35th Academy Awards


The 35th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1962, were held on April 8, 1963, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California, hosted by Frank Sinatra.

Ceremony

The Best Actress Oscar occasioned the last act of the long-running feud between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. They had starred together for the first time in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, a surprise hit the previous summer. Davis was nominated for her role as the title character, a faded child star who humiliates the wheelchair-bound sister who eclipsed her fame in adulthood, while Crawford was not.
Crawford told the other nominated actresses that, as a courtesy, she would accept their awards for them should they be unavailable on the night of the ceremony. Davis did not object as her rival had often done this, but on the night of the ceremony she was livid when Crawford took the stage to cheerfully accept the award on behalf of Anne Bancroft, who had a Broadway commitment. Davis believed that Crawford had told other Oscar voters to vote for The Miracle Worker star in order to upstage her. The rekindled animosity between the two resulted in Crawford leaving the cast of Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, a planned followup to Baby Jane that began filming the next summer, early in production; she would never take any major roles again.

Awards

Nominations announced on February 25, 1963. Winners in each category are listed first and highlighted with boldface text.
Best PictureBest Director

  • David Lean – Lawrence of Arabia
  • *Frank Perry – David and Lisa
  • *Pietro Germi – Divorce Italian Style
  • *Arthur Penn – The Miracle Worker
  • *Robert Mulligan – To Kill a Mockingbird
    • Best ActorBest Actress
  • Gregory Peck – To Kill a Mockingbird as Atticus Finch
  • *Burt Lancaster – Birdman of Alcatraz as Robert Stroud
  • *Jack Lemmon – Days of Wine and Roses as Joe Clay
  • *Marcello Mastroianni – Divorce Italian Style as Ferdinando Cefalù
  • *Peter O'Toole – Lawrence of Arabia as T. E. Lawrence
  • Anne Bancroft – The Miracle Worker as Anne Sullivan
  • *Bette Davis – What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? as Jane Hudson
  • *Katharine Hepburn – Long Day's Journey into Night as Mary Tyrone
  • *Geraldine Page – Sweet Bird of Youth as Alexandra Del Lago
  • *Lee Remick – Days of Wine and Roses as Kirsten Arnesen-Clay
    • Best Supporting ActorBest Supporting Actress
  • Ed Begley – Sweet Bird of Youth as Tom Boss Finley
  • *Victor Buono – What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? as Edwin Flagg
  • *Telly Savalas – Birdman of Alcatraz as Feto Gomez
  • *Omar Sharif – Lawrence of Arabia as Sherif Ali
  • *Terence Stamp – Billy Budd as Billy Budd
  • Patty Duke – The Miracle Worker as Helen Keller
  • *Mary Badham – To Kill a Mockingbird as Scout
  • *Shirley Knight – Sweet Bird of Youth as Heavenly Finley
  • *Angela Lansbury – The Manchurian Candidate as Mrs. Eleanor Iselin
  • *Thelma Ritter – Birdman of Alcatraz as Elizabeth McCartney Stroud
    • Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the ScreenBest Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
  • Divorce Italian Style – Ennio de Concini, Alfredo Giannetti and Pietro Germi
  • *' – Story by Charles Kaufman; Screenplay by Charles Kaufman and Wolfgang Reinhardt
  • *Last Year at Marienbad – Alain Robbe-Grillet
  • *That Touch of Mink – Stanley Shapiro and Nate Monaster
  • *Through a Glass Darkly – Ingmar Bergman
  • To Kill a Mockingbird – Horton Foote
  • *David and Lisa – Eleanor Perry
  • *Lawrence of Arabia – Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson
  • *Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
  • *The Miracle Worker – William Gibson
    • Best Foreign Language FilmBest Documentary Feature
  • Sundays and Cybele
  • *Electra
  • *The Four Days of Naples
  • *Keeper of Promises
  • *Tlayucan
  • *Alvorada
    • Best Documentary ShortBest Live Action Short Subject
  • Dylan Thomas
  • *The John Glenn Story
  • *The Road to the Wall
  • Heureux Anniversaire
  • *Big City Blues
  • *The Cadillac
  • *The Cliff Dwellers
  • *Pan
    • Best Short Subjects – CartoonsBest Music Score — Substantially Original
  • The Hole
  • *Icarus Montgolfier Wright
  • *Now Hear This
  • *Self Defense... for Cowards
  • *A Symposium on Popular Songs
