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The 36th Academy Awards | 1964
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
Monday, April 13, 1964
Honoring movies released in 1963
Highlights
Cinematography
Hud / Cleopatra

James Wong Howe and Leon Shamroy

Film Editing
How the West Was Won

Harold F. Kress, presented by Sidney Poitier

Directing
Tom Jones

Tony Richardson, presented by Rita Hayworth

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Memorable Moments
Sidney Poitier

Best Actor winner for Lilies of the Field, with presenter Anne Bancroft

Federico Fellini

Foreign Language Film acceptor for 8 1/2 for Italy, with presenter Julie Andrews

David V. Picker

Best Picture winner for Tom Jones, with host Jack Lemmon

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WINNERS & NOMINEES
Actor
Winner
Sidney Poitier
Lilies of the Field
Nominees
Albert Finney
Tom Jones
Nominees
Richard Harris
This Sporting Life
Nominees
Rex Harrison
Cleopatra
Nominees
Paul Newman
Hud
Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner
Melvyn Douglas
Hud
Nominees
Nick Adams
Twilight of Honor
Nominees
Bobby Darin
Captain Newman, M.D.
Nominees
Hugh Griffith
Tom Jones
Nominees
John Huston
The Cardinal
Actress
Winner
Patricia Neal
Hud
Nominees
Leslie Caron
The L-Shaped Room
Nominees
Shirley MacLaine
Irma La Douce
Nominees
Rachel Roberts
This Sporting Life
Nominees
Natalie Wood
Love with the Proper Stranger
Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner
Margaret Rutherford
The V.I.P.s
Nominees
Diane Cilento
Tom Jones
Nominees
Dame Edith Evans
Tom Jones
Nominees
Joyce Redman
Tom Jones
Nominees
Lilia Skala
Lilies of the Field
Art Direction (Black-and-White)
Winner
America America
Gene Callahan
Nominees
Federico Fellini's 8-1/2
Piero Gherardi
Nominees
Hud
Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Robert Benton
Nominees
Love with the Proper Stranger
Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Grace Gregory
Nominees
Twilight of Honor
Art Direction: George W. Davis, Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt
Art Direction (Color)
Winner
Cleopatra
Art Direction: John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Hilyard Brown, Herman Blumenthal, Elven Webb, Maurice Pelling, Boris Juraga; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox, Ray Moyer
Nominees
The Cardinal
Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler; Set Decoration: Gene Callahan
Nominees
Come Blow Your Horn
Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, James Payne
Nominees
How the West Was Won
Art Direction: George W. Davis, William Ferrari, Addison Hehr; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Don Greenwood, Jr., Jack Mills
Nominees
Tom Jones
Art Direction: Ralph Brinton, Ted Marshall, Jocelyn Herbert; Set Decoration: Josie MacAvin
Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Winner
Hud
James Wong Howe
Nominees
The Balcony
George Folsey
Nominees
The Caretakers
Lucien Ballard
Nominees
Lilies of the Field
Ernest Haller
Nominees
Love with the Proper Stranger
Milton Krasner
Cinematography (Color)
Winner
Cleopatra
Leon Shamroy
Nominees
The Cardinal
Leon Shamroy
Nominees
How the West Was Won
William H. Daniels, Milton Krasner, Charles Lang, Jr., Joseph LaShelle
Nominees
Irma La Douce
Joseph LaShelle
Nominees
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Ernest Laszlo
Costume Design (Black-and-White)
Winner
Federico Fellini's 8-1/2
Piero Gherardi
Nominees
Love with the Proper Stranger
Edith Head
Nominees
The Stripper
Travilla
Nominees
Toys in the Attic
Bill Thomas
Nominees
Wives and Lovers
Edith Head
Costume Design (Color)
Winner
Cleopatra
Irene Sharaff, Vittorio Nino Novarese, Renie
Nominees
The Cardinal
Donald Brooks
Nominees
How the West Was Won
Walter Plunkett
Nominees
The Leopard
Piero Tosi
Nominees
A New Kind of Love
Edith Head
Directing
Winner
Tom Jones
Tony Richardson
Nominees
America America
Elia Kazan
Nominees
The Cardinal
Otto Preminger
Nominees
Federico Fellini's 8-1/2
Federico Fellini
Nominees
Hud
Martin Ritt
Documentary (Feature)
Winner
Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World
Robert Hughes, Producer
Nominees
Le Maillon et la Chaine (The Link and the Chain)
Paul de Roubaix, Producer
Nominees
The Yanks Are Coming
Marshall Flaum, Producer
Documentary (Short Subject)
Winner
Chagall
Simon Schiffrin, Producer
Nominees
The Five Cities of June
George Stevens, Jr., Producer
Nominees
