Wednesday 31 August 2022

1967, Film and Television Awards: British Academy Awards (BAFTAs)

Best Film
Winner: ‘Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’

Nominees:

  • ‘Doctor Zhivago’
  • ‘Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment’
  • ‘The Spy Who Came In from the Cold’

 

Best British Actor
Winner: Richard Burton
As Alec Leamas in ‘The Spy Who Came In from the Cold’
As George in ‘Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’

Nominees:

  • David Warner as Morgan Delt in ‘Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment’
  • Michael Caine as Alfie Elkins in ‘Alfie’
  • Ralph Richardson as Alexander Maximovich Gromeko in ‘Doctor Zhivago’,  as William Ewart Gladstone in ‘Khartoum’,  as Joseph Finsbury in ‘The Wrong Box’


Best British Actress
Winner: Elizabeth Taylor
As Martha in ‘Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’

Nominees:

  • Julie Christie as Lara Antipova in ‘Doctor Zhivago’ and  as Linda Montag/Clarrisse in ‘Fahrenheit 451’
  • Lynn Redgrave as Georgina Parkin in ‘Georgy Girl’
  • Vanessa Redgrave as Leonie Delt in’Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment’

 

Best Foreign Actor
Winner: Rod Steiger
As Sol Nazerman in ‘The Pawnbroker’

Nominees:

  • Jean-Paul Belmondo as Ferdinand Griffon in ‘Pierrot le Fou’
  • Oskar Werner as Fiedler in ‘The Spy Who Came In from the Cold’
  • Sidney Poitier as Gordon Ralfe in ‘A Patch of Blue’

 

Best Foreign Actress
Winner: Jeanne Moreau
As Maria I in ‘Viva Maria!’

Nominees:

  • Brigitte Bardot as Marie Fitzgerald O'Malley in ‘Viva Maria!’
  • Joan Hackett as Dottie Renfrew Latham in ‘The Group’
  • Simone Signoret as Eliane Darres in ‘Compartiment tueurs’

 

Best Screenplay
Winner: David Mercer with ‘Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment’

Nominees:

  • Bill Naughton: ‘Alfie’
  • Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo: ‘It Happened Here’
  • Harold Pinter: ‘The Quiller Memorandum’ 


Best Art Direction - Black and White
Winner: Tambi Larsen with ‘The Spy Who Came In From The Cold’

Nominees:

  • Don Ashton: ‘Bunny Lake Is Missing’
  • Tony Woollard: ‘Georgy Girl’
  • Edward Marshall: ‘Life At The Top’

 

Best Art Direction - Colour
Winner: Wilfrid Shingleton with ‘The Blue Max’

Nominees:

  • John Howell: ‘Khartoum’
  • Maurice Carter: ‘The Quiller Memorandum’
  • Ray Simm: ‘The Wrong Box’


Best Cinematography
Winner: Christopher Challis with ‘Arabesque’

Nominees:

  • Otto Heller: ‘Alfie’
  • Douglas Slocombe: ‘The Blue Max’
  • Jack Hildyard: ‘Modesty Blaise’

 

Best Costume Design
Winner: Julie Harris: ‘The Wrong Box’

Nominees:

  • Christian Dior: ‘Arabesque’
  • John Furniss : ‘The Blue Max’
  • Nicholas Georgidis: ‘Romeo And Juliet’

 

Best Film Editing
Winner: Tom Priestley with ‘Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment’

Nominees:

  • Thelma Connell: ‘Alfie’
  • Frederick Wilson: ‘Arabesque’
  • Frederick Wilson: ‘The Quiller Memorandum’

Monday 15 August 2022

1966, Car Spotting: Train Station Bussum-South, Netherlands

Parked around the trees, front to back

First row, left to right
Fiat 850, Triumph 2000 Mk 1.

Second row, left to right
Volkswagen 1200/1300 (Type 1, Beetle), DKW Auto Union 1000, Ford Taunus 12M (P4), Renault Dauphine, BMW 700 Coupé.

Third row, left to right
Volkswagen 1200/1300 (Type 1, Beetle), Simca 1300/1500, Peugeot 403.

Parked in front of the station, left to right
Opel Rekord or 1200 (P1), Vauxhall Victor (F), Vauxhall Cresta (PB), Fiat 1500/1800/2100, Ford Taunus 12M (P1, Side-stripes Taunus), Citroën 2CV,  Fiat 1500/1800/2100.

