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),
Oliver & Company of dogs (one of which is Dodger), and Sykes is a loan shark. Following the release of "The Black Cauldron", Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg held a pitch meeting with the animation staff, in which story artist Pete Young pitched the idea to adapt "Oliver Twist" with dogs. The pitch was quickly approved, and the film quickly went into production under the working title "Oliver and the Dodger". Released on the same day as "The Land Before Time", "Oliver & Company" was a box office success, but it received mixed reviews from film critics. The film was re-released in the