OK, results for 1962, let’s get it over with…
Best Picture Lawrence of Arabia, UK/US (7 votes)
Best Director Luis Buñuel, The Exterminating Angel & David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia (4 votes each TIE)
Best Actor James Mason, Lolita (6 votes)
Best Actress Bette Davis, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (6 votes)
Best Supp Actor Peter Sellers, Lolita (9 votes)
Best Supp Actress Angela Lansbury The Manchurian Candidate (11 votes)
Best Cinematography Frederick A.Young, Lawrence of Arabia (16 votes)
Best Score Maurice Jarre, Lawrence of Arabia (8 votes)
Best Short La Jétée, France, Chris Marker (11 votes)
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My votes will no longer be listed here, only on the topbar as they don’t really belong.
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so on to 1963..
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1963
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Best Picture/Director
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An Actor’s Revenge (Japan…Kon Ichikawa)
All the Way Home (US…Alex Segal)
Alone Across the Pacific (Japan…Kon Ichikawa)
America, America (US…Elia Kazan)
L’Ape Regina (Italy…Marco Ferreri)
La Baie des Anges (France…Jacques Demy)
Bandini (India…Bimal Roy)
The Big City (India…Satyajit Ray)
Billy Liar (UK…John Schlesinger)
The Birds (US…Alfred Hitchcock)
Blonde Cobra (US…Ken Jacobs)
Il Boom (Italy…Vittorio de Sica)
Bushido: Cruel Code of the Samurai (Japan…Tadashi Imai)
Les Carabiniers (France…Jean-Luc Godard)
The Cardinal (US…Otto Preminger)
The Caretaker (UK…Clive Donner)
Charade (US…Stanley Donen)
The City and the Roads (India…Khwaja Ahmad Abbas)
Cleopatra (US…Joseph L.Mankiewicz)
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (US…Robert Drew)
The Cry (Czechoslovakia…Jaromil Jires)
The Damned (UK…Joseph Losey)
8½ (Italy…Federico Fellini)
Empress Wu (Hong Kong…Li Han-Hsiang)
Le Feu Follet (France…Louis Malle)
I Fidanzati (Italy…Ermanno Olmi)
Flaming Creatures (US…Jack Smith)
From Russia With Love (UK…Terence Young)
Goryeojang (South Korea…Kim Ki-young)
The Great Escape (US/UK…John Sturges)
Hands Over the City (Italy…Francesco Rosi)
The Haunting (US…Robert Wise)
High and Low (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)
Hud (US…Martin Ritt)
The Immortal One (France…Alain Robbe-Grillet)
The Insect Woman (Japan…Shohei Imamura)
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (US…Stanley Kramer)
Jason and the Argonauts (UK…Don Chaffey)
Judex (France…Georges Franju)
Legend of a Duel to Death (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)
The Leopard (Italy/US…Luchino Visconti)
Lord of the Flies (UK…Peter Brook)
The Love Eterne (Hong Kong…Li Han-hsiang)
The Lover (UK…Joan Kemp-Welch)
Lovers (Norway…Nils R.Müller)
The Magnet of Doom (France…Jean-Pierre Melville)
Le Mépris (France…Jean-Luc Godard)
The Mongols (Iran…Parviz Kimiavi)
Muriel (France…Alain Resnais)
Niigata Bamboo Doll (Japan…Kozaburo Yoshimura)
The Nutty Professor (US…Jerry Lewis)
The Organiser (Italy…Mario Monicelli)
Passenger (Poland…Andrzej Munk)
The Pink Panther (US…Blake Edwards)
The Prize (US…Mark Robson)
Pour la Suite du Monde (Canada…Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault)
Raven’s End (Sweden…Bo Widerberg)
La Ricotta (Italy…Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Sammy Going South (UK…Alexander Mackendrick)
The Servant (UK…Joseph Losey)
She and He (Japan…Susumu Hani)
Shock Corridor (US…Samuel Fuller)
The Silence (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)
Sleep (US…Andy Warhol)
The Spread of the Eagle (UK…Peter Dews)
The Stripper (US…Franklin J.Schaffner)
Strip-Tease (France…Jacques Poitrenaud)
The Success (Italy…Dino Risi, Mauro Morassi)
A Sunday in September (Finland…Jörn Donner)
Suzanne’s Career (France…Eric Rohmer)
This Sporting Life (UK…Lindsay Anderson)
To Die in Madrid (France…Frederic Roussif)
Tom Jones (UK…Tony Richardson)
Les Tontons Flingeurs (France…Georges Lautner)
Towers Open Fire (US…Antony Balch, William S.Burroughs)
Twin Sisters of Kyoto (Japan…Noboru Nakamura)
El Verdugo (Spain…Luis Garcia Berlanga)
The Victors (US…Carl Foreman)
Vidas Secas (Brazil…Nelson Pereira dos Santos)
When the Cat Comes (Czechoslovakia…Vojtech Jasny)
The Whip and the Body (Italy…Mario Bava)
Winter Light (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)
Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (Italy…Vittorio de Sica)
Young Aphrodites (Greece…Nikos Koundouros)
The Youth of the Beast (Japan…Seijun Suzuki)
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Best Actor
