"Doctor Zhivago (film) Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 British-Italian epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean. It is set in Russia between the years prior to World War I and the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922, and is based on the 1957 Boris Pasternak novel of the same name. While immensely popular in the West, the book was banned in the Soviet Union for decades. For this reason, the film could not be made in the Soviet Union and was instead filmed mostly in Spain. The film stars Omar Sharif in the title role as Yuri Zhivago, a married"
"director to win more than one Oscar for directing. Lean had his greatest box-office success with ""Doctor Zhivago"" (1965), a romance set during the Russian Revolution. The film, based on the banned novel by Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet Boris Pasternak, tells the story of a brilliant and warm-hearted physician and poet (Omar Sharif) who, while seemingly happily married into the Russian aristocracy, and a father, falls in love with a beautiful abandoned young mother named Lara (Julie Christie) and struggles to be with her in the chaos of the Bolshevik revolution and subsequent Russian Civil War. Initially, reviews for ""Doctor"
"23rd Golden Globe Awards The 23rd Golden Globe Awards, honouring the best in film for 1965 films, were held on 28 February 1966. ""' Omar Sharif - ""Doctor Zhivago"" ""' Lee Marvin - ""Cat Ballou"" ""' Samantha Eggar - ""The Collector"" ""' Julie Andrews – ""The Sound of Music"" ""' David Lean - ""Doctor Zhivago"" ""' ""Doctor Zhivago"" ""' ""The Sound of Music"" ""' ""Darling"" ""' ""Juliet of the Spirits (Giulietta degli spiriti)"", Italy ""Doctor Zhivago"" - Maurice Jarre ""' ""Forget Domani"" - ""The Yellow Rolls-Royce"" ""' ""Doctor Zhivago"" - Robert Bolt ""' Oskar Werner - ""The Spy Who Came"
"of a destroyer commander in the epic war film ""The Longest Day"" (1962). For playing a survivor of the Holocaust in the drama ""The Pawnbroker"" (1964), he garnered a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and nominations for the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award in the same category. The following year, he was cast in the role of a ruthless Russian politician ""Doctor Zhivago"", which was the biggest box-office success of the 1960s, and was included in AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies. He won an Academy, a BAFTA and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for"
"82, ""Arthur's Hallowed Ground"", starring Jimmy Jewel, which was made for television. Freddie Young Frederick A. Young, (9 October 1902 – 1 December 1998), (often credited as F.A. Young) was a British cinematographer. He is probably best known for his work on David Lean's films ""Lawrence of Arabia"" (1962), ""Doctor Zhivago"" (1965) and ""Ryan's Daughter"" (1970), all three of which won him Academy Awards for Best Cinematography. He was also director of photography on more than 130 films, including many other notable productions, such as ""Goodbye, Mr Chips"" (1939), ""49th Parallel"" (1941), ""Lust for Life"" (1956), ""The Inn of the"
"Zhivago"" were lukewarm, but critics have since come to see it as one of Lean's best films, with film director Paul Greengrass calling it ""one of the great masterpieces of cinema"". , it is the 8th highest-grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation. Producer Carlo Ponti used Maurice Jarre's lush romantic score to create a pop tune called ""Lara's Theme"", which became an international hit song with lyrics under the title ""Somewhere My Love"", one of cinema's most successful theme songs. The British director of photography, Freddie Young, won an Academy Award for his color cinematography. Around the same"
"in from the Cold"" ""' Ruth Gordon - ""Inside Daisy Clover"" ""' David Janssen - ""The Fugitive"" ""' Anne Francis - ""Honey West"" ""' ""The Man from U.N.C.L.E."" Winners (minimum 1 win) Nominees (minimum 2 nominations) 23rd Golden Globe Awards The 23rd Golden Globe Awards, honouring the best in film for 1965 films, were held on 28 February 1966. ""' Omar Sharif - ""Doctor Zhivago"" ""' Lee Marvin - ""Cat Ballou"" ""' Samantha Eggar - ""The Collector"" ""' Julie Andrews – ""The Sound of Music"" ""' David Lean - ""Doctor Zhivago"" ""' ""Doctor Zhivago"" ""' ""The Sound of Music"" ""'"
"(1959) directed by Carol Reed, starring Sir Alec Guinness and Noël Coward. But perhaps her most memorable work may well be from her collaboration with Sir David Lean on two of his most critically acclaimed films: ""Lawrence of Arabia"" in 1962, starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif; and again three years later on ""Dr. Zhivago"" starring Sharif and Julie Christie, for which she won her first Academy Award. For this particular film, Dalton and her team ended up making 3,000 individual costumes and putting together 35,000 individual items of clothing for the extras. The characters of Zhivago (Sharif) and Lara"
