ALTERNATIVE CHOICES FOR 1966 OSCAR WINNERS: Best Picture: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Best Director: Mike Nichols (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) Best Actor: Richard Burton (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) and/or Steve McQueen (The Sand Pebbles) and/or Michael Caine (Alfie) (tie) Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) Best Supporting Actor: Walter Matthau (The Fortune Cookie) Best Supporting Actress: Sandy Dennis (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) Best Original Screenplay: A Man and a Woman (Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven) Best Adapted Screenplay: A Man for All Seasons (Robert Bolt) Best Foreign Film: A Man and a Woman (France) Best Cinematography - Color: A Man for All Seasons (Ted Moore) Best Cinematography - Black-and-White: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Haskell Wexler) Best Art Direction - Color: Fantastic Voyage Best Art Direction - Black-and-White: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Best Costume Design - Color: A Man for All Seasons Best Costume Design - Black-and-White: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Best Film Editing: Grand Prix (Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stu Linder, Frank Santillo) Best Special Visual Effects: Fantastic Voyage Best Sound Effects: Grand Prix Best Sound: The Sand Pebbles and/or Grand Prix (tie) Best Original Score: The Sand Pebbles (Jerry Goldsmith) Best Adapted Score: The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Luis Bacalov) Best Original Song: Alfie (For the song "Alfie") Best Documentary: The War Game
Best Actor: Richard Burton (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf) Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf) Best Supporting Actor: Lee Van Cleef (The Good, The Bad and the Ugly) Best Supporting Actress: Sandy Dennis (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf)
Best Song (the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) Best Score Adapted (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) Best Score Original (the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) Best Sound Effects (Beware of the Car (1966) Best Sound (the Battle of Algiers (1966) Best Film Editing (Whos Afriad of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Best Visual Effects (Blow Up (1966) Best Costume Design Black and White (Beware of the Car (1966) Best Costume Design Color (the Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966) Best Art Direction Black and White (the Battle of Algiers (1966) Best Art Direction Color (the Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966) Best Cinematography Black and White (Whos Afriad of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Best Cinematography Color (A Man For All Seasons (1966) Best Foreign Laungege Film (the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) Best Screenplay Adapted (A Man For All Seasons (1966) Best Screenplay Original (Beware of the Car (1966) Best Supporting Actress (Geraldine Page (Your a Big Boy Now (1966) Best Supporting Actor (Walter Matthau (the Fortune Cookie (1966) Best Actress (Elizabeth Taylor (Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Best Actor (Alan Arkin (the Russians Are Coming, the Russans Are Coming (1966) Best Director (Fred Zinnemann (A Man For All Seasons (1966) Best Picture (the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)