36th Academy Award Ceremony

Date: April 13, 1964

Best Picture

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Best Actress in a Leading Role

  • Patricia Neal for Hud

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

  • Melvyn Douglas for Hud

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

  • Margaret Rutherford for The V.I.P.s

Best Director

Best Original Story & Screenplay

  • James R. Webb for How the West Was Won

Best Adapted Screenplay

Best Cinematography, Colour

  • Leon Shamroy for Cleopatra

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

  • James Wong Howe for Hud

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White

  • Gene Callahan for America America

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Colour

  • John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Hilyard M. Brown, Herman A. Blumenthal, Elven Webb, Maurice Pelling, Boris Juraga, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox, Ray Moyer for Cleopatra

Best Costume Design, Black-and-White

  • Piero Gherardi for 8½

Best Costume Design, Colour

  • Irene Sharaff, Vittorio Nino Novarese, Renié for Cleopatra

Best Sound

  • Franklin Milton for How the West Was Won

Best Film Editing

  • Harold F. Kress for How the West Was Won

Best Sound Effects

  • Walter Elliott for It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Best Special Visual Effects

  • Emil Kosa Jr. for Cleopatra

Best Original Song

  • Jimmy Van Heusen (music) & Sammy Cahn (lyrics) for “Call Me Irresponsible” from Papa’s Delicate Condition

Best Substantially Original Score

Best Music, Scoring of Adaptation or Treatment

  • André Previn for Irma la Douce

Best Short Subject, Live-Action Subjects

  • Paul de Roubaix & Marcel Ichac for Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Best Short Subject, Cartoons

  • Ernest Pintoff for The Critic

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

  • Simon Schiffrin for Chagall

Best Documentary, Features

  • Robert Hughes for Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World

Best Foreign Language Film

  • 8½ (Italy)