1964 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role Winner
![Lilies of the Field Sidney Poitier](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/lilies-of-the-field-ralph-nelson-image.jpg)
Lilies of the Field
Sidney Poitier
A travelling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.
1964 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role Nominees
![Cleopatra Rex Harrison](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cleopatra-joseph-l.-mankiewicz-image.jpg)
Cleopatra
Rex Harrison
![Hud Paul Newman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hud-martin-ritt-image.jpg)
Hud
Paul Newman
![This Sporting Life Richard Harris](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/this-sporting-life-lindsay-anderson-image.jpg)
This Sporting Life
Richard Harris
![Tom Jones Albert Finney](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/tom-jones-tony-richardson-image.jpg)