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Best Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1971 | Albert
Best Art DirectionSet Decoration | 1971 | Terence
Best Costume Design | 1971
Best Music Original Song | 1971 | Leslie
Best Music Original Song Score | 1971 | Herbert W.
Best Screenplay Motion Picture | 1971 | Leslie
Best Original Score Motion Picture | 1971 | Herbert W.
Best Original Song Motion Picture | 1971 | Leslie
Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1971
Best Art Direction | 1971 | Terence
Best Comedy Performance Male | 1971 | Albert
Budget 5,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 6,000,000 USD
Produced at Shepperton Studios, where another musical adaption of a Charles Dickens novel, Oliver! (1968), had been made two years before . It reused many of the sets from "Oliver!" that were still being held in storage. Both films were photographed by Oscar-winning cinematographer Oswald Morris B.S.C. (Morris won his Academy award for yet another film musical, Fiddler on the Roof, the following year.
Sir Alec Guinness did not enjoy doing this movie. It required much more time than he expected because of the need of wires and harness for his floating character. He suffered a double-hernia that required surgery to repair.
Sir Alec Guinness' big musical number was cut from the movie, although the lead-in remains intact. It was called "Make the Most of This Life" and was restored when this movie was adapted into a stage musical with Jon Pertwee as Marley and Anthony Newley as Scrooge.
Although the music was composed by Leslie Bricusse and nominated for two Academy Awards, Bricusse could not write music; he would dictate lyrics and melody to music supervisor Ian Fraser who would transcribe and arrange them for Scrooge's score. Bricusse did so on many other movies to much acclaim.
It took more than three hours each day to apply the old-age Scrooge make-up to Albert Finney, who was only thirty-three-years-old at the time.
"Ghost of Christmas Present: Here, Scrooge. I have brought you home. Ebenezer Scrooge: You're not going. Ghost of Christmas Present: My time upon this little planet is very brief. I must leave you now. Ebenezer Scrooge: But we still have so much to talk about, haven't we? Ghost of Christmas Present: There is never enough time to do or say all the things that we would wish. The thing is to try to do as much as you can in the time that you have. Ebenezer Scrooge: Yes, but... Ghost of Christmas Present: Remember, Scrooge, time is short, and suddenly, you're not there anymore."
"Ebenezer Scrooge: [outside Bob Cratchit's home] I want to look in the window. Ghost of Christmas Present: It will cost you nothing, which I'm sure will be good news for you. Ebenezer Scrooge: Will they be able to see me? Ghost of Christmas Present: No, which I feel sure will be good news for them. Ebenezer Scrooge: I could do with another of them drinks. Ghost of Christmas Present: Later. For the time being, I think it better you see things as they really are."
