Lawrence of Arabia won the 1962 Academy Award for Best Picture. The film
is a sweeping epic that dramatizes the real life adventures
of T.E. Lawrence, a British major who unified Arab tribes
and led them in the fight for independence from the Ottoman
Turks in the 1920s. Tom Jones won in 1963. Tony Richardson's
adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel was one of the
most critically acclaimed and popular comedies of its time,
winning four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The film
follows Tom Jones (Albert Finney), a country boy who becomes
one of the wildest playboys in 18th-century England, developing
a ravenous taste for women, food, and rowdy adventures. Over
the course of the film, Jones tries to amass his own fortune
and win the heart of Sophie (Susannah York). My Fair Lady won in 1964. The film
was nominated for 12 Oscars and won eight, including Best
Picture and Director. This popular musical is based on George
Bernard Shaw;s 1913 play Pygmalion. Professor Henry
Higgins (Rex Harrison) bets his friend, Colonel Hugh Pickering
(Wilfrid Hyde-White), that he can transform cockney flower
girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) in time for an important
society ball. His gamble could pay off--but as the spirited
Eliza becomes more refined, and less reliant upon him, Higgins
realizes, to his consternation, that he can not live without
her. |
