1964 Oscars: Winners and Nominees

57 films were recognised at the 1964 Academy Awards, across 26 categories. 15 of them took home at least one award.

The biggest winner of the year was Cleopatra, with 4 awards, ahead of Tom Jones with 4. The categories below run from Music (Song), Short Subject (Live Action) and Actor 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

Music (Song)

Papa's Delicate Condition(1963)
Call Me Irresponsible in "Papa's Delicate Condition" Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Winner
55 Days at Peking(1963)
So Little Time in "55 Days at Peking" Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
A Dog's Life (Mondo Cane)(1962)
More in "Mondo Cane" Music by Riz Ortolani and Nino Oliviero; Lyrics by Norman Newell
A Dog's Life (Mondo Cane)(1962)
Mondo Cane
Charade(1963)
Charade in "Charade" Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World(1963)
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" Music by Ernest Gold; Lyrics by Mack David

Short Subject (Live Action)

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge(1961)
Paul de Roubaix and Marcel Ichac, Producers
Winner
Le concert de M. et Mme. Kabal (The Concert)(1963)
Ezra Baker, Producer
Le concert de M. et Mme. Kabal (The Concert)(1963)
The Concert
That's Me(1963)
Walker Stuart, Producer
The Home-Made Car(1963)
James Hill, Producer
The Six-Sided Triangle(1963)
Christopher Miles, Producer

Actor

Lilies of the Field(1963)
Sidney Poitier
Winner
Cleopatra(1963)
Rex Harrison
Hud(1963)
Paul Newman
This Sporting Life(1963)
Richard Harris
Tom Jones(1963)
Albert Finney

Actor in a Supporting Role

Hud(1963)
Melvyn Douglas
Winner
Captain Newman, M.D.(1963)
Bobby Darin
The Cardinal(1963)
John Huston
Tom Jones(1963)
Hugh Griffith
Twilight of Honor(1963)
Nick Adams

Actress

Hud(1963)
Patricia Neal
Winner
Irma la Douce(1963)
Shirley MacLaine
Love with the Proper Stranger(1963)
Natalie Wood
The L-Shaped Room(1962)
Leslie Caron
This Sporting Life(1963)
Rachel Roberts

Actress in a Supporting Role

The V.I.P.s(1963)
Margaret Rutherford
Winner
Lilies of the Field(1963)
Lilia Skala
Tom Jones(1963)
Diane Cilento
Tom Jones(1963)
Dame Edith Evans
Tom Jones(1963)
Joyce Redman

Art Direction (Black-and-White)

America America(1963)
Gene Callahan
Winner
8½(1963)
Piero Gherardi
Hud(1963)
Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Robert Benton
Love with the Proper Stranger(1963)
Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Grace Gregory
Twilight of Honor(1963)
Art Direction: George W. Davis, Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt

Art Direction (Color)

Cleopatra(1963)
Art Direction: John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Hilyard Brown, Herman Blumenthal, Elven Webb, Maurice Pelling, Boris Juraga; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox, Ray Moyer
Winner
Come Blow Your Horn(1963)
Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, James Payne
How the West Was Won(1962)
Art Direction: George W. Davis, William Ferrari, Addison Hehr; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Don Greenwood, Jr., Jack Mills
The Cardinal(1963)
Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler; Set Decoration: Gene Callahan
Tom Jones(1963)
Art Direction: Ralph Brinton, Ted Marshall, Jocelyn Herbert; Set Decoration: Josie MacAvin

Best Picture

Tom Jones(1963)
Tony Richardson, Producer
Winner
America America(1963)
Elia Kazan, Producer
Cleopatra(1963)
Walter Wanger, Producer
How the West Was Won(1962)
Bernard Smith, Producer
Lilies of the Field(1963)
Ralph Nelson, Producer

Cinematography (Black-and-White)

Hud(1963)
James Wong Howe
Winner
Lilies of the Field(1963)
Ernest Haller
Love with the Proper Stranger(1963)
Milton Krasner
The Balcony(1963)
George Folsey
The Caretakers(1963)
Lucien Ballard

Cinematography (Color)

Cleopatra(1963)
Leon Shamroy
Winner
How the West Was Won(1962)
William H. Daniels, Milton Krasner, Charles Lang, Jr., Joseph LaShelle
Irma la Douce(1963)
Joseph LaShelle
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World(1963)
Ernest Laszlo
The Cardinal(1963)
Leon Shamroy

