Nighthawk Nominations: Picture, Adapted Screenplay, Actor (Finney), Supporting Actor (Griffith), Supporting Actress (Evans), Supporting Actress (Redman), Supporting Actress (Greenwood), Supporting Actress (Cilento), Original Score, Art Direction, Costume Design, Makeup.Oscar Nominations: Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Actor (Finney), Supporting Actor (Griffith), Supporting Actress (Evans), Supporting Actress (Cilento), Supporting Actress (Redman), Score, Art Direction (Color).Stars: Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith, Edith Evans, Diane Cilento, Joan Greenwood, Joyce Redman.Writer: John Osbourne (from the novel by Henry Fielding).Tom Jones is far and away the best of the 1963 Best Picture nominees Sure enough, while Tom Jones would lose all five of its acting nominations, it would go on to win Picture, Director and Adapted Screenplay, the first film to take that tri-fecta since 1958.
America, America was the only film aside from Tom Jones to earn a Director nomination, essentially ending the race right there. The Cardinal was also on the Director list and it joined East of Eden as the only Best Picture – Drama winners to not earn an Oscar nomination for Best Picture (they are still the only two on the list). 8 1/2, like Hud, was nominated for Director and Screenplay, but not Picture, making it the fourth year in a row a foreign film had achieved that distinction (though this was the first of those four to also earn a nomination for Best Foreign Film). Instead, the other nominees were America, America, Lilies of the Field, Cleopatra and How the West Was Won, a big money-maker that had been mostly ignored by the awards groups (having won the Editors Guild and the Sound Editors Guild but nothing else). It had tied the record with 7 nominations without a Picture nomination, but no film had ever earned that many nominations and been nominated for Director and not been nominated before (it still holds the record for most points without a Picture nomination). Hud managed 7, but shockingly, Best Picture wasn’t among them. The Results: Tom Jones, as expected, lead the field with 10 nominations. Tom Jones was absent at the Writers Guild (it was possibly not eligible) but Hud and Lilies of the Field both won while America, America was nominated. The Directors Guild cemented the front-runners with the award going to Tony Richardson for Tom Jones and nominations for 8 1/2, America, America, Lilies of the Field and Hud. Hud maintained its place in the Oscar race with 5 Golden Globe nominations, including Picture and Director and Cleopatra announced its presence with 4 nominations, including Picture and Director. 8 1/2 had won Best Foreign Film from all three and it looked like it might do what no foreign film had done since 1938 - get nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. The Golden Globes also gave it Best Picture, though their Best Picture – Drama went to Otto Preminger’s The Cardinal and their Best Director went to Elia Kazan for America, America. When the critics began to chime in with their annual awards in December, there was no question that Tom Jones was the film to beat, as it won Best Picture and Director from both the National Board of Review and the New York Film Critics. The only other film that was making any headway in the Oscar race was Lilies of the Field. The biggest box office hit of the year, Cleopatra, was just trying to win back its record $44 million cost and fend off tepid reviews. The other two were a bawdy British comedy ( Tom Jones) and a surrealistic Italian comedy ( 8 1/2). Of the three films earning critical acclaim across the board, only one of them, Hud, was an American film. The Race: Hollywood wasn’t putting up much of a fight. Rank (out of 82) Among Best Picture Years: #78 The 36th Academy Awards for the film year 1963.īest Eligible Film Not Nominated: The Great Escape Tom Jones won Best Picture in 1963 and made Albert Finney a star.
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