1967 — Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives
War and Peace (dir: Sergey Bondarchuk; US Release Date)
Point Blank (dir: John Boorman)
Weekend (dir: Jean-Luc Godard)
Persona (dir: Ingmar Bergman; US Release Date)
Playtime (dir: Jacques Tati)
The Graduate (dir: Mike Nichols)
Portrait of Jason (dir: Shirley Clarke)
Belle de Jour (dir: Luis Buñuel)
Our Mother's House (dir: Jack Clayton)
Far from the Madding Crowd (dir: John Schlesinger)
Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Bedazzled (dir: Stanley Donen), Bonnie & Clyde (dir: Arthur Penn), Cool Hand Luke (dir: Stuart Rosenberg), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (dir: Stanley Kramer), Hour of the Gun (dir: John Struges), In Cold Blood (dir: Richard Brooks), In the Heat of the Night (dir: Norman Jewison), Kill Baby, Kill! (dir: Mario Bava; US Release Date), Poor Cow (dir: Ken Loach), Portrait of Jason (dir: Shirley Clarke) Quartermass and the Pit (dir: Roy Ward Baker), Spider Baby (dir: Jack Hill), Titicut Follies (dir: Frederick Wiseman), and Two for the Road (dir: Stanley Donen)
Best Picture: War and Peace
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk Producers: Mosfilm (Moscow)
US Distributor: The Walter Reade Organization/Continental Film Distributors
Best Director:
Sergey Bondarchuk, War and Peace
2. John Boorman, Point Blank
3. Jean-Luc Godard, Weekend
4. Ingmar Bergman, Persona
5. Mike Nichols, The Graduate
Best Actor:
Lee Marvin, Point Blank
2. Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate
3. Albert Finney, Two for the Road
4. Robert Blake, In Cold Blood
5. Sidney Poitier, In the Heat of the Night AND Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Best Actress:
Audrey Hepburn, Two for the Road
2. Bibi Andersson, Persona
3. Faye Dunaway, Bonnie & Clyde
4. Edith Evans, The Whisperers
5. Katharine Hepburn, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Best Supporting Actor:
Peter Cook, Bedazzled
2. Jason Robards, Hour of the Gun
3. Scott Wilson, In Cold Blood
4. Dirk Bogarde, Our Mother’s House
5. Terence Stamp, Far from the Madding Crowd
Best Supporting Actress:
Liv Ullmann, Persona
2. Beah Richards, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
3. Haydee Politoff, La Collectionneuse
4. Katherine Ross, The Graduate
5. Jo Van Fleet, Cool Hand Luke
Best Original Screenplay:
Persona — Ingmar Bergman
2. Bedazzled — Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
3. Two for the Road – Frederic Raphael
4. Bonnie & Clyde — David Newman and Robert Benton
5. In the Heat of the Night — Sterling Silliphant
Best Adapted Screenplay:
The Graduate — Buck Henry and Calder Willingham
2. In Cold Blood — Richard Brooks
3. Far from the Madding Crowd — Frederic Raphael
4. Our Mother's House — Jeremy Brooks and Haya Harareet
5. Belle du Jour — Luis Bunuel and Jean-Claude Carriere
Best Cinematography:
1. War and Peace — Iolanda Chen, Anatoliy Petritskiy, Aleksandr Shelenkov
2. Far from the Madding Crowd — Nicolas Roeg
3. Kill, Baby, Kill! — Mario Bava and Antonio Rinaldi
4. Weekend — Raoul Coutard
5. The Graduate — Robert Surtees
Best Film Editing:
The Graduate — Sam O'Steen
2. Bonnie & Clyde — Dede Allen
3. In Cold Blood — Peter Zinner
4. Point Blank — Henry Berman
5. Our Mother’s House — Tom Priestley
Best Original Score:
Cool Hand Luke — Lalo Schifrin
2. In Cold Blood — Quincy Jones
3. You Only Live Twice — John Barry
4. In the Heat of the Night — Quincy Jones
5. Casino Royale — Burt Bacharach
Best Production Design:
War and Peace — Mikhail Bogdanov, Aleksandr Dikhtyar, Said Menyalshchikov, and Gennady Myasnikov
2. Weekend — Jean-Luc Godard
3. You Only Live Twice — Ken Adam and David Ffolkes
4. Camelot — John Truscott, Edward Carrere, and John W. Brown
5. Bonnie & Clyde — Dean Tavoularis and Raymond Paul
Best Costume Design:
War and Peace — Vladimir Burmeyster, Nadezhda Buzina, Mikhail Chikovani, and V. Vavra
2. Camelot — John Truscott
3. Far from the Madding Crowd — Alan Barrett
4. Bonnie & Clyde — Theadora Van Runkle
5. Bedazzled — Yvonne Caffin and Jean Muir
Best Visual Effects:
War and Peace
Best Sound:
Point Blank
**NEW CATEGORY**
Best Documentary Feature:
Shirley Clarke, Portrait of Jason
Best Ensemble Cast:
In the Heat of the Night (dir: Norman Jewison; in alphabetical order): Matt Clark, Quentin Dean, Larry Gates, Lee Grant, Arthur Malet, Larry D. Mann, Kermit Murdoch, Warren Oates, James Patterson, Sidney Poitier, Beah Richards, William Schallert, Timothy Scott, Rod Steiger, Fred Stewart, William Watson, Peter Whitney, and Scott Wilson
Orson Welles' Best First Feature Award:
Ken Loach, Poor Cow
RECAP
W I N S :
War and Peace — 6
The Graduate — 2, Point Blank — 2, Bedazzled — 1, Bonnie & Clyde — 1, Cool Hand Luke — 1, Hour of the Gun — 1, In the Heat of the Night — 1, Persona — 1, Playtime – 1, Poor Cow — 1, Portrait of Jason — 1, Two for the Road — 1, You Only Live Twice — 1
M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :
The Graduate — 7,
War and Peace — 6, Bonnie & Clyde — 5, Far from the Madding Crowd — 5, In Cold Blood — 5, Point Blank — 5, In the Heat of the Night — 4, Our Mother’s House – 4, Persona — 4, Weekend — 4, Bedazzled — 3, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner — 3, Playtime — 3, Two for the Road — 3, Belle de Jour — 2, Camelot — 2, Cool Hand Luke — 2, Kill, Baby, Kill! — 2, Portrait of Jason — 2
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