1964 (37th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1964 (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

My Fair Lady, Warner Bros. Jack L. Warner, Producer.

Best Actor

Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady, Warner Bros.

Best Actress

Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Peter Ustinov in Topkapi, Filmways Production; United Artists.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Lila Kedrova in Zorba the Greek, Rochley, Ltd. Production; International Classics. (Greece, USA)

Directing

My Fair Lady, Warner Bros. George Cukor.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

(Black-and-White)

Zorba the Greek, Rochley, Ltd. Production; International Classics. (Greece, USA) Vassilis Fotopoulos.

(Color)

My Fair Lady, Warner Bros. Art direction by Gene Allen and Cecil Beaton; set decoration by George James Hopkins.

Cinematography

(Black-and-White)

Zorba the Greek, Rochley, Ltd. Production; International Classics. (Greece, USA) Walter Lassally.

(Color)

My Fair Lady, Warner Bros. Harry Stradling.

Costume Design

(Black-and-White)

The Night of the Iguana, Seven Arts Productions; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Dorothy Jeakins.

(Color)

My Fair Lady, Warner Bros. Cecil Beaton.

Documentary

(Feature)

Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s World Without Sun, Filmad-Les Requins Associes-Orsay-CEIAP; Columbia. (France, Italy) Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Producer.

(Short Subject)

Nine from Little Rock, Guggenheim Productions; United States Information Agency. Charles Guggenheim, Producer.

Film Editing

Mary Poppins, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. Cotton Warburton.

Foreign Language Film

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, C. C. Champion-Les Films Concordia Production. (Italy, France)

Music

(Music Score—substantially original)

Mary Poppins, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman.

(Scoring of Music—adaptation or treatment)

My Fair Lady, Warner Bros. Andre Previn.

(Song)

Chim Chim Cher-ee from Mary Poppins, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. Music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

The Pink Phink, Mirisch-Geoffrey Productions; United Artists. [Pink Panther Series] David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng, Producers.

(Live Action)

Casals Conducts: 1964, Thalia Films; Beckman Film Corporation. Edward Schreiber, Producer.

Sound

My Fair Lady, Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, George R. Groves, Sound Director.

Sound Effects

Goldfinger, Eon Productions Ltd.; United Artists. (UK) Norman Wanstall.

Special Visual Effects

Mary Poppins, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. Peter Ellenshaw, Eustace Lycett and Hamilton Luske.

Writing

(Screenplay—based on material from another medium)

Becket, Hal Wallis Productions; Paramount. (UK, USA) Edward Anhalt.

(Story and Screenplay—written directly for the screen)

Father Goose, Universal-Granox Production; Universal. Story by S. H. Barnett; screenplay by Peter Stone and Frank Tarloff.

Honorary Award

(Makeup)

To William Tuttle for his outstanding makeup achievement for 7 Faces of Dr. Lao. [ [Statuette]]

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class I)

To Petro Vlahos, Wadsworth E. Pohl and Ub Iwerks for the conception and perfection of techniques for Color Traveling Matte Composite Cinematography.

(Class II)

To Sidney P. Solow, Edward H. Reichard, Carl W. Hauge and Job Sanderson of Consolidated Film Industries for the design and development of a versatile Automatic 35mm Composite Color Printer.

To Pierre Angenieux for the development of a ten-to-one Zoom Lens for cinematography.

(Class III)

To Milton Forman, Richard B. Glickman and Daniel J. Pearlman of Colortran Industries for advancements in the design and application to motion picture photography of lighting units using quartz iodine lamps.

To Stewart Filmscreen Corporation for a seamless translucent Blue Screen for Traveling Matte Color Cinematography.

To Anthony Paglia and the 20th Century-Fox Studio Mechanical Effects Department for an improved method of producing Explosion Flash Effects for motion pictures.

To Edward H. Reichard and Carl W. Hauge of Consolidated Film Industries for the design of a Proximity Cue Detector and its application to motion picture printers.

To Edward H. Reichard, Leonard L. Sokolow and Carl W. Hauge of Consolidated Film Industries for the design and application to motion picture laboratory practice of a Stroboscopic Scene Tester for color and black-and-white film.

To Nelson Tyler for the design and construction of an improved Helicopter Camera System.