37th Academy Awards
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The 37th Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1964
1964 in film
The year 1964 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 29 - The film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is released....

. For the first time, an award was presented in the field of makeup. All four acting awards went to non-American actors, something not repeated until the 80th Academy Awards
80th Academy Awards
The 80th Academy Awards ceremony honored the best films in 2007 and was broadcast from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on ABC beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST/8:30 p.m. EST, February 24, 2008 . During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Academy Awards in 24...

 were awarded for 2007
2007 in film
This is a list of major films released in 2007.-Top grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2007...

.

The Best Picture winner of 1964, director George Cukor's
George Cukor
George Dewey Cukor was an American film director. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed What Price Hollywood? , A Bill of Divorcement , Dinner at Eight , Little Women , David Copperfield , Romeo and Juliet and...

 My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady (film)
My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, of the same name, based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The ballroom scene and the ending were taken from the previous film adaptation , rather than from...

, was about the transformative training of a rough-speaking flower girl into a lady. The musical had run for many years on the stage (in both NYC and London). Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian. Although modest about her acting ability, Hepburn remains one of the world's most famous actresses of all time, remembered as a film and fashion icon of the twentieth century...

, the female lead of the film, was controversially not nominated for Best Actress
Academy Award for Best Actress
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...

. The unpopularity of her replacement of Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews
Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE is an English film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honors...

 - the stage actress from the original play (and ironically the Best Actress winner of the year) - as well as the revelation that her singing performance was dubbed by Marni Nixon
Marni Nixon
Marni Nixon is an American soprano and playback singer for featured actresses in movie musicals. She has also spent much of her career performing in concerts with major symphony orchestras around the world and in operas and musicals throughout the United States.-Biography:Born Margaret Nixon...

 were seen as the main reasons for the snub.

The producer of the ceremony was MGM film producer Joe Pasternak. Bob Hope served as master of ceremonies. The awards show was star-studded with many top celebrities participating, including an appearance by Judy Garland, who sang a medley of Cole Porter songs in tribute to the composer who died in October, 1964.

This year marked the only time in Oscar history where 3 films got 12 or more nominations. Becket and My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady is a musical based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe...

 both with 12 nominations and Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins (film)
Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers with illustrations by Mary Shepard. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with songs by...

 with 13.

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface
Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Picture
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the motion picture industry. The Best Picture category is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible not only...

Best Director
  • My Fair Lady
    My Fair Lady (film)
    My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, of the same name, based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The ballroom scene and the ending were taken from the previous film adaptation , rather than from...

    • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
      Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
      Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, commonly known as Dr. Strangelove, is a 1964 black comedy film which satirizes the nuclear scare. It was directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, and featuring Sterling...

    • Zorba the Greek
    • Becket
    • Mary Poppins
      Mary Poppins (film)
      Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers with illustrations by Mary Shepard. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with songs by...

  • George Cukor
    George Cukor
    George Dewey Cukor was an American film director. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed What Price Hollywood? , A Bill of Divorcement , Dinner at Eight , Little Women , David Copperfield , Romeo and Juliet and...

     – My Fair Lady
    My Fair Lady (film)
    My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, of the same name, based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The ballroom scene and the ending were taken from the previous film adaptation , rather than from...

    • Peter Glenville
      Peter Glenville
      Peter Glenville , born Peter Patrick Brabazon Browne, was an English film and stage actor and director.-Biography:...

       – Becket
    • Robert Stevenson
      Robert Stevenson (director)
      Robert Stevenson was an English film writer and director. He was educated at Cambridge University where he became the president of both the Liberal Club and the Cambridge Union Society....

       – Mary Poppins
      Mary Poppins (film)
      Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers with illustrations by Mary Shepard. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with songs by...

    • Stanley Kubrick
      Stanley Kubrick
      Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, writer, producer, and photographer who lived in England during most of the last four decades of his career...

       – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
      Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
      Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, commonly known as Dr. Strangelove, is a 1964 black comedy film which satirizes the nuclear scare. It was directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, and featuring Sterling...

    • Mihalis Kakogiannis – Zorba the Greek
  • Best Actor
    Academy Award for Best Actor
    Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...

    Best Actress
    Academy Award for Best Actress
    Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...

  • Rex Harrison
    Rex Harrison
    Sir Reginald Carey “Rex” Harrison was an English actor of stage and screen. Harrison won an Academy Award and two Tony Awards.-Youth and stage career:...

     – My Fair Lady
    My Fair Lady (film)
    My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, of the same name, based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The ballroom scene and the ending were taken from the previous film adaptation , rather than from...

    • Richard Burton
      Richard Burton
      Richard Burton, CBE was a Welsh actor. He was nominated seven times for an Academy Award, six of which were for Best Actor in a Leading Role , and was a recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony Awards for Best Actor. Although never trained as an actor, Burton was, at one time, the highest-paid...

       – Becket
    • Peter O'Toole
      Peter O'Toole
      Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole is an Irish actor of stage and screen. O'Toole achieved stardom in 1962 playing T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia, and then went on to become a highly-honoured film and stage actor. He has been nominated for eight Academy Awards, and holds the record for most...

       – Becket
    • Peter Sellers
      Peter Sellers
      Richard Henry Sellers, CBE , known as Peter Sellers, was a British comedian and actor. Perhaps best known as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, he is also notable for playing three different characters in Dr...

       – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
      Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
      Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, commonly known as Dr. Strangelove, is a 1964 black comedy film which satirizes the nuclear scare. It was directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, and featuring Sterling...

    • Anthony Quinn
      Anthony Quinn
      Antonio Rodolfo Quinn-Oaxaca , more commonly known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican American actor, as well as a painter and writer...

       – Zorba the Greek
  • Julie Andrews
    Julie Andrews
    Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE is an English film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honors...

     – Mary Poppins
    Mary Poppins (film)
    Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers with illustrations by Mary Shepard. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with songs by...

    • Sophia Loren
      Sophia Loren
      Sophia Loren, OMRI is an Italian actress.In 1962, Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women, along with 21 awards, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance...

       – Marriage Italian-Style
      Marriage Italian-Style
      Marriage Italian-Style is a 1964 film which tells the story of a successful businessman who kept a woman as his mistress for several years and now plans to marry another woman until his mistress pretends to be on her deathbed to induce him to marry her before she dies...

    • Kim Stanley
      Kim Stanley
      Kim Stanley was an American actress, primarily in television and theatre, but with occasional film performances....

       – Seance on a Wet Afternoon
      Seance on a Wet Afternoon
      Séance on a Wet Afternoon is a 1964 British film directed by Bryan Forbes, based on the novel by Mark McShane in which an unstable medium convinces her husband to kidnap a child so she can help the police solve the crime and collect the ransom...

