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.
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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Martha:
I disgust me. You know, there's only been one man in my whole life who's ever made me happy. Do you know that?
[pause]
Martha: George, my husband... George, who is out somewhere there in the dark, who is good to me - whom I revile, who can keep learning the games we play as quickly as I can change them. Who can make me happy and I do not wish to be happy. Yes, I do wish to be happy. George and Martha: Sad, sad, sad. Whom I will not forgive for having come to rest; for having seen me and having said: yes, this will do.
George: Martha, in my mind you're buried in cement right up to the neck. No, up to the nose, it's much quieter.
George: You can sit around with the gin running out of your mouth; you can humiliate me; you can tear me to pieces all night, that's perfectly okay, that's all right.
Martha: You can stand it!
George: I cannot stand it!
Martha: You can stand it, you married me for it!
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[pause]
Martha: George, my husband... George, who is out somewhere there in the dark, who is good to me - whom I revile, who can keep learning the games we play as quickly as I can change them. Who can make me happy and I do not wish to be happy. Yes, I do wish to be happy. George and Martha: Sad, sad, sad. Whom I will not forgive for having come to rest; for having seen me and having said: yes, this will do.
George: Martha, in my mind you're buried in cement right up to the neck. No, up to the nose, it's much quieter.
George: You can sit around with the gin running out of your mouth; you can humiliate me; you can tear me to pieces all night, that's perfectly okay, that's all right.
Martha: You can stand it!
George: I cannot stand it!
Martha: You can stand it, you married me for it!
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Facts about
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."
Sandy Dennis, who was pregnant at the time of filming, suffered a miscarriage on the set.
Frank Flanagan, who appears uncredited as the motel/café innkeeper, was the film's gaffer. The woman who plays his wife is actually his real-life wife Agnes who was Elizabeth Taylor's hairdresser on the film.
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Sandy Dennis, who was pregnant at the time of filming, suffered a miscarriage on the set.
Frank Flanagan, who appears uncredited as the motel/café innkeeper, was the film's gaffer. The woman who plays his wife is actually his real-life wife Agnes who was Elizabeth Taylor's hairdresser on the film.
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