35th Academy Awards

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35th Academy Awards
April 8, 1963
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California
Frank Sinatra
Arthur Freed
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. They were hosted by Frank Sinatra.

Trivia

"Host Frank Sinatra nearly missed the show because he forgot his parking sticker and was turned away from the arrivals area by security guards. He had to park his own car elsewhere and run to the auditorium, barely arriving in time."[1]

The Awards

Feature Films

Category Winner Producers/Country
Best motion picture Lawrence of Arabia Sam Spiegel
Best foreign language film Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray France
Best documentary feature Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler Louis Clyde Stoumen

Directing

Acting

Category Winner Movie
Best actor in a leading roleGregory PeckTo Kill a Mockingbird
Best actress in a leading roleAnne BancroftThe Miracle Worker
Best actor in a supporting roleEd BegleySweet Bird of Youth
Best actress in a supporting rolePatty DukeThe Miracle Worker

Writing

Category Winner Movie
Original screenplayEnnio De Concini; Alfredo Giannetti; Pietro GermiDivorzio all'italiana
Adapted screenplayHorton FooteTo Kill a Mockingbird

Music

External links

April 8 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1930s  1940s  1950s  - 1960s -  1970s  1980s  1990s
1960 1961 1962 - 1963 - 1964 1965 1966

Year 1963 (MCMLXIII
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Santa Monica Civic Auditorium is a multipurpose convention center in Santa Monica, California. It was built in 1958.

For trade shows, the Civic Auditorium features 11,775 square feet (1,094 m²) of space, while the stage adds 4,485 square feet (417 m²) more space,
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Santa Monica, California
Downtown Santa Monica as seen from the Santa Monica Pier
Nickname: SaMo, The Peoples Republic of Santa Monica
Location of Santa Monica in Los Angeles County, California
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Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an Italian American jazz-oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor.

Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great
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Arthur Freed (September 9, 1894 - April 12, 1973) was born Arthur Grossman in Charleston, South Carolina. He was an American lyricist and a Hollywood film producer.

Freed began his career in vaudeville, and he appeared with the Marx Brothers.
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Academy Award

Awarded for Excellence in cinematic achievements
Presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Country United States
First awarded May 16, 1929 to honor achievements of 1927/1928
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-1962- 1963 1964 1965  1966 .  1967 .  1968 .  1969  . 1970  . 1971  . 1972 

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April 8 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

Events


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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1930s  1940s  1950s  - 1960s -  1970s  1980s  1990s
1960 1961 1962 - 1963 - 1964 1965 1966

Year 1963 (MCMLXIII
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Santa Monica Civic Auditorium is a multipurpose convention center in Santa Monica, California. It was built in 1958.

For trade shows, the Civic Auditorium features 11,775 square feet (1,094 m²) of space, while the stage adds 4,485 square feet (417 m²) more space,
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Santa Monica, California
Downtown Santa Monica as seen from the Santa Monica Pier
Nickname: SaMo, The Peoples Republic of Santa Monica
Location of Santa Monica in Los Angeles County, California
Coordinates:
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Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an Italian American jazz-oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor.

Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great
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Lawrence of Arabia is an award-winning 1962 film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. The film stars Peter O'Toole in the title role. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Austrian Sam Spiegel (through his British company, Horizon Pictures),
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Sam Spiegel (11 November 1901 – 31 December 1985) was an independent film producer.

Born in Jaroslau, Austria (now Jaroslaw, Poland) as Samuel P.
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Motto
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
Anthem
"La Marseillaise"


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David Lean

Born March 25 1908(1908--)
Croydon, Greater London, UK
Died March 16 1991 (aged 83)
London, England

Spouse(s) Isabel Lean (1930-1936)
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Lawrence of Arabia is an award-winning 1962 film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. The film stars Peter O'Toole in the title role. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Austrian Sam Spiegel (through his British company, Horizon Pictures),
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Gregory Peck

From the trailer for Roman Holiday (1953)
Birth name Eldred Gregory Peck
Born March 5 1916(1916--)
La Jolla, California, U.S.
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To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 film directed by Robert Mulligan and based on the novel of the same name by Harper Lee. The film stars Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch.
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Anne Bancroft

Birth name Anna Maria Louisa Italiano
Born September 17 1931(1931--)
The Bronx, New York
Died June 6, 2005
New York City, New York

Spouse(s) Martin May
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The Miracle Worker is a cycle of 20th-century dramatic works ultimately derived from Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life. The various dramas each describe the relationship between Keller — deaf, blind, and initially almost feral
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Ed Begley

Begley in On Dangerous Ground
Birth name Edward James Begley
Born March 25 1901(1901--)
Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Died March 28 1970 (aged 69)
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Sweet Bird of Youth is a 1959 play by Tennessee Williams which tells the story of a drifter, Chance Wayne, who returns to his home town with a faded movie star, Princess Kosmonopolis, hoping she can help him to break into the movies.
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Patty Duke

Patty Duke on the 1965 album Don't Just Stand There
Birth name Anna Marie Duke
Born 1946 (1946--00) (age 0)
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The Miracle Worker is a 1962 film based on a play by William Gibson from Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life. It was starred by Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson and Andrew Prine.
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Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. Before 1940, there was an Academy Award for Best Story for writing. For 1940, it and the award in this article were separated into two awards.
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Ennio De Concini (born 9 December 1923) is an Italian former prolific screenwriter and film director, winning the Academy Award in 1962 for the "Best Original Screenplay" for Divorce, Italian Style.
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Divorce, Italian Style (Italian original title: Divorzio all'italiana) is a 1961 Italian language comedy film directed by Pietro Germi, written by Ennio De Concini, Pietro Germi, Alfredo Giannetti and Agenore Incrocci, and starring
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Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. It is awarded each year to the writer of a screenplay adapted from another source (usually a novel, play, or short story but also sometimes another film).
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