My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with me or inspire, both at the time, and still today. Subject to alter choices based on viewings.
Score Composing
Bernard Herrmann (Psycho)
Actor Support
Peter Ustinov (Spartacus)
Costume Design
La dolce vita
Set Design
The Magnificent Seven
Actress Support
Janet Leigh (Psycho)
Screenwriting Original
Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond (The Apartment)
Screenwriting Adapted
Luchino Visconti, Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Enrico Mediola (Rocco e i suoi fratelli)
Actor Lead
Jack Lemmon (The Apartment)
Cast Ensemble
Spartacus
Actress Lead
Shirley MacLaine (The Apartment)
Special Effects
Village of the Damned
Directing
Michelangelo Antonioni (L’avventura)
Picture Editing
À bout de souffle
Psycho
Spartacus
Sound Design
La dolce vita
The Magnificent Seven
Peeping Tom
Psycho
Spartacus
Cinematography
Ernest Laszlo (Inherit the Wind)
Russell Metty (Spartacus)
John L. Russell (Psycho)
Aldo Scavarda (L’avventura)
Eugen Schufftan (Les yeux sans visage)
Motion Picture
À bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard) France
The Apartment (Billy Wilder) USA
L’avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni) Italy
La dolce vita (Federico Fellini) Italy / France
La Vérité (Henri-Georges Clouzot) France
Les yeux sans visage (Georges Franju) France / Italy
Peeping Tom (Michael Powell) UK
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock) USA
Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick) USA
Tirez sur le pianiste (François Truffaut) France
