Best Picture
- America, America, Elia Kazan, producer
- Cleopatra, Walter Wanger, producer
- How the West Was Won, Bernard Smith, producer
- Lilies of the Field, Ralph Nelson, producer
- Tom Jones, Tony Richardson, producer
Best Actor
- Albert Finney, Tom Jones
- Richard Harris, This Sporting Life
- Rex Harrison, Cleopatra
- Paul Newman, Hud
- Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field
Best Actress
- Leslie Caron, The L-Shaped Room
- Shirley MacLaine, Irma La Douce
- Patricia Neal, Hud
- Rachel Roberts, This Sporting Life
- Natalie Wood, Love With the Proper Stranger
Actor in a Supporting Role
- Nick Adams, Twilight of Honor
- Bobby Darin, Captain Newman, M.D.
- Melvyn Douglas, Hud
- Hugh Griffith, Tom Jones
- John Huston, The Cardinal
Actress in a Supporting Role
- Diane Cilento, Tom Jones
- Dame Edith Evans, Tom Jones
- Joyce Redman, Tom Jones
- Margaret Rutherford, The V.I.P.s
- Lilia Skala, Lilies of the Field
Directing
- Federico Fellini, Federico Fellini's 81/2
- Elia Kazan, America, America
- Otto Preminger, The Cardinal
- Tony Richardson, Tom Jones
- Martin Ritt, Hud
Writing
- Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium
- Serge Bourguigon and Antoine Tudal, Sundays and Cybele
- Richard Breen, Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron, Captain Newman, M.D.
- John Osborne, Tom Jones
- James Poe, Lilies of the Field
- Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr., Hud
- Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- Carlo Bernari, screenplay, The Four Days of Naples
- Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Vasco Pratolini and Nanni Loy, story; Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Nanni Loy and James R. Webb, How the West Was Won
- Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli and Brunello Rondi, Federico Fellini's 81/2
- Elia Kazan, America, America
- Arnold Schulman, Love With the Proper Stranger
Cinematography
- Black-and-White
- Lucien Ballard, The Caretakers
- George Folsey, The Balcony
- Ernest Haller, Lilies of the Field
- James Wong Howe, Hud
- Milton Krasner, Love With the Proper Stranger
- Color
- William H. Daniels, Milton Krasner, Charles Lang, Jr. and Joseph LaShelle, How the West Was Won
- Joseph LaShelle, Irma La Douce
- Ernest Laszlo, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- Leon Shamroy, The Cardinal
- Leon Shamroy, Cleopatra
Art Direction
- Black-and-White
- Gene Callahan, art direction, America, America
- George W. Davis and Paul Groesse, art direction; Henry Grace and Hugh Hunt, set decoration, Twilight of Honor
- Piero Gherardi, art direction, Federico Fellini's 81/2
- Hal Pereira and Tambi Larsen, art direction; Sam Comer and Robert Benton, set decoration, Hud
- Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson, art direction; Sam Comer and Grace Gregory, set decoration, Love With the Proper Stranger
- Color
- Ralph Brinton, Ted Marshall and Jocelyn Herbert, art direction; Josie MacAvin, set decoration, Tom Jones
- George W. Davis, William Ferrari and Addison Hehr, art direction; Henry Grace, Don Greenwood, Jr. and Jack Mills, set decoration, How the West Was Won
- John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Hilyard Brown, Herman Blumenthal, Elven Webb, Maurice Pelling and Boris Juraga, art direction; Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox and Ray Moyer, set decoration, Cleopatra
- Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson, art direction; Sam Comer and James Payne, set decoration, Come Blow Your Horn
- Lyle Wheeler, art direction; Gene Callahan, set decoration, The Cardinal
Sound
- Columbia Studio Sound Dept., Bye Bye Birdie
- MGM Studio Sound Dept., How the West Was Won
- Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept., It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Dept. and Todd-AO Sound Dept., Cleopatra
- Universal City Studio Sound Dept., Captain Newman, M.D.
