Best Picture & Directing
Best Picture
Winner
Tom Jones
Tony Richardson, producer
America America
Cleopatra
How the West Was Won
Lilies of the Field
Best Director
Winner
Tony Richardson
Tom Jones
Federico Fellini— 8 1/2
Elia Kazan— America America
Otto Preminger— The Cardinal
Martin Ritt— Hud
Acting
Best Actor
Winner
Sidney Poitier
Lilies of the Field
Albert Finney— Tom Jones
Richard Harris— This Sporting Life
Rex Harrison— Cleopatra
Paul Newman— Hud
Best Actress
Winner
Patricia Neal
Hud
Leslie Caron— The L-Shaped Room
Shirley MacLaine— Irma La Douce
Rachel Roberts— This Sporting Life
Natalie Wood— Love with the Proper Stranger
Best Supporting Actor
Winner
Melvyn Douglas
Hud
Nick Adams— Twilight of Honor
Bobby Darin— Captain Newman M.D.
Hugh Griffith— Tom Jones
Best Supporting Actress
Winner
Margaret Rutherford
The V.I.P.s
Diane Cilento— Tom Jones
Edith Evans— Tom Jones
Joyce Redman— Tom Jones
Writing
Best Original Screenplay
Winner
James R. Webb
How the West Was Won
Elia Kazan— America America
Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi— Federico Fellini’s 8½
Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Nanni Loy, Vasco Pratolini, Carlo Bernari— The Four Days of Naples
Arnold Schulman— Love with the Proper Stranger
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner
John Osborne
Tom Jones
Richard L. Breen, Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron— Captain Newman, M.D.
Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr.— Hud
James Poe— Lilies of the Field
Serge Bourguignon, Antoine Tudal— Sundays and Cybele
Music
Best Score (Drama/Comedy)
Winner
John Addison
Tom Jones
Dimitri Tiomkin— 55 Days at Peking
Alex North— Cleopatra
Alfred Newman, Ken Darby— How the West Was Won
Ernest Gold— It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Best Score (Musical)
Winner
Andre Previn
Irma La Douce
John Green— Bye Bye Birdie
Leith Stevens— A New Kind of Love
Maurice Jarre— Sundays and Cybele
George Bruns— The Sword in the Stone
Best Original Song
Winner
"Call Me Irresponsible" — James Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn
Papa's Delicate Condition
“Call Me Irresponsible” — James Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn— Papa's Delicate Condition
“So Little Time” — Dimitri Tiomkin, Paul Francis Webster— 55 Days at Peking
“Charade” — Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer— Charade
“It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” — Ernest Gold, Mack David— It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
“More” — Riz Ortolani, Norman Newell— Mondo Cane
Technical
Best Cinematography (B&W)
Winner
James Wong Howe
Hud
George Folsey— The Balcony
Lucien Ballard— The Caretakers
Ernest Haller— Lilies of the Field
Milton Krasner— Love with the Proper Stranger
Best Cinematography (Color)
Winner
Leon Shamroy
Cleopatra
William H. Daniels, Milton Krasner, Charles B. Lang Jr., Joseph LaShelle— How the West Was Won
Joseph LaShelle— Irma La Douce
Ernest Laszlo— It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Best Film Editing
Winner
Harold F. Kress
How the West Was Won
Louis R. Loeffler— The Cardinal
Dorothy Spencer— Cleopatra
Ferris Webster— The Great Escape
Frederic Knudtson, Robert C. Jones, Gene Fowler Jr.— It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Art Direction & Costume
Best Art Direction (B&W)
Winner
Gene Callahan
America America
Piero Gherardi— Federico Fellini’s 8½
Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Sam Comer, Robert Benton— Hud
Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Sam Comer, Grace Gregory— Love with the Proper Stranger
George W. Davis, Paul Groesse, Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt— Twilight of Honor
Best Art Direction (Color)
Winner
John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Hilyard Brown, et al.
Cleopatra
Lyle Wheeler, Gene Callahan— The Cardinal
John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, et al.— Cleopatra
Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Sam Comer, James Payne— Come Blow Your Horn
George W. Davis, William Ferrari, Addison Hehr, Henry Grace, et al.— How the West Was Won
Ralph Brinton, Ted Marshall, Jocelyn Herbert, Josie MacAvin— Tom Jones
Best Costume Design (B&W)
Winner
Piero Gherardi
8 1/2
Edith Head— Love with the Proper Stranger
Travilla— The Stripper
Bill Thomas— Toys in the Attic
Edith Head— Wives and Lovers
Best Costume Design (Color)
Winner
Irene Sharaff, Vittorio Nino Novarese, Renie
Cleopatra
Donald Brooks— The Cardinal
Walter Plunkett— How the West Was Won
Piero Tosi— The Leopard
Edith Head— A New Kind of Love
Sound & Visual Effects
Best Sound Recording
Winner
Franklin E. Milton (MGM Sound Dept.)
How the West Was Won
MGM Sound Dept. (Franklin E. Milton)— How the West Was Won
Columbia Sound Dept. (Charles Rice)— Bye Bye Birdie
Universal Sound Dept. (Waldon O. Watson)— Captain Newman, M.D.
20th Century-Fox Sound Dept., Todd-AO Sound Dept.— Cleopatra
Samuel Goldwyn Sound Dept. (Gordon E. Sawyer)— It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Best Visual Effects
Winner
Emil Kosa Jr.
Cleopatra
Ub Iwerks— The Birds
Documentary & Short Films
Best Animated Short
Winner
The Critic
Ernest Pintoff — Mel Brooks voices an old man at a museum
Walt Disney— Automania 2000
Dušan Vukotić— The Game (Igra)
Colin Low, Tom Daly— My Financial Career
Carmen D’Avino— Pianissimo
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World
WGBH Boston
Robert Hughes— Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World
Paul de Roubaix— Le Maillon et la Chaîne (The Link and the Chain)
Marshall Flaum— The Yanks Are Coming
International Film
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner
8½
Italy — Federico Fellini
Knife in the Water
Los Tarantos
The Red Lanterns
Twin Sisters of Kyoto