37th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1965)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Monday, April 5, 1965
  • For films released in: 1964
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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 37th Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Picture

  • Becket
    Hal B. Wallis [Producer]
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
    Stanley Kubrick [Producer]
  • Mary Poppins
    Walt Disney [Producer] and Bill Walsh [Producer]
  • My Fair Lady
    Jack L. Warner [Producer]
  • Zorba the Greek
    Michael Cacoyannis [Producer]

Best Directing

  • Becket
    Peter Glenville
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
    Stanley Kubrick
  • Mary Poppins
    Robert Stevenson
  • My Fair Lady
    George Cukor
  • Zorba the Greek
    Michael Cacoyannis

Best Actor

  • Becket
    Richard Burton
  • Becket
    Peter O'Toole
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
    Peter Sellers
  • My Fair Lady
    Rex Harrison
  • Zorba the Greek
    Anthony Quinn

Best Actress

  • Marriage Italian Style
    Sophia Loren
  • Mary Poppins
    Julie Andrews
  • The Pumpkin Eater
    Anne Bancroft
  • Seance on a Wet Afternoon
    Kim Stanley
  • The Unsinkable Molly Brown
    Debbie Reynolds

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

  • Becket
    John Gielgud
  • The Best Man
    Lee Tracy
  • My Fair Lady
    Stanley Holloway
  • Seven Days in May
    Edmond O'Brien
  • Topkapi
    Peter Ustinov

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

  • The Chalk Garden
    Dame Edith Evans
  • Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
    Agnes Moorehead
  • My Fair Lady
    Gladys Cooper
  • The Night of the Iguana
    Grayson Hall
  • Zorba the Greek
    Lila Kedrova

Best Foreign Language Film

  • Raven's End
  • Sallah
  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  • Woman in the Dunes
  • Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

  • The Americanization of Emily
    George W. Davis [Art Direction], Hans Peters [Art Direction], Elliot Scott [Art Direction], Henry Grace [Set Decoration] and Robert R. Benton [Set Decoration]
  • Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
    William Glasgow [Art Direction] and Raphael Bretton [Set Decoration]
  • The Night of the Iguana
    Stephen Grimes
  • Seven Days in May
    Cary Odell [Art Direction] and Edward G. Boyle [Set Decoration]
  • Zorba the Greek
    Vassilis Fotopoulos

Best Art Direction (Color)

  • Becket
    John Bryan [Art Direction], Maurice Carter [Art Direction], Patrick McLoughlin [Set Decoration] and Robert Cartwright [Set Decoration]
  • Mary Poppins
    Carroll Clark [Art Direction], William H. Tuntke [Art Direction], Emile Kuri [Set Decoration] and Hal Gausman [Set Decoration]
  • My Fair Lady
    Gene Allen [Art Direction], Cecil Beaton [Art Direction] and George James Hopkins [Set Decoration]
  • The Unsinkable Molly Brown
    George W. Davis [Art Direction], Preston Ames [Art Direction], Henry Grace [Set Decoration] and Hugh Hunt [Set Decoration]
  • What a Way to Go!
    Jack Martin Smith [Art Direction], Ted Haworth [Art Direction], Walter M. Scott [Set Decoration] and Stuart A. Reiss [Set Decoration]

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

  • The Americanization of Emily
    Philip H. Lathrop
  • Fate Is the Hunter
    Milton Krasner
  • Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
    Joseph Biroc
  • The Night of the Iguana
    Gabriel Figueroa
  • Zorba the Greek
    Walter Lassally

Best Cinematography (Color)

  • Becket
    Geoffrey Unsworth
  • Cheyenne Autumn
    William H. Clothier
  • Mary Poppins
    Edward Colman
  • My Fair Lady
    Harry Stradling Sr.
  • The Unsinkable Molly Brown
    Daniel L. Fapp

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

  • A House Is Not a Home
    Edith Head
  • Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
    Norma Koch
  • Kisses for My President
    Howard Shoup
  • The Night of the Iguana
    Dorothy Jeakins
  • The Visit
    René Hubert

Best Costume Design (Color)

