Free. Music by John Berry. Lyrics by Don Barry
"Georgy Girl" from Georgy Girl. Music by Tom Springfield. Lyrics by Jim Dale
"A Man and a Woman" from A Man and a Woman. Music by Francis Lai. Lyrics by Pierre Barouh
"Strangers in the Night" from A Man Could Get Killed. Music by Bert Kaempfert. Lyrics by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder (Lyrics were not in the film)

Best Screenplay
Robert Anderson for The Sand Pebbles
Robert Bolt for A Man for All Seasons
Ernest Lehman in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Bill Naughton for Alfie
William Rose for The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming

Most Promising Newcomer- Male
Alan Arkin in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
Alan Bates in Georgy Girl
James Farentino in The Pad
John Phillip Law in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
Antonio Sabato in Grand Prix
Most Promising Newcomer- Female
Candice Bergen in The Group and The Sand Pebbles
Marie Gomez in The Professionals
Lynn Redgrave in Georgy Girl
Camilla Sparv in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Jessica Walter in Grand Prix

Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film 
A Man and a Woman (France)
Hamlet (U.S.S.R.)
Impossible on Saturday (France/Israel)
Loves of a Blonde (Czechoslovakia)
Signore e Signori (Italy)

Best English-Language Foreign Film
Alfie (U.K.)
Blow-Up (Italy)
Gregory Girl (U.K.)
Morgan! (U.K.)
Royal Ballet's Romeo and Juliet (U.K.)
The Spy with a Cold Nose (U.K.)

World Film Favorites
Julie Andrews
Steve McQueen

Cecil B. DeMille Award
Charlton Heston

The 1966 British Academy Awards 

Best Film from Any Source
Doctor Zhivago (1965)- David Lean
Morgan- A Suitable Case of Treatment- Karel Reisz
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)- Martin Ritt
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?- Mike Nichols

Best British Film
Alfie- Lewis Gilbert
Georgy Girl- Silvio Narizzano
Morgan- A Suitable Case of Treatment- Karel Reisz
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)- Martin Ritt

Best British Actor
Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Michael Caine in Alfie
Ralph Richardson in Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Ralph Richardson in Khartoum
Ralph Richardson in The Wrong Box
David Warner in Morgan- A Suitable Case of Treatment

Best British Actress
Julie Christie in Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Julie Christie in Fahrenheit 451 
Lynn Redgrave in Georgy Girl
Vanessa Redgrave in Morgan- A Suitable Case of Treatment
Elizabeth Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best Foreign Actor
Jean-Paul Belmondo in Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Sidney Poitier in A Patch of Blue (1965)
Rod Steiger in The Pawnbroker (1965)
Oskar Werner in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)

Best Foreign Actress
Brigitte Bardot in Viva Maria! (1965)
Joan Hackett in The Group
Jeanne Moreau in Viva Maria! (1965)
Simone Signoret in The Sleeping Car Murders (1965)


Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles
Alan Arkin in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
Frank Finley in Othello (1965)
Vivien Merchant in Alfie
Jeremy Kemp in The Blue Max

Best Screenplay for a British Film
Bill Naughton for Alfie
Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo for It Happened Here
David Mercer for Morgan- A Suitable Case of Treatment
Harlod Pinter for The Quiller Memorandum

Best British Editing
Alfie- Thelma Connell
Arabesque- Frederick Wilson
Morgan- A Suitable Case of Treatment- Tom Priestley
The Quiller Memorandum- Frederick Wilson

Best British Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Denys Coop for Bunny Lake is Missing (1965)
Gilbert Taylor for Cul-de-sac
Kenneth Higgins for Georgy Girl
Oswald Morris for The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)


Best British Cinematography (Color)
Otto Heller for Alfie
Christopher Challis for Arabesque
Douglas Slocombe for The Blue Max
Jack Hildyard for Modesty Blaise

Best British Costume Design 
Christian Dior for Arabesque
John Furniss for The Blue Max
Nicholas Georgiadis for Romeo and Juliet
Julie Harris for The Wrong Box

Best British Art Direction (Black-and-White)
Donald M. Ashton for Bunny Lake is Missing (1965)
Tony Woollard for Georgy Girl
Ted Marshall for Life at the Top (1965)
Tambi Larsen for The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)


