1963 Oscars: Winners and Nominees

54 films were recognised at the 1963 Academy Awards, across 25 categories. 15 of them took home at least one award.

The biggest winner of the year was Lawrence of Arabia, with 7 awards, ahead of To Kill a Mockingbird with 3. The categories below run from Actor, Actor in a Supporting Role and Actress to the smaller prizes, and in every one the winner is listed first, followed by the other nominees.

Each title links to the film's full award history at all four awards, and the links at the bottom step to the previous and next ceremony.

Last updated August 12, 2026

Actor

To Kill a Mockingbird(1962)
Gregory Peck
Winner
Birdman of Alcatraz(1962)
Burt Lancaster
Days of Wine and Roses(1962)
Jack Lemmon
Divorce Italian Style(1961)
Marcello Mastroianni
Lawrence of Arabia(1962)
Peter O'Toole

Actor in a Supporting Role

Sweet Bird of Youth(1962)
Ed Begley
Winner
Billy Budd(1962)
Terence Stamp
Birdman of Alcatraz(1962)
Telly Savalas
Lawrence of Arabia(1962)
Omar Sharif
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?(1962)
Victor Buono

Actress

The Miracle Worker(1962)
Anne Bancroft
Winner
Days of Wine and Roses(1962)
Lee Remick
Long Day's Journey Into Night(1962)
Katharine Hepburn
Sweet Bird of Youth(1962)
Geraldine Page
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?(1962)
Bette Davis

Actress in a Supporting Role

The Miracle Worker(1962)
Patty Duke
Winner
Birdman of Alcatraz(1962)
Thelma Ritter
Sweet Bird of Youth(1962)
Shirley Knight
The Manchurian Candidate(1962)
Angela Lansbury
To Kill a Mockingbird(1962)
Mary Badham

Art Direction (Black-and-White)

To Kill a Mockingbird(1962)
Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen, Henry Bumstead; Set Decoration: Oliver Emert
Winner
Days of Wine and Roses(1962)
Art Direction: Joseph Wright; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
Period of Adjustment(1962)
Art Direction: George W. Davis, Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Dick Pefferle
The Longest Day(1962)
Art Direction: Ted Haworth, Leon Barsacq, Vincent Korda; Set Decoration: Gabriel Bechir
The Pigeon That Took Rome(1962)
Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Frank R. McKelvy

Art Direction (Color)

Lawrence of Arabia(1962)
Art Direction: John Box, John Stoll; Set Decoration: Dario Simoni
Winner
Mutiny on the Bounty(1962)
Art Direction: George W. Davis, J. McMillan Johnson; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt
That Touch of Mink(1962)
Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen, Robert Clatworthy; Set Decoration: George Milo
The Music Man (Meredith Willson's The Music Man)(1962)
Art Direction: Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm(1962)
Art Direction: George W. Davis, Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Dick Pefferle

Best Picture

Lawrence of Arabia(1962)
Sam Spiegel, Producer
Winner
Mutiny on the Bounty(1962)
Aaron Rosenberg, Producer
The Longest Day(1962)
Darryl F. Zanuck, Producer
The Music Man (Meredith Willson's The Music Man)(1962)
Morton Da Costa, Producer
To Kill a Mockingbird(1962)
Alan J. Pakula, Producer

Cinematography (Black-and-White)

The Longest Day(1962)
Jean Bourgoin, Walter Wottitz, (Henri Persin)
Winner
Birdman of Alcatraz(1962)
Burnett Guffey
To Kill a Mockingbird(1962)
Russell Harlan
Two for the Seesaw(1962)
Ted McCord
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?(1962)
Ernest Haller

Cinematography (Color)

Lawrence of Arabia(1962)
Fred A. Young
Winner
Gypsy(1962)
Harry Stradling, Sr.
Hatari!(1962)
Russell Harlan
Mutiny on the Bounty(1962)
Robert L. Surtees
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm(1962)
Paul C. Vogel

Costume Design (Black-and-White)

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?(1962)
Norma Koch
Winner
Days of Wine and Roses(1962)
Don Feld
Phaedra(1962)
Denny Vachlioti
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance(1962)
Edith Head
The Miracle Worker(1962)
Ruth Morley

Costume Design (Color)

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm(1962)
Mary Wills
Winner
Bon Voyage!(1962)
Bill Thomas
Gypsy(1962)
Orry-Kelly
My Geisha(1962)
Edith Head
The Music Man (Meredith Willson's The Music Man)(1962)
Dorothy Jeakins

Directing

Lawrence of Arabia(1962)
David Lean
Winner
David and Lisa(1962)
Frank Perry
Divorce Italian Style(1961)
Pietro Germi
The Miracle Worker(1962)
Arthur Penn
To Kill a Mockingbird(1962)
Robert Mulligan

