Showing posts with label Maggie Smith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maggie Smith. Show all posts

Friday, 19 February 2021

1970, Film and Television Awards: British Academy Awards (BAFTAs)

Best Film
Winner: "Midnight Cowboy"
(John Schlesinger, Waldo Salt, James Leo Herlihy, USA, 1969)

Nominees:

  • "Oh! What a Lovely War" (Richard Attenborough, Charles Chilton, Joan Littlewood, Ted Allan, UK,1969)
  • "Women in Love" (Ken Russell, D.H. Lawrence, Larry Kramer, UK, 1969)
  • "Z" (Costa-Gavras, Vasilis Vasilikos, Jorge Semprún, France / Algeria, 1969)

Best Actor
Winner: Dustin Hoffman as John in "John and Mary"
(Peter Yates, John Mortimer, Mervyn Jones, USA, 19
69) and as Ratso in "Midnight Cowboy" (John Schlesinger, Waldo Salt, James Leo Herlihy, USA, 1969)

Nominees:

  • Alan Bates as Rupert Birkin in "Women in Love" (Ken Russell, D.H. Lawrence, Larry Kramer, UK, 1969)
  • Nicol Williamson as Bill Maitland in "Inadmissible Evidence" (Anthony Page, John Osborne, UK, 1968)
  • Walter Matthau as The Movie Star in "The Secret Life of an American Wife" (George Axelrod, USA, 1968)

Best Actress
Winner: Maggie Smith as Jean Brodie in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"
(Ronald Neame, Muriel Spark, Jay Presson Allen, U
K, 1969)

Nominees:

  • Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice in "Funny Girl" (William Wyler, Isobel Lennart, USA, 1968) and as Dolly Levi in "Hello, Dolly!" (Gene Kelly, Michael Stewart, Thornton Wilder, Ernest Lehman, USA, 1969)
  • Glenda Jackson as Gudrun Brangwan in "Women in Love" (Ken Russell, D.H. Lawrence, Larry Kramer, UK, 1969)
  • Mia Farrow as Mary in "John and Mary" (Peter Yates, John Mortimer, Mervyn Jones, USA, 1969), as Rosemary Woodhouse in "Rosemary's Baby" (Roman Polanski, Ira Levin, USA, 1968) and as Cenci in "Secret Ceremony" (Joseph Losey, Marco Denevi, George Tabori, UK, 1968)

Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Laurence Olivier as John French in "Oh! What a Lovely War"
(
Richard Attenborough, Charles Chilton, Joan Littlewood, Ted Allan, UK, 1969)

Nominees:

  • Jack Klugman as Ben Patimk in "Goodbye, Columbus" (Larry Peerce, Philip Roth, Arnold Schulman, USA, 1969)
  • Jack Nicholson as George Hanson in "Easy Rider" (Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Terry Southern, USA, 1969)
  • Robert Vaughn as Senator Walter Chalmers in "Bullitt" (Peter Yates, Alan Trustman, Harry Kleiner, Robert L. Fish, USA, 1968)

Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Celia Johnson as Miss Mackay in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"
(Ronald Neame, Muriel Spark, Jay Presson Allen, U
K, 1969)

Nominees:

  • Mary Wimbush as Mary Smith in "Oh! What a Lovely War" (Richard Attenborough, Charles Chilton, Joan Littlewood, Ted Allan, UK,1969)
  • Pamela Franklin as Sandy in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (Ronald Neame, Muriel Spark, Jay Presson Allen, UK, 1969)
  • Peggy Ashcroft as Belle in "Three into Two Won't Go" (Peter Hall, Andrea Newman, Edna O'Brien, UK, 1969)

Best Direction
Winner: John Schlesinger for "Midnight Cowboy"
(John Schlesinger, Waldo Salt, James Leo Herlihy, USA, 19
69)

Nominees:

  • Ken Russell for "Women in Love" (Ken Russell, D.H. Lawrence, Larry Kramer, UK, 1969)
  • Peter Yates for "Bullitt" (Peter Yates, Alan Trustman, Harry Kleiner, Robert L. Fish, USA, 1968)
  • Richard Attenborough for "Oh! What a Lovely War" (Richard Attenborough, Charles Chilton, Joan Littlewood, Ted Allan, UK,1969)

Best Screenplay
Winner: Waldo Salt for "Midnight Cowboy"
(John Schlesinger, Waldo Salt, James Leo Herlihy, USA, 19
69)

Nominees:

  • Arnold Schulman for"Goodbye, Columbus" (Larry Peerce, Philip Roth, Arnold Schulman, USA, 1969)
  • Larry Kramer for"Women in Love" (Ken Russell, D.H. Lawrence, Larry Kramer, UK, 1969)
  • Costa-Gavras and Jorge Semprún for"Z" (Costa-Gavras, Vasilis Vasilikos, Jorge Semprún, France / Algeria, 1969)

Best Cinematography
Winner: Gerry Turpin for "Oh! What a Lovely War"
(
Richard Attenborough, Charles Chilton, Joan Littlewood, Ted Allan, UK, 1969)

Nominees:

  • William A. Fraker with "Bullitt" (Peter Yates, Alan Trustman, Harry Kleiner, Robert L. Fish, USA, 1968)
  • Harry Stradling with "Funny Girl" (William Wyler, Isobel Lennart, USA, 1968) and "Hello, Dolly!" (Gene Kelly, Michael Stewart, Thornton Wilder, Ernest Lehman, USA, 1969)
  • Billy Williams with "The Magus" (Guy Green, John Fowles, UK, 1968) and "Women in Love" (Ken Russell, D.H. Lawrence, Larry Kramer, UK, 1969)

