Throwback Muriels: 1961

Sunday, August 7, 2011

1961

1961:
Picture:
West Side Story
The Hustler
Yojimbo
L’Avventura
One, Two, Three
Breathless
La Dolce Vita
Throne of Blood
The Ladies’ Man
Purple Noon

Director:
Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, West Side Story
Robert Rossen, The Hustler
Akira Kurosawa, Yojimbo
Michelangelo Antonioni, L’Avventura
Billy Wilder, One, Two, Three

Male Lead:
Paul Newman, The Hustler
James Cagney, One, Two, Three
Marcello Mastroianni, La Dolce Vita
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Breathless
Toshiro Mifune, Throne of Blood

Female Lead:
Deborah Kerr, The Innocents
Piper Laurie, The Hustler
Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Jean Seberg, Breathless
Natalie Wood, Splendor in the Grass

Male Supporting:
Montgomery Clift, Judgment at Nuremberg
Renato Salvatori, Rocco and His Brothers
Alain Cuny, La Dolce Vita
George C. Scott, The Hustler
Horst Buchholz, One, Two, Three

Female Supporting:
Rachel Roberts, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Rita Moreno, West Side Story
Annie Girardot, Rocco and His Brothers
Pamela Tiffin, One, Two, Three
Judy Garland, Judgment at Nuremberg

Screenplay:
One, Two, Three
The Hustler
La Dolce Vita
Breathless
West Side Story

Ensemble:
The Ladies’ Man
La Dolce Vita
West Side Story
Rocco and His Brothers
L’Avventura

Cinematography:
The Hustler (Schufftan)
The Innocents (Francis)
Yojimbo (Miyagawa)
West Side Story (Fapp)
La Dolce Vita (Martelli)

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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.