March Madness Preview #2: 1960s "Oscar's Sweethearts"

Round Two Continues (Results And More Voting)

More round two voting starts tonight and continues until Saturday evening. Let's get right to the match-ups:

"The British Invasion"
#1 Julie Andrews versus #4 Maggie Smith

#6 Angela Lansbury versus #7 Diana Rigg

"All-American Girls"
#1 Anne Bancroft versus #4 Patricia Neal

#6 Paula Prentiss versus #7 Tuesday Weld

And how about the results of the rest of round two here at the Monkey:
Natalie Wood beat Ann-Margret 31-17
Shirley Jones beat Liza Minneli 34-18
Catherine Deneuve beat Claudia Cardinale 27-20
Romy Schneider beat Liv Ullman 29-28

Monty of All Good Things is hosting the 1930s bracket (click here).
Desiree of Rosalind Russell: Dazzling Star is hosting the 1940s bracket (click here).
Kristen of Journey in Classic Film is hosting the 1950s bracket (click here).

Sneak Preview: 2013 Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tournament: The 1960s Bracket #5

Voting starts March 3rd.

Anne Bancroft

Birth Name: Anna Maria Louise Italiano
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "All-American Girls" #1
Birth Date: September 17, 1931
Birthplace: The Bronx, New York City, New York
Height: 5' 6½"
Academy Awards: 5 nominations, 1 win (actress, The Miracle Worker)
Signature Role: Annie Sullivan (The Miracle Worker)

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Julie Harris

Birth Name: Julie Anne Harris
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "All-American Girls" #8
Birth Date: December 2, 1925
Birthplace: Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan
Academy Awards: 1 nomination
Signature Role: Eleanor "Nell" Lance (The Haunting)

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Patricia Neal

Birth Name: Patricia Louise Neal
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "All-American Girls" #4
Birth Date: January 20, 1926
Birthplace: Packard, Kentucky
Height: 5' 8"
Academy Awards: 2 nominations, 1 win (actress, Hud)
Signature Role: Alma Brown (Hud)

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Geraldine Page

Birth Name: Geraldine Sue Page
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "All-American Girls" #5
Birth Date: November 22, 1924
Birthplace: Kirksville, Missouri
Height: 5' 8"
Academy Awards: 8 nominations, 1 win (actress, The Trip to Bountiful)
Signature Role: Mrs. Carrie Watts (The Trip to Bountiful)

Note: Of all the actresses in the 1960s bracket, Geraldine Page received the most Oscar nominations—and yet she might be the least known of the bunch.

The Katie-Bar-The-Door Awards (1963)

My good and great friend, Mister Muleboy, often says that anything becomes funny if you repeat it 400 times—and he's right—but God help you through the first 399.

It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, directed by the usually pious Stanley Kramer, is the cinematic equivalent of hoarding, piling up so many gags that it quickly wears out its welcome—and then piles up so many more that the sheer chutzpah of the effort makes you giddy.

It's not the best comedy of the year, but it is the funniest. For the effort of juggling the entire insane endeavor and bringing it home in one improbable piece, I've awarded Stanley Kramer the Katie Award for best director (comedy/musical) of 1963.

PICTURE (Drama)
winner: The Great Escape (prod. John Sturges)
nominees: The Birds (prod. Alfred Hitchcock); From Russia With Love (prod. Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman); The Haunting (prod. Robert Wise); How The West Was Won (prod. Bernard Smith); Hud (prod. Irving Ravetch and Martin Ritt); Jason and the Argonauts (prod. Charles H. Schneer); The Servant (prod. Joseph Losey and Norman Priggen); Shock Corridor (prod. Samuel Fuller)

PICTURE (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Charade (prod. Stanley Donen)
nominees: It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (prod. Stanley Kramer); The Nutty Professor (prod. Ernest D. Glucksman); The Pink Panther (prod. Martin Jurow); The Sword in the Stone (prod. Walt Disney); Tom Jones (prod. Tony Richardson)

