Film Data For 1964

The Film Daily's Ten Best Pictures of 1964 (Source: The Film Daily's 1965 Year Book)
1) My Fair Lady
2) Becket
3) Mary Poppins
4) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
5) Topkapi
6) A Hard Day's Night
7) The Americanization of Emily
8) The Unsinkable Molly Brown
9) The Chalk Garden
10) Seven Days in May

The Film Daily's Famous Fives of Filmdom- 1964 (Source: The Film Daily, February 1,1965)

Listed in order of preference

Best Performances by Male Stars
1) Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady
2) Peter O'Toole in Becket
3) Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove
4) Richard Burton in Becket
5) Peter Sellers in The World of Henry Orient

Best Performances by Female Stars
1) Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins
2) Debbie Reynolds in The Unsinkable Molly Brown
3) Sophia Loren in Marriage, Italian Style
4) Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady
5) Ava Gardner in Night of the Iguana

Best Performances by Supporting Actors
1) Stanley Holloway in My Fair Lady
2) Lee Tracy in The Best Man
3) George C. Scott in Dr. Strangelove
4) Bobby Darin in Captain Newman, M.D.
5) Peter Ustinov in Topkapi

Best Performances by Supporting Actresses
1) Elizabeth Ashley in The Carpetbaggers
2) Gladys Cooper in My Fair Lady
3) Mildred Dunnock in Behold a Pale Horse
4) Sue Lyon in Night of the Iguana
5) Deborah Kerr in Night of the Iguana

Best Performances by Juvenile Actors
1) Matthew Garber in Mary Poppins
2) Marietto Angeletti in Behold a Pale Horse
3) Tommy Kirk in The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
4) Bryan Russell in Emil and the Detectives
5) Frankie Avalon in Bikini Beach

Best Performances by Juvenile Actresses
1) Tippy Walker in The World of Henry Orient
2) Hayley Mills in The Chalk Garden
3) Merrie Spaeth in The World of Henry Orient
4) Karen Doctrice in Mary Poppins
5) Phyllis Thaxter in The World of Henry Orient (probably the oddest selection in The Film Daily's polling history- Thaxter made her film debut in 1944 and played Spaeth's mother in Orient. She was no juvenile at the time (Thaxter was born in 1921). It's possible Thaxter was placed in the wrong category, but this is where she appears in the magazine's list for 1964).

Best Directors of the Year
1) Stanley Kubrick for Dr. Strangelove
2) Tony Richardson for Tom Jones (1963)
3) George Cukor for My Fair Lady
4) Peter Glenville for Becket
5) John Huston for Night of the Iguana

Best Photographed Pictures of the Year
1) Harry Stradling for My Fair Lady
2) Walter Lassally for Tom Jones (1963)
3) Daniel L. Fapp for The Unsinkable Molly Brown
4) Ernest Lazzlo for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
5) Guiseppe Rotunno for The Organizer (1963)

The Year's Best Screenplays
1) Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern and Peter George for Dr. Strangelove
2) Alan Jay Lerner for My Fair Lady
3) John Osborne for Tom Jones (1963)
4) Edward Anhalt for Becket
5) Robert Dozier for The Cardinal (1963)

The Year's Best Original Songs
1) "Chim Chim Cher-ee" from Mary Poppins. Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
2) "From Russia with Love" from From Russia with Love (1963). Music by John Barry. Lyrics by Lionel Bart
3) "Goodbye Charlie" from Goodbye Charlie. Music by Andre Previn. Lyrics by Dory Langdon
4) "Sunday in New York" from Sunday in New York (1963). Music by Peter Nero. Lyrics by Carroll Coates
5) "Love With the Proper Stranger" from Love with the Proper Stranger (1963). Music by Elmer Bernstein. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

Best Music Score
1) Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe for My Fair Lady
2) Irwin Kostal for Mary Poppins
3) Meredith Wilson and Robert Ambruster for The Unsinkable Molly Brown
4) Manos Hodjidakis and Nikos Gatsis for America, America (1963)
5) John Addison for Tom Jones (1963)

"Finds of the Year"
1) Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins
2) The Beatles in A Hard Day's Night
3) Elizabeth Ashley in The Carpetbaggers
4) Elke Sommers in A Shot in the Dark
5) Stathis Giallelis in America, America (1963)

New York Film Critics Awards (Winners announced on December 28, 1964. Awards presented on January 23, 1965 at Sardi's restaurant in New York. Sources: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001 and Donald Lyons, "The Lights of New York," Film Comment, March-April, 1993)

Best Picture

My Fair Lady (won on ballot VI)

Runner-up: Dr. Strangelove

Best Director

Stanley Kubrick for Dr. Strangelove (won on ballot VI)

Runner-up: George Cukor for My Fair Lady

Best Actor

Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady (7 votes on ballot VI)

Runner-up: Dirk Bogarde in The Servant (6 votes)

Best Actress

Kim Stanley in Seance on a Wet Afternoon (won on ballot I)

Runner-ups: Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins, Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady and Sophia Loren in Marriage, Italian Style

