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36th Academy Awards

The 36th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1963, were held on April 13, 1964 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Jack Lemmon.

Best Picture winner Tom Jones became the only film in history to garner three Best Supporting Actress nominations; it also tied the Oscar record of five unsuccessful acting nominations, set by Peyton Place at the 30th Academy Awards.

This year's winner for Best Actress category was unique. Although playing a supporting role and having a relatively small amount on the screen, Patricia Neal won the Best Actress category for her lead (or supporting) role in Hud. The movie also won for Best Supporting Actor for Melvyn Douglas and Best Cinematography – Black and White. It was the second and, to date, last film to win two acting awards without being nominated for Best Picture (the other being The Miracle Worker).

At age 71 Margaret Rutherford set a then record for the oldest winner for Best Supporting Actress. Coincidentally, the year before Patty Duke set a then record for the youngest winner ever. Rutherford was also only the 2nd Oscar winner to be over the age of 70 at the time of her win. The other was Edmund Gwenn.

This was the first time a Black actor won Best Actor, and the first time a winning film (An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge) had been aired on network television prior to the ceremony.

Best Sound Editing was introduced this year, with It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World winning the award.

Awards 1
- Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award 1.1
Presenters and performers 2
- Presenters 2.1
- Performers 2.2
Multiple nominations and awards 3
Sidney Poitier Winning Best Actor 4
See also 5
References 6

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface^[1]

Best Picture	Best Director
*Tom Jones* America, America Cleopatra How the West Was Won Lilies of the Field	Tony Richardson – Tom Jones Elia Kazan – America, America Martin Ritt – Hud Otto Preminger – The Cardinal Federico Fellini – 8½
Best Actor	Best Actress
Sidney Poitier – Lilies of the Field Albert Finney – Tom Jones Richard Harris – This Sporting Life Rex Harrison – Cleopatra Paul Newman – Hud	Patricia Neal – Hud 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	Best Supporting Actress
Melvyn Douglas – Hud Nick Adams – Twilight of Honor Bobby Darin – Captain Newman, M.D. Hugh Griffith – Tom Jones John Huston – The Cardinal	Margaret Rutherford – The V.I.P.s Diane Cilento – Tom Jones Edith Evans – Tom Jones Joyce Redman – Tom Jones Lilia Skala – Lilies of the Field
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
How the West Was Won – James R. Webb 8½ – Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli and Brunello Rondi America, America – Elia Kazan Love with the Proper Stranger – Arnold Schulman The Four Days of Naples – Carlo Bernari, Vasco Pratolini, Nanni Loy, Pasquale Festa Campanile and Massimo Franciosa	Tom Jones – John Osborne Lilies of the Field – James Poe Captain Newman, M.D. – Richard L. Breen, Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron Hud – Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr. Sundays and Cybele – Antoine Tudal and Serge Bourguignon
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Original Song
8½ (Italy) Twin Sisters of Kyoto (Japan) Los Tarantos (Spain) Knife in the Water (Poland) The Red Lanterns (Greece)	*"Call Me Irresponsible" from Papa's Delicate Condition* – Music by Jimmy Van Heusen; Lyric by Sammy Cahn** "So Little Time" from 55 Days at Peking – Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyric by Paul Francis Webster "Charade" from Charade – Music by Henry Mancini; Lyric by Johnny Mercer "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" from It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World – Music by Ernest Gold; Lyric by Mack David "More" from Mondo cane – Music by Riz Ortolani and Nino Oliviero; Lyric by Norman Newell
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel With the World Le Maillon et la Chaine The Yanks Are Coming Terminus (nomination revoked)	Chagall The Five Cities of June The Spirit of America Thirty Million Letters To Live Again
Best Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge The Concert Home-Made Car Six-Sided Triangle That's Me	The Critic Automania 2000 The Game My Financial Career Pianissimo
Best Original Score	Best Adaptation or Treatment Score
Tom Jones – John Addison 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	Irma la Douce – André Previn A New Kind of Love – Leith Stevens Bye Bye Birdie – Johnny Green George Bruns Sundays and Cybele – Maurice Jarre
Best Sound Editing	Best Sound Mixing
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World – Walter G. Elliott A Gathering of Eagles – Robert L. Bratton	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 E. Sawyer
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration, Black and White	Best Art Direction - Set Decoration, Color
America, America – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Gene Callahan 8½ – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Piero Gherardi Hud – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Tambi Larsen; Set Decoration: Sam Comer and Robert R. Benton Love With the Proper Stranger – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer and Grace Gregory Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: Henry Grace and Hugh Hunt	Cleopatra – Art Direction: John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Hilyard Brown, Herman Blumenthal, Elven Webb, Maurice Pelling and Boris Juraga; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox and Ray Moyer Come Blow Your Horn – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer and James W. Payne William Ferrari and Addison Hehr; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Don Greenwood, Jr. and Jack Mills The Cardinal – Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler; Set Decoration: Gene Callahan Tom Jones – Art Direction: Ralph Brinton, Ted Marshall and Jocelyn Herbert; Set Decoration: Josie MacAvin
Best Cinematography, Black and White	Best Cinematography, Color
Hud – James Wong Howe Lilies of the Field – Ernest Haller Love With the Proper Stranger – Milton Krasner George Folsey The Caretakers – Lucien Ballard	Cleopatra – Leon Shamroy How the West Was Won – William H. Daniels, Milton Krasner, Charles Lang, Jr. and Joseph LaShelle Irma la Douce – Joseph LaShelle It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World – Ernest Laszlo The Cardinal – Leon Shamroy
Best Costume Design, Black and White	Best Costume Design, Color
8½ – Piero Gherardi The Stripper – Travilla Toys in the Attic – Bill Thomas Wives and Lovers – Edith Head Love With the Proper Stranger – Edith Head	Cleopatra – Irene Sharaff, Vittorio Nino Novarese and Renie Conley How the West Was Won – Walter Plunkett A New Kind of Love – Edith Head The Leopard – Piero Tosi The Cardinal – Donald Brooks
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
How the West Was Won – Harold F. Kress Cleopatra – Dorothy Spencer The Cardinal – Louis R. Loeffler The Great Escape – Ferris Webster It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World – Frederic Knudtson, Robert C. Jones and Gene Fowler, Jr.	Cleopatra – Emil Kosa, Jr. The Birds – Ub Iwerks

