My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with me or inspire, both at the time, and still today. Subject to alter choices if new viewings are worthy enough. Other published Film Honors posts can be found at the menu at the top of the page.
Score Composing
Elmer Bernstein (The Magnificent Seven)
Giovanni Fusco (L’avventura)
Bernard Herrmann (Psycho)
Alex North (Spartacus)
Nino Rota (La dolce vita)
Actor Support
Jack Kruschen (The Apartment)
Fred MacMurray (The Apartment)
Annibale Ninchi (La dolce vita)
Laurence Olivier (Spartacus)
Peter Ustinov (Spartacus)
Costume Design
À bout de souffle
La ciociara
La dolce vita
The Magnificent Seven
Spartacus
Set Design
The Apartment
L’avventura
The Magnificent Seven
Psycho
Spartacus
Actress Support
Marie Dubois (Tirez sur le pianiste)
Janet Leigh (Psycho)
Lea Massari (L’avventura)
Marie-José Nat (La Vérité)
Rachel Roberts (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning)
Screenwriting Original
Michelangelo Antonioni, Elio Bartolini, Tonino Guerra (L’avventura)
Henri-Georges Clouzot, Véra Clouzot, Simone Drieu, Jérôme Géronimi, Michèle Perrein, Christiane Rochefort (La vérité)
Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi (La dolce vita)
Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol (À bout de souffle)
Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond (The Apartment)
Screenwriting Adapted
Richard Brooks (Elmer Gantry)
Georges Franju, Jean Redon, Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac, Claude Sautet (Les yeux sans visage)
Joseph Stefano (Psycho)
François Truffaut, Marcel Moussy (Tirez sur le pianiste)
Luchino Visconti, Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Enrico Mediola (Rocco e i suoi fratelli)
Actor Lead
Jean‑Paul Belmondo (À bout de souffle)
Albert Finney (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning)
Jack Lemmon (The Apartment)
Marcello Mastroianni (La dolce vita)
Anthony Perkins (Psycho)
Cast Ensemble
The Apartment
La Vérité
L’avventura
The Magnificent Seven
Spartacus
Actress Lead
Brigitte Bardot (La Vérité)
Sophia Loren (La ciociara)
Shirley MacLaine (The Apartment)
Jean Seberg (À bout de souffle)
Monica Vitti (L’avventura)
Special Effects
Les yeux sans visage
The Magnificent Seven
Psycho
Spartacus
Village of the Damned
Directing
Michelangelo Antonioni (L’avventura)
Federico Fellini (La dolce vita)
Jean-Luc Godard (À bout de souffle)
Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho)
Billy Wilder (The Apartment)
Picture Editing
À bout de souffle
L’avventura
La dolce vita
Psycho
Spartacus
Sound Design
La dolce vita
The Magnificent Seven
Peeping Tom
Psycho
Spartacus
Cinematography
Ernest Laszlo (Inherit the Wind)
Russell Metty (Spartacus)
John L. Russell (Psycho)
Aldo Scavarda (L’avventura)
Eugen Schufftan (Les yeux sans visage)
Motion Picture
À bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard) France
The Apartment (Billy Wilder) USA
L’avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni) Italy
La dolce vita (Federico Fellini) Italy / France
La Vérité (Henri-Georges Clouzot) France
Les yeux sans visage (Georges Franju) France / Italy
Peeping Tom (Michael Powell) UK
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock) USA
Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick) USA
Tirez sur le pianiste (François Truffaut) France
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