Best British Art Direction (Colour)
Wilfred Shingleton for The Blue Max
John Howell for Khartoum
Maurice Carter for The Quiller Memorandum
Ray Simm for The Wrong Box

Robert Flaherty Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary
Buster Keaton Rides Again- John Spotton
Goal! The World Cup- Abidine Dino and Ross Devenish
I'm Going to Ask You to Get Up Out of Your Seat- Richard Cawston
Matadar- Kevin Billington

Best Specialised Film
Exploring Chemistry- Robert Parker
The Radio Sky- Michael Crisfield
Visual Aids- Richard Need

Best Short Film
A River Must Live- Alan Pendry
Sudden Summer- Richard Taylor
The Tortoise and the Hare- Hugh Hudson
The War Game- Peter Watkins

United Nations Award
The Pawnbroker (1965)- Sidney Lumet
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming- Norman Jewison
Vietnam- People and War- Jo Menell
The War Game- Peter Watkins

The Academy Awards (Nominations announced on February 20, 1967. Awards presented on April 10 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.  The ceremony was telecast by ABC. Sources Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards and Mason Wiley and Damien Bona's Inside Oscar). (Winners in bold print).

Best Picture
Alfie, Sheldrake, Paramount (British). Produced by Lewis Gilbert.
A Man for All Seasons, Highland, Columbia. Produced by Fred Zinnemann.
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, Mirisch, UA. Produced by Norman Jewison.
The Sand Pebbles, Argyle-Solar, 20th Century-Fox. Produced by Robert Wise. 
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Chenault, Warner Bros. Produced by Ernest Lehman.

Best Director
Michelangelo Antonioni for Blow-Up (Ponti, Premier Productions) (British).
Richard Brooks for The Professionals (Brooks, Columbia).
Claude Lelouch for A Man and a Woman (Les Films 13, Allied Artists) (French). 
Mike Nichols for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Chenault, Warner Bros.).
Fred Zinnemann for A Man for All Seasons (Highland, Columbia). 

Best Actor
Alan Arkin in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (Mirisch, UA).
Richard Burton in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Chenault, Warner Bros.).
Michael Caine in Alfie, Sheldrake, Paramount (British). 
Steve McQueen in The Sand Pebbles (Argyle-Solar, 20th Century-Fox.).
Paul Scofield in A Man for All Seasons (Highland, Columbia). 

Best Actress
Anouk Aimee in A Man and a Woman (Les Films 13, Allied Artists) (French). 
Ida Kaminska in The Shop on Main Street (Prominent Films) (Czechoslovakia).
Lynn Redgrave in Georgy Girl (Everglades, Columbia) (British).
Vanessa Redgrave in Morgan! (Quintra, Cinema V) (British).
Elizabeth Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Chenault, Warner Bros.).

Best Supporting Actor
Mako in The Sand Pebbles (Argyle-Solar, 20th Century-Fox.).
James Mason in Georgy Girl (Everglades, Columbia) (British).
Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie (Phalanx-Jalem-Mirisch, UA).
George Segal in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Chenault, Warner Bros.).
Robert Shaw in A Man for All Seasons (Highland, Columbia). 

Best Supporting Actress
Sandy Dennis in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Chenault, Warner Bros.).
Wendy Hiller in A Man for All Seasons (Highland, Columbia). 
Jocelyn Lagarde in Hawaii (Mirisch, UA).
Vivien Merchant in Alfie, Sheldrake, Paramount (British). 
Geraldine Page in You're a Big Boy Now (Seven Arts).

Best Screenplay- Based on Material from Another Medium
Alfie, Sheldrake, Paramount (British). Bill Naughton.
A Man for All Seasons (Highland, Columbia). Robert Bolt.
The Professionals, Pax Enterprises, Columbia. Richard Brooks.
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, Mirisch, UA. William Rose.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Chenault, Warner Bros. Ernest Lehman.

Best Story and Screenplay- Written Directly for the Screen
Blow-Up, Ponti, Premier Productions (British). Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra and Edward Bond.
The Fortune Cookie, Phalanx-Jalem-Mirisch, UA. Billy Widler and I.A.L. Diamond. 
Khartoum, Blaustein, UA. Robert Ardrey.
A Man and a Woman (Les Films 13, Allied Artists) (French). Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven.
The Naked Prey, Theodora, Paramount. Clint Johnston and Don Peters. 