    • Anne Bancroft
      Anne Bancroft
      Anne Bancroft was an American actress associated with the Method acting school, which she had studied under Lee Strasberg....

       – The Pumpkin Eater
      The Pumpkin Eater
      The Pumpkin Eater is a 1964 British drama film starring Anne Bancroft as an unusually fertile woman and Peter Finch as her philandering husband....

    • Debbie Reynolds
      Debbie Reynolds
      Debbie Reynolds is an American actress, singer, and dancer.She was initially signed at age 16 by Warner Bros., but her career got off to a slow start. When her contract was not renewed, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gave her a small, but significant part in the film Three Little Words , then signed her to...

       – The Unsinkable Molly Brown
  • Best Supporting Actor
    Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
    Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...

    Best Supporting Actress
    Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
    Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...

  • Peter Ustinov
    Peter Ustinov
    Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE was an English actor, writer and dramatist. He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humourist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter...

     – Topkapi
    Topkapi (film)
    Topkapi is a heist film made by Filmways Pictures and distributed by United Artists. It was produced and directed by the emigre American film director, Jules Dassin...

    • John Gielgud
      John Gielgud
      Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH was an English actor, director, and producer. A descendant of the renowned Terry acting family, he achieved early international acclaim for his youthful, emotionally expressive Hamlet which broke box office records on Broadway in 1937...

       – Becket
    • Stanley Holloway
      Stanley Holloway
      Stanley Augustus Holloway, OBE was an English stage and film actor, comedian, singer, poet and monologist. He was famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen, especially that of Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady...

       – My Fair Lady
      My Fair Lady (film)
      My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, of the same name, based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The ballroom scene and the ending were taken from the previous film adaptation , rather than from...

    • Edmond O'Brien
      Edmond O'Brien
      Edmond O'Brien was an American actor who is perhaps best remembered for his role in D.O.A. and his Oscar winning role in The Barefoot Contessa...

       – Seven Days in May
      Seven Days in May
      Seven Days in May is an American political thriller novel written by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II and published in 1962. It was made into a motion picture and released in February 1964, with a screenplay by Rod Serling, directed by John Frankenheimer, and starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk...

    • Lee Tracy
      Lee Tracy
      William Lee Tracy was an American actor.- Early life :Tracy was born in Atlanta, Georgia.After graduating from Western Military Academy in 1918 he studied electrical engineering at Union College, and then served as a 2nd lieutenant in World War I. In the early 1920s he decided to work as an actor...

       – The Best Man
      The Best Man (1964 film)
      The Best Man is a 1964 film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner with a screenplay by Gore Vidal based on his play of the same title. Starring Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, and Lee Tracy, the film details the seamy political maneuverings behind the nomination of a presidential candidate...

  • Lila Kedrova
    Lila Kedrova
    Lila Kedrova was a Russian-born French actress.-Biography:Kedrova claimed to have been born in 1918, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Her parents were Russian opera singers. Lila Kedrova's brother was Nikolay Kedrov, Jr...

     – Zorba the Greek
    • Gladys Cooper
      Gladys Cooper
      Dame Gladys Constance Cooper, DBE was an English actress whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television....

       – My Fair Lady
      My Fair Lady (film)
      My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, of the same name, based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The ballroom scene and the ending were taken from the previous film adaptation , rather than from...

    • Edith Evans
      Edith Evans
      Dame Edith Mary Evans, DBE was a British actress. She was known for her work on the British stage. She also appeared in a number of films, for which she received three Academy Award nominations, plus a BAFTA and a Golden Globe award.Evans was particularly effective at portraying haughty...

       – The Chalk Garden
      The Chalk Garden
      The Chalk Garden is a play by Enid Bagnold that premiered on Broadway in 1955. The play tells the story of Mrs. St Maugham and her granddaughter Laurel, a disturbed child under Miss Madrigal's care. The setting of the play was inspired by Bagnold's own garden at North End House in Rottingdean, near...

    • Agnes Moorehead
      Agnes Moorehead
      Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress. Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is most widely known to modern audiences...

       – Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
    • Grayson Hall
      Grayson Hall
      Grayson Hall was an American television, film and stage actress. She was widely regarded for her avant garde theatrical performances in the 1960s-80s. Hall was nominated in 1964 for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for the John Huston film The Night of the Iguana...

       – The Night of the Iguana
      The Night of the Iguana (film)
      The Night of the Iguana is a 1964 film based on the 1961 play The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams. Directed by John Huston, it starred Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, and Deborah Kerr. It won the 1964 Academy Award for Best Costume Design, and was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best...

  • Best Original Screenplay
    Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
    The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. Before 1940, there was an Academy Award for Best Story for writing. For 1940, it and the award in this article were separated into two awards. Beginning with the...

    Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Father Goose
    Father Goose (film)
    Father Goose is a 1964 romantic comedy film set in World War II, starring Cary Grant, Leslie Caron and Trevor Howard. The title derives from "Mother Goose", the codename assigned to Grant's character...

     – S. H. Barnett, Peter Stone
    Peter Stone
    Peter Hess Stone was an American writer for theater, television and movies.-Life and career:Stone was born in Los Angeles. His mother, Hilda , was a film writer, and his father, John Stone was the writer and producer of many silent films, including Shirley Temple and Charlie Chan movies...

     and Frank Tarloff
    • A Hard Day's Night
      A Hard Day's Night (film)
      A Hard Day's Night is a 1964 British black-and-white comedy film directed by Richard Lester and starring The Beatles—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr—during the height of Beatlemania. It was written by Alun Owen and originally released by United Artists...

       – Alun Owen
      Alun Owen
      Alun Owen was a British screenwriter, predominantly active in television, but best remembered by a wider audience for writing the screenplay of The Beatles' debut feature film A Hard Day's Night ....

    • The Organizer – Agenore Incrocci
      Agenore Incrocci
      Agenore Incrocci , best known as Age, was an Italian screenwriter, considered one of the fathers of the commedia all'italiana as one of the two members of the duo Age & Scarpelli, together with Furio Scarpelli....

      , Furio Scarpelli
      Furio Scarpelli
      Furio Scarpelli , also called Scarpelli, was an Italian screenwriter, famous for his collaboration on numerous Commedia all'italiana films with Agenore Incrocci, forming the duo Age & Scarpelli....

       and Mario Monicelli
      Mario Monicelli
      Mario Monicelli was an Italian director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana , three times nominated for Oscar.-Biography:...

    • That Man from Rio
      L'Homme de Rio
      That Man From Rio is a 1964 adventure film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Françoise Dorléac, the sister of Catherine Deneuve. Concidentally, Belmondo would later star with Deneuve in the 1969 film Mississippi Mermaid, also a United Artists film...

