1962 — Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives
Cleo from 5 to 7 (dir: Agnès Varda)
Mother Joan of the Angels (dir: Jerzy Kawalerowicz; US Release Date)
Peeping Tom (dir: Michael Powell; US Release Date)
The Exterminating Angel (dir: Luis Buñuel)
La Jetée (dir: Chris Marker)
Ride the High Country (dir: Sam Peckinpah)
Accattone (dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini; US Release Date)
Cape Fear (dir: J. Lee Thompson)
Lolita (dir: Stanley Kubrick)
Lawrence of Arabia (dir: David Lean)
Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Advise & Consent (dir: Otto Preminger), Billy Budd (dir: Peter Ustinov), The Connection (dir: Shirley Clarke), David & Lisa (dir: Frank Perry), Eclipse (dir: Michelangelo Antonioni), Good Morning (dir: Yasujirô Ozu), Jules and Jim (dir: François Truffaut), Last Year at Marienbad (dir: Alain Resnais), Lola (dir: Jacques Demy), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (dir: John Ford), The Manchurian Candidate (dir: John Frankenheimer), The Mill of the Stone Women (dir: Giorgio Ferroni), The Trial (dir: Orson Welles), and What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (dir: Robert Aldrich)
Best Picture: Cleo from 5 to 7
Director: Agnès Varda Producer: Carlo Ponti
US Distributor: Zenith International
Best Director:
Agnès Varda, Cleo from 5 to 7
2. Michael Powell, Peeping Tom
3. Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Mother Joan of the Angels
4. Luis Buñuel, The Exterminating Angel
5. Sam Peckinpah, Ride the High Country
Best Actor:
Robert Mitchum, Cape Fear
2. Franco Citti, Accattone
3. Peter O’Toole, Lawrence of Arabia
4. James Mason, Lolita
5. Terence Stamp, Billy Budd
Best Actress:
Jeanne Moreau, Jules and Jim
2. Katharine Hepburn, Long Day’s Journey into Night
3. Monica Vitti, Eclipse
4. Anouk Aimee, Lola
5. Bette Davis, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Best Supporting Actor:
Robert Ryan, Billy Budd
2. Peter Sellers, Lolita
3. Peter Ustinov, Billy Budd
4. Randolph Scott, Ride the High Country
5. Lee Marvin, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Best Supporting Actress:
Shelley Winters, Lolita
2. Angela Lansbury, The Manchurian Candidate
3. Lucyna Winnicka, Mother Joan of the Angels
4. Mariette Hartley, Ride the High Country
5. Jeanne Moreau, The Trial
Best Original Screenplay:
The Exterminating Angel — Luis Buñuel and Luis Alcoriza
2. Ride the High Country — W.D. Stone Jr., Sam Peckinpah and William Roberts
3. Accattone — Pier Paolo Pasolini and Sergio Citti
4. Lola — Jacques Demy
5. La Jetée — Chris Marker
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Mother Joan of the Angels — Jerzy Kawalerowicz and Tadeusz Konwicki
2. Jules & Jim — Francois Truffaut and Jean Gruault
3. Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov
4. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance — James Gordon Bellah and Willis Goldbeck
5. The Trial — Orson Welles
Best Cinematography:
The Trial — Edmond Richard
2. Peeping Tom — Otto Heller
3. Last Year at Marienbad — Sacha Vierny
4. Lawrence of Arabia — Frederick A. Young
5. Mother Joan of the Angels — Jerzy Wójcik
Best Film Editing:
Peeping Tom — Noreen Ackland
2. The Manchurian Candidate — Ferris Webster
3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance — Otho Lovering
4. Lolita — Anthony Harvey
5. La Jetée – Jean Ravel
Best Original Score:
Cape Fear — Bernard Herrmann
2. Lawrence of Arabia — Maurice Jarre
3. Dr. No — John Barry and Monty Norman
4. Jules and Jim — Georges Delarue
5. Mill of the Stone Women — Carlo Innocenzi
Best Production Design:
The Trial — Jean Mandaroux, André Labussière, Jacques Brizzio, Jacques D’Ovidio
2. Lawrence of Arabia — John Box
3. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? — William Glasgow and George Sawley
4. The Manchurian Candidate — Richard Sylbert and George R. Nelson
5. Mill of the Stone Women — Arrigo Equini and Carlo Gentiili
Best Costume Design:
The Music Man — Dorothy Jeakins
2. Lawrence of Arabia — Phyllis Dalton
3. Gypsy — Orry-Kelly and Howard Shoup
4. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance — Edith Head and Ron Talsky
5. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? — Norma Koch
Best Visual Effects:
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
Best Sound:
Lawrence of Arabia
Best Ensemble Cast:
Mother Joan of the Angels
Orson Welles’ Best First Feature:
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Accattone
Best Ensemble Cast:
Mother Joan of the Angels (dir: Jerzy Kawalerowicz; in alphabetical order): Anne Ciepielewska, Maria Chwalibóg, Kazimierz Fabisiak, Stanilsaw Jasiukiewicz, Jerzy Kaczmarek, Jaroslaw Kuszewski, Franciszek Pieczka, Mieczyslaw Voit (pictured), Lucynna Winnicka (pictured), Lech Wojchiechowski, and Zygmunt Zintel
Orson Welles' Best First Feature Award:
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Accattone
RECAP
W I N S :
Cleo from 5 to 7— 2, Lolita — 2, Mother Joan of the Angels — 2, The Trial — 2, Accatone — 1, Billy Budd — 1, Cape Fear — 1, The Exterminating Angel — 1, The Fabulous Baron Munchausen — 1, Jules & Jim — 1, Lawrence of Arabia — 1, Lolita — 1, The Music Man — 1, Peeping Tom — 1,
M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :
Lawrence of Arabia — 6, Lolita — 6, Mother Joan of the Angels — 6,
Ride the High Country — 5, Accattone — 4, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance — 4, Peeping Tom — 4, The Trial — 4, Billy Budd — 3, Exterminating Angel — 3, La Jetée — 3, Jules & Jim — 3, The Manchurian Candidate — 3, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? — 3, Cape Fear — 2, Cleo from 5 to 7 — 2, Lola — 2, Mill of the Stone Women — 2
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