Director George Pal's movie adaption of H. G. Wells' novel The Time Machine won an Academy Award for Best Special Effects for Gene Warren and Tim Baar at the 33rd ceremony April 17, 1961. It beat The Last Voyage, the only other nominee for the award.
Psycho was nominated for four Academy Awards the same year, but did not receive any.
Tanya Lemani, born March 17, 1945 in Iran, appeared in the original series of Star Trek. She played Kara, the belly dancer, who is found stabbed several times in the episode Wolf In The Fold, the 14th episode of the second season. This is one of my favorite episode. It was written by Robert Bloch, who wrote Psycho.
Chekov and Uhura do not appear in this episode.
She has also appeared in the video Star Trek: Of Gods and Men.
The undisputed master of horror Alfred Hitchcock was born August 13, 1899 in London, England. He directed some of the scariest movies in all cinema history, including my favorites Psycho, The Birds and Rebecca.
He was nominated for an Oscar four times for Best Director but never won. He did win an Academy Award for the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1968.
Steven Spielberg's blockbuster Jaws was released into theaters June 20, 1975. It starred Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfus. It was based on the novel by Peter Benchley about a great white shark terrorizing the town of Amity, a beach community in New York.
It won three Academy Awards: Best Sound, Best Film Editing and Best Original Score for John Williams. It was also nominated for Best Picture. In 2001, the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. The American Film Institute has listed it as #48 on the list of the greatest American movies of all time. John Williams' score has been listed as #6 on 100 Years of Film Scores. It is ranked as the second-most thrilling movie behind Psycho.
One of the best, scariest movies of all time premiered June 16, 1960. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starred Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles and Janet Leigh.
Voted the #1 horror film of all time by WatchMojo.com Ranked #14 on the AFI 100 Years... 100 Movies 10th Anniversary Edition, up 4 places from #18 in 1997 Psycho (1960) features in both the American and British Film Institutes' Top 100 lists. In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #14 Greatest Movie of All Time This was voted the seventh scariest film of all time by Entertainment Weekly Ranked #1 on the AFI 100 Years... 100 Thrills film series The movie's line "A boy's best friend is his mother." was voted as the #56 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100) The strings-only music by Bernard Herrmann is ranked #4 on AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores.
One of the most powerful, scariest and best movies ever, The Manchurian Candidate, was released October 24, 1962. Angela Lansbury gives a strong performance and should have won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, for which she was nominated. She did win the Golden Globe for her role. Sinatra had actually considered Lucille Ball for Lansbury's role, Mrs. Iselin, but director John Frankenheimer went with Angela instead.
I didn't understand why she didn't get top billing instead of Janet Leigh because Angela had a larger role. But I suppose with Janet, still riding high from her performance in Psycho, could garner the top spot.
Newsweek selected the role Mrs. Iselin as one of the top 10 Villains in movie history.
