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Best Picture
 AMERICA, AMERICA - Athens, Warner Bros. Produced by Elia Kazan
CLEOPATRA (Won 4 Awards) - Wanger, 20th Century-Fox. Produced by Walter Wanger
HOW THE WEST WAS WON - MGM and Cinerama. Produced by Bernard Smith
LILIES OF THE FIELD - Rainbow, UA. Produced by Ralph Nelson
 TOM JONES (Won 4 Awards) - Woodfall, UA-Lopert (British). Produced by Tony Richardson
Actor
Albert Finney in TOM JONES
Richard Harris in THIS SPORTING LIFE
Rex Harrison in CLEOPATRA
Paul Newman in HUD
Sidney Poitier in LILIES OF THE FIELD
Actress
Leslie Caron in THE L-SHAPED ROOM
Shirley MacLaine in IRMA LA DOUCE
Patricia Neal in HUD
Rachel Roberts in THIS SPORTING LIFE
Natalie Wood in LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER
Supporting Actor
Nick Adams in TWILIGHT OF HONOR
Bobby Darin in CAPTAIN NEWMAN, M.D.
Melvyn Douglas in HUD
Hugh Griffith in TOM JONES
John Huston in THE CARDINAL
Supporting Actress
Diane Cilento in TOM JONES
Dame Edith Evans in TOM JONES
Joyce Redman in TOM JONES
Dame Margaret Rutherford in THE V.I.P.'s
Lilia Skala in LILIES OF THE FIELD
Director
Federico Fellini for FELLINI'S 8½
Elia Kazan for AMERICA, AMERICA
Otto Preminger for THE CARDINAL
Tony Richardson for TOM JONES
Martin Ritt for HUD
Writing: Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen
Elia Kazan - AMERICA, AMERICA
Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli & Brunello Rondi - FELLINI'S 8½
Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Nanni Loy, Vasco Pratolini & Carlo Bernari - LE QUATTRO GIORNATE DE NAPOLI (THE FOUR DAYS OF NAPLES)
James R. Webb - HOW THE WEST WAS WON
Arnold Schulman - LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER
Writing: Screenplay - Based on Material from Another Medium
Henry Ephron, Phoebe Ephron & Richard L. Breen - CAPTAIN NEWMAN, M.D.
Irving Ravetch & Harriet Frank, Jr. - HUD
James Poe - LILIES OF THE FIELD
Serge Bourguignon & Antoine Tudal - LES DIMANCHES DE VILLE D'AVRAY (SUNDAYS AND CYBELE)
John Osborne - TOM JONES
Foreign Language Film
FELLINI'S 8½ (Italy) - Angelo Rizzoli, Producer
NÓZ W WODZIE (KNIFE IN THE WATER, Poland)
LOS TARANTOS (Spain)
TA KOKKINA FANARIA (THE RED LANTERNS, Greece)
KOTO (TWIN SISTERS OF KYOTO, Japan)
Art Direction/Set Decoration (Color)
Lyle Wheeler - Art Direction, Gene Callahan - Set Decoration THE CARDINAL
John De Cuir, Jack Martin Smith, Hilyard Brown, Herman A. Blumenthal, Elven Webb, Maurice Pelling & Boris Juraga - Art Direction, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox & Ray Moyer - Set Decoration CLEOPATRA
Hal Pereira & Roland Anderson - Art Direction, Sam Comer & James Payne - Set Decoration COME BLOW YOUR HORN
George W. Davis, William Ferrari & Addison Hehr - Art Direction, Henry Grace, Don Greenwood, Jr. & Jack Mills - Set Decoration HOW THE WEST WAS WON
Ralph Brinton, Ted Marshall & Jocelyn Herbert - Art Direction, Josie MacAvin - Set Decoration TOM JONES
Art Direction/Set Decoration (Black and White)
Gene Callahan - Art Direction AMERICA, AMERICA
Piero Gherardi - Art Direction FELLINI'S 8½
Hal Pereira & Tambi Larsen - Art Direction, Sam Comer & Robert R. Benton - Set Decoration HUD
Hal Pereira & Roland Anderson - Art Direction, Sam Comer & Grace Gregory - Set Decortion LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER
George W. Davis & Paul Groesse - Art Direction, Henry Grace & Hugh Hunt - Set Decoration TWILIGHT OF HONOR
Cinematography (Color)
Leon Shamroy - THE CARDINAL
Leon Shamroy - CLEOPATRA
William H. Daniels, Milton Krasner, Charles B. Lang & Joseph La Shelle - HOW THE WEST WAS WON
Joseph La Shelle - IRMA LA DOUCE
Ernest Laszlo - IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD
Cinematography (Black and White)
George Folsey - THE BALCONY
Lucien Ballard - THE CARETAKERS
James Wong Howe - HUD
