35th Academy Awards
The 35th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1962, were held on April 8, 1963, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California, hosted by Frank Sinatra.
The year's most successful film was David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia, with 10 nominations and 7 wins, including Best Picture and Lean's second win for Best Director. For his role as T. E. Lawrence, Peter O'Toole received his first of eight career nominations for Best Actor, all unsuccessful; as of the 94th Academy Awards, O'Toole and Glenn Close share the record for the most acting nominations with no wins.
Arthur Penn's The Miracle Worker earned the rare distinction of winning two acting Oscars without a nomination for Best Picture. The only other film to do this to date was Hud, the following year.
Ceremony
The Best Actress Oscar occasioned the last act of the long-running feud between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. They had starred together for the first time in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, a surprise hit the previous summer. Davis was nominated for her role as the title character, a faded child star who humiliates the wheelchair-using sister who eclipsed her fame in adulthood, while Crawford was not.Crawford told the other nominated actresses that, as a courtesy, she would accept their awards for them should they be unavailable on the night of the ceremony. Davis did not object as her rival had often done this, but, on the night of the ceremony, she was livid when Crawford took the stage, wearing what was described as a "radiant smile", to cheerfully accept the award on behalf of Anne Bancroft, who had a Broadway commitment. Davis believed that Crawford had told other Oscar voters to vote for The Miracle Worker star in order to upstage her. The rekindled animosity between the two resulted in Crawford leaving the cast of Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, a planned follow-up to Baby Jane that began filming the next summer, early in production.
Awards
Nominations announced on February 25, 1963. Winners in each category are listed first and highlighted with boldface text.Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
- Steve Broidy
Presenters and performers
Presenters
- George Chakiris
- Wendell Corey
- Joan Crawford
- Bette Davis
- Olivia de Havilland
- Van Heflin
- Audrey Hepburn and Eva Marie Saint
- Gene Kelly
- Sophia Loren
- Karl Malden
- Rita Moreno
- Donna Reed
- Ginger Rogers
- Maximilian Schell
- Frank Sinatra
- Miyoshi Umeki
- Shelley Winters
Performers
- Alfred Newman
- Robert Goulet " from Mutiny on the Bounty, "Song from Two for the Seesaw
Multiple nominations and awards
| Nominations | Film |
| 10 | Lawrence of Arabia |
| 8 | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| 7 | Mutiny on the Bounty |
| 6 | The Music Man |
| 5 | Days of Wine and Roses |
| 5 | The Longest Day |
| 5 | The Miracle Worker |
| 5 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? |
| 4 | Birdman of Alcatraz |
| 4 | The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm |
| 3 | Divorce Italian Style |
| 3 | Gypsy |
| 3 | Sweet Bird of Youth |
| 3 | That Touch of Mink |
| 2 | Bon Voyage! |
| 2 | David and Lisa |
| 2 | Freud: The Secret Passion |
| 2 | The Manchurian Candidate |
| 2 | Two for the Seesaw |
| Awards | Film |
| 7 | Lawrence of Arabia |
| 3 | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| 2 | The Longest Day |
| 2 | The Miracle Worker |