by Allan Fish
Best Picture Doctor Strangelove, UK (8 votes)
Best Director Stanley Kubrick, Doctor Strangelove (10 votes)
Best Actor Rod Steiger, The Pawnbroker (11 votes)
Best Actress Madhabi Mukherjee, Charulata (4 votes, three others on 3)
Best Supp Actor Sterling Hayden, Doctor Strangelove (12 votes)
Best Supp Actress Jitsuko Toshimura, Onibaba (6 votes)
Best Cinematography Nicolas Roeg, The Masque of the Red Death (5 votes)
Best Score Michel Legrand, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg & Ennio Morricone, A Fistful of Dollars (4 votes each TIE)
Best Short 7 Up TV, Paul Almond (4 votes)
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So on to 1965…
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Best Picture/Director
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The Adventures of Werner Holt (East Germany…Joachim Kunert)
Alphaville (France…Jean-Luc Godard)
Ashes (Poland…Andrzej Wajda)
Attack and Retreat (Italy/USSR…Giuseppe de Santis)
The Bedford Incident (US…James B.Harris)
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (Italy…Pietro Germi)
Black Girl (Senegal…Ousmane Sembene)
Black Snow (Japan…Tetsuji Takechi)
Le Bonheur (France…Agnès Varda)
Brick and Mirror (Iran…Ebraham Golestan)
Bunny Lake is Missing (UK…Otto Preminger)
Chimes at Midnight (Spain/US…Orson Welles)
Chronicle of a Boy Alone (Argentina…Leonardo Favio)
Chronicle of an Affair (Japan…Koji Wakamatsu)
The Cincinnati Kid (US…Norman Jewison)
The Collector (US…William Wyler)
The DMZ (South Korea…Park Sang-ho)
Darling (UK…John Schlesinger)
The Debussy Film (UK…Ken Russell)
Doctor Zhivago (US…David Lean)
Echo of the Jackboot (USSR…Mikhail Romm)
Faster, Pussycat, Kill! Kill! (US…Russ Meyer)
The Fifth Horseman is Fear (Czechoslovakia…Zbynek Brynych)
The First Teacher (USSR…Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky)
Fists in the Pocket (Italy…Marco Bellocchio)
For a Few Dollars More (Italy…Sergio Leone)
A Fugitive from the Past (Japan…Tomu Uchida)
The Golden Thread (India…Ritwik Ghatak)
The Great Race (US…Blake Edwards)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (US…George Stevens, David Lean)
Hentai (Japan…Takashi Shiga)
The Hill (UK…Sidney Lumet)
The Hunt (Spain…Carlos Saura)
I am Twenty (USSR…Marlen Khutsiyev)
Illusion of Blood (Japan…Shiro Toyoda)
Intimate Lighting (Czechoslovakia…Ivan Passer)
The Ipcress File (UK…Sidney J.Furie)
The Iranian Crown Jewels (Iran…Ebrahim Golestan)
It Happened Here (UK…Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo)
Juliet of the Spirits (Italy…Federico Fellini)
The Knack (UK…Richard Lester)
The Lady in the Lake (Italy…Luigi Bazzoni, Franco Rossellini)
Long Live the Republic (Czechoslovakia…Karel Kachyna)
The Loved One (UK…Tony Richardson)
Loves of a Blonde (Czechoslovakia…Milos Forman)
Man is Not a Bird (Yugoslavia…Dusan Makavejev)
The Mandrake (Italy…Alberto Lattuada)
Mirage (US…Edward Dmytryk)
Mudhoney (US…Russ Meyer)
The Night Walker (US…William Castle)
The Organ (Czechoslovakia…Stefan Uher)
The Party’s Over (UK…Guy Hamilton)
Pierrot le Fou (France…Jean-Luc Godard)
The Pleasures of the Flesh (Japan…Nagisa Oshima)
Red Beard (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)
Repulsion (UK…Roman Polanski)
The Round Up (Hungary…Miklos Jancso)
Samurai Assassin (Japan…Kihachi Okamoto)
Sandra (Italy…Luchino Visconti)
The Saragossa Manuscript (Poland…Wojciech Has)
The Satan Bug (US…John Sturges)
The Seashore Village (South Korea…Kim Soo-yong)
Seisaku’s Wife (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura)
Ship of Fools (US…Stanley Kramer)
The Shop on Main Street (Czechoslovakia…Jan Kadar)
Simon of the Desert (Mexico…Luis Buñuel)