Ernest Haller - LILIES OF THE FIELD
Milton Krasner - LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER
Costume Design (Color)
Donald Brooks - THE CARDINAL
Irene Sharaff, Vittorio Nino Novarese & Renie - CLEOPATRA
Walter Plunkett - HOW THE WEST WAS WON
Piero Tosi - IL GATTOPARDO (THE LEOPARD)
Edith Head - A NEW KIND OF LOVE
Costume Design (Black and White)
Piero Gherardi - FELLINI'S 8½
Edith Head - LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER
Travilla - THE STRIPPER
Bill Thomas - TOYS IN THE ATTIC
Edith Head - WIVES AND LOVERS
Documentary (Features)
Paul DeRoubaix - Producer LE MAILLON ET LA CHAÎNE (THE LINK AND THE CHAIN)
Robert Hughes - Producer ROBERT FROST: A LOVER'S QUARREL WITH THE WORLD
Marshall Flaum - Producer THE YANKS ARE COMING
Documentary (Shorts)
Simon Schiffrin - Producer CHAGALL
George Stevens, Jr. - Producer THE FIVE CITIES OF JUNE
Algernon G. Walker - Producer THE SPIRIT OF AMERICA
Edgar Anstey - Producer THIRTY MILLION LETTERS
Mel London - Producer TO LIVE AGAIN
Film Editing
Louis R. Loeffler - THE CARDINAL
Dorothy Spencer - CLEOPATRA
Ferris Webster - THE GREAT ESCAPE
Harold F. Kress - HOW THE WEST WAS WON
Frederic Knudtson, Robert C. Jones & Gene Fowler, Jr. - IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD
Music: Music Score - Substantially Original
Alex North - CLEOPATRA
Dimitri Tiomkin - 55 DAYS AT PEKING
Alfred Newman & Ken Darby - HOW THE WEST WAS WON
Ernest Gold - IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD
John Addison - TOM JONES
Music: Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment
Johnny Green - BYE BYE BIRDIE
Andre Previn - IRMA LA DOUCE
Leith Stevens - A NEW KIND OF LOVE
Maurice Jarre - LES DIMANCHES DE VILLE D'AVRAY (SUNDAYS AND CYBELE)
George Bruns - THE SWORD IN THE STONE
Music: Song
Jimmy Van Heusen - Music, Sammy Cahn - Lyrics PAPA'S DELICATE CONDITION "Call Me Irresponsible" 
Henry Mancini - Music, Johnny Mercer - Lyrics CHARADE "Charade"
Ernest Gold - Music, Mack David - Lyrics IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
Riz Ortolani & Nino Oliviero - Music, Norman Newell - Lyrics MONDO CANE "More"
Dimitri Tiomkin - Music, Paul Francis Webster - Lyrics 55 DAYS AT PEKING "So Little Time"
Short Subjects (Cartoons)
John Halas - Producer AUTOMANIA 2000
Ernest Pintoff - Producer THE CRITIC
Dusan Vukotiç - Producer IGRA (THE GAME)
Colin Low & Tom Daly - Producers MY FINANCIAL CAREER
Carmen D'Avino - Producer PIANISSIMO
Short Subjects (Live Action Subjects)
Ezra R. Baker - Producer KONCERT (CONCERT)
James Hill - Producer HOME MADE CAR
Paul DeRoubaix & Marcel Ichac - Producers AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE
Christopher Miles - Producer SIX SIDED TRIANGLE
Walker Stuart - Producer THAT'S ME
Sound
Charles Rice (Columbia Studio Sound Department) BYE BYE BIRDIE
Waldon O. Watson (Universal City Studio Sound Department) CAPTAIN NEWMAN, M.D.
James P. Corcoran (20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department) & Fred Hynes (Todd-AO Studio Sound Department) CLEOPATRA
Franklin E. Milton (MGM Studio Sound Department) HOW THE WEST WAS WON
Gordon E. Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department) IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD
Sound Effects
New classification this year.
Robert L. Bratton - A GATHERING OF EAGLES
Walter G. Elliott - IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD
Special Visual Effects
Beginning in this year, visual and sound effects Awards appear in separate categories.
Ub Iwerks - THE BIRDS
Emil Kosa, Jr. - CLEOPATRA
Scientific Or Technical
Class I (Statuette):
No award given for 1963.
Class II (Plaque):
No award given for 1963.
Class III (Citation):
 Douglas Shearer & A. Arnold Gillespie (MGM Studios) - For the engineering of an improved Background Process Projection System.
