Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Oscar Revisionism: 1962

Okay, so this series is limping passed the halfway mark, so bare with.  Last time we checked in, it was 1963.  In 1962, David Lean's epic Lawrence of Arabia swept the Oscars.  In its wake was high seas adventure Mutiny on the Bounty, race-relations classic To Kill a Mockingbird, musical The Music Man, and war drama The Longest Day.  Already filled with variety, how much more would a Field of Ten have added?

The Winner:

Lawrence of Arabia
Total Wins/Nominations: 7 wins (Picture, Director, Film Editing, Score, Sound, Color Cinematography, AD), 3 nominations (Actor, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay)
Other Awards/Nominations: DGA winner, NBR, BAFTA winner, Golden Globe (Drama) winner
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: 16. December
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: $15M (IMDb)
Current RT: 98%
Current IMDb: 8.5

The Nominees:
Mutiny on the Bounty 
Total Wins/Nominations: 7 nominations (Picture, Film Editing, Score, Song, Special Effects, Color Cinematography, AD)
Other Awards/Nominations: DGA, Laurel Awards (Drama), Golden Globe (Drama)
Distributor: MGM
Release Date: 8. November
Domestic Box Office: $14M (IMDb)
Budget: $19M (IMDb)
Current RT: 71%
Current IMDb: 7.1

To Kill a Mockingbird
Total Wins/Nominations: 3 wins (Actor, Adapted Screenplay, B&W AD), 5 nominations (Picture, Director, Actress, Score, B&W Cinematography)
Other Awards/Nominations: DGA, Golden Globe (Drama), BAFTA, Cannes, WGA winner
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Release Date: 25. December
Domestic Box Office: $13M (IMDb)
Budget: $2M (IMDb)
Current RT: 93%
Current IMDb: 8.5

The Music Man 
Total Wins/Nominations: 1 win (Adapted Screenplay), 5 nominations (Picture, Film Editing, Sound, Color AD, Costumes)
Other Awards/Nominations: DGA, Laurel Awards (Musical) winner, Golden Globe (Musical) winner, WGA winner
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: 19. June
Domestic Box Office: $15M (IMDb)
Budget: N/A
Current RT: 94%
Current IMDb: 7.6

The Longest Day
Total Wins/Nominations: 2 wins (Special Effects, B&W Cinematography), 3 nominations (Picture, Film Editing, B&W AD)
Other Awards/Nominations: DGA, NBR winner, Laurel Awards (Action-Drama) winner, Golden Globe (Drama)
Distributor: TWFCC
Release Date: 4. October
Domestic Box Office: $39M (IMDb)
Budget: $10M (IMDb)
Current RT: 92%
Current IMDb: 7.8

The Rest of the Competition:
The Miracle Worker
The Helen Keller story.
Total Wins/Nominations: 2 wins (Actress, Supporting Actress), 3 nominations (Director, Adapted Screenplay, Costumes)
Other Awards/Nominations: DGA, NBR, Laurel Awards (Drama) 2ndPlace, Golden Globe (Drama), BAFTA, WGA
Distributor: United Artists
Release Date: 23. May
Budget: $0.5M
Current RT: 100%
Current IMDb: 8.0

David and Lisa
Romance drama about two people dealing with mental illness. 
Total Wins/Nominations: 2 nominations (Director, Adapted Screenplay)
Other Awards/Nominations: BAFTA
Distributor: Continental Distributing
Release Date: 26. December
Box Office: $2.3M
Budget: $0.2M
Current RT: 80%
Current IMDb: 7.3

Divorzio all’Italiana (Divorce, Italian Style)
Comedy about a man who will do whatever it takes to get out of his marriage to be with his lover.
Total Wins/Nominations: 1 win (Original Screenplay), 2 nominations (Director, Actor)
Other Awards/Nominations: DGA, BAFTA, Cannes
Distributor: Embassy Pictures Corporation
Release Date: 17. September
Current RT: 100%
Current IMDb: 8.2