The Sound of Music (US…Robert Wise)
The Spy who Came in from the Cold (UK/US…Martin Ritt)
The Story of a Prostitute (Japan…Seijun Suzuki)
A Story Written with Water (Japan…Yoshishige Yoshida)
Ten Thousand Suns (Hungary…Ferenc Kosa)
Three (Yugoslavia…Alexander Petrovic)
Tokyo Olympiad (Japan…Kon Ichikawa)
A Train for Cinderella (France…André Cayatte)
Up the Junction (UK…Ken Loach)
Walkover (Poland…Jerzy Skolimowski)
Waqt (India…Yash Chopra)
War and Peace: Parts I, II, III & IV (USSR (until 1967)…Sergei Bondarchuk)
The War Game (UK…Peter Watkins)
The War Lord (US…Franklin J.Schaffner)
The Wars of the Roses (UK…Peter Hall, John Barton)
The White Lady (Czechoslovakia…Zdenek Podskalsky)
Who Killed Teddy Bear? (US…Joseph Cates)
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Best Actor
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Abbi Batthachaya The Golden Thread
Dirk Bogarde Darling
Richard Burton The Spy who Came in from the Cold
Lou Castel Fists in the Pocket
Sean Connery The Hill
Zbigniew Cybulski The Saragossa Manuscript
Charlton Heston The War Lord
Jack Lemmon The Great Race
Lee Marvin Cat Ballou
Toshiro Mifune Red Beard
Sal Mineo Who Killed Teddy Bear?
Laurence Olivier Othello
Christopher Plummer The Sound of Music
George Segal King Rat
Omar Sharif Doctor Zhivago
Max Von Sydow The Greatest Story Ever Told
Orson Welles Chimes at Midnight
Oskar Werner Ship of Fools
Richard Widmark The Bedford Incident
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Best Actress
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Julie Andrews The Sound of Music
Claire Bloom The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Claudia Cardinale Sandra
Julie Christie Darling
Judi Dench Four in the Morning
Catherine Deneuve Repulsion
Milena Dravic Man is not a Bird
Samantha Eggar The Collector
Elizabeth Hartmann A Patch of Blue
Ida Kaminska The Shop on Main Street
Anna Karina Pierrot le Fou
Carol Lynley Bunny Lake is Missing
Giulietta Masina Juliet of the Spirits
Madhabi Mukherjee The Golden Thread
Mariko Okada A Story Written with Water
Silvia Pinal Simon of the Desert
Simone Signoret Ship of Fools
Ingrid Thulin Return from the Ashes
Sylvie The Shameless Old Lady
Ayako Wakao Seisaku’s Wife
Shin Yeong-gyun The Seashore Village
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Best Supp Actor
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Harry Andrews The Hill
Martin Balsam A Thousand Clowns
Ian Bannen The Flight of the Phoenix
Ian Bannen The Hill
Tom Courtenay Doctor Zhivago
Ossie Davis The Hill
Michael Dunn Ship of Fools
Frank Finlay Othello
John Gielgud Chimes at Midnight
Nigel Green The Ipcress File
Hal Hopper Mudhoney
Laurence Olivier Bunny Lake is Missing
Eric Portman The Bedford Incident
Edward G.Robinson The Cincinatti Kid
Vladek Sheybal The Debussy Film TV
Rod Steiger Doctor Zhivago
Yoshitaka Zushi Red Beard
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Best Supp Actress
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Ruriko Asaoka A Story Written with Water
Joan Blondell The Cincinatti Kid
Ruth Gordon Inside Daisy Clover
Margaret Johnston Life at the Top
Kyoko Kagawa Red Beard
Vivien Leigh Ship of Fools
Terumi Niki Red Beard
Paola Pitagora Fists in the Pocket
Joyce Redman Othello
Maggie Smith Othello
Shelley Winters A Patch of Blue
Tuesday Weld The Cincinatti Kid
Peggy Wood The Sound of Music
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Best Cinematography
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Leonida Barboni The Lady in the Lake
Robert Burks A Patch of Blue
Raoul Coutard Alphaville
Raoul Coutard Pierrot le Fou
Henri Decaë Viva Maria!