Best Screenplay

Harold Pinter for The Servant (6 votes on ballot VI)

Runner Up: Peter George, Stanley Kubrick and Terry Southern for Dr. Strangelove (5 votes)

Best Foreign Film

That Man from Rio (France/Italy)

National Board of Review (Winners announced on December 22, 1964. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001)

Best Picture

Becket

Rest of the top ten (in order of preference)

My Fair Lady

The Girl with Green Eyes

The World of Henry Orient

Zorba the Greek

Topkapi

The Chalk Garden

The Finest Hours

Four Days in November

Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Best Director

Desmond Davis for The Girl with Green Eyes

Best Actor

Anthony Quinn in Zorba the Greek

Best Actress

Kim Stanley in Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Best Supporting Actor

Martin Balsam in The Carpetbaggers

Best Supporting Actress

Edith Evans in The Chalk Garden

Best Foreign Film

World Without Sun (France/Italy)

Runners-up (in order of preference)

The Organizer (France/Italy/Yugoslavia)

Anatomy of a Marriage (France/Italy)

Seduced and Abandoned (France/Italy)

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Italy)

The Golden Globes (Nominations announced on January 13, 1965. Awards presented on February 8th at the Cocoanut Grove in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The ceremony was telecast live on The Andy Williams Show on NBC. Source: Tom O’Neil’s Movie Awards) Winners listed in bold print.

Best Drama Picture

Becket

The Chalk Garden

Dear Heart

The Night of the Iguana

Zorba the Greek

Best Comedy or Musical Picture

Father Goose

Mary Poppins

My Fair Lady

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

The World of Henry Orient

Best Director

Michael Cacoyannis for Zorba the Greek

George Cukor for My Fair Lady

John Frankenheimer for Seven Days in May

Peter Glenville for Becket

John Huston for The Night of the Iguana

Best Actor, Drama

Richard Burton in Becket

Tony Franciosa in Rio Conchos

Fredric March in Seven Days in May

Peter O'Toole in Becket

Anthony Quinn in Zorba the Greek

Best Actress, Drama

Anne Bancroft in The Pumpkin Eater

Ava Gardner in The Night of the Iguana

Rita Hayworth in Circus World

Geraldine Page in Dear Heart

Jean Seberg in Lilith

Best Actor, Comedy or Musical

Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady

Marcello Mastroianni in Marriage, Italian Style

Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther

Peter Ustinov in Topkapi

Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins

Best Actress, Comedy or Musical

Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins

Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady

Sophia Loren in Marriage, Italian Style

Melina Mercouri in Topkapi

Debbie Reynolds in The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Best Supporting Actor

Edmond O'Brien in Seven Days in May

Cyril Delavanti in The Night of the Iguana

Stanley Holloway in My Fair Lady

Gilbert Roland in Cheyenne Autumn

Lee Tracy in The Best Man

Best Supporting Actress

Elizabeth Ashley in The Carpetbaggers

Grayson Hall in The Night of the Iguana

Lila Kedrova in Zorba the Greek

Agnes Moorehead in Hush. . .Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Ann Sothern in The Best Man

Best Musical Score

Jerry Goldsmith for Seven Days in May

Laurence Rosenthal for Becket

Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman for Mary Poppins

Mikis Theodorakis for Zorba the Greek

Dimitri Tiomkin for Fall of the Roman Empire

Best Song

"Circus World" from Circus World, Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington

"From Russia with Love" from From Russia with Love, John Barry, Lionel Barr, Monty Norman

"Dear Heart" from Dear Heart, Henry Mancini, Jay Livington, Ray Evans

"Sunday in New York" from Sunday in New York, Peter Nero, Carroll Coates, Roland Everett

"Where Love Has Gone" from Where Love Has Gone, James Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn

Most Promising Newcomer- Male

Harve Presnell

George Segal

Chaim Topol

Most Promising Newcomer- Female

Mia Farrow

Celia Kaye

Mary Ann Mobley

Best Foreign-Language Film (tie)

The Girl with the Green Eyes (England)

Marriage, Italian Style (Italy)

Sallah (Israel)

World Film Favorites

Sophia Loren

Marcello Mastroianni

Cecil B. DeMille Award

James Stewart

The 1964 British Academy Awards (Source: Bo Smith- The BAFTA Film Awards, 1989)

Best Film from Any Source
Becket (G.B.)
Dr. Strangelove (G.B.)
The Pumpkin Eater (G.B.)
The Train (U.S.)

