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Απονομή Όσκαρ για έτος 1962 35th Academy Awards Academy Awards '62 Boxoffice magazine April 1963 Θεάματα Κινηματογραφικά

35η απονομή Όσκαρ για έτος 1962

35th Academy Awards

Academy Awards 1962

τελετή απονομής: Santa Monica, April 8, 1963

Boxoffice magazine, April 1963

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SANTA MONICA - Proudly displaying their Oscars, top winners in the Academy Awards ceremonies Monday (8 April 1963) posed for photographers on stage at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.

From left:

/- Olivia de Havilland, who presented the best picture award;

/ - Sam Spiegel, producer of the best picture of the year, "Lawrence of Arabia";

/ - Gregory Peck, best actor;

/ - Joan Crawford, who accepted the best actress award for Anne Bancroft;

/ - Patty Duke, best supporting actress,

/ - Ed Begley, best supporting actor.

The 35th annual Oscar ceremonies of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences here Monday (April 8, 1963), with a fast-paced program produced by Arthur Freed on an altered format, emerged with the expected victories for the desert epic, ‘‘Lawrence of Arabia,” but also contained some upsets and some big surprises.

The desert film, based on the life of British soldier-adventurer T. E. Lawrence, captured seven Oscars, winning as best picture of 1962, for David Lean as best director and for best achievement in sound, for film editing, best substantially original music score, best color art direction and best color cinematography.

Most surprising was the award for best supporting actress, won for the first time by a juvenile — 16-year-old Patty Duke — for her role as the blind, deaf and mute Helen Keller in “The Miracle Worker.”

Second upset of the evening involved the same film, with Anne Bancroft winning as best actress of the year for her role as Helen Keller’s teacher, Annie Sullivan. Earlier predictions saw the actress award going to either Geraldine Page for “Sweet Bird of Youth” or Bette Davis for “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?”

Announcement of the selection of Gregory Peck as the year’s best actor for his role in “To Kill a Mockingbird” was greeted with thunderous applause from the 2,500 persons packed into the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.

This same film, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, ran second to “Lawrence” in total number of awards, receiving Oscars also for art direction of a black and white picture and for screenplay based on material from another medium.

Best supporting actor award went to veteran stage and screen star Ed Begley, for his role as a vicious political boss in “Sweet Bird of Youth,” also somewhat of an upset in that the Oscar had been expected in many quarters to go to Omar Sharif for “Lawrence.”

Presentation of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Steve Broidy, president of Allied Artists, was marked with audience enthusiasm. Broidy, in accepting the award, which recognized his service to the community and the industry, said, “Being a part of an industry that gives so much of its time, talents and resources for the good of its fellowman makes me feel very proud, and I hope to be able to continue in this tradition.”

The selections for 1962 marked a departure from previous years in which nearly all of the awards were captured by one or two pictures. Indicative of the high quality of 1962 releases by major companies was the fact that no less than nine U.S.-made or distributed films were winners.

Headed by “Lawrence of Arabia,” with seven awards; “To Kill a Mockingbird ” with three, and “The Miracle Worker,” with two, other winning films included "The Longest Day,” (20th-Fox), two awards, for special effects and for black and white cinematography; “Sweet Bird of Youth,” (MGM), best supporting actor; “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” (WB), black and white costume design; “The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm,” (MGM-Cinerama), color picture costume design; “The Music Man,” (WB), music score adaptation or treatment, and “Days of Wine and Roses,” (WB), best song.

“Sundays and Cybele,” French-language drama dealing with a young man’s devotion to a child and distributed by Davis-Royal, won as best foreign language film.

Embassy Pictures’ “Divorce — Italian Style,” English-dubbed Italian-made comedy, scored for best story and screenplay written directly for the screen.

The telecast production marked a new high in industry presentations, with several new features added and several old ones eliminated. Notable among the new features was the attempt, beginning with the opening remarks of emcee Frank Sinatra and his comparison of Hollywood production with the Mona Lisa painting, to explain in understandable terms to the television public the work, the problems, the aims and goals and the rewards of motion picture production. Comments from viewers were especially appreciative of the brief explanations of the various heretofore mysterious jobs of many of those participating in filmmaking.

The pace of the program was stepped up also by having one star, a previous Academy Award winner, present each award, eliminating the joking and by-play of previous years when two stars made each presentation. Award winners this year entered the stage from the wings, eliminating the groping and frequent stumbles up stage front stairs.

Lengthy production numbers built around the nominated songs were missing this year, too, and favorable comment was forthcoming on the three musical interludes— Eddie Fisher presenting a medley of previous Academy Award-winning songs, Ethel Merman and a medley of Irving Berlin hits, and Robert Goulet with a medley of the five songs nominated for 1962 Oscars. The traditional parade of models in costumes from nominated pictures was cut and replaced with a brief showing of sketches.

Thus, the entire program emerged as a fast-paced, but unhurried, production, giving viewers a grand array of glamorous stars and a sympathetic and understanding picture of filmmaking at its best.

Actor Wendell Corey, president of the Academy, welcomed the guests and acquired the sealed envelopes from the Price & Waterhouse representative.

Among the previous Academy-winners who presented Oscars to the 1962 winners were Shelley Winters, Simone Signoret (from Paris), Karl Malden, Ginger Rogers, Rita Moreno, Miyoshi Umeki, Van Heflin, Audrey Hepburn (from Paris), Eva Marie Saint, George Chakiris, Ingrid Bergman (from Paris), Gene Kelly, David Niven (from Rome), Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra, Laurence Olivier (from London), Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Sophia Loren, Maximilian Schell and Olivia de Havilland.

Boxoffice magazine, April 15, 1963