1966 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1966

Andrei Rublev

Au Hasard Balthazar

The Battle of Algiers

Blow-Up

The Endless Summer

★ The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

✔ A Man for All Seasons

Persona

The Professionals

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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Best Actor of 1966

Richard Burton (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

Michael Caine (Alfie)

Clint Eastwood (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)

✔ Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons)

★ Eli Wallach (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)

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Best Actress of 1966

Anouk Aimée (A Man and a Woman)

Lynn Redgrave (Georgy Girl)

★ ✔ Elizabeth Taylor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

Liv Ullmann (Persona)

Joanne Woodward (A Big Hand for the Little Lady)

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Best Director of 1966

Michelangelo Antonioni (Blow-Up)

Ingmar Bergman (Persona)

★ Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)

Mike Nichols (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

Gillo Pontecorvo (The Battle of Algiers)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1966

Jean Martin (The Battle of Algiers)

★ ✔ Walter Matthau (The Fortune Cookie)

George Segal (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

Robert Shaw (A Man for All Seasons)

Lee Van Cleef (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1966

★ Bibi Andersson (Persona)

Claudia Cardinale (The Professionals)

✔ Sandy Dennis (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

Wendy Hiller (A Man for All Seasons)

Vivien Merchant (Alfie)

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Special Award

Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) (score)

Tonino delli Colli (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) (cinematography)

The Endless Summer (documentary feature)

Art Cruickshank (Fantastic Voyage) (special visual effects)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (worst dinner party ever)

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My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔.

I would tell you that I'd rather watch a spaghetti Western over an art film any day, or possibly vice versa, but The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is both — a masterpiece that stands alongside Ford's The Searchers and Hawks' Rio Bravo as one of the greatest Westerns ever made. And you know the Monkey loves him a good Western.