1962 (35th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1962 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Picture

Lawrence of Arabia, Horizon Pictures (G.B.), Ltd.-Sam Spiegel-David Lean Production; Columbia. (UK) Sam Spiegel, Producer.

Best Actor

Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird, Universal-International-Pakula-Mulligan-Brentwood Production; Universal-International.

Best Actress

Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker, Playfilms Production; United Artists.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Ed Begley in Sweet Bird of Youth, Roxbury Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker, Playfilms Production; United Artists.

Directing

Lawrence of Arabia, Horizon Pictures (G.B.), Ltd.-Sam Spiegel-David Lean Production; Columbia. (UK) David Lean.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

(Black-and-White)

To Kill a Mockingbird, Universal-International-Pakula-Mulligan-Brentwood Production; Universal-International. Art direction by Alexander Golitzen and Henry Bumstead; set decoration by Oliver Emert.

(Color)

Lawrence of Arabia, Horizon Pictures (G.B.), Ltd.-Sam Spiegel-David Lean Production; Columbia. (UK) Art direction by John Box and John Stoll; set decoration by Dario Simoni.

Cinematography

(Black-and-White)

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

(Color)

Lawrence of Arabia, Horizon Pictures (G.B.), Ltd.-Sam Spiegel-David Lean Production; Columbia. (UK) Fred A. Young.

Costume Design

(Black-and-White)

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Seven Arts-Associates & Aldrich Company Production; Warner Bros. Norma Koch.

(Color)

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer & Cinerama; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Mary Wills.

Documentary

(Feature)

Black Fox, Image Productions, Inc.; Heritage Films, Inc. Louis Clyde Stoumen, Producer.

(Short Subject)

Dylan Thomas, TWW Ltd.; Janus Films. (UK) Jack Howells, Producer.

Film Editing

Lawrence of Arabia, Horizon Pictures (G.B.), Ltd.-Sam Spiegel-David Lean Production; Columbia. (UK) Anne Coates.

Foreign Language Film

Sundays and Cybele, Terra Film-Fides-Orsay Films-Les Films du Trocadero; Columbia. (France, Austria)

Music

(Music Score—substantially original)

Lawrence of Arabia, Horizon Pictures (G.B.), Ltd.-Sam Spiegel-David Lean Production; Columbia. (UK) Maurice Jarre.

(Scoring of Music—adaptation or treatment)

Meredith Willson’s The Music Man, Warner Bros. Ray Heindorf.

(Song)

Days of Wine and Roses from Days of Wine and Roses, Martin Manulis-Jalem Production; Warner Bros. Music by Henry Mancini; lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

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

(Live Action)

Heureux Anniversaire (Happy Anniversary), C.A.P.A.C. Productions (Paris); Atlantic Pictures Corporation. (France) Pierre Etaix and J. C. Carrière, Producers.

Sound

Lawrence of Arabia, Horizon Pictures (G.B.), Ltd.-Sam Spiegel-David Lean Production; Columbia. (UK) Shepperton Studio Sound Department, John Cox, Sound Director.

Special Effects

The Longest Day, Darryl F. Zanuck Productions; 20th Century-Fox. Visual effects by Robert MacDonald; audible effects by Jacques Maumont.

Writing

(Screenplay—based on material from another medium)

To Kill a Mockingbird, Universal-International-Pakula-Mulligan-Brentwood Production; Universal-International. Horton Foote.

(Story and Screenplay—written directly for the screen)

Divorce—Italian Style, Lux-Vides-Galatea Film Production; Embassy Pictures Corporation. (Italy) Ennio de Concini, Alfredo Giannetti and Pietro Germi.

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Steve Broidy

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class II)

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

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

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

To Charles E. Sutter, 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)

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

To Louis G. MacKenzie for a selective sound effects repeater.