Friday, August 16, 2013

1967 CinSpec Awards


Winners indicated (*). I still need to see films like Playtime, La Guerre Est Finie, Mouchette, Titicut Follies, Camelot, Point Blank, La Chinoise, The Whisperers, Divorce American Style, The Stranger, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Valley of the Dolls, To Sir, with Love, Hombre, Reflections in a Golden Eye, Anna Karenina, La Collectionneuse, Accident, The Fox, El Dorado, Ulysses, The Comedians, and Our Mother's House.

The Graduate

BEST PICTURE:
Bonnie and Clyde
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Graduate*
Le Samouraï
Marat/Sade

BEST DIRECTOR:
Peter Brook, Marat/Sade
Jean-Pierre Melville, Le Samouraï
Mike Nichols, The Graduate*
Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde
Vilgot Sjöman, I Am Curious (Yellow)

Cool Hand Luke

BEST ACTOR:
Robert Blake, In Cold Blood
Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate
Paul Newman, Cool Hand Luke*
Rod Steiger, In the Heat of the Night
Eli Wallach, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

BEST ACTRESS:
Catherine Deneuve, Belle de Jour*
Faye Dunaway, Bonnie and Clyde
Jane Fonda, Barefoot in the Park
Audrey Hepburn, Wait Until Dark
Katharine Hepburn, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Belle de Jour

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Alan Arkin, Wait Until Dark
Peter Finch, Far from the Madding Crowd
Gene Hackman, Bonnie and Clyde*
George Kennedy, Cool Hand Luke
Scott Wilson, In Cold Blood

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Anne Bancroft, The Graduate*
Glenda Jackson, Marat/Sade
Mary Tyler Moore, Thoroughly Modern Millie
Estelle Parsons, Bonnie and Clyde
Katharine Ross, The Graduate

Bonnie and Clyde

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Belle de Jour
The Deadly Affair
The Graduate*
In Cold Blood
Marat/Sade

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Bonnie and Clyde*
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Weekend

Le Samouraï

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Bonnie and Clyde
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
In Cold Blood*
Le Samouraï
Marat/Sade

BEST FILM EDITING:
Bonnie and Clyde
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Graduate
Le Samouraï*
Marat/Sade

The Deadly Affair

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
Cool Hand Luke
The Deadly Affair
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly*
In Cold Blood
Wait Until Dark

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
"The Bare Necessities", The Jungle Book
"In the Heat of the Night", In the Heat of the Night
"The Look of Love", Casino Royale
"Mrs. Robinson", The Graduate*
"You Only Live Twice", You Only Live Twice

Additional Categories

Marat/Sade

BEST ART DIRECTION:
Doctor Dolittle
Far from the Madding Crowd
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Marat/Sade*
Thoroughly Modern Millie

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
Belle de Jour
Marat/Sade*
The Taming of the Shrew
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Two for the Road

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

BEST MAKEUP:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Marat/Sade
The Taming of the Shrew*

BEST SOUND (MIXING AND EDITING):
Bonnie and Clyde
Cool Hand Luke
The Dirty Dozen*
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Marat/Sade

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
The Dirty Dozen
Doctor Dolittle
You Only Live Twice*

Updated: 6/26/15

12 comments:

  1. Love this year. I'm currently working on it (now that I've finally finished 1988). I meant to tell you to watch Marat/Sade before completing this year. It is my big winner ATM in Picture/Director/Adapted Screenplay/Supporting Actress/Art Direction/Cinematography. It's a brilliant film! Also, Weekend tops my ballot in a lot of places too, so you should love that.

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    1. You're in luck! I only have a handful of films available for 1977, so I just watched Marat/Sade. Take a look at my updated ballot above. :)

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    2. YES!!!!!!!! Glenda Jackson!!!! She's marvelous...so happy you nominate her!

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    3. Yeah, I just remembered that she made your top 10 supporting actresses list.

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  2. I haven't seen a bunch of these, but I'd think Jean-Pierre Melville's direction in Le Samouraï is Oscar-worthy, though probably not in the screenplay or acting department, ahah. It does have beautiful cinematography, I agree. Yeah, I'd pick Anne Bancroft for The Graduate too, such an iconic performance.

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    1. Glad you agree with those picks. Yeah, Bancroft is wonderful in The Graduate.

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  3. Bancroft in The Graduate is a great choice. She did a terrific job of being both experienced and world-weary and needy and vulnerable. "You're trying to seduce me aren't you, Mrs. Robinson?"

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    1. Thanks. Yeah, she nailed it. She probably would've won a second Oscar if she'd campaigned in supporting.

