Throwback Muriels: 1960

Monday, August 8, 2011

1960

Picture:
Hiroshima Mon Amour
The Apartment
The World of Apu
Psycho
The Cranes Are Flying
The Hidden Fortress
Eyes Without a Face
Spartacus
The Virgin Spring
The Magnificent Seven

Director:
Alain Resnais, Hiroshima Mon Amour
Billy Wilder, The Apartment
Satyajit Ray, The World of Apu
Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho
Mikhail Kalatozov, The Cranes Are Flying

Male Lead:
Max von Sydow, The Virgin Spring
Anthony Perkins, Psycho
Eiji Okada, Hiroshima Mon Amour
Jack Lemmon, The Apartment
Toshiro Mifune, The Hidden Fortress

Female Lead:
Tatyana Samojlova, The Cranes Are Flying
Shirley MacLaine, The Apartment
Emmanuelle Riva, Hiroshima Mon Amour

Male Supporting:
Fred MacMurray, The Apartment
Charles Laughton, Spartacus
Laurence Olivier, Spartacus
Peter Ustinov, Spartacus
Aleksey Batalov, The Cranes Are Flying

Female Supporting:
Janet Leigh, Psycho
Gunnel Lindblom, The Virgin Spring
Brigitta Pettersson, The Virgin Spring
Edith Scob, Eyes Without a Face
Shirley Jones, Elmer Gantry

Screenplay:
The Apartment
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Psycho
Eyes Without a Face
The Hidden Fortress

Ensemble:
The World of Apu
The Apartment
The Cranes Are Flying
The Virgin Spring
The Magnificent Seven

Cinematography:
The Cranes Are Flying (Urusevsky)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Vierny/Takahashi)
The Virgin Spring (Nykvist)
Eyes Without a Face (Schufftan)
The Hidden Fortress (Sato)

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Administrative Stuff

In keeping with the spirit of the project I started this past winter, I’ve decided to continue formulating lists of retrospective nominees by year. Of course, as we move backwards in time I’d estimate that some years will be pretty lean. Therefore, I fear I will have to stop when I feel I can’t fill out a satisfactory ballot, although this probably won’t happen for a while yet.

As with the present-day Muriels, I based these old-school awards on the film’s NYC commercial release date. Since Mike D’Angelo’s eligibility lists don’t go back past 1998, I used the listed release dates in IMDb for this purpose. And much like the contemporary Muriels, if a movie remains unreleased in Gotham within five years of its international release date, it is ineligible for nominations. Sadly, that means I couldn’t throw any nominations at, say, Play Time, Satantango, the films of Yasujiro Ozu, or (sniff) Jeanne Dielman. So it goes.

Additionally, I reserve the right to allow ties here, especially in the case of movies featuring same-sex co-leads who are equally awesome. Several Bergman films spring to mind here, but there will no doubt be other occurrences as well.

Finally, I’ve decided to limit these lists to a “big nine” (picture, director, 4 acting categories, screenplay, ensemble, and cinematography). Much as I would have loved to include Best Cinematic Moment- probably my favorite Muriels category- here as well, I have a feeling that I’d forget some embarrassingly obvious choices and would prefer to save myself the bother.

As before, I’ll post one of these here per day as long as I’m able. I’ll try to remember to update these as needed, but I make no promises.

By the way, here’s a link to the 1995-2009 throwback Muriels I posted this winter. In time, I’ll probably move them over here, but until then this’ll have to do.