Gianni di Venanzo Juliet of the Spirits
Gabriel Figueroa Simon of the Desert
Russell Harlan The Great Race
Otto Heller The Ipcress File
Jeon Jo-myeong The Seashore Village
Jerzy Lipman Ashes
William C.Mellor, Loyal Griggs The Greatest Story Ever Told
Russell Metty The War Lord
Ted McCord The Sound of Music
Hanjiro Nakazawa A Fugitive from the Past
Miroslav Ondricek Loves of a Blonde
Anatoli Petritsky War and Peace: Part One
Tamas Somlo The Round Up
Gil Taylor Repulsion
Geoffrey Unsworth Othello
Harry Waxman She
Frederick A.Young Doctor Zhivago
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Best Score
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John Barry The Ipcress File
Elmer Bernstein The Sons of Katie Elder
Jerry Goldsmith A Patch of Blue
Vince Guaraldi Charlie Brown Christmas
Maurice Jarre Doctor Zhivago
Henry Mancini The Great Race
Paul Misraki Alphaville
Jerome Moross The War Lord
Ennio Morricone Fists in the Pocket
Ennio Morricone For a Few Dollars More
Alfred Newman The Greatest Story Ever Told
Vyacheslav Ovchonnikov War and Peace: Part I
Krzysztof Penderecki The Saragossa Manuscript
Nino Rota Juliet of the Spirits
Masaru Sato Red Beard
Tadashi Yamauchi Seisaku’s Wife
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Best Short
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Borom Sarret (Senegal…Ousmane Sembene) (not online/available with “Black Girl” DVD on Netflix)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (US…Bill Melendez) (unavailable online)
The Dot and the Line (US…Chuck Jones)
The Flicker (US…Tony Conrad)
La Gazza Ladra (Italy…Giulio Gianini, Emanuele Luzzati)
The Hand (Czechoslovakia…Jiri Trnka)
Help! My Snowman’s Burning Down (US…Carson Davidson)
Now (Cuba…Santiago Alvarez)
Oh Dem Watermelons (US…Robert Nelson)
Outer and Inner Space (US…Andy Warhol)
The Railrodder (Canada…Gerald Potterton, Buster Keaton, John Spotton)
Rhinoceros (Czechoslovakia…Jan Lenica)
Samuel Beckett’s Film (US…Alan Schneider)
Skaterdater (US…Noel Black)
23 Skidoo (Canada…Julian Biggs)
Les Temps Morts (France…Rene Laloux)
La Verifica Incerta (Italy…Gianfranco Baruchello, Alberto Grifi)
The Wall (Yugoslavia…Ante Zaninovich)
Wholly Communion (UK…Peter Whitehead)
Zrcadleni (Czechoslovakia…Evald Schorm)
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Yay for “Dr. Strangelove” winning best film, best director and best supporting actor in 1964. Yay for Jitsuko Toshimura winning best supporting actress in “Onibaba” in 1964. Yay for “7 Up” winning best short.
I vote “Red Beard” for best film in 1965.
I vote Akira Kurosawa for best director (“Red Beard”) in 1965.
I vote Toshiro Mifune for best actor in “Red Beard” in 1965.
I vote Anna Karina for best actress in “Pierrot le fou” in 1965
I vote Yoshitaka Zushi for best supporting actor in “Red Beard” in 1965.
I vote Ruriko Asaoka for best supporting actress in “A Story Written in Water” in 1965.
I vote “Pierrot le fou” for best cinematography in 1965.
I vote “Invasion of Monster Zero” for best score in 1965.
I vote “The Dot and the Line” for best short in 1965.
Nothing this year I feel particularly passionate about, but here goes:
Best Picture: The Hill
Best Director: Godard
Best Actor: Von Sydow — Greatest Story is a somewhat guilty pleasure of mine, but as my favorite Jesus Max makes me feel less guilty about it.
Best Actress: Deneuve
Supporting Actor: The Hill has an awesome ensemble and of that group I’ll take Harry Andrews. My off-the-grid runner-up is Lee Van Cleef for Few Dollars More.
Supporting Actress: Kagawa
Cinematography: Coutard, Pierrot le Fou
Score: Guaraldi.
Samuel, Jean-Luc for Pierrot or Alphaville?
Sorry about that. Pierrot!
