Oliver!

Oliver!
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11 Nominations / 6 Wins
Year	1968
Director	Carol Reed
Writer	Vernon Harris
Starring	Mark Lester, Jack Wild, Oliver Reed
41st Academy Awards

Oliver! is a 1968 British musical drama directed by Carol Reed and based on the stage musical of the same name, with book, music and lyrics written by Lionel Bart. The screenplay was written by Vernon Harris. Both the film and play are based on Charles Dickens' novel "Oliver Twist". Filmed in Shepperton Film Studio in Surrey, the film was a Romulus Films production and was distributed internationally by Columbia Pictures.

Wins

Best Art Direction — John Box, Terence Marsh, Vernon Dixon, Ken Muggleston
Best Director — Carol Reed
Best Picture — John Woolf
Best Score of a Musical Picture — John Green
Best Sound — Shepperton Studio Sound Department

Special and Honorary Awards[]

41st Academy Awards, 1968: Honorary Award — Onna White for her outstanding choreography achievement for Oliver!

Nominations

Best Actor — Ron Moody
Best Art Direction — John Box, Terence Marsh, Vernon Dixon, Ken Muggleston
Best Cinematography — Oswald Morris
Best Costume Design — Phyllis Dalton
Best Director — Carol Reed
Best Film Editing — Ralph Kemplen
Best Picture — John Woolf
Best Score of a Musical Picture — John Green
Best Screenplay — Vernon Harris
Best Sound — Shepperton Studio Sound Department
Best Supporting Actor — Jack Wild

Plot[]

Oliver Twist is sold to a Dunstable undertaker after asking for more dinner at the orphanage. Escaping to London he is taken in by Fagin to join his gang of child pickpockets. Wrongly accused of a theft he meets a more kindly gentleman who takes him in, to the concern of one of Fagin's old pupils, the violent Bill Sykes. In the middle is Nancy, Sykes' girl whom Oliver has come to trust.