1968: the year the Oscars entirely lost touch with reality
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sheetsadam1 — 2 months ago(December 31, 2025 01:46 AM)
Nominated for Best Picture:
Oliver!- Carol Reed
Funny Girl - William Wyler
The Lion in Winter - Anthony Harvey
Rachel, Rachel - Paul Newman
Romeo and Juliet - Franco Zeffirelli
Also released that year:
2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick
Once Upon a Time in the West - Sergio Leone
Hour of the Wolf - Ingmar Bergman
Shame - Ingmar Bergman
Planet of the Apes - Franklin J. Schaeffner
Rosemary's Baby - Roman Polanski
Targets - Peter Bogdanovich
Petulia - Richard Lester
The Swimmer - Frank Perry
Yellow Submarine - George Dunning
The Great Silence - Sergio Corbucci
The Producers - Mel Brooks
Night of the Living Dead - George A. Romero
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Ken Hughes
The Odd Couple - Gene Saks
Witchfinder General - Michael Reeves
Bullitt - Peter Yates
Coogan's Bluff - Don Siegel
Faces - John Cassavetes
Pretty Poison - Noel Black
If…. - Lindsay Anderson
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- Carol Reed
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sheetsadam1 — 2 months ago(December 31, 2025 02:20 AM)
Five was the standard back then, but I'm not sure how I'd even narrow this down to five. Amazing year for movies and the Oscars were there for none of it. (I do like
The Lion in Winter
, though and this version of
Romeo and Juliet
was quite memorable for two reasons
.)
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