Paramount (Dino De Laurentiss)
Aug 25, 2008O posted179
Oscar Nominations: 4
Picture, produced by Anthony Havelock-Allan and John Brabourne
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Cinematography: Pasqualino De Santis
Costume Design: Danilo Donati
Oscar Awards: 2
Cinematography
Costume design
Oscar Context
In 1968, “Oliver!” was not the only musical vying for the Best Picture Oscar. The other nominee was William Wyler's screen adaptation of the Broadway hit, “Funny Girl.” These musicals competed with two historical dramas, “The Lion in Winter” and Zeffirelli's modernist rendition of Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet.” The fifth nominee featured Paul Newman directorial debut in the intimate drama, “Rachel, Rachel, starring his wife-actress Joanne Woodward.
In an unprecedented move, that happened only once in the Academy's history, a tie was declared in the Best Actress category between Streisand and Katharine Hepburn, who won her third Oscar for “The Lion in Winter.”
There has been only one tie in the Best Actor category, in 1931-32, when Wallace Beery (“The Champ”) and Frederic March (“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”) both won the Best Actor Oscar.
