1964 Oscars 36th Academy Awards |
Winners Announced: April 13, 1964 Cinematic Highlights and AchievementsTable of Contents
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1964 Oscar Nominees and Winners |
Best Picture: Tom Jones – Tony Richardson (WINNER) America America – Elia Kazan Cleopatra – Walter Wanger How the West Was Won – Bernard Smith Lilies of the Field – Ralph Nelson |
Best Director: Tony Richardson – Tom Jones (WINNER) Federico Fellini – 8½ Elia Kazan – America America Otto Preminger – The Cardinal Martin Ritt – Hud |
Best Actor: Sidney Poitier – Lilies of the Field (WINNER) Albert Finney – Tom Jones Richard Harris – This Sporting Life Rex Harrison – Cleopatra Paul Newman – Hud |
Best Actress: Patricia Neal – Hud (WINNER) Leslie Caron – The L-Shaped Room Shirley MacLaine – Irma la Douce Rachel Roberts – This Sporting Life Natalie Wood – Love with the Proper Stranger |
Best Supporting Actor: Melvyn Douglas – Hud (WINNER) Nick Adams – Twilight of Honor Bobby Darin – Captain Newman, M.D. Hugh Griffith – Tom Jones John Huston – The Cardinal |
Best Supporting Actress: Margaret Rutherford – The V.I.P.s (WINNER) Diane Cilento – Tom Jones Edith Evans – Tom Jones Joyce Redman – Tom Jones Lilia Skala – Lilies of the Field |
Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen: How the West Was Won – James R. Webb (WINNER) 8½ – Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli and Brunello Rondi America America – Elia Kazan The Four Days of Naples – Screenplay by Carlo Bernari, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa and Nanni Loy; Story by Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Nanni Loy and Vasco Pratolini Love with the Proper Stranger – Arnold Schulman |
Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: Tom Jones – John Osborne based on the novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding (WINNER) Captain Newman, M.D. – Richard L. Breen, Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron based on the novel by Leo Rosten Hud – Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr. based on the novel Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry Lilies of the Field – James Poe based on the novel by William E. Barrett Sundays and Cybele – Antoine Tudal and Serge Bourguignon based on the novel Les Dimanches de Ville d’Avray by Bernard Eschassériaux |
Best Foreign Language Film: 8½ (Italy) (WINNER) Knife in the Water (Poland) The Red Lanterns (Greece) Los Tarantos (Spain) Twin Sisters of Kyoto (Japan) |
Best Song: “Call Me Irresponsible” from Papa’s Delicate Condition – Music by Jimmy Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn (WINNER) “Charade” from Charade – Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World” from It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World – Music by Ernest Gold; Lyrics by Mack David “More” from Mondo Cane – Music by Riz Ortolani and Nino Oliviero; Lyrics by Norman Newell “So Little Time” from 55 Days at Peking – Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster |
Best Documentary Feature: Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World (WINNER) Le Maillon et la Chaine The Yanks Are Coming Terminus (nomination revoked) |
Best Documentary Short Subject: Chagall (WINNER) The Five Cities of June The Spirit of America Thirty Million Letters To Live Again |
Best Live Action Short Subject: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (WINNER) The Concert Home-Made Car Six-Sided Triangle That’s Me |
Best Short Subject – Cartoons: The Critic (WINNER) Automania 2000 The Game My Financial Career Pianissimo |
Best Music Score – Substantially Original: Tom Jones – John Addison (WINNER) 55 Days at Peking – Dimitri Tiomkin Cleopatra – Alex North How the West Was Won – Alfred Newman and Ken Darby It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World – Ernest Gold |
Best Scoring of Music – Adaptation or Treatment: Irma la Douce – André Previn (WINNER) Bye Bye Birdie – Johnny Green A New Kind of Love – Leith Stevens Sundays and Cybele – Maurice Jarre The Sword in the Stone – George Bruns |
Best Sound Effects: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World – Walter Elliott (WINNER) A Gathering of Eagles – Robert Bratton |
Best Sound: How the West Was Won – Franklin Milton (WINNER) Bye Bye Birdie – Charles Rice Captain Newman, M.D. – Waldon O. Watson Cleopatra – James Corcoran and Fred Hynes It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World – Gordon E. Sawyer |
Best Art Direction, Black-and-White: America America – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Gene Callahan (WINNER) 8½ – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Piero Gherardi Hud – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Tambi Larsen; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Robert R. Benton Love with the Proper Stranger – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Grace Gregory Twilight of Honor – Art Direction: George Davis and Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: Henry Grace and Hugh Hunt |
Best Art Direction, Color: Cleopatra – Art Direction: John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Hilyard M. Brown, Herman A. Blumenthal, Elven Webb, Maurice Pelling and Boris Juraga; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox and Ray Moyer (WINNER) The Cardinal – Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler; Set Decoration: Gene Callahan Come Blow Your Horn – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and James W. Payne How the West Was Won – Art Direction: George Davis, William Ferrari (posthumous nomination) and Addison Hehr; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Don Greenwood Jr. and Jack Mills Tom Jones – Art Direction: Ralph W. Brinton, Ted Marshall and Jocelyn Herbert; Set Decoration: Josie MacAvin |
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White: Hud – James Wong Howe (WINNER) The Balcony – George J. Folsey The Caretakers – Lucien Ballard Lilies of the Field – Ernest Haller Love with the Proper Stranger – Milton Krasner |
Best Cinematography, Color: Cleopatra – Leon Shamroy (WINNER) The Cardinal – Leon Shamroy How the West Was Won – William Daniels, Milton Krasner, Charles Lang and Joseph LaShelle Irma la Douce – Joseph LaShelle It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World – Ernest Laszlo |
Best Costume Design, Black-and-White: 8½ – Piero Gherardi (WINNER) Love with the Proper Stranger – Edith Head The Stripper – Travilla Toys in the Attic – Bill Thomas Wives and Lovers – Edith Head |
Best Costume Design, Color: Cleopatra – Irene Sharaff, Vittorio Nino Novarese and Renié (WINNER) The Cardinal – Donald Brooks How the West Was Won – Walter Plunkett The Leopard – Piero Tosi A New Kind of Love – Edith Head |
Best Film Editing: How the West Was Won – Harold F. Kress (WINNER) Cleopatra – Dorothy Spencer The Cardinal – Louis R. Loeffler The Great Escape – Ferris Webster It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World – Frederic Knudtson (posthumous nomination), Robert C. Jones and Gene Fowler Jr. |
Best Special Effects: Cleopatra – Emil Kosa Jr. (WINNER) The Birds – Ub Iwerks |
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award: Sam Spiegel |
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