Fixing the Oscars – 1964

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Best Picture: English Language

THE WINNER: Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (original nominee)

- Mary Poppins (original nominee)
- My Fair Lady (original winner)
- A Hard Day’s Night
- Goldfinger

Best Picture: Non-English Language

THE WINNER: Woman in the Dunes (original nominee)

- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (original nominee)
- I Am Cuba
- The Red Desert
- Onibaba
- Kwaidan (original nominee)

Best Actor

THE WINNER: Peter Sellers (Dr. Strangelove) (original nominee)

- Dick Van Dyke (Mary Poppins)
- Rod Steiger (The Pawnbroker) (original nominee)
- Anthony Quinn (Zorba the Greek) (original nominee)
- Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady) (original winner)

Best Actress

THE WINNER: Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins) (original winner)

- Tippi Hedren (Marnie)
- Kyoko Kishida (Woman in the Dunes)
- Kim Stanley (Seance on a Wet Afternoon) (original nominee)
- Constance Towers (The Naked Kiss)

Best Supporting Actor

THE WINNER: George C. Scott (Dr. Strangelove)

- David Tomlinson (Many Poppins)
- Stanley Holloway (My Fair Lady) (original nominee)
- Peter Sellers (The Pink Panther)
- Gert Frobe (assist from Michael Collins) (Goldfinger)

Best Supporting Actress

THE WINNER: Lila Kedrova (Zorba the Greek) (original winner)

- Agnes Moorehead (Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte)(original nominee)
- Glynis Johns (Mary Poppins)
- Honor Blackman (Goldfinger)
- Diane Baker (Marnie)
- Capucine (The Pink Panther)

Best Director

THE WINNER: Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove) (original nominee)

- Robert Stevenson (Mary Poppins) (original nominee)
- Richard Lester (A Hard Day’s Night)
- Jacques Demy (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)
- Samuel Fuller (The Naked Kiss)

Best Screenplay

THE WINNER: Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, Terry Southern (Dr. Strangelove) (original nominee)

- Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi (Mary Poppins) (original nominee)
- Alun Owen (A Hard Day’s Night) (original nominee)
- Samuel Fuller (The Naked Kiss)
- Richard Maibaum, Paul Dehn (Goldfinger)

Best Cinematography: Color

THE WINNER: Jean Rabier (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)

- Yoshio Miyajima (Kwaidan)
- Harry Stradling, Sr. (My Fair Lady) (original winner)
- Edward Colman (Mary Poppins) (original nominee)
- Nicholas Roeg (Masque of Red Death)
- Robert Burks (Marnie)

Best Cinematography: B&W

THE WINNER: Sergei Urusevsky (I Am Cuba)

- Hiroshi Segawa (Woman in the Dunes)
- Gilbert Taylor (A Hard Day’s Night)
- Joseph F. Biroc (Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte) (original nominee)
- Walter Lassally (Zorba the Greek) (original winner)
- Kiyomi Kuroda (Onibaba)
- Gilbert Taylor (Dr. Strangelove)

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

THE WINNER: Henry Mancini (The Pink Panther) (original nominee) THE WINNER: John Barry (Goldfinger)

- Bernard Herrmann (Marnie) (original nominee)
- Ennio Morricone (A Fistful of Dollars)
- Akira Ifukube (Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster)
- Frank De Vol (Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte)

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