Picture: Repulsion
Director: Roman Polanski, Repulsion
Actor: Richard Burton, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Actress: Julie Christie, Darling (also Dr. Zhivago)
Sup. Actor: Oskar Werner, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Sup. Actress: Maggie Smith, Othello
Cinematography: Freddie Young, Dr. Zhivago
Best Picture: The Round-Up
Best Director: Miklos Jansco (The Round-Up)
Best Actor: Richard Burton (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)
Best Actress: Ida Kaminska (The Shop on Main Street)
Best Supporting Actor: John Gielgud (Chimes at Midnight)
Best Supporting Actress: Kyoko Kagawa (Red Beard)
Best Short: The Hand
Best Cinematography: Freddie Young (Dr. Zhivago)
Best Score: Henry Mancini (The Great Race)
Besides my top film, several others are masterful: BLACK GIRL, CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT, FISTS IN THE POCKET, INTIMATE LIGHTING, LOVES OF A BLONDE, THE SOUND OF MUSIC, JULIET OF THE SPIRITS, PIERROT LE FOU, RED BEARD, DR. ZHIVAGO, REPULSION, SIMON OF THE DESERT, THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT, DARLING, THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET, ALPHAVILLE
I hadn’t realized that CHARLIE BROWN’S CHRISTMAS was on the list of shorts until this morning, (it wasn’t originally) and likewise the admittedly magnificent score was added. Again, scores from shorts were not part of the founding equation. But there is no question it wins this year, and Joel is right to name it among the greatest of scores. I erred here, and I am red faced.
Hence here are my two changes:
Best Score: Vince Guaraldi (A Charlie Brown Christmas)
Best Short: A Charlie Brown Christmas
Better to get it right than to stew, knowing two of my choices were erroneously cast.
Wow, I forgot Michael Apted didn’t actually direct 7 Up. Now after all the back & forth, hemming & hawing, I’m wondering if I shouldn’t have waited for another year to pick my token Up. Oh well, what’s done is done…
(Speaking of the Up series, anyone in NYC should try to catch 56 Up at the NY DOC festival tomorrow although I’m guessing if you don’t already have tickets it’s too late…)
1965
Feature: Fists in the Pocket
followed by:
2. Alphaville
3. Chimes at Midnight
4. Loves of a Blonde
5. Intimate Lighting
Short: will watch & return
Director: Jean-Luc Godard, Alphaville
Actor: Orson Welles, Chimes at Midnight
Actress: Catherine Deneuve, Repulsion (but man, I think this means Anna Karina’s never gonna get one now from me – Pierrot was her best shot. I could tie but I’ve cheated enough times. Well, hopefully I can squeak her in for Made In USA next year. We’ll see.)
*Side note to Allan: you should add Mbissine Thérèse Diop to the list for Black Girl.
Supp. Actor: Vladimir Pucholt, Loves of a Blonde
Supp. Actress: Paola Pitagora, Fists in the Pocket
If I could take one screen siren from all the movies ever made, I’d be tempted to take, from the underrated Fists in the Pocket, the extremely underrated, gorgeous, and vital Pitagora.
I can’t believe she’s not nominated (and that I didn’t notice/mention it when emailing Allan with another suggestion!) especially given the weak& thin supporting ballots this week (Peggy Wood in Sound of Music? Is she one of the nuns, of the kids? The first fiancee – was there a first fiancee? Can’t say I remember can’t say I care! Pitagora will be my cause célèbre this week…)
Cinematography: Miroslav Ondricek, Loves of a Blonde (gorgeous as Juliet is, I’m going with the raw, nervy, half-doc and entirely brilliant lensing of the Czech master)
Score: Vince Guaraldi, A Charlie Brown Christmas (one of my favorite scores of all time)
Screenplay: Milos Forman, Yaroslav Papousek, Ivan Passer, Vaclav Sasek, Loves of a Blonde
Editing: Aurelio Mangiarotti, Anita Cacciorotti, Fists in the Pocket
Ensemble: Hana Brejchova, Vladimir Pucholt, Vladimir Mensik, Ivan Kheil, Jira Hruby, Milada Jezkova, Joseph Sebanek, Josef Kolb, Marie Salakova, Jana Novakova, Loves of a Blonde
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Scene: Battle of Shrewsbury, Chimes at Midnight
Line: “Film is like a battleground. There’s love, hate, action, violence, death…in one word: emotion.”, Sam Fuller in Pierrot Le fou (best cameo of the year, unless you want to count the Duke as the Centurian for camp value
Use of Music: Loves of a Blonde
Close calls: DIRECTOR – Orson Welles in Chimes at Midnight, ACTOR – Lou Castel in Fists in the Pocket, ACTRESS – Anna Karina in Pierrot le fou, CINEMATOGRAPHY – Raoul Coutard for Alphaville, Gianni di Venanzo for Juliet of the Spirits, Maurice Jarre for Doctor Zhivago
Remember all the other Ups aren’t even shorts anyway.
Yeah, I know – they’ll have tougher competition which is why I went with 7 Up.