Days of Wine and Roses
Blake Edwards directed one of the first popular films to confront alcoholism.
Total Wins/Nominations: 1 win (Song), 4 nominations (Actress, Actor, B&W AD, Costumes)
Other Awards/Nominations: Laurel Awards (Drama) winner, Golden Globe (Drama), BAFTA
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: 26. December
Box Office: $8.1M
Current RT: 100%
Current IMDb: 7.9


The Manchurian Candidate
Political thriller about the son of a well-connected family who is turned into an assassin.  While it was infamously pulled from distribution, it still managed to get two key Oscar nominations.  
Total Wins/Nominations: 2 nominations (Supporting Actress, Film Editing)
Other Awards/Nominations: DGA, Laurel Awards (Action-Drama) 3rdPlace, BAFTA
Distributor: United Artists
Release Date: 24. October
Budget: $2.2M (IMDb)
Current RT: 98%
Current IMDb: 8.2

Birdman of Alcatraz
Burt Lancaster starred as a prisoner who was also an avian aficionado, based on a true story.
Total Wins/Nominations: 4 nominations (Actor, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor, B&W Cinematography)
Other Awards/Nominations: DGA, NBR, Laurel Awards (Drama) 3rd Place, Venice, WGA
Distributor: United Artists
Release Date: 3. July
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: N/A
Current RT: 82%
Current IMDb: 7.8

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Infamous film starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford as two battling actress sisters. Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte would do quite well with the AMPAS a few years later ...
Total Wins/Nominations: 1 win (B&W Costumes), 4 nominations (Actress, Actor, Sound, B&W Cinematography)
Other Awards/Nominations: DGA
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: 26. October
Box Office: $9M
Budget: $1M (IMDb)
Current RT: 89%
Current IMDb: 8.0
Sweet Bird of Youth
A young actor is assisted by a faded movie star to get his old life back in this Tennessee Williams adaptation. 
Total Wins/Nominations: 1 win (Supporting Actor), 2 nominations (Actress, Supporting Actress)
Other Awards/Nominations: N/A
Distributor: MGM
Release Date: 21. March
Current RT: 75%
Current IMDb: 7.4

Lolita
Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Nabokov’s tale of forbidden fruit.  Not yet an awards fixture, Kubrick's film may have been too risque for the AMPAS.  
Total Wins/Nominations: 1 nomination (Adapted Screenplay)
Other Awards/Nominations: DGA, Golden Globe love
Distributor: MGM
Release Date: 12. June
Box Office: $9.3M
Budget: $2.1M (IMDb)
Current RT: 97%
Current IMDb: 7.7

Freud
John Huston biography about the famous psychoanalyst starring Montgomery Clift.  Yet, Clift failed to get recognized.  
Total Wins/Nominations: 2 nominations (Original Screenplay, Original Score)
Other Awards/Nominations: DGA, Golden Globe (Drama), Berlin, WGA
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Release Date: 12. December
Budget: $4M (IMDb)
Current RT: N/A
Current IMDb: 6.9

Billy Budd
Naval drama has a crewman criticizing everything around him that doesn’t come without ramifications.  
Total Wins/Nominations: 1 nomination (Supporting Actor)
Other Awards/Nominations: DGA, NBR, BAFTA, WGA
Distributor: Allied Artists Pictures
Release Date: 12. November
Current RT: 100%
Current IMDb: 7.8

L‘année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad)
Influential, cryptic French drama from Alain Resnais.
Total Wins/Nominations: 1 nomination (Original Screenplay)
Other Awards/Nominations: BAFTA
Distributor: Astor Pictures Corporation
Release Date: 7. March
Current RT: 95%
Current IMDb: 7.8

That Touch of Mink   
Rom-com starring Cary Grant and Doris Day.
Total Wins/Nominations: 3 nominations (Original Screenplay, Color AD, Sound)
Other Awards/Nominations: Laurel Awards (Comedy) winner, Golden Globe (Comedy) winner
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Release Date: 14. June
Box Office: $14.6M (IMDb)
Current RT: 67%
Current IMDb: 6.6


Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Sydney Lumet’s adaptation of the Eugene O’Neill play about addicts starring Katharine Hepburn.
Total Wins/Nominations: 1 nomination (Actress)
Other Awards/Nominations: DGA, NBR
Distributor: Embassy Pictures Corporation
Release Date: 9. October
Budget: $0.5M (IMDb)
Current RT: 93%
Current IMDb: 7.8