  • Lawrence of Arabia – Maurice Jarre
  • *' – Jerry Goldsmith
  • *Mutiny on the Bounty – Bronisław Kaper
  • *Taras Bulba – Franz Waxman
  • *To Kill a Mockingbird – Elmer Bernstein
    • Best Scoring of Music — Adaptation or TreatmentBest Song
  • Meredith Willson's The Music Man – Ray Heindorf
  • *Billy Rose's Jumbo – Georgie Stoll
  • *Gigot – Michel Magne
  • *Gypsy – Frank Perkins
  • *The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm – Leigh Harline
  • "Days of Wine and Roses" from Days of Wine and Roses – Music by Henry Mancini; Lyric by Johnny Mercer
  • *"Love Song From Mutiny on the Bounty " from Mutiny on the Bounty – Music by Bronisław Kaper; Lyric by Paul Francis Webster
  • *"Song From Two for the Seesaw " from Two for the Seesaw – Music by André Previn; Lyric by Dory Langdon
  • *"Tender Is the Night" from Tender Is the Night – Music by Sammy Fain; Lyric by Paul Francis Webster
  • *"Walk on the Wild Side" from Walk on the Wild Side – Music by Elmer Bernstein; Lyric by Mack David
    • Best SoundBest Art Direction, Black-and-White
  • Lawrence of Arabia – John Cox
  • *Bon Voyage! – Robert O. Cook
  • *Meredith Willson's The Music Man – George R. Groves
  • *That Touch of Mink – Waldon O. Watson
  • *What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? – Joseph D. Kelly
  • To Kill a Mockingbird – Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen and Henry Bumstead; Set Decoration: Oliver Emert
  • *Days of Wine and Roses – Art Direction: Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
  • *The Longest Day – Art Direction: Ted Haworth, Léon Barsacq and Vincent Korda; Set Decoration: Gabriel Béchir
  • *Period of Adjustment – Art Direction: George Davis and Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Henry Grace and Richard Pefferle
  • *The Pigeon That Took Rome – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Frank R. McKelvy
    • Best Art Direction, ColorBest Cinematography, Black-and-White
  • Lawrence of Arabia – Art Direction: John Box and John Stoll; Set Decoration: Dario Simoni
  • *Meredith Willson's The Music Man – Art Direction: Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
  • *Mutiny on the Bounty – Art Direction: George Davis and Joseph McMillan Johnson; Set Decoration: Henry Grace and Hugh Hunt
  • *That Touch of Mink – Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen and Robert Clatworthy; Set Decoration: George Milo
  • *The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm – Art Direction: George Davis and Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Henry Grace and Richard Pefferle
  • The Longest Day – Jean Bourgoin and Walter Wottitz
  • *Birdman of Alcatraz – Burnett Guffey
  • *To Kill a Mockingbird – Russell Harlan
  • *Two for the Seesaw – Ted D. McCord
  • *What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? – Ernest Haller
    • Best Cinematography, ColorBest Costume Design, Black-and-White
  • Lawrence of Arabia – Freddie Young
  • *Gypsy – Harry Stradling
  • *Hatari! – Russell Harlan
  • *Mutiny on the Bounty – Robert Surtees
  • *The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm – Paul C. Vogel
  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? – Norma Koch
  • *Days of Wine and Roses – Don Feld
  • *The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance – Edith Head
  • *The Miracle Worker – Ruth Morley
  • *Phaedra – Denny Vachlioti
    • Best Costume Design, ColorBest Film Editing
  • The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm – Mary Wills
  • *Bon Voyage! – Bill Thomas
  • *Gypsy – Orry-Kelly
  • *Meredith Willson's The Music Man – Dorothy Jeakins
  • *My Geisha – Edith Head
  • Lawrence of Arabia – Anne V. Coates
  • *The Longest Day – Samuel E. Beetley
  • *The Manchurian Candidate – Ferris Webster
  • *Meredith Willson's The Music Man – William H. Ziegler
  • *Mutiny on the Bounty – John McSweeney Jr.
    • Best Special Effects-
  • The Longest Day – Visual Effects by Robert MacDonald; Audible Effects by Jacques Maumont
  • *Mutiny on the Bounty – Visual Effects by A. Arnold Gillespie; Audible Effects by Milo B. Lory
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    Honorary Academy Awards

    [Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award]

    Presenters

    The following nineteen films received multiple nominations:
    The following four films received multiple awards: