Awards for 1964

Oscar

Best Picture

WINNER

Tom Jones: Tony Richardson
Tony Richardson was not present at the awards ceremony. David V. Picker accepted the award on his behalf.
NOMINEES

America, America: Elia Kazan

Cleopatra: Walter Wanger

How the West Was Won: Bernard Smith

Lilies of the Field: Ralph Nelson

Best Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER

Lilies of the Field: Sidney Poitier
NOMINEES

Tom Jones: Albert Finney

This Sporting Life: Richard Harris

Cleopatra: Rex Harrison

Hud: Paul Newman

Best Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER

Hud: Patricia Neal
Patricia Neal was not present at the awards ceremony. Annabella accepted the award on her behalf.
NOMINEES

The L-Shaped Room: Leslie Caron

Irma la Douce: Shirley MacLaine

This Sporting Life: Rachel Roberts

Love with the Proper Stranger: Natalie Wood

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER

Hud: Melvyn Douglas
Melvyn Douglas was not present at the awards ceremony. His co-star Brandon De Wilde accepted the award on his behalf.
NOMINEES

Twilight of Honor: Nick Adams

Captain Newman, M.D.: Bobby Darin

Tom Jones: Hugh Griffith

The Cardinal: John Huston

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER

The V.I.P.s: Margaret Rutherford
Margaret Rutherford was not present at the awards ceremony.
Peter Ustinov accepted the award on her behalf.
NOMINEES

Tom Jones: Diane Cilento

Tom Jones: Edith Evans

Tom Jones: Joyce Redman

Lilies of the Field: Lilia Skala

Best Director

WINNER

Tom Jones: Tony Richardson
Tony Richardson was not present at the awards ceremony. Edith Evans accepted the award on his behalf.
NOMINEES

8½: Federico Fellini

America, America: Elia Kazan

The Cardinal: Otto Preminger

Hud: Martin Ritt

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

WINNER

How the West Was Won: James R. Webb
NOMINEES

America, America: Elia Kazan

8½: Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi

The Four Days of Naples: Pasquale Festa Campanile (screenplay/story), Massimo Franciosa (screenplay/story), Nanni Loy (screenplay/story), Vasco Pratolini (story), Carlo Bernari (screenplay)

Love with the Proper Stranger: Arnold Schulman

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

WINNER

Tom Jones: John Osborne
NOMINEES

Captain Newman, M.D.: Richard L. Breen, Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron

Hud: Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr.

Lilies of the Field: James Poe

Sundays and Cybele: Serge Bourguignon, Antoine Tudal

Best Cinematography, Color

WINNER

Cleopatra: Leon Shamroy
NOMINEES

The Cardinal: Leon Shamroy

How the West Was Won: William H. Daniels, Milton R. Krasner, Charles Lang, Joseph LaShelle

Irma la Douce: Joseph LaShelle

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World: Ernest Laszlo

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

WINNER

Hud: James Wong Howe
NOMINEES

The Balcony: George J. Folsey

The Caretakers: Lucien Ballard

Lilies of the Field: Ernest Haller

Love with the Proper Stranger: Milton R. Krasner

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

WINNER

America, America: Gene Callahan
NOMINEES

8½: Piero Gherardi

Hud: Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Sam Comer, Robert R. Benton

Love with the Proper Stranger: Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Sam Comer, Grace Gregory

Twilight of Honor: George W. Davis, Paul Groesse, Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color

WINNER

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
NOMINEES

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 Costume Design, Black-and-White

WINNER

8½: Piero Gherardi
NOMINEES

Love with the Proper Stranger: Edith Head

The Stripper: Travilla

Toys in the Attic: Bill Thomas

Wives and Lovers: Edith Head

Best Costume Design, Color

WINNER

Cleopatra: Irene Sharaff, Vittorio Nino Novarese, Renié
NOMINEES

The Cardinal: Donald Brooks

How the West Was Won: Walter Plunkett

The Leopard: Piero Tosi

A New Kind of Love: Edith Head

Best Sound

WINNER

How the West Was Won: Franklin Milton (M-G-M SSD)
NOMINEES

Bye Bye Birdie: Charles Rice (Columbia SSD)

Captain Newman, M.D.: Waldon O. Watson (Universal City SSD)

Cleopatra: James Corcoran (20th Century-Fox SSD), Fred Hynes (Todd-AO SSD)

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World: Gordon Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn SSD)

Best Film Editing

WINNER

How the West Was Won: Harold F. Kress
NOMINEES

The Cardinal: Louis R. Loeffler

Cleopatra: Dorothy Spencer

The Great Escape: Ferris Webster

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World: Frederic Knudtson, Robert C. Jones, Gene Fowler Jr.

Best Effects, Sound Effects

WINNER

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World: Walter Elliott
NOMINEE

A Gathering of Eagles: Robert L. Bratton

Best Effects, Special Visual Effects

WINNER

Cleopatra: Emil Kosa Jr.
NOMINEE

The Birds: Ub Iwerks

Best Music, Original Song

WINNER

Papa's Delicate Condition: Jimmy Van Heusen (music), Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
For the song "Call Me Irresponsible"
NOMINEES

Charade: Henry Mancini (music), Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
For the song "Charade"

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World: Ernest Gold (music), Mack David (lyrics)
For the song "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World"

Mondo cane: Riz Ortolani (music), Nino Oliviero (music), Norman Newell (lyrics)
For the song "More"

55 Days at Peking: Dimitri Tiomkin (music), Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
For the song "So Little Time"

Best Music, Score - Substantially Original

WINNER

Tom Jones: John Addison
John Addison was not present at the awards ceremony.
Elmer Bernstein accepted the award on his behalf.
NOMINEES

Cleopatra: Alex North

55 Days at Peking: Dimitri Tiomkin

How the West Was Won: Alfred Newman, Ken Darby

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World: Ernest Gold

Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment

WINNER

Irma la Douce: André Previn
NOMINEES

Bye Bye Birdie: Johnny Green

A New Kind of Love: Leith Stevens

Sundays and Cybele: Maurice Jarre

The Sword in the Stone: George Bruns

Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects

WINNER

An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge: Paul de Roubaix, Marcel Ichac
NOMINEES

Koncert: Ezra R. Baker

The Home-Made Car: James Hill

The Six-Sided Triangle: Christopher Miles

That's Me: Walker Stuart

Best Short Subject, Cartoons

WINNER

The Critic: Ernest Pintoff
NOMINEES

Automania 2000: John Halas

Igra: Dusan Vukotic

My Financial Career: Colin Low, Tom Daly

Pianissimo: Carmen D'Avino

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

WINNER

Chagall: Simon Schiffrin
NOMINEES

The Five Cities of June: George Stevens Jr.

The Spirit of America: Algernon G. Wlaker

Thirty Million Letters: Edgar Anstey

To Live Again: Mel London

Best Documentary, Features

WINNER

Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World: Robert Hughes
NOMINEES

Le maillon et la chaîne: Paul de Roubaix

The Yanks Are Coming: Marshall Flaum

Best Foreign Language Film

WINNER

8½
Italy.
NOMINEES

Knife in the Water
Poland.

Los Tarantos
Spain.

The Red Lanterns
Greece.

Koto
Japan.