Film Data For 1962

The Film Daily's Ten Best Pictures of 1962

1) The Manchurian Candidate- 193 

2) The Music Man- 177 

3) The Miracle Worker- 174 

4) The Longest Day- 163 

5) To Kill a Mockingbird- 154 

6) Requiem for a Heavyweight- 150 

7) Bird Man of Alcatraz- 128 

8) Lawrence of Arabia- 122 

9) Billy Budd- 117 

10) A Taste of Honey (1961)- 111 

The Honor Roll: 

11) Advise and Consent- 81 

12) Gigot- 78 

13) Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?- 68 

14) Lolita- 67 

15) Sweet Bird of Youth- 65 

16) That Touch of Mink- 63 

17) Flower Drum Song (1961)- 62 

18) Hatari!- 59 

19) Lover Come Back (1961)- 58 

20) Divorce- Italian Style- 54 

21) Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation- 52 

22) The Interns- 51 

23) A View From the Bridge- 48 

24) Boccaccio ‘70- 47 

25) Gypsy- 44 

26) Summer and Smoke (1961)- 43 (placed #25 in 1961 with 20 votes) 

27) Period of Adjustment- 31 

28) In Search of the Castaways- 30 

      Walk on the Wild Side- 30 

30) Bon Voyage!- 28 

31) Shoot the Piano Player- 26 

32) David and Lisa- 24 (placed 4th in 1963 poll with 122 votes) 

33) Days of Wine and Roses- 22 (placed 13th in 1963 poll with 58 votes) 

34) The Chapman Report- 20 

35) Mutiny on the Bounty- 18 

36) Whistle Down the Wind (1961)- 12 

The Film Daily- Filmdom’s Famous Fives of 1962 (No vote counts given, but I believe The Film Daily listed them in order of preference) 

Best Performances by Male Stars 

1) Burt Lancaster in Bird Man of Alcatraz 

2) Robert Preston in The Music Man 

3) Jackie Gleason in Gigot 

4) James Cagney in One, Two, Three (1961) 

5) Anthony Quinn in Requiem for a Heavyweight

Best Performances by Female Stars 

1) Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker 

2) Sophia Loren in Two Women (1961) 

3) Doris Day in Lover Come Back (1961) 

4) Geraldine Page in Sweet Bird of Youth 

5) Deborah Kerr in The Innocents 

Best Performances by Supporting Actors 

1) Terence Stamp in Billy Budd 

2) Mickey Rooney in Requiem for a Heavyweight 

3) Charles Laughton in Advise and Consent 

4) Neville Brand in Bird Man of Alcatraz 

5) Paul Ford in The Music Man (tied with) Walter Matthau in Lonely are the Brave 

Best Performances by Supporting Actresses 

1) Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate 

2) Hermione Gingold in The Music Man 

3) Arlene Francis in One, Two, Three (1961) 

4) Betty Field in Bird Man of Alcatraz 

5) Audrey Meadows in That Touch of Mink 

Best Performances by Juvenile Actors 

1) Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker 

2) Hayley Mills in Whistle Down the Wind (1961) 

3) Kevin Corcoran in Bon Voyage! 

4) Sue Lyon in Lolita 

“Finds of the Year” 

1) Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker 

2) Terence Stamp in Billy Budd 

3) Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker 

4) Marcello Mastroianni in Divorce- Italian Style 

5) Rita Tushingham in A Taste of Honey 

The National Board of Review (winners announced on December 21, 1962. Source: Tom O’Neil’s Movie Awards)

The Top Ten Pictures (in order of preference) 

1) The Longest Day 

2) Billy Budd 

3) The Miracle Worker 

4) Lawrence of Arabia 

5) Long Day’s Journey into Night 

6) Whistle Down the Wind 

7) Requiem for a Heavyweight 

8) A Taste of Honey 

9) Bird Man of Alcatraz 

10) War Hunt 

Best Director 

David Lean for Lawrence of Arabia 

Best Actor 

Jason Robards for Long Day’s Journey into Night and Tender is the Night 

Best Actress 

Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker 

Best Supporting Actor 

Burgess Meredith in Advise and Consent 

Best Supporting Actress Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate and All Fall Down

Best Foreign Films (in order of preference) 

1) Sundays and Cybele (France) 

2) Barabbas (1961- Italy) 

3) Divorce- Italian Style (1961- Italy) 

4) The Island (1960- Japan) 

5) Through a Glass Darkly (1961- Sweden) 

The Golden Globes (Nominations announced on January 23, 1963. Awards presented on March 5th, 1963. Source: Tom O’Neil’s Movie Awards) Winners listed in bold print.

Best Drama Picture 

The Chapman Report 

Days of Wine and Roses 

Freud 

Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man 

Lawrence of Arabia 

Lisa 

The Longest Day

The Miracle Worker

Mutiny on the Bounty

To Kill a Mockingbird 

Best Comedy Picture 

Best of Enemies 

Boys Night Out 

If a Man Answers 

Period of Adjustment 

That Touch of Mink 

Best Musical Picture 

Girls! Girls! Girls! 

