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The 35th Academy Awards | 1963
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
Monday, April 8, 1963
Honoring movies released in 1962
Highlights
Supporting Actress
The Miracle Worker

Patty Duke

Best Director
Lawrence of Arabia

David Lean

Animated Short Subject
The Hole

John and Faith Hubley

Memorable Moments
Donna Reed
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Presenting with host Frank Sinatra

Gregory Peck
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Best Actor winner for To Kill a Mockingbird, presenter Sophia Loren

Patty Duke and Ed Begley
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Supporting Actress winner for The Miracle Worker and Supporting Actor winner for Sweet Bird of Youth

WINNERS & NOMINEES
Actor
Winner
Gregory Peck
To Kill a Mockingbird
Nominees
Burt Lancaster
Birdman of Alcatraz
Nominees
Jack Lemmon
Days of Wine and Roses
Nominees
Marcello Mastroianni
Divorce--Italian Style
Nominees
Peter O'Toole
Lawrence of Arabia
Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner
Ed Begley
Sweet Bird of Youth
Nominees
Victor Buono
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Nominees
Telly Savalas
Birdman of Alcatraz
Nominees
Omar Sharif
Lawrence of Arabia
Nominees
Terence Stamp
Billy Budd
Actress
Winner
Anne Bancroft
The Miracle Worker
Nominees
Bette Davis
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Nominees
Katharine Hepburn
Long Day's Journey into Night
Nominees
Geraldine Page
Sweet Bird of Youth
Nominees
Lee Remick
Days of Wine and Roses
Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner
Patty Duke
The Miracle Worker
Nominees
Mary Badham
To Kill a Mockingbird
Nominees
Shirley Knight
Sweet Bird of Youth
Nominees
Angela Lansbury
The Manchurian Candidate
Nominees
Thelma Ritter
Birdman of Alcatraz
Art Direction (Black-and-White)
Winner
To Kill a Mockingbird
Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen, Henry Bumstead; Set Decoration: Oliver Emert
Nominees
Days of Wine and Roses
Art Direction: Joseph Wright; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
Nominees
The Longest Day
Art Direction: Ted Haworth, Leon Barsacq, Vincent Korda; Set Decoration: Gabriel Bechir
Nominees
Period of Adjustment
Art Direction: George W. Davis, Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Dick Pefferle
Nominees
The Pigeon That Took Rome
Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Frank R. McKelvy
Art Direction (Color)
Winner
Lawrence of Arabia
Art Direction: John Box, John Stoll; Set Decoration: Dario Simoni
Nominees
Meredith Willson's The Music Man
Art Direction: Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
Nominees
Mutiny on the Bounty
Art Direction: George W. Davis, J. McMillan Johnson; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt
Nominees
That Touch of Mink
Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen, Robert Clatworthy; Set Decoration: George Milo
Nominees
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Art Direction: George W. Davis, Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Dick Pefferle
Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Winner
The Longest Day
Jean Bourgoin, Walter Wottitz, (Henri Persin)
Nominees
Birdman of Alcatraz
Burnett Guffey
Nominees
To Kill a Mockingbird
Russell Harlan
Nominees
Two for the Seesaw
Ted McCord
Nominees
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Ernest Haller
Cinematography (Color)
Winner
Lawrence of Arabia
Fred A. Young
Nominees
Gypsy
Harry Stradling, Sr.
Nominees
Hatari!
Russell Harlan
Nominees
Mutiny on the Bounty
Robert L. Surtees
Nominees
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Paul C. Vogel
Costume Design (Black-and-White)
Winner
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Norma Koch
Nominees
Days of Wine and Roses
Don Feld
Nominees
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Edith Head
Nominees
The Miracle Worker
Ruth Morley
Nominees
Phaedra
Denny Vachlioti
Costume Design (Color)
Winner
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Mary Wills
Nominees
Bon Voyage!
Bill Thomas
Nominees
Gypsy
Orry-Kelly
Nominees
Meredith Willson's The Music Man
Dorothy Jeakins
Nominees
My Geisha
Edith Head
Directing
Winner
Lawrence of Arabia
David Lean
Nominees
David and Lisa
Frank Perry
Nominees
Divorce--Italian Style
Pietro Germi
Nominees
The Miracle Worker
Arthur Penn
Nominees
To Kill a Mockingbird
Robert Mulligan
Documentary (Feature)
Winner
Black Fox