       – Jean-Paul Rappeneau
      Jean-Paul Rappeneau
      Jean-Paul Rappeneau is a French film director, screenwriter, and actor.He started out in film as an assistant and screenwriter collaborating with Louis Malle on Zazie dans le metro in 1960 and Vie privee in 1961...

      , Ariane Mnouchkine
      Ariane Mnouchkine
      Ariane Mnouchkine is a world-renowned French stage director. She founded the Parisian avant-garde stage ensemble Théâtre du Soleil in 1964. She has written and directed 1789 and Molière , and in 1989, she directed La Nuit Miraculeuse...

      , Daniel Boulanger
      Daniel Boulanger
      Daniel Boulanger is a French novelist, playwright, poet and screenwriter. He has also played secondary roles in films and has been a member of the Académie Goncourt since 1983.-Filmography:...

       and Philippe de Broca
      Philippe de Broca
      Philippe de Broca was a French film director.Born Philippe Claude Alex de Broca de Ferrussac in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, the son of a photographer of noble origins. de Broca was a cinephile from an early age, and he studied at the l'École technique de photographie et de cinématographie...

    • One Potato, Two Potato
      One Potato, Two Potato
      One Potato, Two Potato is a 1964 black-and-white drama film directed by Larry Peerce and starring Barbara Barrie and Bernie Hamilton.The story concerns the difficulties faced by an interracial marriage between an African-American office worker and a white divorcee...

       – Orville H. Hampton and Raphael Hayes
  • Becket – Edward Anhalt
    Edward Anhalt
    Edward Anhalt was a noted screenwriter, producer, and documentary film-maker. After working as a journalist and documentary filmmaker for Pathé and CBS-TV he teamed with his wife Edna Anhalt, née Richards, during World War II to write pulp fiction...

    • Zorba the Greek – Mihalis Kakogiannis
    • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
      Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
      Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, commonly known as Dr. Strangelove, is a 1964 black comedy film which satirizes the nuclear scare. It was directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, and featuring Sterling...

       – Stanley Kubrick
      Stanley Kubrick
      Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, writer, producer, and photographer who lived in England during most of the last four decades of his career...

       , Terry Southern
      Terry Southern
      Terry Southern was an American author, essayist, screenwriter and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style...

       and Peter George
    • Mary Poppins
      Mary Poppins (film)
      Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers with illustrations by Mary Shepard. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with songs by...

       – Bill Walsh
      Bill Walsh (producer)
      Bill Walsh was a film producer and screenwriter who primarily worked on live-action films for Walt Disney Productions...

       and Don DaGradi
      Don DaGradi
      Don DaGradi was a Disney writer who started out as a layout artist on 1940s cartoons including "Der Fuehrer's Face" in 1943. He eventually moved into animated features with the film Lady and the Tramp in 1955. He also worked as a color and styling or sequence consultant on many other motion...

    • My Fair Lady
      My Fair Lady (film)
      My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, of the same name, based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The ballroom scene and the ending were taken from the previous film adaptation , rather than from...

       – Alan Jay Lerner
      Alan Jay Lerner
      Alan Jay Lerner was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film...

  • Best
    Foreign Language Film
    Best Original Song
    Academy Award for Best Original Song
    The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film...

    • Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Italy
      Italy
      Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

      )
      • Raven's End
        Raven's End
        Raven's End is a 1963 Swedish drama film directed by Bo Widerberg, about an aspiring working-class writer in Malmö. The story bears some similarities to Widerberg's own background, although he claimed it to be entirely fictional.-Plot:...

         (Sweden
        Sweden
        Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

        )
      • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (France
        France
        The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

        )
      • Sallah Shabati
        Sallah Shabati
        Sallah Shabati is a 1964 Israeli comedy film about the chaos of Israeli immigration and resettlement. This social satire placed the director Ephraim Kishon and producer Menahem Golan among the first Israeli filmmakers to achieve international success...

         (Israel
        Israel
        The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

        )
      • Woman in the Dunes
        Woman in the Dunes
        is a film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara and based on the novel of the same name by Kōbō Abe. The novel was published in 1962, and the film was released in 1964. Kōbō Abe also wrote the screenplay for the film version....

         (Japan
        Japan
        Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

        )
  • "Chim Chim Cher-ee
    Chim Chim Cher-ee
    "Chim Chim Cher-ee" is a song from Mary Poppins, the 1964 musical motion picture. It was originally sung by Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews. "Chim Chim Cher-ee" is also featured prominently in the award winning Cameron Mackintosh/Disney stage musical of the same name which premiered in London at...

    " from Mary Poppins
    Mary Poppins (film)
    Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers with illustrations by Mary Shepard. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with songs by...

     – Music and Lyric by Richard M. Sherman
    Richard M. Sherman
    Richard Morton Sherman is an American songwriter who specializes in musical film with his brother Robert Bernard Sherman....

     and Robert B. Sherman
    Robert B. Sherman
    Robert Bernard Sherman is an American songwriter who specializes in musical films with his brother Richard Morton Sherman...

    • "Dear Heart" from Dear Heart – Music by Henry Mancini
      Henry Mancini
      Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards , plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995...

      ; Lyric by Jay Livingston
      Jay Livingston
      Jay Livingston was an American composer and singer best known as half of a songwriting duo with Ray Evans that specialized in songs composed for films. Livingston wrote the music and Evans the lyrics....

       and Ray Evans
      Ray Evans
      Raymond Bernard Evans was an American songwriter. He was a partner in a composing and songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, known for the songs they composed for films...

    • "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte" from Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte – Music by Frank De Vol
      Frank De Vol
      Frank Denny De Vol, also known simply as De Vol was an American arranger, composer and actor.-Early life and career:...

      ; Lyric by Mack David
      Mack David
      Mack David was an American lyricist and songwriter, best known for his work in film and television, with a career spanning from the early 1940s through the early 1970s. Mack was credited with writing lyrics and/or music for over one thousand songs...

    • "My Kind of Town
      My Kind of Town
      My Kind of Town is an American television game show that premiered on August 14, 2005 on ABC. Part variety show, part game show, the series brings 200 people from a small town in the United States to New York City to compete for prizes and participate in games and assorted gags...

      " from Robin and the 7 Hoods
      Robin and the 7 Hoods
      Robin and the 7 Hoods is a 1964 American musical film that transplants the Robin Hood legend to a 1930s Chicago gangster setting. Directed by Gordon Douglas and produced by Frank Sinatra, with a screenplay by David R. Schwartz, the movie stars members of the Rat Pack as well as Bing Crosby, Peter...

       – Music by Jimmy Van Heusen; Lyric by Sammy Cahn
      Sammy Cahn
      Sammy Cahn was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area...

