Critically acclaimed movies that are oscar winners or nominees in music (scoring of music--adaptation or treatment) category

The Sword in the Stone(1963)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A poor boy named Arthur learns the power of love, kindness, knowledge and bravery with the help of a wizard called Merlin in the path to become one of the most beloved kings in English history.



Guess Who's Coming to Dinner(1967)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African American fiancé.



A Hard Day's Night(1964)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 48

A "typical" day in the life of The Beatles, including many of their famous songs.



Camelot(1967)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 47

The story of the marriage of England's King Arthur to Guinevere. The plot of illegitimate Mordred to gain the throne and Guinevere's growing attachment to Sir Lancelot, threaten to topple Arthur and destroy his "round table" of knights.





The Sound of Music(1965)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 30

A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.





Valley of the Dolls(1967)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 22

Film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young women in show business.



Cat Ballou(1965)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.



A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum(1966)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.



Doctor Dolittle(1967)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 15

After the animal communicating veterinarian goes too far for his clientèle, he and his friends escape their hometown to sea in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail.



Irma la Douce(1963)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 14

In Paris, a former policeman falls in love with a prostitute, and tries to get her out of that life by paying for all of her time.



A Thousand Clowns(1965)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A middle-aged iconoclast, doggedly avoiding the tedium of employment and conventional life, faces the prospect of losing custody of his young ward.



Thoroughly Modern Millie(1967)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 9

Millie comes to town in the roaring twenties to encounter flappers, sexuality and white slavers.



The Unsinkable Molly Brown(1964)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 7

A poor, uneducated mountain girl leaves her cabin in search of respect, a wealthy husband, and a better life.



Return of the Seven(1966)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 7

Two survivors of the initial Magnificent Seven outfit, Chris and Vin, recruit four new members in order to re-form the outfit and defend a few Mexican villages from attacks by vicious bandits.



A New Kind of Love(1963)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 6

The fashion industry and Paris provide the setting for a comedy surrounding the mistaken impression that Joanne Woodward is a high-priced call girl. Paul Newman is the journalist interviewing her for insights on her profession.



Gypsy(1962)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.



Billy Rose's Jumbo(1962)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A debt-ridden circus is saved by a well-meaning but inept publicity man.



Gigot(1962)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Jackie Gleason plays a mute janitor who befriends Nicole, the little daughter of a prostitute.




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