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
TV in the United States
Network ABC

The 37th Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1964. For the first time, an award was presented in the field of makeup. All four acting awards went to non-American actors, something not repeated until the 80th Academy Awards were awarded for 2007.

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

Contents

[edit] Winners

[edit] Film

[edit] Direction

[edit] Acting

[edit] Writing

[edit] Music

- For the song "Chim Chim Cher-ee"

[edit] Short Films

[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.)