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Alan Badel The Lover TV
Gunnar Bjornstrand Winter Light
Dirk Bogarde The Servant
Tom Courtenay Billy Liar
Peter Cushing Cash on Demand
Albert Finney Tom Jones
Richard Harris This Sporting Life
Kazuo Hasegawa An Actor’s Revenge
Kjeve Helm Raven’s End
Burt Lancaster The Leopard
Steve McQueen The Great Escape
Nino Manfredi El Verdugo
Marcello Mastroianni 8½
Marcello Mastroianni The Organiser
Toshiro Mifune High and Low
Kinnosuke Nakamura Bushido: Cruel Code of the Samurai
Paul Newman Hud
Michel Piccoli Le Mépris
Sidney Poitier Lilies of the Field
Vincent Price The Raven
Maurice Ronet Le Feu Follet
Henry Silva Johnny Cool
Alberto Sordi Il Boom
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Best Actress
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Brigitte Bardot Le Mépris
Julie Harris The Haunting
Audrey Hepburn Charade
Wendy Hiller Toys in the Attic
Sophia Loren Yesterday Today and Tomorrow
Vivian Merchant The Lover TV
Jeanne Moreau La Baie des Anges
Madhabi Mukherjee The Big City
Patricia Neal Hud
Geraldine Page Toys in the Attic
Rachel Roberts This Sporting Life
Delphine Seyrig Muriel
Jean Simmons All the Way Home
Ingrid Thulin The Silence
Ingrid Thulin Winter Light
Marina Vlady L’Ape Regina
Natalie Wood Love With the Proper Stranger
Joanne Woodward The Stripper
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Best Supp Actor
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Nick Adams Twilight of Honor
James Best Shock Corridor
Colin Blakely This Sporting Life
Tom Bosley Love with the Proper Stranger
Melvyn Douglas Hud
Hugh Griffith Tom Jones
Rex Harrison Cleopatra
John Huston The Cardinal
José Isbert El Verdugo
Roddy McDowall Cleopatra
Walter Matthau Charade
André Morell Cash on Demand
Jack Palance Le Mépris
Bruce Ritchey A Child is Waiting
Edward G.Robinson The Prize
Robert Shaw From Russia With Love
Paul Stewart A Child is Waiting
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Best Supp Actress
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Julie Christie Billy Liar
Diane Cilento Tom Jones
Edith Evans Tom Jones
Judy Garland A Child is Waiting
Carol Lynley The Cardinal
Sarah Miles The Servant
Sandra Milo 8½
Jeanne Moreau The Victors
Molly Picon Come Blow Your Horn
Joyce Redman Tom Jones
Margaret Rutherford The VIP’s
Romy Schneider The Cardinal
Lilia Skala Lilies of the Field
Claire Trevor The Stripper
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Best Cinematography
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David Boulton The Haunting
Robert Burks The Birds
Denys Coop This Sporting Life
Raoul Coutard Le Mépris
Tonino delli Colli El Verdugo
Gianni di Venanzo 8½
Jaroslav Kucera When the Cat Comes
Walter Lassally, Manny Wynn Tom Jones
Mattis Mathiesen Lovers
Tadashi Nishimoto The Love Eterne
Sven Nykvist The Silence
Sven Nykvist Winter Light
Jean Rabier La Baie des Anges
Giuseppe Rotunno The Leopard
Leon Shamroy The Cardinal
Leon Shamroy Cleopatra
Douglas Slocombe The Servant
Makoto Tsuboi Bushido: Cruel Code of the Samurai
Sacha Vierny Muriel
Yoshihiro Yamizaki Alone Across the Pacific
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Best Score
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John Addison Tom Jones
Elmer Bernstein The Great Escape
Elmer Bernstein Hud
Georges Delerue Le Mépris
Ernest Gold It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Bernard Herrmann Jason and the Argonauts
Chow Lan-ping The Love Eterne
Michel Legrand La Baie des Anges
Henry Mancini The Pink Panther
Alex North Cleopatra
Nino Rota 8½
Nino Rota The Leopard
Dimitri Tiomkin 55 Days at Peking
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Best Short Film
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Automania 2000 (UK…John Halas)
Big City (UK…Paul Weld Dixon) (no video available)
Christmas on Earth (US…Barbara Rudin) (no video available)
The Critic (US…Ernest Pintoff)
The House is Black (Iran… Forugh Farrokhzad)
Joseph Kilian (Czechoslovakia…Pavel Juracek, Jan Schmidt) (no subtitles)
Labyrinth (Poland…Jan Lenica)
Mothlight (US…Stan Brakhage)
Le Nez (France…Alexander Alexeieff, Claire Parker)
Pianissimo (US…Carmen d’Avino)
Towers Open Fire (UK…Antony Balch)
What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (US…Martin Scorsese)
Yay for Luis Buñuel winning best director for “El Ángel Exterminador” in 1962. Yay for Peter Sellers winning best supporting actor for “Lolita” in 1962. Yay for “Lawrence of Arabia” winning best cinematography in 1962. Yay for “La Jetee” winning best short in 1962.