The Spirit of America
Algernon G. Walker, Producer
Nominees
Thirty Million Letters
Edgar Anstey, Producer
Nominees
To Live Again
Mel London, Producer
Film Editing
Winner
How the West Was Won
Harold F. Kress
Nominees
The Cardinal
Louis R. Loeffler
Nominees
Cleopatra
Dorothy Spencer
Nominees
The Great Escape
Ferris Webster
Nominees
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Frederic Knudtson, Robert C. Jones, Gene Fowler, Jr.
Foreign Language Film
Winner
Federico Fellini's 8-1/2
Italy
Nominees
Knife in the Water
Poland
Nominees
Los Tarantos
Spain
Nominees
The Red Lanterns
Greece
Nominees
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
Japan
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Winner
Sam Spiegel
Music (Music Score—substantially original)
Winner
Tom Jones
John Addison
Nominees
Cleopatra
Alex North
Nominees
55 Days at Peking
Dimitri Tiomkin
Nominees
How the West Was Won
Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
Nominees
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Ernest Gold
Music (Scoring of Music—adaptation or treatment)
Winner
Irma La Douce
Andre Previn
Nominees
Bye Bye Birdie
John Green
Nominees
A New Kind of Love
Leith Stevens
Nominees
Sundays and Cybele
Maurice Jarre
Nominees
The Sword in the Stone
George Bruns
Music (Song)
Winner
Papa's Delicate Condition
Call Me Irresponsible in "Papa's Delicate Condition" Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Nominees
Charade
Charade in "Charade" Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Nominees
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" Music by Ernest Gold; Lyrics by Mack David
Nominees
Mondo Cane
More in "Mondo Cane" Music by Riz Ortolani and Nino Oliviero; Lyrics by Norman Newell
Nominees
55 Days at Peking
So Little Time in "55 Days at Peking" Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
Best Picture
Winner
Tom Jones
Tony Richardson, Producer
Nominees
America America
Elia Kazan, Producer
Nominees
Cleopatra
Walter Wanger, Producer
Nominees
How the West Was Won
Bernard Smith, Producer
Nominees
Lilies of the Field
Ralph Nelson, Producer
Short Subject (Cartoon)
Winner
The Critic
Ernest Pintoff, Producer
Nominees
Automania 2000
John Halas, Producer
Nominees
The Game (Igra)
Dusan Vukotic, Producer
Nominees
My Financial Career
Colin Low and Tom Daly, Producers
Nominees
Pianissimo
Carmen D'Avino, Producer
Short Subject (Live Action)
Winner
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Paul de Roubaix and Marcel Ichac, Producers
Nominees
The Concert
Ezra Baker, Producer
Nominees
Home-Made Car
James Hill, Producer
Nominees
Six-Sided Triangle
Christopher Miles, Producer
Nominees
That's Me
Walker Stuart, Producer
Sound
Winner
How the West Was Won
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Franklin E. Milton, Sound Director
Nominees
Bye Bye Birdie
Columbia Studio Sound Department, Charles Rice, Sound Director
Nominees
Captain Newman, M.D.
Universal City Studio Sound Department, Waldon O. Watson, Sound Director
Nominees
Cleopatra
20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, James P. Corcoran, Sound Director; and Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes, Sound Director
Nominees
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer, Sound Director
Sound Effects
Winner
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Walter G. Elliott
Nominees
A Gathering of Eagles
Robert L. Bratton
Special Effects
Winner
Cleopatra
Emil Kosa, Jr.
Nominees
The Birds
Ub Iwerks
Writing (Screenplay—based on material from another medium)
Winner
Tom Jones
John Osborne
Nominees
Captain Newman, M.D.
Richard L. Breen, Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron
Nominees
Hud
Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank, Jr.
Nominees
Lilies of the Field
James Poe
Nominees
Sundays and Cybele
Serge Bourguignon, Antoine Tudal
Writing (Story and Screenplay—written directly for the screen)
Winner
How the West Was Won
James R. Webb
Nominees
America America
Elia Kazan
Nominees
Federico Fellini's 8-1/2
Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi
Nominees
The Four Days of Naples
Story by Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Nanni Loy, Vasco Pratolini; Screenplay by Carlo Bernari, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Nanni Loy
Nominees
Love with the Proper Stranger
Arnold Schulman
ALL 0-9 A A-E B C D E F F-J G H I J K K-O L M N O P P-T Q R S T U U-Z V W X Y Z

