39th Academy Awards

The 39th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1966, were held on April 10, 1967 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California.

They were hosted by Bob Hope. The ceremony is somewhat infamously remembered as the year in which The Good, the Bad and the Ugly didn't receive any nominations.

Only two of the Best Picture nominees also had nominations for Best Director; Fred Zinnemann's lavish and thoughtful biopic A Man for All Seasons and Mike Nichols' bold and taboo-breaking drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Both were adaptations of stage dramas.

The 1966 Academy Award Winners

Picture: A Man for All Seasons
Actor: Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons)
Actress: Elizabeth Taylor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
Supporting Actor: Walter Matthau (The Fortune Cookie)
Supporting Actress: Sandy Dennis (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
Director: Fred Zinnemann (A Man for All Seasons)
Adapted Screenplay: Robert Bolt (A Man for All Seasons)
Original Screenplay: Claude Lelouch, story; Pierre Uytterhoeven and Claude Lelouch, screenplay (A Man and a Woman)
Song: "Born Free" (Born Free)
Score: Born Free (Original) / A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Adaptation)
Cinematography: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Black and White) / A Man for All Seasons
Costume Design: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Black and White) / A Man for All Seasons
Art / Set Decoration: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Black and White) / A Man for All Seasons
Film Editing: Grand Prix
Foreign Language Film: A Man and a Woman (France)
Sound: Grand Prix
Sound Effects: Grand Prix
Visual Effects: Fantastic Voyage
Short Films: Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature (Cartoons) / Wild Wings (Live Action)
Documentaries: A Year Toward Tomorrow (Short) / The War Game (Feature)