The movie ‘Oliver!’ that won the Best Picture award at the 41st Academy Awards was an adaptation of a novel. It was astonishing when Charles Dickens’ famous novel ‘Oliver Twist’, was made into a big-budget musical film, directed by Sir Carol Reed.
The extraordinary screenplay was written by Vernon Harris. The film includes such musical numbers as ‘Food, Glorious Food’, ‘Consider Yourself’, ‘As Long as He Needs Me’, ‘You have Got to Pick a Pocket or Two’, and ‘Where Is Love?’ The music and lyrics were contributions of Lionel Bart.
The movie was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, and won six, including Best Picture, Best Director for Reed, and an Honorary Award for choreographer Onna White. ‘Oliver!’ was the last movie musical to win the Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year until ‘Chicago’ thirty-four years later. The British Film Institute ranked ‘Oliver!’ the 77th greatest British film of the 20th century.
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