Oscar Nominations: 3

Actor: Gary Busey

Original Song Score: Joe Renzetti

Sound: Tex Rudolff, Joel Fein, Curly Thirlwell, Willie Burton

Based on the novel by Vincente Blasco Ibanez, “Blood and Sand” is Mamoulian’s strikingly mounted story of the rise and fall of a young cocksure Spanish bullfighter, played by Tyrone Power, at his most handsome.

Ridley Scott’s violent American-Japanese thriller, “Black Rain, “ starring Michael Douglas, was nominated for two Oscars but lost in both categories.

In the sprawling saga “The Big Country,” one of the few Westerns the versatile and prolific Oscar-winning director William Wyler has made, Gregory Peck plays James McKay, a seafaring man heading West to marry Pat Terrill (Carroll Baker), the daughter of rancher Henry Terrill (Charles Bickford).