Costume Design (Black-and-White)

8½(1963)
Piero Gherardi
Winner
Love with the Proper Stranger(1963)
Edith Head
The Stripper(1963)
Travilla
Toys in the Attic(1963)
Bill Thomas
Wives and Lovers(1963)
Edith Head

Costume Design (Color)

Cleopatra(1963)
Irene Sharaff, Vittorio Nino Novarese, Renie
Winner
A New Kind of Love(1963)
Edith Head
How the West Was Won(1962)
Walter Plunkett
The Cardinal(1963)
Donald Brooks
The Leopard(1963)
Piero Tosi

Directing

Tom Jones(1963)
Tony Richardson
Winner
8½(1963)
Federico Fellini
America America(1963)
Elia Kazan
Hud(1963)
Martin Ritt
The Cardinal(1963)
Otto Preminger

Documentary (Short Subject)

Chagall(1963)
Simon Schiffrin, Producer
Winner
The Five Cities of June(1963)
George Stevens, Jr., Producer
The Spirit of America(1963)
Algernon G. Walker, Producer
Thirty Million Letters(1963)
Edgar Anstey, Producer
To Live Again(1963)
Mel London, Producer

Film Editing

How the West Was Won(1962)
Harold F. Kress
Winner
Cleopatra(1963)
Dorothy Spencer
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World(1963)
Frederic Knudtson, Robert C. Jones, Gene Fowler, Jr.
The Cardinal(1963)
Louis R. Loeffler
The Great Escape(1963)
Ferris Webster

International Feature Film

8½(1963)
Italy
Winner
Knife in the Water(1962)
Poland
Los Tarantos(1963)
Spain
The Red Lanterns(1963)
Greece
Twin Sisters of Kyoto(1963)
Japan

Music (Music Score--substantially original)

Tom Jones(1963)
John Addison
Winner
55 Days at Peking(1963)
Dimitri Tiomkin
Cleopatra(1963)
Alex North
How the West Was Won(1962)
Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World(1963)
Ernest Gold

Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment)

Irma la Douce(1963)
Andre Previn
Winner
A New Kind of Love(1963)
Leith Stevens
Bye Bye Birdie(1963)
John Green
Sundays and Cybele(1962)
Maurice Jarre
The Sword in the Stone(1963)
George Bruns

Short Subject (Cartoon)

The Critic(1963)
Ernest Pintoff, Producer
Winner
Automania 2000(1963)
John Halas, Producer
My Financial Career(1962)
Colin Low and Tom Daly, Producers
Pianissimo(1963)
Carmen D'Avino, Producer
The Game(1962)
Dusan Vukotic, Producer

Sound

How the West Was Won(1962)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Franklin E. Milton, Sound Director
Winner
Bye Bye Birdie(1963)
Columbia Studio Sound Department, Charles Rice, Sound Director
Captain Newman, M.D.(1963)
Universal City Studio Sound Department, Waldon O. Watson, Sound Director
Cleopatra(1963)
20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, James P. Corcoran, Sound Director; and Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes, Sound Director
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World(1963)
Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer, Sound Director

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

Tom Jones(1963)
John Osborne
Winner
Captain Newman, M.D.(1963)
Richard L. Breen, Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron
Hud(1963)
Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank, Jr.
Lilies of the Field(1963)
James Poe
Sundays and Cybele(1962)
Serge Bourguignon, Antoine Tudal

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

How the West Was Won(1962)
James R. Webb
Winner
8½(1963)
Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi
America America(1963)
Elia Kazan
Love with the Proper Stranger(1963)
Arnold Schulman
The Four Days of Naples(1962)
Story by Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Nanni Loy, Vasco Pratolini; Screenplay by Carlo Bernari, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Nanni Loy

Documentary (Feature)

Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World(1963)
Robert Hughes, Producer
Winner
The Link and the Chain(1963)
Paul de Roubaix, Producer
The Yanks Are Coming(1963)
Marshall Flaum, Producer

Sound Effects

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World(1963)
Walter G. Elliott
Winner
A Gathering of Eagles(1963)
Robert L. Bratton

Special Effects

Cleopatra(1963)
Emil Kosa, Jr.
Winner
The Birds(1963)
Ub Iwerks