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  4. I think I'd agree with every single pick here. '67... what a damn good year. Tough to choose between Hackman and Kennedy though.

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    1. That's awesome! They're both great, but Hackman is easily my winner. Kennedy would probably be my #3 behind Wilson actually.

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  5. I need to see two of your best picture nominees, The Deadly Affair and Marat/Sade. The second intrigues me the most because of Glenda Jackson's participation. Love her.

    Picture:
    Bonnie & Clyde-Winner
    The Graduate
    In Cold Blood
    Two for the Road
    Wait Until Dark
    The Graduate is a wonderfully insightful comedy but has dated around the edges whereas B&C seems as vibrant today as when it debuted. Both great films but one feels more timeless.

    Director:
    Richard Brooks-In Cold Blood
    Stanley Donen-Two for the Road
    Sergio Leone-The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
    Mike Nichols-The Graduate
    Arthur Penn-Bonnie & Clyde-Winner
    B&C isn't my favorite of my nominees, that's Two for the Road, but it is the most inventively shot, purposively paced film of the bunch and that's thanks in large part to Penn's direction.

    Actor:
    Warren Beatty-Bonnie & Clyde
    Albert Finney-Two for the Road
    Dustin Hoffman-The Graduate
    Lee Marvin-Point Blank-Winner
    Sidney Poitier-To Sir, With Love
    Other worthies-Paul Newman-Cool Hand Luke, Spencer Tracy-Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Rod Steiger-In the Heat of the Night
    So many wonderful lead performances this year but Marvin's laconic, gruffly determined Walker, a loner battling a corporate villain in the strange disorienting Point Blank is probably his best work.

    Actress:
    Catherine Deneuve-Belle de Jour
    Sandy Dennis-Up the Down Staircase
    Faye Dunaway-Bonnie & Clyde-Winner
    Audrey Hepburn-Two for the Road
    Simone Signoret-Games
    Other worthies-Edith Evans-The Whisperers, Audrey Hepburn-Wait Until Dark
    As much as I like Kate Hepburn and think her performance in Dinner is perfectly acceptable it's most definitely not an Oscar worthy one especially when so much worthier work got shut out. Staircase is in my opinion Sandy Dennis's finest performance, playing to her strengths while keeping her tendency towards twitchy excess to a minimum. Signoret makes the mediocre Games worth watching while Road allows Audrey to take her lovable gamin persona and fill it out with some real human foibles. I loved Deneuve in Belle de Jour but Dunaway is so raw and vivid in B&C she makes Bonnie Parker compellingly dangerous despite the glamour treatment the script puts the pair though.

    Supporting Actor:
    Alan Arkin-Wait Under Dark
    Alan Bates-Far From the Madding Crowd-Winner
    Peter Finch-Far From the Madding Crowd
    Gene Hackman-Bonnie & Clyde
    Aldo Ray-Welcome to Hard Times
    It's the two men from Madding Crowd that impressed me the most in this category. While Finch has the flashier role which he plays expertly as always I think Alan Bates gives the richer performance. Gabriel Oak continually dances in and out of importance in the film's narrative, when he's onscreen through look and gesture Bates fills the supposedly simple character with unexpected depth so whenever he's off screen his skill and magnetism keep him in the viewer's mind and awaiting his return.

    Supporting Actress:
    Anne Bancroft-The Graduate-Winner
    Diane Cilento-Hombre
    Mildred Natwick-Barefoot in the Park
    Jean Simmons-Rough Night in Jericho
    Maggie Smith-The Honey Pot
    While this was not even a close contest for the winner, Anne's work is unbeatable although her role in the film skirts being a lead, I love all the other performances particularly Diane Cilento's work in the otherwise ponderous Hombre and the great Mildred Natwick, inimitable in Barefoot in the Park.

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    1. Great choices, as always. Bonnie and Clyde used to be my Best Picture winner, but I rewatched it and The Graduate before I posted this and switched. I still love Bonnie and Clyde, though it's lost some of the impact it had when I first saw it. The Graduate, on the other hand, always grabs me.

      I think I might replace Harry Andrews with Alan Arkin. The more I think about the latter's performance, the more I want to include it. Nice to see Hepburn on there for one of her brilliant performances, but I wish I liked Two for the Road more. I've always found it overrated.

      The Deadly Affair is a thriller based on John le Carre's novel. It's directed by Sidney Lumet, and it was a real surprise. Marat/Sade is set in an asylum, where the patients (one of them played by Jackson) act out a play. It's a very interesting - and overlooked - movie.

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