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The 37th Academy Awards | 1965
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
Monday, April 5, 1965
Honoring movies released in 1964
Highlights
Sound Effects
Goldfinger

Norman Wantsall, presented by Angie Dickinson

Supporting Actress
Zorba the Greek

Lila Kedrova

Foreign Language Film
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Joseph E. Levine, accepting for Italy

Memorable Moments
Rex Harrison
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Best Actor winner for My Fair Lady, with presenter Audrey Hepburn

Mary Poppins Oscar Winners
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Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman (Original Song, Original Music Score) and Best Actress Julie Andrews

George Cukor
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Best Directing winner for My Fair Lady, with presenter Joan Crawford

WINNERS & NOMINEES
Actor
Winner
Rex Harrison
My Fair Lady
Nominees
Richard Burton
Becket
Nominees
Peter O'Toole
Becket
Nominees
Anthony Quinn
Zorba the Greek
Nominees
Peter Sellers
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner
Peter Ustinov
Topkapi
Nominees
John Gielgud
Becket
Nominees
Stanley Holloway
My Fair Lady
Nominees
Edmond O'Brien
Seven Days in May
Nominees
Lee Tracy
The Best Man
Actress
Winner
Julie Andrews
Mary Poppins
Nominees
Anne Bancroft
The Pumpkin Eater
Nominees
Sophia Loren
Marriage Italian Style
Nominees
Debbie Reynolds
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Nominees
Kim Stanley
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner
Lila Kedrova
Zorba the Greek
Nominees
Gladys Cooper
My Fair Lady
Nominees
Dame Edith Evans
The Chalk Garden
Nominees
Grayson Hall
The Night of the Iguana
Nominees
Agnes Moorehead
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Art Direction (Black-and-White)
Winner
Zorba the Greek
Vassilis Fotopoulos
Nominees
The Americanization of Emily
Art Direction: George W. Davis, Hans Peters, Elliot Scott; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Robert R. Benton
Nominees
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Art Direction: William Glasgow; Set Decoration: Raphael Bretton
Nominees
The Night of the Iguana
Stephen Grimes
Nominees
Seven Days in May
Art Direction: Cary Odell; Set Decoration: Edward G. Boyle
Art Direction (Color)
Winner
My Fair Lady
Art Direction: Gene Allen, Cecil Beaton; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
Nominees
Becket
Art Direction: John Bryan, Maurice Carter; Set Decoration: Patrick McLoughlin, Robert Cartwright
Nominees
Mary Poppins
Art Direction: Carroll Clark, William H. Tuntke; Set Decoration: Emile Kuri, Hal Gausman
Nominees
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Art Direction: George W. Davis, Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt
Nominees
What a Way to Go!
Art Direction: Jack Martin Smith, Ted Haworth; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss
Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Winner
Zorba the Greek
Walter Lassally
Nominees
The Americanization of Emily
Philip H. Lathrop
Nominees
Fate Is the Hunter
Milton Krasner
Nominees
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Joseph Biroc
Nominees
The Night of the Iguana
Gabriel Figueroa
Cinematography (Color)
Winner
My Fair Lady
Harry Stradling
Nominees
Becket
Geoffrey Unsworth
Nominees
Cheyenne Autumn
William H. Clothier
Nominees
Mary Poppins
Edward Colman
Nominees
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Daniel L. Fapp
Costume Design (Black-and-White)
Winner
The Night of the Iguana
Dorothy Jeakins
Nominees
A House Is Not a Home
Edith Head
Nominees
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Norma Koch
Nominees
Kisses for My President
Howard Shoup
Nominees
The Visit
"The Visit" René Hubert
Costume Design (Color)
Winner
My Fair Lady
Cecil Beaton
Nominees
Becket
Margaret Furse
Nominees
Mary Poppins
Tony Walton
Nominees
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Morton Haack
Nominees
What a Way to Go!
Edith Head, Moss Mabry
Directing
Winner
My Fair Lady
George Cukor
Nominees
Becket
Peter Glenville
Nominees
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick
Nominees
Mary Poppins
Robert Stevenson
Nominees
Zorba the Greek
Michael Cacoyannis
Documentary (Feature)
Winner
Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World without Sun
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Producer
Nominees
The Finest Hours
Jack Le Vien, Producer
Nominees
Four Days in November
Mel Stuart, Producer
Nominees
The Human Dutch
Bert Haanstra, Producer
Nominees
Over There, 1914-18
Jean Aurel, Producer
Documentary (Short Subject)
Winner
Nine from Little Rock
Charles Guggenheim, Producer
Nominees
Breaking the Habit
