Throwback Muriels: 1967

Monday, August 1, 2011

1967

Picture:
Point Blank
Privilege
Two For the Road
The Exterminating Angel
Chimes at Midnight
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Face of Another
Persona
The President’s Analyst
Battle of Algiers

Director:
John Boorman, Point Blank
Peter Watkins, Privilege
Luis Bunuel, The Exterminating Angel
Stanley Donen, Two for the Road
Orson Welles, Chimes at Midnight

Male Lead:
Orson Welles, Chimes at Midnight
Lee Marvin, Point Blank
Albert Finney, Two for the Road
Robert Blake, In Cold Blood
James Coburn, The President’s Analyst

Female Lead:
Bibi Andersson, Persona
Liv Ullmann, Persona
Audrey Hepburn, Two for the Road
Anne Bancroft, The Graduate
Faye Dunaway, Bonnie and Clyde

Male Supporting:
Eli Wallach, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Keith Baxter, Chimes at Midnight
Jean Martin, Battle of Algiers
John Vernon, Point Blank
Michael J. Pollard, Bonnie and Clyde

Female Supporting:
Jeanne Moreau, Chimes at Midnight
Margaret Rutherford, Chimes at Midnight
Angie Dickinson, Point Blank
Katharine Ross, The Graduate
Glenda Jackson, Marat/Sade

Screenplay:
Two for the Road
Point Blank
The Face of Another
The President’s Analyst
Privilege

Ensemble:
Battle of Algiers
Marat/Sade
Point Blank
The Exterminating Angel
Chimes at Midnight

Cinematography:
Privilege (Suschitzky)
In Cold Blood (Hall)
Point Blank (Lathrop)
The Face of Another (Segawa)
Persona (Nykvist)

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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.