Category:1966, Top Films

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Perry Mason (X)
(TV series)
The Andy Griffith
Show (VII) (TV series)
Maigret (III) (TV series)

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(4) Andrei Roublev (Tarkovsky)
(23) Hawks and Sparrows (Pasolini)
(41) The Fortune Coookie (Wilder)
(--) War and Peace (Bondarchuk)
(--) Incompreso (Comencini)
(--) Fantastic Voyage (Fleischer)
(--) The Russians Are Coming (Jewison)
(--) Follow Me, Boys! (Tokar)
(--) Star Trek (Roddenberry) <TV series>

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Notable Mention

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(1) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Leone)
(2) Persona (Bergman)
(3) Blow-Up (Antonioni)
(5) The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)
(8) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Nichols)
(12) Closely Watched Trains (Menzel) <Best International>
(42) A Man for All Seasons (Zinnemann) <Best Picture & Director>
(--) The Anderson Platoon (Schoendoerffer) <Best Doc>
(--) The War Game (Watkins) <Best Doc>

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Critical Reception (1966)

MUBI, Best Films (1966)

-- #1. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -- #2. Persona -- #3. Blow-Up -- #4. Andrei Roublev -- #5. The Battle of Algiers -- #6. Au hasard Balthazar -- #7. Masculin, féminin -- #8. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? -- #9. Daisies -- #10. Fahrenheit 451

-- #11. The Face of Another -- #12. Closely Watched Trains -- #13. Cul-de-sac -- #14. Seconds -- #15. Tokyo Drifter -- #16. The Sword of Doom -- #17. How the Grinch Stole Christmas -- #18. Made in U.S.A. -- #19. Black Girl -- #20. Django -- #21. A Man and a Woman -- #22. Second Wind -- #23. Hawks and Sparrows -- #24. Patriotism -- #25. Trans-Europ-Express -- #26. The Pornographers -- #27. Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? -- #28. The Round-Up -- #29. Six Men Getting Sick -- #30. How to Steal a Million

-- #41. The Fortune Coookie -- #42. A Man for All Seasons -- #46. Alfie -- #50. Torn Curtain

CriticsTop10 (1966)

-- @1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? -- @2. The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming -- @3. Alfie -- @4. Born Free -- @5. Harper -- @6. A Man for All Seasons -- @7. The Professionals -- @8. Georgy Girl -- @9. The Bible in the Beginning -- @10. How to Steal a Million

-- @11. Hawaii -- @12. John F Kennedy -- @13. The Blue Max -- @14. The Sand Pebbles -- @15. Khartoum -- @16. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum -- @17. Morgan -- @18. Follow Me, Boys! -- @19. Funeral in Berlin -- @20. The Shop on Main Street -- @21. A Fine Madness -- @22. Torn Curtain -- @23. Arabesque -- @24. Our Man Flint -- @25. The Glass Bottom Boat -- @26. The Naked Prey -- @27. Romeo and Juliet (1966) -- @28. A Man and a Woman -- @29. Lt. Robin Crusoe -- @30. Is Paris Burning?

Oscar, Best Films

-- A Man for All Seasons -- Alfie -- The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming -- The Sand Pebbles -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? -- Blowup -- The Professionals -- A Man and a Woman (France)

Top Grossing Films

-- Hawaii -- The Bible: In the Beginning... -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? -- The Sand Pebbles -- A Man for All Seasons -- The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming -- Grand Prix -- The Professionals -- Alfie -- Georgy Girl

National Board of Review

-- A Man for All Seasons -- Born Free -- Alfie -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? -- The Bible: In the Beginning... -- Georgy Girl -- John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums -- It Happened Here -- The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming -- Shakespeare Wallah

National Film Registry

-- Castro Street <doc> -- Cicero March <doc> -- The Endless Summer <doc> -- Navajo Film Themselves <doc> -- Seconds -- A Time for Burning <doc> -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

NYT, Best Films

-- 458. Morgan! -- The War Game -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? -- Georgy Girl -- The Battle of Algiers -- Persona -- The Fortune Cookie -- A Man for All Seasons -- Blow-Up -- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly -- Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back

TSPDT, Best Films

-- Persona -- Andrei Rublev -- Au hasard Balthazar -- The Battle of Algiers -- Blow-Up -- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly -- Two or Three Things I Know About Her -- Daisies -- Closely Watched Trains -- Chelsea Girls -- Masculin Feminin -- The Rise to Power of Louis XIV -- The Round-Up -- The Hawks and the Sparrows -- Seven Women -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? -- Black Girl -- Cul-de-sac -- Second Breath

Top10ner, Best Films

-- Masculin Feminin -- Au hasard Balthazar -- Seconds -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? -- The Battle of Algiers -- Persona -- Andrei Rublev -- Blow-Up -- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Film101, Best Films

-- War and Peace -- Andrei Roublev -- Persona -- Blow-Up -- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -- Closely Watched Trains -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? -- Au hasard Balthazar -- A Man for All Seasons -- Masculin, féminin -- Morgan! -- Alfie -- Georgy Girl

Rotten Tomatoes, Best Films

-- #6. Au hasard Balthazar -- #17. How the Grinch Stole Christmas -- The Shooting -- The Endless Summer -- El Dorado -- Harper -- War and Peace

ChildActors, Best Films

-- Misunderstood (Italy) -- Follow Me, Boys!

-- Father (Hungary) -- The Battle of Algiers (Algeria/Italy) -- Tarzan and the Valley of Gold

-- Alfons Zitterbacke (East Germany) -- And Now Miguel -- The Boy Cried Murder (UK) -- The Cat -- The Christmas Tree (UK) -- Cotolay / El Niño y El Lobo (Spain) -- The Daydreamer -- Devochka na share (URSS) -- Eye of the Devil (UK) -- Fahrenheit 451 (UK) -- Let's Kill Uncle -- Maya -- Nattlek / Night Games (Sweden) -- Die Reise nach Sundevit (East Germany) -- Respublika SHKID / The Republic of SHKID (URSS) -- Ritzar bez bronya / Knight Without Armour (Bulgaria) -- Runaway Railway (UK) -- Sedmi kontinent / The Seventh Continent (Yugoslavia) -- The War Game (UK) -- Ya rodom iz detstva (URSS)

Best International Films

{Czechoslovakia} -- Closely Watched Trains (Oscar)

{France} -- Un homme et une femme / A Man and a Woman (Golden Globe)

{Italy} -- Uccellacci ed uccellini / The Hawks and the Sparrows -- Signore & signori / The Birds, the Bees and the Italians -- Django -- L'armata Brancaleone / For Love and Gold -- La battaglia di Algeri / The Battle of Algiers -- Blow-Up -- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

{Japan} -- The Face of Another -- The Pornographers -- The Red Angel -- The Sword of Doom

{Russia} -- War and Peace (Oscar; Golden Globe) -- Andrei Rublev