Thunderball (1965)

Sean Connery returns as James Bond, travelling to the Bahamas to recover two atomic bombs stolen by SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo (portrayed by Adolfo Celi). Stealing all the best notes from Goldfinger (entertaining title sequences, fantastic theme songs, female characters bent on revenge), it doesn’t do much new with them. There’s a fantastic early scene in the SPECTRE headquarters that again have obvious comparisons to Dr. Evil’s lair in the Austin Powers series. The Bahamas provides an obviously gorgeous setting and its underwater scenes are creative especially an epic battle between the forces of good and evil, but they impart a couple of problems. First is an inability to tell characters apart under all their gear and second, it slows down the action in an action film to a crawl making for an unnecessarily bloated runtime.  

Oscar Win: Best Effects, Special Visual Effects