37th Academy Awards

37th Academy Awards
37th Academy Awards
Date	April 5, 1965
Site	Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California
Hosted by	Bob Hope
Produced by	Joe Pasternak
Directed by	Richard Dunlap
Highlights
Best Picture	My Fair Lady
Most awards	My Fair Lady (8)
Most nominations	Mary Poppins (13)
TV in the United States
Network	ABC
	← 36th; Academy Awards; 38th →;

The 37th Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1964. For the first time, an award was presented in the field of makeup. None of the four acting awards went to American actors, something not repeated until the 80th Academy Awards were awarded for 2007.

The Best Picture winner of 1964, director George Cukor's My Fair Lady, was about the transformative training of a rough-speaking flower girl into a lady. The musical had run for many years on the stage (in both NYC and London). Audrey Hepburn, the female lead of the film, was controversially not nominated for Best Actress. The unpopularity of her replacement of Julie Andrews – the stage actress from the original play (and ironically the Best Actress winner of the year) – as well as the revelation that the majority of her singing performance was dubbed by Marni Nixon (which wasn't approved of by Hepburn herself) were seen as the main reasons for the snub.

The producer of the ceremony was MGM film producer Joe Pasternak. The master of ceremonies was Bob Hope making it his 14th time hosting the show. The awards show was star-studded with many top celebrities participating, including an appearance by Judy Garland, who sang a medley of Cole Porter songs in tribute to the composer, who died in October 1964.

This year marked the only time in Oscar history where 3 films got 12 or more nominations. Becket and My Fair Lady both with 12 nominations and Mary Poppins with 13. This marked the first year since the inception of the Supporting Actor and Actress categories wherein the acting Oscars were all won by non-American actors. This feat would again later be repeated at the 80th Academy Awards ceremony in 2008.

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface^[1]^[2]