Gypsy 

Jumbo 

The Music Man 

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

Best Motion Picture Promoting International Understanding 

Best of Enemies 

The Interns 

To Kill a Mockingbird 

Best Director 

George Cukor for The Chapman Report 

Morton DaCosta for The Music Man 

Blake Edwards for Days of Wine and Roses 

John Frankenheimer for The Manchurian Candidate 

John Huston for Freud 

Stanley Kubrick for Lolita 

David Lean for Lawrence of Arabia 

Mervyn LeRoy for Gypsy 

Robert Mulligan for To Kill a Mockingbird 

Martin Ritt for Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man 

Ismael Rodriguez for Los Hermanos del Hierro

Best Actor, Drama 

Bobby Darin in Pressure Point 

Jackie Gleason in Gigot 

Laurence Harvey in The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm 

Burt Lancaster in Bird Man of Alcatraz 

Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses 

James Mason in Lolita 

Paul Newman in Sweet Bird of Youth 

Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia 

Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird 

Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia 

 

Best Actress, Drama 

Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker 

Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? 

Katharine Hepburn in Long Day’s Journey into Night 

Glynis Johns in The Chapman Report 

Melina Mercouri in Phaedra 

Geraldine Page in Sweet Bird of Youth 

Lee Remick in Days of Wine and Roses 

Susan Strasberg in Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man

Shelley Winters in Lolita

Susannah York in Freud

Best Actor, Comedy or Musical 

Stephen Boyd in Jumbo 

Jimmy Durante in Jumbo 

Cary Grant in That Touch of Mink 

Charlton Heston in The Pigeon That Took Rome 

Karl Malden in Gypsy 

Marcello Mastroianni in Divorce- Italian Style (1961)

Robert Preston in The Music Man 

Alberto Sordi in The Best of Enemies 

James Stewart in Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation 

Best Actress, Comedy or Musical 

Doris Day in Jumbo 

Jane Fonda in Period of Adjustment 

Shirley Jones in The Music Man 

Rosalind Russell in Gypsy 

Natalie Wood in Gypsy 

Best Supporting Actor 

Ed Begley in Sweet Bird of Youth 

Victor Buono in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? 

Harry Guardino in The Pigeon That Took Rome 

Ross Martin in Experiment in Terror 

Paul Newman in Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man 

Cesar Romero in If a Man Answers 

Telly Savalas in Bird Man of Alcatraz

Peter Sellers in Lolita 

Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia 

Harold J. Stone in The Chapman Report 

Best Supporting Actress 

Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker 

Hermione Gingold in The Music Man 

Shirley Knight in Sweet Bird of Youth 

Susan Kohner in Freud 

Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate 

Gabriella Pollotta in The Pigeon That Took Rome 

Martha Raye in Jumbo 

Kay Stevens in The Interns 

Jessica Tandy in Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man 

Tarita in Mutiny on the Bounty 

Most Promising Newcomer- Male 

Keir Dullea in David and Lisa 

Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia 

Terence Stamp in Billy Budd 

Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia 

Paul Wallace in Gypsy 

Most Promising Newcomer- Female 

Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker 

Sue Lyon in Lolita 

Rita Tushingham in A Taste of Honey 

Dahlia Lavi in Two Weeks in Another Town 

Janet Margolin in David and Lisa 

Suzanne Pleshette in Rome Adventure 

Best Foreign-Language Film

Best of Enemies (1961- Italy) (tied with) Divorce-Italian Style (1961- Italy) 

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White) 

The Longest Day 

Best Cinematography (Color)

Lawrence of Arabia 

Best Original Score 

Elmer Bernstein for To Kill a Mockingbird 

World Film Favorites 

Doris Day 

Rock Hudson

 

Samuel Goldwyn International Award 

Sundays and Cybele (France) 

Cecil B. DeMille Award 

Bob Hope 

The 1962 British Academy Awards (Source: Bo Smith- The BAFTA Film Awards, 1989) 

Best Film From Any Source and Best British Film 

Billy Budd (G.B.) 

The Island (1960- Japan) 

Jules et Jim (France) 

A Kind of Loving (G.B.) 

The Lady with the Little Dog (USSR) 

Last Year at Marienbad 1961- France/Italy) 

Lawrence of Arabia (G.B.)- won both awards 

Lola (1961- France/Italy) 

The Long Absence (1961- France/Italy) 

The L-Shaped Room (G.B.) 

The Manchurian Candidate (U.S.) 

The Miracle Worker (U.S.) 

Only Two Can Play (G.B.) 

Phaedra (1961- Greece) 

Thou Shalt Not Kill (1961- Italy/Yugoslavia/Liechtenstein) 

Through a Glass Darkly (1961- Sweden) 

The Vanishing Corporal (France) 

West Side Story (1961- U.S.) 