Best British Film
Becket
Dr. Strangelove
King and Country
The Pumpkin Eater

Best British Actor
Richard Attenborough in Guns at Batasi and Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Tom Courtenay in King and Country
Peter O'Toole in Becket
Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther and Dr. Strangelove

Best British Actress
Edith Evans in The Chalk Garden
Audrey Hepburn in Charade
Deborah Kerr in The Chalk Garden

Best Foreign Actor
Cary Grant in Charade
Sterling Hayden in Dr. Strangelove
Marcello Mastroianni in Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field

Best Foreign Actress
Anne Bancroft in The Pumpkin Eater
Ava Gardner in The Night of the Iguana
Shirley MacLaine in Irma La Douce and What a Way to Go!
Kim Stanley in Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles
Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins
Elizabeth Ashley in The Carpetbaggers
The Beatles in A Hard Day's Night
Lynn Redgrave in Girl with Green Eyes

Best Screenplay for a British Film
Edward Anhalt for Becket
Stanley Kubrick for Dr. Strangelove
Harold Pinter for The Pumpkin Eater
Bryan Forbes for Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Best British Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Douglas Slocombe for Guns at Batasi
Denys Coop for King and Country
Oswald Morris for The Pumpkin Eater
Gerry Turpin for Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Best British Cinematography (Color)
Jack Hildyard for The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Arthur Ibbetson for The Chalk Garden
Nicolas Roeg for Nothing but the Best
Geoffrey Unsworth for Becket
Fred A. (Freddie) Young for The Seventh Dawn

Best British Art Direction (Black-and-White)
Ken Adam for Dr. Strangelove
Maurice Carter for Guns at Batasi
Richard MacDonald for King and Country
Richard Marshall for The Pumpkin Eater

Best British Art Direction (Colour)
Ken Adam for Goldfinger
Ernest Archer for Zulu
John Bryan for Becket
Carmen Dillion for The Chalk Garden

Best British Costume Design (Black-and-White)
Beatrice Dawson for Of Human Bondage
Julie Harris for Psyche '59
Motley for The Pumpkin Eater

Best British Costume Design (Colour)
Beatrice Dawson for Woman of Straw
Margaret Furse for Becket
Anthony Mendleson for The Long Ships
Anthony Mendleson for the Yellow Rolls-Royce

The Academy Awards (Nominations announced on February 23, 1965. Awards presented on April 5, 1965 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Sources Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards and Mason Wiley and Damien Bona's Inside Oscar). (Winners in bold print). 

Best Picture

Becket, Wallis, Paramount. Produced by Hal B. Wallis. 

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Hawk Films, Columbia. Produced by Stanley Kramer.

Mary Poppins, Disney, Buena Vista. Produced by Walt Disney.

My Fair Lady, Warner Bros. Produced by Jack L. Warner.

Zorba the Greek, Rochley, International Classics/20th Century-Fox. Produced by Michael Cacoyannis. 

Best Director

Michael Cacoyannis for Zorba the Greek (Rochley, International Classics/20th Century-Fox).

George Cukor for My Fair Lady (Warner Bros.). 

Peter Glenville for Becket (Wallis, Paramount).

Stanley Kubrick in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Hawk Films, Columbia).

Robert Stevenson for Mary Poppins (Disney, Buena Vista).

Best Actor

Richard Burton in Becket (Wallis, Paramount).

Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady (Warner Bros.). 

Peter O'Toole in Becket (Wallis, Paramount).

Anthony Quinn in Zorba the Greek (Rochley, International Classics/20th Century-Fox).

Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Hawk Films, Columbia).

Best Actress

Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins (Disney, Buena Vista). 

Anne Bancroft in The Pumpkin Eater (Romulus, Royal Films International/Columbia) (British).

Sophia Loren in Marriage, Italian Style (Champion-Concordia, Embassy) (Italian).

Debbie Reynolds in The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Marten, MGM). 

Kim Stanley in Seance on a Wet Afternoon (Attenborough-Forbes, Artixo) (British).

Best Supporting Actor

John Gielgud in Becket (Wallis, Paramount).

Stanley Holloway in My Fair Lady (Warner Bros.). 

Edmond O'Brien in Seven Days in May (Joel, Paramount). 

Lee Tracy in The Best Man (Millar-Turman, UA). 

Peter Ustinov in Topkapi (Filmways, UA). 

Best Supporting Actress

Gladys Cooper in My Fair Lady (Warner Bros.). 

Dame Edith Evans in The Chalk Garden (Hunter, Universal). 

Grayson Hall in The Night of the Iguana (Seven Arts, MGM). 

Lila Kedrova in Zorba the Greek (Rochley, International Classics/20th Century-Fox).

Agnes Moorehead in Hush. . .Hush, Sweety Charlotte (Associates & Aldrich Co., 20th Century-Fox). 

Best Screenplay- Based on Material from Another Medium

Becket, Wallis, Paramount. Edward Anhalt.

Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Hawk Films, Columbia. Peter George, Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern.

Mary Poppins, Disney, Buena Vista. Bill Walsh, Don Da Gradi.

My Fair Lady, Warner Bros. Alan Jay Lerner.

Zobra the Greek, Rochley, International Classics/20th Century-Fox. Michael Cacoyannis.

Best Story and Screenplay- Written Directly for the Screen

Father Goose, Granox, Universal. Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff, story by S.H. Barnett.

A Hard Day's Night, Shenson, UA (British). Alan Owen.

One Potato, Two Potato, Cinema V. Orville H. Hampton and Raphael Hayes.

The Organizer, Reade-Sterling-Continental (Italian). Age, Scarpelli and Mario Monicelli.