    • "Where Love Has Gone" from Where Love Has Gone
      Where Love Has Gone (film)
      Where Love Has Gone is a 1964 drama film made by Embassy Pictures , Joseph E. Levine Productions and Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Joseph E. Levine from a screenplay by John Michael Hayes based on the novel of the same name by Harold Robbins...

       – Music by Jimmy Van Heusen; Lyric by Sammy Cahn
      Sammy Cahn
      Sammy Cahn was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area...

  • Best Documentary Feature Best Documentary Short
  • Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World Without Sun
    • The Finest Hours
      The Finest Hours
      The Finest Hours is a 1964 documentary film about Winston Churchill, directed by Peter Baylis. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.-Cast:* George Baker - Lord Randolph * Faith Brook - Lady Randolph...

    • Four Days in November
      Four Days in November
      Four Days in November is a 1964 American documentary film directed by Mel Stuart about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.The film includes Dallas radio and television coverage of:...

    • The Human Dutch
    • Over There, 1914-18
  • Nine from Little Rock
    Nine from Little Rock
    Nine from Little Rock is a 1964 short documentary film directed by Charles Guggenheim. It won an Academy Award in 1965 for Documentary Short Subject.-Cast:* Jefferson Thomas - Himself - Narrator...

    • Breaking the Habit
      Breaking the Habit (film)
      Breaking the Habit is a 1964 American short documentary film directed by John Korty about cigarette smoking and lung cancer. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short....

    • Children Without
      Children Without
      Children Without is a 1964 short documentary film directed by Charles Guggenheim. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short....

    • Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak
      Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak
      Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak is a 1964 Canadian short documentary film about Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak, directed by John Feeney. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short....

    • 140 Days Under the World
      140 Days Under the World
      140 Days Under the World is a 1964 New Zealand short documentary film about Antarctica. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short....

  • Best Live Action Short
    Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
    This name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974. For the three preceding years it was known as "Short Subjects, Live Action Films." The term "Short Subjects, Live Action Subjects" was used from 1957 until 1970. From 1936 until 1956 there were two separate...

    Best Animated Short
  • Casals Conducts: 1964
    Casals Conducts: 1964
    Casals Conducts: 1964 is a 1964 short film directed by Larry Sturhahn. It won an Academy Award at the 37th Academy Awards in 1965 for Best Short Subject....

    • Help! My Snowman's Burning Down
    • The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes
  • The Pink Phink
    The Pink Phink
    The Pink Phink is a 1964 animated short comedy film, directed by Friz Freleng and Hawley Pratt, featureing Blake Edwards' Pink Panther competing with the Little Man over the new colour scheme of a house...

    • Christmas Cracker
      Christmas Cracker (film)
      Christmas Cracker is a 1963 animated short about Christmas, co-directed by Norman McLaren, Gerald Potterton, Grant Munro and Jeff Hale. The film consists of three segments: a rendition of "Jingle Bells" in which cutout animation figures dance, a dime-store rodeo of tin toys and a story about...

    • How to Avoid Friendship
    • Nudnik #2
      Nudnik (cartoon)
      Nudnik was a Czechoslovak/Czech animated film series directed by Gene Deitch, produced by William Lawrence Snyder, and distributed by Paramount Studios. The shorts were released during 1965 and 1967 with 12 shorts...

  • Best Original Score
    Academy Award for Best Original Score
    The Academy Award for Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.-Superlatives:...

    Best Adaptation or Treatment Score
    Academy Award for Best Original Score
    The Academy Award for Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.-Superlatives:...

  • Mary Poppins
    Mary Poppins (film)
    Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers with illustrations by Mary Shepard. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with songs by...

     – Richard M. Sherman
    Richard M. Sherman
    Richard Morton Sherman is an American songwriter who specializes in musical film with his brother Robert Bernard Sherman....

     and Robert B. Sherman
    Robert B. Sherman
    Robert Bernard Sherman is an American songwriter who specializes in musical films with his brother Richard Morton Sherman...

    • Becket – Laurence Rosenthal
      Laurence Rosenthal
      Laurence Rosenthal is an American composer, arranger, and conductor for theater, television, and films.Born in Detroit, Michigan, Rosenthal attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he studied piano and composition...

    • Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte – Frank De Vol
      Frank De Vol
      Frank Denny De Vol, also known simply as De Vol was an American arranger, composer and actor.-Early life and career:...

    • The Fall of the Roman Empire
      The Fall of the Roman Empire (film)
      The Fall of the Roman Empire is a 1964 English-language epic film produced by Samuel Bronston Productions and the Rank Organisation, and released by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Anthony Mann and produced by Samuel Bronston with Jaime Prades and Michal Waszynski as associate producers. The...

       – Dimitri Tiomkin
      Dimitri Tiomkin
      Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a Russian-born Hollywood film score composer and conductor. He is considered "one of the giants of Hollywood movie music." Musically trained in Russia, he is best known for his westerns, "where his expansive, muscular style had its greatest impact." Tiomkin...

    • The Pink Panther
      The Pink Panther (1963 film)
      The Pink Panther is a 1963 American comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and co-written by Edwards and Maurice Richlin, starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine, and Claudia Cardinale...

       – Henry Mancini
      Henry Mancini
      Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards , plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995...

  • My Fair Lady
    My Fair Lady (film)
    My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, of the same name, based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The ballroom scene and the ending were taken from the previous film adaptation , rather than from...

     – Andre Previn
    André Previn
    André George Previn, KBE is an American pianist, conductor, and composer. He is considered one of the most versatile musicians in the world, and is the winner of four Academy Awards for his film work and ten Grammy Awards for his recordings. -Early Life:Previn was born in...

    • A Hard Day's Night
      A Hard Day's Night (film)
      A Hard Day's Night is a 1964 British black-and-white comedy film directed by Richard Lester and starring The Beatles—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr—during the height of Beatlemania. It was written by Alun Owen and originally released by United Artists...

       – George Martin
      George Martin
      Sir George Henry Martin CBE is an English record producer, arranger, composer and musician. He is sometimes referred to as "the Fifth Beatle"— a title that he often describes as "nonsense," but the fact remains that he served as producer on all but one of The Beatles' original albums...

    • Mary Poppins
      Mary Poppins (film)
      Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers with illustrations by Mary Shepard. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with songs by...

       – Irwin Kostal
      Irwin Kostal
      Irwin Kostal was an American musical arranger of films and an orchestrator of Broadway musicals.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Kostal opted not to attend college, instead teaching himself musical arranging by studying the symphonic scores available at his local library...

