Awards presented April 5, 1965
The nominees were ...
... when they should have been...
And the Oscar went to ...
My Fair Lady. The delights of this hugely popular musical film -- the dialogue adapted by Alan Jay Lerner from George Bernard Shaw's
Pygmalion and the songs by Lerner and Frederick Loewe -- have been weighed down by the opulent sets and costumes.
... when it should have gone to ...
Is there a more joyous movie? This larky musical pseudo-documentary about the efforts of the Beatles to rebel against the constraints of celebrity -- the packs of pursuing fans, the inanely questioning reporters, the busybody managers, the film and TV crews that treat them like furniture -- was the fresh source of what would become clichés in rock musicals and comedies about swinging London throughout the rest of the decade. It also established the individual Beatles personae that would annoy them through the rest of their existence as a group: brainy John, heartthrob Paul, droll George, and cuddly Ringo. But the Academy cold-shouldered it, giving a director nomination to Peter Glenville for the stodgy
Becket, but not to Richard Lester for his inventive direction, which was greatly abetted by John Jympson's similarly unnominated film editing. The movie received a story and screenplay nomination for Alun Owen, and one for George Martin's song scoring, but not a single one for any of the eligible Beatles songs, which include not only the title song but also "And I Love Her," "Can't Buy Me Love," "If I Fell," and "Tell Me Why," among others.
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