That Man from Rio, Lopert (French). Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Ariane Mnouchkine, 

Daniel Boulanger, Phillippe de Broca.

Best Cinematography (Black & White)

The Americanization of Emily, Ransohoff, MGM. Philip H. Lathrop.

Fate is the Hunter, Arcola, 20th Century-Fox. Milton Krasner.

Hush. . .Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Associates & Aldrich Co., 20th Century-Fox. Joseph Biroc.

The Night of the Iguana, Seven Arts, MGM. Gabriel Figueroa.

Zorba the Greek, Rochley, International Classics/20th Century-Fox. Walter Lassally.

Best Cinematography (Color)

Becket, Wallis, Paramount. Geoffrey Unsworth.

Cheyenne Autumn, Ford-Smith, Warner Bros. William H. Clothier.

Mary Poppins, Disney, Buena Vista. Edward Colman.

My Fair Lady, Warner Bros. Harry Stradling.  

The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Marten, MGM. Daniel L. Fapp.

Best Art Direction-Set Direction (Black-and-White)

The Americanization of Emily, Ransohoff, MGM. George W. Davis, Hans Peters and Elliot; Henry Grace and Robert R. Benton.

Hush. . .Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Associates & Aldrich Co., 20th Century-Fox. William Glasgow; Raphael Bretton.

The Night of the Iguana, Seven Arts, MGM. Stephen Grimes.

Seven Days in May, Joel, Paramount. Cary Odell; Edward G. Boyle.

Zorba the Greek, Rochley, International Classics/20th Century-Fox. Vassilis Fotopoulos.

Best Art Direction-Set Direction (Color)

Becket, Wallis, Paramount. John Bryan and Maurice Carter; Patrick McLoughlin and Robert Cartwright.

Mary Poppins, Disney, Buena Vista. Carroll Clark and William H. Tuntke; Emile Kuri and Hal Gausman.

My Fair Lady, Warner Bros. Gene Allen and Cecil Beaton; George James Hopkins.

The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Marten, MGM. George W. Davis and Preston Ames; Henry Grace and Hugh Hunt.

What a Way to Go, Apjac-Orchard, 20th Century-Fox. Jack Martin Smith and Ted Haworth; Walter M. Scott and Stuart A. Reiss.

Best Sound

Becket, Wallis, Paramount. Shepperton Studio Sound Dept.; John Cox, sound director.

Father Goose, Granox, Universal. Universal City Studio Sound Dept.; Waldon O. Watson, sound director.

Mary Poppins, Disney, Buena Vista. Walt Disney Studio Sound Dept.; Robert O. Cook, sound director.

My Fair Lady, Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept.; George R. Groves, sound director.

The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Marten, MGM. MGM Studio Sound Dept.; Franklin E. Milton, sound director.

Best Song

"Chim Chim Cher-ee" (Mary Poppins, Disney, Buena Vista); Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman.

"Dear Heart" (Dear Heart, Warner Bros.); Music by Henry Mancini. Lyrics by Jay Livington and Ray Evans.

"Hush. . .Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (Hush. . .Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Associates & Aldrich Co., 20th Century-Fox); Music by Frank De Vol. Lyrics by Mack David.

"My Kind of Town" (Robin and the 7 Hoods, Warner Bros.); Music by Jimmy Van Heusen. Lyrics by Sammy Cahn.

"Where Love Has Gone" (Where Love Has Gone, Embassy, Paramount); Music by James Van Heusen. Lyrics by Sammy Cahn.

Best Music Score-Substantially Original

Becket, Wallis, Paramount. Laurence Rosenthal.

The Fall of the Roman Empire, Bronston, Paramount. Dimitri Tiomkin.

Hush. . .Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Associates & Aldrich Co., 20th Century-Fox. Frank DeVol.

Mary Poppins, Disney, Buena Vista. Richard M and Robert B. Sherman.

The Pink Panther, Mirisch, UA. Henry Mancini.

Best Scoring of Music-Adaptation or Treatment

A Hard Day's Night, Shenson, UA (British). George Martin.

Mary Poppins, Disney, Buena Vista. Irwin Kostal.

My Fair Lady, Warner Bros. Andre Previn.

Robin and the 7 Hoods, Warner Bros. Nelson Riddle.

The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Marten, MGM. Robert Armbruster, Leo Arnaud, Jack Elliott, Jack Hayes, Calvin Jackson and Leo Shuken.

Film Editing

Becket, Wallis, Paramount. Anne Coates.

Father Goose, Granox, Universal. Ted J. Kent.

Hush. . .Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Associates & Aldrich Co., 20th Century-Fox. Michael Luciano.

Mary Poppins, Disney, Buena Vista. Cotton Warburton.

My Fair Lady, Warner Bros. William Ziegler.

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

A House is Not a Home, Greene-Rouse, Embassy Pictures. Edith Head.

Hush. . .Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Associates & Aldrich Co., 20th Century-Fox. Norma Koch.

Kisses for My President, Pearlayne, Warner Bros. Howard Shoup.

