Best Adapted Screenplay:
1960: Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Vasco Pratolini, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, and Enrico Medioli)
Oscar winner: Elmer Gantry (Richard Brooks)
Was this nominated?: No
1961: The Hustler (Sidney Carroll and Robert Rossen)
Oscar winner: Judgment at Nuremberg (Abby Mann)
Was this nominated?: Yes
1962: To Kill a Mockingbird (Horton Foote)
Oscar winner: To Kill a Mockingbird (Horton Foote)
1963: The Great Escape (James Clavell and W.R. Burnett)
Oscar winner: Tom Jones (John Osborne)
Was this nominated?: No
1964: Dr. Stangelove (Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, and Terry Southern)
Oscar winner: Becket (Edward Anhalt)
Was this nominated?: Yes
1965: Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
Oscar winner: Doctor Zhivago (Robert Bolt)
Was this nominated?: No
1966: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Ernest Lehman)
Oscar winner: A Man for All Seasons (Robert Bolt)
Was this nominated?: Yes
1967: The Graduate (Calder Willingham and Buck Henry)
Oscar winner: In the Heat of the Night (Stirling Silliphant)
Was this nominated?: Yes
1968: The Lion in Winter (James Goldman)
Oscar winner: The Lion in Winter (James Goldman)
1969: Midnight Cowboy (Waldo Salt)
Oscar winner: Midnight Cowboy (Waldo Salt)
Best Original Screenplay:
1960: The Apartment (Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond)
Oscar winner: The Apartment (Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond)
1961: La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni, Ennio Flaiano, and Tonino Guerra)
Oscar winner: Splendor in the Grass (William Inge)
Was this nominated?: No
1962: Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)
Oscar winner: Divorce Italian Style (Ennio de Concini, Alfredo Giannetti, and Pietro Germi)
Was this nominated?: No
1963: Charade (Peter Stone and Marc Behm)
Oscar winner: How the West Was Won (James R. Webb)
Was this nominated?: No
1964: Onibaba (Kaneto Shindô)
Oscar winner: Father Goose (S.H. Barnett, Peter Stone, and Frank Tarloff)
Was this nominated?: No
1965: Repulsion (Roman Polanski, Gérard Brach, and David Stone)
Oscar winner: Darling (Frederic Raphael)
Was this nominated?: No
1966: Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
Oscar winner: A Man and a Woman (Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven)
Was this nominated?: No
1967: Bonnie and Clyde (David Newman and Robert Benton)
Oscar winner: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (William Rose)
Was this nominated?: Yes
1968: The Firemen's Ball (Milos Forman, Jaroslav Papousek, Ivan Passer, and Václav Sasek)
Oscar winner: The Producers (Mel Brooks)
Was this nominated?: No
1969: Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, Sergio Donati, Dario Argento, and Bernardo Bertolucci)
Oscar winner: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (William Goldman)
Was this nominated?: No
Updated: 2/5/15
The amount of Oscar love that Psycho was snubbed of is depressing. Great set of winners!
ReplyDeleteThanks! Yeah, Psycho got the shaft, but so did many Hitchcock films. :(
DeleteVery informative post, Josh. Always interesting to learn which 'acclaimed' films didn't always get the nod they deserved.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Ruth. Great films often get snubbed by the Academy, especially if they're not in English.
DeleteI haven't kept up with your Oscar winners challenge, have you seen all 20 of the original winners in this post Josh?
ReplyDeleteI'm currently reading Peter Biskind's bio of Warren Beatty, the first few chapters a full of 60s movie talk. For example the fear and hesitance in the MPAA members in deviating from giving awards to the more traditional style storytellers, hence Splendor and Guess Who.
Tom Jones is an anomaly to me, it must have aged really badly. Starring Albert Finney, adapted by John Osborne and directed by Tony Richardson it's straight out of the British New Wave of angry young men school of film making and when I watched it recently it was a slapstick farce.
Haha. That's fine. I've still got 139 films left, so it will take a while to finish. :) I've seen every winner here, except for How the West Was Won (also a Best Picture nominee).
DeleteThat sounds accurate, especially given the Oscar winners over the years. I think awarding Midnight Cowboy was a step in the right direction though.
Yeah, that must be the case with TJ. I'm wondering if Shakespeare in Love will follow suit.
I feel as if you are educating me in film history reading these screenplay posts, in a good way!
ReplyDeleteDivorce Italian Style sounds interesting. Seduced and Abandoned (1964) directed by Pietro Germi is another Italian comedy worth seeking out(according to David at Taste of Cinema)
Thanks, Chris!
DeleteDivorce Italian Style is a fun film, with an enjoyable (and Oscar-nominated) performance from Marcello Mastroianni. Not heard of Seduced and Abandoned, but I'll look into it.