Oscar Day East

When the New York Film Critics meet at the end of each December to vote their awards for the year's outstanding people and products, the event often foretells the story of Hollywood's Oscar ceremonies in the spring. The New York critics' choices for 1964 made it clear that My Fair Lady may well sweep the scene on Oscar Day.

My Fair Lady won two of the top three honors. It was named the picture of the year, and its star, Rex Harrison, the best actor. Others in the field were spread. Kim Stanley easily won the best-actress award for her part as a medium in Director Bryan Forbes's Seance on a Wet Afternoon. The best director was Stanley Kubrick of Dr. Strangelove, and the best screenwriter was Harold Pinter, for The Servant. The best foreign-language picture of the year was Jean-Paul Belmondo's That Man from Rio.

A special citation of unquestionable merit was given to the 18-minute experimental masterpiece called To Be Alive, by Francis Thompson and Alexander Hammid, which so far has only been shown at the Johnson's Wax Pavilion at the New York World's Fair. The picture will not be shown anywhere else until after the fair closes next autumn.

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