36th Academy Awards (1964)
Highlights of 36th Academy Awards ceremony
The 36th Academy Awards honored the best films of 1963.
The award ceremony was held on 13th April 1964 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California.
Tom Jones won the Best Picture award.
Tony Richardson won the Best Actor award for his role in Lilies of the Field.
Patricia Neal won the Best Actess award for her role in Hud.
Tony Richardson won the Best Director award for Tom Jones.
- WINNER
Best Picture
Tom Jones
- Tony Richardson
America, America
- Elia Kazan
Cleopatra
- Walter Wanger
How the West Was Won
- Bernard Smith
Lilies of the Field
- Ralph Nelson
Best Director
Tom Jones
- Tony Richardson
America, America
- Elia Kazan
Hud
- Martin Ritt
The Cardinal
- Otto Preminger
8½
- Federico Fellini
Best Original Screenplay
How the West Was Won
- James R Webb
8½
- Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi
America, America
- Elia Kazan
Love with the Proper Stranger
- Arnold Schulman
Le quattro giornate di Napoli
- Carlo Bernari, Vasco Pratolini, Nanni Loy, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa
Best Adapted Screenplay
Tom Jones
- John Osborne
Lilies of the Field
- James Poe
Captain Newman, M.D.
- Richard L Breen, Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron
Hud
- Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr
Sundays and Cybele
- Antoine Tudal, Serge Bourguignon
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Lilies of the Field
- Sidney Poitier
Hud
- Paul Newman
Tom Jones
- Albert Finney
Cleopatra
- Rex Harrison
This Sporting Life
- Richard Harris
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Hud
- Patricia Neal
This Sporting Life
- Rachel Roberts
Irma la Douce
- Shirley MacLaine
Love with the Proper Stranger
- Natalie Wood
The L-Shaped Room
- Leslie Caron
Best Supporting Actor
Hud
- Melvyn Douglas
Tom Jones
- Hugh Griffith
The Cardinal
- John Huston
Captain Newman, M.D.
- Bobby Darin
Twilight of Honor
- Nick Adams
Best Supporting Actress
The V.I.P.s
- Margaret Rutherford
Lilies of the Field
- Lilia Skala
Tom Jones
- Diane Cilento
Tom Jones
- Edith Evans
Tom Jones
- Joyce Redman
Best Original Song
Papa's Delicate Condition
- Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn
for "Call Me Irresponsible"
55 Days at Peking
- Dimitri Tiomkin, Paul Francis Webster
for "So Little Time"
Charade
- Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer
for "Charade"
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
- Ernest Gold, Mack David
for "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World"
Mondo cane
- Riz Ortolani, Nino Oliviero, Norman Newell
for "More"
Best Original Score
Tom Jones
- John Addison
55 Days at Peking
- Dimitri Tiomkin
Cleopatra
- Alex North
How the West Was Won
- Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
- Ernest Gold
Best Sound Mixing
How the West Was Won
- Franklin Milton
Bye Bye Birdie
- Charles Rice
Captain Newman, M.D.
- Waldon O Watson
Cleopatra
- James Corcoran, Fred Hynes
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
- Gordon Sawyer
Best Visual Effects
Cleopatra
The Birds
Best Animated Short Film
The Critic
Best Documentary Feature
A Lover's Quarrel with the World
- Robert Frost
Best Documentary Short Subject
Chagall
Best Foreign Language Film
8½
Koto
Los Tarantos
Knife in the Water
The Red Lanterns
Best Live Action Short Film
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Best Film Editing
How the West Was Won
Cleopatra
The Cardinal
The Great Escape
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Best Original Musical or Comedy Score
Irma la Douce
- Andre Previn
A New Kind of Love
- Leith Stevens
Bye Bye Birdie
- Johnny Green
The Sword in the Stone
- George Bruns
Sundays and Cybele
- Maurice Jarre
Best Cinematography, Color
Cleopatra
How the West Was Won
Irma la Douce
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
The Cardinal
Best Cinematography, Black & White
Hud
Lilies of the Field
Love With the Proper Stranger
The Balcony
The Caretakers
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
Cleopatra
- John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Hilyard M Brown, Herman A Blumenthal, Elven Webb, Maurice Pelling, Boris Juraga, Walter M Scott, Paul S Fox, Ray Moyer
The Cardinal
- Lyle R Wheeler, Gene Callahan
Come Blow Your Horn
- Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Sam Comer, James W Payne
How the West Was Won
- George W Davis, William Ferrari, Addison Hehr, Henry Grace, Don Greenwood Jr, Jack Mills
Tom Jones
- Ralph W Brinton, Ted Marshall, Jocelyn Herbert, Josie MacAvin
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black & White
America, America
- Gene Callahan
Hud
- Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Sam Comer, Robert R Benton
8½
- Piero Gherardi
Love with the Proper Stranger
- Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Sam Comer, Grace Gregory
The Charge Is Murder
- George W Davis, Paul Groesse, Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt
Best Costume Design, Color
Cleopatra
How the West Was Won
A New Kind of Love
The Leopard
The Cardinal
Best Costume Design, Black & White
8½
The Stripper
Toys in the Attic
Wives and Lovers
Love With the Proper Stranger