I vote “Le Mépris” for best film in 1963.
I vote Jean-Luc Godard (“Le Mépris”) for best director in 1963.
I vote Dirk Bogarde for best actor in “The Servant” in 1963.
I vote Vivian Merchant for best actress in “The Lover” in 1963.
I vote Boris Karloff for best supporting actor in “Black Sabbath” in 1963.
I vote Sarah Miles for best supporting actress in “The Servant” in 1963.
I vote “Le Mépris” for best cinematography in 1963.
I vote “Jason and the Argonauts” for best score in 1963.
I vote “The House is Black” for best short in 1963.
Some colossal films crashing around this year. Tough calls in every category.
Best Picture: 8 1/2 (Runner-up: High and Low)
Best Director: Fellini
Best Actor: Nakamura
Best Actress: Loren
Supporting Actor: Harrison
Supporting Actress: Milo
Cinematography: Coutard
Score: Tough field to pick from but I go with North
Best Song! “Black Leather Rock,” The Damned.
Best Film: The Leopard
Best Director: Federico Fellini (8 1/2)
Best Actor: Richard Harris (This Sporting Life)
Best Actress: Ingrid Thulin (The Silence)
Best Supporting Actor: Melvyn Douglas (Hud)
Best Supporting Actress: Carol Lynley (The Cardinal)
Best Short: The House is Black (Iran)
Best Cinematography: Gianni di Venanzo, (8 1/2)
Best Score: Georges Delerue (Le Mepris)
Delerue’s score fo Godard’s LE MEPRIS is one of the greatest in the history of the cinema. THE HOUSE OF BLACK is a staggering masterpiece that would compete for any list of the greatest films of all-time. The Best Picture race came down to THE LEOPARD, 8 1/2, WINTER LIGHT, LE MEPRIS, THE SILENCE, THE HAUNTING, EL VERDUGO, VIDAS SECAS, LORD OF THE FLIES, BILLY LIAR, THE INSECT WOMAN, HIGH AND LOW, THE SERVANT and WHEN THE CAT COMES.
Picture: 8 1/2
Director: Federico Fellini, 8 1/2
Actor: Dirk Bogarde, The Servant
Actress: Julie Harris, The Haunting
Sup. Actor: Melvyn Douglas, Hud
Sup. Actress: Patricia Neal, Hud (even Neal said this is a supporting performance)
Cinematography: Gianni di Venanzo, 8 1/2
This was pretty easy for me…it could be none other (and, by the way, those non-winning films I list in all caps are some choices from ’63 that were left off Allen’s lists. And, yeah, I agree that Patricia Neal belongs in the Supporting Actress race:
PICTURE: 8 ½ (followed by Hud, Contempt, High and Low, Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, The Birds, Shock Corridor, An Actor’s Revenge, The Leopard, Winter Light, The Haunting, Billy Liar, Lord of the Flies, The Servant, The Silence, From Russia With Love, Jason and the Argonauts, The Damned, Charade, This Sporting Life, LADYBUG LADYBUG, Cleopatra, The Nutty Professor, Yesterday Today and Tomorrow, X–THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES, The Pink Panther, BYE BYE BIRDIE, THE LIST OF ADRIAN MESSENGER, The Great Escape, It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER, Black Sabbath, The Raven)
DIRECTOR: Federico Fellini, 8 ½ (2nd: Martin Ritt, Hud)
ACTOR: Paul Newman, HUD (2nd: Marcello Mastroianni, 8 ½, followed by Dirk Bogarde, The Servant; Kasago Hasegawa, An Actor’s Revenge, JERRY LEWIS, THE NUTTY PROFESSOR, Richard Harris, This Sporting Life)
ACTRESS: Julie Harris, THE HAUNTING (2nd: TIPPI HEDREN, THE BIRDS, followed by Natalie Wood, Love with the Proper Stranger; Sophia Loren, Yesterday Today and Tomorrow; Rachel Roberts, This Sporting Life)
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Melvyn Douglas, HUD (2nd: Rex Harrison, Cleopatra; followed by Robert Shaw, From Russia With Love; Walter Matthau, Charade; Roddy McDowell, Cleopatra; John Huston, The Cardinal)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Patricia Neal, HUD (2nd: ETHEL MERMAN, IT’S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD, followed by Margaret Rutherford, The VIPs; Julie Christie, Billy Liar; ANN-MARGRET, BYE BYE BIRDIE; Sarah Miles, The Servant)
SHORT: MOTHLIGHT (Stan Brakhage) (2nd: The Critic (Ernest Pintoff)
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Gianni Di Venanzo, 8 ½ (2nd (B&W): JAMES WONG HOWE, HUD)
ORIGINAL SCORE: Nino Rota, 8 ½ (2nd: Elmer Bernstein, Hud)
FURTHER:
