Throwback Muriels: 1966

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

1966

Picture:
Band of Outsiders
Seconds
Blowup
Gertrud
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Red Beard
The Gospel According to Matthew
Masculine-Feminine
Sword of Doom
Georgy Girl

Director:
Jean-Luc Godard, Band of Outsiders
John Frankenheimer, Seconds
Michelangelo Antonioni, Blowup
Carl Theodor Dreyer, Gertrud
Mike Nichols, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Male Lead:
Toshiro Mifune, Red Beard
Michael Caine, Alfie
Richard Burton, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
David Hemmings, Blowup
Rock Hudson, Seconds

Female Lead:
Nina Pens Rode, Gertrud
Anna Karina, Band of Outsiders
Elizabeth Taylor, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Lynn Redgrave, Georgy Girl
Chantal Goya, Masculine-Feminine

Male Supporting:
George Segal, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
James Mason, Georgy Girl
Toshiro Mifune, Sword of Doom
Cyril Cusack, Fahrenheit 451
Walter Matthau, The Fortune Cookie

Female Supporting:
Marlene Jobert, Masculine-Feminine
Julie Christie, Fahrenheit 451
Charlotte Rampling, Georgy Girl
Sandy Dennis, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Vanessa Redgrave, Blowup

Screenplay:
Seconds
Blowup
Band of Outsiders
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Red Beard

Ensemble:
The Gospel According to Matthew
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Masculin-Feminin
Alfie
Band of Outsiders

Cinematography:
Seconds (Howe)
Gertrud (Bendtsen)
Red Beard (Nakai/Saito)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Wexler)
Fahrenheit 451 (Roeg)

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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.