Oscar Rewrite: 1963

 

Best Picture: Tom Jones      8 1/2

Best Director: Tony Richardson (Tom Jones) Alfred Hitchcok (The Birds)

Best Actor: Sidney Poitier (Lillies of the Field) Burt Lancaster (The Leopard)

Best Actress: Patricia Neal (Hud) Brigitte Bardot (Contempt)

Best Supporting Actor: Melvyn Douglas (Hud) Steve McQueen (The Great Escape)

Supporting Actress: Margaret Rutherford Claudia Cardinale (Leopard / 8 1/2 / Pink Panther)

Best Original Screenplay: How the West Was Won   The Nutty Professor

Best Adapted Screenplay: Tom Jones   The Haunting

Jason Fraley

Hailed by The Washington Post for “his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history," Jason Fraley began at WTOP as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Entertainment Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.

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