Best Picture:
1. Dr. Strangelove
2. I Am Cuba
3. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
4. Yearning
5. Zulu
Best Director:
1. Satyajit Ray, Mahanagar
2. Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove
3. Mikhail Kalatozov, I Am Cuba
4. Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
5. Mikio Naruse, Yearning
Best Actor:
1. Peter Sellers, Dr. Strangelove
2. Clint Eastwood, A Fistful of Dollars
3. Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady
4. Burt Lancaster, The Train
5. Stanley Baker, Zulu
Best Actress:
1. Madhabi Mukherjee, Charulata
2. Nina Pens Rode, Gertrud
3. Paula Prentiss, Man’s Favorite Sport?
4. Constance Towers, The Naked Kiss
5. Hideko Takemine, Yearning
A lot of great actresses this year. Very tough to leave out Catherine Deneuve in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Anna Karina in Band of Outsiders, Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins, Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, Tippi Hedrin in Marnie, Macha Méril in A Married Woman and Jitsuko Yoshimura in Onibaba.
1. George C. Scott, Dr. Strangelove
2. Stanley Holloway, My Fair Lady
3. Paul Scofield, The Train
4. Michael Caine, Zulu
5. Nigel Green, Zulu
Supporting Actress:
1. Nobuko Otowa, Onibaba
2. Jeanne Moreau, The Train
3. Anne Vernon, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
4. Tippy Walker, The World of Henry Orient
5. Mitsuko Kusabue, Yearning
As great as the actress category was, I struggled to come up with five Supporting Actresses. Maybe I’m missing someone obvious. . . .
Original Screenplay:
1. Peter Watkins, Culloden
2. Enrique Pineda Barnet & Yevgeni Yevtushenko, I Am Cuba
3. Samuel Fuller, The Naked Kiss
4. Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
5. Mikio Naruse & Zenzo Matsuyama, Yearning
Adapted Screenplay:
1. Jean-Luc Godard, Band of Outsiders
2. Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern & Peter George, Dr. Strangelove
3. Carl Theodor Dreyer, Gertrud
4. Satyajit Ray, Mahanagar
5. Cy Endfield & John Prebble, Zulu
Non-English Language Film:
1. Gertrud
2. I Am Cuba
3. Mahanagar
4. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
5. Yearning
Unseen Film:
1. Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Buñuel)
2. The Gospel According to St. Mathew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
3. Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi)
4. Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)
5. The Soft Skin (François Truffaut)
Film Editing:
1. I Am Cuba
2. Culloden
3. A Hard Day’s Night
4. Yearning
5. Zulu
Cinematography:
1. Dick Bush, Culloden
2. Sergei Urusevsky, I Am Cuba
3. Harry Stradling, My Fair Lady
4. Jean Rabier, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
5. Hiroshi Segawa, Woman in the Dunes
Original Score:
1. A Fistful of Dollars
2. Mary Poppins
3. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
4. Woman in the Dunes
5. Yearning
Soundtrack:
1. A Fistful of Dollars
2. A Hard Day’s Night
3. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
4. Mary Poppins
5. My Fair Lady
Original Song:
1. “Goldfinger”, Goldfinger
2. “A Hard Day’s Night”, A Hard Day’s Night
3. “And I Love Her”, A Hard Day’s Night
4. “If I Fell”, A Hard Day’s Night
5. “My Kind of Town”, Robin and the 7 Hoods
A lot of great music in the movies from this year, and figuring out what counts as original and what is adapted is difficult. The Academy put A Hard Day’s Night and Mary Poppins in the “Score – Adaptation or Treatment” category rather than “Original Score”, but as far as I can tell, the music and songs were written for the film in both cases. Of course, the Academy also didn’t see fit to nominate any of the A Hard Day’s Night songs, so what do they know.
Art Direction:
1. Dr. Strangelove
2. Masque of the Red Death
3. My Fair Lady
4. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
5. Woman in the Dunes
Costume Design:
1. Mary Poppins
2. Masque of the Red Death
3. My Fair Lady
4. Onibaba
5. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Make-up:
1. My Fair Lady
2. Onibaba
3. Zulu
Sound Mixing:
1. Culloden
2. A Hard Day’s Night
3. My Fair Lady
4. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
5. Zulu
Sound Editing:
1. Culloden
2. Dr. Strangelove
3. Goldfinger
4. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
5. Zulu
Visual Effects:
1. Goldfinger
2. I Am Cuba
3. Mary Poppins
4. Masque of the Red Death
5. Onibaba