For which film did screen tough-guy Lee Marvin win a Best Actor award at the 1966 Oscars?
"alongside Vivien Leigh and Simone Signoret, Marvin won the 1966 National Board of Review Award for male actors for his role in ""Ship of Fools"" (1965). Marvin won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Actor for his comic role in the offbeat Western ""Cat Ballou"" starring Jane Fonda. He also won the 1965 Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 15th Berlin International Film Festival. Marvin next performed in the hit Western ""The Professionals"" (1966), in which he played the leader of a small band of skilled mercenaries (Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, and Woody Strode) rescuing a kidnap victim (Claudia"
"the year and was nominated and won a ton of awards. At the 38th Academy Awards ceremony in 1966 it was nominated for five Oscars including one for Lee Marvin who won for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Other nominated categories included Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, Best Editing, Best Music, Original Song and Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment. At the Golden Globe Awards, Marvin won for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and the film was nominated for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Actress – Motion"
"""Route 66"", ""The Untouchables"", ""Checkmate"", ""The Dick Powell Show"", ""Combat!"", ""The Twilight Zone"", ""Kraft Suspense Theatre"", ""Dr. Kildare"", ""Wagon Train"", ""Bonanza"", Perry Mason (The Case of the Angry Astronaut), ""The Virginian"" and ""The Muppet Show"". Lee Marvin Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987) was an American film and television actor. Known for his distinctive voice and premature white hair, Marvin initially appeared in supporting roles, mostly villains, soldiers, and other hardboiled characters. A prominent television role was that of Detective Lieutenant Frank Ballinger in the NBC crime series ""M Squad"" (1957–1960). One of Marvin's most notable film"
"Cardinale) shortly after the Mexican Revolution. He followed that film with the hugely successful World War II epic ""The Dirty Dozen"" (1967) in which top-billed Marvin again portrayed an intrepid commander of a colorful group (future stars John Cassavetes, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Jim Brown, and Donald Sutherland) performing an almost impossible mission. In the wake of these two films and after having received an Oscar, Marvin was a huge star, given enormous control over his next film ""Point Blank"". In ""Point Blank"", an influential film for director John Boorman, he portrayed a hard-nosed criminal bent on revenge. Marvin, who"
"of the best-known westerns of the 1950s and 1960s, including ""The Horse Soldiers"" and ""The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"". His lunatic turn in the latter film as Lee Marvin's character's insanely sadistic henchman, gleefully giggling in anticipation of each horrendous atrocity, remains a particularly memorable performance. Martin also excelled in comedy, playing an incompetent ""Indian agent"" in the John Wayne film, ""McLintock!"" (1963) and as a hapless horse trader in the 1969 film, ""True Grit"" (1969). By the late 1960s, Martin was almost as well-known a figure as many top-billed stars. In 1967, the same year as his role"
"1966 Western ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"", where the titular characters played by Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach face each other at gunpoint. Director John Woo, considered a major influence on the action genre, is known for his highly chaotic action sequences, Mexican standoffs, and frequent use of slow motion. Director Quentin Tarantino (who has cited Woo as an influence) has featured Mexican standoff scenes in his films like ""Pulp Fiction"" (restaurant sequence); ""Inglourious Basterds"" (the tavern scene features multiple Mexican standoffs including meta-discussion); and the climactic scene of ""Reservoir Dogs"", which depicts a standoff"
"Times"" cited William R. Ebersol in the role of Governor John Merwin as one of those who ""stand out in a cast that is notable for its authenticity."" It was Ebersol's only film and he does not speak. The Best Man (1964 film) The Best Man is a 1964 American political drama film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner with a screenplay by Gore Vidal based on his play of the same title. Starring Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, and Lee Tracy, the film details the seamy political maneuverings behind the nomination of a presidential candidate. The supporting cast features Edie Adams,"
