Academy Award for Best Picture

1964

My Fair Lady

Release date

October 21, 1964

Starring

Audrey Hepburn

Rex Harrison

Stanley Holloway

Wilfrid Hyde-White

Gladys Cooper

Jeremy Brett

My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical of the same name based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. Directed by George Cukor, the film depicts arrogant phonetics professor Henry Higgins as he wagers that he can take flower girl Eliza Doolittle and turn her Cockney accent into a proper English one, thereby making her presentable in high society of Edwardian London.

The film won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director.