Best Cinematography (Black & White)
The Fortune Cookie, Phalanx-Jalem-Mirisch, UA. Joseph LaShelle.
Georgy Girl, Everglades, Columbia (British). Ken Higgins.
Is Paris Burning? Transcontinental Films-Marianne, Paramount. Marcel Grignon.
Seconds, Paramount. James Wong Howe.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Chenault, Warner Bros. Haskell Wexler.

Best Cinematography (Color)
Fantastic Voyage, 20th Century-Fox. Ernest Laszlo.
Hawaii, Mirisch, UA. Russell Harlan.
A Man for All Seasons (Highland, Columbia). Ted Moore.
The Professionals, Pax Enterprises, Columbia. Conrad Hall.
The Sand Pebbles, Argyle-Solar, 20th Century-Fox. Joseph MacDonald.

Best Art Direction-Set Direction (Black-and-White)
The Fortune Cookie, Phalanx-Jalem-Mirisch, UA.  Robert Luthardt and Edward G. Boyle. 
The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Reade-Continental (Italian). Luigi Scaccianoce. 
Is Paris Burning? Transcontinental Films-Marianne, Paramount. Willy Holt; Marc Frederix and Pierre Guffroy. 
Mister Buddwing, DDD-Cherokee, MGM. George W. Davis and Paul Groesse; Henry Grace and Hugh Hunt.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Chenault, Warner Bros. Richard Sylbert; George James Hopkins.

                                       
Best Art Direction-Set Direction (Color)
Fantastic Voyage, 20th Century-Fox. Jack Martin Smith and Dale Hennesy; Walter M. Scott and Stuart A. Reiss.
Gambit, Universal. Alexander Golitzen and George C. Webb; John McCarthy and John Austin.
Juliet of the Spirits, Rizzoli Films (Italian). Piero Gherardi.
The Oscar, Green-Rouse, Embassy. Hal Pereira and Arthur Lonergan; Robert Benton and James Payne.
The Sand Pebbles, Argyle-Solar, 20th Century-Fox. Boris Leven; Walter M. Scott, John Sturtevant and William Kiernan.

Best Sound
Gambit, Universal. Universal City Studio Sound Dept.; Waldon O. Watson, sound director.
Grand Prix, Douglas-Lewis-Frankenheimer-Cherokee, MGM. MGM Studio Sound Dept.; Franklin E. Milton, sound director.
Hawaii, Mirisch, UA. Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept.; Gordon E. Sawyer, sound director.
The Sand Pebbles, Argyle-Solar, 20th Century-Fox. 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Dept.; James P. Corcoran, sound director.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Chenault, Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept.; George R. Groves, sound director. 

Best Song
"Alfie" (Alfie, Sheldrake, Paramount) (British); Music by Burt Bacharach. Lyrics by Hal David.
"Born Free" (Born Free, Open Road-Atlas Films, Columbia) (British); Music by John Berry. Lyrics by Don Barry.
"Georgy Girl" (Georgy Girl Everglades, Columbia) (British); Music by Tom Springfield. Lyrics by Jim Dale.
"My Wishing Doll" (Hawaii, Mirisch, UA); Music by Elmer Bernstein. Lyrics by Mack David.
"A Time for Love" (An American Dream, Warner Bros.); Music by Johnny Mandel. Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
                                       
Best Original Score
The Bible, DeLaurentiis-Seven Arts, 20th Century-Fox. Toshiro Mayuzumi.
Born Free, Open Road-Atlas Films, Columbia (British). John Barry.
Hawaii, Mirisch, Mirisch, UA. Elmer Bernstein.
The Sand Pebbles, Argyle-Solar, 20th Century-Fox. Jerry Goldsmith. 
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Chenault, Warner Bros. Alex North.

Best Scoring of Music-Adaptation or Treatment
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Frank, UA. Ken Thorne.
The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Reade-Continental (Italian). Luis Enrique Bacalov.
Return of the Seven, Mirisch, UA. Elmer Bernstein.
The Singing Nun, MGM. Harry Sukman.
Stop the World- I Want to Get Off, Warner Bros. Al Ham.

