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	1962
	1964

Academy Awards, USA: 1964

Oscar

Date:	13 April
Host:	Jack Lemmon (I)
Location:	Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California, USA
Notes:	The presentation of the music scoring awards went awry when presenter Sammy Davis Jr. was handed the wrong envelope. After reading the nominees for adaptation score, he read the winner's name for the other category (original score) before the mix-up was discovered. Presented with the correct envelope, he read the correct winner's name before continuing to the now-suspenseless original score category.

Best Picture


Winner:
	Tom Jones (1963) - Tony Richardson (I) - Tony Richardson was not present at the awards ceremony. David V. Picker accepted the award on his behalf.
Other Nominees:
	America, America (1963) - Elia Kazan Cleopatra (1963) - Walter Wanger How the West Was Won (1962) - Bernard Smith (II) Lilies of the Field (1963) - Ralph Nelson (I)

Best Actor in a Leading Role


Winner:
	Lilies of the Field (1963) - Sidney Poitier
Other Nominees:
	Cleopatra (1963) - Rex Harrison (I) Hud (1963) - Paul Newman (I) This Sporting Life (1963) - Richard Harris (I) Tom Jones (1963) - Albert Finney

Best Actress in a Leading Role


Winner:
	Hud (1963) - Patricia Neal - Patricia Neal was not present at the awards ceremony. Annabella accepted the award on her behalf.
Other Nominees:
	Irma la Douce (1963) - Shirley MacLaine Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) - Natalie Wood (I) The L-Shaped Room (1962) - Leslie Caron This Sporting Life (1963) - Rachel Roberts (I)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	Hud (1963) - Melvyn Douglas - Melvyn Douglas was not present at the awards ceremony. His co-star Brandon De Wilde accepted the award on his behalf.
Other Nominees:
	Captain Newman, M.D. (1963) - Bobby Darin The Cardinal (1963) - John Huston (I) Tom Jones (1963) - Hugh Griffith (I) Twilight of Honor (1963) - Nick Adams (I)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	The V.I.P.s (1963) - Margaret Rutherford - Margaret Rutherford was not present at the awards ceremony. Peter Ustinov accepted the award on her behalf.
Other Nominees:
	Lilies of the Field (1963) - Lilia Skala Tom Jones (1963) - Diane Cilento Tom Jones (1963) - Edith Evans (I) Tom Jones (1963) - Joyce Redman

Best Director


Winner:
	Tom Jones (1963) - Tony Richardson (I) - Tony Richardson was not present at the awards ceremony. Edith Evans (I) accepted the award on his behalf.
Other Nominees:
	8½ (1963) - Federico Fellini America, America (1963) - Elia Kazan Hud (1963) - Martin Ritt (I) The Cardinal (1963) - Otto Preminger

Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen


Winner:
	How the West Was Won (1962) - James R. Webb
Other Nominees:
	8½ (1963) - Federico Fellini; Ennio Flaiano; Tullio Pinelli; Brunello Rondi America, America (1963) - Elia Kazan Le quattro giornate di Napoli (1962) - Pasquale Festa Campanile (screenplay/story); Massimo Franciosa (screenplay/story); Nanni Loy (screenplay/story); Vasco Pratolini (story); Carlo Bernari (screenplay) Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) - Arnold Schulman

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium


Winner:
	Tom Jones (1963) - John Osborne (II)
Other Nominees:
	Captain Newman, M.D. (1963) - Richard L. Breen; Phoebe Ephron; Henry Ephron Hud (1963) - Irving Ravetch; Harriet Frank Jr. Les dimanches de Ville d'Avray (1962) - Serge Bourguignon; Antoine Tudal Lilies of the Field (1963) - James Poe (I)

Best Cinematography, Color


Winner:
	Cleopatra (1963) - Leon Shamroy
Other Nominees:
	How the West Was Won (1962) - William H. Daniels; Milton R. Krasner; Charles Lang (I); Joseph LaShelle Irma la Douce (1963) - Joseph LaShelle It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) - Ernest Laszlo The Cardinal (1963) - Leon Shamroy

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White


Winner:
	Hud (1963) - James Wong Howe (I)
Other Nominees:
	Lilies of the Field (1963) - Ernest Haller Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) - Milton R. Krasner The Balcony (1963) - George J. Folsey The Caretakers (1963) - Lucien Ballard

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White


Winner:
	America, America (1963) - Gene Callahan (I)
Other Nominees:
	8½ (1963) - Piero Gherardi Hud (1963) - Hal Pereira; Tambi Larsen; Sam Comer; Robert R. Benton Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) - Hal Pereira; Roland Anderson; Sam Comer; Grace Gregory Twilight of Honor (1963) - George W. Davis; Paul Groesse; Henry Grace; Hugh Hunt (I)

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color


Winner:
	Cleopatra (1963) - 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 (I)
Other Nominees:
	Come Blow Your Horn (1963) - Hal Pereira; Roland Anderson; Sam Comer; James W. Payne How the West Was Won (1962) - George W. Davis; William Ferrari; Addison Hehr; Henry Grace; Don Greenwood Jr.; Jack Mills (I) The Cardinal (1963) - Lyle R. Wheeler; Gene Callahan (I) Tom Jones (1963) - Ralph W. Brinton; Ted Marshall (I); Jocelyn Herbert (I); Josie MacAvin