I generally see the Ups as a TV series in retrospect, and thus disqualified. But it’s debatable. Coincidentally, the latest instalment 56 Up is on DVD tomorrow in the UK.
Yeah, can’t wait to see it. I got to watch 49 Up at the NYFF in ’06 and to shake Tony’s hand (he’s a really little guy which isn’t surprising when you remember he was a jockey, but somehow in the films you don’t notice it as much).
Oh, and can you add Paola to the supports? Pretty please! (insert emoticon with puppy-dog eyes)
Love your pitch for Pitagora, who should win in a landslide, but won’t.
+1000
I barely got to watch any of these shorts. I’ll return to watch more for my own sake, but in the meantime here’s my not very consequential vote for 1965:
Short: The Hand
The Hand was my original choice Joel. It is a masterful work. I changed my vote to Charlie Brown’s Christmas later on.
Yeah, you feel so sorry for that little guy! (I mean Charlie has it rough too, but at least he gets a happy ending…)
As always, those titles/performances (other than the winners) in all-caps are ones not included in Allan’s estimable collection:
PICTURE: REPULSION (followed by The Hill, War and Peace, The Knack and How to Get It, The War Game, Pierrot Le Fou, The Loved One, THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX, Alphaville, It Happened Here, Doctor Zhivago, Loves of a Blonde, The Sound of Music, Intimate Lightning, SHAKESPEARE WALLAH, MICKEY ONE, The Round-Up, OTHELLO, The Shop on Main Street, The Collector, HELP!, The Ipcress File, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND, A PATCH OF BLUE, THE NANNY, For a Few Dollars More, THUNDERBALL, The Bedford Incident, Ship of Fools, Tokyo Olympiad, Juliet of the Spirits, Darling, Bunny Lake is Missing)
DIRECTOR: Roman Polanski, REPULSION (2nd: War and Peace, Sergei Bondarchuk)
ACTOR: Sean Connery, THE HILL (2nd: Orson Welles, Chimes at Midnight, followed by Laurence Olivier, Othello; JAMES STEWART, THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX; Richard Burton, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold; WARREN BEATTY, MICKEY ONE)
ACTRESS: Catherine Deneuve, REPULSION (2nd: Ida Kaminska, The Shop on Main Street, followed by Julie Andrews, The Sound of Music; Samantha Eggar, The Collector; Giulietta Masina, Juliet of the Spirits; Elizabeth Hartman, A Patch of Blue)
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Harry Andrews, THE HILL (2nd: IAN HENDRY, THE HILL, followed by Michael Dunn, Ship of Fools; Ossie Davis, The Hill, Frank Finlay, Othello; Ian Bannen, The Hill)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Shelley Winters, A PATCH OF BLUE (2nd: Peggy Wood, The Sound of Music, followed by Maggie Smith, Othello; Vivien Leigh, Ship of Fools; Joyce Redman, Othello)
SHORT: A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS (Bill Melendez) (2nd: Help! My Snowman is Burning Down (Carson Davidson))
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Freddie Young, DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (2nd (color): William C. Mellor and Loyal Griggs, The Greatest Story Ever Told)
ORIGINAL SCORE: Vince Guaraldi, A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS (2nd: Maurice Jarre, Doctor Zhivago)
FURTHER:
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Ladislav Grosman, Jan Kadar, and Elmar Klos, THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET (2nd: Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo, It Happened Here)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Ray Rigby, THE HILL (2nd: Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood, The Loved One)
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: THE WAR GAME (Peter Watkins) (2nd: Tokyo Olympiad (Ken Ichikawa))
B&W CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tomas Somlo, THE ROUND-UP (2nd: Raoul Coutard, Alphaville)
B&W ART DIRECTION: THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD
COLOR ART DIRECTION: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO
B&W COSTUME DESIGN: DARLING
COLOR COSTUME DESIGN: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO
FILM EDITING: THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX
SOUND: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO
SCORING OF A MUSICAL: Irwin Kostal, THE SOUND OF MUSIC
ORIGINAL SONG: “You‘ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” from HELP!, Music and lyrics by John Lennon and Paul McCartney (2nd: “Faster Pussycat” from Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill, music by Rick Jarrard and lyrics by Paul Sawtell and Burt Shefter)
SPECIAL EFFECTS: THUNDERBALL
MAKEUP: THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX
Best Picture: Pierrot le Fou
Best Director: Jean-Luc Godard (Pierrot le Fou)
Best Actor: Richard Burton (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)
Best Actress: Catherine Deneuve (Repulsion)
Best Supporting Actor: John Gielgud (Chimes at Midnight)
Best Supporting Actress: Vivien Leigh (Ship of Fools)
Best Cinematography: Raoul Coutard (Pierrot le Fou)
Best Score: Henry Mancini (The Great Race)
Straight to it:
PICTURE: CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT
Top 5: 1. Chimes at Midnight 2. Repulsion 3. The Round Up 4. The Sound of Music 5. Alphaville
In any other year a film like REPULSION would make mince meat out of the competition. However, Welles final triumph also stands as one of his three greatest films (along with KANE and THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS). It’s intimacy hints at a larger scope that is perfectly presented in the wonderful moments of dialogue. A haunting and unforgettable film that may very well be the greatest adaption of the immortal Bard that I, personally, have ever seen.