Louis Clyde Stoumen, Producer
Nominees
Alvorada (Brazil's Changing Face)
Hugo Niebeling, Producer
Documentary (Short Subject)
Winner
Dylan Thomas
Jack Howells, Producer
Nominees
The John Glenn Story
William L. Hendricks, Producer
Nominees
The Road to the Wall
Robert Saudek, Producer
Film Editing
Winner
Lawrence of Arabia
Anne Coates
Nominees
The Longest Day
Samuel E. Beetley
Nominees
The Manchurian Candidate
Ferris Webster
Nominees
Meredith Willson's The Music Man
William Ziegler
Nominees
Mutiny on the Bounty
John McSweeney, Jr.
Foreign Language Film
Winner
Sundays and Cybele
France
Nominees
Electra
Greece
Nominees
The Four Days of Naples
Italy
Nominees
Keeper of Promises (The Given Word)
Brazil
Nominees
Tlayucan
Mexico
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Winner
Steve Broidy
Music (Music Score—substantially original)
Winner
Lawrence of Arabia
Maurice Jarre
Nominees
Freud
Jerry Goldsmith
Nominees
Mutiny on the Bounty
Bronislau Kaper
Nominees
Taras Bulba
Franz Waxman
Nominees
To Kill a Mockingbird
Elmer Bernstein
Music (Scoring of Music—adaptation or treatment)
Winner
Meredith Willson's The Music Man
Ray Heindorf
Nominees
Billy Rose's Jumbo
George Stoll
Nominees
Gigot
Michel Magne
Nominees
Gypsy
Frank Perkins
Nominees
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Leigh Harline
Music (Song)
Winner
Days of Wine and Roses
Days Of Wine And Roses in "Days of Wine and Roses" Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Nominees
Mutiny on the Bounty
Love Song From Mutiny On The Bounty (Follow Me) in "Mutiny on the Bounty" Music by Bronislau Kaper; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
Nominees
Two for the Seesaw
Song From Two For The Seesaw (Second Chance) in "Two for the Seesaw" Music by Andre Previn; Lyrics by Dory Langdon
Nominees
Tender Is the Night
Tender Is The Night in "Tender Is the Night" Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
Nominees
Walk on the Wild Side
Walk On The Wild Side in "Walk on the Wild Side" Music by Elmer Bernstein; Lyrics by Mack David
Best Picture
Winner
Lawrence of Arabia
Sam Spiegel, Producer
Nominees
The Longest Day
Darryl F. Zanuck, Producer
Nominees
Meredith Willson's The Music Man
Morton Da Costa, Producer
Nominees
Mutiny on the Bounty
Aaron Rosenberg, Producer
Nominees
To Kill a Mockingbird
Alan J. Pakula, Producer
Short Subject (Cartoon)
Winner
The Hole
John Hubley and Faith Hubley, Producers
Nominees
Icarus Montgolfier Wright
Jules Engel, Producer
Nominees
Now Hear This
Warner Bros.
Nominees
Self Defense--For Cowards
William L. Snyder, Producer
Nominees
Symposium on Popular Songs
Walt Disney, Producer
Short Subject (Live Action)
Winner
Heureux Anniversaire (Happy Anniversary)
Heureux Anniversaire (Happy Anniversary)
Nominees
Big City Blues
Martina Huguenot van der Linden and Charles Huguenot van der Linden, Producers
Nominees
The Cadillac
Robert Clouse, Producer
Nominees
The Cliff Dwellers (formerly titled "One Plus One")
Hayward Anderson, Producer
Nominees
Pan
Herman van der Horst, Producer
Sound
Winner
Lawrence of Arabia
Shepperton Studio Sound Department, John Cox, Sound Director
Nominees
Bon Voyage!
Walt Disney Studio Sound Department, Robert O. Cook, Sound Director
Nominees
Meredith Willson's The Music Man
Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, George R. Groves, Sound Director
Nominees
That Touch of Mink
Universal City Studio Sound Department, Waldon O. Watson, Sound Director
Nominees
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Glen Glenn Sound Department, Joseph Kelly, Sound Director
Special Effects
Winner
The Longest Day
Visual Effects by Robert MacDonald; Audible Effects by Jacques Maumont
Nominees
Mutiny on the Bounty
Visual Effects by A. Arnold Gillespie; Audible Effects by Milo Lory
Writing (Screenplay—based on material from another medium)
Winner
To Kill a Mockingbird
Horton Foote
Nominees
David and Lisa
Eleanor Perry
Nominees
Lawrence of Arabia
Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson
Nominees
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Nominees
The Miracle Worker
William Gibson
Writing (Story and Screenplay—written directly for the screen)
Winner
Divorce--Italian Style
Ennio de Concini, Alfredo Giannetti, Pietro Germi
Nominees
Freud
Story by Charles Kaufman; Screenplay by Charles Kaufman, Wolfgang Reinhardt
Nominees
Last Year at Marienbad
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Nominees
That Touch of Mink
Stanley Shapiro, Nate Monaster
Nominees
Through a Glass Darkly
Ingmar Bergman