  • Becket
    Margaret Furse
  • Mary Poppins
    Tony Walton
  • My Fair Lady
    Cecil Beaton
  • The Unsinkable Molly Brown
    Morton Haack
  • What a Way to Go!
    Edith Head and Moss Mabry

Best Documentary (Feature)

  • The Finest Hours
    Jack Le Vien
  • Four Days in November
    Mel Stuart
  • The Human Dutch
    Bert Haanstra
  • Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World without Sun
    Jacques-Yves Cousteau
  • Over There, 1914-18
    Jean Aurel

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

  • 140 Days under the World
    Geoffrey Scott and Oxley Hughan
  • Breaking the Habit
    Henry Jacobs and John Korty
  • Children Without
    Charles Guggenheim
  • Kenojuak
    National Film Board of Canada
  • Nine from Little Rock
    Charles Guggenheim

Best Film Editing

  • Becket
    Anne Coates
  • Father Goose
    Ted J. Kent
  • Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
    Michael Luciano
  • Mary Poppins
    Cotton Warburton
  • My Fair Lady
    William Ziegler

Best Music (Scoring of Music - adaptation or treatment)

  • A Hard Day's Night
    George Martin
  • Mary Poppins
    Irwin Kostal
  • My Fair Lady
    Andre Previn
  • 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 Music (Score - substantially original)

  • Becket
    Laurence Rosenthal
  • The Fall of the Roman Empire
    Dimitri Tiomkin
  • Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
    Frank DeVol
  • Mary Poppins
    Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
  • The Pink Panther
    Henry Mancini

Best Music (Song)

  • Dear Heart "Dear Heart"
    Henry Mancini [Music by], Jay Livingston [Lyrics by] and Ray Evans [Lyrics by]
  • Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte"
    Frank DeVol [Music by] and Mack David [Lyrics by]
  • Mary Poppins "Chim Chim Cher-ee"
    Richard M. Sherman [Music and Lyrics by] and Robert B. Sherman [Music and Lyrics by]
  • Robin and the 7 Hoods "My Kind of Town"
    James Van Heusen [Music by] and Sammy Cahn [Lyrics by]
  • Where Love Has Gone
    James Van Heusen [Music by] and Sammy Cahn [Lyrics by]

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

  • Christmas Cracker
    National Film Board of Canada
  • How to Avoid Friendship
    William L. Snyder
  • Nudnik #2
    William L. Snyder
  • The Pink Phink
    David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng

Best Short Subject (Live Action)

  • Casals Conducts: 1964
    Edward Schreiber
  • Help! My Snowman's Burning Down
    Carson Davidson
  • The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes
    Robert Clouse

Best Sound

  • Becket
    Shepperton Studio Sound Department and John Cox [Sound Director]
  • Father Goose
    Universal City Studio Sound Department and Waldon O. Watson [Sound Director]
  • Mary Poppins
    Walt Disney Studio Sound Department and Robert O. Cook [Sound Director]
  • My Fair Lady
    Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department and George R. Groves [Sound Director]
  • The Unsinkable Molly Brown
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department and Franklin E. Milton [Sound Director]

Best Sound Effects

  • Goldfinger
    Norman Wanstall
  • The Lively Set
    Robert L. Bratton

Best Special Visual Effects

  • 7 Faces of Dr. Lao
    Jim Danforth
  • Mary Poppins
    Peter Ellenshaw, Eustace Lycett and Hamilton Luske

Best Writing (Screenplay - based on material from another medium)

  • Becket
    Edward Anhalt
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
    Stanley Kubrick, Peter George and Terry Southern
  • Mary Poppins
    Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi
  • My Fair Lady
    Alan Jay Lerner
  • Zorba the Greek
    Michael Cacoyannis

Best Writing (Story and Screenplay - written directly for the screen)

  • Father Goose
    S.H. Barnett [Story by], Peter Stone [Screenplay by] and Frank Tarloff [Screenplay by]
  • A Hard Day's Night
    Alun Owen
  • One Potato, Two Potato
    Orville H. Hampton [Story and Screenplay by] and Raphael Hayes [Screenplay by]
  • The Organizer
    Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli and Mario Monicelli
  • That Man from Rio
    Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Ariane Mnouchkine, Daniel Boulanger and Philippe De Broca
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