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
- Federico Fellini

Best Original Screenplay

How the West Was Won - James R Webb
- 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


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
- 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


The Stripper
Toys in the Attic
Wives and Lovers
Love With the Proper Stranger
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