Throwback Muriels: 1962

Saturday, August 6, 2011

1962

Picture:
Lawrence of Arabia
Peeping Tom
Lola
Advise and Consent
Viridiana
Lolita
Manchurian Candidate
Last Year at Marienbad
Cleo From 5 to 7
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Director:
David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia
Michael Powell, Peeping Tom
Jacques Demy, Lola
Otto Preminger, Advise and Consdent
Luis Bunuel, Viridiana

Male Lead:
James Mason, Lolita
Dirk Bogarde, Victim
Peter O’Toole, Lawrence of Arabia
Gregory Peck, To Kill a Mockingbird
Tom Courtenay, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Female Lead:
Katharine Hepburn, Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Harriet Andersson, Through a Glass Darkly
Corinne Marchand, Cleo from 5 to 7
Anouk Aimee, Lola
Jeanne Moreau, Jules and Jim

Male Supporting:
Charles Laughton, Advise and Consent
Peter Sellers, Lolita
Lawrence Harvey, The Manchurian Candidate
Omar Sharif, Lawrence of Arabia
Alec Guinness, Lawrence of Arabia

Female Supporting:
Angela Lansbury, The Manchurian Candidate
Shelley Winters, Lolita
Anna Massey, Peeping Tom
Maxine Audley, Peeping Tom
Janet Leigh, The Manchurian Candidate

Screenplay:
Advise and Consent
Last Year at Marienbad
Lawrence of Arabia
Lolita
The Manchurian Candidate

Ensemble:
Viridiana
Through a Glass Darkly
Advise and Consent
Lawrence of Arabia
Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Cinematography:
Last Year at Marienbad (Vierny)
Lawrence of Arabia (Young)
Peeping Tom (Heller)
Through a Glass Darkly (Nykvist)
Lola (Coutard)

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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.