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1962 (35th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1962 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Picture

Winner markerLawrence of Arabia, Horizon Pictures (G.B.), Ltd.-Sam Spiegel-David Lean Production; Columbia. (UK) Sam Spiegel, Producer.

Best Actor

Winner markerGregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird, Universal-International-Pakula-Mulligan-Brentwood Production; Universal-International.

Best Actress

Winner markerAnne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker, Playfilms Production; United Artists.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Winner markerEd Begley in Sweet Bird of Youth, Roxbury Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Winner markerPatty Duke in The Miracle Worker, Playfilms Production; United Artists.

Directing

Winner markerLawrence of Arabia, Horizon Pictures (G.B.), Ltd.-Sam Spiegel-David Lean Production; Columbia. (UK) David Lean.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

(Black-and-White)

Winner markerTo Kill a Mockingbird, Universal-International-Pakula-Mulligan-Brentwood Production; Universal-International. Art direction by Alexander Golitzen and Henry Bumstead; set decoration by Oliver Emert.

(Color)

Winner markerLawrence of Arabia, Horizon Pictures (G.B.), Ltd.-Sam Spiegel-David Lean Production; Columbia. (UK) Art direction by John Box and John Stoll; set decoration by Dario Simoni.

Cinematography

(Black-and-White)

Winner markerThe Longest Day, Darryl F. Zanuck Productions; 20th Century-Fox. Jean Bourgoin and Walter Wottitz.

(Color)

Winner markerLawrence of Arabia, Horizon Pictures (G.B.), Ltd.-Sam Spiegel-David Lean Production; Columbia. (UK) Fred A. Young.

Costume Design

(Black-and-White)

Winner markerWhat Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Seven Arts-Associates & Aldrich Company Production; Warner Bros. Norma Koch.

(Color)

Winner markerThe Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer & Cinerama; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Mary Wills.

Documentary

(Feature)

Winner markerBlack Fox, Image Productions, Inc.; Heritage Films, Inc. Louis Clyde Stoumen, Producer.

(Short Subject)

Winner markerDylan Thomas, TWW Ltd.; Janus Films. (UK) Jack Howells, Producer.

Film Editing

Winner markerLawrence of Arabia, Horizon Pictures (G.B.), Ltd.-Sam Spiegel-David Lean Production; Columbia. (UK) Anne Coates.

Foreign Language Film

Winner markerSundays and Cybele, Terra Film-Fides-Orsay Films-Les Films du Trocadero; Columbia. (France, Austria)

Music

(Music Score—substantially original)

Winner markerLawrence of Arabia, Horizon Pictures (G.B.), Ltd.-Sam Spiegel-David Lean Production; Columbia. (UK) Maurice Jarre.

(Scoring of Music—adaptation or treatment)

Winner markerMeredith Willson’s The Music Man, Warner Bros. Ray Heindorf.

(Song)

Winner markerDays of Wine and Roses from Days of Wine and Roses, Martin Manulis-Jalem Production; Warner Bros. Music by Henry Mancini; lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

Winner markerThe Hole, Storyboard, Inc.; Brandon Films, Inc. John Hubley and Faith Hubley, Producers.

(Live Action)

Winner markerHeureux Anniversaire (Happy Anniversary), C.A.P.A.C. Productions (Paris); Atlantic Pictures Corporation. (France) Pierre Etaix and J. C. Carrière, Producers.

Sound

Winner markerLawrence of Arabia, Horizon Pictures (G.B.), Ltd.-Sam Spiegel-David Lean Production; Columbia. (UK) Shepperton Studio Sound Department, John Cox, Sound Director.

Special Effects

Winner markerThe Longest Day, Darryl F. Zanuck Productions; 20th Century-Fox. Visual effects by Robert MacDonald; audible effects by Jacques Maumont.

Writing

(Screenplay—based on material from another medium)

Winner markerTo Kill a Mockingbird, Universal-International-Pakula-Mulligan-Brentwood Production; Universal-International. Horton Foote.

(Story and Screenplay—written directly for the screen)

Winner markerDivorce—Italian Style, Lux-Vides-Galatea Film Production; Embassy Pictures Corporation. (Italy) Ennio de Concini, Alfredo Giannetti and Pietro Germi.

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Winner markerSteve Broidy

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class II)

Winner markerTo Ralph Chapman for the design and development of an advanced motion picture camera crane.
Winner markerTo Albert S. Pratt, James L. Wassell and Hans C. Wohlrab of the Professional Equipment Division of Bell & Howell Co., for the design and development of a new and improved automatic motion picture additive color printer.
Winner markerTo North American Philips Co., Inc., for the design and engineering of the Norelco Universal 70/35 motion picture projector.
Winner markerTo Charles E. Sutter, William Bryson Smith and Louis C. Kennell of Paramount Pictures Corp. for the engineering and application to motion picture production of a new system of electric power distribution.

(Class III)

Winner markerTo Electro-Voice, Inc., for a highly directional dynamic line microphone.
Winner markerTo Louis G. MacKenzie for a selective sound effects repeater.