Best British Actor 

Richard Attenborough in The Dock Brief 

Alan Bates in A Kind of Loving 

James Mason in Lolita 

Laurence Olivier in Term of Trial 

Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia 

Peter Sellers in Only Two Can Play

Best British Actress 

Leslie Caron in The L-Shaped Room 

Virginia Maskell in The Wild and the Willing 

Janet Munro in Life for Ruth 

 

Best Foreign Actor 

Jean-Paul Belmondo in Leon Marin, Priest (1961)

Franco Citti in Accatone! (1961)

Kirk Douglas in Lonely are the Brave 

George Hamilton in A Light in the Piazza 

Burt Lancaster in Bird Man of Alcatraz 

Charles Laughton in Advise and Consent 

Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia 

Robert Ryan in Billy Budd 

Georges Wilson in The Long Absence (1961)

Best Foreign Actress 

Anouk Aimee in Lola (1961)

Harriet Andersson in Through a Glass Darkly (1961)

Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker 

Melina Mercouri in Phaedra 

Jeanne Moreau in Jules et Jim 

Geraldine Page in Sweet Bird of Youth 

Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass (1961)

 

Most Promising Newcomer 

Tom Courtenay in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 

Mariette Hartley in Guns in the Afternoon (Ride the High Country) 

Ian Hendry in Live Now, Pay Later 

Sarah Miles in Term of Trial 

Terence Stamp in Billy Budd 

Best British Screenplay 

Peter Ustinov and DeWitt Bodeen for Billy Budd 

Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall for A Kind of Loving 

Robert Bolt for Lawrence of Arabia 

Bryan Forbes for Only Two Can Play 

Geoffrey Cotterell and Ivan Foxwell for Tiara Tahiti 

Wolf Mankowitz for The Waltz of the Toreadors 

Best Short Film 

Lonely Boy (Canada)

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (France)

Pan (Holland) 

Zoo (Holland) 

Best Specialized Film 

Four Line Conics (Canada) 

What’s the Time (G.B.) 

Best Animated Film 

The Apple (G.B.) 

Four Line Conics (Canada) 

The Traveling Rune (Holland) 

United Nations Award 

Food or Famine (G.B.) 

Reach for Glory (G.B.) 

Thou Shalt Not Kill (Italy/Yugoslavia/Liechtenstein) 

  The Academy Awards (nominations announced February 25, 1963. Awards presented April 8, 1963. Sources: Tom O’Neil’s Movie Awards and Mason Wiley and Damien Bona’s Inside Oscar).

Best Picture 

Lawrence of Arabia, Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia. Produced by Sam Spiegel.

The Longest Day, Zanuck, 20th Century-Fox. Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck.

The Music Man, Warner Bros. Produced by Aaron Rosenberg.

Mutiny on the Bounty, Arcola, MGM. Produced by Aaron Rosenberg.

To Kill a Mockingbird, Pakula-Mulligan-Brentwood, U-I. Produced by Alan J. Pakula.

Best Director 

Pietro Germi for Divorce- Italian Style (Embassy Pictures).

David Lean for Lawrence of Arabia (Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia).

Robert Mulligan for To Kill a Mockingbird (Pakula-Mulligan-Brentwood, U-I).

Arthur Penn for The Miracle Worker (Playfilms, UA).

Frank Perry for David and Lisa (Heller-Perry, Continental).

Best Actor 

Burt Lancaster in Bird Man of Alcatraz (Hecht, UA).

Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses (Manulis-Jalem, Warner Bros.).

Marcello Mastroianni in Divorce- Italian Style (Embassy Pictures).

Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia (Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia).

Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird (Pakula-Mulligan-Brentwood, U-I).

Best Actress 

Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker (Playfilms, UA).

Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (Seven Arts-Associates & Aldrich Co., Warner Bros.).

Katharine Hepburn in Long Day’s Journey into Night (Landau, Embassy).

Geraldine Page in Sweet Bird of Youth (Roxbury, MGM).

Lee Remick in Days of Wine and Roses (Manulis-Jalem, Warner Bros.).

Best Supporting Actor 

Ed Begley in Sweet Bird of Youth (Roxbury, MGM).

Victor Buono in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (Seven Arts-Associates & Aldrich Co., Warner Bros.).

Telly Savalas in Bird Man of Alcatraz (Hecht, UA).

Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia  (Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia).

Terence Stamp in Billy Budd (Harvest, Allied Artists).

Best Supporting Actress 

Mary Badham in To Kill a Mockingbird (Pakula-Mulligan-Brentwood, U-I).

Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker (Playfilms, UA).

Shirley Knight in Sweet Bird of Youth (Roxbury, MGM).

Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate (Axelrod-Frankenheimer, UA).

Thelma Ritter in Bird Man of Alcatraz (Hecht, UA).

Best Screenplay- Based on Material From Another Medium

David and Lisa, Heller-Perry, Continental. Eleanor Perry. 

Lawrence of Arabia, Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia. Robert Bolt. 

Lolita, Seven Arts, MGM. Vladimir Nabokov.

The Miracle Worker, Playfilms, UA. William Gibson.

To Kill a Mockingbird, Pakula-Mulligan-Brentwood, U-I. Horton Foote. 

Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen 

Divorce- Italian Style, Embassy Pictures (Italian). Ennio de Concini, Alfredo Giannetti and Pietro Germi.

Freud, Huston, U-I. Charles Kaufman and Wolfgang Reinhardt.

Last Year at Marienbad (1961), Astor Pictures (French). Alain Robbe-Grillet.

That Touch of Mink, Granley-Arwin-Shapiro, U-I. Stanley Shapiro and Nate Monaster.

Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Janus Films (Swedish). Ingmar Bergman.

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White) 

Bird Man of Alcatraz, Hecht, UA. Burnett Guffey. 

The Longest Day, Zanuck, 20th Century-Fox. Jean Bourgoin and Walter Wottitz.

To Kill a Mockingbird, Pakula-Mulligan-Brentwood, U-I. Russell Harlan.

Two for the Seesaw, Mirisch-Argyle-Talbot-Seven Arts, UA. Ted McCord.

