37th Academy Awards

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37th Academy Awards
Date	April 5, 1965
Site	Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California
Host	Bob Hope

The 37th Academy Awards honoured film achivements of 1964. For the first time, an award was presented in the field of makeup.

The Best Picture winner in 1964, Warner Bros.' and director George Cukor's My Fair Lady, was about the transformative training of a rough-speaking flower girl into a lady. The enchanting musical had run for many years on the stage (in both NYC and London). Rex Harrison was called upon to bring his marvelous characterization of perfectionist Svengali phonetics Professor Higgins to the screen.

Contents 1 Winners 2 Film 3 Direction 4 Acting 5 Writing 6 Music 7 Honorary Oscar

[edit] Winners

[edit] Film

• Best Picture: My Fair Lady - Jack.L.Warner, producer

[edit] Direction

• Achievement in Direction: George Cukor for My Fair Lady

[edit] Acting

• Best Actor: Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady
• Best Actress: Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins
• Best Supporting Actor: Peter Ustinov in Topkapi
• Best Supporting Actress: Lila Kedrova in Alexis Zorbas

[edit] Writing

• Best Original Screenplay: Father Goose written by Frank Tarloff, Peter Stone and S.H.Barnett
• Best Adapted Screenplay: Becket screenplay by Edward Anhalt

[edit] Music

• Best Original Song: Mary Poppins - Richard M. Shermanand Robert B. Sherman

- For the song "Chim Chim Cher-ee"

• Best Original Score: Mary Poppins by Richard M. Shermanand Robert B. Sherman

[edit] Honorary Oscar

William Tuttle received the first Honorary Makeup award for 7 Faces of Dr. Lao. [It would be 17 years until the Academy would introduce a regular competitive category for such achievements.]