39th Academy Awards (1967)

Highlights of 39th Academy Awards ceremony

The 39th Academy Awards honored the best films of 1966.
The award ceremony was held on 10th April 1967 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California.
A Man for All Seasons won the Best Picture award.
Paul Scofield won the Best Actor award for his role in A Man for All Seasons.
Elizabeth Taylor won the Best Actess award for her role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
Fred Zinnemann won the Best Director award for A Man for All Seasons.
- WINNER

Best Picture

A Man for All Seasons - Fred Zinnemann
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - Ernest Lehman
Alfie - Lewis Gilbert
The Sand Pebbles - Robert Wise
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! - Norman Jewison

Best Director

A Man for All Seasons - Fred Zinnemann
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Mike Nichols
Blowup - Michelangelo Antonioni
Un homme et une femme - Claude Lelouch
The Professionals - Richard Brooks

Best Original Screenplay

Un homme et une femme - Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
Blowup - Michelangelo Antonioni, Edward Bond, Tonino Guerra
Khartoum - Robert Ardrey
The Fortune Cookie - Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
The Naked Prey - Clint Johnston, Don Peters

Best Adapted Screenplay

A Man for All Seasons - Robert Bolt
Alfie - Bill Naughton
The Professionals - Richard Brooks
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! - William Rose
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Ernest Lehman

Best Actor in a Leading Role

A Man for All Seasons - Paul Scofield
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! - Alan Arkin
Alfie - Michael Caine
The Sand Pebbles - Steve McQueen
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Richard Burton

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Elizabeth Taylor
Georgy Girl - Lynn Redgrave
Morgan! - Vanessa Redgrave
Obchod na korze - Ida Kaminska
Un homme et une femme - Anouk Aimee

Best Supporting Actor

The Fortune Cookie - Walter Matthau
A Man for All Seasons - Robert Shaw
Georgy Girl - James Mason
The Sand Pebbles - Mako
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - George Segal

Best Supporting Actress

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Sandy Dennis
Alfie - Vivien Merchant
A Man for All Seasons - Wendy Hiller
Hawaii - Jocelyne LaGarde
You're a Big Boy Now - Geraldine Page

Best Original Song

Born Free - John Barry, Don Black for "Born Free"
Alfie - Burt Bacharach, Hal David for "Alfie"
An American Dream - Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster for "A Time for Love"
Georgy Girl - Tom Springfield, Jim Dale for "Georgy Girl"
Hawaii - Elmer Bernstein, Mack David for "My Wishing Doll"

Best Original Score

Born Free - John Barry
Hawaii - Elmer Bernstein
The Sand Pebbles - Jerry Goldsmith
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Alex North
The Bible: In the Beginning... - Toshiro Mayuzumi

Best Sound Mixing

Grand Prix
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Gambit
Hawaii
The Sand Pebbles

Best Visual Effects

Fantastic Voyage
Hawaii

Best Animated Short Film

Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature

Best Documentary Feature

The War Game

Best Documentary Short Subject

A Year Toward Tomorrow

Best Foreign Language Film

Un homme et une femme
Faraon
La battaglia di Algeri
Tri
Loves of a Blonde

Academy Honorary Award

Yakima Canutt
Y. Frank Freeman

Best Live Action Short Film

Wild Wings

Best Film Editing

Grand Prix - Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stu Linder, Frank Santillo
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Sam O'Steen
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! - Hal Ashby, J Terry Williams
The Sand Pebbles - William Reynolds
Fantastic Voyage - William B Murphy

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

George Bagnall

Best Original Musical or Comedy Score

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - Ken Thorne
The Gospel According to St. Matthew - Luis Enriquez Bacalov
Return of the Seven - Elmer Bernstein
Stop the World - I Want to Get Off - Al Ham
The Singing Nun - Harry Sukman

Best Cinematography, Color

A Man for All Seasons
Fantastic Voyage
Hawaii
The Professionals
The Sand Pebbles

Best Cinematography, Black & White

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Georgy Girl
Is Paris Burning?
Seconds
The Fortune Cookie

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color

Fantastic Voyage - Jack Martin Smith, Dale Hennesy, Walter M Scott, Stuart A Reiss
Gambit - Alexander Golitzen, George C Webb, John McCarthy Jr, John P Austin
Juliet of the Spirits - Piero Gherardi
The Oscar - Hal Pereira, Arthur Lonergan, Robert R Benton, James W Payne
The Sand Pebbles - Boris Leven, Walter M Scott, John Sturtevant, William Kiernan

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black & White

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Richard Sylbert, George James Hopkins
The Fortune Cookie - Robert Luthardt, Edward G Boyle
The Gospel According to St. Matthew - Luigi Scaccianoce
Is Paris Burning? - Willy Holt, Marc Frédérix, Pierre Guffroy
Mister Buddwing - George W Davis, Paul Groesse, Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt

Best Costume Design, Color

A Man for All Seasons
Gambit
Juliet of the Spirits
Hawaii
The Oscar

Best Costume Design, Black & White

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
The Mandrake
Mister Buddwing
Morgan!

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Robert Wise
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