One of the indisputable peaks of God Wilder. Four of the best musicals in the history of cinema. The unmatched greatness of David Lean. A suffocating thriller with performances to remember. Nilsson’s “Everybody’s Talking” plays at midnight as two boys walk by themselves. A highly acclaimed historical drama. It is a comedy that has aged fatally and whose triumph is still something incomprehensible.
The Best Picture Oscar winners of the 1960s, least to most
10 “Tom Jones”
The “Tom Jones” thing is still an impossible thing to figure out. It is not that it has aged fatally, even that, but that this comedy without any grace has conquered masterpieces such as ‘Lilies of the valley’, ‘America, America’, ‘How the West was won’ and ‘Cleopatra’ itself. Seeing is believing. When we cite the greatest injustices in the history of the Oscars, however much we think of the most recent examples, we find one of the most sensational in the 1960s. A bad movie. And one of the worst winners of all time.
9 “A Man for Eternity”
In addition to the Best Picture Oscar, ‘A Man for Eternity’ managed to add five more statuettes in 1966, becoming the undisputed winner of an evening in which its main competitors were, mind you, ‘The Russians Are Coming’ and the wonderful ‘ Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’. Two far superior propositions to this boring adaptation on the big screen of Robert Bolt’s play in which the only thing that stands out with a certain brilliance is the elegant and understated direction of the great Fred Zinnemann. Beyond that, only numerous yawns remain on the horizon.
8 ‘Smiles and Tears’
Sure, “The Sound of Music” is drenched in sugar, goofy songs, and extreme sensitivity, but it’s still a pure joy from start to finish. Directed with a firm hand by a very inspired Robert Wise, almost in his natural state, on the other hand, and with a cast devoted to the cause and led by an excellent Julie Andrews, we are talking about one of the most loved musicals in the history of a hundred. A family entertainment that continues to conquer new generations of audiences and that was awarded in an Oscar night that, yes, should have surrendered at the feet of the immeasurable “Doctor Zhivago”.
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7 ‘in the heat of the night’
Tremendous crime thriller that wowed critics, audiences and the Academy, won five statuettes including Best Picture, ‘In the Heat of the Night’ It continues to be a proposition that costs horrors to find anything close to failure. Compact in staging, precise in the handling of the plot, brilliant in the development of the plot and with a splendid cast, the film directed by Norman Jewison is a classic in many ways. And among them it is worth highlighting, of course, the outstanding performance of a gigantic Sidney Poitier.
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6 “Midnight Cowboy”
You may like it more or less, but it is clear that the triumph of ‘Midnight Cowboy’ was one of the greatest acts of courage that the Academy has given in its history. In a year where tremendously classic films like ‘Ana de los mil días’ or the extraordinary ‘Hello, Dolly!’ and ‘Two Men and One Destiny’, the film directed by John Schlesinger and starring some memorable Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman ended up reigning by rawness, pain, desolation, dirt, loneliness and despair. An Oscar which, in addition to surprising, began to indicate the path that a large part of American cinema would take in the glorious decade of the 1970s.
Midnight Cowboy at the eCartelera
5 “My Fair Lady”
The theatrical beginnings of “My Fair Lady” were, to say the least, complicated. And we are not referring to the public, enthusiastic from the start, but to one of her main managers. The most prominent example is found in its leading man, Rex Harrison, who went so far as to lock himself in his dressing room hours before the big premiere, claiming that “There was no way I was performing that night with 32 snoops in the grave.”. In the end they made him change his mind and the show went on stage normally, also enjoying great success.
Moments of tension that have little or nothing to do with the sensations that surrounded its acclaimed film adaptation of 1964, starring Harrison himself and an unforgettable Audrey Hepburn and with which director George Cukor obtained unanimous acclaim from critics and audiences . Spectacular collections and 8 Oscars, including those for best film, best director and best actor one of the biggest leaps from Broadway to the big screen in history.
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4 ‘Oliver’
Let’s start with the ending (and the applause). 11 nominations and 6 awards, including those corresponding to the Best Film and Best Director categories, made ‘Oliver’ the big winner of its Oscar edition. An impressive result that can be discussed with more or less insistence, especially if we take into account the rest of the nominated proposals (“A funny girl”, “The Lion in winter”, “Raquel, Raquel” and “Romeo and Juliet” ) . , but that leaves little room for doubt: the musical had just added a new classic.
A masterpiece full of charm, immense songs and absolutely unforgettable musical numbers that have transformed the Broadway show into a lively and exciting cinema. Enjoying it several decades later is still an experience directly related to happiness. It’s not a trivial matter.
3 “West Side Story”
A passionate and unforgettable story like William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” could only be made even more complete if it added music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and choreography by Jerome Robbins. Said and done: ‘West Side Story’. Four years after its Broadway premiere, this tale of impossible romance, street gangs and memorable characters, it came to the cinema through an adaptation that was pure nerve, pure spectacle, pure melody.
A musical epic of the first order that has conquered millions of spectators worldwide, which has convinced the vast majority of specialized critics and which has completed the game with 10 Academy Awards, including those for best film and best director . A cinematic classic that has surpassed its theatrical reference based on scenes of indescribable and captivating power..
West Side Story on eCartelera
2 “Lawrence of Arabia”
David Lean has made “Lawrence of Arabia” the definitive film when it comes to describing each of his defining traits as a filmmaker. 222 minutes of pure cinema, which demands and challenges you, but which is incessantly rewarding you with scenes and images of an indescribable artistic value.
A film that was Lean’s second great success at the Oscars, after the immense ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’, obtaining 7 statuettes, including Best Film and Best Director. And it is that the industry, like the public, has totally surrendered to the immensity of an inexhaustible film, with a brutal ability to exploit the sensations of the viewer. Cinematic greatness in all its glory. One of those definitive films, peerless and incomparable.
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1 ‘Apartment’
And so the “dramedy” was born. Billy Wilder achieved with ‘The Apartment’ what countless directors had been trying to combine perfectly for years two genres marked by smiles and tearstwo elements that proved to be understood better than anyone else as long as they were treated with intelligence and finesse.
Winner of 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Director, and built on the backs of two unforgettable performances, Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine demonstrating bulletproof chemistry, ‘The Apartment’ is the pinnacle of a director with a full record of triumphs. . And it’s the one with sentences like: “I lived like Robinson Crusoe, I was castaway among eight million people until one day I saw your footprints in the sand and I found you”; one can only fall into defenseless surrender. And happy with life.
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In these first lines we find the titles that represent the ten films that have achieved the coveted Oscar for best picture in a decade, that of the sixties, in which Hollywood grew year after year until it reached one of its most glorious cinematographic stages. However, despite the enormous impact that the sixties of American cinema have on the history of the seventh art, It is worth highlighting the masterpieces that have appeared on stage, which we remember in this special. And here, for example, we find some of them.
During these ten years, the Academy has surprised with some victories, has surrendered to the greatness of the musical, has opted for small works with a legendary echo, has once again embraced the talent of some of the great filmmakers of all time and, almost in most cases, he was right in the queen category. Classics with no expiration date that continue to proudly display their Best Picture statuette for good reason.
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