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The “Great To Be Nominated” series, featuring the picture from each Academy year that received the most nominations without winning the Best Picture Award, continues its third installment with four titles in July, then continues through the end of August. Each evening will also include animated and live action short subjects, original advertising trailers, outtakes, newsreels and other surprises to offer up a snapshot of that particular year. The very best prints available will be screened at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater, one of the finest screening facilities in the world. All of the following screenings are currently scheduled to include panel discussions; participants subject to change. |
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Monday, July 10 |
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 Maxwell Anderson’s play about Anne Boleyn and her relationship with England’s Henry VIII became the basis for this lavish historical romance, which paired Richard Burton with newcomer Genevieve Bujold. The film received ten nominations, including Best Picture, Actor (Burton), Actor in a Supporting Role (Anthony Quayle), Actress (Bujold), Art Direction (Maurice Carter, Lionel Couch and Patrick McLoughlin), Cinematography (Arthur Ibbetson), Music – Original Score (Georges Delerue), Sound (John Aldred) and Writing – screenplay based on material from another medium (John Hale, Bridget Boland and Richard Sokolove) and won an Oscar for Costume Design (Margaret Furse). 145 minutes. The film will be preceded by animated short nominee Walking by Ryan Larkin. Genevieve Bujold (schedule permitting) and director Charles Jarrott will participate in an on-stage discussion. |
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Monday, July 17 |
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 This blockbuster adaptation of Arthur Hailey’s novel brought together a cast of top Hollywood stars, initiated the disaster movie craze of the 1970s, and inspired three sequels. The film received ten nominations, including Best Picture, Actress in a Supporting Role (Maureen Stapleton), Art Direction (Alexander Golitzen, E. Preston Ames, Jack D. Moore and Mickey S. Michaels), Cinematography (Ernest Laszlo), Costume Design (Edith Head), Film Editing (Stuart Gilmore), Music – Original Score (Alfred Newman), Sound (Ronald Pierce and David Moriarty) and Writing – Screenplay based on material from another medium (George Seaton) and won for Actress in a Supporting Role (Helen Hayes). 137 minutes. The film will be preceded by animated short nominee The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam. Jacqueline Bisset (schedule permitting) will participate in an on-stage discussion. |
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Monday, July 24 |
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 The popular Broadway musical based on Sholom Aleichem’s stories about Tevye the milkman and his family in prerevolutionary Russia became a lavish and critically acclaimed film under the direction of Norman Jewison. The film received eight nominations, including Best Picture, Actor (Topol), Actor in a Supporting Role (Leonard Frey), Art Direction (Robert Boyle, Michael Stringer and Peter Lamont), Directing (Jewison) and won Oscars for Cinematography (Oswald Morris), Music – Scoring – adaptation and original song score (John Williams) and Sound (Gordon K. McCallum and David Hildyard). 181 minutes. The film will be preceded by animated short nominee Evolution. Producer Walter Mirisch, editor Antony Gibbs, casting director Lynn Stalmaster and production designer Robert Boyle will participate in a panel discussion. |
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Monday, July 31 |
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 Bob Fosse’s stylish film of the Kander and Ebb stage hit was the last Broadway-originated movie musical to be a major Oscar contender until another Kander and Ebb smash, Chicago, won Best Picture 30 years later. It is also the film to receive the most Oscars without winning in the Best Picture category. It received ten nominations, including Best Picture and Writing – Screenplay based on material from another medium (Jay Presson Allen) and won for Actor in a Supporting Role (Joel Grey), Actress (Liza Minnelli), Art Direction (Rolf Zehetbauer, Jurgen Kiebach and Herbert Strabel), Cinematography (Geoffrey Unsworth), Directing (Bob Fosse), Film Editing (David Bretherton), Music – Scoring – adaptation and original song Score (Ralph Burns) and Sound (Robert Knudson and David Hildyard). 124 minutes. Michael York (schedule permitting) and others to be announced will participate in a panel discussion. |
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