I was just interested to do this year since almost all of them are forgotten (especially the one nominee). So, the nominees are:
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Funny Girl
The Lion in Winter
Oliver!
Rachel, Rachel
Romeo and Juliet
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Who would be my pick?
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Would it be the biographical musical-drama? Or the epic drama-black comedy? Or the children’s musical drama? Or the small drama? Or the Shakespearean romance?
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I’ll start with a random nominee, then the last one would be the Best Picture Winner, Oliver!.
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So, dear viewer, would I go with the Academy? Or would I go with an another nominee?
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The Final Golden Statue 
I’m most interested to hear about Rachel, Rachel. Looks very interesting. I absolutely despise Oliver, though! It’s such a bore, though I’m not surprised it won, the Academy loves that sort of thing. 😛
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I don’t want to say anything much about my opinions for this movies yet, but I’d admit that Rachel, Rachel has got my interest well enough even if I haven’t seen it yet.
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I’m rooting for The Lion In Winter! I’ve seen Funny Girl, which isn’t very good apart from Streisand’s performance, and I have seen Oliver! but a long time ago. I’ve seen parts of Romeo and Juliet, but I haven’t seen Rachel, Rachel yet.
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I’m going to see Rachel, Rachel for the first time, too. Wish me luck, Joe! And I’m sorry if I haven’t replied immediately, because I went to a 3-day celebration and I just started school today. Posting could be infrequent, but I promise I’d finish this. Thanks!
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The answer, of course, is simple: 2001: A Space Odyssey!
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That’s the truth. Unfortunately, the Academy wasn’t ready to recognize such a daring film with its top prize. So, there you go. It’s history, anyway.
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I’ve never seen Oliver! and Romeo and Juliet, and honestly have no real intention of doing so anytime soon.
The Lion in Winter looks like an obvious favorite to me, even though 2001 should’ve obviously been there.
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Honestly, I chose this film just because I want to push myself in seeing Romeo and Juliet and Rachel, Rachel, and to revisit Oliver! and The Lion in Winter. It seems that 2001: A Space Odyssey is really the best that year.
As of now, I’m disappointed of what I have seen with the nominees.
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Oliver! gets it for being the Hollywood standard for group chorus choreography. Its what people have tried to emulate in group numbers in movie musicals since then. Most blatantly Albert Finney’s Scrooge and Bedkniobs & Broomsticks.
To understand the context of the times you have to remember that The Hollywood movie musical was on its deathbed and was revived by one Walt Disney with Mary Poppins. (when that, Warner Bros’ My Fair Lady and Fox’s Sound of Music became huge hits and won a combined 35 Oscar nominations and 18 wins studios lost their stuff and decided musicals were big winners. On the contrary what they didn’t realise then that the musical was making its huge final farewell (SoM being the last Rodgers & Hammerstein adaptation, MFL being Lerner & Loses’ most famous piece, Mary Poppins being Walt’s opus).
And so a tidal wave of musicals corpses were unleashed; Doctor Dolittle, Finian’s Rainbow, Camelot, The Happiest Millionaire, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang were just a few of the many casualties during this rut, but amongst this graveyard 3 musicals became noteworthy successes. Walt Disney’s last film The Jungle Book (or rather the last Walt himself was involved with) and a pair of Broadway adaptations from Columbia pictures, Funny Girl and Oliver!
Essentially Hollywood saw Funny Girl and Oliver! as saviours of the Hollywood movie musical as they briefly revived the genre for a third lease of live after getting a combined 19 Oscar nominations among them 6 wins (7 if you count the honary Oscar Oliver!’s choreographer won).
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