Henry Jacobs and John Korty, Producers
Nominees
Children Without
Charles Guggenheim, Producer
Nominees
Kenojuak
National Film Board of Canada
Nominees
140 Days under the World
Geoffrey Scott and Oxley Hughan, Producers
Film Editing
Winner
Mary Poppins
Cotton Warburton
Nominees
Becket
Anne Coates
Nominees
Father Goose
Ted J. Kent
Nominees
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Michael Luciano
Nominees
My Fair Lady
William Ziegler
Foreign Language Film
Winner
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Italy
Nominees
Raven's End
Sweden
Nominees
Sallah
Israel
Nominees
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
France
Nominees
Woman in the Dunes
Japan
Honorary Award
Winner
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
Special Award
Music (Music Score—substantially original)
Winner
Mary Poppins
Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
Nominees
Becket
Laurence Rosenthal
Nominees
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Dimitri Tiomkin
Nominees
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Frank DeVol
Nominees
The Pink Panther
Henry Mancini
Music (Scoring of Music—adaptation or treatment)
Winner
My Fair Lady
Andre Previn
Nominees
A Hard Day's Night
George Martin
Nominees
Mary Poppins
Irwin Kostal
Nominees
Robin and the 7 Hoods
Nelson Riddle
Nominees
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Robert Armbruster, Leo Arnaud, Jack Elliott, Jack Hayes, Calvin Jackson, Leo Shuken
Music (Song)
Winner
Mary Poppins
Chim Chim Cher-ee in "Mary Poppins" Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Nominees
Dear Heart
Dear Heart in "Dear Heart" Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
Nominees
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte in "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte" Music by Frank DeVol; Lyrics by Mack David
Nominees
Robin and the 7 Hoods
My Kind Of Town in "Robin and the 7 Hoods" Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Nominees
Where Love Has Gone
Where Love Has Gone in "Where Love Has Gone" Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Best Picture
Winner
My Fair Lady
Jack L. Warner, Producer
Nominees
Becket
Hal B. Wallis, Producer
Nominees
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick, Producer
Nominees
Mary Poppins
Walt Disney and Bill Walsh, Producers
Nominees
Zorba the Greek
Michael Cacoyannis, Producer
Short Subject (Cartoon)
Winner
The Pink Phink
David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng, Producers
Nominees
Christmas Cracker
National Film Board of Canada
Nominees
How to Avoid Friendship
William L. Snyder, Producer
Nominees
Nudnik #2
William L. Snyder, Producer
Short Subject (Live Action)
Winner
Casals Conducts: 1964
Edward Schreiber, Producer
Nominees
Help! My Snowman's Burning Down
Carson Davidson, Producer
Nominees
The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes
Robert Clouse, Producer
Sound
Winner
My Fair Lady
Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, George R. Groves, Sound Director
Nominees
Becket
Shepperton Studio Sound Department, John Cox, Sound Director
Nominees
Father Goose
Universal City Studio Sound Department, Waldon O. Watson, Sound Director
Nominees
Mary Poppins
Walt Disney Studio Sound Department, Robert O. Cook, Sound Director
Nominees
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Franklin E. Milton, Sound Director
Sound Effects
Winner
Goldfinger
Norman Wanstall
Nominees
The Lively Set
Robert L. Bratton
Special Visual Effects
Winner
Mary Poppins
Peter Ellenshaw, Eustace Lycett, Hamilton Luske
Nominees
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
Jim Danforth
Writing (Screenplay—based on material from another medium)
Winner
Becket
Edward Anhalt
Nominees
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, Terry Southern
Nominees
Mary Poppins
Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi
Nominees
My Fair Lady
Alan Jay Lerner
Nominees
Zorba the Greek
Michael Cacoyannis
Writing (Story and Screenplay—written directly for the screen)
Winner
Father Goose
Story by S. H. Barnett; Screenplay by Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff
Nominees
A Hard Day's Night
Alun Owen
Nominees
One Potato, Two Potato
Story by Orville H. Hampton; Screenplay by Raphael Hayes, Orville H. Hampton
Nominees
The Organizer
Age, Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli
Nominees
That Man from Rio
Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Ariane Mnouchkine, Daniel Boulanger, Philippe De Broca

0-9

140 Days under the World
1 NOMINATION
  • Documentary (Short Subject) - Geoffrey Scott and Oxley Hughan, Producers
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
2 NOMINATIONS, 1 WIN
  • * Honorary Award - Special Award
  • Special Visual Effects - Jim Danforth

