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The 36th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1963, were held on April 13, 1964 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Jack Lemmon.

Best Picture winner Tom Jones became the only film in history to garner three Best Supporting Actress nominations.

Winners & Nominees

Best Picture

Tom Jones

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

Best Director

Tony Richardson for Tom Jones

• Elia Kazan for America, America
• Martin Ritt for Hud
• Otto Preminger for The Cardinal
• Federico Fellini for 8 1/2

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field

• Paul Newman in Hud
• Albert Finney in Tom Jones
• Rex Harrison in Cleopatra
• Richard Harris in This Sporting Life

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Patricia Neal in Hud

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

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Melvyn Douglas in Hud

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

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Margaret Rutherford in The V.I.P.s

• Lilia Skala in Lilies of the Field
• Diane Cilento in Tom Jones
• Edith Evans in Tom Jones
• Joyce Redman in Tom Jones

Best Original Screenplay

How the West Was Won - James R. Webb

• 8 1/2 - Federico Fellini , Ennio Flaiano , Tullio Pinelli and Brunello Rondi
• America, America - Elia Kazan
• Love with the Proper Stranger - Arnold Schulman
• Le quattro giornate di Napoli - Carlo Bernari , Vasco Pratolini , Nanni Loy , Pasquale Festa Campanile and Massimo Franciosa

Best Adapted Screenplay

Tom Jones - John Osborne

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

Best Cinematography, Color

Cleopatra

• How the West Was Won
• Irma la Douce
• It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
• The Cardinal

Best Cinematography, Black & White

Hud

• Lilies of the Field
• Love With the Proper Stranger
• The Balcony
• The Caretakers

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black & White

America, America

• 8 1/2
• Hud
• Love With the Proper Stranger
• Twilight of Honor

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color

Cleopatra

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

Best Costume Design, Black & White

8 1/2

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

Best Costume Design, Color

Cleopatra

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

Best Sound

How the West Was Won

• Bye Bye Birdie
• Captain Newman, M. D.
• Cleopatra
• It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

Best Film Editing

How the West Was Won

• Cleopatra
• The Cardinal
• The Great Escape
• It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

Best Effects, Sound Effects

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

• A Gathering of Eagles

Best Effects, Special Visual Effects

Cleopatra

• The Birds

Best Music, Original Song

' Call Me Irresponsible from Papa's Delicate Condition - Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics) '

• So Little Time from 55 Days at Peking - Dimitri Tiomkin (music) and Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
• Charade from Charade - Henry Mancini (music) and Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
• It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World from It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World - Ernest Gold (music) and Mack David (lyrics)
• More from Mondo cane - Riz Ortolani and Nino Oliviero (music) and Norman Newell (lyrics)

Best Music, Score - Substantially Original

Tom Jones - John Addison

• 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

Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment

Irma la Douce - Andre Previn

• A New Kind of Love - Leith Stevens
• Bye Bye Birdie - Johnny Green
• The Sword in the Stone - George Bruns
• Sundays and Cybele - Maurice Jarre

Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Best Short Subject, Cartoons

The Critic

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

Chagall

Best Documentary, Features

Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World

Best Foreign Language Film

8 1/2 - Italy

• Koto - Japan
• Los Tarantos - Spain
• Knife in the Water - Poland
• The Red Lanterns - Greece

Special honors

• The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award: Sam Spiegel

Breakdown

• Tom Jones - 4/10
• Cleopatra - 4/9
• How the West Was Won - 3/8
• America, America - 1/4
• Lilies of the Field - 1/5
• Hud - 3/7
• The V.I.P.s - 1/1
• 8 1/2 - 2/5
• It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World - 1/6
• Papa's Delicate Condition - 1/1