    • Robin and the 7 Hoods
      Robin and the 7 Hoods
      Robin and the 7 Hoods is a 1964 American musical film that transplants the Robin Hood legend to a 1930s Chicago gangster setting. Directed by Gordon Douglas and produced by Frank Sinatra, with a screenplay by David R. Schwartz, the movie stars members of the Rat Pack as well as Bing Crosby, Peter...

       – Nelson Riddle
      Nelson Riddle
      Nelson Smock Riddle, Jr. was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid 1980s...

    • The Unsinkable Molly Brown – Robert Armbruster
      Robert Armbruster
      Robert Armbruster was a Philadelphia-born American composer, conductor, pianist and songwriter. After studying with Constantin von Sternberg he became a concert pianist, then branched out into conducting and a composing for radio, then television and film. He debuted as a pianist with the...

      , Leo Arnaud
      Leo Arnaud
      Leo Arnaud or Léo Arnaud was a French-American composer of film scores, best known for Bugler's Dream, which is used as the theme by television networks presenting the Olympic Games in the United States....

      , Jack Elliot, Jack Hayes, Calvin Jackson
      Calvin Jackson
      Calvin Jackson was an American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader....

       and Leo Shuken
      Leo Shuken
      Leo Shuken was an American film music composer, arranger, and musical director....

  • Best Sound Editing Best Sound Mixing
  • Goldfinger
    Goldfinger (film)
    Goldfinger is the third spy film in the James Bond series and the third to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Released in 1964, it is based on the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. The film also stars Honor Blackman as Bond girl Pussy Galore and Gert Fröbe as the title...

     – Norman Wanstall
    • The Lively Set
      The Lively Set
      The Lively Set is a 1964 film directed by Jack Arnold. It stars James Darren, Pamela Tiffin and Doug McClure.-Plot:Young mechanic Casey Owens designs a turbine engine that could lead to an automotive land-speed record...

       – Robert L. Bratton
  • My Fair Lady
    My Fair Lady (film)
    My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, of the same name, based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The ballroom scene and the ending were taken from the previous film adaptation , rather than from...

     - George Groves
    • Father Goose
      Father Goose (film)
      Father Goose is a 1964 romantic comedy film set in World War II, starring Cary Grant, Leslie Caron and Trevor Howard. The title derives from "Mother Goose", the codename assigned to Grant's character...

       - Waldon O. Watson
      Waldon O. Watson
      Waldon O. Watson was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording...

    • Becket - John Cox
      John Cox (sound engineer)
      John Cox was a British sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Sound Recording and was nominated for two more in the same category. He worked on over 140 films between 1931 and 1972.-Selected filmography:Won...

    • Mary Poppins
      Mary Poppins (film)
      Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers with illustrations by Mary Shepard. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with songs by...

       - Robert O. Cook
      Robert O. Cook
      Robert O. Cook was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording. He worked on nearly 100 films between 1946 and 1977.-Selected filmography:...

    • The Unsinkable Molly Brown - Franklin Milton
      Franklin Milton
      Franklin Milton was an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Sound Recording and was nominated for three more in the same category.-Selected filmography:...

  • Best Art Direction, Black and White
    Academy Award for Best Art Direction
    The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures. The Academy Award for Best Art Direction recognizes achievement in art direction on a film. The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999...

    Best Art Direction, Color
    Academy Award for Best Art Direction
    The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures. The Academy Award for Best Art Direction recognizes achievement in art direction on a film. The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999...

  • Zorba the Greek – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Vassilis Fotopoulos
    • Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte – Art Direction: William Glasgow
      William Glasgow
      William Glasgow was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte.-External links:...

      ; Set Decoration: Raphael Bretton
      Raphael Bretton
      Raphael Bretton is a French set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

    • Seven Days in May
      Seven Days in May
      Seven Days in May is an American political thriller novel written by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II and published in 1962. It was made into a motion picture and released in February 1964, with a screenplay by Rod Serling, directed by John Frankenheimer, and starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk...

       – Art Direction: Cary Odell
      Cary Odell
      Cary Odell was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.He was born in Indiana and died in San Luis Obispo, California.-Selected filmography:...

      ; Set Decoration: Edward G. Boyle
      Edward G. Boyle
      The career of set decorator Edward G. Boyle kicked off in the early 30s, when he started working on the first of over 100 films...

    • The Americanization of Emily
      The Americanization of Emily
      The Americanization of Emily is a 1964 American comedy-drama war film written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Arthur Hiller, loosely adapted from the novel of the same name by William Bradford Huie who had been a SeaBee officer on D-Day....

       – Art Direction: George Davis
      George Davis (art director)
      -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was Joseph L. Mankiewicz's fantasy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in 1947, a director for whom he frequently worked, notably on House of Strangers , All About Eve -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was...

      , Hans Peters
      Hans Peters (art director)
      Hans Peters was an English art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Peters was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

       and Elliot Scott
      Elliot Scott
      Elliot Scott was an English art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Scott was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

      ; Set Decoration: Henry Grace
      Henry Grace
      Henry Grace was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for twelve more in the category Best Art Direction.As an actor he had a role as Dwight D...

       and Robert R. Benton
      Robert R. Benton
      Robert R. Benton was an American set decorator. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Benton was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

    • The Night of the Iguana
      The Night of the Iguana (film)
      The Night of the Iguana is a 1964 film based on the 1961 play The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams. Directed by John Huston, it starred Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, and Deborah Kerr. It won the 1964 Academy Award for Best Costume Design, and was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best...

       – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Stephen Grimes
  • My Fair Lady
    My Fair Lady (film)
    My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, of the same name, based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The ballroom scene and the ending were taken from the previous film adaptation , rather than from...

     – Art Direction: Gene Allen
    Gene Allen
    Eugene Allen is an American art director.He followed his father, and became a Los Angeles Police officer after he was laid off from his first job as a sketch artist. After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, Allen went to art school to pursue his career...

     and Cecil Beaton
    Cecil Beaton
    Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, CBE was an English fashion and portrait photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre...

    ; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
    • Becket – Art Direction: John Bryan
      John Bryan (art director)
      John Bryan was an art director and film producer.John Bryan was born in London, England. He won the Oscar for Best Art Direction for the film Great Expectations in 1946. He was nominated twice more, for Caesar and Cleopatra in 1947 and for Becket in 1964...

       and Maurice Carter; Set Decoration: Patrick McLoughlin and Robert Cartwright
      Robert Cartwright
      Robert Cartwright was an art director. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Cartwright was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Becket * Scrooge...

    • Mary Poppins
      Mary Poppins (film)
      Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers with illustrations by Mary Shepard. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with songs by...

