1963 (36th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1963 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). 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 winners from that year.

Best Picture

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

Best Actor

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

Best Actress

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

Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Actress in a Supporting Role

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

Directing

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.

(Color)

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.

Cinematography

(Black-and-White)

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

(Color)

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

Costume Design

(Black-and-White)

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

(Color)

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.

Documentary

(Feature)

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

(Short Subject)

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

Film Editing

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

Foreign Language Film

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

Music

(Music Score—substantially original)

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

(Scoring of Music—adaptation or treatment)

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

(Song)

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

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

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

(Live Action)

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

Sound

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

Sound Effects

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

Special Effects

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)

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

(Story and Screenplay—written directly for the screen)

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

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.