Mr. Cellophane

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Friday, October 31, 2025

Goodbye, Hays Code!

And so, we come to the 1960s. Really had to search and scrape for a lot of these categories (you may notice the absence of 'Best Song', but it was for Spider Baby), so this will be the last of these.

Best Picture
Burn, Witch, Burn!
Cape Fear
Rosemary's Baby
Seconds
Wait Until Dark

Best Actor
Alan Arkin, Wait Until Dark
Rock Hudson, Seconds
Robert Mitchum, Cape Fear
Anthony Perkins, Psycho
Vincent Price, Witchfinder General

Best Actress
Joan Crawford, Strait-Jacket
Bette Davis, Dead Ringer
Mia Farrow, Rosemary's Baby
Julie Harris, The Haunting
Barbara Steele, Black Sunday

Best Supporting Actor
Sidney Blackmer, Rosemary's Baby
Peter Cushing, The Brides of Dracula
Karl Malden, Dead Ringer
John McGiver, The Spirit is Willing
Rod Steiger, No Way to Treat a Lady

Best Supporting Actress
Claire Bloom, The Haunting
Margaret Hamilton, 13 Ghosts
Lee Remick, No Way to Treat a Lady
Simone Signoret, Games
Mary Wickes, The Spirit is Willing

Best Director
Mario Bava, Black Sunday
Curtis Harrington, Night Tide
Sidney Hayers, Burn, Witch, Burn!
Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby
Robert Wise, The Haunting

Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Bedazzled
The Comedy of Terrors
Devil Doll
Games
Strait-Jacket

Best Screenplay Adapted from Another Medium
Cape Fear
Dead Ringer
No Way to Treat a Lady
Psycho
Village of the Damned

Best Cinematography
Mario Bava, Black Sunday
Floyd Crosby, The Pit and the Pendulum
William A. Fraker, Rosemary's Baby
Sam Leavitt, Cape Fear
James Wong Howe, Seconds

Best Editing
Burn, Witch, Burn!
Psycho
Rosemary's Baby
Village of the Damned
Wait Until Dark

Best Production Design
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
The Haunting
Lady in a Cage
The Spirit is Willing
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Best Costume Design
The Comedy of Terrors
The Curse of the Werewolf
The Fearless Vampire Killers
The Raven
Witchfinder General

Best Original Score
Dead Ringer, Andre Previn 
The Haunted Palace, Ronald Stein
The Night Walker, Vic Mizzy
Psycho, Bernard Herrmann 
Seconds, Jerry Goldsmith

Best Sound
Burn, Witch, Burn!
The Haunting
Psycho
Rosemary's Baby
Village of the Damned

Best Visual Effects
The Birds
Burn, Witch, Burn!
The Devil Rides Out
The Fearless Vampire Killers
The Raven

Best Make-Up
The Curse of the Werewolf
The List of Adrian Messenger
Mr. Sardonicus
Munster, Go Home!
The Reptile

Best International Feature
Black Sunday (Italy)
Blood and Black Lace (France/West Germany)
Kwaidan (Japan)

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