The Night of the Iguana, Seven Arts, MGM. Dorothy Jeakins.

The Visit, DeRode, 20th century-Fox. Rene Hubert.

Best Costume Design (Color)

Becket, Wallis, Paramount. Margaret Furse.

Mary Poppins, Disney, Buena Vista. Tony Walton.

My Fair Lady, Warner Bros. Cecil Beaton.

The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Marten, MGM. Morton Haack.

What a Way to Go, Apjac-Orchard, 20th Century-Fox. Edith Head and Moss Mabry.

Special Visual Effects

Mary Poppins, Disney, Buena Vista, Peter Ellenshaw, Hamilton Luske and Eustace Lycett.

7 Faces of Dr. Lao, Pal, MGM. Jim Danforth.

Best Sound Effects

Goldfinger, Broccoli-Saltzman-Eon, UA (British). Norman Wanstall.

The Lively Set, Universal. Robert L. Bratton.

Best Short Subject Cartoon

Christmas Cracker, National Film Board of Canada, Favorite Films of California

How to Avoid Friendship, Rembrandt Films, Film Representations. William L. Snyder, producer

Nudnik #2, Rembrandt Films, Film Representations. William L. Snyder, producer

The Pink Phink, Mirisch-Geoffrey, UA. David H. DePatie and Fritz Freleng, producers

Best Live Action Short Subject

Casals Conducts: 1964, Thalia Films, Beckman Film Corp. Edward Schreiber, producer

Help! My Snowman's Burning Down, Pathe Contemporary Films. Carson Davidson, producer

the Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes, Topaz Film Corp. Robert Clouse, producer

Best Documentary Short Subject

Breaking the Habit, American Cancer Society, Modern Talking Picture Service. Henry Jacobs and John Korty, producers

Children Without, National Education Association, Guggenheim Productions

Kenojuak, National Film Board of Canada

Nine from Little Rock, U.S. Information Agency, Guggenheim Productions

140 Days Under the World, New Zealand National Film Unit, Rank Film Distributors of New Zealand. Geoffrey Scott and Oxley Hughan, producers

Best Documentary Feature

The Finest Hours, Le Vien Films, Columbia. Jack Le Vien, producer

Four Days in November, David L. Wolper Prods., UA. Mel Stuart, producer

The Human Dutch,  Haanstra Filmproductie. Bert Haanstra, producer

Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World Without Sun, Columbia. Jacques-Yves Cousteau, producer

Over There, 1914-18, Zodiac Prods., Pathe Contemporary Films. Jean Aurel, producer

Best Foreign Language Film

Raven's End (1963- Sweden)

Sallah (Israel)

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (France)

Woman in the Dunes (Japan). 

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963- Italy)

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Not given this year.

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Not given this year.

Honorary Award

William Tuttle for his outstanding makeup achievement for The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (statuette)

Scientific or Technical Awards

Class I (Statuette)

Petro Vlahos, Wadsworth E. Pohl and Ub Iwerks for the conception and perfection of techniques for Color Traveling Matte Composite Cinematography.

Class II (Plaque)

Sidney P. Solow, Edward H. Reichard, Carl W. Hauge and Job Sanderson of Consolidated Film Industries for the design and development of the versatile Automatic 35mm Composite Color Printer.

Pierre Angenieux for the development of a ten-to-one Zoom Lens for cinematography.

Class III (Citation)

Milton Forman, Richard B. Glickman and Daniel J. Pearlman of ColorTran Industries for the advancements in the design and application to motion picture photography of lighting units using quartz iodine lamps.

Stewart Filmscreen Corporation for a seamless translucent Blue Screen for Traveling Matte Color Cinematography.

Anthony Pagila and the 20th Century-Fox Studio Mechanical Effects Dept. for an improved method of producing Explosion Flash Effects for motion pictures.

Edward H. Reichard and Carl W. Hauge of Consolidated Film Industries for the design of a Proximity Cue Detector and its application to motion picture printers.

Edward H. Reichard, Leonard L. Sokolow and Carl W. Hauge of Consolidated Film Industries for the design and application to motion picture laboratory practice of a Stroboscopic Scene Testor for color and black-and-white film.

Nelson Tyler for the design and construction of an improved Helicopter Camera System.

Director's Guild of America Awards (Sources: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg and Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001. Awards were presented on February 6, 1965, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles and the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York). Winner listed in bold print.

Best Director

George Cukor, My Fair Lady

Peter Glenville, Becket

John Huston, The Night of the Iguana

Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove

Robert Stevenson, Mary Poppins

Critic Award

James Meade, San Diego Union

Honorary Lifetime Member

Jack L. Warner

Writers Guild of America Awards (Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001. Awards were presented on March 17, 1965, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles). Winners listed in bold. 