Best Costume Design, Black-and-White


Winner:
	8½ (1963) - Piero Gherardi
Other Nominees:
	Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) - Edith Head The Stripper (1963) - Travilla Toys in the Attic (1963) - Bill Thomas (I) Wives and Lovers (1963) - Edith Head

Best Costume Design, Color


Winner:
	Cleopatra (1963) - Irene Sharaff; Vittorio Nino Novarese; Renié
Other Nominees:
	A New Kind of Love (1963) - Edith Head How the West Was Won (1962) - Walter Plunkett Il gattopardo (1963) - Piero Tosi The Cardinal (1963) - Donald Brooks

Best Sound


Winner:
	How the West Was Won (1962) - Franklin Milton (M-G-M SSD)
Other Nominees:
	Bye Bye Birdie (1963) - Charles Rice (I) (Columbia SSD) Captain Newman, M.D. (1963) - Waldon O. Watson (Universal City SSD) Cleopatra (1963) - James Corcoran (I) (20th Century-Fox SSD); Fred Hynes (Todd-AO SSD) It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) - Gordon Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn SSD)

Best Film Editing


Winner:
	How the West Was Won (1962) - Harold F. Kress
Other Nominees:
	Cleopatra (1963) - Dorothy Spencer It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) - Frederic Knudtson (I); Robert C. Jones (I); Gene Fowler Jr. The Cardinal (1963) - Louis R. Loeffler The Great Escape (1963) - Ferris Webster

Best Effects, Sound Effects


Winner:
	It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) - Walter Elliott
Other Nominees:
	A Gathering of Eagles (1963) - Robert L. Bratton

Best Effects, Special Visual Effects


Winner:
	Cleopatra (1963) - Emil Kosa Jr.
Other Nominees:
	The Birds (1963) - Ub Iwerks

Best Music, Original Song


Winner:
	Papa's Delicate Condition (1963) - Jimmy Van Heusen (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics) - For the song "Call Me Irresponsible"
Other Nominees:
	55 Days at Peking (1963) - Dimitri Tiomkin (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) - For the song "So Little Time" Charade (1963) - Henry Mancini (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics) - For the song "Charade" It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) - Ernest Gold (music); Mack David (lyrics) - For the song "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" Mondo cane (1962) - Riz Ortolani (music); Nino Oliviero (music); Norman Newell (lyrics) - For the song "More"

Best Music, Score - Substantially Original


Winner:
	Tom Jones (1963) - John Addison (I) - John Addison was not present at the awards ceremony. Elmer Bernstein accepted the award on his behalf.
Other Nominees:
	55 Days at Peking (1963) - Dimitri Tiomkin Cleopatra (1963) - Alex North How the West Was Won (1962) - Alfred Newman; Ken Darby It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) - Ernest Gold

Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment


Winner:
	Irma la Douce (1963) - André Previn
Other Nominees:
	A New Kind of Love (1963) - Leith Stevens Bye Bye Birdie (1963) - Johnny Green (I) Les dimanches de Ville d'Avray (1962) - Maurice Jarre (I) The Sword in the Stone (1963) - George Bruns

Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects


Winner:
	La rivière du hibou (1962) - Paul de Roubaix; Marcel Ichac
Other Nominees:
	Koncert (1963/I) - Ezra R. Baker That's Me (1963) - Walker Stuart (III) The Home-Made Car (1963) - James Hill (I) The Six-Sided Triangle (1963) - Christopher Miles (II)

Best Short Subject, Cartoons


Winner:
	The Critic (1963) - Ernest Pintoff
Other Nominees:
	Automania 2000 (1964) - John Halas Igra (1962) - Dusan Vukotic (I) My Financial Career (1962) - Colin Low; Tom Daly (I) Pianissimo (1963) - Carmen D'Avino

Best Documentary, Short Subjects


Winner:
	Chagall (1964) - Simon Schiffrin
Other Nominees:
	The Five Cities of June (1963) - George Stevens Jr. The Spirit of America (1963) - Algernon G. Wlaker Thirty Million Letters (1963) - Edgar Anstey To Live Again (1963) - Mel London

Best Documentary, Features


Winner:
	Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World (1963) - Robert Hughes (IV)
Other Nominees:
	Le maillon et la chaîne (1963) - Paul de Roubaix The Yanks Are Coming (1963) - Marshall Flaum

Best Foreign Language Film


Winner:
	8½ (1963) - Italy.
Other Nominees:
	Koto (1963) - Japan. Los Tarantos (1963) - Spain. Nóz w wodzie (1962) - Poland. Ta kokkina fanaria (1963) - Greece.

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award


Awarded to:
	Sam Spiegel (I)

Academy Award of Merit


Winner:
	- Not awarded.

Scientific and Engineering Award


Winner:
	- Not awarded.

Technical Achievement Award


Winner:
	Douglas Shearer (M-G-M Studios); A. Arnold Gillespie (M-G-M Studios) - For the engineering of an improved Background Process Projection System.