36th Academy Awards

36th Academy Awards
Date	Monday, April 13, 1964
Site	Santa Monica Civic Auditorium; Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Hosted by	Jack Lemmon
Produced by	Richard Dunlap; George Sidney
Directed by	Richard Dunlap
Highlights
Best Picture	Tom Jones
Most awards	Cleopatra and Tom Jones (4)
Most nominations	Tom Jones (10)
TV in the United States
Network	ABC

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 only time in the history of the Academy Awards that all Best Supporting Actress nominees were born outside the United States.

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 before the ceremony.

Sammy Davis Jr. announced the winner in the category scoring of music, adaptation or treatment but was given the envelope with the name of a winner in a different category (score, substantially original).^[1]

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

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface^[2]

Best Picture	Best Director
Tom Jones – Tony Richardson, producer America America – Elia Kazan, producer Cleopatra – Walter Wanger, producer How the West Was Won – Bernard Smith, producer Lilies of the Field – Ralph Nelson, producer	Tony Richardson – Tom Jones Federico Fellini – Federico Fellini's 8½ Elia Kazan – America America Otto Preminger – The Cardinal Martin Ritt – Hud
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 Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen	Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
How the West Was Won – James R. Webb Federico Fellini's 8½ – Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli and Brunello Rondi America America – Elia Kazan The Four Days of Naples – Screenplay by Carlo Bernari, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa and Nanni Loy; Story by Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Nanni Loy and Vasco Pratolini Love with the Proper Stranger – Arnold Schulman	Tom Jones – John Osborne based on the novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding Captain Newman, M.D. – Richard L. Breen, Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron based on the novel by Leo Rosten Hud – Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr. based on the novel Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry Lilies of the Field – James Poe based on the novel by William E. Barrett Sundays and Cybele – Antoine Tudal and Serge Bourguignon based on the novel Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray by Bernard Eschassériaux
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Song
Federico Fellini's 8½ (Italy) Knife in the Water (Poland) The Red Lanterns (Greece) Los Tarantos (Spain) Twin Sisters of Kyoto (Japan)	*"Call Me Irresponsible" from Papa's Delicate Condition* – Music by Jimmy Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn** "Charade" from Charade – Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" from It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World – Music by Ernest Gold; Lyrics by Mack David "More" from Mondo Cane – Music by Riz Ortolani and Nino Oliviero; Lyrics by Norman Newell "So Little Time" from 55 Days at Peking – Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short Subject
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 Subject	Best Short Subject – Cartoons
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 Music Score – Substantially Original	Best Scoring of Music — Adaptation or Treatment
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 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 Sound Effects	Best Sound
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World – Walter Elliott A Gathering of Eagles – Robert Bratton	How the West Was Won – Franklin Milton Bye Bye Birdie – Charles Rice Captain Newman, M.D. – Waldon O. Watson Cleopatra – James Corcoran and Fred Hynes It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World – Gordon E. Sawyer
Best Art Direction, Black-and-White	Best Art Direction, Color
America America – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Gene Callahan Federico Fellini's 8½ – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Piero Gherardi Hud – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Tambi Larsen; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Robert R. Benton Love with the Proper Stranger – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Grace Gregory Twilight of Honor – Art Direction: George Davis and Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: Henry Grace and Hugh Hunt	Cleopatra – Art Direction: John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Hilyard M. Brown, Herman A. Blumenthal, Elven Webb, Maurice Pelling and Boris Juraga; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox and Ray Moyer The Cardinal – Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler; Set Decoration: Gene Callahan Come Blow Your Horn – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and James W. Payne How the West Was Won – Art Direction: George Davis, William Ferrari (posthumous nomination) and Addison Hehr; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Don Greenwood Jr. and Jack Mills Tom Jones – Art Direction: Ralph W. Brinton, Ted Marshall and Jocelyn Herbert; Set Decoration: Josie MacAvin
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White	Best Cinematography, Color
Hud – James Wong Howe The Balcony – George J. Folsey The Caretakers – Lucien Ballard Lilies of the Field – Ernest Haller Love with the Proper Stranger – Milton Krasner	Cleopatra – Leon Shamroy The Cardinal – Leon Shamroy How the West Was Won – William Daniels, Milton Krasner, Charles Lang and Joseph LaShelle Irma la Douce – Joseph LaShelle It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World – Ernest Laszlo
Best Costume Design, Black-and-White	Best Costume Design, Color
Federico Fellini's 8½ – Piero Gherardi Love with the Proper Stranger – Edith Head The Stripper – Travilla Toys in the Attic – Bill Thomas Wives and Lovers – Edith Head	Cleopatra – Irene Sharaff, Vittorio Nino Novarese and Renié The Cardinal – Donald Brooks How the West Was Won – Walter Plunkett The Leopard – Piero Tosi A New Kind of Love – Edith Head
Best Film Editing	Best Special 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 (posthumous nomination), 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: Art Direction Awards)
Ed Begley (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress)
Rita Hayworth (Presenter: Best Director)
Sammy Davis Jr. (Presenter: Music Awards)
Angie Dickinson (Presenter: Best Special Effects)
Patty Duke (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor)
Shirley Jones (Presenter: Best 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: Costume Design Awards)
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 and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
5 nominations: 8½, Lilies of the Field and Love with the Proper Stranger
4 nominations: America America
3 nominations: Captain Newman, M.D. and Irma la Douce
2 nominations: 55 Days at Peking, Bye Bye Birdie, A New Kind of Love, Sundays and Cybele, This Sporting Life and Twilight of Honor

The following films received multiple awards.

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

Sidney Poitier winning Best Actor

Sidney Poitier's performance in Lilies of the Field as Homer Smith earned him an award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.^[3] This marked the first time a Black male won a competitive Oscar (Poitier is Bahamian-American).^[4] This win came five years after his nomination for Best Actor in the 1958's The Defiant Ones.^[3]

Another African-American male would not win Best Actor until 2001 when Denzel Washington won for his portrayal of Alonzo Harris in Training Day.^[3]

References

↑ Konerman, Jennifer (26 February 2017). "Oscars Shocker: Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway Read Wrong Best Picture Winner". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 27 February 2017.
↑ "The 36th Academy Awards (1964) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on May 2, 2015. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
1 2 3 "THE WINNERS". The Academy Awards. Archived from the original on 10 January 2013. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
↑ "THE WINNER". The Academy Awards. Archived from the original on 10 January 2013. Retrieved 5 May 2014.

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[1] Konerman, Jennifer (26 February 2017). "Oscars Shocker: Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway Read Wrong Best Picture Winner". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 27 February 2017.

[Oscars1964-2] "The 36th Academy Awards (1964) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on May 2, 2015. Retrieved May 4, 2015.

[THE_WINNERS-3] 1 2 3 "THE WINNERS". The Academy Awards. Archived from the original on 10 January 2013. Retrieved 5 May 2014.

[4] "THE WINNER". The Academy Awards. Archived from the original on 10 January 2013. Retrieved 5 May 2014.