The 35th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1962, were held on April 8, 1963, at the

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, hosted by

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Ceremony

The Best Actress Oscar occasioned the last act of the long-running feud between

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and

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. They had starred together for the first time in '' What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?'', a surprise hit the previous summer. Davis was nominated for her role as the title character, a faded child star who humiliates the wheelchair-using sister who eclipsed her fame in adulthood, while Crawford was not. Crawford told the other nominated actresses that, as a courtesy, she would accept their awards for them should they be unavailable on the night of the ceremony. Davis did not object as her rival had often done this, but, on the night of the ceremony, she was livid when Crawford took the stage to cheerfully accept the award on behalf of Anne Bancroft, who had a Broadway commitment. Davis believed that Crawford had told other Oscar voters to vote for '' The Miracle Worker'' star in order to upstage her. The rekindled animosity between the two resulted in Crawford leaving the cast of '' Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte'', a planned follow-up to ''Baby Jane'' that began filming the next summer, early in production.

Awards

Nominations announced on February 25, 1963. Winners in each category are listed first and highlighted with boldface text.

Honorary Academy Awards

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

* Steve Broidy

Presenters and performers

Presenters

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(Presenter: Best Supporting Actress) * Wendell Corey (Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film) *

(Presenter: Best Director) *

(Presenter: Writing Awards) *

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(Presenter: Best Picture) *

Van Heflin Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin Jr. (December 13, 1908 – July 23, 1971) was an American theatre, radio and film actor. He played mostly character parts over the course of his film career, but during the 1940s had a string of roles as a leading man. H ...

(Presenter: Short Subjects Awards) *

Audrey Hepburn Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and humanitarian. Recognised as both a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen ...

and Eva Marie Saint (Presenter: Best Costume Design) *

Gene Kelly Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American actor, dancer, singer, filmmaker, and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style and sought to create a new form of American dance accessibl ...

(Presenter: Best Art Direction) *

Sophia Loren Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone (; born 20 September 1934), known professionally as Sophia Loren ( , ), is an Italian actress. She was named by the American Film Institute as one of the greatest female stars of Classical Hollywood ci ...

(Presenter: Best Actor) *

Karl Malden Karl Malden (born Mladen George Sekulovich; March 22, 1912 – July 1, 2009) was an American actor. He was primarily a character actor, who according to Robert Berkvist, "for more than 60 years brought an intelligent intensity and a homespun aut ...

(Presenter: Best Film Editing) *

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(Presenter: Best Supporting Actor) * Donna Reed (Presenter: Best Cinematography) * Ginger Rogers (Presenter: Best Original Score and Best Original Song) *

Maximilian Schell Maximilian Schell (8 December 1930 – 1 February 2014) was an Austrian-born Swiss actor, who also wrote, directed and produced some of his own films. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1961 American film '' Judgment at Nuremberg'', ...

(Presenter: Best Actress) * Miyoshi Umeki (Presenter: Documentary Awards) * Shelley Winters (Presenter: Best Sound Recording and Best Special Effects)

Performers

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(musical director) *

Robert Goulet Robert Gérard Goulet (November 26, 1933 October 30, 2007) was an American and Canadian singer and actor of French-Canadian ancestry. Goulet was born and raised in Lawrence, Massachusetts until age 13, and then spent his formative years in Canad ...

(" Days of Wine and Roses" from '' Days of Wine and Roses'', "Love Song from Mutiny on the Bounty (Follow Me)" from '' Mutiny on the Bounty'', "Song from Two for the Seesaw (Second Chance)" from '' Two for the Seesaw'', "Tender Is the Night" from '' Tender Is the Night'' and " Walk on the Wild Side" from '' Walk on the Wild Side'')

Multiple nominations and awards

The following nineteen films received multiple nominations: * 10 nominations: ''

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'' * 8 nominations: ''

To Kill a Mockingbird ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' is a novel by the American author Harper Lee. It was published in 1960 and was instantly successful. In the United States, it is widely read in high schools and middle schools. ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' has become ...

'' * 7 nominations: '' Mutiny on the Bounty'' * 6 nominations: ''

The Music Man ''The Music Man'' is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader and sells band instruments ...

'' * 5 nominations: '' Days of Wine and Roses'', '' The Longest Day'', '' The Miracle Worker'', and '' What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?'' * 4 nominations: ''

Birdman of Alcatraz Robert Franklin Stroud (January 28, 1890 – November 21, 1963), known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz", was a convicted murderer, American federal prisoner and author who has been cited as one of the most notorious criminals in the United S ...

'' and '' The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm'' * 3 nominations: '' Divorce Italian Style'', '' Gypsy'', '' Sweet Bird of Youth'', and ''

That Touch of Mink ''That Touch of Mink'' is a 1962 American romantic comedy film directed by Delbert Mann and starring Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young, and Audrey Meadows. Plot Cathy Timberlake, an unemployed New York City career woman, goes to the unemploymen ...

'' * 2 nominations: '' Bon Voyage!'', '' David and Lisa'', '' Freud: The Secret Passion'', '' The Manchurian Candidate'', and '' Two for the Seesaw'' The following four films received multiple awards: * 7 awards: ''

'' * 3 awards: ''

'' * 2 awards: '' The Longest Day'' and '' The Miracle Worker''

Notes

:A: During pre-production on ''

'', producer

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and director

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were unhappy with Michael Wilson's original screenplay, so Spiegel asked playwright Robert Bolt to rewrite the script, as Spiegel wanted to get the film rights of Bolt's play '' A Man for All Seasons''. Bolt found the script lacking in good dialogue and also character depth. He essentially wrote the whole script, using T.E. Lawrence's book, '' The Seven Pillars of Wisdom'', as his starting point. While Bolt rewrote the whole script, he still retained the characterization of all of the characters found in Wilson's original script. It was decided that Bolt would be credited as the sole writer of ''Lawrence of Arabia'' and not Wilson, because he was

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at the time. The nomination for Wilson was granted on September 26, 1995, by the Academy Board of Directors, after research at the WGA found that the then-blacklisted writer shared the screenwriting credit with Bolt.

References

External links

The 35th Annual Academy Awards Synopsis
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