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Oliver!, along with Columbia Pictures' other Best Picture nominee Funny Girl, secured a combined total of 19 Academy Award nominations, the most nominations for musicals from one studio in a year. Oliver! was the last G-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Oliver Twist, the main character of the story. He is a lonely orphan boy born in the workhouse who asks for more gruel. Fagin, a conniving career criminal, takes in homeless boys and teaches them to pick pockets for him. Nancy, Bill Sikes's partner. She takes a liking to Oliver and treats him and the pickpockets like her own children, but is ...
Oliver Twist: April 14, 1981: NBC: Produced in 1974; edited version aired as part of NBC Special Treat series: Warner Bros. The Fat Albert Easter Special: April 3, 1982: CBS: Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All: August 21, 1982: NBC: King Features Syndicate: He-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special: December 25, 1985: Syndication: Mattel
Oliver Twist, the leading character, sings the song after being thrown into the cellar of a funeral parlour for getting into a fight with Noah Claypole, another servant of the undertaker. Later in the show, a reprise is sung by Mr. Brownlow's housekeeper, Mrs Bedwin. In the 1968 Columbia Pictures musical film version of Oliver!, "Where
For the 1968 film version it was moved to near the end and given a dramatic purpose: Bill Sikes has refused to let Nancy take Oliver out of the pub and, unknown to him, to Mr Brownlow and rescue. He orders Bullseye to guard Oliver while he immerses himself in discussion with Fagin, so Nancy starts the song and gradually works the pub crowd into ...
The song is sung in Fagin's lair in a scene based on the section of Dickens's book where Fagin (played by Ron Moody in the film) teaches Oliver Twist and the rest of the boys how to pick the pockets of gentlemen so as to be able to steal their handkerchiefs, etc., without being detected. It is the first song in Act I Scene VI.
There, Oliver becomes entangled in the lives of Felix's mother Elspeth (Rosamund Pike), father James (Richard E. Grant), sister Venetia (Alison Oliver) and cousin Farleigh (Archie Madekwe).
"Consider Yourself" is a song from the 1960 original West End and Broadway musical Oliver! and the 1968 film of the same name. [1] It was introduced on Broadway by Davy Jones and the ensemble. [2]