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Movie Review ~ My Fair Lady (1964)


I love this movie.  I don't even know how many times I've seen it now.

Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn are awesome in their parts. Harrison plays a snobbish professor who accepts a wager that he can turn a flower girl, Hepburn, into a lady who would fit in to high society.



Academy Awards, USA 1965

Won
Oscar
Best Picture
Jack L. Warner 
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Rex Harrison
Rex Harrison dedicated his Oscar to "two fair ladies": Julie Andrews andAudrey Hepburn.
Best Director
George Cukor 
Best Cinematography, Color
Harry Stradling Sr. 
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
Gene Allen
Cecil Beaton
George James Hopkins 
Best Costume Design, Color
Cecil Beaton 
Best Sound
George Groves (Warner Bros. SSD) 
Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment
André Previn 
Nominated
Oscar
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Stanley Holloway 
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Gladys Cooper 
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Alan Jay Lerner 
Best Film Editing

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