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Seven Arts-Associates & Aldrich Co., Warner Bros. Ernest Haller.

Best Cinematography (Color) 

Gypsy, Warner Bros. Harry Stradling, Sr.

Hatari!, Malabar, Paramount. Russell Harlan.

Lawrence of Arabian Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia. Fred A. Young.

Mutiny on the Bounty, Arcola, MGM. Robert L. Surtees.

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, MGM and Cinerama. Paul C. Vogel.

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

Days of Wine and Roses, Manulis-Jalem, Warner Bros. Joseph Wright; George James Hopkins.

The Longest Day, Zanuck, 20th Century-Fox. Ted Haworth, Leon Barasa and Vincent Korda; Gabriel Bechir.

Period of Adjustment, Marten, MGM. George W. Davis and Edward Carfagno; Henry Grace and Dick Pefferle.

The Pigeon That Took Rome, Lienroe, Paramount. Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson; Sam Comer and Frank R. McKelvy.

To Kill a Mockingbird, Pakula-Mulligan-Brentwood, U-I. Alexander Golitzen and Henry Bumstead; Oliver Emert.

Art Direction-Set Direction (Color) 

Lawrence of Arabia, Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia. John Box and John Stoll; Dario Simoni.

The Music Man, Warner Bros. Paul Groesse; George James Hopkins.

Mutiny on the Bounty, Arcola, MGM. George W. Davis and J. McMillan Johnson; Henry Grace and Hugh Hunt.

That Touch of Mink, Granley-Arwin-Shapiro, U-I. Alexander Golitzen and Robert Clatworthy; George Milo.

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, MGM and Cinerama. George W. Davis and Edward Carfagno; Henry Grace and Dick Pefferle.

Best Sound 

Bon Voyage, Disney, Buena Vista. Walt Disney Studios Sound Department; Robert O. Cook, sound director.

Lawrence of Arabia, Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia. Shepperton Studio Sound Dept.; John Cox, sound director .

The Music Man, Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept.; George R. Groves, sound director. 

That Touch of Mink, Granley-Arwin-Shapiro, U-I. Universal City Studio Sound Dept.; Waldon O. Watson, sound director. 

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Seven Arts-Associates & Aldrich Co., Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Glen Glenn Sound Dept.; Joseph Kelly, sound director.

Best Song 

"Days of Wine and Roses" (Days and Wine Roses, Manulis-Jalem, Warner Bros.); Music by Henry Mancini. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

"Love Song from Mutiny on the Bounty (Follow Me)" (Mutiny on the Bounty, Arcola, ,MGM); Music by Bronislau Kaper. Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. 

“Song from Two for the Seesaw (Second Chance)" (Two for the Seesaw, Mirisch-Argyle-Talbot-Seven Arts, UA); Music by Andre Previn. Lyrics by Dory Langdon. 

“Tender is the Night” (Tender is the Night, 20th Century-Fox); Music by Sammy Fain. Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. 

“Walk on the Wild Side” (Walk on the Wild Side, Feldman-Famous Artists, Columbia); Music by Elmer Bernstein. Lyrics by Mack David.

Best Music Score- Substantially Original 

Freud, Huston, U-I. Jerry Goldsmith.

Lawrence of Arabia, Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia. Maurice Jarre.

Mutiny on the Bounty, Arcola, MGM. Bronislau Kaper.

Taras Bulba, Hecht, UA. Franz Waxman.

To Kill a Mockingbird, Pakula-Mulligan-Brentwood, U-I. Elmer Bernstein. 

Best Scoring of Music- Adaptation or Treatment 

Billy Rose’s Jumbo, Euterpe-Arwin, MGM. George Stoll.

Gigot, Seven Arts, 20th Century-Fox. Michel Magne.

Gypsy, Warner Bros. Frank Perkins.

The Music Man, Warner Bros. Ray Heindorf.

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, MGM and Cinerama. Leigh Harline.

Best Film Editing 

Lawrence of Arabia, Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia. Anne Coates.

The Longest Day, Zanuck, 20th Century-Fox. Samuel E. Beetley.

The Manchurian Candidate, Axelrod-Frankenheimer, UA. Ferris Webster.

The Music Man, Warner Bros. William Ziegler.

Mutiny on the Bounty, Arcola, MGM. John McSweeney, Jr. 

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White) 

Days of Wine and Roses, Manulis-Jalem, Warner Bros. Don Feld.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Ford, Paramount. Edith Head.

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Seven Arts-Associates & Aldrich Co., Warner Bros. Norma Koch.

The Miracle Worker, Playfilms, UA. Ruth Morley.

Phaedra, Dassin-Melindafilm, Lopert Pictures. Denny Vachlioti.

 

Best Costume Design (Color) 

Bon Voyage, Disney, Buena Vista. Bill Thomas.

Gypsy, Warner Bros. Orry-Kelly.

The Music Man, Warner Bros. Dorothy Jeakins.

My Geisha, Sachiko, Paramount. Edith Head.

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, MGM and Cinerama. Mary Wills.

Best Special Effects 

The Longest Day, Darryl F. Zanuck Prods., 20th Century-Fox. Robert MacDonald (Visual) and Jacques Maumont (Audible).

Mutiny on the Bounty, Arcola, MGM. A. Arnold Gillespie (Visual) and Milo Lory (Audible).

