1968 — Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (dir: Stanley Kubrick)

2. Rosemary’s Baby (dir: Roman Polanski)

3. Kuroneko (dir: Kaneto Shindo)

4. The Firemen’s Ball (dir: Milos Forman; US Release Date)

5. The Red and the White (dir: Miklós Jancsó; US Release Date)

6. Hunger (dir: Henning Carlsen; US Release Date)

7. The Young Girls of Rochefort (dir: Jacques Demy)

8. Night of the Living Dead (dir: George A. Romero)

9. Memories of Underdevelopment (dir: Tomas Gutierrez Alea)

10. Rachel, Rachel (dir: Paul Newman)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): The Boston Strangler (dir: Richard Fleischer), Bullitt (dir: Peter Yates), Faces (dir: John Cassavetes), High School (dir: Frederick Wiseman), Hour of the Wolf (dir: Ingmar Bergman), If... (dir: Lindsay Anderson), Les Biches (dir: Claude Chabrol), The Lion in Winter (dir: Anthony Haarvey), Mandabi (dir: Ousmane Sembene), Monterey Pop (D.A. Pennebaker), Once Upon a Time in the West (dir: Sergio Leone), Petulia (dir: Richard Lester), The Planet of the Apes (dir: Franklin J. Schaffner), The Producers (dir: Mel Brooks; US Release Date), Romeo and Juliet (dir: Franco Zeffirelli), Shame (dir: Ingmar Bergman), The Swimmer (dir: Frank Perry), Targets (dir: Peter Bogdanovich), Witchfinder General (dir: Michael Reeves), and The Yellow Submarine (dir: George Dunning).

Best Picture: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Director: Stanley Kubrick Producers: Stanley Kubrick
US Distributor: MGM

Best Director:
Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby
3. Kaneto Shindo, Kuroneko
4. Milos Forman, The Firemen’s Ball
5. Miklós Jancsó, The Red and the White

Best Actor:
Per Oscarsson, Hunger
2. Boris Karloff, Targets
3. Malcolm McDowell, If...
4. Steve McQueen, Bullitt
5. Vincent Price, Witchfinder General

Best Actress:
Mia Farrow, Rosemary’s Baby
2. Joanne Woodward, Rachel, Rachel
3. Liv Ullmann, Shame
4. Julie Christie, Petulia
5. Katharine Hepburn, The Lion in Winter

Best Supporting Actor:
James Olson, Rachel, Rachel
2. Gene Wilder, The Producers
3. Seymour Cassel, Faces
4. Tony Curtis, The Boston Strangler
5. Duane Jones, The Night of the Living Dead

Best Supporting Actress:
Nobuko Otowa, Kuroneko
2. Ruth Gordon, Rosemary's Baby
3. Lynn Carlin, Faces
4. Janice Rule, The Swimmer
5. Shirley Knight, Petulia

Best Original Screenplay: 
Kuroneko – Kaneto Shindo
2. The Producers — Mel Brooks
3. The Firemen’s Ball — Milos Forman, Jaroslav Papousek, Ivan Passer, and Vaclav Sasek
4. The Young Girls of Rochefort — Jacques Demy
5. Mandabi – Ousmane Sembene

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Rosemary's Baby — Roman Polanski
2. Memories of Underdevelopment — Edmundo Desnoes and Tomas Gutierrez Alea
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey — Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke
4. Hunger — Henning Carlsen and Peter Seeberg
5. The Swimmer — Eleanor Perry

Best Cinematography:
The Red and the White — Tamás Somló
2. 2001: A Spacey Odyssey — Geoffrey Unsworth and John Alcott
3. Kuroneko — Norimichi Igawa and Kioyimi Kuroda
4. Once Upon a Time in the West — Tonino Delli Colli
5. Rachel, Rachel — Gayne Reshner

Best Film Editing:
The Boston Strangler — Marion Rothman
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey — Ray Lovejoy
3. Rosemary's Baby — Sam O'Steen and Bob Wyman
4. The Night of the Living Dead — George A. Romero
5. Bullitt — Frank P. Keller

Best Original Score:
Once Upon a Time in the West — Ennino Morricone
2. Rosemary's Baby — Krzysztof Komeda
3. The Young Girls of Rochefort — Michel Legrand
4. The Swimmer — Marvin Hamlisch
5. Hunger — Krzysztof Komeda

Best Production Design:
2001: A Space Odyssey — Ernest Archer
2. Once Upon a Time in the West — Carlo Simi, Rafael Ferri and Carlo Leva
3. Oliver! — John Box and Ken Muggelston
4. The Planet of the Apes — William Creber, Jack Martin Smith, Norman Rockett, and Walter M. Scott
5. The Lion in Winter — Peter Murton and Lee Poll

Best Costume Design:
The Young Girls of Rochefort — Marie-Claude Fouquet and Jacqueline Moreau
2. Planet of the Apes — Morton Haack
3. The Lion in Winter — Margaret Furse and Lee Poll
4. Oliver! — Phyllis Dalton
5. Romeo & Juliet — Danilo Donati

Best Visual Effects:
2001: A Space Odyssey

Best Sound:
2001: A Space Odyssey

Best Documentary Feature:
Frederick Wiseman, High School

**NEW CATEGORY**
Best Animated Feature:
George Dunning, The Yellow Submarine

Best Ensemble Cast:
The Lion in the Winter

Orson Welles’ Best First Feature:
Paul Newman, Rachel, Rachel

Best Ensemble Cast:
The Lion in the Winter (dir: Anthony Harvey; in alphabetical order): John Castle, Timothy Dalton, Katharine Hepburn (pictured), Anthony Hopkins (pictured), Jane Merrow (pictured), Peter O’Toole (pictured), Nigel Stock, and O.Z. Whitehead

Orson Welles' Best First Feature Award: 
Paul Newman, Rachel, Rachel

RECAP

W I N S :

2001: A Space Odyssey — 5,
Kuroneko — 2, Rachel, Rachel — 2, Rosemary’s Baby — 2, Boston Strangler — 1, High School — 1, Hunger — 1, The Lion in Winter — 1, Once Upon a Time in the West – 1, The Red and the White — 1, The Yellow Submarine — 1, The Young Girls of Rochefort — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

2001: A Space Odyssey — 8,
Rosemary’s Baby — 7, Kuroneko — 5, Rachel, Rachel — 5, Hunger — 4, The Lion in Winter — 4, The Young Girls of Rochefort — 4, The Fireman’s Ball — 3, The Night of the Living Dead — 3, Once Upon a Time in the West — 3, The Red and the White — 3, The Swimmer — 3, Boston Strangler – 2, Bullitt — 2, Faces— 2, Memories of Underdevelopment — 2, Oliver! — 2, Petulia — 2, The Planet of the Apes — 2, The Producers — 2

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Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s