Best Written Drama

Becket, Edward Anhalt, based on the play by Jean Anouilh

The Best Man, Gore Vidal

The Night of the Iguana, Anthony Veiller, John Huston, based on the play by Tennessee Williams

One Potato, Two Potato, Raphael Hayes, Orville H. Hampton

Seven Days in May, Rod Sterling, based on the novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II

Best Written Comedy

Dr. Strangelove, Peter George, Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern

Father Goose, Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff, story by S.H. Barnett

The Pink Panther, Blake Edwards, Maurice Richlin

Topkapi, Monja Danischewsky, based on the novel The Light of Day by Eric Ambler

The World of Henry Orient, Nora Johnson, Nunnally Johnson

Best Written Musical

Kissin' Cousins, Gerald Drayson Adams, Gene Nelson

Mary Poppins, Bill Walsh, Don Da Gradi, based on the books by P.L. Travers

My Fair Lady, Alan Jay Lerner, based on the Lerner and Loewe musical and the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Robin and the Seven Hoods, David Schwartz

Roustabout, Anthony Lawrence, Allan Weiss

The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Helen Deutsch, based on the musical by Richard Morris

Laurel Award

Sidney Buchman

Valentine Davies Award

James R. Webb

Berlin Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

Best Film

Dry Summer (Turkey)

Best Director

Satyajit Ray, Mahanager

Best Actor

Rod Steiger, The Pawnbroker

Best Actress

Sachiko Hidari, She and He

Best Documentary

Alleman (Holland)

Cannes Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

Best Picture:

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, France)

Best Director:

(Not awarded)

Best Actor:

Antal Pager, Pasirta; and Saro Urzi, Seduced and Abandoned

Best Actress:

Anne Bancroft, The Pumpkin Eater and Barbara Barrie, One Potato, Two Potato

Special Jury Prize:

Hiroshi Teshigahara, Woman in the Dunes

International Critics Prize:

The Passenger (Poland)

Catholic Film Office Award:

Umbrellas of Cherbourg (France)

Sterile Lives (Brazil)

Venice Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

Best Film:

Red Desert (Francesco Rosi, Italy)

Best Actor:

Tom Courtenay, King and Country (England)

Best Actress:

Harriet Anderson, To Love (Sweden)

Special Jury Prizes:

Hamlet (Kosintzev, USSR)

Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)

Best First Film:

La Vie a I'Envers (Alain Jessua, France)

Catholic Film Office Award:

Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (Italy)

International Film Critics Award:

Red Desert (Italy)

The New York Times Ten Best List (Listed in chronological order. Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

Dr. Strangelove

The Servant

That Man from Rio

One Potato, Two Potato

A Hard Day's Night

Woman in the Dunes

Mary Poppins

My Fair Lady

The Americanization of Emily

Marriage, Italian Style

The Top Box-Office Hits of 1964 (According to Variety- lists U.S. and Canadian rental fees up to the end of the calendar year. Late 1963 releases that primarily earned revenue in 1964 are included. Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

1) The Carpetbaggers- $13,000,000

2) It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)- $10,000,000

3) The Unsinkable Molly Brown- $7,500,000

4) Charade (1963)- $61500,000

5) The Cardinal (1963)- $5,275,000

6) Move, Over Darling (1963)- $5,100,000

7) My Fair Lady- $5,000,000 (also listed at #4 on the 1965 list, with $19,000,000 in rentals)

    What a Way to Go!- $5,000,000

9) Good Neighbor Sam- $4,950,000

10) The Pink Panther- $4,853,000

11) Viva Las Vegas (1964)- $4,675,000

12) Sword in the Stone (1963)- $4,500,000

13) A Hard Day's Night- $4,473,000

14) Dr. Strangelove- $4,148,000

15) The Night of the Iguana- $4,000,000

      The Misadventures of Merlin Jones- $4,000,000

17) From Russia with Love (1963)- $3,849,000

18) Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)- $3,500,000

19) Seven Days in May- $3,400,000

      The Prize- $3,400,000

The Top Ten Box-Office Stars of 1964 (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors)
1) Doris Day
2) Jack Lemmon
3) Rock Hudson
4) John Wayne
5) Cary Grant
6) Elvis Presley
7) Shirley MacLaine
8) Ann-Margret
9) Paul Newman
10) Richard Burton

The Next Fifteen:
11) Elizabeth Taylor
12) Debbie Reynolds
13) Jerry Lewis
14) Hayley Mills
15) Carroll Baker
16) James Garner
17) Frank Sinatra
18) Gregory Peck
19) Glenn Ford
20) Audrey Hepburn
21) Natalie Wood
22) Tony Curtis
23) James Stewart
24) Sophia Loren
25) Burt Lancaster

1964's Top Ten "Stars of Tomorrow" (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors)
1) Elke Sommer
2) Annette Funicello
3) Susannah York
4) Elizabeth Ashley
5) Stefanie Powers
6) Harve Presnell
7) Dean Jones
8) Keir Dullea
9) Nancy Sinatra
10) Joey Heatherton

The Golden Laurel Awards of 1965 (1964 films, unless otherwise noted. Source: IMDB)

Top Drama

1) The Carpetbaggers

2) The Americanization of Emily

3) The Night of the Iguana

4) Becket

5) Fail Safe

Top Comedy

1) Father Goose

2) The Pink Panther

3) A Shot in the Dark

4) What a Way to Go!