Monday 1 August 2022

1965, Music: Belgian Single Charts 01/11/1965

N° 20
The Kinks – A Well Respected Man

- Country: UK
- Music/Lyrics: Ray Davies
- Highest Position: N° 20
- Weeks in the charts: 4
- Video clip

 


N° 19
Adamo – Mes mains sur tes hanches

- Country: Belgium
- Music/Lyrics: Salvatore Adamo
- Highest Position: N° 2
- Weeks in the charts: 20
- Video clip
  



 N° 18
Sonny & Cher – I Got You Babe

- Country: USA
- Music/Lyrics: Sonny Bono
- Highest Position: N° 12
- Weeks in the charts: 12
- Video clip

 

 

N° 17
Elvis Presley – I'm Yours

- Country: USA
- Music/Lyrics: Don Robertson, Hal Blair
- Highest Position: N° 8
- Weeks in the charts: 8
- Video clip




N° 16
Sonny & Cher – Sing c'est la vie

- Country: USA
- Music/Lyrics: Sonny Bono, Charles Greene, Brian Stone
- Highest Position: N° 1
- Weeks in the charts: 24
- Video clip

 

 

N° 15
Barry McGuire – Eve Of Destruction

- Country: USA
- Music/Lyrics: P.F. Sloan
- Highest Position: N° 15
- Weeks in the charts: 4
- Video clip

 

 

N° 14
The Fortunes – Here It Comes Again


- Country: UK
- Music/Lyrics: Les Reed, Barry Mason
- Highest Position: N° 12
- Weeks in the charts: 9
- Video clip

 

N° 13
The McCoys – Hang On Sloopy

- Country: USA
- Music/Lyrics: Wes Farrell, Bert Russell
- Highest Position: N° 13
- Weeks in the charts: 9
- Video clip

 

 

N° 12
Roy Black – Du bist nicht allein

- Country: West Germany
- Music/Lyrics: Hans Bertram, Kurt Hertha, Rolf Arland
- Highest Position: N° 12
- Weeks in the charts: 4
- Video clip

 

 

N° 11
The Rolling Stones – Get Off Of My Cloud

- Country: UK
- Music/Lyrics: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
- Highest Position: N° 6
- Weeks in the charts: 12
- Video clip

 

 

N° 10
Claudia Sylva – Toi et moi

- Country: Belgium
- Music/Lyrics: Claudia Sylva, Bernard Bourjoy
- Highest Position: N° 10
- Weeks in the charts: 8
- Video clip
 

 

 

N° 9
Chris Andrews – Yesterday Man

- Country: UK
- Music/Lyrics: Chris Andrews
- Highest Position: N° 2
- Weeks in the charts: 19
- Video clip
 

 

 

N° 8
Marc Aryan – Un jour

- Country: Belgium / France
- Music/Lyrics: Marc Aryan
- Highest Position: N° 8
- Weeks in the charts: 14
- Video clip
 

 


N° 7
Johnny Lion – Sophietje

- Country: Netherlands
- Music/Lyrics: Gerrit den Braber, Thore Skogman
- Highest Position: N° 7
- Weeks in the charts: 16
- Video clip



 

N° 6
Hervé Vilard – Capri c'est fini

- Country: France
- Music/Lyrics: Hervé Vilard, Marcel Hurten
- Highest Position: N° 2
- Weeks in the charts: 15
- Video clip



 

N° 5
Dave Berry – This Strange Effect

- Country: UK
- Music/Lyrics: Ray Davies
- Highest Position: N° 4
- Weeks in the charts: 26
- Video clip



 

N° 4
André Brasseur – Early Bird

- Country: Belgium
- Music/Lyrics: André Brasseur
- Highest Position: N° 1
- Weeks in the charts: 16
- Video clip



 

N° 3
The Beatles – Yesterday

- Country: UK
- Music/Lyrics: John Lennon, Paul McCartney
- Highest Position: N° 1
- Weeks in the charts: 23
- Video clip
 

 

 

N° 2
Christophe – Aline

- Country: France
- Music/Lyrics: Daniel Bevilacqua
- Highest Position: N° 1
- Weeks in the charts: 21
- Video clip




N° 1
Shawn Elliott – Shame And Scandal In The Family

- Country: Puerto Rico  / USA
- Music/Lyrics: Lord Melody, Lancelot Pinard
- Highest Position: N° 1
- Weeks in the charts: 20
- Video clip