Academy Awards®
Awards for 1963
Picture
Elia Kazan - Producer, AMERICA, AMERICA
Walter Wanger - Producer, CLEOPATRA
Bernard Smith - Producer, HOW THE WEST WAS WON
* Tony Richardson - Producer, TOM JONES
Ralph Nelson - Producer, LILIES OF THE FIELD
Actor
Albert Finney, TOM JONES
Richard Harris, THIS SPORTING LIFE
Rex Harrison, CLEOPATRA
Paul Newman, HUD
* Sidney Poitier, LILIES OF THE FIELD
Actress
Leslie Caron, THE L-SHAPED ROOM
Shirley MacLaine, IRMA LA DOUCE
* Patricia Neal, HUD
Rachel Roberts, THIS SPORTING LIFE
Natalie Wood, LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER
Supporting Actor
Nick Adams, TWILIGHT OF HONOR
Bobby Darin, CAPTAIN NEWMAN, M.D.
* Melvyn Douglas, HUD
Hugh Griffith, TOM JONES
John Huston, THE CARDINAL
Supporting Actress
Diane Cilento, TOM JONES
Dame Edith Evans, TOM JONES
Joyce Redman, TOM JONES
* Margaret Rutherford, THE V.I.P.S
Lilia Skala, LILIES OF THE FIELD
Director
Federico Fellini, 8, 1/2
Elia Kazan, AMERICA, AMERICA
Otto Preminger, THE CARDINAL
* Tony Richardson, TOM JONES
Martin Ritt, HUD
Writing - Story and Screenplay (Written Directly For The Screen)
Elia Kazan, AMERICA, AMERICA
Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi, 8, ˝
Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Nanni Loy, Vasco Pratolini, Carlo Bernari, FOUR DAYS OF NAPLES
* James R. Webb, HOW THE WEST WAS WON
Arnold Schulman, LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER
Writing - Screenplay (Based on Material from Another Medium)
Henry Ephron, Phoebe Ephron, Richard L. Breen, CAPTAIN NEWMAN, M.D.
Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank, Jr.,
HUD
James Poe, LILIES OF THE FIELD
Serge Bourguignon, Antoine Tudal, SUNDAYS AND CYBELE
* John Osborne, TOM JONES
Foreign Film
* 8, 1/2
(Italy)
KNIFE IN THE WATER
(Poland)
LOS TARANTOS
(Spain)
THE RED LANTERNS
(Greece)
TWIN SISTERS OF KYOTO
(Japan)
Art Direction/Set Decoration - Color
Lyle Wheeler - Art Direction, Gene Callahan - Set Decoration, THE CARDINAL
* John DeCuir - Art Direction, Jack Martin Smith - Art Direction, Hilyard Brown - Art Direction, Herman Blumenthal - Art Direction, Elven Webb - Art Direction, Maurice Pelling - Art Direction, Boris Juraga - Art Direction, Walter M. Scott - Set Decoration, Paul S. Fox - Set Decoration, Ray Moyer - Set Decoration, CLEOPATRA
Hal Pereira - Art Direction, Roland Anderson - Art Direction, Sam Comer - Set Decoration, James Payne - Set Decoration, COME BLOW YOUR HORN
George W. Davis - Art Direction, William Ferrari - Art Direction, Addison Hehr - Art Direction, Henry Grace - Set Decoration, Don Greenwood, Jr. - Set Decoration, Jack Mills - Set Decoration, HOW THE WEST WAS WON
Ralph Brinton - Art Direction, Ted Marshall - Art Direction, Jocelyn Herbert - Art Direction, Josie MacAvin - Set Decoration, TOM JONES
Art Direction/Set Decoration - Black & White
* Gene Callahan - Art Direction, AMERICA, AMERICA
Piero Gherardi - Art Direction, 8, 1/2
Hal Pereira - Art Direction, Tambi Larsen - Art Direction, Sam Comer - Set Decoration, Robert R. Benton - Set Decoration, HUD
Hal Pereira - Art Direction, Roland Anderson - Art Direction, Sam Comer - Set Decoration, Grace Gregory - Set Decortion, LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER
George W. Davis - Art Direction, Paul Groesse - Art Direction, Henry Grace - Set Decoration, Hugh Hunt - Set Decoration, TWILIGHT OF HONOR
Cinematography - Color
Leon Shamroy, THE CARDINAL
* Leon Shamroy, CLEOPATRA
William H. Daniels, Milton Krasner, Charles B. Lang, Jr.,
Joseph LaShelle, HOW THE WEST WAS WON
Joseph LaShelle, IRMA LA DOUCE
Ernest Laszlo, IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD
Cinematography - Black & White
George Folsey, THE BALCONY
Lucien Ballard, THE CARETAKERS
* James Wong Howe, HUD
Ernest Haller, LILIES OF THE FIELD
Milton Krasner, LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER
Costume Design - Color
Donald Brooks, THE CARDINAL
* Irene Sharaff, Vittorio Nino Novarese, Renie, CLEOPATRA