A

The Americanization of Emily
2 NOMINATIONS
  • Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: George W. Davis, Hans Peters, Elliot Scott; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Robert R. Benton
  • Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Philip H. Lathrop

B

Becket
11 NOMINATIONS, 1 WIN
  • * Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Edward Anhalt
  • Actor - Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole
  • Actor in a Supporting Role - John Gielgud
  • Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: John Bryan, Maurice Carter; Set Decoration: Patrick McLoughlin, Robert Cartwright
  • Cinematography (Color) - Geoffrey Unsworth
  • Costume Design (Color) - Margaret Furse
  • Directing - Peter Glenville
  • Film Editing - Anne Coates
  • Music (Music Score--substantially original) - Laurence Rosenthal
  • Best Picture - Hal B. Wallis, Producer
  • Sound - Shepperton Studio Sound Department, John Cox, Sound Director
The Best Man
1 NOMINATION
  • Actor in a Supporting Role - Lee Tracy
Breaking the Habit
1 NOMINATION
  • Documentary (Short Subject) - Henry Jacobs and John Korty, Producers

C

Casals Conducts: 1964
1 WIN, 1 NOMINATION
  • * Short Subject (Live Action) - Edward Schreiber, Producer
The Chalk Garden
1 NOMINATION
  • Actress in a Supporting Role - Dame Edith Evans
Cheyenne Autumn
1 NOMINATION
  • Cinematography (Color) - William H. Clothier
Children Without
1 NOMINATION
  • Documentary (Short Subject) - Charles Guggenheim, Producer
Christmas Cracker
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Cartoon) - National Film Board of Canada

D

Dear Heart
1 NOMINATION
  • Music (Song) - Dear Heart in "Dear Heart" Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
4 NOMINATIONS
  • Actor - Peter Sellers
  • Directing - Stanley Kubrick
  • Best Picture - Stanley Kubrick, Producer
  • Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, Terry Southern

F

The Fall of the Roman Empire
1 NOMINATION
  • Music (Music Score--substantially original) - Dimitri Tiomkin
Fate Is the Hunter
1 NOMINATION
  • Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Milton Krasner
Father Goose
3 NOMINATIONS, 1 WIN
  • * Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - Story by S. H. Barnett; Screenplay by Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff
  • Film Editing - Ted J. Kent
  • Sound - Universal City Studio Sound Department, Waldon O. Watson, Sound Director
The Finest Hours
1 NOMINATION
  • Documentary (Feature) - Jack Le Vien, Producer
Four Days in November
1 NOMINATION
  • Documentary (Feature) - Mel Stuart, Producer

G

Goldfinger
1 WIN, 1 NOMINATION
  • * Sound Effects - Norman Wanstall

H

A Hard Day's Night
2 NOMINATIONS
  • Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) - George Martin
  • Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - Alun Owen
Help! My Snowman's Burning Down
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Live Action) - Carson Davidson, Producer
A House Is Not a Home
1 NOMINATION
  • Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Edith Head
How to Avoid Friendship
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Cartoon) - William L. Snyder, Producer
The Human Dutch
1 NOMINATION
  • Documentary (Feature) - Bert Haanstra, Producer
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
7 NOMINATIONS
  • Actress in a Supporting Role - Agnes Moorehead
  • Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: William Glasgow; Set Decoration: Raphael Bretton
  • Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Joseph Biroc
  • Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Norma Koch
  • Film Editing - Michael Luciano
  • Music (Music Score--substantially original) - Frank DeVol
  • Music (Song) - Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte in "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte" Music by Frank DeVol; Lyrics by Mack David

J

Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World without Sun
1 WIN, 1 NOMINATION
  • * Documentary (Feature) - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Producer

K

Kenojuak
1 NOMINATION
  • Documentary (Short Subject) - National Film Board of Canada
Kisses for My President
1 NOMINATION
  • Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Howard Shoup

L

The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Live Action) - Robert Clouse, Producer
The Lively Set
1 NOMINATION
  • Sound Effects - Robert L. Bratton

