1963 Oscarace

Hollywood's Academy Award nominations were announced last week. Oscar day is April 8. There will be much jockeying between now and then to advance the following stallions and fillies:

For Best Actor: Burt Lancaster for Bird Man of Alcatraz, Jack Lemmon for Days of Wine and Roses, Marcello Mastroianni for Divorce--Italian Style, Peter O'Toole for Lawrence of Arabia, and Gregory Peck for To Kill a Mockingbird. Peck has been nominated five times, but he has never won an Oscar. Mastroianni is the first foreign actor ever nominated for best actor for a performance in a foreign-language film.

For Best Actress: Anne Bancroft (The Miracle Worker), Lee Remick (Wine and Roses), Geraldine Page (Sweet Bird of Youth), Katharine Hepburn (Long Day's Journey into Night), and Bette Davis (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?). Davis has won twice before and is thus in a position to become the first person ever to do it a third time. She has been nominated a record ten times.

For Best Motion Picture: Lawrence of Arabia, The Longest Day, The Music Man, Mutiny on the Bounty, and To Kill a Mockingbird.

For Best Director: Frank Perry for David and Lisa, Pietro Germi for Divorce --Italian Style, David Lean for Lawrence of Arabia (he won an Oscar for directing The Bridge on the River Kwai), Arthur Penn for The Miracle Worker, and Robert Mulligan for To Kill a Mockingbird.

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