3 categories: Best Actor for Gregory Peck, Best Adapted Screenplay for Horton Foote, &
Best Art Direction for set decoration.
The American Film Institute compiled a 100 Greatest Heroes (& Villiains) List:
The top 10 Heroes are:
- Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird
- Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark
- James Bond in Dr. No
- Rick Blaine in Casablanca
- Will Kane in High Noon
- Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs
- Rocky Balboa in Rocky
- Ellen Ripley in Aliens
- George Bailey in Its a Wonderful Life
- T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia
According to Wikipedia:
"Harper Lee was pleased with the movie,saying: "In that film the man and the part met...That
film was a work of art." Peck met Lee's father, the model for Atticus, before the filming.
Lee's father died before the film's release and Lee was so impressed with Peck's performance
that she gave him her father's pocket watch, which he had with him the evening he was
awarded the Oscar for best actor. Years later, he was reluctant to tell Lee that the watch
was stolen out of his luggage in London Heathrow Airport. When Peck eventually did tell Lee,
he said she responded, "Well, it's only a watch." Harper -- she feels deeply, but she's
not a sentimental person about things." Lee and Peck shared a friendship long after the
movie was made. Peck's grandson was named "Harper" in her honor."
We've discussed the novel, and now move onto the movie. To Kill a Mockingbird will be
shown in the Community Room of the library on Thursday, May 11 at 10 AM (2 hour & 10 minutes)
with a short discussion to follow.