The 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird won three Academy Awards.
Gregory Peck won Best Actor for playing Atticus Finch, Horton Foote won Best Adapted Screenplay, and the film won Best Art Direction—Set Decoration, Black-and-White. It received eight nominations overall, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress for Mary Badham, who played Scout.
Directed by Robert Mulligan, the film adapts Harper Lee’s 1960 novel and was released during a period when American cinema was increasingly confronting racial injustice and moral conflict. Its courtroom story and Peck’s performance made it a major critical and commercial success.
The film did not win Best Picture; that award went to Lawrence of Arabia at the 35th Academy Awards, held in 1963. This is the usual source of confusion when recalling the movie’s awards history. It was later selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1995.