Oliver!

The story

Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.

What critics & audiences say

Tomatometer90%Fresh#57 of 98 winners

IMDb7.445K votes#73 of 98 winners

Metacritic74/ 100#76 of 93 winners

TMDB7.0/ 10

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Fun facts

1. Producer John Woolf suggested Oliver Reed for Bill Sikes to director Carol Reed without knowing the two were actually nephew and uncle.Wikipedia · Casting
2. Ron Moody initially didn't want to play Fagin, fearing he'd perpetuate an unfair image of Jewish people, so he decided to 'forget Dickens and create a clown' instead.Wikipedia · Casting
3. Oliver! is the last G-rated film to win Best Picture, and it was the last musical to win until Chicago in 2002.Wikipedia · Accolades
4. Oliver! was the last British film to win Best Picture until Chariots of Fire in 1981.Wikipedia · Accolades
5. Pauline Kael hailed Oliver! as one of the few screen versions of a stage musical better than the original show, a show she suggested she had walked out on.Wikipedia · Critical response
6. In London the film played for 90 weeks at the Leicester Square Theatre and had been seen by 5 million people across the UK.Wikipedia · Box office
7. Choreographer Onna White received an Honorary Academy Award for her work on Oliver!Wikipedia · Accolades
8. The film was developed by producer James Woolf and director Lewis Gilbert; Woolf died and Gilbert moved on to another film, so Carol Reed stepped in to direct.Wikipedia · Production
9. Oliver! and Columbia's other Best Picture nominee, Funny Girl, earned a combined 19 Oscar nominations, the most for musicals from one studio in a single year.Wikipedia · Accolades
10. Roger Ebert compared Oliver! to The Wizard of Oz as 'very nearly universal entertainment' and later named it the seventh-best film of 1968.Wikipedia · Critical response