1966 — Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. Masculin Feminin (dir: Jean-Luc Godard)

2. Blow-Up (dir: Michelangelo Antonioni)

3. Closely Watched Trains (dir: Jirí Menzel)

4. Wings (dir: Larisa Shepitko)

5. Le Bonheur (dir: Agnès Varda; US Release Date)

6. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (dir: Mike Nichols)

7. Black Girl (dir: Ousmane Sembene)

8. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (dir: Sergio Leone)

9. Seconds (dir: John Frankenheimer)

10. Fists in the Pocket (dir: Marco Bellochio; UK Release Date)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Andrei Rublev (dir: Andrei Tarkovsky), Cul de Sac (dir: Roman Polanski), The Group (dir: Sidney Lumet), A Man for All Seasons (dir: Fred Zinnemann), Morgan! A Suitable Case for Treatment (dir: Karel Reisz), , The Sleeping Car Murders (dir: Costa-Gavras), Tokyo Drifter (dir: Seijun Suzuki), and Young Torless (dir: Volker Schlöndorff)

Best Picture: Masculin Feminin
Director: Jean-Luc Godard Producer: Anatole Dauman
US Distributor: Royal Films International

Best Director:
Jean-Luc Godard, Masculin Feminin
2. Mike Nichols, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
3. Michelangelo Antonioni, Blow-Up
4. Agnès Varda, Le Bonheur
5. Larisa Shepitko, Wings

Best Actor:
Richard Burton, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Masculin Feminin
3. Paul Scofield, A Man for All Seasons
4. Rock Hudson, Seconds
5. Donald Pleasence, Cul de Sac

Best Actress:
Elizabeth Taylor, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. Mayya Bulgakova, Wings
3. Vanessa Redgrave, Morgan! A Suitable Case for Treatment
4. Chantal Goya, Masculin Feminin
5. Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Black Girl

Best Supporting Actor:
Robert Shaw, A Man for All Seasons
2. Momar Nar Sene, Black Girl
3. John Randolph, Seconds
4. Lionel Stander, Cul de Sac
5. Eli Wallach, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Best Supporting Actress:
Paola Pitagora, Fists in the Pocket
2. Vivien Merchant, Alfie
3. Jessica Walter, The Group
4. Wendy Hiller, A Man for All Seasons
5. Sandy Dennis, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best Original Screenplay:
Le Bonheur — Agnès Varda
2. Cul de sac — Gerard Brach and Roman Polanski
3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly — Sergio Leone, Luciano Vincenzoni, Agenore Incrocci. Furio Scarpelli, and Mickey Knox
4. Fists in the Pocket – Marco Bellocchio
5. Masculin Feminin – Jean-Luc Godard

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Closely Watched Trains — Jiri Menzel and Bohumil Hrabal
2. Blow-Up — Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guarra and Edward Bond
3. The Sleeping Car Murders — Costa-Gavras and Sébastien Japrisot
4. Seconds — Lewis John Carlino
5. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — Ernest Lehman

Best Cinematography: 
Seconds — James Wong Howe
2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Tonino Delli Colli
3. Le Bonheur — Claude Beausoleil and Jean Rabier
4. Blow-Up — Carlo di Palma
5. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf — Haskell Wexler

Best Film Editing:
Masculin Feminin — Agnes Guillemot
2. Blow-Up — Frank Clarke
3. Closely Watched Trains — Jirina Lukesova
4. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf — Sam O’Steen
5. Seconds — David Newhouse and Ferris Webster

Best Original Score:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Ennio Morricone
2. Blow-Up — Herbie Hancock
3. The Endless Summer — Walter Georis, John Blakely, and Gaston Georis
4. Born Free — John Barry
5. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf — Alex North

Best Production Design: 
Fantastic Voyage — Dale Hennesy, Jack Martin Smith, Stuart A. Reiss and Walter M. Scott
2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly — Carlo Simi and Carlo Leva
3. A Man for All Seasons — John Box and Terence Marsh
4. The Rise of Louis XIV — Maurice Valay
5. Fahrenheit 451 — Syd Cain and Tony Walton

Best Costume Design: 
Blow-Up — Jocelyn Rickards
2. The Rise of Louis XIV — Christiane Coste
3. A Man for All Seasons — Elizabeth Haffenden and Joan Bridge
4. Fahrenheit 451 — Tony Walton
5. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum — Tony Walton

Best Visual Effects:
Fantastic Voyage

Best Sound:
Blow-Up

Best Ensemble Cast:
Seconds

Orson Welles’ Best First Feature:
Mike Nichols, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best Ensemble Cast:
Seconds (dir: John Frankengeimer; in alphabetical order): Wesley Addy, Richard Anderson, Robert Brubaker, Jeff Corey (pictured), Kirk Duncan, Murray Hamilton, Dodie Heath, Rock Hudson (pictured), Salmone Jens, Dorothy Morris, John Randolph, Frances Reid, Francoise Ruggieri, Karl Swenson and Nedrick Young

Orson Welles' Best First Feature Award: 
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Mike Nichols’ Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

RECAP

W I N S :

Masculin Feminin — 3, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — 3,
Blow-Up — 2, Fantastic Voyage — 2,Seconds — 2, Closely Watched Trains — 1, Fists in the Pocket — 1, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly — 1, Le Bonheur — 1, A Man for All Seasons – 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — 10,
Blow-Up — 8, Seconds — 7, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly — 6, A Man for All Seasons — 5, Masculin Feminin — 5, Le Bonheur – 4, Black Girl — 3, Closely Watched Trains — 3, Cul-de-Sac — 3, Fists in the Pocket — 3, Wings — 3, The Rise of Louis XIV — 3, Fahrenheit 451 — 2, Fantastic Voyage — 2

the year-end project:
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Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s