The Complete Oscar Quest: 36th Academy Awards (1963)

1963

Best Picture

  • America, America
  • Cleopatra
  • How the West Was Won
  • Lilies of the Field
  • Tom Jones

Best Director

  • Elia Kazan, America, America
  • Tony Richardson, Tom Jones
  • Martin Ritt, Hud
  • Otto Preminger, The Cardinal
  • Federico Fellini, 8½

Best Actor

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

Best Actress

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

Best Supporting Actor

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

Best Supporting Actress

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

Best Original Screenplay

  • 8½
  • America, America
  • The Four Days of Naples
  • How the West Was Won
  • Love with the Proper Stranger

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • Captain Newman, M.D.
  • Hud
  • Lilies of the Field
  • Sundays and Cybele
  • Tom Jones

Best Editing

  • The Cardinal
  • Cleopatra
  • The Great Escape
  • How the West Was Won
  • It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Best Cinematography, Black and White

  • The Balcony
  • The Caretakers
  • Hud
  • Lilies of the Field
  • Love with the Proper Stranger

Best Cinematography, Color

  • The Cardinal
  • Cleopatra
  • How the West Was Won
  • Irma La Douce
  • It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Best Original Score

  • 55 Days at Peking
  • Cleopatra
  • How the West Was Won
  • It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
  • Tom Jones

Best Adaptation or Treatment Score

  • Bye Bye Birdie
  • Irma La Douce
  • A New Kind of Love
  • The Sword in the Stone
  • Sundays at Cybele

Best Original Song

  • “Charade,” from Charade
  • “Call Me Irresponsible,” from Papa’s Delicate Condition
  • “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,” from It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
  • “More,” from Mondo Cane
  • “So Little Time,” from 55 Days at Peking

Best Art Direction, Black and White

  • 8½
  • America, America
  • Hud
  • Love with the Proper Stranger
  • Twilight of Honor

Best Art Direction, Color

  • The Cardinal
  • Cleopatra
  • Come Blow Your Horn
  • How the West Was Won
  • Tom Jones

Best Costume Design, Black and White

  • 8½
  • Love with the Proper Stranger
  • The Stripper
  • Toys in the Attic
  • Wives and Lovers

Best Costume Design, Color

  • The Cardinal
  • Cleopatra
  • How the West Was Won
  • The Leopard
  • The New Kind of Love

Best Visual Effects

  • The Birds
  • Cleopatra

Best Sound Editing

  • A Gathering of Eagles
  • It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Best Sound Mixing

  • Bye Bye Birdie
  • Captain Newman, M.D.
  • Cleopatra
  • How the West Was Won
  • It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Best Foreign Language Film

  • 8½
  • Knife in the Water
  • The Red Lanterns
  • Los Tarantos

Best Documentary

  • Le Maillon et la Chaine
  • Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel With the World
  • The Yanks Are Coming

Best Documentary Short

  • Chagall
  • The Five Cities of June
  • The Spirit of America
  • Thirty Million Letters
  • To Live Again

Best Live-Action Short

  • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
  • The Concert
  • Home-Made Car
  • Six-Sided Triangle
  • That’s Me

Best Animated Short

  • Automania 2000
  • The Critic
  • The Game
  • My Financial Career
  • Pianissimo

Total List of Films Nominated:

  1. 55 Days at Peking
  2. 8½
  3. America, America
  4. The Balcomy
  5. The Birds
  6. Bye Bye Birdie
  7. Captain Newman, M.D.
  8. The Cardinal
  9. The Caretakers
  10. Charade
  11. Cleopatra
  12. Come Blow Your Horn
  13. The Four Days of Naples
  14. A Gathering of Eagles
  15. The Great Escape
  16. How the West Was Won
  17. Hud
  18. Irma la Douce
  19. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
  20. The L-Shaped Room
  21. The Leopard
  22. Lilies of the Field
  23. Love with the Proper Stranger
  24. Mondo Cane
  25. A New Kind of Love
  26. Papa’s Delicate Condition
  27. The Stripper
  28. Sundays and Cybele
  29. The Sword in the Stone
  30. This Sporting Life
  31. Tom Jones
  32. Toys in the Attic
  33. Twilight of Honor
  34. The V.I.P.s
  35. Wives and Lovers

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