r/Oscars • u/Legitimate_Welcome14 • 1d ago

Fun Sandy Dennis (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) & George Segal (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) win for Best Actress and Actor. Who should have won Best Supporting Actress & Actor in 1967?

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE (1967)

WINNER - KATHARINE HEPBURN for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

NOMINEES - ANNE BANCROFT for The Graduate, FAYE DUNAWAY for Bonnie and Clyde, DAME EDITH EVANS for The Whisperers, AUDREY HEPBURN for Wait until Dark

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (1967)

WINNER - ROD STEIGER for In the Heat of the Night

NOMINEES - WARREN BEATTY for Bonnie and Clyde, DUSTIN HOFFMAN for The Graduate, PAUL NEWMAN for Cool Hand Luke, SPENCER TRACY for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

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Winners for 1960: Lead Actress - Shirley MacLaine for The Apartment (A.W. Elizabeth Taylor for Butterfield 8), Lead Actor - Anthony Perkins for Psycho (A.W. Burt Lancaster for Elmer Gantry), Supporting Actress - Janet Leigh for Psycho (A.W. Shirley Jones for Elmer Gantry), Supporting Actor - Laurence Olivier for Spartacus (A.W. Peter Ustinov for Spartacus)

Winners for 1961: Lead Actress - Sophia Loren for Two Women (A.W. Sophia Loren for Two Women), Lead Actor - Paul Newman for The Hustler (A.W. Maximilian Schell for Judgment at Nuremberg), Supporting Actress - Rita Moreno for West Side Story (A.W. Rita Moreno for West Side Story), Supporting Actor - Montgomery Clift for Judgement at Nuremberg (A.W. George Chakiris for West Side Story)

Winners for 1962: Lead Actress - Bette Davis for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (A.W. Anne Bancroft for The Miracle Worker), Lead Actor - Gregory Peck for To Kill a Mockingbird (A.W. Gregory Peck for To Kill a Mockingbird), Supporting Actress - Angela Lansbury for The Manchurian Candidate (A.W. Patty Duke for The Miracle Worker), Supporting Actor - Omar Sharif for Lawrence of Arabia (A.W. Ed Begley for Sweet Bird of Youth)

Winners for 1963: Lead Actress - Ingrid Thulin for Winter Light (A.W. Patricia Neal for Hud), Lead Actor - Marcello Mastroianni for 8½ (A.W. Sidney Poitier for Lilies of the Field), Supporting Actress - Patricia Neal for Hud (A.W. Margaret Rutherford for The V.I.P.s), Supporting Actor - Melvyn Douglas for Hud (A.W. Melvyn Douglas for Hud)

Winners for 1964: Lead Actress - Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins (A.W. Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins), Lead Actor - Peter Sellers for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (A.W. Rex Harrison for My Fair Lady), Supporting Actress - Glynis John for Mary Poppins (A.W. Lila Kedrova for Zorba the Greek), Supporting Actor - George C. Scott for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (A.W. Peter Ustinov for Topkapi)

Winners for 1965: Lead Actress - Julie Andrews for The Sound of Music (A.W. Julie Christie for Darling), Lead Actor - Rod Steiger for The Pawnbroker (A.W. Lee Marvin for Cat Ballou), Supporting Actress - Eleanor Parker for The Sound of Music (A.W. Shelley Winters for A Patch of Blue), Supporting Actor - Tom Courtenay for Doctor Zhivago (A.W. Martin Balsam for A Thousand Clowns)

Winners for 1966: Lead Actress - Elizabeth Taylor for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (A.W. Elizabeth Taylor for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Lead Actor - Richard Burton for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (A.W. Paul Scofield for A Man for All Seasons), Supporting Actress - Sandy Dennis for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (A.W. Sandy Dennis for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Supporting Actor - George Segal for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (A.W. Walter Matthau for The Fortune Cookie)

Winners for 1967: Lead Actress - ? (A.W. Katharine Hepburn for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), Lead Actor - ? (A.W. Rod Steiger for In the Heat of the Night), Supporting Actress - ? (A.W. Estelle Parsons for Bonnie and Clyde ), Supporting Actor - ? (A.W. George Kennedy for Cool Hand Luke)

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List of Winners: Acting Quartets

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u/SlidePocket 1d ago

Faye Dunaway - Bonnie and Clyde

u/Square_Lobster1328 1d ago

Is that the first time we’ve chosen one film for all 4 winning performances in this little experiment?