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tulio Pinelli and Brunello Rondi, 8 ½ (2nd: Samuel Fuller, Shock Corridor)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Irving Ravetch and Harriett Frank Jr., HUD (2nd: Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Ryuzo Kikushima and Eijiro Hisaita, High and Low)
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: CRISIS: BEHIND A PRESIDENTIAL COMMITMENT (Robert Drew)
COLOR CINEMATOGRAPHY: Leon Shamroy, CLEOPATRA (2nd: Giuseppe Rotunno, The Leopard)
B&W ART DIRECTION: THE HAUNTING
COLOR ART DIRECTION: THE LEOPARD
B&W COSTUME DESIGN: 8 ½
COLOR COSTUME DESIGN: CLEOPATRA
FILM EDITING: 8 ½
SOUND: THE BIRDS
SCORING OF A MUSICAL: John Green, BYE BYE BIRDIE
ORIGINAL SONG: “More” from MONDO CANE, Music by Riz Ortolani and Nino Oliviero, lyrics by Norman Newell (2nd: “Call Me Irresponsible” from Papa‘s Delicate Condition, music by James Van Heusen and lyrics by Sammy Cahn)
SPECIAL EFFECTS: JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS
MAKEUP: THE LIST OF ADRIAN MESSENGER
I’m changing my vote for BEST ACTOR: I’m going with Marcello Mastroianni for 8 1/2!
Well, I tried to post ahead of time in WordPress but no dice…
The best film of ’63 is not a feature at all, but a short, House is Black. Not only did it make a top 10 favorites list of mine last year, I would also include it on an entirely hypothetical Sight & Sound ballot for among the greatest of all time. Please visit Allan’s post and watch the Vimeo clip to see it for yourself.
Feature: This Sporting Life
Director: Forugh Farrokhzad, The House is Black
Short: The House is Black
Actor: Richard Harris, This Sporting Life
Actress: Brigitte Bardot, Contempt (I’m not sure this is entirely objective!)
Supp. Actor: Walter Matthau, Charade
Supp. Actress: Julie Christie, Billy Liar (surprised to see her in this category)
Cinematography: Gianni di Venanzo, 8 1/2 (some strong competition this year but the look of this film – by which I mean the light, contrast, and other technical details, not just the Felliniesque visual touches or camera moves – is so iconic)
Score: Georges Delerue, Contempt (I’ll be shocked if anybody votes for anything else – this is easily a top 10 score of all time)
Screenplay: Hideo Oguni, Ryuzo Kikushima, Eijiro Hisaita, Akira Kurosawa, High and Low
Editing: Anthony Gibbs, Tom Jones
honorable mention:
Hud
The Leopard
Shock Corridor
*The Silence
Winter Light
Close calls: DIRECTOR – Ingmar Bergman (The Silence), Lindsay Anderson (This Sporting Life) * ACTOR – Gunnar Bjornstrand (Winter Light), Tom Courteney (Billy Liar), Burt Lancaster (The Leopard), Marcello Mastroianni (8 1/2), Paul Newman (Hud) * ACTRESS – Patricia Neal (Hud), Rachel Roberts (This Sporting Life), Ingrid Thulin (Winter Light) * SUPP. ACTOR – James Coburn (Charade) * SUPP. ACTRESS – Sandra Milo (8 1/2), Joyce Redman (Tom Jones) * CINEMATOGRAPHY – The Birds, Contempt, The House is Black, The Leopard, The Silence * SCORE – * SCREENPLAY – Billy Liar, El Verdugo * EDITING – Contempt, The House is Black
Re: the Delerue, well, I guess I’m shocked since only one other person has picked it so far. I listen to Camille’s theme in rotation on my iPod – this is music which holds up not just as a melancholy complement to the images (I actually like it much more than the film it’s in) but as a stirring, timeless theme. Easily a top 10 score of all time. Scorsese sampling it in Casino instantly gave the film a gravitas and a palpable mood which evoked a deeper sense of feeling, a way of life gone and barely remembered – this is more than music, it’s an emotional experience going beyond words and hitting directly on the nerves.
Truthfully, I couldn’t even hum a note from any of the other scores this year; I simply don’t remember them – and I generally love Nino Rota’s work with Fellini. In any other year, Contempt would probably deserve to win. But this year in particular it should be a cakewalk.
I love the Delarue score, but the Rota one is just so rousing and diverse, and the Bernstein score for HUD is simple and powerful. I was also going to site John Barry’s score for FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, but I figure Barry will have numerous other times to come out on top. I know I’ll be voting for Delarue for 79′s A LITTLE ROMANCE. By the way, surely you can hum the theme to THE PINK PANTHER…
Haha, good point!
