THE BEST OF 1966

[Antonio]

BEST PICTURE/DIRECTOR
ALFIE (Lewis Gilbert)
BLOW-UP (Michaelangelo Antonioni)
SECONDS (John Frankenheimer)
THIS PROPERTY IS CONDEMNED (Sydney Pollack)
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (Mike Nichols)

BEST ACTOR
Richard Burton in WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
Michael Caine in ALFIE
David Hemmings in BLOW-UP
Rock Hudson in SECONDS
Oskar Werner in FAHRENHEIT 451

BEST ACTRESS
Julie Christie in FAHRENHEIT 451
Lynn Redgrave in GEORGY GIRL
Vanessa Redgrave in BLOW-UP
Elizabeth Taylor in WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
Natalie Wood in THIS PROPERTY IS CONDEMNED

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Cyril Cusack in FAHRENHEIT 451
James Mason in GEORGY GIRL
John Randolph in SECONDS
George Segal in WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
Eli Wallach in THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Sandy Dennis in WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
Vivien Merchant in ALFIE
Geraldine Page in YOU’RE A BIG BOY NOW
Charlotte Rampling in GEORGY GIRL
Shelley Winters in ALFIE

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Ernest Lehman for WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Bill Naughton for ALFIE

I couldn't for the life of me locate this topic/thread via search engine. I've finally seen enough films from 1966 to create a topic with five nominees in each of the major categories. Knock yourselves out...

[Ted Pikul]

Out of those films it's Seconds all the way.

That film is truly terrifying.

[Hannibal21]

BEST PICTURE:
1. Persona
2. Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?
3. Blow-Up
4. Seconds
5. A Man For All Seasons

BEST DIRECTOR: Ingmar Bergman for Persona (Runner-up: Mike Nichols for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

BEST ACTOR: Richard Burton in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Runner-up: Rock Hudson in Seconds)

BEST ACTRESS: Liv Ullmann in Persona (Runner-up: Elizabeth Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: George Seagal in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Runner-up: Eli Wallach in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Sandy Dennis in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Runner-up: Shelley Winters in Alfie)

BEST SCREENPLAY: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

A great, underrated year for movies. The hardest category to decide was "Best Actress", seeing as how Ullmann and Taylor's performances are both in my list of the ten greatest female performances of all time. Ironically, I consider Liz's performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to be the best out of anyone else in that film, yet she's the only one to not get an award from me.

[Jake_Vig]

BEST PICTURE:

1Alfie (Lewis Gilbert)
2Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
3Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)
4Blow-Up (Michaelangelo Antonioni)
5The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto)

BEST DIRECTOR:
Ingmar Bergman (Persona)

BEST ACTOR:
Michael Caine (Alfie)

BEST ACTRESS:
Elizabeth Taylor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
George Seagal (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Vivien Merchant (Alfie)

BEST SCREENPLAY:
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

A very underrated year. Other than Bergman and Antonioni, there were no significant films from the masters of the time (Truffaut, Godard, Hitchcock, Fellini, etc.) and (arguably) the best 5-10 years of movies ever came right after. Nevertheless, Liz Taylor was classic, as was Michael Caine.

[wyodebbie]

"Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf" all the way - Richard Burton best actor, Elizabeth Taylor best actress, George Segal best supporting actor, Sandy Dennis best supporting actress and best screenplay