1963 — Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives
High and Low (dir: Akira Kurosawa)
8 ½ (dir: Federico Fellini)
Knife in the Water (dir: Roman Polanksi)
A Legend or Was It? (dir: Keisuke Kinoshita)
Vivre sa Vie (dir: Jean-Luc Godard)
Black Sabbath (dir: Mario Bava; Italian Version)
Hud (dir: Martin Ritt)
The Great Escape (dir: John Sturges)
The Leopard (dir: Luchino Visconti)
The L-Shaped Room (dir: Bryan Forbes)
Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): The Birds (dir: Alfred Hitchcock), Charade (dir: Stanley Donen), The Haunting (dir: Robert Wise), Ladybug Ladybug (dir: Frank Perry), Shock Corridor (dir: Samuel Fuller), This Sporting Life (dir: Lindsay Anderson), X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (dir: Roger Corman), and Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (dir: Vittorio de Sica)
Tatsuya Mihashi, Kenjiro Ishiyama, and Tatsuya Nakadai Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low
Best Picture: High and Low
Director: Akira Kurosawa Producers: Ryûzô Kikushima and Tomoyuki Tanaka
US Distributor: East West Classics
Federico Fellini (center), Marcello Mastroianni (right) on the set of 8 ½
Best Director:
Federico Fellini, 8 ½
2. Akira Kurosawa, High and Low
3. Roman Polanski, Knife in the Water
4. Keisuke Kinoshita, A Legend or Was It?
5. John Sturges, The Great Escape
Paul Newman and Patricia Neal in Martin Ritt’s Hud
Best Actor:
Paul Newman, Hud
2. Toshiro Mifune, High and Low
3. Marcello Mastroianni, 8 ½
4. Richard Harris, This Sporting Life
5. Ray Milland, X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
Anna Karina in Jean-Luc Godard’s Vivre sa Vie
Best Actress:
Anna Karina, Vivre sa Vie
2. Julie Harris, The Haunting
3. Leslie Caron, The L-Shaped Room
4. Delphine Seyrig, Muriel, or the Time of Return
5. Natalie Wood, Love with the Proper Stranger
Walter Matthau in Stanley Donen’s Charade
Best Supporting Actor:
Walter Matthau, Charade
2. Larry Tucker, Shock Corridor
3. Melvyn Douglas, Hud
4. Robert Shaw, From Russia With Love
5. Brock Peters, The L-Shaped Room
Ann-Margret in George Sidney’s Bye Bye Birdie
Best Supporting Actress:
Ann-Margret, Bye Bye Birdie
2. Patricia Neal, Hud
3. Sandra Milo, 8 ½
4. Julie Christie, Billy Liar
5. Joyce Redman, Tom Jones
Kinuyo Tanaka and Shima Iwashita in Keisuke Kinoshita’s A Legend or Was It?
Best Original Screenplay:
A Legend or Was It? — Keisuke Kinoshita
2. Knife in the Water — Roman Polanski , Jakub Goldberg, and Jerzy Skolimowski
3. 8 ½ — Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli and Brunello Rondo
4. Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow — Eduardo De Filippo, Lorenza Zanuso, Bella Billa, Cesare Zavattini, and Isabella Quarantotti
5. Ladybug Ladybug — Eleanor Perry and Lois Dickert
Toshiro Mifune (talking on phone) in Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low
Best Adapted Screenplay:
High and Low — Akira Kurosawa, Ejiro Hisaita, Ryuzo Kikushima, and Hideo Oguni
2. The L-Shaped Room — Bryan Forbes
3. This Sporting Life — David Storey
4. Hud — Irving Ravetch and Harriett Frank, Jr.
5. The Leopard — Luchio Visconti, Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Enrico Medioli, and Massimo Francoisa
Federico Fellini’s 8 ½
Best Cinematography:
8 ½ — Gianni Di Venanzo
2. The Leopard — Giuseppe Rotunno
3. Black Sabbath — Mario Bava and Ubaldo Terzano
4. A Legend or Was It? — Hiroshi Kusuda
5. The Haunting — David Boulton
Leon Niemczyk and Jolanta Umecka in Roman Polanski’s Knife in the Water
Best Film Editing:
Knife in the Water — Halina Prugar
2. 8 ½ — Leo Catozzo
3. The Great Escape — Ferris Webster
4. Charade — James Clark
5. Black Sabbath — Mario Serandrei
Mark Damon and Susy Anderson in Mario Bava’s Black Sabbath
Best Original Score:
Black Sabbath — Roberto Nicolosi
2. A Legend or Was It? — Chûji Kinoshita
3. 8 ½ — Nina Rota
4. Hud — Elmer Bernstein
5. Charade — Henry Mancini
Alain Delon and Claudio Cardinale in Luchio Visconti’s The Leopard
Best Production Design:
The Leopard — Mario Garbuglia, Laudomia Hercolani and Giorgio Pes
2. Cleopatra — John De Cuir, Paul S. Fox, Ray Moyer and Walter M. Scott
3. The Haunting — Elliot Scott and John Jarvis
4. America America – Gene Callahan
5. Black Sabbath — Ricardo Domenici
Luchio Visconti’s The Leopard
Best Costume Design:
The Leopard — Piero Tosi
2. Cleopatra — Vittorio Nino Novarese and Renie
3. Black Sabbath — Tina Grani
4. 8 ½ — Piero Gherardi
5. America America — Anna Hill Johnstone
Best Visual Effects:
Jason and the Argonauts
Best Sound:
The Great Escape
Best Ensemble Cast:
8 ½
Orson Welles’ Best First Feature:
Roman Polanski, Knife in the Water
Best Ensemble Cast:
8 ½ (dir: Federico Fellini; in alphabetical order), Anouk Aimee, Guido Alberti, Caterina Boratto, Claudia Cardinale, Mario Conocchia, Rosella Falk, Eddra Gale, Madeleine Lebeau, Marcello Mastronianni, Sandra Milo, and Barbara Steele
Orson Welles' Best First Feature Award:
Roman Polanski, Knife in the Water
RECAP
W I N S :
8 ½ — 3,
High & Low — 2, Knife in the Water — 2, The Leopard — 2, Black Sabbath — 1, Bye Bye Birdie — 1, Charade — 1, The Great Escape — 1, Hud — 1, Jason and the Argonauts — 1, A Legend or Was It? — 1, Vivre sa Vie — 1
M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :
8 ½ — 10,
Black Sabbath — 6, Hud — 6, The Great Escape — 5, Knife in the Water — 5, A Legend or Was It? — 5, The Leopard — 5, High and Low — 4, The L-Shaped Room — 4, Charade — 3, The Haunting — 3, America America – 2, Cleopatra — 2, The Haunting— 2, This Sporting Life — 2, Vivra sa Vie — 2
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