5) Good Neighbor Sam

Top Musical

1) The Unsinkable Molly Brown

2) Viva Las Vegas

3) A Hard Day's Night

4) Girl Happy (1965)

5) Robin and the 7 Hoods

Top Action Drama

1) Goldfinger

2) From Russia with Love (1963)

3) Cheyenne Autumn

4) Topkapi

5) Rio Conchos

Top General Entertainment

Mary Poppins

Sleeper of the Year

Zorba the Greek

Top Roadshow

My Fair Lady

Top Male Comedy Performance

1) Jack Lemmon in How to Murder You Wife (1965)

2) Cary Grant in Father Goose

3) Rock Hudson in Send Me No Flowers

4) Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther

5) Paul Newman in What a Way to Go!

Top Female Comedy Performance

1) Doris Day in Send Me No Flowers

2) Sophia Loren in Marriage, Italian Style

3) Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady

4) Elke Sommer in A Shot in the Dark

5) Natalie Wood in Sex and the Single Girl

Top Male Dramatic Performance

1) Richard Burton in Becket

2) James Garner in The Americanization of Emily

3) George Peppard in The Carpetbaggers

4) Peter O'Toole in Becket

5) Henry Fonda in Fail Safe

Top Female Dramatic Performance

1) Bette Davis in Hush. . .Hush, Sweet Charlotte

2) Carroll Baker in The Carpetbaggers

3) Kim Stanley in Seance on a Wet Afternoon

4) Anne Bancroft in The Pumpkin Eater

5) Deborah Kerr in The Night of the Iguana

Top Male Musical Performance

1) Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady

2) Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins

3) Elvis Presley in Viva Las Vegas

4) Harve Presnell in The Unsinkable Molly Brown

5) George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in A Hard Day's Night

Best Female Musical Performance

1) Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins

2) Debbie Reynolds in The Unsinkable Molly Brown

3) Ann-Margret in Viva Las Vegas

4) Connie Francis in Looking for Love

5) Annette Funicello in Muscle Beach Party

Top Action Performance

1) Sean Connery in Goldfinger

2) Burt Lancaster in The Train

3) Richard Boone in Rio Conchos

4) John Wayne in Circus World

5) Lee Marvin in The Killers

Top Female Supporting Performance
1) Glynis Johns in Mary Poppins
2) Agnes Moorehead in Hush. . .Hush, Sweet Charlotte
3) Lotte Lenya in From Russia with Love (1963)
4) Claire Trevor in How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
5) Lila Kedrova in Zorba the Greek

Top Male Supporting Performance
1) Peter Ustinov in Topkapi
2) Ed Begley in The Unsinkable Molly Brown
3) Gert Frobe in Goldfinger
4) Stanley Holloway in My Fair Lady
5) Melvyn Douglas in The Americanization of Emily

Top Director

1) George Cukor

2) Blake Edwards

3) Joseph L. Mankiewicz

4) Vincente Minnelli

5) Fred Zinnemann

6) John Sturges

7) Richard Brooks

8) Stanley Donen

9) Vittorio De Sica

10) Charles Walters

Top Producer

1) Walt Disney

2) Ross Hunter

3) Joseph E. Levine

4) Sam Spiegel

5) Walter Mirisch

6) Darryl Zanuck

7) Pandro S. Berman

8) Joe Pasternak

9) Jack Cummings

10) Jerry Bressler

Top Producer/Director

1) Mervyn LeRoy

2) Alfred Hitchcock

3) John Huston

4) William Wyler

5) Otto Preminger

6) Robert Aldrich

7) John Ford

8) George Stevens

9) Billy Wilder

10) George Sidney

Top Song

1) "Chim Chim Cher-ee" from Mary Poppins. Music and Lyrics by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman

2) "Dear Heart" from Dear Heart. Music by Henry Mancini. Lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans

3) "Hush. . .Hush, Sweet Charlotte" from Hush. . .Hush, Sweet Charlotte. Music by Frank De Vol. Lyrics by Mack David

4) "My Kind of Town" from Robin and the 7 Hoods. Music by Jimmy Van Heusen. Lyrics by Sammy Cahn

5) "Where Love Has Gone" from Where Love Has Gone. Music by Jimmy Van Heusen. Lyrics by Sammy Cahn

