Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) | |
| Director(s) | Mike Nichols |
| Producer(s) | Ernest Lehman |
| Top Genres | Drama, Film Adaptation |
| Top Topics | Alcohol, Based on Play, Marriage |
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Overview:
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) was a Drama - Film Adaptation Film directed by Mike Nichols and produced by Ernest Lehman.
SYNOPSIS
Here is a blistering dissection of the compromises, hidden and not-so-hidden animosities, and ultimate acceptance that make marriage merely a detente in the war between men and women. Nichols's debut as director couldn't have been more auspicious as he applied theatrical experience to Albee's scandalous Broadway success and managed the notoriously combative Burtons to their finest work on-screen. The bitter recriminations begin shortly after 2 a.m. and end at dawn as a tweedy, ineffectual professor and his braying wife (Burton and Taylor) welcome the preppy new prof and his wispy wife (Segal and Dennis) to their home for a nightcap. The following hours are a foul-mouthed, drunken brawl of lust and disappointments that ends with the knowledge that the characters need the emotional roughhousing simply to feel anything at all. An astonishing feat for the actors, the director, and for cinematographer Wexler, who makes his camera waltz and duck punches.
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.Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2013.
Academy Awards 1966 --- Ceremony Number 39 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Actor | Richard Burton | Nominated |
| Best Supporting Actor | George Segal | Nominated |
| Best Actress | Elizabeth Taylor | Won |
| Best Supporting Actress | Sandy Dennis | Won |
| Best Art Direction | Art Direction: Richard Sylbert; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins | Won |
| Best Cinematography | Haskell Wexler | Won |
| Best Costume Design | Irene Sharaff | Won |
| Best Director | Mike Nichols | Nominated |
| Best Film Editing | Sam O'Steen | Nominated |
| Best Music - Scoring | Alex North | Nominated |
| Best Picture | Ernest Lehman, Producer | Nominated |
| Best Writing | Ernest Lehman | Nominated |
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Quotes from
Martha: You, kill me? That's a laugh.
George: Well now, I might some day.
Martha: Fat chance.
Honey: I'm gonna be sick.
George: Ah yeah that's nice.
Honey: I'm gonna die.
George: Good, good. Go right ahead.
George: Martha's got money because Martha's father's second wife, not Martha's mother but after Martha's mother died, was a very old lady with warts who was very rich.
Nick: She was a witch!
George: She was a good witch, and she married the white mouse with the tiny red eyes and he must have nibbled her warts or something like that, because she went up in a puff of smoke almost immediately. Poof!
Nick: Poof!
George: Poof! And all that was left, aside from some wart medicine, was a big fat will.
Nick: Your wife never mentioned a stepmother.
George: Maybe it isn't true.
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Early candidates for the role of Martha included Bette Davis, Ingrid Bergman, Rosalind Russell and Patricia Neal. Early candidates for the role of George included James Mason, Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, Arthur Hill, Jack Lemmon and Peter O'Toole.
According to director Mike Nichols, actress Marlene Dietrich visited the set and completely ignored Elizabeth Taylor, only speaking with Richard Burton and Nichols. Elizabeth later commented "It's a very strange thing to be ignored on your own movie set."
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