Oscar statuette ©AMPAS


1964 (37th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1964 (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 markerMy Fair Lady, Warner Bros. Jack L. Warner, Producer.

Best Actor

Winner markerRex Harrison in My Fair Lady, Warner Bros.

Best Actress

Winner markerJulie Andrews in Mary Poppins, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Winner markerPeter Ustinov in Topkapi, Filmways Production; United Artists.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Winner markerLila Kedrova in Zorba the Greek, Rochley, Ltd. Production; International Classics. (Greece, USA)

Directing

Winner markerMy Fair Lady, Warner Bros. George Cukor.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

(Black-and-White)

Winner markerZorba the Greek, Rochley, Ltd. Production; International Classics. (Greece, USA) Vassilis Fotopoulos.

(Color)

Winner markerMy Fair Lady, Warner Bros. Art direction by Gene Allen and Cecil Beaton; set decoration by George James Hopkins.

Cinematography

(Black-and-White)

Winner markerZorba the Greek, Rochley, Ltd. Production; International Classics. (Greece, USA) Walter Lassally.

(Color)

Winner markerMy Fair Lady, Warner Bros. Harry Stradling.

Costume Design

(Black-and-White)

Winner markerThe Night of the Iguana, Seven Arts Productions; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Dorothy Jeakins.

(Color)

Winner markerMy Fair Lady, Warner Bros. Cecil Beaton.

Documentary

(Feature)

Winner markerJacques-Yves Cousteau’s World Without Sun, Filmad-Les Requins Associes-Orsay-CEIAP; Columbia. (France, Italy) Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Producer.

(Short Subject)

Winner markerNine from Little Rock, Guggenheim Productions; United States Information Agency. Charles Guggenheim, Producer.

Film Editing

Winner markerMary Poppins, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. Cotton Warburton.

Foreign Language Film

Winner markerYesterday, Today and Tomorrow, C. C. Champion-Les Films Concordia Production. (Italy, France)

Music

(Music Score—substantially original)

Winner markerMary Poppins, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman.

(Scoring of Music—adaptation or treatment)

Winner markerMy Fair Lady, Warner Bros. Andre Previn.

(Song)

Winner markerChim Chim Cher-ee from Mary Poppins, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. Music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

Winner markerThe Pink Phink, Mirisch-Geoffrey Productions; United Artists. [Pink Panther Series] David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng, Producers.

(Live Action)

Winner markerCasals Conducts: 1964, Thalia Films; Beckman Film Corporation. Edward Schreiber, Producer.

Sound

Winner markerMy Fair Lady, Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, George R. Groves, Sound Director.

Sound Effects

Winner markerGoldfinger, Eon Productions Ltd.; United Artists. (UK) Norman Wanstall.

Special Visual Effects

Winner markerMary Poppins, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. Peter Ellenshaw, Eustace Lycett and Hamilton Luske.

Writing

(Screenplay—based on material from another medium)

Winner markerBecket, Hal Wallis Productions; Paramount. (UK, USA) Edward Anhalt.

(Story and Screenplay—written directly for the screen)

Winner markerFather Goose, Universal-Granox Production; Universal. Story by S. H. Barnett; screenplay by Peter Stone and Frank Tarloff.

Honorary Award

(Makeup)

Winner markerTo William Tuttle for his outstanding makeup achievement for 7 Faces of Dr. Lao. [ [Statuette]]

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class I)

Winner markerTo Petro Vlahos, Wadsworth E. Pohl and Ub Iwerks for the conception and perfection of techniques for Color Traveling Matte Composite Cinematography.

(Class II)

Winner markerTo Sidney P. Solow, Edward H. Reichard, Carl W. Hauge and Job Sanderson of Consolidated Film Industries for the design and development of a versatile Automatic 35mm Composite Color Printer.
Winner markerTo Pierre Angenieux for the development of a ten-to-one Zoom Lens for cinematography.

(Class III)

Winner markerTo Milton Forman, Richard B. Glickman and Daniel J. Pearlman of Colortran Industries for advancements in the design and application to motion picture photography of lighting units using quartz iodine lamps.
Winner markerTo Stewart Filmscreen Corporation for a seamless translucent Blue Screen for Traveling Matte Color Cinematography.
Winner markerTo Anthony Paglia and the 20th Century-Fox Studio Mechanical Effects Department for an improved method of producing Explosion Flash Effects for motion pictures.
Winner markerTo Edward H. Reichard and Carl W. Hauge of Consolidated Film Industries for the design of a Proximity Cue Detector and its application to motion picture printers.
Winner markerTo Edward H. Reichard, Leonard L. Sokolow and Carl W. Hauge of Consolidated Film Industries for the design and application to motion picture laboratory practice of a Stroboscopic Scene Tester for color and black-and-white film.
Winner markerTo Nelson Tyler for the design and construction of an improved Helicopter Camera System.