       – Art Direction: Carroll Clark
      Carroll Clark
      Carroll Clark was an American art director. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 173 films between 1927 and 1968...

       and William H. Tuntke
      William H. Tuntke
      William H. Tuntke was a art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Tuntke was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* Mary Poppins...

      ; Set Decoration: Emile Kuri
      Emile Kuri
      Emile Kuri was a Mexican-born American set decorator of Lebanese parentage. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for six more in the category Best Art Direction....

       and Hal Gausman
      Hal Gausman
      Hal Gausman was an American set decorator. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Gausman was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* The Absent-Minded Professor...

    • The Unsinkable Molly Brown – Art Direction: George Davis
      George Davis (art director)
      -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was Joseph L. Mankiewicz's fantasy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in 1947, a director for whom he frequently worked, notably on House of Strangers , All About Eve -Career:Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox, his first film was...

       and Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Henry Grace
      Henry Grace
      Henry Grace was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for twelve more in the category Best Art Direction.As an actor he had a role as Dwight D...

       and Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

    • What a Way to Go!
      What a Way to Go!
      What a Way to Go! is a 1964 American comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly, Margaret Dumont, Bob Cummings and Dick Van Dyke.-Plot:...

       – Art Direction: Jack Martin Smith
      Jack Martin Smith
      Jack Martin Smith was a highly successful Hollywood art director with over 130 films to his credit and nine Academy Award nominations which ultimately yielded three Oscars.-MGM:...

       and Ted Haworth
      Ted Haworth
      Ted Haworth was an American production designer and art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated five more times in the category Best Art Direction....

      ; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott was an Academy Award-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....

       and Stuart A. Reiss
      Stuart A. Reiss
      Stuart A. Reiss is an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for four more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

  • Best Cinematography, Black and White
    Academy Award for Best Cinematography
    The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work in one particular motion picture.-History:...

    Best Cinematography, Color
    Academy Award for Best Cinematography
    The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work in one particular motion picture.-History:...

  • Zorba the Greek – Walter Lassally
    Walter Lassally
    Walter Lassally is a German-born British cinematographer. He was closely associated with the Free cinema movement in the 1950s, and the British New Wave in the early 1960s. He also worked with Greek filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis between 1956 and 1967, and with James Ivory in the 1970s and 1980s...

    • Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte – Joseph Biroc
    • Fate Is the Hunter
      Fate Is the Hunter (film)
      Fate Is the Hunter is a 1964 film about the crash of an airliner and the subsequent investigation released by 20th Century Fox. It was nominally based on the bestselling 1961 book of the same name by Ernest K. Gann, but the author was so disappointed with the result that he asked to have his name...

       – Milton Krasner
    • The Americanization of Emily
      The Americanization of Emily
      The Americanization of Emily is a 1964 American comedy-drama war film written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Arthur Hiller, loosely adapted from the novel of the same name by William Bradford Huie who had been a SeaBee officer on D-Day....

       – Philip H. Lathrop
      Philip H. Lathrop
      Philip H. Lathrop, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer for such films as Lonely Are the Brave , Finian's Rainbow , Portnoy's Complaint , The Driver , Earthquake , The Cincinnati Kid , The Americanization of Emily , Swashbuckler , A Change of Seasons ,...

    • The Night of the Iguana
      The Night of the Iguana (film)
      The Night of the Iguana is a 1964 film based on the 1961 play The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams. Directed by John Huston, it starred Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, and Deborah Kerr. It won the 1964 Academy Award for Best Costume Design, and was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best...

       – Gabriel Figueroa
      Gabriel Figueroa
      Gabriel Figueroa Mateos was a Mexican cinematographer who worked both in Mexican cinema and Hollywood....

  • My Fair Lady
    My Fair Lady (film)
    My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, of the same name, based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The ballroom scene and the ending were taken from the previous film adaptation , rather than from...

     – Harry Stradling
    Harry Stradling
    Harry Stradling Sr., A.S.C. was an American cinematographer with over 130 films to his credit.His uncle Walter Stradling and son Harry Stradling Jr. were also cinematographers.-Early career:...

    • Becket – Geoffrey Unsworth
      Geoffrey Unsworth
      Geoffrey Unsworth OBE, BSC was a British cinematographer who worked on nearly 90 feature films spanning over more than 40 years....

    • Cheyenne Autumn
      Cheyenne Autumn
      Cheyenne Autumn is a 1964 western starring Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, James Stewart, and Edward G. Robinson. Regarded as an epic film it tells the story of a factual event, the Northern Cheyenne Exodus of 1878-9, although it is told in 'Hollywood style' using a great degree of artistic license...

       – William H. Clothier
      William H. Clothier
      William H. Clothier, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer.Born in Decatur, Illinois, Clothier entered the film industry painting sets at Warner Bros., and at the end of the silent era began photographing such films as Wings and Ernst Lubitsch's The Patriot...

    • Mary Poppins
      Mary Poppins (film)
      Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers with illustrations by Mary Shepard. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with songs by...

       – Edward Colman
    • The Unsinkable Molly Brown – Daniel L. Fapp
      Daniel L. Fapp
      Daniel L. Fapp or Daniel L. Fappani was an American cinematographer, best known as director of photography for West Side Story , for which he won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and The Great Escape...

  • Best Costume Design, Black and White Best Costume Design, Color
  • The Night of the Iguana
    The Night of the Iguana (film)
    The Night of the Iguana is a 1964 film based on the 1961 play The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams. Directed by John Huston, it starred Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, and Deborah Kerr. It won the 1964 Academy Award for Best Costume Design, and was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best...

     – Dorothy Jeakins
    Dorothy Jeakins
    Dorothy Jeakins was a costume designer.Born in San Diego, California, she went to public school in Los Angeles from first grade through high school...

    • A House Is Not a Home
      A House Is Not a Home (film)
      A House Is Not a Home is a 1964 drama film loosely based on the 1953 autobiography by madam Polly Adler. The film stars Shelley Winters, Robert Taylor, Cesar Romero, and Kaye Ballard.Raquel Welch made her film debut in a small role as a prostitute.-Plot:...

       – Edith Head
      Edith Head
      Edith Head was an American costume designer who won eight Academy Awards, more than any other woman.-Early life and career:...

    • Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte – Norma Koch
    • Kisses for My President – Howard Shoup
    • The Visit
      The Visit (1964 film)
      The Visit is a 1964 film co-production from France, Italy, Germany, and the United States, distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Bernhard Wicki and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and Julien Derode with Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Quinn as co-producers...

       – Rene Hubert
  • My Fair Lady
    My Fair Lady (film)
    My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, of the same name, based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The ballroom scene and the ending were taken from the previous film adaptation , rather than from...

     – Cecil Beaton
    Cecil Beaton
    Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, CBE was an English fashion and portrait photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre...