Film Editing

Lawrence of Arabia(1962)
Anne Coates
Winner
Mutiny on the Bounty(1962)
John McSweeney, Jr.
The Longest Day(1962)
Samuel E. Beetley
The Manchurian Candidate(1962)
Ferris Webster
The Music Man (Meredith Willson's The Music Man)(1962)
William Ziegler

International Feature Film

Sundays and Cybele(1962)
France
Winner
Electra(1962)
Greece
The Four Days of Naples(1962)
Italy
The Given Word(1962)
Brazil
Tlayucan(1962)
Mexico

Music (Music Score--substantially original)

Lawrence of Arabia(1962)
Maurice Jarre
Winner
Freud: The Secret Passion(1962)
Jerry Goldsmith
Mutiny on the Bounty(1962)
Bronislau Kaper
Taras Bulba(1962)
Franz Waxman
To Kill a Mockingbird(1962)
Elmer Bernstein

Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment)

The Music Man (Meredith Willson's The Music Man)(1962)
Ray Heindorf
Winner
Billy Rose's Jumbo(1962)
George Stoll
Gigot(1962)
Michel Magne
Gypsy(1962)
Frank Perkins
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm(1962)
Leigh Harline

Music (Song)

Days of Wine and Roses(1962)
Days Of Wine And Roses in "Days of Wine and Roses" Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Winner
Mutiny on the Bounty(1962)
Love Song From Mutiny On The Bounty (Follow Me) in "Mutiny on the Bounty" Music by Bronislau Kaper; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
Tender Is the Night(1962)
Tender Is The Night in "Tender Is the Night" Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
Two for the Seesaw(1962)
Song From Two For The Seesaw (Second Chance) in "Two for the Seesaw" Music by Andre Previn; Lyrics by Dory Langdon
Walk on the Wild Side(1962)
Walk On The Wild Side in "Walk on the Wild Side" Music by Elmer Bernstein; Lyrics by Mack David

Short Subject (Cartoon)

The Hole(1962)
John Hubley and Faith Hubley, Producers
Winner
A Symposium on Popular Songs(1962)
Walt Disney, Producer
Icarus Montgolfier Wright(1962)
Jules Engel, Producer
Now Hear This(1962)
Warner Bros.
Self Defense... for Cowards(1962)
William L. Snyder, Producer

Sound

Lawrence of Arabia(1962)
Shepperton Studio Sound Department, John Cox, Sound Director
Winner
Bon Voyage!(1962)
Walt Disney Studio Sound Department, Robert O. Cook, Sound Director
That Touch of Mink(1962)
Universal City Studio Sound Department, Waldon O. Watson, Sound Director
The Music Man (Meredith Willson's The Music Man)(1962)
Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, George R. Groves, Sound Director
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?(1962)
Glen Glenn Sound Department, Joseph Kelly, Sound Director

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

To Kill a Mockingbird(1962)
Horton Foote
Winner
David and Lisa(1962)
Eleanor Perry
Lawrence of Arabia(1962)
Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson
Lolita(1962)
Vladimir Nabokov
The Miracle Worker(1962)
William Gibson

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

Divorce Italian Style(1961)
Ennio de Concini, Alfredo Giannetti, Pietro Germi
Winner
Freud: The Secret Passion(1962)
Story by Charles Kaufman; Screenplay by Charles Kaufman, Wolfgang Reinhardt
Last Year at Marienbad(1961)
Alain Robbe-Grillet
That Touch of Mink(1962)
Stanley Shapiro, Nate Monaster
Through a Glass Darkly(1961)
Ingmar Bergman

Short Subject (Live Action)

Happy Anniversary(1962)
Heureux Anniversaire (Happy Anniversary)
Winner
Big City Blues(1962)
Martina Huguenot van der Linden and Charles Huguenot van der Linden, Producers
The Cadillac(1962)
Robert Clouse, Producer
The Cliff Dwellers (The Cliff Dwellers (formerly titled "One Plus One"))(1962)
Hayward Anderson, Producer

Documentary (Short Subject)

Dylan Thomas(1963)
Jack Howells, Producer
Winner
The John Glenn Story(1962)
William L. Hendricks, Producer
The Road to the Wall(1962)
Robert Saudek, Producer

Documentary (Feature)

The Black Fox(1962)
Louis Clyde Stoumen, Producer
Winner
Alvorada: Brazil's Changing Face(1962)
Hugo Niebeling, Producer

Special Effects

The Longest Day(1962)
Visual Effects by Robert MacDonald; Audible Effects by Jacques Maumont
Winner
Mutiny on the Bounty(1962)
Visual Effects by A. Arnold Gillespie; Audible Effects by Milo Lory