"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"
"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"
"and Lee Marvin, which was shot in the Monument Valley of Utah, the last film directed by Michael Curtiz. Wayne told Mankiewicz to remove his John F. Kennedy button. In 1963, two young producers, Stuart Millar and Lawrence Turman, took Mankiewicz on as their assistant while making ""The Best Man"", the 1964 film version of Gore Vidal’s Broadway play starring Henry Fonda. He was involved in virtually every aspect of the film, receiving his first on-screen credit as “Production Associate.” Mankiewicz began to write, finishing an original screenplay, ""Please,"" about the last ninety minutes in the life of a suicidal"
"were successes, along with flops such as ""Harlow"" (1965), starring Carroll Baker, and ""The Oscar"" (1966). By the 1960s, Levine had transformed Embassy into a production company. Later in the decade, Embassy functioned on its own with many Rankin/Bass animated features, including ""The Daydreamer"" (1966) and ""Mad Monster Party?"" (1967), and successful live-action productions including ""The Graduate"" (1967), ""The Lion in Winter"" and ""The Producers"" (both 1968). In 1967, Embassy enjoyed its greatest success with ""The Graduate"". This enabled Levine to sell his company to Avco for a deal worth $40 million. Levine stayed on as chief executive. In 1969,"
"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"
"bulky novel in a film that appeals to the intellect and the emotions."" The film was banned in Spain because it touched on social issues. ""Ship of Fools"" won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (Robert Clatworthy, Joseph Kish) and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (Ernest Laszlo). Leigh won the ""L'Étoile de Cristal"" for her performance in a leading role. Marvin won the 1966 National Board of Review Award for male actors, while Werner received the 1965 New York Film Critics Circle Award. The film was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Oskar Werner), Best Actor in a"
"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"" ""'"
"the Best Actor Oscar for ""Save the Tiger"" (1973), becoming the first actor to achieve this rare double (the only other actors to have done so are Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Spacey, and Denzel Washington). He was also nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the controversial film ""Missing"" in 1982, and for his roles in ""Some Like It Hot"" (1959), ""The Apartment"" (1960), ""Days of Wine and Roses"" (1962), ""The China Syndrome"" (1979), for which he was also awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, and ""Tribute"" (1980). He won another"
"exceptionally successful film at the box office, which, together with ""The Wrong Box"" and ""Khartoum"", earned him a BAFTA nomination for best leading actor in 1966. Other film roles from this period included Lord Fortnum (""The Bed Sitting Room"", 1969) and Leclerc (""The Looking Glass War"", 1969). The casts of ""Oh! What a Lovely War"" and ""Khartoum"" included Olivier, but he and Richardson did not appear in the same scenes, and never met during the filming. Olivier was by now running the National Theatre, temporarily based at the Old Vic, but showed little desire to recruit his former colleague for"
"promise of the three young producers: In 1956, Laven went out on his own to direct ""The Rack"", a drama starring Paul Newman and Lee Marvin about a soldier who is court-martialed for collaborating with the enemy after spending two years in a North Korean prison camp. The film was based on a ""United States Steel Hour"" program written by Rod Serling. In 1957, Levy-Gardner-Laven team turned their focus to the popular science fiction and monster genres. Laven received directing and producing credits on ""The Monster That Challenged the World"", a feature about an army of giant mollusks that emerge"
"Inn of the Sixth Happiness"" ""Do Aankhen Barah Haath"" Rock Hudson Deborah Kerr The Ann Sothern Show Letter to Loretta The Red Skelton Show Toast of the Town Tonight! Bradford Dillman John Gavin Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. Linda Cristal Susan Kohner Tina Louise Red Skelton David Ladd ""(For best juvenile actor)"" Shirley MacLaine ""(For most versatile actress)"" Maurice Chevalier 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"