"Freddie Young Frederick A. Young, (9 October 1902 – 1 December 1998), (often credited as F.A. Young) was a British cinematographer. He is probably best known for his work on David Lean's films ""Lawrence of Arabia"" (1962), ""Doctor Zhivago"" (1965) and ""Ryan's Daughter"" (1970), all three of which won him Academy Awards for Best Cinematography. He was also director of photography on more than 130 films, including many other notable productions, such as ""Goodbye, Mr Chips"" (1939), ""49th Parallel"" (1941), ""Lust for Life"" (1956), ""The Inn of the Sixth Happiness"" (1958), ""Lord Jim"" (1965), ""Battle of Britain"" (1969), ""Nicholas and"
"physician whose life is irreversibly altered by the Russian Revolution and subsequent Civil War, and Julie Christie as his married love interest Lara Antipova. The supporting cast includes Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Tom Courtenay, Ralph Richardson, Siobhán McKenna and Rita Tushingham. Contemporary critics were generally disappointed, complaining of its length at over three hours, and claiming that it trivialized history, but acknowledging the intensity of the love story and the film's treatment of human themes. Over time, however, the film's reputation has improved greatly. At the 38th Academy Awards, ""Doctor Zhivago"" won five Oscars: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best"
"film worldwide after adjusting for inflation. The film was also entered into the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. In 2002, the 35th Anniversary version of ""Doctor Zhivago"" was issued on DVD (two-disc set), and another Anniversary Edition in 2010 on Blu-ray (a three-disc set that includes a book). Upon its initial release, ""Doctor Zhivago"" was criticized for its romanticization of the revolution. Bosley Crowther of ""The New York Times"" felt that the film's focus on the love story between Zhivago and Lara trivialized the events of the Russian Revolution and the resulting civil war, but was impressed by the film's visuals."
"category for ""Lawrence of Arabia"" (1962), ""Doctor Zhivago"" (1965), and ""A Passage to India"" (1984), all of which were directed by David Lean. He also won four Golden Globes, two BAFTA Awards, and a Grammy Award. Jarre was born in Lyon, France, in 1924, the son of Gabrielle Renée (""née"" Boullu) and André Jarre, a radio technical director. He first enrolled in the engineering school at the Sorbonne, but decided to pursue music courses instead. He left the Sorbonne against his father's will and enrolled at the ""Conservatoire de Paris"" to study composition and harmony and chose percussion as his"
"internationally. Directed by Schlesinger, and co-starring Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey, Christie had only been cast in the lead role after Schlesinger insisted, the studio having wanted Shirley MacLaine. She received the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress in a Leading Role for her performance. In David Lean's ""Doctor Zhivago"" (also 1965), adapted from the epic/romance novel by Boris Pasternak, Christie's role as Lara Antipova became her best known. The film was a major box-office success. , ""Doctor Zhivago"" is the 8th highest-grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation. According to ""Life"""
"Boris Pasternak and other family members. Since 2003, the novel Doctor Zhivago has entered the Russian school curriculum, where it is read in the 11th grade of high-school. The first screen adaptation of ""Doctor Zhivago"", adapted by Robert Bolt and directed by David Lean, appeared in 1965. The film, which toured in the roadshow tradition, starred Omar Sharif, Geraldine Chaplin, and Julie Christie. Concentrating on the love triangle aspects of the novel, the film became a worldwide blockbuster, but was unavailable in Russia until Perestroika. In 2002, the novel was adapted as a television miniseries. Directed by Giacomo Campiotti, the"
"(1962), General Yevgraf Zhivago in ""Doctor Zhivago"" (1965), and Professor Godbole in ""A Passage to India"" (1984). He is also known for his portrayal of Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucas's original ""Star Wars"" trilogy; for the original film, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 50th Academy Awards. Guinness was one of three British actors, along with Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud, who made the transition from Shakespearean theatre to blockbuster films immediately after World War II. Guinness served in the Royal Naval Reserve during the war and commanded a landing craft during the invasion of Sicily and"
"the early 1960s, when Hollywood frequently collaborated with foreign film studios (such as Rome's Cinecittà) to use relatively exotic locations in Spain, Morocco, and elsewhere for the production of epic films such as ""El Cid"" (1961) or ""Lawrence of Arabia"" (1962). This boom period of international co-productions is generally considered to have ended with ""Cleopatra"" (1963), ""The Fall of the Roman Empire"" (1964), and ""Doctor Zhivago"" (1965). Nevertheless, films in this genre continued to appear, with one notable example being ""War and Peace"", which was released in the former Soviet Union during 1967-1968 and, directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, and said"