Requiem for a Heavyweight
Drama about a boxer at the crossroads stuck in debt. 
Total Wins/Nominations: 0
Other Awards/Nominations: DGA, NBR
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: 16. October
Current RT: 88%
Current IMDb: 7.7

A Taste of Honey
British domestic drama directed by Tony Richardson.
Total Wins/Nominations: 0
Other Awards/Nominations: DGA, NBR, BAFTA
Distributor: Continental Distributing
Release Date: 30. April
Budget: ca $0.1M
Current RT: 80%
Current IMDb: 7.6


Jules et Jim
Total Wins/Nominations: 0
Other Awards/Nominations: BAFTA
Distributor: Janus Films
Release Date: 23. April
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: N/A
Current RT: 97%
Current IMDb: 7.9


War Hunt
War drama starring Robert Redford. 
Total Wins/Nominations: 0
Other Awards/Nominations: NBR
Distributor: United Artists
Release Date: May
Budget: $0.3M (IMDb)
Current RT: N/A
Current IMDb: 6.3



Whistle Down the Wind
Drama about a group of children who help harbor a murderer, because they believe he’s Jesus. 
Total Wins/Nominations: 0
Other Awards/Nominations: NBR
Distributor: Pathé-America Distributing Company
Release Date: 21. April
Box Office: It did well.
Budget: ca. $0.1M
Current RT: 100%
Current IMDb: 7.7


Hatari!
Wildlife adventure directed by Howard Hawkes set in East Africa. 
Total Wins/Nominations: 1 nomination (Color Cinematography)
Other Awards/Nominations: Laurel Awards (Action-Drama) 2nd Place
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: 19. June
Domestic Box Office: $14M (IMDb)
Current RT: 68%
Current IMDb: 7.2


The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Total Wins/Nominations: 1 win (Color Costumes), 3 nominations (Adapted Score, Color Cinematography, AD)
Other Awards/Nominations: Golden Globe (Musical)
Distributor: MGM
Release Date: 7. August
Domestic Box Office: $6.5M
Current RT: N/A
Current IMDb: 6.3

Gypsy
Total Wins/Nominations: 3 nominations (Adapted Score, Color Cinematography, Costumes)
Other Awards/Nominations: Laurel Awards (Musical) 2nd Place, Golden Globe (Musical), WGA
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: 1. November
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: $4M (IMDb)
Current RT: 67%
Current IMDb: 7.1


Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
Total Wins/Nominations: 0
Other Awards/Nominations: Golden Globe (Drama)
Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Release Date: 18. July
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: N/A
Current RT: N/A
Current IMDb: 6.2

Lisa (The Inspector)
Total Wins/Nominations: 0
Other Awards/Nominations: Golden Globe (Drama)
Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Film Company
Release Date: 24. May
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: N/A
Current RT:
Current IMDb: 6.3


The Chapman Report
Total Wins/Nominations: 0
Other Awards/Nominations: Golden Globe (Drama)
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: 5. October
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: N/A
Current RT: N/A
Current IMDb: 6.0


Period of Adjustment
Total Wins/Nominations: 1 nomination (B&W AD)
Other Awards/Nominations:  Golden Globes (Comedy), WGA
Distributor: MGM
Release Date: 31. October
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: N/A
Current RT: N/A
Current IMDb: 6.2

Bon Voyage!
Total Wins/Nominations: 2 nominations (Sound, Color Costumes)
Other Awards/Nominations: N/A
Distributor: Buena Vista Distribution Company
Release Date: 17. May
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: N/A
Current RT: 76%
Current IMDb: 5.5

The Interns
Melodrama set in a hospital. 
Total Wins/Nominations: 0
Other Awards/Nominations: Laurel Awards (Drama) 5th Place
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: 8. August
Box Office: $5M
Current IMDb: 6.6

Une aussi longue absence (The Long Absence)
Total Wins/Nominations: 0
Other Awards/Nominations: BAFTA
Distributor: Commercial Pictures
Release Date: 15. November
Domestic Box Office: N/A
Budget: N/A
Current RT: N/A
Current IMDb: 7.6
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