Best Picture	Best Director
My Fair Lady – Jack L. Warner‡ Becket – Hal B. Wallis Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb – Stanley Kubrick Mary Poppins – Walt Disney and Bill Walsh Zorba the Greek – Michael Cacoyannis	George Cukor – My Fair Lady‡ Peter Glenville – Becket Stanley Kubrick – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Robert Stevenson – Mary Poppins Michael Cacoyannis – Zorba the Greek
Best Actor	Best Actress
*Rex Harrison – My Fair Lady* as Professor Henry Higgins*‡ Richard Burton – Becket* as Thomas Becket Peter O'Toole – Becket as King Henry II of England Anthony Quinn – Zorba the Greek as Alexis Zorba Peter Sellers – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb as Group Captain Lionel Mandrake/President Merkin Muffley/Dr Strangelove	*Julie Andrews – Mary Poppins* as Mary Poppins*‡ Anne Bancroft – The Pumpkin Eater* as Jo Armitage Sophia Loren – Marriage Italian-Style as Filumena Marturano Debbie Reynolds – The Unsinkable Molly Brown as Molly Brown Kim Stanley – Seance on a Wet Afternoon as Myra Savage
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
*Peter Ustinov – Topkapi* as Arthur Simon Simpson*‡ John Gielgud – Becket* as King Louis VII of France Stanley Holloway – My Fair Lady as Alfred P. Doolittle Edmond O'Brien – Seven Days in May as Senator Ray Clark Lee Tracy – The Best Man as Art Hockstader	*Lila Kedrova – Zorba the Greek* as Madame Hortense*‡ Gladys Cooper – My Fair Lady* as Mrs. Higgins Edith Evans – The Chalk Garden as Mrs. St. Maugham Grayson Hall – The Night of the Iguana as Judith Fellowes Agnes Moorehead – Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte as Velma Cruther
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Father Goose – S. H. Barnett, Peter Stone and Frank Tarloff‡ A Hard Day's Night – Alun Owen The Organizer – Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli and Mario Monicelli That Man from Rio – Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Ariane Mnouchkine, Daniel Boulanger and Philippe de Broca One Potato, Two Potato – Orville H. Hampton and Raphael Hayes	Becket – Edward Anhalt from Becket by Jean Anouilh‡ Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb – Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern and Peter George from Red Alert by Peter George Mary Poppins – Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi from The Mary Poppins Series by P. L. Travers My Fair Lady – Alan Jay Lerner from My Fair Lady by Alan Jay Lerner, and Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw Zorba the Greek – Michael Cacoyannis from The Life of Alexis Zorba by Nikos Kazantzakis
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Original Song
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Italy)‡ Raven's End (Sweden) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (France) Sallah Shabati (Israel) The Woman in the Dunes (Japan)	*"Chim Chim Cher-ee" from Mary Poppins* – Music and Lyric by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman*‡ "Dear Heart" from Dear Heart* – Music by Henry Mancini; Lyric by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans "Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte" from Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte – Music by Frank De Vol; Lyric by Mack David "My Kind of Town" from Robin and the 7 Hoods – Music by Jimmy Van Heusen; Lyric by Sammy Cahn "Where Love Has Gone" from Where Love Has Gone – Music by Jimmy Van Heusen; Lyric by Sammy Cahn
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short Subject
Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World Without Sun‡ The Finest Hours Four Days in November The Human Dutch Over There, 1914-18	Nine from Little Rock Breaking the Habit Children Without Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak 140 Days Under the World
Best Live Action Short Film	Best Animated Short Film
Casals Conducts: 1964‡ Help! My Snowman's Burning Down The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes	The Pink Phink‡ Christmas Cracker How to Avoid Friendship Nudnik #2
Best Original Score	Best Adaptation or Treatment Score
Mary Poppins – Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman‡ Becket – Laurence Rosenthal Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte – Frank De Vol The Fall of the Roman Empire – Dimitri Tiomkin The Pink Panther – Henry Mancini	My Fair Lady – André Previn‡ A Hard Day's Night – George Martin Mary Poppins – Irwin Kostal Robin and the 7 Hoods – Nelson Riddle The Unsinkable Molly Brown – Robert Armbruster, Leo Arnaud, Jack Elliot, Jack Hayes, Calvin Jackson and Leo Shuken
Best Sound Effects	Best Sound
Goldfinger – Norman Wanstall‡ The Lively Set – Robert L. Bratton	*My Fair Lady* – George Groves Becket – John Cox Father Goose – Waldon O. Watson Mary Poppins – Robert O. Cook The Unsinkable Molly Brown – Franklin Milton
Best Art Direction, Black and White	Best Art Direction, Color
Zorba the Greek – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Vassilis Fotopoulos‡ Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte – Art Direction: William Glasgow; Set Decoration: Raphael Bretton Seven Days in May – Art Direction: Cary Odell; Set Decoration: Edward G. Boyle The Americanization of Emily – Art Direction: George Davis, Hans Peters and Elliot Scott; Set Decoration: Henry Grace and Robert R. Benton The Night of the Iguana – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Stephen Grimes	My Fair Lady – Art Direction: Gene Allen and Cecil Beaton; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins‡ Becket – Art Direction: John Bryan and Maurice Carter; Set Decoration: Patrick McLoughlin and Robert Cartwright Mary Poppins – Art Direction: Carroll Clark and William H. Tuntke; Set Decoration: Emile Kuri and Hal Gausman The Unsinkable Molly Brown – Art Direction: George Davis and Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Henry Grace and Hugh Hunt What a Way to Go! – Art Direction: Jack Martin Smith and Ted Haworth; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott and Stuart A. Reiss
Best Cinematography, Black and White	Best Cinematography, Color
Zorba the Greek – Walter Lassally‡ Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte – Joseph Biroc Fate Is the Hunter – Milton Krasner The Americanization of Emily – Philip H. Lathrop The Night of the Iguana – Gabriel Figueroa	My Fair Lady – Harry Stradling‡ Becket – Geoffrey Unsworth Cheyenne Autumn – William H. Clothier Mary Poppins – Edward Colman The Unsinkable Molly Brown – Daniel L. Fapp
Best Costume Design, Black and White	Best Costume Design, Color
The Night of the Iguana – Dorothy Jeakins‡ A House Is Not a Home – Edith Head Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte – Norma Koch Kisses for My President – Howard Shoup The Visit – Rene Hubert	My Fair Lady – Cecil Beaton‡ Becket – Margaret Furse Mary Poppins – Tony Walton The Unsinkable Molly Brown – Morton Haack What a Way to Go! – Edith Head and Moss Mabry
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
Mary Poppins – Cotton Warburton‡ Becket – Anne Coates Father Goose – Ted J. Kent Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte – Michael Luciano My Fair Lady – William H. Ziegler	Mary Poppins – Peter Ellenshaw, Hamilton Luske and Eustace Lycett‡ 7 Faces of Dr. Lao – Jim Danforth

