Word: scofield
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...role lends itself, then, to vertiginous virtuosity and variety of interpretation--as exemplified in recent decades by the performances of John Gielgud, Maurice Evans, Michael Redgrave, Paul Scofield, Alec Guinness, John Neville, and David Warner...
...Pardon me, sir, but I didn't mean to spill the chocolate. Helen, really, is it my fault if there are only four tables, can't you stand? And so with only five minutes of intermission remaining, you must gorge yourself on all that gluttonous ice cream. You miss Scofield's first scene. But movies really are becoming more stimulating...
...tormented by this vision, sees only one care; in a furious and frightening burst of violence, he overthrows the tables between him and it, and hurls himself into the kingly seat--an act of inordinate courage. (This table-throwing works supremely well here, as it did not when Paul Scofield did the same thing in Peter Brook's King Lear...
...Paul Scofield, the best actor, for A Man for All Seasons, remained in Sussex, England. Elizabeth Taylor, the best actress, for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfl, sent her polite regrets from Nice.* Sandy Dennis, the best supporting actress, for Virginia Woolf, stayed put in New York. Only Walter Matthau, the best supporting actor, for The Fortune Cookie, showed up-as did All Seasons Director Fred Zinnemann and Scenarist Robert Bolt...
...Guild award. Zinnemann was thus the obvious favorite. Also, for 13 out of the past 14 years, the Best Picture has been Best Directed (the exception was the selection of Around the World in 80 Days when George Stevens won the Oscar for directing Giant, 1956). Since Paul Scofield has won the lion's share of acting honors for his performance in Seasons, his winning was forordained. Bruce H. Petrie...