1964 — Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. The Servant (dir: Joseph Losey; US Release Date)

2. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (dir: Jacques Demy)

3. Dr. Strangelove (dir: Stanley Kubrick)

4. Woman in the Dunes (dir: Hiroshi Teshigahara)

5. Harakiri (dir: Masaki Kobayashi; US Release Date)

6. Nothing But a Man (dir: Michael Roemer)

7. Contempt (dir: Jean-Luc Godard; US Release Date)

8. I Am Cuba (dir: Mikhail Kalatozov)

9. Seance on a Wet Afternoon (dir: Bryan Forbes)

10. Bay of Angels (dir: Jacques Demy; US Release Date)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): The Americanization of Emily (dir: Arthur Hiller), Band of Outsiders (dir: Jean-Luc Godard), A Fistful of Dollars (dir: Sergio Leone), A Hard Day’s Night (dir: Richard Lester), The Gospel According to St. Matthew (dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini), Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (dir: Robert Aldrich), The Killers (dir: Don Siegel), Marnie (dir: Alfred Hitchcock), The Naked Kiss (dir: Samuel Fuller), The Night of the Iguana (dir: John Huston), The Pumpkin Eater (dir: Jack Clayton), The Silence (dir: Ingmar Bergman), and Seven Days in May (dir: John Frankenheimer)

Best Picture: The Servant
Director: Joseph Losey Producer: Joseph Losey, Norman Priggen
US Distributor: Landau Releasing

Best Director:
Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg AND Bay of Angels
2. Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove
3. Joseph Losey, The Servant
4. Hiroshi Teshigahara, Woman in the Dunes
5. Masaki Kobayashi, Harakiri

Best Actor:
Peter Sellers, Dr. Strangelove
2. Peter Finch, The Pumpkin Eater
3. Dirk Bogarde, The Servant
4. Ivan Dixon, Nothing But a Man
5. Richard Attenborough, Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Best Actress:
Catherine Deneuve, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
2. Kim Stanley, Seance on a Wet Afternoon
3. Kyôko Kishida, Woman in the Dunes
4. Ann-Margret, Kitten with a Whip
5. Ingrid Thulin, The Silence

Best Supporting Actor:
George C. Scott, Dr. Strangelove
2. Sterling Hayden, Dr. Strangelove
3. James Coburn, The Americanization of Emily
4. Edmond O’Brien, Seven Days in May
5. Jack Palance, Contempt

Best Supporting Actress:
Ava Gardner, The Night of the Iguana
2. Olivia de Havilland, Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
3. Agnes Moorhead, Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
4. Lila Kedrova, Zorba the Greek
5. Anne Vernon, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Best Original Screenplay:
Nothing But a Man — Michael Roemer and Robert M. Young
2. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg — Jacques Demy
3. The Naked Kiss — Samuel Fuller
4. A Hard Day’s Night — Alun Owen
5. Contempt — Jean-Luc Godard

Best Adapted Screenplay: 
Dr. Strangelove — Stanley Kubrick, Peter George and Terry Southern
2. The Servant — Harold Pinter
3. Harakiri — Shinobu Hashimoto and Yasuhiko Takiguchi
4. Seance on a Wet Afternoon — Bryan Forbes
5. Woman in the Dunes — Kobo Abe and Eiko Yoshida

Best Cinematography:
The Silence — Sven Nykvist
2. I Am Cuba — Serguey Urusevsky
3. The Servant — Douglas Slocombe
4. The Night of the Iguana — Gabriel Figueroa
5. The Pumpkin Eater — Oswald Morris

Best Film Editing: 
The Servant — Reginald Mills
2. A Hard Day’s Night — John Jympson
3. Dr. Strangelove — Anthony Harvey
4. Contempt — Agnès Guillemot
5. Seance on a West Afternoon — Derek York

Best Original Score:
Woman in the Dunes — Tôru Takmitsu
2. Zulu — John Barry
3. A Fistful of Dollars — Ennio Morricone
4. Contempt — Georges Delarue
5. The Horrible Dr. Hichcock — Roman Vlad

Best Production Design:
Dr. Strangelove — Ken Adam
2. Goldfinger — Ken Adam and Peter Murton
3. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg — Bernard Evein
4. The Gospel According to St. Matthew — Luigi Scaccianoce and Andrea Fantacci
5. Seven Days in May — Cary Odell and Edward Boyle

Best Costume Design:
My Fair Lady — Cecil Beaton
2. The Gospel According to St. Matthew — Danilo Donati
3. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg — Jacqueline Moreau
4. Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte — Norma Koch
5. Bay of Angels — Bernard Evein

Best Visual Effects:
The 7 Faces of Dr. Lau

Best Sound:
Dr. Strangelove

Best Ensemble Cast:
Harakiri

Orson Welles’ Best First Feature:
Michael Roemer, Nothing But a Man

Best Ensemble Cast: 
Harakiri (dir: Masaki Kobayashi; in alphabetical order): Yoshio Inaba, Akira Ishihama, Shimi Iwashita, Tatsuo Matsumura, Masao Mishima, Ichiro Nakatani, Tatsuya Nakadai (pictured), Kei Sato, and Tetsuro Tanba

Orson Welles' Best First Feature Award:
Michael Roemer, Nothing But a Man

RECAP

W I N S :

Dr. Strangelove — 5,
Nothing But a Man — 2, The Servant — 2, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg — 2, The 7 Faces of Dr. Lau — 1, Bay of Angels — 1, Harakiri — 1, My Fair Lady — 1, The Night of the Iguana — 1, The Silence — 1, Woman in the Dunes — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

Dr. Strangelove — 9,
The Servant — 6, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg — 6, Contempt — 5, Seance on a Wet Afternoon — 5, Harakiri — 4, Nothing But a Man— 4, Bay of Angels — 3, Hush, Hush… Sweet Charlotte — 3, The Gospel According to St. Matthew — 2, A Hard Day’s Night— 2, I Am Cuba — 2, The Night of the Iguana — 2, The Pumpkin Eater — 2, Seven Days in May – 2, The Silence — 2

the year-end project:
2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1974, 1973, 1972, 1971, 1970, 1969, 1968, 1967, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1963, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956, 1955, 1954, 1953, 1952, 1951, 1950, 1940 - 1949, 1930 - 1939, 1920 - 1929 + Superlatives Index

Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s