On this day in 1964, comedic period piece Tom Jones won Best Picture at the 36th Academy Awards. Rent the classic film in the Criterion edition: bit.ly/renttomjones "In the early 1960s, director Tony Richardson and playwright John Osborne set out for more fanciful territory than the gritty realism of the movement they’d helped establish. Tom Jones brings a theatrical flair to Henry Fielding’s canonical eighteenth-century novel, boisterously chronicling the misadventures of the foundling of the t