Editing Sleuth (1972 film) (section)

==Reception and legacy==
On [[Rotten Tomatoes]] the film has an approval rating of 89% based on reviews from 28 critics.<ref name=RottenTomatoes />

The film was nominated for [[Academy Award]]s for [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor in a Leading Role]] ([[Michael Caine]] and [[Laurence Olivier]]), [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] and [[Academy Award for Best Original Music Score|Best Music, Original Dramatic Score]]. Olivier won the [[New York Film Critics]] award for [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] as a compromise selection after the voters became deadlocked in a choice between [[Marlon Brando]] and [[Al Pacino]] in ''[[The Godfather]]'' after [[Stacy Keach]] in ''[[Fat City (film)|Fat City]]'' won a plurality in initial voting and rules were changed requiring a majority.<ref>''Inside Oscar'', Mason Wiley and [[Damien Bona]], Ballantine Books (1986)</ref> Shaffer received an [[Edgar Award]] for his screenplay.

The film was the second to have practically its entire cast (Caine and Olivier) nominated for Academy Awards after ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)|Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'' in 1966 and the first where exactly all of the actors in the film were nominated. (''Virginia Woolf'' featured uncredited bit parts by actors playing the roadhouse manager and waitress.) This feat has been repeated only by ''[[Give 'em Hell, Harry!]]'' (1975), in which [[James Whitmore]] is the sole credited actor.

Critics [[Roger Ebert]], [[Janet Maslin]], Gary Arnold of ''[[The Washington Post]]'', and several film historians have all noted similarities between ''Sleuth'' and Caine's 1982 film ''[[Deathtrap (film)|Deathtrap]]''.<ref name=Ebert>Ebert, Roger. [http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/deathtrap-1982 ''Deathtrap'' review], ''Chicago Sun Times'' (1 Jan. 1982).</ref><ref name="Deathtrap review">Maslin, Janet. [https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/19/movies/film-deathtrap-with-michael-caine.html "Deathtrap" review] ''The New York Times'' (19 March 1982)</ref><ref name="washingtonpost.com">Arnold, Gary. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26668-2004Oct12.html ''Deathtrap'' review], ''The Washington Post'' (18 Mar. 1982)</ref><ref name="books.google.com">Carlson, Marvin. [[iarchive:deathtrapspostmo00carl/page/80|<!-- quote=sleuth deathtrap. --> "Deathtraps: The Postmodern Comedy Thriller"]] p. 80</ref><ref name="Dick, Bernard p.276">Dick, Bernard. [https://books.google.com/books?id=P3P9efYabOQC&dq=sleuth+deathtrap&pg=PA276 "Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty"] p. 276</ref><ref name="Michael Caine: You're A Big Man">Field, Matthew. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ik6_CAAAQBAJ&dq=sleuth+deathtrap&pg=PT132 "Michael Caine: You're A Big Man"]</ref> ''[[Second City Television|SCTV]]'' episode 121 featured [[Dave Thomas (actor)|Dave Thomas]] playing Michael Caine, arguing that the two films were different because the library appeared on different sides of the set.

===Accolades===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Award
! Category
! Nominee(s)
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| rowspan="4"| [[45th Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| [[Joseph L. Mankiewicz]]
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="4" align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1973 |title=The 45th Academy Awards (1973) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2014-03-01 |website=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| [[Michael Caine]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Laurence Olivier]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Dramatic Score]]
| [[John Addison]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="4"| [[27th British Academy Film Awards|British Academy Film Awards]]
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role|Best Actor in a Leading Role]]
| Laurence Olivier
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="4" align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1974/film |title=BAFTA Awards: Film in 1974 |website=[[BAFTA]] |year=1974 |access-date=June 3, 2021 |ref={{harvid|BAFTA|1974}}}}</ref>
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]]
| [[Anthony Shaffer (writer)|Anthony Shaffer]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction]]
| [[Ken Adam]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]]
| [[Oswald Morris]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos|Cinema Writers Circle Awards]]
| Best Foreign Film
| [[Morton Gottlieb]]
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[David di Donatello|David di Donatello Awards]]
| [[David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor|Best Foreign Actor]]
| Laurence Olivier
| {{won}}{{efn|Tied with [[Yves Montand]] for ''[[César and Rosalie]]''.}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[Edgar Awards|Edgar Allan Poe Awards]]
| [[List of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay winners|Best Motion Picture]]
| Anthony Shaffer
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://edgarawards.com/category-list-best-motion-picture/ |title=Category List – Best Motion Picture |website=[[Edgar Awards]] |access-date=August 15, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[Evening Standard British Film Awards]]
| Best Actor
| Michael Caine
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| rowspan="3"| [[30th Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama|Best Motion Picture – Drama]]
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="3" align="center"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/sleuth |title=Sleuth – Golden Globes |website=[[HFPA]] |access-date=July 5, 2021 |ref={{harvid|HFPA|1973}}}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama|Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama]]
| Michael Caine
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| Laurence Olivier
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[1972 New York Film Critics Circle Awards|New York Film Critics Circle Awards]]
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551 |title=Awards Winners |date= |work=Writers Guild of America |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121205095022/http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551 |archive-date=2012-12-05 |access-date=2010-06-06 |language=en}}</ref>
|}