One of the greatest pieces of music I have ever had the pleasure of listening too. I have it on my Ipod and always play it when I’m about to bike my last mile. The monumental inspiration it conjures up within always does the trick.
Maurizio, I know you like to stick to Picture-only each yer but might you make an exception for ’63? I’m getting worried – we may need your help!
Okay I’ll vote for Delerue for best score Allan/Joel.
Yay, as Jaime would say.
Another year where votes will be very spread out. A bunch of heavyweight contenders reside in 1963. I will almost certainly be the only person voting for my particular selection.
Best Picture: Judex
Top Five: 1. Judex 2. The Leopard 3. Le Mepris 4. 8 1/2 5. El Verdugo
Total domination by European cinema for 1963 IMO. No American film even comes close. Georges Franju is extremely underrated as a filmmaker.
SHE-IIIIIIIT!
Here I thought this was gonna be an easier year to choose than some of the more recent we’ve dabbled with and, after looking at the roster, I see I was way off course. By Academy results, 1963 was only so-so, by ours we have more than a wealth to choose from.
I have so many here that I find myself, once again scratching my head…
But, if I MUST
PICTURE: THE LEOPARD
Top 5: 1. The Leopard 2. 8 1/2 3. Winter Light 4. High and Low 5. This Sporting Life
I’m in TOTAL agreement with Maurizio on 1963 and he’s right to make the observation that the span of twelve months are completely ransacked by films from foreign shores. I went, ultimately with Viconti’s epic THE LEOPARD as I see it as a kind of primer for Coppola’s THE GODFATHER epic and because the sweep of the film feels like lean combined with Leone and splashed bith Kurosawa and Fellini. It’s a one of a kind experience that you’re not expecting and it sweeps you off your feet. I don’t know what it is about this film, but every time I see it I see Orson Welles sitting in a screening room, big fat cigar in his mouth, smiling and whispering “this is how it’s done.”
DIRECTOR: Federico FELLINI (8 1/2)
I hate, HATE splitting up the directors from the pictures… However, in this particular case I have no other choice. 8 1/2 is a directors “world series”, almost as if the guy behind the camera were pouring the substance of every dream he ever had in his lifetime onto the screen. There are images and moments in this film that just challenge the imagination and it all comes from Fellini.
LEAD ACTOR: Richard HARRIS (THIS SPORTING LIFE)
Easily, one of the most raw and realistic portrayals I have ever seen done on film. I’ve always liked Harris (yes, even in A MAN CALLED HORSE) but here, it’s like you’re watching real life take place.
LEAD ACTRESS: Ingrid THULIN (THE SILENCE)
For me, this is a no-brainer and her name leaps out from the list of hopefuls. Urgent, touching and completely hypnotic, Thulin comes onto you like the spector from one of our dreams. It’s an etheral turn and, easily, the best of the year.
SUPP. ACTOR: Melvyn DOUGLAS (HUD)
The glue that keeps a troubled film from turning completely sour. I have often felt HUD to be too preachy and unkept… Douglas comes ion a rectifies whatever bad taste the film leaves in my mouth. It’s a completely realized performance and, after seeing it again-recently-on TV, goes beyond character acting and into creating a true person.
SUPP. ACTRESS: (write-in) Ethel MERMAN (IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD)
Sorry, but I had to sneak this one in. Merman’s turn as Milton Berle’s opressive, bug-mouthed, battle-ax of a mother in law is a comic tour-de-force. From the very opening of the film she’s a hurricane of volcanic proportions as she lays waste everything in her path with insult after insult. The moment I see her appear on screen in this film finds me laughing out loud. How she didfn’t lose her voice after making this film still amazes me. Truly hysterical!
PHOTO: Gianni de VANANZO (8 1/2)
C’mon? Simply put: the cinematography in this film goes up there with Tolands work on CITIZEN KANE, Stanley’s on BARRY LYNDON, Gordon Willis’s work on THE GODFATHER PART 2, Almendros and Wexlers DAYS OF HEAVEN and Nykvist’s THE VIRGIN SPRING.
Need I say more?
MUSIC: Henry MANCINI (THE PINK PANTHER)
I know, I know, I KNOW I’m gonna have my head handed to me… However the jazzy machinations of Mancini’s masterwork fit the hijinx of the film like a glove and give the international comic caper the same kind of cool that John Barry and Shirley Bassey gave the James Bond film GOLDFINGER. I hear Mancini’s opening theme and I keep thinking I should be hanging out in a French Jazz cafe sipping a dry martini, smoking a cigarette and decked out in a Brioni suit with a pair of sunglasses on in the middle of the night.
Oh, and BY THE WAY…
I’m THRILLED to see that BETTE DAVIS made short shrift of the competition in last years race for BEST LEAD ACTRESS.
As it should be.
Don’t even start…
Agreed Dennis.
That goes doubly for you.
