Zinnemann and screenwriter Robert Bolt both won Oscars for this adaptation of Bolt’s 16th-century-set play. Paul Scofield won the Best Actor Oscar as Sir Thomas More, who, along with Welles’s Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, are caught between the marital whims of King Henry VIII (an Oscar-nominated Robert Shaw) and the Catholic Church. One of the screen’s most acclaimed historical dramas and the winner of the 1966 Best Picture Academy Award.