36th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1964)

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• Date of Ceremony: Monday, April 13, 1964
• For films released in: 1963

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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 36th Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Picture

• America America
  Elia Kazan [Producer]
• Cleopatra
  Walter Wanger [Producer]
• How the West Was Won
  Bernard Smith [Producer]
• Lilies of the Field
  Ralph Nelson [Producer]
• Tom Jones
  Tony Richardson [Producer]

Best Directing

• America America
  Elia Kazan
• The Cardinal
  Otto Preminger
• Federico Fellini's 8-1/2
  Federico Fellini
• Hud
  Martin Ritt
• Tom Jones
  Tony Richardson

Best Actor

• Cleopatra
  Rex Harrison
• Hud
  Paul Newman
• Lilies of the Field
  Sidney Poitier
• This Sporting Life
  Richard Harris
• Tom Jones
  Albert Finney

Best Actress

• Hud
  Patricia Neal
• Irma La Douce
  Shirley MacLaine
• The L-Shaped Room
  Leslie Caron
• Love with the Proper Stranger
  Natalie Wood
• This Sporting Life
  Rachel Roberts

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Captain Newman, M.D.
  Bobby Darin
• The Cardinal
  John Huston
• Hud
  Melvyn Douglas
• Tom Jones
  Hugh Griffith
• Twilight of Honor
  Nick Adams

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Lilies of the Field
  Lilia Skala
• Tom Jones
  Diane Cilento
• Tom Jones
  Dame Edith Evans
• Tom Jones
  Joyce Redman
• The V.I.P.s
  Margaret Rutherford

Best Foreign Language Film

• Federico Fellini's 8-1/2
• Knife in the Water
• Los Tarantos
• The Red Lanterns
• Twin Sisters of Kyoto

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

• America America
  Gene Callahan
• Federico Fellini's 8-1/2
  Piero Gherardi
• Hud
  Hal Pereira [Art Direction], Tambi Larsen [Art Direction], Sam Comer [Set Decoration] and Robert Benton [Set Decoration]
• Love with the Proper Stranger
  Hal Pereira [Art Direction], Roland Anderson [Art Direction], Sam Comer [Set Decoration] and Grace Gregory [Set Decoration]
• Twilight of Honor
  George W. Davis [Art Direction], Paul Groesse [Art Direction], Henry Grace [Set Decoration] and Hugh Hunt [Set Decoration]

Best Art Direction (Color)

• The Cardinal
  Lyle Wheeler [Art Direction] and Gene Callahan [Set Decoration]
• Cleopatra
  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] and Ray Moyer [Set Decoration]
• Come Blow Your Horn
  Hal Pereira [Art Direction], Roland Anderson [Art Direction], Sam Comer [Set Decoration] and James Payne [Set Decoration]
• How the West Was Won
  George W. Davis [Art Direction], William Ferrari [Art Direction], Addison Hehr [Art Direction], Henry Grace [Set Decoration], Don Greenwood Jr. [Set Decoration] and Jack Mills [Set Decoration]
• Tom Jones
  Ralph Brinton [Art Direction], Ted Marshall [Art Direction], Jocelyn Herbert [Art Direction] and Josie MacAvin [Set Decoration]

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• The Balcony
  George Folsey
• The Caretakers
  Lucien Ballard
• Hud
  James Wong Howe
• Lilies of the Field
  Ernest Haller
• Love with the Proper Stranger
  Milton Krasner

Best Cinematography (Color)

• The Cardinal
  Leon Shamroy
• Cleopatra
  Leon Shamroy
• How the West Was Won
  William H. Daniels, Milton Krasner, Charles B. Lang Jr. and Joseph LaShelle
• Irma La Douce
  Joseph LaShelle
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
  Ernest Laszlo

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• Federico Fellini's 8-1/2
  Piero Gherardi
• Love with the Proper Stranger
  Edith Head
• The Stripper
  Travilla
• Toys in the Attic
  Bill Thomas
• Wives and Lovers
  Edith Head

Best Costume Design (Color)

