36th Academy Awards

The 36th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1963, were held on April 13, 1964 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Jack Lemmon.

Contents

• Showcase sammy davis jr gets the wrong envelope during the 36th academy awards
• Awards
• Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award
• Presenters
• Performers
• Sidney Poitier winning Best Actor
• References

Best Picture winner Tom Jones became the only film in history to garner three Best Supporting Actress nominations; it also tied the Oscar record of five unsuccessful acting nominations, set by Peyton Place at the 30th Academy Awards.

This year's winner for Best Actress category was unique. Although playing a supporting role and having a relatively small amount on the screen, Patricia Neal won the Best Actress category for her lead (or supporting) role in Hud. The movie also won for Best Supporting Actor for Melvyn Douglas and Best Cinematography – Black and White. It was the second and, to date, last film to win two acting awards without being nominated for Best Picture (the other being The Miracle Worker).

At age 71 Margaret Rutherford set a then record for the oldest winner for Best Supporting Actress. Coincidentally, the year before Patty Duke set a then record for the youngest winner ever. Rutherford was also only the 2nd Oscar winner to be over the age of 70 at the time of her win. The other was Edmund Gwenn.

This was the first time a Black actor won Best Actor, and the first time a winning film (An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge) had been aired on network television before the ceremony.

Sammy Davis Jr. announced the winner in the category scoring of music, adaptation or treatment but was given the envelope with the name of a winner in a different category (score, substantially original).

Best Sound Editing was introduced this year, with It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World winning the award.