Best Costume Design
Winner: Anthony Mendleson for "Oh! What a Lovely War"
(
Richard Attenborough, Charles Chilton, Joan Littlewood, Ted Allan, UK, 1969)

Nominees:

  • Irene Sharaff for "Funny Girl" (William Wyler, Isobel Lennart, USA, 1968)
  • Ruth Myers for "Isadora" (Karel Reisz, Melvyn Bragg, Margaret Drabble, Isadora Duncan, Clive Exton, Sewell Stokes, UK / France, 1968)
  • Shirley Ann Russell for "Women in Love" (Ken Russell, D.H. Lawrence, Larry Kramer, UK, 1969)

Best Film Editing
Winner: Hugh A. Robertson for "Midnight Cowboy"
(John Schlesinger, Waldo Salt, James Leo Herlihy, USA, 19
69)

Nominees:

  • Frank P. Keller for "Bullitt" (Peter Yates, Alan Trustman, Harry Kleiner, Robert L. Fish, USA, 1968)
  • Kevin Connor for "Oh! What a Lovely War" (Richard Attenborough, Charles Chilton, Joan Littlewood, Ted Allan, UK,1969)
  • Françoise Bonnot for "Z" (Costa-Gavras, Vasilis Vasilikos, Jorge Semprún, France / Algeria, 1969)

Best Sound Track
Winner: Don Challis and Simon Kaye for "Oh! What a Lovely War"
(
Richard Attenborough, Charles Chilton, Joan Littlewood, Ted Allan, UK, 1969)

Nominees:

  • Ted Mason and Jim Shields for "Battle of Britain" (Guy Hamilton, James Kennaway, Wilfred Greatorex, Derek Dempster, Derek Wood, UK, 1969)
  • Edwin Scheid for "Bullitt" (Peter Yates, Alan Trustman, Harry Kleiner, Robert L. Fish, USA, 1968)
  • Terry Rawlings for "Isadora" (Karel Reisz, Melvyn Bragg, Margaret Drabble, Isadora Duncan, Clive Exton, Sewell Stokes, UK / France, 1968) and "Women in Love" (Ken Russell, D.H. Lawrence, Larry Kramer, UK, 1969)

Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles
Winner: Jon Voight as Joe Buck in "Midnight Cowboy"
(John Schlesinger, Waldo Salt, James Leo Herlihy, USA, 19
69)

Nominees:

  • Ali MacGraw as Brenda Patimk in "Goodbye, Columbus" (Larry Peerce, Philip Roth, Arnold Schulman, USA, 1969)
  • Jennie Linden as Ursula Brangwen in "Women in Love" (Ken Russell, D.H. Lawrence, Larry Kramer, UK, 1969)
  • Kim Darby as Mattie Ross in "True Grit" (Henry Hathaway, Charles Portis, Marguerite Roberts, USA, 1969)


Saturday, 9 August 2014

1976, Film: “Murder by Death”

On 23 June 1976 the American mystery comedy film "Murder by Death" is released by Columbia Pictures. The film featured an impressive cast with amongst others Truman Capote, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, David Niven, Peter Sellers and Maggie Smith. It was written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore.

The film is a spoof of the traditional whodunit such as Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" with the cast playing parodies of fictional detectives, including Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Charlie Chan, Nick and Nora Charles, and Sam Spade.


Alec Guinness
Peter Sellers
Truman Capote
Synopsis
The world's most famous detectives are invited to a "dinner and murder" by the wealthy Lionel Twain (Truman Capote). The invitees are: New York amateur detectives Dick (David Niven) and Dora Charleston (Maggie Smith), Belgian detective Milo Perrier (James Coco) accompanied by his chauffeur Marcel (James Cromwell), Chinese Inspector Sidney Wang (Peter Sellers) accompanied by his Japanese adopted son Willie Wang (Richard Narita), British Miss Jessica Marbles (Elsa Lanchester) accompanied by her invalid nurse Miss Withers (Estelle Winwood) and San Francisco detective Sam Diamond (Peter Falk) accompanied by his sidekick Tess Skeffington (Eileen Brennan)...
Left to right: James Coco, James Cromwell, Eileen Brennan, Peter Falk, Richard Narita,
Estelle Winwood, Elsa Lanchester, Peter Sellers, David Niven and Maggie Smith

Eileen Brennan, David Niven and Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith, David Niven and Eileen Brennan
Main Cast
  • Eileen Brennan as Tess Skeffington
  • Truman Capote as Lionel Twain
  • James Coco as Milo Perrier
  • Peter Falk as Sam Diamond
  • Alec Guinness as Bensonmum
  • Elsa Lanchester as Jessica Marbles
  • David Niven as Dick Charleston
  • Peter Sellers as Sidney Wang
  • Maggie Smith as Dora Charleston
  • Nancy Walker as Yetta
  • Estelle Winwood as Miss Withers
  • James Cromwell as Marcel
  • Richard Narita as Willie Wang
Left to right: Richard Narita, Eileen Brennan, James Cromwell, James Coco,
Elsa Lanchester, Estelle Winwood, Peter Falk, David Niven and Maggie Smith
Left to right: Maggie Smith, James Coco, David Niven,
Elsa Lanchester, Peter Falk and Estelle Winwood

"Murder by Death" Trailer