Film Editing
Fantastic Voyage, 20th Century-Fox. William B. Murphy.
Grand Prix, Douglas-Lewis-Frankenheimer-Cherokee, MGM. Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stewart Linder and Frank Santillo.
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, Mirisch, UA. Hal Ashby and J. Terry Williams.
The Sand Pebbles, Argyle-Solar, 20th Century-Fox. William Reynolds.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Chenault, Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Sam O'Steen.

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Reade-Continental (Italian). Danilo Donati.
Mandragola, Eurpix-Consolidated (Italian). Danilo Donati. 
Mister Buddwing, DDD-Cherokee, MGM. Helen Rose
Morgan!, Quintra, Cinema V (British). Jocelyn Rickards.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Chenault, Warner Bros. Irene Sharaff.

Best Costume Design (Color)
Gambit, Universal. Jean Louis.
Hawaii, Mirisch, UA. Dorothy Jeakins. 
Juliet of the Spirits, Rizzoli Films (Italian). Piero Gherardi. 
A Man for All Seasons (Highland, Columbia). Elizabeth Haffenden and Joan Bridge.
The Oscar, Green-Rouse, Embassy. Edith Head.

Best Foreign Language Film
The Battle of Algiers (Italy).
Loves of a Blonde (1965- Czechoslovakia).
A Man and a Woman (France).
Pharaoh (Poland).
Three (1965- Yugoslavia).

Special Visual Effects
Fantastic Voyage, 20th Century-Fox. Art Cruickshank.
Hawaii, Mirisch, UA. Linwood G. Dunn.

Best Sound Effects
Fantastic Voyage, 20th Century-Fox. Walter Rossi.
Grand Prix, Douglas-Lewis-Frankenheimer-Cherokee, MGM. Gordon Daniel. 

Best Short Subject Cartoon
The Drag, National Film Board of Canada, Favorite Films. Wolf Koeing and Robert Verall, producers.
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature, Paramount. John and Faith Hubley, producers. 
The Pink Blueprint, Mirisch-Geoffrey-DePatie-Freleng, UA. David H. DePatie and Fritz Freleng, producers

Best Live Action Short Subject
Turkey the Bridge, Samaritan Prods., Schoenfeld Films. Derek Williams, producer. 
Wild Wings, British Transport Films, Manson Distributing. Edgar Anstey, producer.
The Winning Strain, Winik Films, Paramount. Leslie Winik, producer. 

Best Documentary Short Subject
Adolescence, M.K. Prods. Marin Karmitz and Vladimir Forgency, producers.
Cowboy, U.S. Information Agency. Michael Ahnemann and Gary Schlosser, producers.
The Odds Against, Vision Associates Prod. for The American Foundation Institute of Corrections. Lee R. Bobker and Helen Kristt Radin, producers.
Saint Matthew Passion, Mafilm Studio, Hungarofilm. 
A Year Toward Tomorrow, Sun Dial Films for Office of Economic Opportunity. Edmund A. Levy, producer.

Best Documentary Feature
The Face of Genius, WBZ-TV, Group W, Boston. Alfred R. Kelman, producer.
Helicopter Canada, Centennial Commission, National Film Board of Canada. Peter Jones and Tom Daly, producers. 
La Volcan Interdit (The Forbidden Volcano). Cine Documents Tazieff, Athos Films. Haroun Tazieff, producer.
The Really Big Family, David L. Wolper Prod. Alex Grasshoff, producer.
The War Game, BBC Prod. for the British Film Institute, Pathe Contemporary Films. Peter Watkins, producer. 

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Robert Wise.

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
George Bagnall.

Honorary Award
Y. Frank Freeman for unusual and outstanding service to the Academy during his thirty years in Hollywood (statuette).

Yakima Canutt for achievements as a stunt man and for developing safety devices to protect stunt men everywhere (statuette).

Scientific or Technical Awards
Class I (Statuette)
None.

Class II (Plaque)
Mitchell Camera Corporation for the design and development of the Mitchell Mark II 35mm Portable Motion Picture Reflex Camera. 