A

Alvorada (Brazil's Changing Face)
1 NOMINATION
  • Documentary (Feature) - Hugo Niebeling, Producer

B

Big City Blues
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Live Action) - Martina Huguenot van der Linden and Charles Huguenot van der Linden, Producers
Billy Budd
1 NOMINATION
  • Actor in a Supporting Role - Terence Stamp
Billy Rose's Jumbo
1 NOMINATION
  • Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) - George Stoll
Birdman of Alcatraz
4 NOMINATIONS
  • Actor - Burt Lancaster
  • Actor in a Supporting Role - Telly Savalas
  • Actress in a Supporting Role - Thelma Ritter
  • Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Burnett Guffey
Black Fox
1 WIN, 1 NOMINATION
  • * Documentary (Feature) - Louis Clyde Stoumen, Producer
Bon Voyage!
2 NOMINATIONS
  • Costume Design (Color) - Bill Thomas
  • Sound - Walt Disney Studio Sound Department, Robert O. Cook, Sound Director

C

The Cadillac
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Live Action) - Robert Clouse, Producer
The Cliff Dwellers (formerly titled "One Plus One")
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Live Action) - Hayward Anderson, Producer

D

David and Lisa
2 NOMINATIONS
  • Directing - Frank Perry
  • Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Eleanor Perry
Days of Wine and Roses
5 NOMINATIONS, 1 WIN
  • * Music (Song) - Days Of Wine And Roses in "Days of Wine and Roses" Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
  • Actor - Jack Lemmon
  • Actress - Lee Remick
  • Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: Joseph Wright; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
  • Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Don Feld
Divorce--Italian Style
3 NOMINATIONS, 1 WIN
  • * Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - Ennio de Concini, Alfredo Giannetti, Pietro Germi
  • Actor - Marcello Mastroianni
  • Directing - Pietro Germi
Dylan Thomas
1 WIN, 1 NOMINATION
  • * Documentary (Short Subject) - Jack Howells, Producer

E

Electra
1 NOMINATION
  • Foreign Language Film - Greece

F

The Four Days of Naples
1 NOMINATION
  • Foreign Language Film - Italy
Freud
2 NOMINATIONS
  • Music (Music Score--substantially original) - Jerry Goldsmith
  • Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - Story by Charles Kaufman; Screenplay by Charles Kaufman, Wolfgang Reinhardt

G

Gigot
1 NOMINATION
  • Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) - Michel Magne
Gypsy
3 NOMINATIONS
  • Cinematography (Color) - Harry Stradling, Sr.
  • Costume Design (Color) - Orry-Kelly
  • Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) - Frank Perkins

H

Hatari!
1 NOMINATION
  • Cinematography (Color) - Russell Harlan
Heureux Anniversaire (Happy Anniversary)
1 WIN, 1 NOMINATION
  • * Short Subject (Live Action) - Heureux Anniversaire (Happy Anniversary)
The Hole
1 WIN, 1 NOMINATION
  • * Short Subject (Cartoon) - John Hubley and Faith Hubley, Producers

I

Icarus Montgolfier Wright
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Cartoon) - Jules Engel, Producer

J

The John Glenn Story
1 NOMINATION
  • Documentary (Short Subject) - William L. Hendricks, Producer

K

Keeper of Promises (The Given Word)
1 NOMINATION
  • Foreign Language Film - Brazil

L

Last Year at Marienbad
1 NOMINATION
  • Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - Alain Robbe-Grillet
Lawrence of Arabia
10 NOMINATIONS, 7 WINS
  • * Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: John Box, John Stoll; Set Decoration: Dario Simoni
  • * Cinematography (Color) - Fred A. Young
  • * Directing - David Lean
  • * Film Editing - Anne Coates
  • * Music (Music Score--substantially original) - Maurice Jarre
  • * Best Picture - Sam Spiegel, Producer
  • * Sound - Shepperton Studio Sound Department, John Cox, Sound Director
  • Actor - Peter O'Toole
  • Actor in a Supporting Role - Omar Sharif
  • Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson
Lolita
1 NOMINATION
  • Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Vladimir Nabokov
Long Day's Journey into Night
1 NOMINATION
  • Actress - Katharine Hepburn
The Longest Day
5 NOMINATIONS, 2 WINS
  • * Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Jean Bourgoin, Walter Wottitz, (Henri Persin)
  • * Special Effects - Visual Effects by Robert MacDonald; Audible Effects by Jacques Maumont
  • Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: Ted Haworth, Leon Barsacq, Vincent Korda; Set Decoration: Gabriel Bechir
  • Film Editing - Samuel E. Beetley
  • Best Picture - Darryl F. Zanuck, Producer

