Throwback Muriels: 1964

Thursday, August 4, 2011

1964

Picture:
Woman in the Dunes
A Hard Day’s Night!
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Dr. Strangelove
The Silence
Contempt
Kiss Me, Stupid
Man’s Favorite Sport?
A Woman Is a Woman
Becket

Director:
Hiroshi Teshigahara, Woman in the Dunes
Richard Lester, A Hard Day’s Night!
Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove
Jean-Luc Godard, Contempt

Male Lead:
Eiji Okada, Woman in the Dunes
Peter Sellers, Dr. Strangelove
Richard Burton, Becket
Peter O’Toole, Becket
Michel Piccoli, Contempt

Female Lead:
Gunnel Lindblom, The Silence
Ingrid Thulin, The Silence
Kyoko Kishida, Woman in the Dunes
Anna Karina, A Woman Is a Woman
Paula Prentiss, Man’s Favorite Sport?

Male Supporting:
George C. Scott, Dr. Strangelove
Jack Palance, Contempt
Sterling Hayden, Dr. Strangelove
Wilfred Brambell, A Hard Day’s Night!
Jean-Paul Belmondo, A Woman Is a Woman

Female Supporting:
Francoise Dorleac, The Soft Skin
Grayson Hall, The Night of the Iguana
Felicia Farr, Kiss Me, Stupid
Kim Novak, Kiss Me, Stupid
Anne Vernon, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Screenplay:
Dr. Strangelove
A Hard Day’s Night!
Man’s Favorite Sport?
Woman in the Dunes
Kiss Me, Stupid

Ensemble:
A Hard Day’s Night!
A Shot in the Dark
Dr. Strangelove
Kiss Me, Stupid
The Night of the Iguana

Cinematography:
Woman in the Dunes (Segawa)
Contempt (Coutard)
The Silence (Nykvist)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Rabier)
Dr. Strangelove (Taylor)

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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.