Arnold & Richter KG for the design and development of the Arriflex 35mm Portable Motion Picture Reflex Camera.

Class III (Citation)
Panavision Incorporated for the design of the Panatron Power Inverter and its application to motion picture camera operation. 

Carroll Knudson for the production of a Composers Manual for Motion Picture Music Synchronization.

Ruby Raksin for the production of a Composers Manual for Motion Picture Music Synchronization. 


Berlin Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

Golden Bear for Best Film
Cul de Sac (Roman Polanski, England)

Silver Bear for Best Actor
Jean-Pierre Leaud, Masculin-Feminin

Silver Bear for Best Actress
Lola Albright, Lord Love a Duck

Jury Awards:
Off-Season for Foxes (Germany)
Manhunt (Sweden)

Jury Tribute:
Satyajit Ray


Cannes Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

Best Picture:
A Man and a Woman (Claude Lelouch, France) and Signore a Signori (Pietro Germi, Italy) (tied)

Best Director:
Serge Youtkevitch, Lenin in Poland

Best Actor:
Per Oscarsson, Hunger

Best Actress:
Vanessa Redgrave, Morgan!

Special Jury Prize:
Lewis Gilbert, Alfie

International Critics Prize:
Young Torless (Germany) and La Guerre est finie (France)

Catholic Film Office Award:
A Man and a Woman (France)


Venice Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

Best Film:
Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, Italy)

Best Actor:
Jacques Perrin, Quest (Spain) and Half a Man (Italy)

Best Actress:
Natalia Arinbasavora, The First Schoolteacher (1965- USSR)

Special Jury Prizes:
Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, France)
Abschied von Gestern (Alexander Kluge, Germany)
Chappaqua (1967- Conrad Rooks, USA)

Best First Film:
La Vie a I'Envers (1964- Alain Jessua, France)

Catholic Film Office Award:
Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (1964- Italy)

International Film Critics Award:
Red Desert (1964- Italy)

Director's Guild of America Awards (Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001. Awards were presented on February 11, 1967, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles and the Hilton Hotel in New York). Winner listed in bold print.

Best Director
Richard Brooks, The Professionals 
John Frankenheimer, Grand Prix
Lewis Gilbert, Alfie
James Hill, Born Free
Norman Jewison, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
Claude Lelouch, A Man and a Woman
Silvio Narizzano, Georgy Girl
Mike Nichols, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Robert E. Wise, The Sand Pebbles
Fred Zinnemann, A Man for All Seasons


Writers Guild of America Awards (Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001. Awards were presented on March 28, 1967, at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles). Winners listed in bold. 

Best Written Drama
Harper, William Goldman, based on the novel The Moving Target by Ross MacDonald
The Professionals, Richard Brooks, based on the novel A Mule for the Marquesa by Frank O'Rourke
The Sand Pebbles, Robert Anderson, based on the novel by Richard MCKenna
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Ernest Lehman, based on the play by Edward Albee

Best Written Comedy
The Fortune Cookie, Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond
How to Steal a Million, Harry Kurnitz, based on the story "Venus Rising" by George Bradshaw
Our Man Flint, Hal Fimberg, Ben Starr
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, William Rose, based on the novel the Off-Islanders by Nathaniel Benchley
You're a Big Boy Now, Francis Ford Coppola, from the novel by David Benedictus

Laurel Award
Richard Brooks

Valentine Davies Award
Edmund H. North

Founder's Award
Charles Brackett
Richard Breen

The New York Times Ten Best List (Listed in chronological order. Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

The Shop on Main Street
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Dear John
Morgan!
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Georgy Girl
Loves of a Blonde
A Man for all Seasons
Blow-Up


The Top Box-Office Hits of 1966 (According to Variety- lists U.S. and Canadian rental fees up to the end of the calendar year. Late 1965 releases that primarily earned revenue in 1966 are included. Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

1) Thunderball (1965)- $26,000,000
2) Doctor Zhivago (1965)- $15,000,000
3) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?- $10,300,000
4) That Darn Cat! (1965)- $9,200,000
5) The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming- $7,750,000
6) Lt. Robin Crusoe, USN- $7,500,000
7) The Silencers- $7,000,000
    Torn Curtain- $7,000,000
9) Our Man Flint- $6,500,000
10) A Patch of Blue (1965)- $6,300,000
11) The Ugly Dachshund- $6,000,000
12) The Wild Angels- $5,500,000

