1964
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
(1964)
Stanley Kubrick (screenplay), Terry Southern (screenplay), Peter George (screenplay), Peter George (based on the book: "Red Alert" by)
Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 6 nominations.
An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.
Marnie
(1964)
Winston Graham (from the novel by), Jay Presson Allen (screenplay by)
1 nomination.
Marnie Edgar is a habitual liar and a thief who gets jobs as a secretary and after a few months robs the firms in question, usually of several thousand dollars. When she gets a job at Rutland's, she also catches the eye of the handsome owner, Mark Rutland. He prevents her from stealing and running off, as is her usual pattern, but also forces her to marry him. Their honeymoon is a disaster and she cannot stand to have a man touch her and on their return home, Mark has a private detective look into her past. When he has the details of what happened in her childhood to make her what she is, he arranges a confrontation with her mother realizing that reliving the terrible events that occurred in her childhood and bringing out those repressed memories is the only way to save her.
Zulu
(1964)
John Prebble (original screenplay), Cy Endfield (original screenplay), John Prebble (suggested by an article written by)
N/A
Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.