Top Music Men

1) Andre Previn

2) Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman

3) Dimitri Tiomkin

4) Henry Mancini

5) Max Steiner

Top Male Star

1) Jack Lemmon 

2) Cary Grant

3) Sean Connery

4) Rex Harrison

5) John Wayne

6) Rock Hudson

7) Richard Burton

8) Peter Sellers

9) Tony Curtis

10) Peter O'Toole

11) James Stewart

12) Paul Newman

13) Burt Lancaster

14) Gregory Peck

15) Charlton Heston

Top Female Star

1) Elizabeth Taylor

2) Debbie Reynolds

3) Julie Andrews

4) Doris Day

5) Shirley MacLaine

6) Natalie Wood

7) Sophia Loren

8) Carroll Baker

9) Sandra Dee

10) Deborah Kerr

11) Bette Davis

12) Susan Hayward

13) Elke Sommer

14) Audrey Hepburn

15) Jane Fonda

Top Male New Face

1) George Maharis

2) Harve Presnell

3) Andy Williams

4) James Coburn

5) Robert Goulet

6) George Segal

7) Alan Bates

8) Mike Connors

9) George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr

10) Robert Morse

11) Larry Hagman

12) Richard Crenna

13) Ralph Taeger

14) Tim Conway

15) James Fox

Top Female New Face

1) Elizabeth Ashley

2) Virna Lisi

3) Honor Blackman

4) Samantha Eggar

5) Daniela Bianchi

6) Lila Kedrova

7) Sarah Miles

8) Shelley Fabares

9) Dody Goodman

10) Nancy Sinatra

11) Tippy Walker

12) Fran Jeffries

13) Joanie Sommers

14) Merrie Spaeth

15) Celia Milius

Special Award

Jerry Lewis ("Family Comedy King")

Harvard Lampoon's Movie Worst Awards (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

Ten Worst Movies:

The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

The Carpetbaggers, Sylvia, Cheyenne Autumn, Station Six Sahara, Kiss Me Stupid (tied)

The Outrage

The Fall of the Roman Empire

One Potato, Two Potato

Youngblood Hawke

Kisses for My President

Goodbye Charlie

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Muscle Beach Party 

The Kirk Douglas Award to the Worst Actor:

James Franciscus, Youngblood Hawke

The Worst Actress:

Carroll Baker, The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Carpetbaggers, Sylvia, Cheyenne Autumn, Station Six Sahara

The Worst Supporting Actor:

Laurence Harvey The Outrage

The Worst Supporting Actress:

Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore in Goldfinger

The Merino Award:

In 1960 to Maureen O'Hara; in 1961 to Rita Moreno; in 1962 to Maureen O'Sullivan; this year to the Marine standing sentry duty outside the American Embassy in Paris in Charade; this year to marinophile Jacques Cousteau for his underwater documentary World Without Sun

The Uncrossed Heart:

(for the least promising young performer)

For the second year in a row: Annette Funicello

The Tin Pan:

(to the most obnoxious movie song)

"Sex and the Single Girl"

The Arrested-Development Oblation:

(to that adult actor who has displayed the lowest level of maturity)

Always given to Jerry Lewis

Hon. Wrong-Way Corrigan Memorial Palm:

(for the worse direction of a film)

Billy Wilder, Kiss Me Stupid

The Diamond-in-the-Rough Award:

Ann Southern, Sylvia

The Cellophane Figleaf:

(for false modesty)

Elke Sommer who, when accused of making nude movie scenes, said, "Those pictures were of me in flesh-tight leotards- and photographers had the nerve to retouch them!"

The Bratwurst Award:

(to the most obnoxious child star of the year)

Hayley Mills, The Chalk Garden 

Worst Performance by a Cast in Toto:

The entire population of Western Europe for its performance in The Fall of the Roman Empire  

The Timothy Cratchit Memorial Crutch:

(to that Hollywood personality who offers the lamest justification for unsavory behavior)

Ann-Margret, for hitting her director in the head with an ashtray, inflicting a 19-stitch wound, and then excusing herself as "having a passionate absorption in her craft."

The Wilde Oscar:

(to that performer who has been willing to flout convention and risk worldly reputation to pursue artistic fulfillment)

Carroll Baker, for spending two weeks with a prostitute in Tijuana to help her adjust to her public image

The Please-Don't-Put-Us-Through-DeMille-Again Award:

(for that film which best embodies pretentious extravagance and blundering ineffectiveness of the traditional Screen Spectacular)

The Greatest Story Ever Told

Best Argument for Stricter Immigration Laws:

Tosh-Togo for his performance as Odd-Job in Goldfinger

Thank You Again:

Victor Mature for not making a film this year

The Great Ceremonial Hot Dog

(for the worst scenes)

The on-screen rape in The New Interns

The entire first reel of The Silence

The Ok-Doc-Break-the-Arm-Again Award:

(for the most flagrant example of miscasting)

Sex and the Single Girl, with Natalie Wood in the role of a psychiatrist, and to None But the Brave, featuring Frank Sinatra as an Irish medic

The Geritol Award:

Anthony Quinn, Zorba the Greek

The Gold Star-on-the-Wayne Laurel:

To John Wayne, for "licking the Big C" 

Best Argument for Vivisection:

Flipper's New Adventure and Father Goose

The Curse-of-the-Living-Corpse

Bette Davis

The Marquis De Sade Memorial Whip:

Ann-Margret for her performance in Kitten with a Whip and the entire cast of Advance to the Rear

The Ayn Rand Award:

(to that writer whose bad books made worse movies)

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John for The Greatest Story Ever Told

The Roscoe Award:

Carroll Baker, who was the first performer ever to win the Movie Worst Triple Crown