Honorary and Other Awards
No award given for 1963.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Sam Spiegel
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
No award given for 1963.
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FIRSTS
· Sidney Poitier becomes the first black perfomer to win a Best Acting Award.
· All the Best Supporting Actress nominees are foreign-born.
· Rex Harrison and Rachel Roberts are the first husband and wife to be nominated in the same year since Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne in 1932.
· Cleopatra's final price tag is $44 million, making it the most expensive picture made to date.
· Tom Jones ties a record with 5 acting nominations.
RULE CHANGES
"Special Effects" is divided into "Special Visual Effects" and "Sound Effects."
SINS OF OMISSION
Picture: Fellini's 8½, Hud, The Birds
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Cleopatra, Ralph Nelson - Lilies of the Field
Actress: Elizabeth Taylor - Cleopatra
Supporting Actor: Roddy McDowall - Cleopatra
Song: "Bye Bye Birdie"
ROLE REVERSALS
· Marilyn Monroe was briefly considered for the role of Cleopatra.
· Cleopatra producers originally wanted Peter Finch to play Caesar and Stephen Boyd to play Marc Antony. After delays in the start of production, both bowed out for other projects.
· Federico Fellini came to the Awards to pick up his Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Film, 8½, and also to try to woo Mae West and Groucho Marx to appear in his film Juliet of the Spirits.
UNMENTIONABLES
· Cleopatra was released with a running time of four hours and five minutes.
· Dueling lawsuits: Elizabeth Taylor sued Fox for failing to pay her a percentage of the gross -- in addition to her $2,140,500 in salary and overtime pay. Fox countered with a $50 million suit against Taylor and Richard Burton for "depreciating" the film's commercial value by their "scandalous conduct and deportment," although studio execs admitted that the Liz-Dick romance was what had made the movie such an eagerly awaited event. Taylor also sued Eddie Fisher for divorce, on the grounds of abandonment.
· Rex Harrison had a clause in his contract stipulating that whenever Richard Burton's picture appeared in an ad, so would his. A large sign was put up on Broadway showing only Burton and Taylor. After his lawyers complained, the studio fulfilled the contract by placing a picture of Harrison on one corner of the billboard.
· At $194,800, the budget for Taylor's costumes was the highest ever for a single screen actor. Her 65 costumes included a dress made from 24-carat gold cloth.
· Widely regarded as one of the biggest flops of all times the reality is different. Cleopatra made its money back despite the horrendous costs, but not at once. It took several years. It was one of the highest grossing films of the 1960s.
· Fox erred in listing the entire cast of Cleopatra as leading players, thus cutting Roddy McDowall out of a Supporting nomination. The studio publicly apologized to him in an ad in the trades.
· Tom Jones was the highest-grossing foreign-made film ever released in the US up to that time.
· After the nominations were announced, Albert Finney and Patricia Neal were the odds-on favorites for Best Acting Awards.
· Leslie Caron insisted on being referred to as an actress because her dancing days were finished. She told reporters that only once in the past six years had she broken her pledge never to dance again: She had shown the Queen of England how to do the twist.
· Brandon de Wilde did not campaign for a Supporting nomination. He was the only lead from Hud not to be nominated for an Acting Award.
· Only two of the Best Director nominees' films were nominated for Best Picture.
· "When she received her nomination," Louella Parsons wrote, "Lilia Skala was working for $1.50 an hour at the lost- and-found department of New York's City Center."
· Hedda Hopper was upset with the number of Brits on the ballot: "I'm not going to be narrow enough to claim these fellows can't act. They've had plenty of practice. The weather's so foul on that tight little isle that, to get in out of the rain, they all gather in theatres and practice Hamlet on each other."
· On Awards night, 57 nominees did not attend the ceremonies.
· A hundred guests chose to attend Harold Mirisch's Beverly Hills Oscar®-watching party rather than see it live.
· Special Visual Effects winner Emil Kosa Jr. accepted his Award from presenter Angie Dickinson and said, "I wish I could take the lady home with me rather than this little Oscar®."
· Best Song lyricist Sammy Cahn was not there to accept his Award. He'd been divorced that same day. Backstage, his collaborator Jimmy Van Heusen said, "Sammy just didn't feel like showing up."
· Reading the list of Color Cinematography nominees, Jimmy Stewart said, "The Cardinal - Leon Shamroy; Cleopatra - Leon Shamroy. Gee, that's 5 years out of a man's life right there!"
· As Anne Bancroft walked offstage with Best Actor winner Sidney Poitier, she whispered, "Live it up, chum, it doesn't last long."
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