Walter Plunkett, HOW THE WEST WAS WON
Piero Tosi, THE LEOPARD
Edith Head, A NEW KIND OF LOVE
Costume Design - Black & White
* Piero Gherardi, 8, 1/2
Edith Head, LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER
Travilla, THE STRIPPER
Bill Thomas, TOYS IN THE ATTIC
Edith Head, WIVES AND LOVERS
Documentary Feature
Paul de Roubaix - Producer, LE MAILLON ET AL CHAINE
* Robert Hughes - Producer, ROBERT FROST: A LOVER'S QUARREL WITH THE WORLD
Marshall Flaum - Producer, THE YANKS ARE COMING
Documentary Short Subject
* Simon Schiffrin - Producer, CHAGALL
George Stevens, Jr. - Producer, THE FIVE CITIES OF JUNE
Algernon G. Walker - Producer, THE SPIRIT OF AMERICA
Edgar Anstey - Producer, THIRTY MILLION LETTERS
Mel London - Producer, TO LIVE AGAIN
Film Editing
Dorothy Spencer, CLEOPATRA
Ferris Webster, THE GREAT ESCAPE
* Harold F. Kress, HOW THE WEST WAS WON
Frederic Knudtson, Robert C. Jones, Gene Fowler, Jr.,
IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD
Louis R. Loeffler, THE CARDINAL
Music - Music Score (Substantially Original)
Alex North, CLEOPATRA
Dimitri Tiomkin, 55 DAYS AT PEKING
Alfred Newman, Ken Darby, HOW THE WEST WAS WON
Ernest Gold, IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD
* John Addison, TOM JONES
Music - Scoring of Music (Adaptation or Treatment)
John Green, BYE BYE BIRDIE
* Andre Previn, IRMA LA DOUCE
Leith Stevens, A NEW KIND OF LOVE
Maurice Jarre, SUNDAYS AND CYBELE
George Bruns, THE SWORD IN THE STONE
Song
* James Van Heusen - Music, Sammy Cahn - Lyrics, PAPA'S DELICATE CONDITION
"Call Me Irresponsible"
Henry Mancini - Music, Johnny Mercer - Lyrics, CHARADE
"Charade"
Ernest Gold - Music, Mack David - Lyrics, IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD
"It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
Riz Ortolani - Music, Nino Oliviero - Music, Norman Newell - Lyrics, MONDO CANE
"More"
Dimitri Tiomkin - Music, Paul Francis Webster - Lyrics, 55 DAYS AT PEKING
"So Little Time"
Animated Short
John Halas - Producer, AUTOMANIA 2000
* Ernest Pintoff - Producer, THE CRITIC
Dušan Vukotiç - Producer, THE GAME
Colin Low - Producer, Tom Daly - Producer, MY FINANCIAL CAREER
Carmen D'Avino - Producer, PIANISSIMO
Short Subjects - Live Action Subjects
Ezra Baker - Producer, THE CONCERT
James Hill - Producer, HOME-MADE CAR
* Paul de Roubaix - Producer, Marcel Ichac - Producer, AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE
Christopher Miles - Producer, SIX-SIDED TRIANGLE
Walker Stuart - Producer, THAT'S ME
Sound
Charles Rice (Columbia Studio Sound Department),
BYE BYE BIRDIE
Waldon O. Watson (Universal City Studio Sound Department),
CAPTAIN NEWMAN, M.D.
James P. Corcoran (20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department),
Fred Hynes, CLEOPATRA
* Franklin E. Milton (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department),
HOW THE WEST WAS WON
Gordon E. Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department),
IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD
Sound Effects
Rules changed in 1963: Special Effects divided into Special Visual Effects and Sound Effects.
Robert L. Bratton, A GATHERING OF EAGLES
* Walter G. Elliott, IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD
Special Visual Effects
Rules changed in 1963: Special Effects divided into Special Visual Effects and Sound Effects.
Ub Iwerks, THE BIRDS
* Emil Kosa, Jr.,
CLEOPATRA
Class I (Statuette)
No award given for 1963.
Class II (Plaque)
No award given for 1963.
Class III (Citation)
* Douglas Shearer (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios)
A. Arnold Gillespie (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios)
For the engineering of an improved Background Process Projection System.
Honorary and Other Awards
No award given for 1963.
The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
* Sam Spiegel,
The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
No award given for 1963.