The 35th 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, hosted by Frank Sinatra.

The year's most successful film was David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia, with 10 nominations and 7 wins, including Best Picture and Lean's second win for Best Director. For his role as T. E. Lawrence, Peter O'Toole received his first of eight career nominations for Best Actor, all unsuccessful; as of the 94th Academy Awards, O'Toole and Glenn Close share the record for the most acting nominations with no wins. To date, Lawrence of Arabia is the only Best Picture winner with no female speaking roles.

Arthur Penn's The Miracle Worker earned the rare distinction of winning two acting Oscars (Best Actress for Anne Bancroft and Best Supporting Actress for Patty Duke) without a nomination for Best Picture. The only other film to do this to date was Hud, the following year.

Ceremony

The Best Actress Oscar occasioned the last act of the long-running feud between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. They had starred together for the first time in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, a surprise hit the previous summer. Davis was nominated for her role as the title character, a faded child star who humiliates the wheelchair-using sister who eclipsed her fame in adulthood, while Crawford was not.^[1]

Crawford told the other nominated actresses that, as a courtesy, she would accept their awards for them should they be unavailable on the night of the ceremony. Davis did not object as her rival had often done this, but, on the night of the ceremony, she was livid when Crawford took the stage to cheerfully accept the award on behalf of Anne Bancroft, who had a Broadway commitment. Davis believed that Crawford had told other Oscar voters to vote for The Miracle Worker star in order to upstage her. The rekindled animosity between the two resulted in Crawford leaving the cast of Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, a planned follow-up to Baby Jane that began filming the next summer, early in production.^[1]

Awards

David Lean, Best Director winner

Gregory Peck, Best Actor winner

Anne Bancroft, Best Actress winner

Ed Begley, Best Supporting Actor winner

Patty Duke, Best Supporting Actress winner, youngest person to receive an Oscar in a competitive category at the time^[2]

Pietro Germi, Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen co-winner

Henry Mancini, Best Song co-winner

Johnny Mercer, Best Song co-winner

Nominations announced on February 25, 1963. Winners in each category are listed first and highlighted with boldface text.^[3]

Honorary Academy Awards

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Steve Broidy

Presenters and performers

Presenters

• George Chakiris (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress)
• Wendell Corey (Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film)
• Joan Crawford (Presenter: Best Director)
• Bette Davis (Presenter: Writing Awards)
• Olivia de Havilland (Presenter: Best Picture)
• Van Heflin (Presenter: Short Subjects Awards)
• Audrey Hepburn and Eva Marie Saint (Presenter: Best Costume Design)
• Gene Kelly (Presenter: Best Art Direction)
• Sophia Loren (Presenter: Best Actor)
• Karl Malden (Presenter: Best Film Editing)
• Rita Moreno (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor)
• Donna Reed (Presenter: Best Cinematography)
• Ginger Rogers (Presenter: Best Original Score and Best Original Song)
• Maximilian Schell (Presenter: Best Actress)
• Miyoshi Umeki (Presenter: Documentary Awards)
• Shelley Winters (Presenter: Best Sound Recording and Best Special Effects)

Performers

• Alfred Newman (musical director)
• Robert Goulet ("Days of Wine and Roses" from Days of Wine and Roses, "Love Song from Mutiny on the Bounty (Follow Me)" from Mutiny on the Bounty, "Song from Two for the Seesaw (Second Chance)" from Two for the Seesaw, "Tender Is the Night" from Tender Is the Night and "Walk on the Wild Side" from Walk on the Wild Side)

Multiple nominations and awards