37th Academy Awards

Infobox Academy Awards | name = 37th
poster =
caption = Best Picture Winner: "My Fair Lady"
date = April 5, 1965
site = Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California
preshow =
host = Bob Hope
producer = Joe Pasternak
director = Richard Dunlap
network = ABC
last = 36th
next = 38th

The 37th Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1964. For the first time, an award was presented in the field of makeup. All four acting awards went to non-American actors, something not repeated until the 80th Academy Awards were awarded for 2007. The Best Picture winner in 1964, Warner Bros. director George Cukor's "My Fair Lady", was about the transformative training of a rough-speaking flower girl into a lady. The musical had run for many years on the stage (in both NYC and London). Rex Harrison was called upon to bring his characterization of perfectionist phonetics Professor Higgins to the screen.

Winners

Film

*Best Picture: "My Fair Lady" - Jack Warner, producer
*Best Foreign Language Film: "Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow" - Vittorio de Sica, director

Direction

*Achievement in Direction: George Cukor for "My Fair Lady"

Acting

*Best Actor: Rex Harrison in "My Fair Lady"
*Best Actress: Julie Andrews in "Mary Poppins"
*Best Supporting Actor: Peter Ustinov in "Topkapi"
*Best Supporting Actress: Lila Kedrova in "Zorba the Greek"

Writing

*Best Original Screenplay: "Father Goose" written by Frank Tarloff, Peter Stone and S.H.Barnett
*Best Adapted Screenplay: "Becket" screenplay by Edward Anhalt

Music

*Best Original Song: "Mary Poppins" - Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman- For the song "Chim Chim Cher-ee"
* Best Original Score: "Mary Poppins" by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman

hort Films

*Best Animated Short Film: "The Pink Phink" - David DePatie & Friz Freleng, producers
*Best Live Action Short Film : ""
*Best Documentarty Short : "Nine from Little Rock"

Honorary Oscar

William Tuttle received the first Honorary Makeup award for "7 Faces of Dr. Lao". (It would be 17 years until the Academy would introduce a regular competitive category for such achievements.)