1969, Film and Television Awards: Étoiles de cristal (France)

Grand prix (Best French Film)
'Z' (Costa-Gavras)

'Z' poster

Meilleur acteur (Best Actor)
Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel in 'Baisers volés'

Claude Jade and Jean-Pierre Léaud in 'Baisers volés'

Meilleure actrice (Best Actress)
Françoise Rosay

Françoise Rosay

Prix international (Best Foreign Film)
'Secret Ceremony' (Joseph Losey)

'Secret Ceremony' poster

Meilleur acteur étranger (Best Foreign Actor)
Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock in 'The Graduate'

Dustin Hoffman in 'The Graduate'

Meilleure actrice étrangère (Best Foreign Actress)
Elizabeth Taylor as Leonora and Mia Farrow as Cenci in 'Secret Ceremony'

Elizabeth Taylor and Mia Farrow in 'Secret Ceremony'

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’

1966, Deaths: Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift died on 23 July, 1966, of a heart ailment in his house at 217 East 61st Street. He was found dead in bed in his New York apartment, he was 45. The cause of death was listed as a heart attack, but a major contributing factor was the cumulative effect of pain killers and liquor.

He was born in Omaha on February 17, 1921, and appeared in public for the first time at the age of 13 in an amateur stage production of "As Husbands Go". During the 1950's Montgomery Clift was one of Hollywood's finest actors, but his life went downhill after he was seriously injured in a car accident in 1956. He made 18 movies and was nominated for an Oscar four times, but never took a statue home. The movies were: "The Search" (1948), "A Place in the Sun" (1951), "From Here to Eternity" (1953), and  "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961).

Elizabeth Taylor & Montgomery Clift in "A Place in the Sun" (1951)

He often played outsiders like the social climber in "A Place in the Sun", the anguished Catholic priest in "I Confess", the doomed soldier Prewitt in "From Here to Eternity", and the Jewish GI in "The Young Lions".

Montgomery Clift & Donna Reed in "From Here to Eternity" (1953)

Montgomery Clift, Marilyn Monroe & Clark Gable in "The Misfits' (1961)