36th Academy Awards

The 36th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1963, were held on April 13, 1964, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Jack Lemmon.

36th Academy Awards
DateMonday, April 13, 1964
SiteSanta Monica Civic Auditorium
Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Hosted byJack Lemmon
Produced byRichard Dunlap
George Sidney
Directed byRichard Dunlap
Highlights
Best PictureTom Jones
Most awardsCleopatra and Tom Jones (4)
Most nominationsTom Jones (10)
TV in the United States
NetworkABC

Best Picture winner Tom Jones became the only film in history to garner three Best Supporting Actress nominations; it also tied the Oscar record of five unsuccessful acting nominations, set by Peyton Place at the 30th Academy Awards.

This year's winner for Best Actress category was unique. Although playing a supporting role and having a relatively small amount on the screen, Patricia Neal won the Best Actress category for her role in Hud. The movie also won for Best Supporting Actor for Melvyn Douglas and Best Cinematography – Black and White. It was the second and, to date, last film to win two acting awards without being nominated for Best Picture (the other being The Miracle Worker).

At age 71, Margaret Rutherford set a then-record as the oldest winner for Best Supporting Actress, a year after Patty Duke set a then-record as the youngest ever winner. Rutherford was also only the second Oscar winner over the age of 70 at the time of her win (the other was Edmund Gwenn), as well as becoming the last woman born in the 19th century to win.

This was the only time in Academy history that all Best Supporting Actress nominees were born outside the United States.

Sidney Poitier became the first Black actor to win Best Actor, and An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge was the first Oscar-winning film to have aired on network television prior to the ceremony.

Best Sound Effects was introduced this year, with It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World winning the award.

Awards

Tony Richardson, Best Picture and Best Director winner
Sidney Poitier, Best Actor winner
Patricia Neal, Best Actress winner
Melvyn Douglas, Best Supporting Actor winner
Jimmy Van Heusen, Best Song co-winner
Sammy Cahn, Best Song co-winner
André Previn, Best Scoring of Music — Adaptation or Treatment winner
James Wong Howe, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White winner

Nominations announced on February 24, 1964. Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface[1]

Best Picture Best Director
Best Actor Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Best Foreign Language Film Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short Subject Best Live Action Short Subject
Best Short Subject – Cartoons Best Music Score – Substantially Original
Best Scoring of Music — Adaptation or Treatment Best Song
Best Sound Effects Best Sound
Best Art Direction, Black-and-White Best Art Direction, Color
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Best Cinematography, Color
Best Costume Design, Black-and-White Best Costume Design, Color
Best Film Editing Best Special Effects

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Presenters and performers

Presenters

Performers

Multiple nominations and awards

Sidney Poitier winning Best Actor

Sidney Poitier's performance in Lilies of the Field as Homer Smith earned him an award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.[2] This marked the first time a Black male won a competitive Oscar (Poitier is Bahamian-American).[3] This win came five years after his nomination for Best Actor in the 1958's The Defiant Ones.[2]

Another African-American male would not win Best Actor until 2001 when Denzel Washington won for his portrayal of Alonzo Harris in Training Day.[2]

Sammy Davis Jr. envelope error

During the awards ceremony, Sammy Davis, Jr. was accidentally given the wrong winner's envelope, and when he was supposed to announce the award for Best Music Score for an Adaptation or Treatment, he announced that the winner was John Addison for Tom Jones, which was the winner for Best Music Score - Substantially Original. Davis acknowledged his mistake, was handed the correct envelope for the category a few seconds later, and read the correct winner's name.

See also

References

  1. "The 36th Academy Awards (1964) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on May 2, 2015. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
  2. "The Winners". The Academy Awards. Archived from the original on January 10, 2013. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
  3. "The Winner". The Academy Awards. Archived from the original on January 10, 2013. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
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