I normally don’t go there…but the awards we gave out for 1962 are probably the weakest set of winners in any year we’ve voted for yet. Even I’M sort of surprised we gave that many awards to Lean’s film, and Lolita.
Yes, Sellers win for Lolita and Baby Jane on top of Lawrence adds up to pretty forgettable overall. But I’m not surprised, Lawrence was always going to win and it is a great film on its level, but it doesn’t belong in the top 5 really.
To assert that LAWRENCE OF ARABIA doesn’t belong in the Top 5 of 1962 is a bizarre opinion that few would share. Just above the esteemed Movie Man (Joel Bocko) stated that the film was probably his favorite of all-time. But it goes far beyond Movie Man, Dean Treadway and others. It’s an epic par excellence the favorite of some of the greatest critics and audiences worldwide. I summarily REJECT your position here.
To rate the film with five stars and then to say without any misgivings that it doesn’t belong is not very convincing.
But anyway, the voters have spoken. Few polls on this year conducted at any places where intellectual cineastes reside would deny this film. As it is I voted for something else, but LAWRENCE is a supreme masterpiece, and it’s win here is valid, worthy, justified, and wholly defensible.
Sellers doesn’t belong for LOLITA? Right. Another bizarre opinion.
As far as Davis it all comes down to taste. You, mark and Maurizio were not part of the love bandwagon. dennis, I and others were. To each his own. The voters have spoken.
I for one must say the results for 1962 were not remotely weak, thank you very much.
I, of course, agree. Our choices for 1962 were triumphant.
Yes, Allan himself thought differently in 2009, when the film was ranked 4th of 1962 in his countdown, just a few rankings behind An Autumn Afternoon and L’Eclisse. To me there may be levels of excellence, but I can’t narrow it down to specific rankings, which are fun for suspense in crafting lists but must by virtue of the apples/oranges rule be virtually meaningless. Anything that makes the top 50, probably top 100, of a decade has to be considered roughly equal.
So basically what it comes down to is this:
Whenever the voters choose a film or person who is not the personal choice of Allan Fish, he gets right on the boards to say unequivocably that the person or group are all wrong/and or have made the incorrect choice.
This is laughable, but hardly unexpected.
Not at all. There have been many choices that haven’t agreed with my own, as examination of results and my topbar will show. I just get my dander up at predictable tedium choices.
The voters have spoken! You sound like de Mille in The Ten Commandments and just as pompous. So let it be voted, so let it be done.
Nah, if anyone is pompous Allan it is YOU, not Peter. he is absolutely right to bring up the cumulative results, rather than the edict of a single person. The ‘tedium’ choices are really the ones that YOU vote on. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA a “tedium” choice? Nah. A tedium choice would be something like EROS PLUS MASSACRE.
I advocate democracy. Allan advocates the value of a single opinion (his own) But I am called “pompous” for that?
It’s hard to be the voice of sanity. Galileo got burnt at the stake for it. But if Peter maes a ridiculous statement, I shoot him down,.
As for saying my opinion is bizarre. Your definition of bizarre, is not conformi ng to the retarded masses inside your own head. I call it sanity.
God, I feel like Henri le Chat Noir, “I am surrounded by morons”
Calling others retarded and morons because they choose different films than you equates with the mental capacity of a young child. You bring no sanity to this equation, but inflated ego and a lack of respect.
I think Peter did a great job of shooting YOU down.
Peter accused me of only accepting films that were my own choice. If either of you care to look at the winners pre 1959 and my own choices, you’ll see that there is a LOT of difference. I don’t l,kike beign accused of something that is a phallacy and will expose such imbecilty at every opportunity.
When I said “surrounded by morons”, it was an attack on the mob rule mentality of the people have spoken. The masses are sheep. Always have been, always will be, so using such a phrase is an insult to anyone with an intelligence.
The way this project is set up is that you called for a group vote. If one can’t stand by the results, which take into account the entire membership, the project loses validity. Year-by-year we have come up with worthy often inspired choices.
Which is fine and why my vote has never been used as part of the ballot, but I get pissed off at being told I react when I disagree with the vote. I don’t, I react when there is a bad choice made. Many times the vote has not been the same as my own but I have said nothing as the choice has still been a worthy one.
