Throwback Muriels: 1963

Friday, August 5, 2011

1963

Picture:
8 ½
The Trial
High and Low
Pickpocket
The Leopard
Vivre Sa Vie
Charade
Muriel
The Birds
Shock Corridor

Director:
Federico Fellini, 8 ½
Orson Welles, The Trial
Luchino Visconti, The Leopard
Akira Kurosawa, High and Low
Robert Bresson, Pickpocket

Male Lead:
Gunnar Bjornstrand, Winter Light
Burt Lancaster, The Leopard
Marcello Mastroianni, 8 ½
Richard Harris, This Sporting Life
Paul Newman, Hud

Female Lead:
Delphine Seyrig, Muriel
Rachel Roberts, This Sporting Life
Patricia Neal, Hud
Audrey Hepburn, Charade
Anna Karina, Vivre Sa Vie

Male Supporting:
Hari Rhodes, Shock Corridor
Alain Delon, The Leopard
Robert Shaw, From Russia With Love
Melvyn Douglas, Hud
Max von Sydow, Winter Light

Female Supporting:
Marika Green, Pickpocket
Ingrid Thulin, Winter Light
Julie Harris, The Haunting
Claudia Cardinale, The Leopard
Anouk Aimee, 8 ½

Screenplay:
8 ½
High and Low
The Leopard
Charade
Muriel

Ensemble:
8 ½
High and Low
Muriel
The Great Escape
Charade

Cinematography:
The Trial (Richard)
The Leopard (Rotunno)
8 ½ (de Venanzo)
Winter Light (Nykvist)
Hud (Howe)

No comments:

Post a Comment

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.