    • Becket – Margaret Furse
      Margaret Furse
      Margaret Furse was an Academy Award-winning English costume designer.-Personal life:She was born Alice Margaret Watts on 18 February 1911 to Punch magazine illustrator Arthur G. Watts and his wife, Phyllis Gordon Watts. She married art director Roger Kemble Furse on 4 December 1936 at Chelsea Old...

    • Mary Poppins
      Mary Poppins (film)
      Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers with illustrations by Mary Shepard. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with songs by...

       – Tony Walton
      Tony Walton
      Tony Walton is an English set and costume designer.Walton was born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. He began his career in 1957 with the stage design for Noel Coward's Broadway production of Conversation Piece. Throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s he designed for the New...

    • The Unsinkable Molly Brown – Morton Haack
    • What a Way to Go!
      What a Way to Go!
      What a Way to Go! is a 1964 American comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly, Margaret Dumont, Bob Cummings and Dick Van Dyke.-Plot:...

       – Edith Head
      Edith Head
      Edith Head was an American costume designer who won eight Academy Awards, more than any other woman.-Early life and career:...

       and Moss Mabry
      Moss Mabry
      Moss Mabry was a famed Costume designer who lived from . He started off designing costumes for his high school plays, but actually studied mechanical engineering at the University of Florida. He later went to Hollywood to attend art school, eventually signing a contract with Warner Bros....

  • Best Film Editing Best Visual Effects
  • Mary Poppins
    Mary Poppins (film)
    Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers with illustrations by Mary Shepard. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with songs by...

     – Cotton Warburton
    Cotton Warburton
    Irvine "Cotton" Warburton was an All-American college quarterback who became an Academy Award-winning film editor in the late 20th century.-Biography:Warburton was born October 8, 1911, in San Diego, California, to Margaret Warburton...

    • Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte – Michael Luciano
    • Becket – Anne Coates
    • Father Goose
      Father Goose (film)
      Father Goose is a 1964 romantic comedy film set in World War II, starring Cary Grant, Leslie Caron and Trevor Howard. The title derives from "Mother Goose", the codename assigned to Grant's character...

       – Ted J. Kent
    • My Fair Lady
      My Fair Lady (film)
      My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, of the same name, based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The ballroom scene and the ending were taken from the previous film adaptation , rather than from...

       – William Ziegler
  • Mary Poppins
    Mary Poppins (film)
    Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers with illustrations by Mary Shepard. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with songs by...

     – Peter Ellenshaw
    Peter Ellenshaw
    William "Peter" Ellenshaw was an Anglo-American matte designer and special effects creator who worked on many Disney features....

    , Hamilton Luske
    Hamilton Luske
    Hamilton Luske was an American animator and film director. He joined the Disney Studio in 1931 and he was soon trusted enough by Walt Disney to be made supervising animator of Snow White in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.He directed many Disney films and shorts from 1936 until his death in 1968...

     and Eustace Lycett
    • 7 Faces of Dr. Lao
      7 Faces of Dr. Lao
      7 Faces of Dr. Lao is a Metrocolor 1964 film adaptation of the 1935 fantasy novel The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles G. Finney. It details the visit of a magical circus to a small town in the southwest United States, and the effects that visit has on the people of the town...

       – Jim Danforth
      Jim Danforth
      Jim Danforth is a stop-motion animator, known for model-animation and matte painting. Danforth is known for his work on When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth , a sequel of sorts to Ray Harryhausen's One Million Years B.C....


  • Presenters

    • Elizabeth Ashley
      Elizabeth Ashley
      Elizabeth Ashley is an American actress who first came to prominence as the ingenue in the Broadway play Take Her, She's Mine, which earned her a Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Play.-Early life:...

       and Macdonald Carey
      Macdonald Carey
      Edward Macdonald Carey was an American actor, best known for his role as the patriarch Dr. Tom Horton on NBC's soap opera Days of our Lives...

       (Presenters: Art Direction Awards)
    • Fred Astaire
      Fred Astaire
      Fred Astaire was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute...

       (Presenter: Best Original Song)
    • Claudia Cardinale
      Claudia Cardinale
      Claudia Cardinale is an Italian actress, and has appeared in some of the most prominent European films of the 1960s and 1970s. The majority of Cardinale's films have been either Italian or French...

      , Angie Dickinson
      Angie Dickinson
      Angie Dickinson is an American actress. She has appeared in more than fifty films, including Rio Bravo, Ocean's Eleven, Dressed to Kill and Pay It Forward, and starred on television as Sergeant Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson on the 1970s crime series Police Woman.-Early life:Dickinson, the second of...

      , and Steve McQueen
      Steve McQueen
      Terrence Steven "Steve" McQueen was an American movie actor. He was nicknamed "The King of Cool." His "anti-hero" persona, which he developed at the height of the Vietnam counterculture, made him one of the top box-office draws of the 1960s and 1970s. McQueen received an Academy Award nomination...

       (Presenter: Sound Awards)
    • Richard Chamberlain
      Richard Chamberlain
      George Richard Chamberlain is an American actor of stage and screen who became a teen idol in the title role of the television show Dr. Kildare .-Early life:...

       and Vince Edwards
      Vince Edwards
      Vince Edwards was an American actor, director, and singer, best known for the roles of TV doctor "Ben Casey", and Maj. Cliff Bricker in the 1968 war film The Devil's Brigade.-Early life:...

       (Presenters: Best Film Editing)
    • Joan Crawford
      Joan Crawford
      Joan Crawford , born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre....

       (Presenter: Best Director)
    • Alain Delon
      Alain Delon
      Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon is a French actor. He rose quickly to stardom, and by the age of 23 was already being compared to French actors such as Gérard Philipe and Jean Marais, as well as American actor James Dean. He was even called the male Brigitte Bardot...

       (Presenter: Best Visual Effects)
    • Jimmy Durante
      Jimmy Durante
      James Francis "Jimmy" Durante was an American singer, pianist, comedian and actor. His distinctive clipped gravelly speech, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s...

       and Martha Raye
      Martha Raye
      Martha Raye was an American comic actress and standards singer who performed in movies, and later on television....

       (Presenters: Documentary Awards)
    • Anthony Franciosa
      Anthony Franciosa
      Anthony Franciosa was an American actor, usually billed as Tony Franciosa during the height of his career.-Early life:...

       (Presenter: Scientific and Technical Awards)
    • Greer Garson
      Greer Garson
      Greer Garson, CBE was a British-born actress who was very popular during World War II, being listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America's top ten box office draws in 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, and 1946. As one of MGM's major stars of the 1940s, Garson received seven Academy Award...

       and Dick Van Dyke
      Dick Van Dyke
      Richard Wayne "Dick" Van Dyke is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer with a career spanning six decades. He is the older brother of Jerry Van Dyke, and father of Barry Van Dyke...

