1963 (36th Annual Awards)
Nominations and Winners

Listed below are the Academy Award nominations and winners for the year 1963. The symbol appears next to the winner in each category. Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song. Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the nominations and winners from that year.

Best Picture

America America, Athena Enterprises Production; Warner Bros. Elia Kazan, Producer.

Cleopatra, 20th Century-Fox, Ltd.-MCL Films S.A.-WALWA Films S.A. Production; 20th Century-Fox. (Switzerland, UK, USA) Walter Wanger, Producer.

How the West Was Won, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer & Cinerama; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Bernard Smith, Producer.

Lilies of the Field, Rainbow Productions; United Artists. Ralph Nelson, Producer.

Tom Jones, Woodfall Production; United Artists-Lopert Pictures. (UK) Tony Richardson, Producer.

Best Actor

Albert Finney in Tom Jones, Woodfall Production; United Artists-Lopert Pictures. (UK)

Richard Harris in This Sporting Life, Julian Wintle-Leslie Parkyn Production; Walter Reade-Sterling-Continental Distributing. (UK)

Rex Harrison in Cleopatra, 20th Century-Fox, Ltd.-MCL Films S.A.-WALWA Films S.A. Production; 20th Century-Fox. (Switzerland, UK, USA)

Paul Newman in Hud, Salem-Dover Production; Paramount.

Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field, Rainbow Productions; United Artists.

Best Actress

Leslie Caron in The L-Shaped Room, Romulus Productions, Ltd.; Columbia. (UK)

Shirley MacLaine in Irma La Douce, Mirisch-Phalanx Production; United Artists.

Patricia Neal in Hud, Salem-Dover Production; Paramount.

Rachel Roberts in This Sporting Life, Julian Wintle-Leslie Parkyn Production; Walter Reade-Sterling-Continental Distributing. (UK)

Natalie Wood in Love with the Proper Stranger, Boardwalk-Rona Production; Paramount.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Nick Adams in Twilight of Honor, Perlberg-Seaton Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Bobby Darin in Captain Newman, M.D., Universal-Brentwood-Reynard Production; Universal.

Melvyn Douglas in Hud, Salem-Dover Production; Paramount.

Hugh Griffith in Tom Jones, Woodfall Production; United Artists-Lopert Pictures. (UK)

John Huston in The Cardinal, Gamma Production; Columbia.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Diane Cilento in Tom Jones, Woodfall Production; United Artists-Lopert Pictures. (UK)

Dame Edith Evans in Tom Jones, Woodfall Production; United Artists-Lopert Pictures. (UK)

Joyce Redman in Tom Jones, Woodfall Production; United Artists-Lopert Pictures. (UK)

Margaret Rutherford in The V.I.P.s, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (UK)

Lilia Skala in Lilies of the Field, Rainbow Productions; United Artists.

Directing

America America, Athena Enterprises Production; Warner Bros. Elia Kazan.

The Cardinal, Gamma Production; Columbia. Otto Preminger.

Federico Fellini’s 8-1/2, Cineriz Production; Embassy Pictures Corporation. (Italy, France) Federico Fellini.

Hud, Salem-Dover Production; Paramount. Martin Ritt.

Tom Jones, Woodfall Production; United Artists-Lopert Pictures. (UK) Tony Richardson.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

(Black-and-White)

America America, Athena Enterprises Production; Warner Bros. Gene Callahan.

Federico Fellini’s 8-1/2, Cineriz Production; Embassy Pictures Corporation. (Italy, France) Piero Gherardi.

Hud, Salem-Dover Production; Paramount. Art direction by Hal Pereira and Tambi Larsen; set decoration by Sam Comer and Robert Benton.

Love with the Proper Stranger, Boardwalk-Rona Production; Paramount. Art direction by Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson; set decoration by Sam Comer and Grace Gregory.

Twilight of Honor, Perlberg-Seaton Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Art direction by George W. Davis and Paul Groesse; set decoration by Henry Grace and Hugh Hunt.

(Color)

The Cardinal, Gamma Production; Columbia. Art direction by Lyle Wheeler; set decoration by Gene Callahan.

Cleopatra, 20th Century-Fox, Ltd.-MCL Films S.A.-WALWA Films S.A. Production; 20th Century-Fox. (Switzerland, UK, USA) Art direction by John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Hilyard Brown, Herman Blumenthal, Elven Webb, Maurice Pelling and Boris Juraga; set decoration by Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox and Ray Moyer.

Come Blow Your Horn, Essex-Tandem Enterprises Production; Paramount. Art direction by Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson; set decoration by Sam Comer and James Payne.

How the West Was Won, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer & Cinerama; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Art direction by George W. Davis, William Ferrari and Addison Hehr; set decoration by Henry Grace, Don Greenwood, Jr. and Jack Mills.

Tom Jones, Woodfall Production; United Artists-Lopert Pictures. (UK) Art direction by Ralph Brinton, Ted Marshall and Jocelyn Herbert; set decoration by Josie MacAvin.