M

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1 NOMINATION
  • Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Edith Head
The Manchurian Candidate
2 NOMINATIONS
  • Actress in a Supporting Role - Angela Lansbury
  • Film Editing - Ferris Webster
Meredith Willson's The Music Man
6 NOMINATIONS, 1 WIN
  • * Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) - Ray Heindorf
  • Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
  • Costume Design (Color) - Dorothy Jeakins
  • Film Editing - William Ziegler
  • Best Picture - Morton Da Costa, Producer
  • Sound - Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, George R. Groves, Sound Director
The Miracle Worker
5 NOMINATIONS, 2 WINS
  • * Actress - Anne Bancroft
  • * Actress in a Supporting Role - Patty Duke
  • Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Ruth Morley
  • Directing - Arthur Penn
  • Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - William Gibson
Mutiny on the Bounty
7 NOMINATIONS
  • Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: George W. Davis, J. McMillan Johnson; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt
  • Cinematography (Color) - Robert L. Surtees
  • Film Editing - John McSweeney, Jr.
  • Music (Music Score--substantially original) - Bronislau Kaper
  • Music (Song) - Love Song From Mutiny On The Bounty (Follow Me) in "Mutiny on the Bounty" Music by Bronislau Kaper; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
  • Best Picture - Aaron Rosenberg, Producer
  • Special Effects - Visual Effects by A. Arnold Gillespie; Audible Effects by Milo Lory
My Geisha
1 NOMINATION
  • Costume Design (Color) - Edith Head

N

Now Hear This
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Cartoon) - Warner Bros.

P

Pan
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Live Action) - Herman van der Horst, Producer
Period of Adjustment
1 NOMINATION
  • Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: George W. Davis, Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Dick Pefferle
Phaedra
1 NOMINATION
  • Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Denny Vachlioti
The Pigeon That Took Rome
1 NOMINATION
  • Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Frank R. McKelvy

R

The Road to the Wall
1 NOMINATION
  • Documentary (Short Subject) - Robert Saudek, Producer

S

Self Defense--For Cowards
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Cartoon) - William L. Snyder, Producer
Sundays and Cybele
1 WIN, 1 NOMINATION
  • * Foreign Language Film - France
Sweet Bird of Youth
3 NOMINATIONS, 1 WIN
  • * Actor in a Supporting Role - Ed Begley
  • Actress - Geraldine Page
  • Actress in a Supporting Role - Shirley Knight
Symposium on Popular Songs
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Cartoon) - Walt Disney, Producer

T

Taras Bulba
1 NOMINATION
  • Music (Music Score--substantially original) - Franz Waxman
Tender Is the Night
1 NOMINATION
  • Music (Song) - Tender Is The Night in "Tender Is the Night" Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
That Touch of Mink
3 NOMINATIONS
  • Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen, Robert Clatworthy; Set Decoration: George Milo
  • Sound - Universal City Studio Sound Department, Waldon O. Watson, Sound Director
  • Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - Stanley Shapiro, Nate Monaster
Through a Glass Darkly
1 NOMINATION
  • Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - Ingmar Bergman
Tlayucan
1 NOMINATION
  • Foreign Language Film - Mexico
To Kill a Mockingbird
8 NOMINATIONS, 3 WINS
  • * Actor - Gregory Peck
  • * Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen, Henry Bumstead; Set Decoration: Oliver Emert
  • * Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Horton Foote
  • Actress in a Supporting Role - Mary Badham
  • Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Russell Harlan
  • Directing - Robert Mulligan
  • Music (Music Score--substantially original) - Elmer Bernstein
  • Best Picture - Alan J. Pakula, Producer
Two for the Seesaw
2 NOMINATIONS
  • Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Ted McCord
  • Music (Song) - Song From Two For The Seesaw (Second Chance) in "Two for the Seesaw" Music by Andre Previn; Lyrics by Dory Langdon

W

Walk on the Wild Side
1 NOMINATION
  • Music (Song) - Walk On The Wild Side in "Walk on the Wild Side" Music by Elmer Bernstein; Lyrics by Mack David
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
5 NOMINATIONS, 1 WIN
  • * Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Norma Koch
  • Actor in a Supporting Role - Victor Buono
  • Actress - Bette Davis
  • Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Ernest Haller
  • Sound - Glen Glenn Sound Department, Joseph Kelly, Sound Director
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
4 NOMINATIONS, 1 WIN
  • * Costume Design (Color) - Mary Wills
  • Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: George W. Davis, Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Dick Pefferle
  • Cinematography (Color) - Paul C. Vogel
  • Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) - Leigh Harline
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