       (Presenters: Best Costume Design)
    • Rex Harrison
      Rex Harrison
      Sir Reginald Carey “Rex” Harrison was an English actor of stage and screen. Harrison won an Academy Award and two Tony Awards.-Youth and stage career:...

       (Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film)
    • Audrey Hepburn
      Audrey Hepburn
      Audrey Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian. Although modest about her acting ability, Hepburn remains one of the world's most famous actresses of all time, remembered as a film and fashion icon of the twentieth century...

       (Presenter: Best Actor)
    • Rock Hudson
      Rock Hudson
      Roy Harold Scherer, Jr., later Roy Harold Fitzgerald , known professionally as Rock Hudson, was an American film and television actor, recognized as a romantic leading man during the 1950s and 1960s, most notably in several romantic comedies with Doris Day.Hudson was voted "Star of the Year",...

       and Jean Simmons
      Jean Simmons
      Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE was an English actress. She appeared predominantly in motion pictures, beginning with films made in Great Britain during and after World War II – she was one of J...

       (Presenter: Best Cinematography)
    • Deborah Kerr
      Deborah Kerr
      Deborah Kerr, CBE was a Scottish film and television actress from Glasgow. She won the Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago performance as Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy, a role which she originated on Broadway, a Golden Globe Award for the motion picture The King and I, and was a three-time...

       (Presenter: Writing Awards)
    • Angela Lansbury
      Angela Lansbury
      Angela Brigid Lansbury CBE is an English actress and singer in theatre, television and motion pictures, whose career has spanned eight decades and earned her more performance Tony Awards than any other individual , with five wins...

       (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor)
    • Karl Malden
      Karl Malden
      Karl Malden was an American actor. In a career that spanned more than seven decades, he performed in such classic films as A Streetcar Named Desire, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, On the Waterfront and One-Eyed Jacks...

       (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress)
    • Merle Oberon
      Merle Oberon
      Merle Oberon was an Indian-born British actress best known for her screen performances in The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Cowboy and the Lady . She began her film career in British films as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII . She travelled to the United States to make films for Samuel...

       (Presenter: Short Subjects Awards)
    • Gregory Peck
      Gregory Peck
      Eldred Gregory Peck was an American actor.One of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, Peck continued to play important roles well into the 1980s. His notable performances include that of Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he won an...

       (Presenter: Best Picture)
    • Sidney Poitier
      Sidney Poitier
      Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE is a Bahamian American actor, film director, author, and diplomat.In 1963, Poitier became the first black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field...

       (Presenter: Best Actress)
    • Debbie Reynolds
      Debbie Reynolds
      Debbie Reynolds is an American actress, singer, and dancer.She was initially signed at age 16 by Warner Bros., but her career got off to a slow start. When her contract was not renewed, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gave her a small, but significant part in the film Three Little Words , then signed her to...

       (Presenter: Music Awards)
    • Rosalind Russell
      Rosalind Russell
      Rosalind Russell was an American actress of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as the role of Mame Dennis in the film Auntie Mame...

       (Presenter: Honorary Award to William Tuttle)

    Performers

    • Judy Garland
      Judy Garland
      Judy Garland was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years and for her renowned contralto voice, she attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage...

       (Cole Porter
      Cole Porter
      Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...

       Medley)
    • Jack Jones
      Jack Jones (singer)
      John Allan "Jack" Jones is an American jazz and pop singer. He was one of the most popular vocalists of the 1960s.-Overview:...

       ("Where Love Has Gone" from Where Love Has Gone
      Where Love Has Gone (film)
      Where Love Has Gone is a 1964 drama film made by Embassy Pictures , Joseph E. Levine Productions and Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Joseph E. Levine from a screenplay by John Michael Hayes based on the novel of the same name by Harold Robbins...

      )
    • The New Christy Minstrels ("Chim Chim Cher-ee
      Chim Chim Cher-ee
      "Chim Chim Cher-ee" is a song from Mary Poppins, the 1964 musical motion picture. It was originally sung by Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews. "Chim Chim Cher-ee" is also featured prominently in the award winning Cameron Mackintosh/Disney stage musical of the same name which premiered in London at...

      " from Mary Poppins
      Mary Poppins (film)
      Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers with illustrations by Mary Shepard. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with songs by...

      )
    • Patti Page
      Patti Page
      Clara Ann Fowler , known by her professional name Patti Page, is an American singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music. She was the best-selling female artist of the 1950s, and has sold over 100 million records...

       ("Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
      Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte (song)
      "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte" is a popular song with music by Frank De Vol and lyrics by Mack David, introduced in the 1964 movie of the same name.The song was recorded by Patti Page and became one of her last top-10 hits, reaching #8 on the charts....

      " from Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte
      Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte
      Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte is a 1964 American thriller film directed and produced by Robert Aldrich, and starring Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, and Agnes Moorehead....

    • Andy Williams
      Andy Williams
      Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams is an American singer who has recorded 18 Gold- and three Platinum-certified albums. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a TV variety show, from 1962 to 1971, as well as numerous television specials, and owns his own theater, the Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri,...

       ("Dear Heart" from Dear Heart)
    • Nancy Wilson ("My Kind of Town
      My Kind of Town
      My Kind of Town is an American television game show that premiered on August 14, 2005 on ABC. Part variety show, part game show, the series brings 200 people from a small town in the United States to New York City to compete for prizes and participate in games and assorted gags...

      " from Robin and the 7 Hoods
      Robin and the 7 Hoods
      Robin and the 7 Hoods is a 1964 American musical film that transplants the Robin Hood legend to a 1930s Chicago gangster setting. Directed by Gordon Douglas and produced by Frank Sinatra, with a screenplay by David R. Schwartz, the movie stars members of the Rat Pack as well as Bing Crosby, Peter...

      )

    Multiple nominations and awards

    These films had multiple nominations:
    • 13 nominations: Mary Poppins
    • 12 nominations: Becket My Fair Lady
    • 7 nominations: Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Zorba the Greek
    • 6 nominations: The Unsinkable Molly Brown
    • 4 nominations: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Night of the Iguana
    • 3 nominations: Father Goose
    • 2 nominations: The Americanization of Emily, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Seven Days in May, What a Way to Go!

    The following films received multiple awards.
    • 8 wins: My Fair Lady
      My Fair Lady (film)
      My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, of the same name, based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The ballroom scene and the ending were taken from the previous film adaptation , rather than from...

    • 5 wins: Mary Poppins
      Mary Poppins (film)
      Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers with illustrations by Mary Shepard. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with songs by...

    • 3 wins: Zorba the Greek
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