Academy Honorary Award

William Tuttle

Presenters and performers

The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.

Presenters

Name	Role
Hank Simms	Announcer for the 37th Academy Awards
Arthur Freed (AMPAS President)	Gave opening remarks welcoming guests to the awards ceremony
Claudia Cardinale Angie Dickinson Steve McQueen	Presenters of the awards for Best Sound Effects and Best Sound
Alain Delon	Presenter of the award for Best Visual Effects
Angela Lansbury	Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actor
Jimmy Durante Martha Raye	Presenters of the awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short
Merle Oberon	Presenter of the awards for Best Live Action Short and Best Animated Short
Greer Garson Dick Van Dyke	Presenters of the awards for Best Costume Design
Debbie Reynolds	Presenter of the awards for Best Original Score and Best Adaptation or Treatment Score
Anthony Franciosa	Presenter of the Scientific and Technical Awards
Rex Harrison	Presenter of the award for Best Foreign Language Film
Rosalind Russell	Presenter of the Honorary Award to William Tuttle
Karl Malden	Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actress
Richard Chamberlain Vince Edwards	Presenters of the award for Best Film Editing
Rock Hudson Jean Simmons	Presenters of the awards for Best Cinematography
Elizabeth Ashley Macdonald Carey	Presenters of the awards for Best Art Direction
Gene Kelly	Introducer of the performance of the tribute to Cole Porter
Fred Astaire	Presenter of the award for Best Original Song
Deborah Kerr	Presenter of the awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay
Audrey Hepburn	Presenter of the award for Best Actor
Sidney Poitier	Presenter of the award for Best Actress
Joan Crawford	Presenter of the award for Best Director
Gregory Peck	Presenter of the award for Best Picture

Performers

Name	Role	Performed
Johnny Green Roger Edens	Musical arrangers	Orchestral
The New Christy Minstrels	Performers	"Chim Chim Cher-ee" from Mary Poppins
Andy Williams	Performer	"Dear Heart" from Dear Heart
Patti Page	Performer	"Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte" from Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Nancy Wilson	Performer	"My Kind of Town" from Robin and the 7 Hoods
Jack Jones	Performer	"Where Love Has Gone" from Where Love Has Gone
Judy Garland	Performer	Cole Porter Medley
Academy Awards Orchestra	Performers	"That's Entertainment" during the closing credits

Multiple nominations and awards

These films had multiple nominations:

13 nominations: Mary Poppins
12 nominations: Becket and My Fair Lady
7 nominations: Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Zorba the Greek
6 nominations: The Unsinkable Molly Brown
4 nominations: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Night of the Iguana
3 nominations: Father Goose
2 nominations: The Americanization of Emily, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Seven Days in May, What a Way to Go!, A Hard Day's Night

The following films received multiple awards.

8 wins: My Fair Lady
5 wins: Mary Poppins
3 wins: Zorba the Greek

References

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