Best Short Subject Cartoon 

The Hole, Storyboard Inc., Brandon Films. John and Faith Hubley, producers.

Icarus Montgolfier Wright, Format Films, UA. Jules Engel, producer. 

Now Hear This, Warner Brothers. 

Self-Defense-For Cowards, Rembrandt Films, Film Representations. William L. Snyder, producer. 

Symposium on Popular Songs, Disney, Buena Vista. Walt Disney, producer.

 

Best Live Action Short Subject

Big City Blues, Mayfair Pictures. Martina and Charles Huguenot van der Linden, producers.

The Cadillac, United Producers Releasing. Robert Clouse, producer.

The Cliff Dwellers (a.k.a. One Plus One), Group II Film Prods., Schoenfeld Films. Hayward Anderson, producer.

Heureux Anniversaire (Happy Anniversary), Atlantic Pictures Corp. (French). Pierre Etaix and J.C. Carriere, producers.

Pan, Mayfair Pictures. Herman van der Horst, producer. 

Best Documentary Short Subject 

Dylan Thomas, TWW Ltd., Janus Films (Welsh). Jack Howells, producer .

The John Glenn Story, Department of the Navy, Warner Bros. William L. Hendricks, producer.

The Road to the Wall, CBS Films, Department of Defense. Robert Saudek, producer.

Best Documentary Feature 

Alvorada (Brazil’s Changing Face), MW Filmproduktion (German). Hugo Niebeling, producer. 

Black Fox, Image Prods., Heritage Films. Louis Clyde Stoumen, producer. 

 

Best Foreign Language Film 

Electra (Greece). 

The Four Days of Naples (Italy). 

The Keeper of Promises (The Given Word) (Brazil). 

Sundays and Cybele (France).

Tlayucan (Mexico).

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Not given this year.

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award 

Steve Broidy. 

Honorary Awards

Not given this year.

Scientific or Technical

Class I (Statuette)

None.

Class II (Plaque)

Ralph Chapman for the design and development of an advanced motion picture camera crane.

Albert S. Pratt, James L. Wassell and Hans C. Wohlrab of the Professional Division, Bell & Howell Co., for the design and development of a new and improved automatic motion picture additive color printer.

North American Philips Co., Inc. for the design and engineering of the Norelco Universal 70/35mm motion picture projector.

Charles E. Suter, William Bryson Smith and Louis C. Kennell of Paramount Pictures Corp. for the engineering and application to motion picture production of a new system of electric power distribution.

Class III (Citation)

Electro-Voice, Inc., for a highly directional dynamic line microphone.

Louis G. MacKenzie for a selective sound effects repeater.

Directors Guild of America (Best Director award was presented on February 9, 1963 via a dual ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles and the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001).

Best Director
David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia

Other finalists:

John Frankenheimer, The Manchurian Candidate

Pietro Germi, Divorce-Italian Style

John Huston, Freud

Stanley Kubrick, Lolita

Sidney Lumet, Long Day's Journey into Night

Peter Ustinov, Billy Budd

Bernhard Wicki, Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, The Longest Day

Other directors mentioned:

Robert Aldrich, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Morton DaCosta, The Music Man

John Frankenheimer, Bird Man of Alcatraz

Lewis Milestone, Mutiny on the Bounty
Robert Mulligan, To Kill a Mockingbird

Ralph Nelson, Requiem for a Heavyweight

Arthur Penn, The Miracle Worker

Tony Richardson, A Taste of Honey (1961)

 

Writers Guild of America (Awards were presented on May 7, 1963 at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards). (Winners in bold print).

Best Written Drama

Billy Budd, Peter Ustinov, DeWitt Bodeen, from the play by Luis O. Coxe, Robert H. Chapman, based on the novel by Herman Melville

Birdman of Alcatraz, Guy Trosper, based on the book by Thomas E. Gaddis

Freud, Charles Kaufman, Wolfgang

The Miracle Worker, William Gibson

To Kill a Mockingbird, Horton Foote, based on the novel by Harper Lee

Best Written Comedy

Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, Nunnally Johnson, based on the novel by Edward Streeter

The Notorious Landlady, Larry Gelbart, Blake Edwards, based on a story by Margey Sharp

Period of Adjustment, Isobel Lennart, based on the play by Tennessee Williams

The Pigeon That Took Rome, Melville Shavelson, based on the novel The Easter Dinner by Donald Downes

That Touch of Mink, Stanley Shapiro, Nate Manaster

Best Written Musical

Billy Rose's Jumbo, Sidney Sheldon, based on the musical and book by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur

Gypsy, Leonard Spigelgass, based on the musical play by Arthur Laurents and the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee

Hey, Let's Twist, Hal Hackady

The Music Man, Marion Hargrove, based on the musical by Meredith Willson from a story by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey

State Fair, Richard Breen, from the novel by Phil Stong, the 1933 adaptation by Sonya Levien and Paul Green, and the 1945 screenplay by Oscar Hammerstein II

Laurel Award

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Valentine Davies Award

Allen Rivkin

Screen Actor's Guild (Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001).