"in the Filthy Thirteen, told the ""American Valor Quarterly"" that her father felt that 30% of the film's content was historically correct, including a scene where officers are captured. Unlike the Dirty Dozen, the Filthy Thirteen were not convicts; however, they were men prone to drinking and fighting and often spent time in the stockade. The Dirty Dozen The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 American war film directed by Robert Aldrich, released by MGM, and starring Lee Marvin. The picture was filmed in the United Kingdom and features an ensemble supporting cast including Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John"
"able to show their usual potential. The film earned rentals of $1.33 million in North America and $1.9 million elsewhere. Because of the high costs involved, by 1973 the movie had recorded a loss of $4,115,000, making it one of the biggest money losers in the short history of ABC films. Hell in the Pacific Hell in the Pacific is a 1968 British-Japanese war drama film starring Lee Marvin and Toshirō Mifune, the only two actors in the entire film. It was directed by John Boorman. It looks at the importance of human contact and the bond which can form"
"Adam 1966: ""The Blue Max"" – Wilfred Shingleton 1967: no award given 1967: ""A Man for All Seasons"" – John Box Best Production Design (and Art Direction) 1968: """" – Ernest Archer, Harry Lange, and Anthony Masters 1970: ""Waterloo"" – Mario Garbuglia 1971: ""Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia)"" – Ferdinando Scarfiotti 1972: ""Cabaret"" – Rolf Zehetbauer 1973: ""The Hireling"" – Natasha Kroll 1974: ""The Great Gatsby"" – John Box 1975: ""Rollerball"" – John Box 1976: ""Bugsy Malone"" – Geoffrey Kirkland 1977: ""Fellini's Casanova (Il Casanova di Federico Fellini)"" – Danilo Donati and Federico Fellini 1978: ""Close Encounters of the"
"produced ""True Grit"", for which John Wayne won the Academy Award for Best Actor of 1969, and its sequel. After moving to Universal Pictures, he produced ""Mary, Queen of Scots"" (starring Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson) and ""Anne of the Thousand Days"" (starring Richard Burton and Canadian-born actress Geneviève Bujold). He received 16 Academy Award producer nominations for Best Picture, winning for ""Casablanca"" in 1943. For his consistently high quality of motion picture production, he was twice honored with the Academy Awards' Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. He was also nominated for seven Golden Globe awards, twice winning awards for"
"rapist Max Cady in ""Cape Fear"" (1962) brought him even more attention and furthered his renown for playing cool, predatory characters. The 1960s were marked by a number of lesser films and missed opportunities. Among the films Mitchum passed on during the decade were John Huston's ""The Misfits"" (the last film of its stars Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe), the Academy Award–winning ""Patton"", and ""Dirty Harry"". The most notable of his films in the decade included the war epics ""The Longest Day"" (1962) and ""Anzio"" (1968), the Shirley MacLaine comedy-musical ""What a Way to Go!"" (1964), and the Howard Hawks"
"The Dirty Dozen The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 American war film directed by Robert Aldrich, released by MGM, and starring Lee Marvin. The picture was filmed in the United Kingdom and features an ensemble supporting cast including Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Robert Ryan, Telly Savalas, Robert Webber and Donald Sutherland. The film is based on E. M. Nathanson's novel of the same name that was inspired by a real-life group called the ""Filthy Thirteen"". In 2001, the American Film Institute placed the film at number 65 on their 100 Years... 100 Thrills list. In Britain,"
"epics. His military background, commanding presence and deep, booming voice typecast him as soldiers and authority figures. Some of his most notable roles include playing a warship captain in ""Sink the Bismarck!"" (1960), the archbishop Hubert Walter in ""Sword of Sherwood Forest"" (1960), the obnoxious club secretary in ""Lawrence of Arabia"" (1962), King Aeëtes in ""Jason and the Argonauts"" (1963), an RAF officer in the James Bond film ""Thunderball"" (1965), the Lord Chief Justice in ""A Man for All Seasons"" (1966), General Harold Alexander in ""Patton"" (1970), Poseidon in ""Clash of the Titans"" (1981), and Van Helsing in ""The Monster"
"1967, he appeared in ""The Superlative Seven,"" an episode of ""The Avengers."" He also made a second, and more substantial appearance in ""The Saint."" The episode, ""Escape Route,"" was directed by the show's star, Roger Moore, who later recalled that Sutherland ""asked me if he could show it to some producers as he was up for an important role... they came to view a rough cut and he got ""The Dirty Dozen."""" The film, which starred Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson, was the 5th highest-grossing film of 1967 and MGM's highest-grossing movie of the year. In 1968, after the breakthrough"
"genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. ""Cat Ballou"" was acknowledged as the tenth best film in the Western genre. Cat Ballou Cat Ballou is a 1965 American western musical comedy film starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin, who won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his dual role. The story involves a woman who hires a notorious gunman to protect her father's ranch, and later to avenge his murder, but finds that the gunman is not what she expected. The supporting cast features Tom Nardini, Michael Callan, Dwayne Hickman, and singers Nat King Cole and Stubby"
"win Best Actor until 2001 when Denzel Washington won for his portrayal of Alonzo Harris in ""Training Day"". 36th Academy Awards The 36th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1963, were held on April 13, 1964, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Jack Lemmon. Best Picture winner ""Tom Jones"" became the only film in history to garner three Best Supporting Actress nominations; it also tied the Oscar record of five unsuccessful acting nominations, set by ""Peyton Place"" at the 30th Academy Awards. This year's winner for Best Actress category was"
"The Oscar (film) The Oscar is a 1966 American drama film written by Harlan Ellison, Clarence Greene, Russell Rouse, and Richard Sale, directed by Rouse and starring Stephen Boyd, singer Tony Bennett (in his film debut), comedian Milton Berle (in a dramatic role), Elke Sommer, Ernest Borgnine, Jill St. John, Eleanor Parker, Joseph Cotten, Edie Adams, Peter Lawford, Broderick Crawford, Ed Begley, Walter Brennan, and Jack Soo. Also appearing are Bob Hope, Hedda Hopper, Merle Oberon, Frank Sinatra, and Nancy Sinatra as themselves. Paramount costume designer Edith Head appears in two scenes as herself, and was used by Paramount as"
"BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, an NBR Award, and the Silver Bear for Best Actor. Marvin was born in New York City. He was the son of two working professionals, Lamont Waltman Marvin, an advertising executive and later the head of the New York and New England Apple Institute, and Courtenay Washington (née Davidge), a well respected fashion and beauty writer/editor. As with his elder brother, Robert, he was named in honor of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, who was his first cousin, four times removed. His father was a direct descendant of Matthew Marvin Sr., who emigrated from"
"Point Blank (1967 film) Point Blank is a 1967 American neo-noir crime film directed by John Boorman, starring Lee Marvin, co-starring Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn and Carroll O'Connor, and adapted from the 1963 crime noir pulp novel ""The Hunter"" by Donald E. Westlake, writing as Richard Stark. Boorman directed the film at Marvin's request and Marvin played a central role in the film's development. The film was not a box-office success in 1967, but has since gone on to become a cult classic, eliciting praise from such critics as film historian David Thomson. In 2016, ""Point Blank"" was deemed ""culturally,"
"into other genres as well, including several films dealing with the Second World War (notably ""The Longest Day"" and ""In Harm's Way)"". Wayne made some of his most prominent films during this period, including John Ford's ""The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"" (1962) with James Stewart. Wayne's political views came under harsh attack from film critics with the release of ""The Green Berets"" (1968), which Wayne produced and co-directed as well as starred in. The following year, however, he would be praised by critics for his performance in ""True Grit"", which would earn him an Academy Award for Best Actor."
"""The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb"" (1964). His exotic looks often saw him cast in spy films of the '60s such as ""From Russia with Love"" (1963); ""Licensed to Kill"" (1965); ""A Man Could Get Killed"" (1966); ""That Riviera Touch"" (1966); and ""Deadlier Than the Male"" (1967). He also appeared in the films ""Tiger Bay"", ""The Angry Hills"" (1959), ""The Siege of Sidney Street"" (1960), ""Konga"", ""The Frightened City"" (1961), ""On the Beat"" (1962), ""The Moon-Spinners"" (1964), ""The Long Duel"" (1967) and ""The Magus"" (1968). He also appeared as the villain in the '60s television series ""Danger Man""; ""The Avengers"";"