Best Picture | Best Director |
| George Cukor – My Fair Lady * Peter Glenville – Becket* Stanley Kubrick – Dr. Strangelove* Robert Stevenson – Mary Poppins* Michael Cacoyannis – Zorba the Greek |
Best Actor | Best Actress |
Rex Harrison – My Fair Lady as Professor Henry Higgins* Richard Burton – Becket as Thomas Becket* Peter O'Toole – Becket as King Henry II of England* Anthony Quinn – Zorba the Greek as Alexis Zorba * Peter Sellers – Dr. Strangelove as Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, President Merkin Muffley, Dr. Strangelove | Julie Andrews – Mary Poppins as Mary Poppins* Sophia Loren – Marriage Italian Style as Filumena Marturano* Anne Bancroft – The Pumpkin Eater as Jo Armitage* Debbie Reynolds – The Unsinkable Molly Brown as Molly Brown* Kim Stanley – Séance on a Wet Afternoon as Myra Savage |
Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
Peter Ustinov – Topkapi as Arthur Simon Simpson* John Gielgud – Becket as King Louis VII of France* Stanley Holloway – My Fair Lady as Alfred P. Doolittle* Edmond O'Brien – Seven Days in May as Senator Ray Clark* Lee Tracy – The Best Man as Art Hockstader | Lila Kedrova – Zorba the Greek as Madame Hortense* Gladys Cooper – My Fair Lady as Mrs. Higgins* Edith Evans – The Chalk Garden as Mrs. St. Maugham* Grayson Hall – The Night of the Iguana as Judith Fellowes* Agnes Moorehead – Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte as Velma Cruther |
Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
Father Goose – S. H. Barnett, Peter Stone and Frank Tarloff * A Hard Day's Night – Alun Owen* One Potato, Two Potato – Orville H. Hampton and Raphael Hayes* The Organizer – Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli and Mario Monicelli* That Man from Rio – Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Ariane Mnouchkine, Daniel Boulanger and Philippe de Broca | Becket – Edward Anhalt from Becket by Jean Anouilh* Dr. Strangelove – Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern and Peter George from Red Alert by Peter George* Mary Poppins – Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi from Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers* My Fair Lady – Alan Jay Lerner from My Fair Lady by Alan Jay Lerner and Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw* Zorba the Greek – Michael Cacoyannis from The Life of Alexis Zorba by Nikos Kazantzakis |
Best Foreign Language Film | Best Song |
| "Chim Chim Cher-ee" from Mary Poppins – Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman* "Dear Heart" from Dear Heart – Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans* "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte" from Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte – Music by Frank De Vol; Lyrics by Mack David* "My Kind of Town" from Robin and the 7 Hoods – Music by Jimmy Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn* "Where Love Has Gone" from Where Love Has Gone – Music by Jimmy Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn |
Best Documentary Feature | Best Documentary Short Subject |
Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World Without Sun* 14-18* The Finest Hours* Four Days in November* The Human Dutch | Nine from Little Rock* 140 Days Under the World* Breaking the Habit* Children Without* ' |
Best Live Action Short Subject | Best Short Subject — Cartoons |
* Help! My Snowman's Burning Down* The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes | The Pink Phink* Christmas Cracker* How to Avoid Friendship* Nudnik #2 |
Best Music Score - Substantially Original | Best Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment |
Mary Poppins – Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman* Becket – Laurence Rosenthal* The Fall of the Roman Empire – Dimitri Tiomkin* Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte – Frank De Vol* The Pink Panther – Henry Mancini | My Fair Lady – André Previn* A Hard Day's Night – George Martin* Mary Poppins – Irwin Kostal* Robin and the 7 Hoods – Nelson Riddle* The Unsinkable Molly Brown – Robert Armbruster, Leo Arnaud, Jack Elliott, Jack Hayes, Calvin Jackson and Leo Shuken |
Best Sound Effects | Best Sound |
Goldfinger – Norman Wanstall * The Lively Set – Robert Bratton | My Fair Lady – George Groves * Becket – John Cox* Father Goose – Waldon O. Watson* Mary Poppins – Robert O. Cook* The Unsinkable Molly Brown – Franklin Milton |
Best Art Direction, Black-and-White | Best Art Direction, Color |
Zorba the Greek – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Vassilis Photopoulos * The Americanization of Emily – Art Direction: George Davis, Hans Peters and Elliot Scott; Set Decoration: Henry Grace and Robert R. Benton* Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte – Art Direction: William Glasgow; Set Decoration: Raphaël Bretton* The Night of the Iguana – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Stephen B. Grimes* Seven Days in May – Art Direction: Cary Odell; Set Decoration: Edward G. Boyle | My Fair Lady – Art Direction: Gene Allen and Cecil Beaton; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins * Becket – Art Direction: John Bryan and Maurice Carter; Set Decoration: Patrick McLoughlin and Robert Cartwright* Mary Poppins – Art Direction: Carroll Clark and William H. Tuntke; Set Decoration: Emile Kuri and Hal Gausman* The Unsinkable Molly Brown – Art Direction: George Davis and E. Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Henry Grace and Hugh Hunt* What a Way to Go! – Art Direction: Jack Martin Smith and Ted Haworth; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott and Stuart A. Reiss |
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White | Best Cinematography, Color |
Zorba the Greek – Walter Lassally * The Americanization of Emily – Philip H. Lathrop* Fate Is the Hunter – Milton Krasner* Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte – Joseph Biroc* The Night of the Iguana – Gabriel Figueroa | My Fair Lady – Harry Stradling * Becket – Geoffrey Unsworth* Cheyenne Autumn – William Clothier* Mary Poppins – Edward Colman* The Unsinkable Molly Brown – Daniel L. Fapp |
Best Costume Design, Black-and-White | Best Costume Design, Color |
The Night of the Iguana – Dorothy Jeakins * A House Is Not a Home – Edith Head* Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte – Norma Koch* Kisses for My President – Howard Shoup* The Visit – René Hubert | My Fair Lady – Cecil Beaton * Becket – Margaret Furse* Mary Poppins – Tony Walton* The Unsinkable Molly Brown – Morton Haack* What a Way to Go! – Edith Head and Moss Mabry |
Best Film Editing | Best Special Visual Effects |
Mary Poppins – Cotton Warburton * Becket – Anne V. Coates* Father Goose – Ted J. Kent* Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte – Michael Luciano* My Fair Lady – William Ziegler | Mary Poppins – Peter Ellenshaw, Eustace Lycett and Hamilton Luske '* 7 Faces of Dr. Lao'' – Jim Danforth |