Music
- Song
- "Call Me Irresponsible", Papa's Delicate Condition, James Van Heusen, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics
- "Charade", Charade, Henry Mancini, music; Johnny Mercer, lyrics
- "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World", It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Ernest Gold, music; Mack David, lyrics
- "More", Mondo Cane, Riz Ortolani and Nino Oliviero, music; Norman Newell, lyrics
- "So Little Time", 55 Days at Peking, Dimitri Tiomkin, music; Paul Francis Webster, lyrics
- Musical Score, Substantially Original
- John Addison, Tom Jones
- Ernest Gold, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- Alfred Newman and Ken Darby, How the West Was Won
- Alex North, Cleopatra
- Dimitri Tiomkin, 55 Days at Peking
- Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment
- George Bruns, The Sword in the Stone
- John Green, Bye Bye Birdie
- Maurice Jarre, Sundays and Cybele
- André Previn, Irma La Douce
- Leith Stevens, A New Kind of Love
Film Editing
- Frederic Knudtson, Robert C. Jones and Gene Fowler, Jr., It's a *Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- Harold F. Kress, How the West Was Won
- Louis R. Loeffler, The Cardinal
- Dorothy Spencer, Cleopatra
- Ferris Webster, The Great Escape
Costume Design
- Black-and-White
- Piero Gherardi, Federico Fellini's 81/2
- Edith Head, Love With the Proper Stranger
- Edith Head, Wives and Lovers
- Bill Thomas, Toys in the Attic
- Travilla, The Stripper
- Color
- Donald Brooks, The Cardinal
- Edith Head, A New Kind of Love
- Walter Plunkett, How the West Was Won
- Irene Sharaff, Vittorio Nino Novarese and Renie, Cleopatra
- Piero Tosi, The Leopard
Special Effects
- Ub Iwerks, The Birds
- Emil Kosa, Jr., Cleopatra
Sound Effects (Not necessarily given each year)
- Robert L. Bratton, A Gathering of Eagles
- Walter G. Elliott, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Short Subjects
- Cartoon
- Automania 2000 (Halas and Batchelor Production; Pathé Contemporary Films)
- The Critic (Pintoff-Crossbow Productions; Columbia)
- The Game (Igra) (Zagreb Film; Rembrandt Films-Film Representations)
- My Financial Career (National Film Board of Canada; Walter Reade-Sterling-Continental Distributing)
- Pianissimo (Carmen D'Avino Production; Cinema 16)
- Live Action
- The Concert (James A. King Corp.; George K. Arthur-Go Pictures)
- Home-Made Car, BP (North American) Ltd.; Lester A. Schoenfeld Films)
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Films du Centaure-Filmartic; Cappagariff-Janus Films)
- Six-Sided Triangle (Milesian Film Production, Ltd.; Lion International Films)
- That's Me (Stuart Productions; Pathé Contemporary Films)
Documentary
- Short Subject
- Chagall (Auerbach Film Enterprises, Ltd.-Flag Films; Union Films)
- The Five Cities of June (George Stevens, Jr., producer; U.S. Information Agency)
- The Spirit of America (Algernon G. Walker, producer; Spotlight News, Inc.)
- Thirty Million Letters (Edgar Anstey, producer; British Transport Films)
- To Live Again (Wilding, Inc.; St. Barnabas Hospital, Bronx, N.Y.)
- Feature
- Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel With the World (WGBH Educational Foundation; Holt, Reinhart and Winston, Inc.)
- Le Maillon et la Chaine (The Link and the Chain) (Paul de Roubaix, producer; Films Du Centaure-Filmartic)
- Terminus (Edgar Anstey, producer; British Transport Films)
- The Yanks Are Coming (Marshall Flaum, producer; David L. Wolper Productions)
Foreign Language Film
- Federico Fellini's 81/2, Italy
- Knife in the Water, Poland
- Los Tarantos, Spain
- The Red Lanterns, Greece
- Twin Sisters of Kyoto, Japan
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Facts:
- Winners Announced: April 13, 1964
- Held at: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California
- Host: Jack Lemmon
- Eligibility Year: 1963