Lifetime Achievement Award

Eddie Cantor

1962 Berlin Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).

Best Film 

A Kind of Loving (John Schlesinger, England) 

Best Direction 

Francesco Rosi for Salvatore Giuliano 

Best Actor 

James Stewart in Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation 

Best Actress 

Rita Gam and Viveca Lindfors in No Exit 

Best Documentary 

Galapagos (Germany)

Best Short Subject 

The Painter Karel Appel (Holland)

International Film Critics Prize 

Zoo (1961- Holland) 

Most Promising Newcomer 

Jon Young Sun in To the Last Day (1960- Korea) 

1962 Cannes Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).

Best Film 

The Given Word (Anselmo Duarte, Brazil) 

Best Acting 

Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards and Dean Stockwell in Long Day’s Journey into Night 

Rita Tushingham and Murray Melvin in A Taste of Honey (1961)

Special Jury Prize 

Robert Bresson for Le Proces de Jeanne D’Arc (1928)

Michelangelo Antonioni for L’Eclipse 

International Critics Prize 

Luis Bunuel for The Exterminating Angel 

Catholic Film Office Award 

Michelangelo Antonioni for L’Eclipse 

1962 Venice Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).

Best Film: Lion of St. Mark 

Childhood of Ivan (Andrev Tarkovski, USSR)

Family Diary (Valerio Zurlini, Italy)

Best Actor 

Burt Lancaster, Bird Man of Alcatraz

Best Actress 

Emmanuelle Riva, Therese Desqueyroux

Special Jury Prizes 

Vivre Sa Vie (Jean-Luc Godard, France)

Best First Film 

David and Lisa (Frank Perry, USA)

Los Innudados (1961- Ferando Birri, Argentina)

Catholic Film Office Award 

Term of Trail (England)

International Film Critics Award 

Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski, Poland)

San Giorgio Prize

Bird Man of Alcatraz

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

Lover Come Back (1961) 

Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

Whistle Down the Wind (1961)

A Taste of Honey (1961)

Divorce-Italian Style (1961)

The Longest Day 

Long Day’s Journey into Night 

Sundays and Cybele 

Freud 

Electra 

The Top Box-Office Hits of 1962 (According to Variety- lists U.S. and Canadian rental fees up to the end of the calendar year. Late 1961 releases that primarily earned revenue in 1962 are included. Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg. Includes actual and estimated domestic rentals to theaters in U.S. and Canada, not box-office takes, which would be higher. If the final first-run rental take for films gaining $4,000,000 or more in rentals varies from the total originally listed, I'm showing that figure after the original total. Final first-run rentals data comes from Variety's January 9, 1963 "All-Time Top Film Grosses" list (only films taking $4,000,000 or more in rentals were mentioned on the "All-Time" list; unfortunately, I have no data for films with a final gross under $4,000,000 that may have ended up with a higher take than shown below). Occasionally a film will end up on the "All-Time" list with a lower rental box-office take than when the film originally appeared on the yearly list of top box-office films. This is due to the estimated rentals, which were sometimes revised to a lower amount for the All-Time list).

1) Spartacus (1960)- $13,500,000 (final rentals of $14,000,000)

2) West Side Story (1961)- $11,000,000 (final rentals of $19,000,000)

3) Lover Come Back (1961)- $8,500,000 (final rentals of $11,500,000)

    That Touch of Mink- $8,500,000

5) El Cid (1961)- $8,000,000 (final rentals of $11,500,000)

    The Music Man- $8,000,000

7) King of Kings (1961)- $7,500,000 (final rentals of $8,000,000)

8) Hatari!- $6,000,000 (final rentals of $7,000,000)

9) Flower Drum Song (1961)- $5,000,000

    The Interns- $5,000,000

11) Blue Hawaii (1961)- $4,700,000

12) Lolita (1962)- $4,500,000

13) Babes in Toyland (1961)- $4,400,000 (final rentals of $4,700,000)

14) Bon Voyage!- $4,100,000 (final rentals of $5,500,000)

15) Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?- $4,000,000

16) Sergeants 3- $3,955,000 (final rentals of $4,100,000)

17) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance- $3,900,000

18) Judgement at Nuremberg (1961)- $3,800,000 (final rentals of $5,000,000)

19) Moon Pilot- $3,500,000

      Splendor in the Grass (1961)- $3,500,000 (Splendor also placed at #10 on Variety's 1961 list- final rentals of $5,500,000)

The Golden Laurel Awards for 1963 (1962 films, unless otherwise noted. Published in the Motion Picture Exhibitor Magazine on September 11th, 1963. Listed in order of preference) 

Top Drama 

1) Days of Wine and Roses 

2) The Miracle Worker 

3) Bird Man of Alcatraz 

4) Mutiny on the Bounty 

5) The Interns 

Top Comedy

1) That Touch of Mink 

2) Son of Flubber (1963) 

3) Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation 

4) The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963) 

5) 40 Pounds of Trouble 

Top Action Drama 

1) The Longest Day 

2) Hatari! 

3) The Manchurian Candidate 

4) In Search of the Castaways 

5) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Top Musical 

1) The Music Man 

2) Gypsy 

3) Girls! Girls! Girls! 

4) Billy Rose’s Jumbo 

Top General Entertainment 

To Kill a Mockingbird 

Top Road Show 

Lawrence of Arabia Sleeper of the Year (two winners) 

David and Lisa 

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? 