• The Cardinal
  Donald Brooks
• Cleopatra
  Irene Sharaff, Vittorio Nino Novarese and Renie
• How the West Was Won
  Walter Plunkett
• The Leopard
  Piero Tosi
• A New Kind of Love
  Edith Head

Best Documentary (Feature)

• Le Maillon et la Chaine (The Link and the Chain)
  Paul de Roubaix
• Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World
  Robert Hughes
• Terminus
  Edgar Anstey [Nomination withdrawn]
• The Yanks Are Coming
  Marshall Flaum

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

• Chagall
  Simon Schiffrin
• The Five Cities of June
  George Stevens Jr.
• The Spirit of America
  Algernon G. Walker
• Thirty Million Letters
  Edgar Anstey
• To Live Again
  Mel London

Best Film Editing

• The Cardinal
  Louis R. Loeffler
• Cleopatra
  Dorothy Spencer
• The Great Escape
  Ferris Webster
• How the West Was Won
  Harold F. Kress
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
  Frederic Knudtson, Robert C. Jones and Gene Fowler Jr.

Best Music (Scoring of Music - adaptation or treatment)

• Bye Bye Birdie
  John Green
• Irma La Douce
  Andre Previn
• A New Kind of Love
  Leith Stevens
• Sundays and Cybele
  Maurice Jarre
• The Sword in the Stone
  George Bruns

Best Music (Score - substantially original)

• 55 Days at Peking
  Dimitri Tiomkin
• Cleopatra
  Alex North
• How the West Was Won
  Alfred Newman and Ken Darby
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
  Ernest Gold
• Tom Jones
  John Addison

Best Music (Song)

• 55 Days at Peking "So Little Time"
  Dimitri Tiomkin [Music by] and Paul Francis Webster [Lyrics by]
• Charade "Charade"
  Henry Mancini [Music by] and Johnny Mercer [Lyrics by]
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
  Ernest Gold [Music by] and Mack David [Lyrics by]
• Mondo Cane "More"
  Riz Ortolani [Music by], Nino Oliviero [Music by] and Norman Newell [Lyrics by]
• Papa's Delicate Condition "Call Me Irresponsible"
  James Van Heusen [Music by] and Sammy Cahn [Lyrics by]

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• Automania 2000
  John Halas
• The Critic
  Ernest Pintoff
• The Game (Igra)
  Dusan Vukotic
• My Financial Career
  Colin Low and Tom Daly
• Pianissimo
  Carmen D'Avino

Best Short Subject (Live Action)

• The Concert
  Ezra Baker
• Home-Made Car
  James Hills
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
  Paul de Roubaix and Marcel Ichac
• Six-Sided Triangle
  Christopher Miles
• That's Me
  Walker Stuart

Best Sound

• Bye Bye Birdie
  Columbia Studio Sound Department and Charles Rice [Sound Director]
• Captain Newman, M.D.
  Universal City Studio Sound Department and Waldon O. Watson [Sound Director]
• Cleopatra
  20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, James P. Corcoran [Sound Director], Todd-AO Sound Department and Fred Hynes [Sound Director]
• How the West Was Won
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department and Franklin E. Milton [Sound Director]
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
  Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department and Gordon E. Sawyer [Sound Director]

Best Sound Effects

• A Gathering of Eagles
  Robert L. Bratton
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
  Walter G. Elliott

Best Special Effects

• The Birds
  Ub Iwerks
• Cleopatra
  Emil Kosa Jr.

Best Writing (Screenplay - based on material from another medium)

• Captain Newman, M.D.
  Richard L. Breen, Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron
• Hud
  Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr
• Lilies of the Field
  James Poe
• Sundays and Cybele
  Serge Bourguignon and Antoine Tudal
• Tom Jones
  John Osborne

Best Writing (Story and Screenplay - written directly for the screen)

• America America
  Elia Kazan
• Federico Fellini's 8-1/2
  Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli and Brunello Rondi
• The Four Days of Naples
  Pasquale Festa Campanile [Story and Screenplay by], Massimo Franciosa [Story and Screenplay by], Nanni Loy [Story and Screenplay by], Vasco Pratolini [Story by] and Carlo Bernari [Story by]
• How the West Was Won
  James R. Webb
• Love with the Proper Stranger
  Arnold Schulman