"while a commercial and critical flop at the time, has since come to be regarded as a film classic. The losses caused by these films led to the resignations of Sol Siegel and Joseph Vogel who were replaced by Robert M. Weitman (head of production) and Robert O'Brien (president). The combination of O'Brien and Weitman seemed to temporarily revive the studio. In 1965 MGM released David Lean's immensely popular ""Doctor Zhivago"", later followed by such hits as ""The Dirty Dozen"" (1967) and """" (1968). However the company's time was taken up fighting off proxy attacks by corporate raiders, and then"
"Doctor Zhivago (miniseries) Doctor Zhivago is a 2002 British television miniseries directed by Giacomo Campiotti and starring Hans Matheson, Keira Knightley and Sam Neill. The teleplay by Andrew Davies is based on the 1957 novel of the same title by Boris Pasternak. The serial is the second English-language screen adaptation of the book, following the 1965 feature film. It was produced by Granada Television, with co-funding from the American PBS station WGBH Boston and the German company Evision. It was first broadcast on ITV in the United Kingdom, beginning on 24 November 2002. In the United States, it aired as"
"now working for a Ministry of Defence (MoD). Adjusted for inflation, David Lean's ""Doctor Zhivago"" (1965) is among the top ten highest-grossing films. ""A Man for All Seasons"" (1966), based on Sir Thomas More, is listed by the Vatican as being among the greatest religious movies. Other major British films of the 1960s included ""Lawrence of Arabia"" (1962), ""Tom Jones"" (1963), ""Zulu"" (1964) and ""Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines"" (1965). Four of the decade's Academy Award winners for best picture were British productions, including the film musical ""Oliver!"" (1968) based on Charles Dickens' classic ""Oliver Twist"", with Ron"
"Tom Courtenay Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay (; born 25 February 1937) is an English actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of films, including ""The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"" (1962), ""Billy Liar"" (1963), and ""Doctor Zhivago"" (1965). Since the mid-1960s, he has been known primarily for his work in the theatre, although he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for the film adaptation of ""The Dresser"" (1983), which he had performed on the West End and on Broadway. He was created a Knight Bachelor in February 2001 for his services to"
"to world film and cultural diversity. The medal, which is awarded very infrequently, is named after Russian director Sergei Eisenstein. Only 25 have been struck, as determined by the agreement between UNESCO, Russia's Mosfilm and the Vivat Foundation. Omar Sharif Omar Sharif (, ; born Michel Dimitri Chalhoub ; 10 April 193210 July 2015) was an Egyptian actor of Lebanese origin. He began his career in his native country in the 1950s, but is best known for his appearances in both English and American productions. His films included ""Lawrence of Arabia"" (1962), ""Doctor Zhivago"" (1965), and ""Funny Girl"" (1968). He"
"Robert O'Brien (executive) Robert H. O'Brien (1907–1997) was a businessman and Hollywood executive who was president of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the 1960s. He took over the position in the wake of the debacle of ""Mutiny on the Bounty"" (1962). Under O'Brien's regime, in partnership with head of producer Robert M. Weitman, MGM produced its last run of classic films, including ""Dr Zhivago"" (1965), ""The Dirty Dozen"" (1967) and """" (1968). A series of flop films such as ""The Shoes of the Fisherman"" and ""Ice Station Zebra"" saw him removed from his position as president in 1969. He was replaced by Louis"
"but his script was considered unsatisfactory and he was replaced by John Briley. Bolt also had several unrealised projects, including a TV miniseries of Gore Vidal's novel ""Burr"" and an adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's ""A Wrinkle in Time"" for Norman Lear. After being paid $US400,000 plus ten per cent of profits for his ""Ryan's Daughter"" screenplay, Bolt became, for a time, the highest-paid screenwriter in Hollywood. Robert Bolt Robert Oxton Bolt, CBE (15 August 1924 – 21 February 1995) was an English playwright and a two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter, known for writing the screenplays for ""Lawrence of Arabia"", ""Doctor Zhivago"" and"
"Lionel Barrymore Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in ""A Free Soul"" (1931), and remains best known to modern audiences for the role of villainous Mr. Potter in Frank Capra's 1946 film ""It's a Wonderful Life"". He is also particularly remembered as Ebenezer Scrooge in annual broadcasts of ""A Christmas Carol"" during his last two decades. He is also known for playing Dr. Leonard Gillespie in MGM's"
"its televised versions; the theatrical re-release greatly revived Lean's reputation. Several of the many other later twentieth century directors who have acknowledged significant influence by Lean include Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, Spike Lee, and Sergio Leone. John Woo once named ""Lawrence of Arabia"" among his top three films. More recently, Joe Wright (""Pride & Prejudice"", ""Atonement"") has cited Lean's works, particularly ""Doctor Zhivago"", as an important influence on his work, as has director Christopher Nolan (""The Dark Knight Rises)"". The critical verdict was not unanimous, however. For example, David Thomson, writing about Lean in his ""New Biographical Dictionary of Film"","
