The 1964 Academy Awards were presented April 5, 1965 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.
| Best Picture | Becket, Hal B. Wallis, producer (Paramount) |
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Stanley Kubrick, producer (Columbia) |
| Mary Poppins, Walt Disney and Bill Walsh, producers (Buena Vista) |
| My Fair Lady, Jack L. Warner, producer (Warner Bros.) |
| Zorba the Greek, Michael Cacoyannis, producer (International Classics) |
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| Best Actor | Richard Burton, Becket |
| Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady |
| Peter O'Toole, Becket |
| Anthony Quinn, Zorba the Greek |
| Peter Sellers, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb |
| Best Actress | Julie Andrews, Mary Poppins |
| Anne Bancroft, The Pumpkin Eater |
| Sophia Loren, Marriage Italian Style |
| Debbie Reynolds, The Unsinkable Molly Brown |
| Kim Stanley, Seance on a Wet Afternoon |
| Actor in a Supporting Role | John Gielgud, Becket |
| Stanley Holloway, My Fair Lady |
| Edmond O'Brien, Seven Days in May |
| Lee Tracy, The Best Man |
| Peter Ustinov, Topkapi |
| Actress in a Supporting Role | Gladys Cooper, My Fair Lady |
| Dame Edith Evans, The Chalk Garden |
| Grayson Hall, The Night of the Iguana |
| Lila Kedrova, Zorba the Greek |
| Agnes Moorehead, Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte |
| Directing | Michael Cacoyannis, Zorba the Greek |
| George Cukor, My Fair Lady |
| Peter Glenville, Becket |
| Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb |
| Robert Stevenson, Mary Poppins |
| Writing | | Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium | Edward Anhalt, Becket | | Michael Cacoyannis, Zorba the Greek | | Stanley Kubrick, Peter George and Terry Southern, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | | Alan Jay Lerner, My Fair Lady | | Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, Mary Poppins | | Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Age, Scarpelli and Mario Monicelli, The Organizer | | S. H. Barnett, story; Peter Stone and Frank Tarloff, screenplay, Father Goose | | Orville H. Hampton, story; Orville H. Hampton and Raphael Hayes, screenplay, One Potato, Two Potato | | Alun Owen, A Hard Day's Night | | Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Ariane Mnouchkine, Daniel Boulanger and Philippe De Broca, That Man From Rio |
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| Cinematography | | Black-and-White | Joseph Biroc, Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte | | Gabriel Figueroa, The Night of the Iguana | | Milton Krasner, Fate Is the Hunter | | Walter Lassally, Zorba the Greek | | Philip H. Lathrop, The Americanization of Emily | | Color | William H. Clothier, Cheyenne Autumn | | Edward Colman, Mary Poppins | | Daniel L. Fapp, The Unsinkable Molly Brown | | Harry Stradling, My Fair Lady | | Geoffrey Unsworth, Becket |
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| Art Direction | | Black-and-White | George W. Davis, Hans Peters and Elliot Scott, art direction; Henry Grace and Robert R. Benton, set decoration, The Americanization of Emily | | Vassilis Fotopoulos, Zorba the Greek | | William Glasgow, art direction; Raphael Bretton, set decoration, Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte | | Stephen Grimes, The Night of the Iguana | | Cary Odell, art direction; Edward G. Boyle, set decoration, Seven Days in May | | Color | Gene Allen and Cecil Beaton, art direction; George James Hopkins, set decoration, My Fair Lady | | John Bryan and Maurice Carter, art direction; Patrick McLoughlin and Robert Cartwright, set decoration, Becket | | Carroll Clark and William H. Tuntke, art direction; Emile Kuri and Hal Gausman, set decoration, Mary Poppins | | George W. Davis and Preston Ames, art direction; Henry Grace and Hugh Hunt, set decoration, The Unsinkable Molly Brown | | Jack Martin Smith and Ted Haworth, art direction; Walter M. Scott and Stuart A. Reiss, set decoration, What a Way to Go! |
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| Sound | MGM Studio Sound Dept., The Unsinkable Molly Brown |
| Shepperton Studio Sound Dept., Becket |
| Universal City Studio Sound Dept., Father Goose |