DIRECTOR: Orson WELLES (CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT)
Runner Up: Roman Polanski (Repulsion)
The simplicity of Welles direction speaks volumes about the kind of wordy drama that really turned him on and his camera excentuates every great verbal moment by utilizing frightening close ups that linger far longer to make the points on despair and betrayal and the dashing of loyalty ring home. Polanski comes within a hair of taking it for the clausterphobic tightening of the room engulfing Deneuve in REPULSION
LEAD ACTOR: Orson WELLES (CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT)
Runner Up: Micheal Caine (The Ipcress Files)
This is NO contest and so obvious for me. A titanic performance in every way and it reminds me why Welles was so loved on the radio. It’s a big, bawdy, showy turn that also allows quiet, personal reflections on life and, eventually, death and betrayal. I would be hard pressed to say which Welles performance is best of the big three (KANE, TOUCH OF EVIL or CHIMES), but CHIMES is my PERSONAL favorite of the bunch. Only the nervy cool that is Micheal Caine in The Ipcress Files could make me, momentarily, turn my head from Welles. The Ipcress Files made me understand how cool, stylish and real Caine can be.
LEAD ACTRESS: Catherine DENEUVE (REPULSION)
Runner Up: Julie Christie (Darling)
While Julie Christie is my second choice, make no bones about it, I think her turn is miles BEHIND the extraordinary breakthrough performance by the ravishingly beautiful Deneuve. Proving she was far more than just a pretty face seen on the covers of fashion magazines (and one of the first, true, supermodels), he performance for Polanski’s twisted chiller of the mind lost in madness is enough to leave your stomach aching for weeks on end. One of the greatest performances of the 60′s. Period.
SUPP. ACTOR: John GIELGUD (CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT)
Runner Up: Tom Courtenay (Doctor Zhivago)
That Welles was able to share the screen with THE master (at the time) of the Bard on stage is amazing enough. That Gielgud delivers a performance of superlative perfection is no surprize at all. He ate, drank, slept and excreted Shakespeare.
SUPP. ACTRESS: Shelly WINTERS (A PATCH OF BLUE)
Runner Up: Kyoko Kagawa (Redbeard)
The hysterical nature of Winters in this film catapulted it from B graded meloldrama into something very special and her innocuous turn as a self centered woman uncaring of things only until they DIRECTLY affect HER reminds us of how great a character actress she really was. A far cry from her chubby and doomed Mrs. Rosen in THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE.
PHOTO: Freddie YOUNG (DOCTOR ZHIVAGO)
Runner Up. Willian C. Melor (The Greatest Story Ever Told)
Hard choice considering the beauty of the color work on both these films. The etheral presence of THE GREAT STORY EVER TOLD allows us to believe in the devine but its trumped by Youngs visual splendor in things as simple as snow and icicles that turn into a wonderland of beauty in ZHIVAGO.
MUSIC: Maurice JARRE (DOCTOR ZHIVAGO)
Runner Up: Jerry Goldsmith (A Patch of Blue)
No brainer here and, as with Deneuve in the Lead Actress category, Jarre’s epic but intimately romantic score for ZHIVAGO is miles ahead of the competition. I love DOCTOR ZHIVAGO as a film and a film experience but you know the music is great when you’re willing to state it’s the best thing in one of the best films of a particular year. “Lara’s Theme” can sweep you off your feet as it balances an ethnic flavor with rushes of full bodied romance.