 
13) Harper- $5,300,000
14) The Blue Max- $5,000,000
      Arabesque- $5,000,000
      Nevada Smith- $5,000,000
17) The Battle of the Bulge- $4,500,000
      Fantastic Voyage- $4,500,000
      Texas Across the River- $4,500,000
20) The Glass Bottom Boat- $4,320,000

The Top Ten Box-Office Stars of 1966 (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors)
1) Julie Andrews
2) Sean Connery
3) Elizabeth Taylor
4) Jack Lemmon
5) Richard Burton
6) Cary Grant
7) John Wayne
8) Doris Day
9) Paul Newman
10) Elvis Presley

The Next Fifteen:
11) Dean Martin
12) Steve McQueen
13) Frank Sinatra
14) Sophia Loren
15) Peter Sellers
16) James Stewart
17) Dick Van Dyke
18) Rock Hudson
19) Audrey Hepburn
20) Rex Harrison
21) Jerry Lewis
22) Charlton Heston
23) Ann-Margret
24) Natalie Wood
25) Shirley MacLaine

1966's Top Ten "Stars of Tomorrow" (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors)
1) Elizabeth Hartman
2) George Segal
3) Alan Arkin
4) Raquel Welch
5) Geraldine Chaplin
6) Guy Stockwell
7) Robert Redford
8) Beverly Adams
9) Sandy Dennis
10) Chad Everett

Britain's Top Ten British Box-Office Stars of 1966 (according to the Motion Picture Herald's poll of Britain's film exhibitors)

1) Sean Connery
2) Michael Caine
3) Robert Vaughn & David McCallum
4) Audrey Hepburn
5) Norman Wisdom
6) Rex Harrison
7) Steve McQueen
8) Julie Andrews
9) Peter Sellers
10) Elvis Presley

The Next Fifteen:
11) Natalie Wood
12) Sophia Loren
13) Robert Shaw
14) James Coburn
15) Hayley Mills
16) Morecambe & Wise
17) Kirk Douglas
18) Dick Van Dyke
19) Elizabeth Taylor
20) Peter O'Toole
21) Dean Martin
22) Richard Burton
23) Cary Grant
24) Frank Sinatra
25) Cliff Richard

Great Britain's Top Box-Office Hits of 1966 (according to the Motion Picture Herald- first two films listed in order of precedence, the rest are in alphabetical order)

1) The Sound of Music (1965)
2) Thunderball (1965)

In Alphabetical Order:
Alfie
Battle of the Bulge
Born Free
Doctor in Clover
The Early Bird
The Great Race
The Great St. Trinians Bank Robbery
Heros of Telemark
Nevada Smith
One Spy Too Many
Our Man Flint
That Riviera Touch
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)


The Golden Laurel Awards of 1967 (1966 films, unless otherwise noted. Source: IMDB)

Top Drama
1) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2) The Sand Pebbles
3) Hombre (1967)
4) Alfie
5) Georgy Girl

Top Comedy
1) Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
2) The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
3) Casino Royale (1967)
4) Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
5) Follow Me, Boys!

Top Action Drama
1) The Professionals
2) Murderer's Row
3) Fantastic Voyage
4) In Like Flint (1967)
5) Nevada Smith

Top General Entertainment
A Man for All Seasons

Sleeper of the Year
Blow-Up
Born Free

Top Male Comedy Performance
1) Dick Van Dyke in Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.
2) Alan Arkin in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
3) Bob Hope in Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
4) Robert Morse in How to Success in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
5) Don Knotts in The Reluctant Astronaut (1967) 

Top Female Comedy Performance
1) Julie Andrews in Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
2) Doris Day in The Glass Bottom Boat
3) Shirley MacLaine in Gambit
4) Joanne Woodward in A Big Hand for the Little Lady
5) Susannah York in Kaleidoscope

Top Male Dramatic Performance
1) Richard Burton in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2) Paul Scofield in A Man for All Seasons
3) Steve McQueen in The Sand Pebbles
4) Paul Newman in Hombre (1967)
5) George Peppard in The Blue Max

