37th Academy Awards (1965)

Highlights of 37th Academy Awards ceremony

The 37th Academy Awards honored the best films of 1964.
The award ceremony was held on 5th April 1965 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California.
My Fair Lady won the Best Picture award.
Rex Harrison won the Best Actor award for his role in My Fair Lady.
Julie Andrews won the Best Actess award for her role in Mary Poppins.
George Cukor won the Best Director award for My Fair Lady.
- WINNER

Best Picture

My Fair Lady
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Zorba the Greek
Becket
Mary Poppins

Best Director

My Fair Lady - George Cukor
Becket - Peter Glenville
Mary Poppins - Robert Stevenson
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Stanley Kubrick
Zorba the Greek - Mihalis Kakogiannis

Best Original Screenplay

Father Goose - S H Barnett, Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff
A Hard Day's Night - Alun Owen
I compagni - Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli
L'homme de Rio - Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Ariane Mnouchkine, Daniel Boulanger, Philippe de Broca
One Potato, Two Potato - Orville H Hampton, Raphael Hayes

Best Adapted Screenplay

Becket - Edward Anhalt
Zorba the Greek - Mihalis Kakogiannis
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George
Mary Poppins - Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi
My Fair Lady - Alan Jay Lerner

Best Actor in a Leading Role

My Fair Lady - Rex Harrison
Becket - Richard Burton
Becket - Peter O'Toole
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Peter Sellers
Zorba the Greek - Anthony Quinn

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Mary Poppins - Julie Andrews
Matrimonio all'italiana - Sophia Loren
Seance on a Wet Afternoon - Kim Stanley
The Pumpkin Eater - Anne Bancroft
The Unsinkable Molly Brown - Debbie Reynolds

Best Supporting Actor

Topkapi - Peter Ustinov
Becket - John Gielgud
My Fair Lady - Stanley Holloway
Seven Days in May - Edmond O'Brien
The Best Man - Lee Tracy

Best Supporting Actress

Zorba the Greek - Lila Kedrova
My Fair Lady - Gladys Cooper
The Chalk Garden - Edith Evans
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte - Agnes Moorehead
The Night of the Iguana - Grayson Hall

Best Original Song

Mary Poppins - Richard M Sherman, Robert B Sherman for "Chim Chim Cher-ee"
Dear Heart - Henry Mancini, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans for "Dear Heart"
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte - Frank De Vol, Mack David for "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte"
Robin and the 7 Hoods - Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn for "My Kind of Town"
Where Love Has Gone - Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn for "Where Love Has Gone"

Best Original Score

Mary Poppins - Richard M Sherman, Robert B Sherman
Becket - Laurence Rosenthal
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte - Frank De Vol
The Fall of the Roman Empire - Dimitri Tiomkin
The Pink Panther - Henry Mancini

Best Sound Mixing

My Fair Lady
Father Goose
Becket
Mary Poppins
The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Best Visual Effects

Mary Poppins
7 Faces of Dr. Lao

Best Animated Short Film

The Pink Phink

Best Documentary Feature

World Without Sun

Best Documentary Short Subject

Nine from Little Rock

Best Foreign Language Film

Ieri, oggi, domani (Italy) - Vittorio De Sica
Kvarteret Korpen (Sweden) - Bo Widerberg
Les parapluies de Cherbourg (France) - Jacques Demy
Sallah Shabati (Israel) - Ephraim Kishon
Woman in the Dunes (Japan) - Hiroshi Teshigahara

Academy Honorary Award

William Tuttle

Best Live Action Short Film

Casals Conducts: 1964

Best Film Editing

Mary Poppins - Cotton Warburton
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte - Michael Luciano
Becket - Anne V Coates
Father Goose - Ted J Kent
My Fair Lady - William H Ziegler

Best Original Musical or Comedy Score

My Fair Lady - Andre Previn
A Hard Day's Night - George Martin
Mary Poppins - Irwin Kostal
Robin and the 7 Hoods - Nelson Riddle
The Unsinkable Molly Brown - Robert Armbuster, Leo Arnaud, Jack Elliot, Jack Hayes, Calvin Jackson, Leo Shuken

Best Cinematography, Color

My Fair Lady
Becket
Cheyenne Autumn
Mary Poppins
The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Best Cinematography, Black & White

Zorba the Greek - Walter Lassally
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte - Philip H Lathrop
Fate Is the Hunter - Milton R Krasner
The Americanization of Emily - Joseph F Biroc
The Night of the Iguana - Gabriel Figueroa

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color

My Fair Lady - Gene Allen, Cecil Beaton, George James Hopkins
Becket - John Bryan, Maurice Carter, Patrick McLoughlin, Robert Cartwright
Mary Poppins - Carroll Clark, William H Tuntke, Emile Kuri, Hal Gausman
The Unsinkable Molly Brown - George W Davis, E Preston Ames, Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt
What a Way to Go! - Jack Martin Smith, Ted Haworth, Walter M Scott, Stuart A Reiss

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black & White

Zorba the Greek - Vassilis Photopoulos
The Americanization of Emily - George W Davis, Hans Peters, Elliot Scott, Henry Grace, Robert R Benton
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte - William Glasgow, Raphael Bretton
The Night of the Iguana - Stephen B Grimes
Seven Days in May - Cary Odell, Edward G Boyle

Best Costume Design, Color

My Fair Lady
Becket
Mary Poppins
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
What a Way to Go!

Best Costume Design, Black & White

The Night of the Iguana - Dorothy Jeakins
A House Is Not a Home - Edith Head
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte - Norma Koch
Kisses for My President - Howard Shoup
The Visit - René Hubert
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