36th Academy Awards
The Academy Awards 1964 took place on April 13, 1964 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica instead. It was the 36th Annual Academy Awards. In the year of award films of the past year are always excellent, in this case, the films of the year 1963.
- 3.1 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
- 3.2 Technical Achievement Award
Presentation
Jack Lemmon as a presenter led by the Oscar ceremony.
Winners and nominations
Best Picture
Tom Jones - Between the bed and the gallows (Tom Jones) - Tony Richardson
Best Director
Presented by Rita Hayworth
Tony Richardson - Tom Jones - Between the bed and the gallows (Tom Jones)
Best Actor
Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field ( Lilies of the Field)
Best Actress
Patricia Neal - Hud ( Hud )
Best Supporting Actor
Melvyn Douglas - Hud ( Hud )
Best Supporting Actress
Margaret Rutherford - Hotel International (The VIPs )
Best Adapted Screenplay
Tom Jones - Between the bed and the gallows (Tom Jones) - John Osborne
Best Original Screenplay
The West Was Won ( How the West Was Won ) - James R. Webb
Best Cinematography ( color film )
Cleopatra - Leon Shamroy
Best Cinematography (black & white )
Hud ( Hud ) - James Wong Howe
Best Art Direction (black & white )
The Unbreakable ( America, America ) - Gene Callahan
Best Art Direction (Color film )
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
Best Costume Design (Color film )
Cleopatra - Irene Sharaff, Vittorio Nino Novarese, Renié
Best Costume Design (black & white )
8 ½ - Piero Gherardi
Best Editing
The West Was Won ( How the West Was Won ) - Harold F. Kress
Best Sound
The West Was Won ( How the West Was Won ) - Franklin Milton (MGM SSD)
Best Sound Effects
A totally, totally crazy world ( It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World) - Walter Elliott
Best Visual Effects
Cleopatra - Emil Kosa Jr.
Best Original Music
Tom Jones - Between the bed and the gallows (Tom Jones) - John Addison, Elmer Bernstein
Best Adapted Music
Irma la Douce ( Irma la Douce ) - André Previn
Best Song
" Call Me Irresponsible " from Papa's Delicate Condition - Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn
Best Short Film
La rivière du hibou - Paul de Roubaix, Marcel Ichac
Best Cartoon
The Critic - Ernest Pintoff
Best Documentary (Short Film )
Chagall - Simon Schiffrin
Best Documentary
Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World - Robert Hughes
Best Foreign Language Film
8 ½ by Federico Fellini - Italy