A Man For All Seasons: 1966 Best Picture

“A Man for All Seasons” won Best Picture at the 39th Academy Awards. It won 5 other Oscars, including Best Actor (Paul Scofield) and Best Director (Fred Zinneman).

The other Best Picture nominees were:
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”, which was the most nominated film (13). It won 5 Oscars, including Best Actress (Elizabeth Taylor).
“The Sand Pebbles”, starring Steve McQueen. It received 8 nominations (as many as “A Man for All Seasons”), but did not win any awards.
“Alfie”, starring Michael Caine and Shelley Winters,
“The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming”, starring Alan Arkin, got 4 nominations but no Oscars.

Other notable films of 1966 include: “Georgie Girl”, “The Fortune Cookie”, “Khartoum”, “Born Free”, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”, “Grand Prix”, “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold”. Clint Eastwood starred in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and Franco Nero starred as Django in “Django”. James Coburn was “Our Man Flint”.

Jeopardy! clues on the movie “A Man for All Seasons”
FLICKS $2,000 (Daily Double): Multiple Oscar-winning 1966 film seen here: “I die his majesty’s good servant, but God’s first.”
“SEASON” $800: Paul Scofield won an Oscar as the “year-round” Thomas More in this 1966 film
1960s OSCAR NOMINEES $2000: Paul Scofield was nominated for best actor (& won) for playing him in “A Man for All Seasons”
WELLES $800: In “A Man For All Seasons”, Welles played this cleric & adviser to Henry VIII

More 1966 clues:
THE MOVIES $2000: In this 1966 Billy Wilder film, Walter Matthau persuades Jack Lemmon to exaggerate his injuries for the insurance money
THE UGLY $1000: In a 1966 film Clint Eastwood was “The Good”, Lee Van Cleef was “The Bad” & this actor was “The Ugly”
THAT’S SHOW BIZ $1,000 (Daily Double): The 1966 film “Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo” is better known as this in the U.S.
OSCAR ODDITIES $400: Richard Burton & Liz Taylor were nominated for playing husband & wife in this 1966 film based on an Edward Albee play
FILMED IN HAWAII $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Oahu) This rock and roll legend came here to the Polynesian Cultural Center to film his 1966 movie “Paradise, Hawaiian Style”
NEWMAN’S OWN “H” FILMS $1200: 1975’s “The Drowning Pool” was a sequel to this 1966 film
“G” MOVIES $800: “Hey There!” It’s the 1966 film that made Lynn Redgrave a star
SEGAL, SIEGEL OR SEAGAL $600: We could “just shoot” this 1966 Oscar nominee for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
THE MOVIES $1000: In the 1966 film “Nevada Smith”, this actor played the title role earlier played by Alan Ladd in “The Carpetbaggers”
THEY ALMOST STARRED IN… $400: Bette Davis wanted to play Martha in this 1966 film, but Elizabeth Taylor got the part and an Oscar
SINGERS & THEIR ROLES $500: This ever-hip singer played Hymie Kelly in the 1966 film “The Oscar” years before he got “Unplugged”
SPORTS $200: Aquatic sport featured in the classic 1966 film, “Endless Summer”
MOVIE DEBUTS $200: He debuted in “Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round” in 1966, 27 years before he became a movie “Fugitive”
“F”EMALES $1200: In 1966 she & Nureyev danced in a movie version of the ballet “Romeo and Juliet”
OSCAR NOMINEES: The last 2 sisters nominated against each other for the Best Actress Oscar; it was for 1966
A STEVE McQUEEN FILM FESTIVAL $2000: 1966: Cynical sailor Steve patrols the Yangtze River during the Chinese Revolution of 1926