0-9

55 Days at Peking
2 NOMINATIONS
  • Music (Music Score--substantially original) - Dimitri Tiomkin
  • Music (Song) - So Little Time in "55 Days at Peking" Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster

A

America America
4 NOMINATIONS, 1 WIN
  • * Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Gene Callahan
  • Directing - Elia Kazan
  • Best Picture - Elia Kazan, Producer
  • Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - Elia Kazan
Automania 2000
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Cartoon) - John Halas, Producer

B

The Balcony
1 NOMINATION
  • Cinematography (Black-and-White) - George Folsey
The Birds
1 NOMINATION
  • Special Effects - Ub Iwerks
Bye Bye Birdie
2 NOMINATIONS
  • Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) - John Green
  • Sound - Columbia Studio Sound Department, Charles Rice, Sound Director

C

Captain Newman, M.D.
3 NOMINATIONS
  • Actor in a Supporting Role - Bobby Darin
  • Sound - Universal City Studio Sound Department, Waldon O. Watson, Sound Director
  • Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Richard L. Breen, Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron
The Cardinal
6 NOMINATIONS
  • Actor in a Supporting Role - John Huston
  • Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler; Set Decoration: Gene Callahan
  • Cinematography (Color) - Leon Shamroy
  • Costume Design (Color) - Donald Brooks
  • Directing - Otto Preminger
  • Film Editing - Louis R. Loeffler
The Caretakers
1 NOMINATION
  • Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Lucien Ballard
Chagall
1 WIN, 1 NOMINATION
  • * Documentary (Short Subject) - Simon Schiffrin, Producer
Charade
1 NOMINATION
  • Music (Song) - Charade in "Charade" Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Cleopatra
9 NOMINATIONS, 4 WINS
  • * Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Hilyard Brown, Herman Blumenthal, Elven Webb, Maurice Pelling, Boris Juraga; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox, Ray Moyer
  • * Cinematography (Color) - Leon Shamroy
  • * Costume Design (Color) - Irene Sharaff, Vittorio Nino Novarese, Renie
  • * Special Effects - Emil Kosa, Jr.
  • Actor - Rex Harrison
  • Film Editing - Dorothy Spencer
  • Music (Music Score--substantially original) - Alex North
  • Best Picture - Walter Wanger, Producer
  • Sound - 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, James P. Corcoran, Sound Director; and Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes, Sound Director
Come Blow Your Horn
1 NOMINATION
  • Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, James Payne
The Concert
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Live Action) - Ezra Baker, Producer
The Critic
1 WIN, 1 NOMINATION
  • * Short Subject (Cartoon) - Ernest Pintoff, Producer

F

Federico Fellini's 8-1/2
5 NOMINATIONS, 2 WINS
  • * Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Piero Gherardi
  • * Foreign Language Film - Italy
  • Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Piero Gherardi
  • Directing - Federico Fellini
  • Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi
The Five Cities of June
1 NOMINATION
  • Documentary (Short Subject) - George Stevens, Jr., Producer
The Four Days of Naples
1 NOMINATION
  • Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - Story by Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Nanni Loy, Vasco Pratolini; Screenplay by Carlo Bernari, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Nanni Loy

G

The Game (Igra)
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Cartoon) - Dusan Vukotic, Producer
A Gathering of Eagles
1 NOMINATION
  • Sound Effects - Robert L. Bratton
The Great Escape
1 NOMINATION
  • Film Editing - Ferris Webster

H

Home-Made Car
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Live Action) - James Hill, Producer
How the West Was Won
8 NOMINATIONS, 3 WINS
  • * Film Editing - Harold F. Kress
  • * Sound - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Franklin E. Milton, Sound Director
  • * Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - James R. Webb
  • Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: George W. Davis, William Ferrari, Addison Hehr; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Don Greenwood, Jr., Jack Mills
  • Cinematography (Color) - William H. Daniels, Milton Krasner, Charles Lang, Jr., Joseph LaShelle
  • Costume Design (Color) - Walter Plunkett
  • Music (Music Score--substantially original) - Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
  • Best Picture - Bernard Smith, Producer
Hud
7 NOMINATIONS, 3 WINS
  • * Actor in a Supporting Role - Melvyn Douglas
  • * Actress - Patricia Neal
  • * Cinematography (Black-and-White) - James Wong Howe
  • Actor - Paul Newman
  • Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Robert Benton
  • Directing - Martin Ritt
  • Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank, Jr.