Top Female Dramatic Performance
1) Elizabeth Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2) Jane Fonda in Hurry Sundown (1967)
3) Natalie Wood in This Property is Condemned
4) Anouk Aimee in A Man and a Woman
5) Virginia McKenna in Born Free

Top Action Performance
1) Lee Marvin in The Professionals
2) Dean Martin in Murderer's Row
3) James Coburn in In Like Flint (1967)
4) Sidney Poitier in Dual at Diablo
5) Gregory Peck in Arabesque

Top Female Supporting Performance
1) Sandy Dennis in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2) Shelley Winters in Alfie
3) Carol Channing in Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
4) Wendy Hiller in A Man for all Seasons
5) Geraldine Page in You're a Big Boy Now

Top Male Supporting Performance
1) Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie
2) George Segal in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 
3) Richard Crenna in The Sand Pebbles
4) Fredric March in Hombre (1967)
5) Karl Malden in Hotel (1967)

Top Director
1) Henry Hathaway
2) Mike Nichols
3) George Cukor
4) Richard Brooks
5) Norman Taurog
6) John Frankenheimer
7) George Marshall
8) David Lean
9) Stanley Kubrick
10) Terence Young

Top Producer
1) Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman
2) Ross Hunter
3) Samuel Z. Arkoff, James H. Nicholson
4) Joe Pasternak
5) Sam Spiegel
6) Irving Allen
7) Martin Rackin
8) Joseph E. Levine
9) Norman Lear
10) Carl Foreman

Top Producer/Director
1) Robert Wise
2) Alfred Hitchcock
3) Mervyn Leroy
4) Blake Edwards
5) Fred Zinnemann
6) Robert Aldrich
7) William Wyler
8) Howard Hawks
9) George Sidney
10) Elia Kazan


Top Song
1) "A Time for Love" from An American Dream. Music by Johnny Mandel. Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
2) "My Wishing Doll" from Hawaii. Music by Elmer Bernstein. Lyrics by Mack David
3) "Born Free" from Born Free. Music by John Berry. Lyrics by Don Barry
4) "Alfie" from Alfie. Music by Burt Bacharach. Lyrics by Hal David
5) "Georgy Girl" from Georgy Girl. Music by Tom Springfield. Lyrics by Jim Dale

Top Music Man
1) Andre Previn
2) Jerry Goldsmith
3) Maurice Jarre
4) Alex North
5) Max Steiner

Top Male Star
1) Jack Lemmon 
2) Paul Newman
3) Lee Marvin
4) Dean Martin
5) James Coburn
6) John Wayne
7) Cary Grant
8) Sean Connery
9) Steve McQueen
10) Richard Burton
11) Frank Sinatra
12) Michael Caine
13) James Stewart
14) Dick Van Dyke
15) Robert Mitchum

Top Female Star
1) Julie Andrews
2) Elizabeth Taylor
3) Natalie Wood
4) Jane Fonda
5) Shirley MacLaine
6) Debbie Reynolds
7) Julie Christie
8) Doris Day
9) Sophia Loren
10) Joanne Woodward
11) Ann-Margret
12) Audrey Hepburn
13) Hayley Mills
14) Sandra Dee
15) Elke Sommer

Top Male New Face
1) Alan Arkin
2) Clint Eastwood
3) David Hemmings
4) David Warner
5) John Phillip Law
6) Anthony 'Scooter' Teague
7) Zero Mostel
8) Bill Bixby
9) Adam West
10) Peter Kastner
11) Robert Hooks
12) Steve Carlson
13) Les Crane
14) Fred Gwynne
15) Frank Sinatra, Jr. 

Top Female New Face
1) Sandy Dennis
2) Lynn Redgrave
3) Mary Tyler Moore
4) Vanessa Redgrave
5) Raquel Welch
6) Nancy Sinatra
7) Sylva Koscina
8) Britt Ekland
9) Faye Dunaway
10) Beverly Adams
11) Phyllis Diller
12) Emmanuelle Arsan (as Maryat Andriane)
13) Maureen Arthur
14) Jean Hale
15) Giovanna Ralli

Special Award
Gregory Peck- Actor and industry whose fine work before the cameras and in a host of worthwhile industry endeavors reflects credit on himself and on the motion picture industry. 