| Walt Disney Studio Sound Dept., Mary Poppins |
| Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept., My Fair Lady |
| Music | | Song | “Chim Chim Cher-ee,” Mary Poppins, Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, music and Iyrics | | “Dear Heart,” Dear Heart, Henry Mancini, music; Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, Iyrics | | “Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte,” Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Frank DeVol, music; Mack David, Iyrics | | “My Kind of Town,” Robin and the 7 Hoods, James Van Heusen, music; Sammy Cahn, Iyrics | | “Where Love Has Gone,” Where Love Has Gone, James Van Heusen, music; Sammy Cahn, Iyrics | | Musical Score, Substantially Original | Frank DeVol, Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte | | Henry Mancini, The Pink Panther | | Laurence Rosenthal, Becket | | Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, Mary Poppins | | Dimitri Tiomkin, The Fall of the Roman Empire | | Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment | Robert Armbruster, Leo Arnaud, Jack Elliott, Jack Hayes, Calvin Jackson and Irwin Kostal, Mary Poppins | | George Martin, A Hard Day's Night | | André Previn, My Fair Lady | | Nelson Riddle, Robin and the 7 Hoods | | Leo Shuken, The Unsinkable Molly Brown |
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| Film Editing | Anne Coates, Becket |
| Ted J. Kent, Father Goose |
| Michael Luciano, Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte |
| Cotton Warburton, Mary Poppins |
| William Ziegler, My Fair Lady |
| Costume Design | | Black-and-White | Edith Head, A House Is Not a Home | | Rene Hubert, The Visit | | Dorothy Jeakins, The Night of the Iguana | | Norma Koch, Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte | | Howard Shoup, Kisses for My President | | Color | Cecil Beaton, My Fair Lady | | Margaret Furse, Becket | | Morton Haack, The Unsinkable Molly Brown | | Edith Head and Moss Mabry, What a Way to Go! | | Tony Walton, Mary Poppins |
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| Special Visual Effects | Jim Danforth, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao |
| Peter Ellenshaw, Hamilton Luske and Eustace Lycett, Mary Poppins |
| Sound Effects | Robert L. Bratton, The Lively Set |
| Norman Wanstall, Goldfinger |
| Short Subjects | | Cartoon | Christmas Cracker (National Film Board of Canada; Favorite Films of California) | | How to Avoid Friendship (Self-Help Series) (Rembrandt Films; Film Representations) | | Nudnik #2 (Nudnik Series) (Rembrandt Films; Film Representations) | | The Pink Phink (Pink Panther Series) (Mirisch-Geoffrey Productions; United Artists) | | Live Action Subject | Casals Conducts: 1964 (Thalia Films; Beckman Film Corp.) | | Help! My Snowman's Burning Down (Carson Davidson Productions; Pathé Contemporary Films) | | The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes (Robert Clouse Associates; Topaz Film Corp.) |
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| Documentary | | Short Subject | Breaking the Habit (American Cancer Society; Modern Talking Picture Service) | | Children Without (Guggenheim Productions; National Education Association) | | Kenojuak (National Film Board of Canada) | | Nine From Little Rock (Guggenheim Productions; U.S. Information Agency) | | 140 Days Under the World (New Zealand National Film Unit; Rank Film Distributors of New Zealand) | | Feature | The Finest Hours (Le Vien Films, Ltd.; Columbia) | | Four Days in November (David L. Wolper Productions; United Artists) | | The Human Dutch (Bert Haanstra, producer; Haanstra Filmproductie) | | Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World Without Sun (Filmad Les Requins Associes-Orsay-CEIAP; Columbia) | | Over There, 1914—18 (Zodiac Productions; Pathé Contemporary Films) |
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| Foreign Language Film | Raven's End, Sweden |
| Sallah, Israel |
| The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, France |
| Woman in the Dunes, Japan |
| Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Italy |
| Honorary Award | To William Tuttle for his outstanding makeup achievement for 7 Faces of Dr. Lao |
