Bill Sikes won several awards in the early 1960s. Oliver Reed played Sikes in the musical's 1968 film adaptation which also won several awards, with Reed's performance often cited as the best portrayal of Sikes - being labelled as "the sinister core of the film". His songs are removed from the film, making his performance of the character closer to that of the novel rather than the stage version. The famous climax of the 1948 film adaptation is retained and Bill Sikes dies in the same manner of being shot then accidentally hanging himself. In Disney's animated version, "Oliver & Company" (1988),
London in film film "Death of Nancy Sykes" in 1897. The most memorable of these are probably the musical "Oliver!" and the two David Lean films of "Oliver Twist" (1948) and "Great Expectations" (1946). Other film adaptations include "David Copperfield" in 1935 and 1969, "Nicholas Nickleby" in 1947 and 2002, "The Pickwick Papers" in 1952 and "Little Dorrit" in 1987. There have also been many versions of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", the best known of which is probably the 1951 Alastair Sim film "Scrooge". Many films have also been made of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Basil Rathbone played Holmes