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The “Great To Be Nominated” series, featuring the picture from each Academy year which received the most nominations without winning the Best Picture Award, continues its third installment with five titles in June, then continues throughout the summer. 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. |
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Monday, June 5th |
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 David Lean’s spectacular film of Boris Pasternak’s novel was one of the most popular romances of the 1960s, solidifying the stardom of Omar Sharif and Julie Christie and introducing composer Maurice Jarre’s popular “Lara’s Theme.” The film received ten nominations including Best Picture, Actor in a Supporting Role (Tom Courtenay), Directing (Lean), Film Editing (Norman Savage), Sound (A.W. Watkins, Franklin E. Milton), and won Oscars® for Color Art Direction (John Box, Terry Marsh, Dario Simoni), Color Cinematography (Freddie Young), Costume Design (Phyllis Dalton), Music Score – substantially original (Jarre) and Writing – Screenplay based on material from another medium (Robert Bolt). The film will be preceded by a newly restored print of the nominated live action short Time Piece, produced by and starring Jim Henson. |
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Monday, June 12th |
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 Stage director Mike Nichols made his feature directing debut with this adaptation of Edward Albee’s Tony Award-winning drama, which gave Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton their most acclaimed vehicle and helped pave the way for a new era of permissiveness in Hollywood filmmaking. The film received thirteen nominations including Best Picture, Actor (Burton), Actor in a Supporting Role (George Segal), Directing (Nichols), Film Editing (Sam O’Steen), Original Music Score (Alex North), Sound (George R. Groves), Writing – Screenplay based on material from another medium (Ernest Lehman), and won Oscars for Actress (Taylor), Actress in a Supporting Role (Sandy Dennis), Black-and-White Art Direction (Richard Sylbert and George James Hopkins), Black-and-White Cinematography (Haskell Wexler) and Black-and-White Costume Design (Irene Sharaff). Post-film discussion with cinematographer Haskell Wexler. |
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Monday, June 19th |
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 The screen’s most beloved couple, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, teamed up for the final time in Stanley Kramer’s popular comedy-drama about love, family, and race relations. The film received ten nominations, including Best Picture, Actor (Tracy), Actor in a Supporting Role (Cecil Kellaway), Actress in a Supporting Role (Beah Richards), Art Direction (Robert Clatworthy and Frank Tuttle), Directing (Stanley Kramer), Music Score – Adaptation or Treatment (DeVol), and won Oscars for Actress (Hepburn) and Writing – Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen (William Rose). The film will be preceded by the animated short nominee What on Earth! from the National Film Board of Canada and live action short nominee A Place to Stand, produced for the 1967 World’s Fair in Montreal and presented from an IB Technicolor print. |
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Tuesday, June 20th |
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 Actor Warren Beatty began his producing career with this daringly sexy and violent look at the ’30s bank robbers, with Arthur Penn directing Beatty and Faye Dunaway in a groundbreaking screenplay by Robert Benton and David Newman. The film received ten nominations, including Best Picture, Actor (Beatty), Actor in a Supporting Role (Gene Hackman), Actor in a Supporting Role (Michael J. Pollard), Actress (Dunaway), Costume Design (Theadora Van Runkle), Directing (Penn), Writing – Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen (Newman and Benton), and won Oscars for Actress in a Supporting Role (Estelle Parsons) and Cinematography (Burnett Guffey). The film will be preceded by live action short nominee Stop, Look and Listen. |
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Monday, June 26th |
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 Barbra Streisand re-created her stage triumph as Ziegfeld star Fanny Brice in William Wyler’s lavish musical biopic, which earned the star an Oscar for her film debut. The film received eight nominations, including Best Picture, Actress in a Supporting Role (Kay Medford), Cinematography (Harry Stradling), Film Editing (Robert Swink, Maury Winetrobe and William Sands), Music – Score of a Musical – original or adaptation (Walter Scharf), Music – Original Song (Jule Styne and Bob Merrill) and Sound (Columbia Studio Sound Department), and won the Oscar for Actress (Streisand, who tied for the honor with Katharine Hepburn). The film will be preceded by animated short nominee The House That Jack Built from the National Film Board of Canada and live action short nominee The Dove. |
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