Apart from Winers and Jarre, an excellent selection. Some even matched my own,
Best Picture: Repulsion
Top Five: 1. Repulsion 2. Chimes At Midnight 3. Juliet Of The Spirits 4. Loves Of A Blonde 5. For A Few Dollars More
Best Picture: The Shop on Main Street
Best Director: Luis Bunuel (Simon of the Desert)
Best Actor: Sean Connery (The Hill)
Best Actress: Ida Kaminska (The Shop on Main Street)
Best Short: A Charlie Brown Christmas
Best Supporting Actor: John Gielgud (Chimes at Midnight)
Best Supporting Actress: Shelley Winters (A Patch of Blue)
Best Cinematography: Freddie Young (Doctor Zhivago)
Best Score: Vince Guaraldi (A Charlie Brown Christmas)
Picture- Black Girl
Dir- Ousmane Sembene
Actor- Burton – The Spy Who….
Actress- Deneuve – Repulsion
Supp. Actor – John Gielgud – Chimes at Midnight
Supp. Actress- Maggie Smith – Othello
Score – Guaraldi – Why did you include this short in this category?
Cinematography- Gil Taylor – Repulsion
Jon, Allan added the Guaraldi score after I emailed him with a reminder. While the shorts and features are segregated from one another in the overall category, I don’t see why they shouldn’t overlap in the other categories. After all (as we both agree) A Charlie Brown Christmas has the best score of the year (just as, in my estimation, Farrokhzad was the best director of ’63 for The House is Black, feature or short regardless) so why shouldn’t it get a shot at the title? The only other option would be to have two split categories for every topic, short & feature, which would get unwieldy.
I mean I agree that it’s the best……just was wondering. Thanks for the clarity.
Incidentally, since it’s your pick for the year, you should write up Black Girl on your blog. African cinema doesn’t seem to get discussed very often, and especially since I just saw this one a month or two ago, I’d love to hear more of your opinion.
Best Picture: Alphaville
Best Director: Jean-Luc Godard (Alphaville)
Best Actor: Richard Burton (The Spy…..)
Best Actress: Julie Christie (Darling)
Best Short: The Dot and the Line
Best Supporting Actor: Rod Steiger (Doctor Zhivago)
Best Supporting Actress: Joan Blondell (The Cincinnati Kid)
Best Cinematography: Frederick A. Young (Doctor Zhivago)
Best Score: Jerome Moross (The War Lord)
Best Film: Alphaville
Best Director: Godard, Alphaville
Best Actor: Toshiro Mifune (Red Beard)
Best Actress: Julie Christie (Darling)
Best Supporting Actor: Ian Bannen (The Hill)
Best Supporting Actress: Joyce Redman (Othello)
Best Cinematography: Raoul Coutard (Alphaville)
Best Score: Nono Rota (Juliet of the Spirits)
Best Short: A Charlie Brown Christmas
Sam, your selection of ‘The Round-Up’ would be my runner-up choice. After that, ‘Chimes at Midnight’ and ‘Repulsion.’
I should do that and would need a re-viewing. I think that film is devastating and is tremendous. I knew that it wasn’t going to get enough votes to win, but for me it stands above and stands out from the other films this year. I actually find 1965 to be kind of ho-hum overall. Chimes at Midnight is pretty awesome too, but I’ve voted for Welles other times.
Yes, I don’t normally like to include short scores in the mix. But I was asked…
I’ve seen fewer of the films listed in 1965 than in most years but even so I still think it a poor year overall (of those seen) but here goes anyway:
Film: CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT
Director: Sidney Lumet for THE HILL
Actor: Oscar Werner for SHIP OF FOOLS
Actress: Julie Christie for DARLING
Supporting Actor: Harry Andrews for THE HILL
Supporting Actress: Joan Blondell for THE CINCINATTI KID
Cinematography: Freddie Young for DOCTOR ZHIVAGO
Score: Nino Rota for JULIET OF THE SPIRITS
Short: WHOLLY COMMUNION.
Best Picture: Repulsion
Best Director, Roman Polanski, Repulsion
Best Actor: Richard Burton, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Best Actress: Catherine Deneuve, Repulsion
Best Supporting Actor: Edward G. Robinson, The Cincinnati Kid
Best Supporting Actress: Shelley Winters, A Patch of blue
Cinematography: F.A. Young, Doctor Zhivago
Best Score: Vince Guraldi, A Charlie Brown Christmas
Best Short: A Charlie Brown Christmas
Film: ‘Pierrot le Fou’
Director: Godard
Actor: Dirk Bogarde (‘Darling’)
Actress: Julie Christie (‘Darling’)
S. Actor: John Gielgud (‘Chimes at Midnight’)
S. Actress: Paola Pitagora (‘Fists in the Pocket’)
Screenplay: Julio Alejandro and Luis Bunuel (‘Simon of the Desert’)
Photography: Raoul Coutard (‘Pierrot le Fou’)
“S. Actress: Paola Pitagora (‘Fists in the Pocket’)”
+100
I am surprised that this year, all the films I’m inclined to vote for, I haven’t seen for – 10 years or more. The Godards excepted. It’s strange, and makes it difficult.