M

Marriage Italian Style
1 NOMINATION
  • Actress - Sophia Loren
Mary Poppins
13 NOMINATIONS, 5 WINS
  • * Actress - Julie Andrews
  • * Film Editing - Cotton Warburton
  • * Music (Music Score--substantially original) - Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
  • * Music (Song) - Chim Chim Cher-ee in "Mary Poppins" Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
  • * Special Visual Effects - Peter Ellenshaw, Eustace Lycett, Hamilton Luske
  • Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: Carroll Clark, William H. Tuntke; Set Decoration: Emile Kuri, Hal Gausman
  • Cinematography (Color) - Edward Colman
  • Costume Design (Color) - Tony Walton
  • Directing - Robert Stevenson
  • Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) - Irwin Kostal
  • Best Picture - Walt Disney and Bill Walsh, Producers
  • Sound - Walt Disney Studio Sound Department, Robert O. Cook, Sound Director
  • Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi
My Fair Lady
12 NOMINATIONS, 8 WINS
  • * Actor - Rex Harrison
  • * Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: Gene Allen, Cecil Beaton; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
  • * Cinematography (Color) - Harry Stradling
  • * Costume Design (Color) - Cecil Beaton
  • * Directing - George Cukor
  • * Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) - Andre Previn
  • * Best Picture - Jack L. Warner, Producer
  • * Sound - Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, George R. Groves, Sound Director
  • Actor in a Supporting Role - Stanley Holloway
  • Actress in a Supporting Role - Gladys Cooper
  • Film Editing - William Ziegler
  • Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Alan Jay Lerner

N

The Night of the Iguana
4 NOMINATIONS, 1 WIN
  • * Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Dorothy Jeakins
  • Actress in a Supporting Role - Grayson Hall
  • Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Stephen Grimes
  • Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Gabriel Figueroa
Nine from Little Rock
1 WIN, 1 NOMINATION
  • * Documentary (Short Subject) - Charles Guggenheim, Producer
Nudnik #2
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Cartoon) - William L. Snyder, Producer

O

One Potato, Two Potato
1 NOMINATION
  • Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - Story by Orville H. Hampton; Screenplay by Raphael Hayes, Orville H. Hampton
The Organizer
1 NOMINATION
  • Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - Age, Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli
Over There, 1914-18
1 NOMINATION
  • Documentary (Feature) - Jean Aurel, Producer

P

The Pink Panther
1 NOMINATION
  • Music (Music Score--substantially original) - Henry Mancini
The Pink Phink
1 WIN, 1 NOMINATION
  • * Short Subject (Cartoon) - David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng, Producers
The Pumpkin Eater
1 NOMINATION
  • Actress - Anne Bancroft

R

Raven's End
1 NOMINATION
  • Foreign Language Film - Sweden
Robin and the 7 Hoods
2 NOMINATIONS
  • Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) - Nelson Riddle
  • Music (Song) - My Kind Of Town in "Robin and the 7 Hoods" Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn

S

Sallah
1 NOMINATION
  • Foreign Language Film - Israel
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
1 NOMINATION
  • Actress - Kim Stanley
Seven Days in May
2 NOMINATIONS
  • Actor in a Supporting Role - Edmond O'Brien
  • Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: Cary Odell; Set Decoration: Edward G. Boyle

T

That Man from Rio
1 NOMINATION
  • Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Ariane Mnouchkine, Daniel Boulanger, Philippe De Broca
Topkapi
1 WIN, 1 NOMINATION
  • * Actor in a Supporting Role - Peter Ustinov

U

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1 NOMINATION
  • Foreign Language Film - France
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
6 NOMINATIONS
  • Actress - Debbie Reynolds
  • Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: George W. Davis, Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt
  • Cinematography (Color) - Daniel L. Fapp
  • Costume Design (Color) - Morton Haack
  • Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) - Robert Armbruster, Leo Arnaud, Jack Elliott, Jack Hayes, Calvin Jackson, Leo Shuken
  • Sound - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Franklin E. Milton, Sound Director

V

The Visit
1 NOMINATION
  • Costume Design (Black-and-White) - "The Visit" René Hubert

W

What a Way to Go!
2 NOMINATIONS
  • Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: Jack Martin Smith, Ted Haworth; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss
  • Costume Design (Color) - Edith Head, Moss Mabry
Where Love Has Gone
1 NOMINATION
  • Music (Song) - Where Love Has Gone in "Where Love Has Gone" Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Woman in the Dunes
1 NOMINATION
  • Foreign Language Film - Japan

Y

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
1 WIN, 1 NOMINATION
  • * Foreign Language Film - Italy

Z

Zorba the Greek
7 NOMINATIONS, 3 WINS
  • * Actress in a Supporting Role - Lila Kedrova
  • * Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Vassilis Fotopoulos
  • * Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Walter Lassally
  • Actor - Anthony Quinn
  • Directing - Michael Cacoyannis
  • Best Picture - Michael Cacoyannis, Producer
  • Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Michael Cacoyannis
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