Cinematography

(Black-and-White)

The Balcony, Walter Reade-Sterling-Allen Hodgdon Production; Walter Reade-Sterling-Continental Distributing. George Folsey.

The Caretakers, Hall Bartlett Productions; United Artists. Lucien Ballard.

Hud, Salem-Dover Production; Paramount. James Wong Howe.

Lilies of the Field, Rainbow Productions; United Artists. Ernest Haller.

Love with the Proper Stranger, Boardwalk-Rona Production; Paramount. Milton Krasner.

(Color)

The Cardinal, Gamma Production; Columbia. Leon Shamroy.

Cleopatra, 20th Century-Fox, Ltd.-MCL Films S.A.-WALWA Films S.A. Production; 20th Century-Fox. (Switzerland, UK, USA) Leon Shamroy.

How the West Was Won, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer & Cinerama; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. William H. Daniels, Milton Krasner, Charles Lang, Jr. and Joseph LaShelle.

Irma La Douce, Mirisch-Phalanx Production; United Artists. Joseph LaShelle.

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Casey Production; United Artists. Ernest Laszlo.

Costume Design

(Black-and-White)

Federico Fellini’s 8-1/2, Cineriz Production; Embassy Pictures Corporation. (Italy, France) Piero Gherardi.

Love with the Proper Stranger, Boardwalk-Rona Production; Paramount. Edith Head.

The Stripper, Jerry Wald Productions, Inc.; 20th Century-Fox. Travilla.

Toys in the Attic, Mirisch-Claude Production; United Artists. Bill Thomas.

Wives and Lovers, Hal Wallis Productions; Paramount. Edith Head.

(Color)

The Cardinal, Gamma Production; Columbia. Donald Brooks.

Cleopatra, 20th Century-Fox, Ltd.-MCL Films S.A.-WALWA Films S.A. Production; 20th Century-Fox. (Switzerland, UK, USA) Irene Sharaff, Vittorio Nino Novarese and Renie.

How the West Was Won, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer & Cinerama; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Walter Plunkett.

The Leopard, Titanus Production; 20th Century-Fox. (Italy, France) Piero Tosi.

A New Kind of Love, Llenroc Productions; Paramount. Edith Head.

Documentary

(Feature)

Le Maillon et la Chaine (The Link and the Chain), Films Du Centaure-Filmartic. (France) Paul de Roubaix, Producer.

Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World, WGBH Educational Foundation; Holt, Reinhart and Winston, Inc. Robert Hughes, Producer.

Terminus, British Transport Films. (UK) Edgar Anstey, Producer. [NOTE: After the nominations were announced, it was discovered that this film was first released prior to the eligibility period, and the nomination was withdrawn.]

The Yanks Are Coming, David L. Wolper Productions. Marshall Flaum, Producer.

(Short Subject)

Chagall, Auerbach Film Enterprises, Ltd.-Flag Films; Union Films. (France) Simon Schiffrin, Producer.

The Five Cities of June, United States Information Agency. George Stevens, Jr., Producer.

The Spirit of America, Spotlight News, Inc. Algernon G. Walker, Producer.

Thirty Million Letters, British Transport Films. (UK) Edgar Anstey, Producer.

To Live Again, Wilding, Inc.; St. Barnabas Hospital, Bronx, NY. Mel London, Producer.

Film Editing

The Cardinal, Gamma Production; Columbia. Louis R. Loeffler.

Cleopatra, 20th Century-Fox, Ltd.-MCL Films S.A.-WALWA Films S.A. Production; 20th Century-Fox. (Switzerland, UK, USA) Dorothy Spencer.

The Great Escape, Mirisch-Alpha Picture Production; United Artists. Ferris Webster.

How the West Was Won, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer & Cinerama; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Harold F. Kress.

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Casey Production; United Artists. Frederic Knudtson, Robert C. Jones and Gene Fowler, Jr.

Foreign Language Film

Federico Fellini’s 8-1/2, Cineriz Production; Embassy Pictures Corporation. (Italy, France)

Knife in the Water, Film Polski Kamera Unit. (Poland)

Los Tarantos, Tecisa-Films R.B. (Spain)

The Red Lanterns, Th. Damaskinos & V. Michaelides A.E. (Greece)

Twin Sisters of Kyoto, Shochiku Company, Ltd. (Japan)

Music

(Music Score—substantially original)

Cleopatra, 20th Century-Fox, Ltd.-MCL Films S.A.-WALWA Films S.A. Production; 20th Century-Fox. (Switzerland, UK, USA) Alex North.

55 Days at Peking, Samuel Bronston Production; Allied Artists. Dimitri Tiomkin.

How the West Was Won, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer & Cinerama; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Alfred Newman and Ken Darby.

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Casey Production; United Artists. Ernest Gold.