Top Male Dramatic Performance 

1) Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses 

2) Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird 

3) Burt Lancaster in Birdman of Alcatraz 

4) Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia 

5) Henry Fonda in Spencer’s Mountain (1963) 

Top Female Dramatic Performance 

1) Lee Remick in Days of Wine and Roses 

2) Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker 

3) Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? 

4) Shirley MacLaine in Two for the Seesaw 

5) Katharine Hepburn in Long Day’s Journey into Night 

Top Male Comedy Performance 

1) Cary Grant in That Touch of Mink 

2) Tony Curtis in 40 Pounds of Trouble 

3) James Stewart in Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation 

4) Glenn Ford in The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963) 

5) Fred MacMurray in Son of Flubber (1963) 

Top Female Comedy Performance 

1) Doris Day in That Touch of Mink 

2) Jane Fonda in Period of Adjustment 

3) Debbie Reynolds in My Six Loves (1963) 

4) Sandra Dee in If a Man Answers 

5) Maureen O’Hara in Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation 

Top Male Musical Performance 

1) Robert Preston in The Music Man 

2) Elvis Presley in Girls! Girls! Girls! 

3) Maurice Chevalier in In Search of the Castaways 

4) Pat Boone in State Fair 

5) Jimmy Durante in Billy Rose’s Jumbo

Top Female Comedy Performance 

1) Ann-Margret in State Fair 

2) Natalie Wood in Gypsy 

3) Shirley Jones in The Music Man 

4) Connie Francis in Follow the Boys (1963) 

5) Rosalind Russell in Gypsy 

Top Action Performance 

1) John Wayne in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 

2) Frank Sinatra in The Manchurian Candidate 

3) Kirk Douglas in Lonely are the Brave 

4) Lee Marvin in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 

5) Robert Mitchum in The Longest Day 

Top Male Supporting Performance 

1) Gig Young in That Touch of Mink 

2) Karl Malden in Gypsy 

3) Charles Bickford in Days of Wine and Roses 

4) Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia 

5) Mickey Rooney in Requiem for a Heavyweight 

Top Female Supporting Performance 

1) Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker 

2) Mary Badham in To Kill a Mockingbird 

3) Thelma Ritter in Bird Man of Alcatraz 

4) Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate 

5) Roberta Sherwood in The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963) 

Top Male Star 

1) Rock Hudson 

2) Cary Grant 

3) Gregory Peck 

4) John Wayne 

5) Jack Lemmon 

6) Frank Sinatra 

7) Burt Lancaster 

8) Jerry Lewis 

9) Paul Newman 

10) Elvis Presley 

11) Henry Fonda 

12) James Stewart 

13) Tony Curtis 

14) William Holden 

15) Charlton Heston 

Top Female Star 

1) Doris Day 

2) Elizabeth Taylor 

3) Natalie Wood 

4) Ann-Margret 

5) Debbie Reynolds 

6) Sandra Dee 

7) Lee Remick 

8) Hayley Mills 

9) Shirley MacLaine 

10) Audrey Hepburn 

11) Kim Novak 

12) Anne Bancroft

13) Angie Dickinson 

14) Shirley Jones 

15) Jane Fonda 

Top New Male Personality 

1) Peter O’Toole 

2) James MacArthur 

3) Terence Stamp 

4) Omar Sharif 

5) Robert Walker 

6) Ty Hardin 

7) Victor Buono 

8) Keir Dullea 

9) Ron Howard 

10) Telly Savalas 

Top New Female Personality 

1) Suzanne Pleshette 

2) Elizabeth Allen 

3) Sue Lyon 

4) Stefanie Powers 

5) Janet Margolin 

6) Mimsy Farmer 

7) Rita Tushingham 

8) Anne Helm 

9) Lois Nettleton 

10) Pamela Franklin 

Top Director 

1) Fred Zinnemann 

2) Joseph L. Mankiewicz 

3) David Lean 

4) Henry Koster 

5) George Seaton 

6) John Frankenheimer 

7) Stanley Kubrick 

8) Vincente Minnelli 

9) John Sturges 

10) Delbert Mann 

Top Producer/Director 

1) Billy Wilder 

2) Alfred Hitchcock 

3) John Ford 

4) John Huston 

5) William Wyler 

6) Stanley Kramer 

7) Mervyn LeRoy 

8) Darryl F. Zanuck 

9) Otto Preminger 

10) Delmer Daves 

Top Producer 

1) Walt Disney 

2) Ross Hunter 

3) Sam Spiegel 

4) Hal B. Wallis 

5) Carl Foreman 

6) Walter Mirisch 

7) Samuel Bronston 

8) Robert Arthur 

9) Joe Pasternak 

10) Jerry Bresler 

Top Song 

1) “Love Song from Mutiny on the Bounty (Follow Me).” Music by Bronislau Kaper. Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster 

2) “Song from Two for the Seesaw (Second Chance).” Music by Andre Previn. Lyrics by Dory Langdon. 