PICTURE: Pierrot le Fou
DIRECTOR: Godard, Pierrot le Fou
LEAD ACTOR: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Pierrot le Fou (though being fond of over the top, physical acting, Lee Marvin runs a close second)
LEAD ACTRESS: Julie Christie, Darling
SUPPORTING ACTOR: John Gielgud, Chines at Midnight
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Kyoko Kagawa, Red Beard
SHORT: Well, if it’s eligible, obviously, A Charlie Brown Christmas.
SCORE: I’ll go with Vince Guaraldi
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Raoul Coutard – but which one? I think Alphaville, which I believe was the first Godard I ever saw, and in any case, made me a fan instantly…
And a bonus pick:
Script: I’ll say, The Golden Thread, Ritwak Ghatak
Documentary: Tokyo Olympiad (I should try to remember to vote for these more often…)
My top five for 1965:
Pierrot le fou – Jean-Luc Godard
Repulsion – Roman Polanski
Chimes at Midnight – Orson Welles
Alphaville – Jean-Luc Godard
Darling – John Schlesinger
Best Picture: Pierrot le fou
Best Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Best Actor: Orson Welles (Chimes at Midnight)
Best Actress: Catherine Deneuve (Repulsion)
Best supporting actor: John Gielgud (Chimes at Midnight)
Best supporting actress: Silvia Pinal (Simon of the Desert)
Best Cinematography: Raoul Coutard (Pierrot le fou)
Best Score: Vince Guaraldi (A Charlie Brown Christmas)
My choices for 1965:
Best Picture: Repulsion
Best Director: Roman Polanski (Repulsion)
Best Actor: Soumitra Chatterjee (Kapurush)
Best Actress: Catherine Deneuve (Repulsion)
Best Supporting Actor: Bijon Bhattacharya (Subarnarekha)
Best Supporting Actress: Milada Jezkova (Loves of a Blonde)
Best Cinematography: Gilbert Taylor (Repulsion)
Best Score: Ustad Bahadur Khan (Subarnarekha)
Top 10:
1. Repulsion
2. Subarnarekha (The Golden Thread)
3. Loves of a Blonde
4. Akash Kusum (dir. Mrinal Sen)
5. Kapurush (The Coward, dir. Satyajit Ray)
6. For A Few Dollars More
7. The Shop on the Main Street
8. The Sound of Music
9. Pierrot Le Fou
10. The Round-Up
Tough to choose between the two Godards, Jansco, Bellochio and Polanski.
Best Film: Pierrot le Fou
Best Director: Miklos Jansco (The Round-Up)
Best Actor: Toshiro Mifune (Red Beard)
Best Actress: Catherine Deneuve (Repulsion)
Best Short: A Charlie Brown Christmas
Best Supporting Actor: John Gielgud (Chimes at Midnight)
Best Supporting Actress: Paolo Pitagura (Fists in the Pocket)
Best Cinematography: Raoul Coutard (Pierrot le Fou)
Best Score: Vince Guaraldi (A Charlie Brown Christmas)
Best Picture: The War Lord
Best Director: Godard, Pierrot le Fou
Best Actor: Belmondo, Pierrot le Fou
Best Actress: Denuevre, Repulsion
Best Supporting Actor: Bannen, The Hill
Best Supporting Actress: Pitagura (Fists in the Ocket)
Best Cinematography: Dr. Zhivago
Best Score: Juliet of the Spirits
Best Short: no vote
Well, it looks like one more vote will put Pitagora over the edge. By my rough count, she’s tied with Winters right now.
Best Picture: Dr. Zhivago
Best Director: David Lean (Dr. Zhivago)
Best Actor: Sean Connery: The Hill
Best Actress: Julie Andrews (The Sound of Music)
Just added Skaterdater, the first skate film ever, to the short films category. Next year will be pretty skimpy (I’m having trouble coming up with a full dozen at the moment) but after this year’s buffet it will be a much-needed respite. Haven’t watched any of these yet, so it looks like there’ll be a mini-marathon for me tonight before I vote tomorrow!
(I’m also guessing it’s the only skate film to win a Palme d’Or!)
Love that SKATERDATER. Directed by Noel Black (PRETTY POISON).