If I Picked the Oscars (1963)

[4Chancey]

These are my Oscar picks for the 1963 Academy Awards.  (Actual Winner)

Best Visual Effects: The Birds (Cleopatra)

Best Film Editing: Cleopatra (How the West Was Won)

Best Costume Design, Color: Cleopatra (Cleopatra)

Best Costume Design, B&W: 8 1/2 (8 1/2)

Best Cinematography, Color: Cleopatra (Cleopatra)

Best Cinematography, B&W: Lilies of the Field (Hud)

Best Art Direction, Color: Cleopatra (Cleopatra)

Best Art Direction, B&W: America, America (America, America)

Best Sound Mixing: How the West Was Won (How the West Was Won)

Best Sound Editing: It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)

Best Adaptation or Treatment Score: The Sword in the Stone (Irma la Douce)

Best Original Score: How the West Was Won (Tom Jones)

Best Original Song: Call me Irresponsible from Papa's Delicate Condition (Call me Irresponsible)

Best Adapted Screenplay: Lilies of the Field (Tom Jones)

Best Original Screenplay: How the West Was Won (How the West Was Won)

Best Supporting Actress: Lilia Skala for Lilies of the Field (Margaret Rutherford for The V.I.P.'s)

Best Supporting Actor: Melvyn Douglas for Hud (Melvyn Douglas)

Best Actress: Natalie Wood for Love with the Proper Stranger (Patricia Neal for Hud)

Best Actor: Rex Harrison for Cleopatra (Sidney Poitier for Lilies of the Field)

Best Director: Elia Kazan for America, America (Tony Richardson for Tom Jones)

Best Picture: Cleopatra (Tom Jones)

Multiple Winners: America, America (2), Lilies of the Field, How the West Was Won (3), Cleopatra (6).

Yeah, these are a bit less familiar, but next year's should be better.