Best Picture: Otto e Mezzo
Best Director: Federico Fellini (Otto e Mezzo)
Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni (Otto e Mezzo)
Best Actress: Julie Harris (The Haunting)
Best Supporting Actor: Melvyn Douglas (Hud)
Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Neal (Hud)
Best Short: The House is Black
Best Cinematography: Gianni de Venanzo (Otto e Mezzo)
Best Score: Nino Rota (Otto e Mezzo)
Film: ’8-1/2′ RU: ‘The Leopard’
Director: Federico Fellini RU: Luchino Visconti
Actor: Marcello Mastroianni (’8-1/2′ and ‘The Organizer’)
Actress: Patricia Neal (‘Hud’)
S. Actor: Alain Delon (‘The Leopard’)
S. Actress: Sandra Milo (’8-1/2′)
Photography: Gianni di Venanzo (’8-1/2′) RU: Giuseppe Rotunno (‘The Leopard’)
Short: ‘The House Is Black’
Another deep year, with a very tough choice at the top, 2 all time great films contending… I’ll split the difference, I guess…
PICTURE: High and Low
DIRECTOR: Shohei Imamura, Insect Woman
LEAD ACTOR: Mifune, High and Low
LEAD ACTRESS: Sachiko Hidari, Insect Woman
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Tsutomo Yamazaki, High and Low
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Sarah Miles, The Servant
SHORT: Yes, I’d say The House is Black is it…
SCORE: Georges Delerue, Le Mepris
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Coutard, Le Mepris
Plus bonus picks:
Script: I’ll go with Pinter and the Servant here,
Song: The Pink Panther theme has to be here somewhere, though I think the Contempt score is better overall…
Pic- The Silence
Dir- Bergman
Actor- Richard Harris- This Sporting Life
Actress- Ingrid Thulin – The Silence
Supp. Actor- Melvyn Douglas – Hud
Supp. Actress- Julie Christie – Billy Liar
Score- Bernstein – The Great Escape
Cinematography- Coutard- Le Mepris
Another tough battle following last week’s votes but for me the film is an easy choice, even though it won’t appear in any top lists. I love Rosi’s film and find it highly relevant to North American cities which have experienced sprawl. And the scene where all the councilmen wave their hands to say “our hands are clean” is sheer brilliance.
Film: Hands Over the City (Italy…Francesco Rosi)
Director: 8½ (Italy…Federico Fellini)
Actor: Marcello Mastroianni 8½
Cinematography: Gianni di Venanzo 8½
Btw, took a look at your picks for ’62 and realized you are doing ensembles for each year, Allan. Love that idea and I think I’ll start using it next week where Dr. Strangelove will probably win. Just for fun I’m also going to add best scene, best line, and – just in time for the British Invasion and the advent of pop soundtracks (though use of pre-existing classical will qualify as well) best use of music. Scorsese will probably win that many times, at least until the 4th occasion where he slaps Gimme Shelter on the mix, at which point it may be time to look for someone new.
And speaking of Scorsese, we’ve actually got our first Scorsese selection this week, a short student film from the very early days. Check it out, folks…
Ha Joel, whenever I think of true ensembles I think of TWELVE ANGRY MEN, which I named tops in that category in a private e mail I sent to Allan.
Ensemble should be a new category unto itself! The scene/line/needle-drop film scores categories are further insanity, though fun insanity. Geez, I have a feeling the Best Pic category alone is, from here on out, going to be splintered into small fractions.
Dean, it’ll only get worse after 1980. One thing I noticed about the recent Sight & Sound poll was that many observers complained about a lack of new films and scolded the voters for their supposed stodginess – yet when you look at the actual ballots virtually every critic included at least one film, often several, from the past 10 years (not to mention the past 30). It’s just that no one could agree on what those selections were, so few cracked the top 100, let alone the top 30. I once wrote a review of Raging Bull that called it “the last of the consensus classics”. At least in American cinema. Although I think Tree of Life may be on its way to becoming one.
As to the shorts, per Joel’s instructions: TO LIVE AGAIN is a really great movie. Lots of them this year. I would further include two Chuck Jones shorts–I WAS A TEENAGE THUMB and especially the incredibly weird (and hard to find) NOW HEAR THIS. Also, there’s a cool British short called SNOW (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4pJwcE7JI). There’s also a neat Jim Henson ditty called ROBOT (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivJNNwTGDcw&feature=player_embedded). And finally there’s YELLOW SUBMARINE director George Dunning’s THE APPLE, which won the UK Academy Award in ’63 (http://onlineshortfilms.net/watch/the-apple-video_ca7b9e5e9.html). Thanks, Joel, for doing such great work uncovering some of these short films–I’m really getting a lovely education every week!
Thanks, Dean – great additions (although Now Hear This did make the list – 1962′s; it’s one of those films, like Labyrinth and really any number of these shorts, whose year of release seems up for grabs…)
My top five for 1963: Le Mepris, 8 1/2, The Silence, Muriel, and The Leopard.
