Fixing The Oscars – 1963

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Best Picture in Another Language

Winner: 8 1/2 (original winner Best Foreign Language Film)

- Tengoku to jigoku (”High and Low”)
- Le mepris (”Contempt”)
- Yukinojo henge (”An Actor’s Revenge”)

Best Picture in the English Language

Winner: The Birds

- The Haunting
- Charade
- Hud
- Shock Corridor

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Winner: Marcello Mastroianni (8 1/2)

- Paul Newman (Hud) (original nominee)
- Cary Grant (Charade)
- Richard Harris (This Sporting Life)(original nominee)
- Toshiro Mifune (High and Low)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Winner: Julie Harris (The Haunting)

- Audrey Hepburn (Charade)
- ‘Tippi’ Hedren (The Birds)
- Rachel Roberts (This Sporting Life) (original nominee)
- Shirley MacLaine (Irma La Douce) (original nominee)
- Brigitte Bardot (Contempt)
- Judy Garland (A Child Is Waiting)
- Ingrid Thulin (The Silence)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Winner: Melvyn Douglas (Hud) (original winner)

- Walter Matthau (Charade)
- Tsutomu Yamakazi (High and Low)
- Brandon De Wilde (Hud)
- Jack Palance (Contempt)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Winner: Claire Bloom (The Haunting)

- Patricia Neal (Hud) (original winner Best Actress)
- Anouk Aimee (8 1/2)
- Julie Christie (Billy Liar)
- Jessica Tandy (The Birds)

Best Director

Winner: Federico Fellini (8 1/2) (original nominee)

- Alfred Hitchcock (The Birds)
- Robert Wise (The Haunting)
- Akira Kurosawa (High and Low)
- Jean-Luc Godard (Contempt)

Best Screenplay

Winner: Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi (8 1/2) (original nominee)

- Nelson Gidding (The Haunting)
- Peter Stone (Charade)
- Evan Hunter (The Birds)
- Irving Ravetch; Harriet Frank Jr. (Hud) (original nominee)

Best Cinematography

Winner: James Wong Howe (Hud) (original winner Black and White Cinematography)

- Davis Boulton (The Haunting)
- Setsuo Kobayashi (An Actor’s Revenge)
- Robert Burks (The Birds)
- Gianni Di Venanzo(8 1/2)

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

Winner: Nino Rota (8 1/2)

- Henry Mancini (Charade)
- Elmer Bernstein (The Great Escape)
- John Addison (Tom Jones) (original winner)
- Bernard Herrmann (Jason and the Argonauts)

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