Doctor Zhivago
First screened in July 1998 / Most recently screened in December 2010

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Director: David Lean. Cast: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Alec Guinness, Rod Steiger, Geraldine Chaplin, Ralph Richardson, Tom Courtenay, Rita Tushingham, Siobhan McKenna, Klaus Kinski. Screenplay: Robert Bolt (based on the novel by Boris Pasternak).

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Twitter Capsule: Famous visual and musical beauty, yes, but it's lipstick on a pachyderm. No ideas or POV. Politics fully smothered.

VOR: ③  Sheer scale and well-publicized production labors imply risk, but only as achieved by depersonalizing Lean's style and kowtowing to stiff, shaky idea of what an "epic" is.

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Photo © 1965 Metro Goldwyn Mayer

Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: C–

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Academy Award Nominations and Winners:
	Best Picture
	Best Director: David Lean
	Best Supporting Actor: Tom Courtenay
★	Best Adapted Screenplay: Robert Bolt
★	Best Cinematography (Color): Freddie Young
★	Best Art Direction (Color): John Box; Terence Marsh & Dario Simoni
★	Best Costume Design (Color): Phyllis Dalton
	Best Film Editing: Norman Savage
★	Best Original Score: Maurice Jarre
	Best Sound: A.W. Watkins & Franklin Milton
Golden Globe Nominations and Winners:
★	Best Picture (Drama)
★	Best Director: David Lean
★	Best Actor (Drama): Omar Sharif
★	Best Screenplay: Robert Bolt
★	Best Original Score: Maurice Jarre
	Most Promising Newcomer (Female): Geraldine Chaplin
Other Awards:
	National Board of Review: Best Actress (Christie; also cited for Darling)

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