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Sam Spiegel

Presenters and performers

Presenters

Julie Andrews (Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film)
Anne Bancroft (Presenter: Best Actor)
Anne Baxter and Fred MacMurray (Presenter: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration)
Ed Begley (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress)
Rita Hayworth (Presenter: Best Director)
Sammy Davis Jr. (Presenter: Music Awards)
Angie Dickinson (Presenter: Best Visual Effects)
Patty Duke (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor)
Shirley Jones (Presenter: Best Original Song)
Shirley MacLaine (Presenter: Short Subjects Awards)
Steve McQueen (Presenter: Sound Awards)
Gregory Peck (Presenter: Best Actress)
Sidney Poitier (Presenter: Best Film Editing)
Donna Reed (Presenter: Best Costume Design)
Debbie Reynolds (Presenter: Documentary Awards)
Edward G. Robinson (Presenter: Writing Awards)
Frank Sinatra (Presenter: Best Picture)
James Stewart (Presenter: Cinematography Awards)

Performers

James Darren ("It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" from It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)
Harve Presnell ("So Little Time" from 55 Days at Peking)
Katyna Ranieri ("More" from Mondo Cane)
Andy Williams ("Call Me Irresponsible" from Papa's Delicate Condition and "Charade" from Charade)

Multiple nominations and awards

These films had multiple nominations:

10 nominations: Tom Jones
9 nominations: Cleopatra
8 nominations: How the West Was Won
7 nominations: Hud
6 nominations: The Cardinal, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
5 nominations: 8½, Lilies of the Field, Love with the Proper Stranger
4 nominations: America, America
3 nominations: Captain Newman, M.D., Irma la Douce
2 nominations: 55 Days at Peking, Bye Bye Birdie, A New Kind of Love, Sundays and Cybele, This Sporting Life, Twilight of Honor

The following films received multiple awards.

4 wins: Cleopatra, Tom Jones
3 wins: How the West Was Won, Hud
2 wins: 8½

Sidney Poitier Winning Best Actor

Sidney Poitier's performance in the Lilies of the Field as Homer Smith earned him an award for Best Male Actor in a Leading Role.^[2] This marked the first time a Black male won a competitive Oscar (Poitier is Bahamian-American).^[3] This win came five years after his nomination for Best Actor in the 1958's The Defiant Ones.^[2]

The first African-American male would not win Best Actor until 2001 when Denzel Washington won for his portrayal of Alonzo Harris in Training Day.^[2]

References

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36th Academy Awards

36th Academy Awards

Contents

Awards

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Presenters and performers

Presenters

Performers

Multiple nominations and awards

Sidney Poitier Winning Best Actor

See also

References

Categories

Tom Jones (1963 film)

Encyclopedia Article

Cleopatra (1963 film)

Encyclopedia Article

Hud (1963 film)

Encyclopedia Article

Suggestions

List of Greek Academy Award winners and nominees

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