I

Irma La Douce
3 NOMINATIONS, 1 WIN
  • * Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) - Andre Previn
  • Actress - Shirley MacLaine
  • Cinematography (Color) - Joseph LaShelle
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
6 NOMINATIONS, 1 WIN
  • * Sound Effects - Walter G. Elliott
  • Cinematography (Color) - Ernest Laszlo
  • Film Editing - Frederic Knudtson, Robert C. Jones, Gene Fowler, Jr.
  • Music (Music Score--substantially original) - Ernest Gold
  • Music (Song) - It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" Music by Ernest Gold; Lyrics by Mack David
  • Sound - Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer, Sound Director

K

Knife in the Water
1 NOMINATION
  • Foreign Language Film - Poland

L

The L-Shaped Room
1 NOMINATION
  • Actress - Leslie Caron
Le Maillon et la Chaine (The Link and the Chain)
1 NOMINATION
  • Documentary (Feature) - Paul de Roubaix, Producer
The Leopard
1 NOMINATION
  • Costume Design (Color) - Piero Tosi
Lilies of the Field
5 NOMINATIONS, 1 WIN
  • * Actor - Sidney Poitier
  • Actress in a Supporting Role - Lilia Skala
  • Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Ernest Haller
  • Best Picture - Ralph Nelson, Producer
  • Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - James Poe
Los Tarantos
1 NOMINATION
  • Foreign Language Film - Spain
Love with the Proper Stranger
5 NOMINATIONS
  • Actress - Natalie Wood
  • Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Grace Gregory
  • Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Milton Krasner
  • Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Edith Head
  • Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - Arnold Schulman

M

Mondo Cane
1 NOMINATION
  • Music (Song) - More in "Mondo Cane" Music by Riz Ortolani and Nino Oliviero; Lyrics by Norman Newell
My Financial Career
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Cartoon) - Colin Low and Tom Daly, Producers

N

A New Kind of Love
2 NOMINATIONS
  • Costume Design (Color) - Edith Head
  • Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) - Leith Stevens

O

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
1 WIN, 1 NOMINATION
  • * Short Subject (Live Action) - Paul de Roubaix and Marcel Ichac, Producers

P

Papa's Delicate Condition
1 WIN, 1 NOMINATION
  • * Music (Song) - Call Me Irresponsible in "Papa's Delicate Condition" Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Pianissimo
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Cartoon) - Carmen D'Avino, Producer

R

The Red Lanterns
1 NOMINATION
  • Foreign Language Film - Greece
Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World
1 WIN, 1 NOMINATION
  • * Documentary (Feature) - Robert Hughes, Producer

S

Six-Sided Triangle
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Live Action) - Christopher Miles, Producer
The Spirit of America
1 NOMINATION
  • Documentary (Short Subject) - Algernon G. Walker, Producer
The Stripper
1 NOMINATION
  • Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Travilla
Sundays and Cybele
2 NOMINATIONS
  • Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) - Maurice Jarre
  • Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Serge Bourguignon, Antoine Tudal
The Sword in the Stone
1 NOMINATION
  • Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) - George Bruns

T

That's Me
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Live Action) - Walker Stuart, Producer
Thirty Million Letters
1 NOMINATION
  • Documentary (Short Subject) - Edgar Anstey, Producer
This Sporting Life
2 NOMINATIONS
  • Actor - Richard Harris
  • Actress - Rachel Roberts
To Live Again
1 NOMINATION
  • Documentary (Short Subject) - Mel London, Producer
Tom Jones
8 NOMINATIONS, 4 WINS
  • * Directing - Tony Richardson
  • * Music (Music Score--substantially original) - John Addison
  • * Best Picture - Tony Richardson, Producer
  • * Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - John Osborne
  • Actor - Albert Finney
  • Actor in a Supporting Role - Hugh Griffith
  • Actress in a Supporting Role - Diane Cilento, Dame Edith Evans, Joyce Redman
  • Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: Ralph Brinton, Ted Marshall, Jocelyn Herbert; Set Decoration: Josie MacAvin
Toys in the Attic
1 NOMINATION
  • Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Bill Thomas
Twilight of Honor
2 NOMINATIONS
  • Actor in a Supporting Role - Nick Adams
  • Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: George W. Davis, Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1 NOMINATION
  • Foreign Language Film - Japan

V

The V.I.P.s
1 WIN, 1 NOMINATION
  • * Actress in a Supporting Role - Margaret Rutherford

W

Wives and Lovers
1 NOMINATION
  • Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Edith Head

Y

The Yanks Are Coming
1 NOMINATION
  • Documentary (Feature) - Marshall Flaum, Producer
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