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1st NSFC Awards
Best Picture:
Blow-Up
The 1st National Society of Film Critics Awards, given by the National Society of Film Critics in January 1967, honored the best in film for 1966. [1]
1. Michael Caine – Alfie
2. Richard Burton – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. Max von Sydow – Hawaii
4. Laurence Olivier – Othello
4. Paul Scofield – A Man for All Seasons
1. Sylvie – The Shameless Old Lady (La vieille dame indigne)
2. Vanessa Redgrave – Morgan!
3. Anouk Aimée – A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme)
Jim Dale is an English actor, composer, director, narrator, singer and songwriter. In the United Kingdom he is known as a pop singer of the 1950s who became a leading actor at the National Theatre. In British film, he became one of the regulars in the Carry On films, along with Leslie Phillips, Valerie Leon, Kenneth Cope, Julian Holloway, Hugh Futcher, Anita Harris, Amanda Barrie, Jacki Piper, Angela Douglas and Patricia Franklin.
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Blowup is a 1966 mystery drama thriller film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and produced by Carlo Ponti. It was Antonioni's first entirely English-language film, and stars David Hemmings as a London fashion photographer who believes he has unwittingly captured a murder on film. The film also stars Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle, Jane Birkin, Tsai Chin, Peter Bowles, and Gillian Hills, as well as 1960s model Veruschka. The film's plot was inspired by Julio Cortázar's short story "Las babas del diablo" (1959). The screenplay was by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra, with English dialogue by British playwright Edward Bond. The cinematographer was Carlo di Palma. The film's non-diegetic music was scored by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, while rock group the Yardbirds also feature. The film is set within the mod subculture of 1960s Swinging London.
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