3) “The Dancing Princess” from The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm. Music and Lyrics by Bob Merrill 

4) "Days of Wine and Roses" from Days of Wine and Roses. Music by Henry Mancini. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer 

5) Theme Song from Lawrence of Arabia. Music by Maurice Jarre 

 

Top Music 

1) Dimitri Tiomkin 

2) Johnny Green 

3) Max Steiner 

4) Andre Previn 

5) Meredith Wilson

Special Award (Three winners)

Bob Hope 

How the West Was Won 

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

The Top Ten Box-Office Stars of 1962 (according to Quigley Publishing’s poll of film exhibitors) 

1) Doris Day 

2) Rock Hudson

3) Cary Grant 

4) John Wayne 

5) Elvis Presley 

6) Elizabeth Taylor

7) Jerry Lewis 

8) Frank Sinatra 

9) Sandra Dee 

10) Burt Lancaster 

The Next Fifteen: 

11) Paul Newman 

12) Charlton Heston 

13) James Stewart 

14) Jack Lemmon 

15) William Holden 

16) Debbie Reynolds 

17) Kirk Douglas 

18) Tony Curtis 

19) Natalie Wood 

20) Hayley Mills 

21) Glenn Ford 

22) Kin Novak 

23) Shirley MacLaine 

24) Audrey Hepburn 

25) Gregory Peck 

1962's Top Ten "Stars of Tomorrow" (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors) 

1) Bobby Darin 

2) Ann-Margret 

3) Richard Beymer 

4) Suzanne Pleshette 

5) Capucine 

6) George Peppard 

7) James MacArthur 

8) Peter Falk

 9) Michael Callan 

10) Yvette Mimieux 

The Next Fifteen: 

11) Patty Duke 

12) Pamela Tiffin 

13) Dean Stockwell 

14) Elsa Martinelli 

15) Barbara Eden 

16) Sue Lyon 

17) David Ladd 

18) Tommy Sands 

19) Brandon deWilde 

20) Joan Blackman

21) Kevin Corcoran 

22) Harry Guardino 

23) Christine Kaufmann 

24) Stella Stevens 

25) Ty Hardin 

Great Britain’s Top Ten Box-Office Stars of 1962 (according to the Motion Picture Herald’s poll of British film exhibitors) 

1) Cliff Richard 

2) Elvis Presley 

3) Peter Sellers 

4) Kenneth More 

5) Hayley Mills 

6) Doris Day 

7) Sophia Loren

 8) John Wayne 

9) Frank Sinatra 

10) Sean Connery 

Great Britain’s Top Ten Box-Office hits of 1962 (according to the Motion Picture Herald) 

1) The Guns of Navarone 

2) The Young Ones 

3) Only Two Can Play 

4) The Comancheros 

5) Dr. No 

6) A Kind of Loving 

7) Sergeants Three 

8) Blue Hawaii 

9) The Road to Hong Kong 

10) That Touch of Mink 

11) The Waltz of the Toreadors 

12) Carry On Cruising 

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

Ten Worst:

The Chapman Report

If a Man Answers

Adventures of a Young Man

Diamond Head

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

White Slave Ship (1961)

Mutiny on the Bounty

Taras Bulba

Barabbas (1961)

The Mongols (1961); The Tartars (1961); The Huns (1960)

Worst Actress:

Jane Fonda, The Chapman Report

The Kirk Douglas Award for Worst Actor:

Charlton Heston, Diamond Head; The Pigeon That Took Rome

Worst Supporting Actress:

Pier Angeli, Sodom and Gomorrah

Worst Supporting Actor:

William Frawley, Safe at Home

The Uncrossed Heart:

(to the least promising young actor of the year)

Ann-Margret

The Tin Pan:

(to the most nauseating movie song of the year)

"Lolita, Yah-Yah"

The Wilde Oscar:

(to the performer who has been willing to flout convention and risk worldly reputation in the pursuit of artistic fulfillment)

Pier Angeli, for her part as a Pillar of Salt in Sodom and Gomorrah

The Merino Award:

In 1960 to Maureen O'Hara; in 1961 to Rita Moreno; this year to Maureen O'Sullivan

The Diamond-in-the-Rough Award:

Rosalind Russell for making Gypsy palatable despite Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, etc.

The Cellophane Figleaf:

(for false modesty)

Sue Lyon, who played the part of Lolita, and thereafter drummed up most of her publicity by insisting she is not a Lolita in real life 

The Bratwurst Award:

(for the most obnoxious child star)

A tie between Kevin Corcoran in In Search of the Castaways and the entire Vienna Boys Choir in Almost Angels

The Hon. "W.W." Corrigan Memorial Palm:

(for the worst direction of a film)

Otto Preminger for Lolita (note: Stanley Kubrick directed the film, so a W.W. Corrigan to the Havard Lampoon for this one)

The Timothy Cratchit Memorial Crutch:

To that Hollywood personality who offers the lamest justification for unsavory behavior: to Tony Curtis for calling a press conference to insist there was nothing immoral about his living with Christine Kaufman, since she had her parent's permission

The Arrested-Development Oblation:

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

Jerry Lewis, It's Only Money

The Worst All-Around Performance by a Cast in Toto:

The Longest Day

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

Presented to that religious movie of the past year which best embodies the pretentious extravagance and blundering ineffectiveness of the traditional Christian Screen Spectacular: Awarded this year to two movies: Barabbas (1961) and Sodom and Gomorrah

The Great Ceremonial Hot Dog:

(for the worst scenes of the past cinema season)

The naming of the fairy tale characters in The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm and the Polish army hurtling over the cliff in Taras Bulba

The Roscoe Award:

To Natalie Wood, for her unquestionably atrocious performance in Gypsy, which she did her utmost to ruin