36th Academy Awards
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award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 1963
Key facts
- Date
- April 13, 1964
- Site
- Santa Monica Civic Auditorium , Santa Monica , California, U.S.
- Hosted by
- Jack Lemmon
- Produced by
- Richard Dunlap , George Sidney
- Directed by
- Richard Dunlap
- Best picture
- Tom Jones
- Most awards
- Cleopatra and Tom Jones (4)
- Most nominations
- Tom Jones (10)
- Network
- ABC
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Series
- Academy Awards
- Followed by
- 37th Academy Awards
- Follows
- 35th Academy Awards
- Location
- Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
- Official website
- www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1964
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- Commons category
- 1964 Academy Awards
- broadcast by
- American Broadcasting Company
- point in time
- 1964-04-13
- edition number
- 36
- presenter
- Jack Lemmon
- awarded for period
- 1963-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
The 36th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1963, were held on April 13, 1964, hosted by Jack Lemmon at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. This ceremony introduced the category for Best Sound Effects, with It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World being the first film to win the award.
Best Picture winner Tom Jones is the only film to date to receive 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “36th Academy Awards” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.