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.
Sound Design: The Birds
Score Composing: Alex North (Cleopatra)
Actor Support: José Isbert (The Executioner)
Special Effects: Jason and the Argonauts
Actress Support: Patricia Neal (Hud)
Costume Design: The Leopard
Screenwriting Adapted: Norman Krasna (Sunday in New York)
Set Design: Cleopatra
Actor Lead: Tom Courtenay (Billy Liar)
Picture Editing: 8½
Screenwriting Original: Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi (8½)
Cinematography: Leon Shamroy (Cleopatra)
Directing: Alfred Hitchcock (The Birds)
Cast Ensemble: The Red Lantern
Actress: Natalie Wood (Love with the Proper Stranger)
Motion Picture: 8½ (Federico Fellini) Italy / France