"also was the first to record the song ""Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter"", doing so for the TV play ""The Lads"". The song was released by Decca on a 45 rpm record. For his role as the dedicated revolutionary leader Pasha Antipov in ""Doctor Zhivago"" (1965), he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, but was bested by Martin Balsam. Among his other well-known films is ""King & Country"", directed by Joseph Losey, where he played opposite Dirk Bogarde; the all-star war film, ""Operation Crossbow"", directed by Michael Anderson (starring George Peppard and Sophia Loren);"
"Bosley Crowther of ""The New York Times"", who found his character repellent. His next role, as Komarovsky, a Russian politician and ""villainous opportunist"" who rapes Julie Christie's character in David Lean's ""Doctor Zhivago"" (1965), was one of his favorites. Steiger, one of only two Americans in the cast, was initially apprehensive about working with such great British actors as Ralph Richardson and Alec Guinness, and was pleased when the film was completed that he did not stand out as an American. The film was the biggest international box office draw of the 1960s, grossing $200 million worldwide. It has since"
"director for ""The Cider House Rules"" (1999). The film earned six additional Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, with Michael Caine winning the Best Supporting Actor award and John Irving winning Best Adapted Screenplay. He followed that success the following year by directing ""Chocolat"" (2000), starring Johnny Depp, Juliette Binoche and Judi Dench. The film was a critical and box-office success, earning Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award nominations, including for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Binoche and Dench won Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress respectively at both the European Film Awards and the Screen Actors' Guild awards."
"screen he played historical figures including Sir Edward Carson (""Oscar Wilde"", 1960), WEGladstone (""Khartoum"", 1966) and Sir Edward Grey (""Oh! What a Lovely War"", 1969). He was scrupulous about historical accuracy in his portrayals, and researched eras and characters in great detail before filming. Occasionally his precision was greater than directors wished, as when, in ""Khartoum"", he insisted on wearing a small black finger-stall because the real Gladstone had worn one following an injury. After a role playing a disabled tycoon and Sean Connery's father in ""Woman of Straw"", in 1965 he played Alexander Gromeko in Lean's ""Doctor Zhivago"", an"
"3, 2012, aged 70, from cancer. Zalman King Zalman King (born Zalman King Lefkowitz; May 23, 1941 – February 3, 2012) was an American film director, writer, actor and producer. His films are known for incorporating sexuality, and are often categorized as erotica. Zalman King Lefkowitz dropped his last name at the beginning of his acting career. In 1964, he played a gang member in ""Memo from Purgatory"", an episode of the television series ""The Alfred Hitchcock Hour"" written by Harlan Ellison and featuring actors James Caan and Walter Koenig. Between 1965 and 1967 King appeared in 5 episodes of"
"him in the lead, as Yuri Zhivago, a poet and physician. Film historian Constantine Santas explained that Lean intended the film to be a poetic portrayal of the period, with large vistas of landscapes combined with a powerful score by Maurice Jarre. He noted that Sharif's role is ""passive"", his eyes reflecting ""reality"" which then become ""the mirror of reality we ourselves see"". In a commentary on the DVD (2001 edition), Sharif described Lean's style of directing as similar to a general commanding an army. The film was a huge hit. For his performance, Sharif won the Golden Globe Award"
"16th Golden Globe Awards The 16th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1958 films, were held on March 5, 1959. ""' David Niven – ""Separate Tables"" ""' Danny Kaye – ""Me and the Colonel"" ""' Susan Hayward – ""I Want to Live!"" ""' Rosalind Russell – ""Auntie Mame"" ""' Burl Ives – ""The Big Country"" ""' Hermione Gingold – ""Gigi"" ""' Vincente Minnelli – ""Gigi"" ""' ""The Defiant Ones"" ""' ""Gigi"" ""' ""Auntie Mame"" ""' ""Das Mädchen Rosemarie"" (West Germany) ""' ""L'Eau vive"" (France) ""' ""The Year Long Road"" (Yugoslavia) ""' ""A Night to Remember"" ""' ""The"
"Doctor Zhivago (novel) Doctor Zhivago () is a novel by Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957 in Italy. The novel is named after its protagonist, Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet, and takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and World War II. Due to the author's independent-minded stance on the October Revolution, ""Doctor Zhivago"" was refused publication in the USSR. At the instigation of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, the manuscript was smuggled to Milan and published in 1957. Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature the following year, an event which embarrassed and enraged the Communist Party of the"