PICTURE (Foreign Language)
winner: 8½ (prod. Angelo Rizzoli)
nominees: Il gattopardo (The Leopard) (prod. Goffredo Lombardo); Le Mépris (Contempt) (prod. Georges de Beauregard and Carlo Ponti); Nattvardsgästerna (Winter Light) (prod. Allan Ekelund); Tengoku to jigoku (High and Low) (prod. Ryûzô Kikushima and Tomoyuki Tanaka); Tystnaden (The Silence) (prod. Allan Ekelund); El verdugo (The Executioner) (prod. Nazario Belmar)

ACTOR (Drama)
winner: Marcello Mastroianni (8½)
nominees: Dirk Bogarde (The Servant); Richard Harris (This Sporting Life); Rex Harrison (Cleopatra); Burt Lancaster (The Leopard); Dean Martin (Toys in the Attic); Steve McQueen (The Great Escape); Toshirô Mifune (Tengoku to jigoku a.k.a. High And Low); Paul Newman (Hud); Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field)

ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Jerry Lewis (The Nutty Professor)
nominees: Tom Courtenay (Billy Liar); Albert Finney (Tom Jones); Glenn Ford (The Courtship of Eddie's Father); Cary Grant (Charade); David Niven (The Pink Panther); Mickey Rooney (It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World); John Wayne (Donovan's Reef and McClintock!)

ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Julie Harris (The Haunting)
nominees: Leslie Caron (The L-Shaped Room); Jeanne Moreau (La baie des anges a.k.a. Bay of Angels); Rachel Roberts (This Sporting Life); Delphine Seyrig (Muriel ou Le temps d'un retour a.k.a Muriel or The Time of Return); Ingrid Thulin (Nattvardsgästerna a.k.a. Winter Light and Tystnaden a.k.a. The Silence)

ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Ann-Margret (Bye Bye Birdie)
nominees: Doris Day (The Thrill Of It All and Move Over, Darling); Audrey Hepburn (Charade); Shirley MacLaine (Irma La Douce); Maureen O'Hara (McClintock!); Margaret Rutherford (Murder at the Gallop); Natalie Wood (Love with the Proper Stranger); Susannah York (Tom Jones)

DIRECTOR (Drama)
winner: Federico Fellini (8½)
nominees: Ingmar Bergman (Nattvardsgästerna a.k.a. Winter Light and Tystnaden a.k.a. The Silence); Alfred Hitchcock (The Birds); Akira Kurosawa (Tengoku to jigoku a.k.a. High and Low); Martin Ritt (Hud); John Sturges (The Great Escape); Luchino Visconti (Il gattopardo a.k.a. The Leopard); Robert Wise (The Haunting)

DIRECTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Stanley Kramer (It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)
nominees: Stanley Donen (Charade); Jerry Lewis (The Nutty Professor); Tony Richardson (Tom Jones)

SUPPORTING ACTOR
winner: Melvyn Douglas (Hud)
nominees: Hugh Griffith (Tom Jones); Paul Lynde (Bye Bye Birdie); Walter Matthau (Charade); Donald Pleasence (The Great Escape); Peter Sellers (The Pink Panther)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
winner: Patricia Neal (Hud)
nominees: Edie Adams (Love with the Proper Stranger); Anouk Aimee (8½); Claire Bloom (The Haunting); Edith Evans (Tom Jones); Ethel Merman (It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World); Sandra Milo (8½); Margaret Rutherford (The V.I.P.s)

SCREENPLAY
winner: Peter Stone; story by Peter Stone and Marc Behm (Charade)
nominees: Nelson Gidding, from the novel by Shirley Jackson (The Haunting); Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr., from the novel by Larry McMurtry (Hud); John Osborne, from the novel by Henry Fielding (Tom Jones)

SPECIAL AWARDS
Ray Harryhausen (Jason and the Argonauts) (Special Effects); Elmer Bernstein (The Great Escape) (Score)