Walt Disney- Whose artistic genius and love of life brought joyful family entertainment to audiences around the world and continues to delight each new generation of filmgoers. 


Harvard Lampoon's Movie Worst Awards (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

Ten Worst Movies:
Is Paris Burning?
Hurry Sundown (1967)
The Oscar
The Fortune Cookie
The Bible
A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)
The Blue Max
Torn Curtain
Penelope

The Kirk Douglas Award to Worst Actor:
George Peppard, The Blue Max

Natalie Wood Award to Worst Actress:
Ursula Andress, Casino Royale (1967)

Worst Supporting Actor:
John Huston, The Bible 

Worst Supporting Actress:
Leslie Caron, Is Paris Burning?

The Ok-Doc-Break-the-Arm-Again Award:
(for the most flagrant example of miscasting)
John Huston as the voice of God in The Bible

Der Otto
Awarded annually to Otto Preminger for his yearly excursions into the tawdry, the sordid and the silly. This year for his direction of Hurry Sundown (1967)

Hon. Wrong-Way Corrigan Memorial Palm:
(for worse direction)
Charles Chaplin, A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)

The Cellophane Figleaf:
(for false modesty)
Jane Fonda for suing Playboy magazine for having printed nude snapshots of her on set with husband-director Roger Vadim. "Nasty voyeurs," she said.


The Please-Don't-Put-Us-Through-DeMille-Again Award:
(for that film which best embodies pretentious extravagance and blundering ineffectiveness of the traditional Screen Spectacular)
The Bible

The Piltdown Mandible:
Presented annually for the lamest explanation of scientifically improbable phenomena: this year to the producers of Fantastic Voyage for assuming that the molecules which made up the submarine would not re-expand to normal size simply because said submarine had been devoured by s white corpuscle; and to the lone cow in The Bible who supplied an estimated nine hundred seventy-four gallons of milk to all the animals on the Ark for forty days and forty nights. 

The Uncrossed Heart:
(for the least promising young performer)
Andrea Dromm, Ther Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming

The Bratwurst Award:
(to the most obnoxious child star of the year)
John Mark as the demented child in Hurry Sundown (1967)

The Best Argument for Vivisection:
To Born Free and the entire Ark in The Bible

The Ayn Rand Award:
(to that writer whose bad books made worse movies)
Norman Mailer, An American Dream

Worst Performance by a Cast in Toto:
The Charles Chaplin family in A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)
The Arrested-Development Oblation:
(to that adult actor who has displayed the lowest level of maturity)
Always given to Jerry Lewis

The Elsa Maxwell Kudo:
(for the most unattractive social event)
Sodom goat seduction in The Bible

The Great Ceremonial Hot Dog
(for the worst scenes of the cinema season)
The birth scene in Hawaii and Jane Fonda's mouthing of a saxophone in Hurry Sundown (1967)

The Tin Pan:
(to the most obnoxious movie song)
"Alfie" and "Born Free"

The Diamond-in-the-Rough Award:
(to that performer whose genuine talent has shown through the drivel and dross that is so characteristic of modern cinema)
Margaret Rutherford, A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)

The Timothy Cratchit Memorial Crutch:
(to that Hollywood personality who offers the lamest justification for unsavory behavior)
Raquel Welch, for marrying her manager in order to be seen in her flesh-colored mini-wedding gown

Best Argument for Stricter Immigration Laws:
Milos Forman, Loves of a Blonde

The Tower of Babel Citation:
(to that foreign-language film which has the worst subtitles)
A Man and a Woman

The Bennett:
(to the worst surfing movie)
The Endless Summer

The Merino Award:
In 1960 to Maureen O'Hara; in 1961 to Rita Moreno; in 1962 to Maureen O'Sullivan; this year to the Marine standing sentry duty outside the American Embassy in Paris in Charade; in 1964 to marinophile Jacques Cousteau for his underwater documentary World Without Sun; in 1965 to Melina Mercouri; this year to the two merinos on the Ark in The Bible

The Roscoe Award:
Stephen Boyd for his starring roles in The Oscar and Fantastic Voyage, and his brief but significant appearance as Nimrod in The Bible








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