ALTERNATIVE CHOICES FOR 1963 OSCAR WINNERS: Best Picture: The Great Escape (not nominated) and/or 8½ (not nominated) (tie) Best Director: Federico Fellini (8½) and/or Alfred Hitchcock (The Birds) (not nominated) (tie) Best Actor: Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field) Best Actress: Natalie Wood (Love with the Proper Stranger) and/or Audrey Hepburn (Charade) (not nominated) and/or Elizabeth Taylor (Cleopatra) (not nominated) (tie) Best Supporting Actor: Roddy McDowall (Cleopatra) (not nominated) Best Supporting Actress: Tippi Hedren (The Birds) (not nominated) Best Original Screenplay: 8½ (Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi) Best Adapted Screenplay: The Great Escape (James Clavell, W.R. Burnett) (not nominated) Best Foreign Film: 8½ (Italy) Best Cinematography - Color: The Birds (Robert Burks) (not nominated) Best Cinematography - Black-and-White: Hud (James Wong Howe) Best Art Direction - Color: Cleopatra Best Art Direction - Black-and-White: America America Best Costume Design - Color: Cleopatra Best Costume Design - Black-and-White: 8½ Best Film Editing: The Great Escape (Ferris Webster) Best Special Visual Effects: The Birds Best Sound Effects: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World Best Sound: The Great Escape (not nominated) Best Original Score: The Great Escape (Elmer Bernstein) (not nominated) Best Adapted Score: Irma la Douce (André Previn) Best Original Song: Charade (For the song "Charade")
As good as Patricia Neal was in HUD - there have been supporting actress Oscar winners with far more screen time. The winner in my opinion was clearly Leslie Caron for THE L - SHAPED ROOM.
Best Song (Charade (1963) Best Score Adapted (Irma La Douce (1963) Best Score Original (Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) Best Sound (8 1/2 (1963) Best Sound Effects (Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) Best Film Editing (Hud (1963) Best Special Effects (Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) Best Costume Design Black and White (Tis Kakomoiras (1963) Best Costume Design Color (the Pink Panther (1963) Best Art Direction Black and White (8 1/2 (1963) Best Art Direction Color (Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) Best Cinematography Black and White (Lilies of the Field (1963) Best Cinematography Color (Irma La Douce (1963) Best Foreign Laungege Film (Tis Kakomoiras (1963) Best Screenplay Adapted (Hud (1963) Best Screenplay Original (Tis Kakomoiras (1963) Best Supporting Actress (Margaret Rutherford (the V.I.P.s (1963) Best Supporting Actor (Melvyn Douglas (Hud (1963) Best Actress (Patricia Neal (Hud (1963) Best Actor (Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field (1963) Best Director (Federico Fellini (8 1/2 (1963) Best Picture (Tis Kakomoiras (1963)