Best Picture: Le Mepris (Jean-Luc Godard)
Best Director: Federico Fellini (8 1/2)
Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni (8 1/2)
Best Actress: Ingrid Thulin (The Silence)
Best supporting actor: Walter Matthau (Charade)
Best supporting actress: Julie Christie (Billy Liar)
Best Cinematography: Raoul Coutard (Le Mepris)
Best Score: Georges Delerue (Le Mepris)
My choices for 1963:
Best Picture: Le Feu Follet
Best Director: Federico Fellini (8 1/2)
Best Actor: Gunnar Bjornstrand (Winter Light)
Best Actress: Suchitra Sen (Saat Paake Badha) & Sachiko Hidari (The Insect Woman)
Best Supporting Actor: Anil Chatterjee (The Big City)
Best Supporting Actress: Gunnel Lindblom (The Silence)
Best Cinematography: Ghislain Cloquet (Le Feu Follet)
Best Score: Hemanta Mukherjee (Saat Paake Badha)
Top 10:
1. Le Feu Follet
2. Saat Paake Badha (dir. Ajoy Kar)
3. 8 1/2
4. The Insect Woman
5. Winter Light
6. The Great Escape
7. The Silence
8. Mahanagar (The Big City)
9. High & Low
10. The Birds
Best Picture: 8 1/2
Best Director: Federico Fellini (8 1/2)
Best Actor: Richard Harris (This Sporting Life)
Best Actress: Julie Harris (The Haunting)
Best Sup. Actor: Melvyn Douglas (Hud)
Best Sup. Actress: Patricia Neal (Hud)
Best Cinematography: Gianni di Venanzo (8 1/2)
Best Score: Nino Rota (8 1/2)
Best Short: The House is Black
Best Film: The Leopard
Best Director: Luchino Visconti (The Leopard)
Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni (8 – 1/2)
Best Actress: Vivien Merchant (The Lover)
Best Short: The House is Black
Best Supporting Actor: Melvyn Douglas (Hud)
Best Supporting Actress: Julie Christie (Billy Liar)
Best Cinematography: Giuseppe Rotunno (The Leopard)
Best Score: Georges Delerue (Le Mepris)
Best Picutre: 8 – 1/2
Best Director: Fellini , 8 – 1/2
Best Actor: Richard Harris, This Sporting Life
Best Actress: Julie Harris, The Haunting
Best Supporting Actor: Melvyn Douglas, Hud
Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Neal, Hud
Best Cinematography: Giuseppe Rotunno, The Leopard
Best Score: Nino Rota – 8 -1/2
My votes are:
Best Picture: WINTER LIGHT
Best Director: Louis Malle for LE FEU FOLLET
Best Actor: Dirk Bogarde for THE SERVANT
Best Actress: Patricia Neal for HUD
Best Supportin Actor: Hugh Griffith for TOM JONES
Best Supporting Actress: Margaret Rutherford for THE V.I.P’S
Best Cinematography: Giuseppe Rotunno for THE LEOPARD
Best Score: John Addison for TOM JONES
Best Short: THE CRITIC
ATTENTION:
I was just in contact with the esteemed MR. SAM JULIANO…
SAM has lost power and internet capabilities in his home and work place and he wanted me to chime in and inform all you good people, that frequent WITD, that he is fine, everyone is safe and that the haul to get everything up and running in his area is underway. Unfortunately, the damage and the scope of the devastation in our area is of a titanic proportion and may take a day or two be rectified and put back on it’s regular course.
I have informed Sam of some possible outlets in the area that still may be offering internet service (internet “cafes”) and he’s on the job of trying to locate one of these outlets so he can get back to you all in a timely manner.
On a personal level, Sam is fine. His house and family have weathered the worst of the storm with little or no muss to the head. Basically, it all comes down to waiting for the emergency teams to start checking off each area as they go and restore power. The reaction of the emergency power and water units in the areas effected have been astonishing and they are doing the very best under the difficult circumstances.
I am writing this for Sam as my home is one of the few in the area situated in a “cove” (meaning large hills on both sides of my building) and, time and again, sees to be impervious to the hard winds and water fall of massive storms like this. Both Sam and I want to thank you all in advance for your concern and well wishes in this time of crisis. You guys and girls are the best!!!!!!
Long live New York City!
Dennis
Thank you for the update, Dennis. It’s a big relief to know you are both all right. Keep dry and safe, and send my best to Sam, and to NYC–the home of my heart!
Thanks Dennis. Great to know that Sam is fine.
Dennis, it is remarkable to hear that you are isolated from the brunt of this storm. Stay warm and safe…
Pic – Charade (US…Stanley Donen)
Director – 8½ (Italy…Federico Fellini)
Actor – Burt Lancaster The Leopard
Actress – Patricia Neal Hud
Sup Actor – Walter Matthau Charade
Sup Actress – Lilia Skala Lilies of the Field
Score – Henry Mancini The Pink Panther
Best Film: Le Mépris
Best Director: Jean-Luc Godard (Le Mépris)
Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni (8½)
Best Actress: Julie Harris (The Haunting)
Best Supporting Actor: José Isbert (El Verdugo)
Best Supporting Actress: Sandra Milo (8½)
Best Cinematography: Giuseppe Rotunno (The Leopard)
Best Score: Georges Delerue (Le Mepris)
Best Picture: Le Mepris
Best Director: Jean Luc Godard
Best Actor: Richard Harris (This Sporting Life)
Best Actress: Julie Harris (The Haunting)
Best Supporting Actor: Melvyn Douglas (Hud)
Best Supporting Actress: Julie Christie (Billy Liar)
Best Cinematography: The Leopard
Best Score: Le Mepris