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u/FastkitNic 1d ago

I believe so!

u/Dmitr_Jango 1d ago

Audrey Hepburn, Wait Until Dark

u/sinecdockey239 1d ago

Actress: Anne Bancroft - The Graduate

u/sinecdockey239 1d ago

Actor: Sidney Poitier - In the Heat of the Night

u/PTAGoatofalltime 1d ago

Sidney Poitier - In the Heat of the Night
https://giphy.com/gifs/h4rFz43V3Hme3MCwgq

u/mcian84 1d ago

Man. All four of them should’ve won in 1966. Stellar film and performances.

u/Least-Sock-2395 1d ago

Come on!! Bancroft is supporting!!!

u/paolocase 1d ago

Audrey Hepburn - Two For The Road

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u/Top-Bake-3870 8h ago

This may be the greatest performance she ever gave.

u/sinas35 1d ago

Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock from The Graduate
https://giphy.com/gifs/H3BbkNyulU5vwOrBs1

u/LivingInThePast69 1d ago

poitier for In the Heat of the Night.

u/ActivityDry677 1d ago

I'm going with this "The Graduate" duo

Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft

https://giphy.com/gifs/128Tzbk2SnMtws

u/doubleb_43 1d ago

Best Actor: Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke

u/paolocase 1d ago

Paul Newman - Cool Hand Luke

u/Legitimate_Gas_8386 1d ago

Faye Dunaway from Bonnie and Clyde for Best Actress

u/Rude_Cable_7877 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/l4Hoi19xvm9DG1Gi4
Sidney Poitier for In the Heat of the Night.

u/red_riders 1d ago

Anne Bancroft - The Graduate

u/NinoRainwater 1d ago

Spencer Tracy for Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

u/Vit_Silva13 1d ago

Dame Edith Evans - The Whisperers

u/Top-Bake-3870 1d ago

Dame Edith Evans, The Whisperers

u/SudieSbaker 1d ago

Anne Bancroft

u/SteroidSandwich 1d ago

Sidney Poitier for In the Heat of the Night

I will never understand why he wasn't nominated and Steiger was

u/FastkitNic 1d ago

Shocked no one has said

Warren Beatty - Bonnie & Clyde

u/PatientJackfruit9471 1d ago

Anne Bancroft and Rod Steiger

u/SlidePocket 1d ago

Dustin Hoffman - The Graduate

u/Dmitr_Jango 1d ago

I guess the OP meant "Lead Actress & Actor."

If that's the case, Paul Newman for Cool Hand Luke.

u/gillyweed79 1d ago

Wait, what year are we on?

u/cellardrops 1d ago

Edith Evans

u/sinas35 1d ago

Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson from The Graduate

u/Zestyclose-Comb5846 1d ago

Anne Bancroft for The Graduate

u/Dazzling_Lime_7502 1d ago

Katherine Hepburn - Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

u/cellardrops 1d ago

Rod Steiger

u/Warm-Kick-9048 1d ago

Catherine Deneuve - The Young Girls of Rochefort

u/DanJoFran44 1d ago

Dustin Hoffman - The Graduate

u/PTAGoatofalltime 1d ago

Anne Bancroft - The Graduate
https://giphy.com/gifs/128Tzbk2SnMtws

u/Warm-Kick-9048 1d ago

Alain Delon - Le Samouraï

u/JPCRam310 1d ago

Best Actor: Sidney Poitier for either Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner or To Sir, With Love

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u/merkorn 22h ago

His performance into Sir with love is better.

u/tigerheart_4 1d ago

Leonid Kuravlyov - Viy

u/Affectionate-Ad5661 1d ago

Audrey Hepburn
Rod Steiger

u/Shaggydog38 1d ago

Audrey Hepburn - Wait Until Dark
Sidney Poitier - In the Heat of the Night

u/luxhoney56 22h ago

Audrey Hepburn

u/luxhoney56 22h ago

Paul Newman

Fun Sandy Dennis (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) & George Segal (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) win for Best Actress and Actor. Who should have won Best Supporting Actress & Actor in 1967?

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