Best of 1966
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1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
R | 178 min | Western
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè
Votes: 690,561 | Gross: $6.10M
BEST PICTURE
Nominees:
Who's Afraid of Virignia Woolf?
Closely Observed Trains (Ostre sledované vlaky)
A Man For All Seasons
Andrei Rublev (Андрей Рублёв)
The Battle of Algiers (La battaglia di Algeri)
Blow-Up
The Sand Pebbles
The Fortune Cookie
Torn Curtain
2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Not Rated | 131 min | Drama
A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young houseguests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
Votes: 69,102
BEST DIRECTOR - Mike Nichols
Nominees:
Sergio Leone - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Andrei Tarkovsky - Andrei Rublev (Андрей Рублёв)
Gillo Pontecorvo - The Battle of Algiers (La battaglia di Algeri)
Jirí Menzel - Closely Observed Trains (Ostre sledované vlaky)
Michelangelo Antonioni - Blow-Up
3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Not Rated | 131 min | Drama
A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young houseguests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
Votes: 69,102
BEST ACTOR - Richard Burton
Nominees:
Paul Scofield - A Man For All Seasons
Eli Wallach - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Václav Neckár - Closely Observed Trains (Ostre sledované vlaky)
David Hemmings - Blow-Up
Steve McQueen - The Sand Pebbles
4. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Not Rated | 131 min | Drama
A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young houseguests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
Votes: 69,102
BEST ACTRESS - Elizabeth Taylor
Nominees:
Lynn Redgrave - Georgy Girl
Julie Andrews - Torn Curtain
Virginia McKenna - Born Free
5. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Not Rated | 131 min | Drama
A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young houseguests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
Votes: 69,102
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - George Segal
Nominees:
Robert Shaw - A Man For All Seasons
Lee Van Cleef - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Walter Matthau - The Fortune Cookie
Richard Attenborough - The Sand Pebbles
Ivan Lapikov - Andrei Rublev (Андрей Рублёв)
6. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Not Rated | 131 min | Drama
A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young houseguests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
Votes: 69,102
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS - Sandy Dennis
Nominees:
Wendy Hiller - A Man For All Seasons
Charlotte Rampling - Georgy Girl
Vanessa Redgrave - Blow-Up
7. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Not Rated | 131 min | Drama
A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young houseguests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
Votes: 69,102
BEST CASTING
Nominees:
A Man for All Seasons
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Fortune Cookie
The Sand Pebbles
Georgy Girl
8. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
R | 178 min | Western
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè
Votes: 690,561 | Gross: $6.10M
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Nominees:
Blow-Up
The Fortune Cookie
The Battle of Algiers (La battaglia di Algeri)
Andrei Rublev (Андрей Рублёв)
Torn Curtain
9. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Not Rated | 131 min | Drama
A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young houseguests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
Votes: 69,102
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Nominees:
A Man For All Seasons
Closely Observed Trains (Ostre sledované vlaky)
Georgy Girl
The Sand Pebbles
10. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
R | 178 min | Western
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè
Votes: 690,561 | Gross: $6.10M
BEST TITLES/CREDITS DESIGN
Nominees:
Fantastic Voyage
Blow-Up
Khartoum
The Sand Pebbles
Torn Curtain
11. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
R | 178 min | Western
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè
Votes: 690,561 | Gross: $6.10M
BEST EDITING
Nominees:
Who's Afraid of Viginia Woolf?
The Battle of Algiers (La battaglia di Algeri)
The Sand Pebbles
Andrei Rublev (Андрей Рублёв)
Torn Curtain
12. Closely Watched Trains (1966)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An apprentice train dispatcher at a village station seeks his first sexual encounter and becomes despondent when he is unable to perform.
Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Václav Neckár, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský, Vladimír Valenta
Votes: 11,552 | Gross: $3.27M
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Nominees:
Andrei Rublev (Андрей Рублёв)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Battle of Algiers (La battaglia di Algeri)
The Sand Pebbles
13. The Sand Pebbles (1966)
PG-13 | 182 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In 1926, a U.S. Naval engineer gets assigned to a gunboat on a rescue mission in war-torn China.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen
Votes: 13,540
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Nominees:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Andrei Rublev (Андрей Рублёв)
A Man For All Seasons
Khartoum
Fantastic Voyage
14. A Man for All Seasons (1966)
G | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw, Leo McKern
Votes: 31,329 | Gross: $28.35M
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Nominees:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Khartoum
Andrei Rublev (Андрей Рублёв)
The Sand Pebbles
Blow-Up
15. Andrei Rublev (1966)
R | 205 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko, Nikolay Sergeev
Votes: 47,271 | Gross: $0.10M
BEST MAKE-UP & HAIR
Nominees:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Khartoum
A Man For All Seasons
Torn Curtain
Georgy Girl
16. Fantastic Voyage (1966)
PG | 100 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
A scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter it.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 17,119
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Nominees:
The Sand Pebbles
Khartoum
Torn Curtain
17. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
R | 178 min | Western
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè
Votes: 690,561 | Gross: $6.10M
BEST SCORE
Nominees:
Andrei Rublev (Андрей Рублёв)
The Battle of Algiers (La battaglia di Algeri)
A Man For All Seasons
The Sand Pebbles
Torn Curtain
18. Georgy Girl (1966)
Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while striving to capture some of the glamorous life of her swinging London roommate.
Director: Silvio Narizzano | Stars: James Mason, Alan Bates, Lynn Redgrave, Charlotte Rampling
Votes: 3,421 | Gross: $16.87M
BEST SONG - "Georgy Girl"
Nominees:
Born Free - "Born Free"
19. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
R | 178 min | Western
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè
Votes: 690,561 | Gross: $6.10M
BEST SOUND
Nominees:
The Sand Pebbles
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Torn Curtain
Fantastic Voyage
The Battle of Algiers (La battaglia di Algeri)
20. Fantastic Voyage (1966)
PG | 100 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
A scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter it.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 17,119
BEST SOUND EDITING
Nominees:
The Sand Pebbles
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Khartoum
Torn Curtain
The Battle of Algiers (La battaglia di Algeri)
21. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
R | 178 min | Western
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè
Votes: 690,561 | Gross: $6.10M
BEST STUNTS
Nominees:
The Battle of Algiers (La battaglia di Algeri)
Andrei Rublev (Андрей Рублёв)
The Sand Pebbles
Torn Curtain
22. Closely Watched Trains (1966)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An apprentice train dispatcher at a village station seeks his first sexual encounter and becomes despondent when he is unable to perform.
Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Václav Neckár, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský, Vladimír Valenta
Votes: 11,552 | Gross: $3.27M
BEST FOREIGN FILM
Nominees:
Andrei Rublev (Андрей Рублёв)
The Battle of Algiers (La battaglia di Algeri)
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