Tom Jones, Woodfall Production; United Artists-Lopert Pictures. (UK) John Addison.

(Scoring of Music—adaptation or treatment)

Bye Bye Birdie, Kohlmar-Sidney Production; Columbia. John Green.

Irma La Douce, Mirisch-Phalanx Production; United Artists. Andre Previn.

A New Kind of Love, Llenroc Productions; Paramount. Leith Stevens.

Sundays and Cybele, Terra Film-Fides-Orsay Films-Les Films du Trocadero; Columbia. (France, Austria) Maurice Jarre.

The Sword in the Stone, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. George Bruns.

(Song)

Call Me Irresponsible from Papa’s Delicate Condition, Amro Productions; Paramount. Music by James Van Heusen; lyrics by Sammy Cahn.

Charade from Charade, Universal-Stanley Donen Production; Universal. 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, Casey Production; United Artists. Music by Ernest Gold; lyrics by Mack David.

More from Mondo Cane, Cineriz Production; Times Film Corporation. (Italy) Music by Riz Ortolani and Nino Oliviero; lyrics by Norman Newell.

So Little Time from 55 Days at Peking, Samuel Bronston Production; Allied Artists. Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

Automania 2000, Halas and Batchelor Production; Pathe Contemporary Films. (UK) John Halas, Producer.

The Critic, Pintoff-Crossbow Productions; Columbia. Ernest Pintoff, Producer.

The Game (Igra), Zagreb Film; Rembrandt Films-Film Representations. (Yugoslavia) Dusan Vukotic, Producer.

My Financial Career, National Film Board of Canada; Walter Reade-Sterling-Continental Distributing. (Canada) Colin Low and Tom Daly, Producers.

Pianissimo, Carmen D’Avino Production; Cinema 16. Carmen D’Avino, Producer.

(Live Action)

The Concert, James A. King Corporation; George K. Arthur-Go Pictures, Inc. (Hungary, USA) Ezra Baker, Producer.

Home-Made Car, BP (North America) Ltd.; Lester A. Schoenfeld Films. (UK) James Hill, Producer.

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Films Du Centaure-Filmartic; Cappagariff-Janus Films. (France) Paul de Roubaix and Marcel Ichac, Producers.

Six-Sided Triangle, Milesian Film Production, Ltd.; Lion International Films. (UK) Christopher Miles, Producer.

That’s Me, Stuart Productions; Pathe Contemporary Films. Walker Stuart, Producer.

Sound

Bye Bye Birdie, Kohlmar-Sidney Production; Columbia. Columbia Studio Sound Department, Charles Rice, Sound Director.

Captain Newman, M.D., Universal-Brentwood-Reynard Production; Universal. Universal City Studio Sound Department, Waldon O. Watson, Sound Director.

Cleopatra, 20th Century-Fox, Ltd.-MCL Films S.A.-WALWA Films S.A. Production; 20th Century-Fox. (Switzerland, UK, USA) 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, James P. Corcoran, Sound Director; and Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes, Sound Director.

How the West Was Won, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer & Cinerama; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Franklin E. Milton, Sound Director.

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Casey Production; United Artists. Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer, Sound Director.

Sound Effects

A Gathering of Eagles, Universal. Robert L. Bratton.

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Casey Production; United Artists. Walter G. Elliott.

Special Effects

The Birds, Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, Inc.; Universal. Ub Iwerks.

Cleopatra, 20th Century-Fox, Ltd.-MCL Films S.A.-WALWA Films S.A. Production; 20th Century-Fox. (Switzerland, UK, USA) Emil Kosa, Jr.

Writing

(Screenplay—based on material from another medium)

Captain Newman, M.D., Universal-Brentwood-Reynard Production; Universal. Richard L. Breen, Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron.

Hud, Salem-Dover Production; Paramount. Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr.

Lilies of the Field, Rainbow Productions; United Artists. James Poe.

Sundays and Cybele, Terra Film-Fides-Orsay Films-Les Films du Trocadero; Columbia. (France, Austria) Serge Bourguignon and Antoine Tudal.

Tom Jones, Woodfall Production; United Artists-Lopert Pictures. (UK) John Osborne.

(Story and Screenplay—written directly for the screen)

America America, Athena Enterprises Production; Warner Bros. Elia Kazan.

Federico Fellini’s 8-1/2, Cineriz Production; Embassy Pictures Corporation. (Italy, France) Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli and Brunello Rondi.

The Four Days of Naples, Titanus-Metro; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (Italy) Story by Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Nanni Loy and Vasco Pratolini; screenplay by Carlo Bernari, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa and Nanni Loy.

How the West Was Won, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer & Cinerama; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. James R. Webb.

Love with the Proper Stranger, Boardwalk-Rona Production; Paramount. Arnold Schulman.

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Sam Spiegel

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class III)

To Douglas G. Shearer and A. Arnold Gillespie of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios for the engineering of an improved Background Process Projection System.