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Academy Awards

33rd edition

  • April 17, 1961
  • United States

The 33rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1960, were held on April 17, 1961, hosted by Bob Hope at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. This was the first ceremony to be aired on ABC television, which has aired the Academy Awards ever since (except between 1971 and 1975, when they were aired on NBC for the first time since the previous year).

Awards

Movie People Status
Best Picture
The Apartment Billy Wilder - as producer(s) Winner
The Alamo John Wayne - as producer(s)
Elmer Gantry Bernard Smith - as producer(s)
Sons and Lovers Jerry Wald - as producer(s)
The Sundowners Fred Zinnemann - as producer(s)
Best Director
The Apartment Billy Wilder Winner
Never on Sunday Jules Dassin
Psycho Alfred Hitchcock
Sons and Lovers Jack Cardiff
The Sundowners Fred Zinnemann
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Elmer Gantry Burt Lancaster Winner
Sons and Lovers Trevor Howard
The Apartment Jack Lemmon
The Entertainer Laurence Olivier
Inherit the Wind Spencer Tracy
Best Actress in a Leading Role
BUtterfield 8 Elizabeth Taylor Winner
Sunrise at Campobello Greer Garson
The Sundowners Deborah Kerr
The Apartment Shirley MacLaine
Never on Sunday Melina Mercouri
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Spartacus Peter Ustinov Winner
Murder, Inc. Peter Falk
The Apartment Jack Kruschen
Exodus Sal Mineo
The Alamo Chill Wills
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Elmer Gantry Shirley Jones Winner
The Sundowners Glynis Johns
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs Shirley Knight
Psycho Janet Leigh
Sons and Lovers Mary Ure
Best Original Screenplay
The Apartment Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond Winner
The Angry Silence Richard Gregson, Michael Craig, Bryan Forbes
The Facts of Life Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Hiroshima Mon Amour Marguerite Duras
Never on Sunday Jules Dassin
Best Adapted Screenplay
Elmer Gantry Richard Brooks Winner
Inherit the Wind Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith
Sons and Lovers Gavin Lambert, T. E. B. Clarke
The Sundowners Isobel Lennart
Tunes of Glory James Kennaway
Best International Feature Film
The Virgin Spring Winner
Kapo
Macario
The Ninth Circle
The Truth
Best Documentary Feature Film
The Horse with the Flying Tail Winner
Rebel in Paradise
Best Original Score
Exodus Ernest Gold Winner
The Alamo Dimitri Tiomkin
Elmer Gantry André Previn
The Magnificent Seven Elmer Bernstein
Spartacus Alex North
Best Cinematography (Black and White)
Sons and Lovers Freddie Francis Winner
The Apartment Joseph LaShelle
The Facts of Life Charles Lang
Inherit the Wind Ernest Laszlo
Psycho John L. Russell
Best Cinematography (Color)
Spartacus Russell Metty Winner
The Alamo William H. Clothier
BUtterfield 8 Joseph Ruttenberg, Charles Harten
Exodus Sam Leavitt
Pepe Joseph MacDonald
Scoring of a Musical Picture - Original or Adaptation
Song Without End Morris Stoloff, Harry Sukman Winner
Bells Are Ringing André Previn
Can-Can Nelson Riddle
Let's Make Love Lionel Newman, Earle H. Hagen
Pepe Johnny Green
Best Film Editing
The Apartment Daniel Mandell Winner
The Alamo Stuart Gilmore
Inherit the Wind Frederic Knudtson
Pepe Viola Lawrence, Al Clark
Spartacus Robert Lawrence
Best Sound
The Alamo Gordon E. Sawyer, Fred Hynes Winner
The Apartment Gordon E. Sawyer
Cimarron Franklin Milton
Pepe Charles Rice
Sunrise at Campobello George Groves
Best Original Song
Never on Sunday Manos Hatzidakis - "Never on Sunday" Winner
High Time Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn - "The Second Time Around"
Pepe André Previn, Dory Previn - "Faraway Part of Town"
The Alamo Dimitri Tiomkin, Paul Francis Webster - "The Green Leaves of Summer"
The Facts of Life Johnny Mercer - "The Facts of Life"
Best Production Design (Black and White)
The Apartment Alexandre Trauner, Edward G. Boyle Winner
The Facts of Life Joseph McMillan Johnson, Kenneth A. Reid, Ross Dowd
Psycho Joseph Hurley, Robert Clatworthy, George Milo
Sons and Lovers Thomas N. Morahan, Lionel Couch
Visit to a Small Planet Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, Arthur Krams
Best Production Design (Color)
Spartacus Alexander Golitzen, Eric Orbom, Russell A. Gausman, Julia Heron Winner
Cimarron George Davis, Addison Hehr, Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt, Otto Siegel
It Started in Naples Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, Arrigo Breschi
Pepe Ted Haworth, William Kiernan
Sunrise at Campobello Edward Carrere, George James Hopkins
Best Costume Design (Black and White)
The Facts of Life Edith Head, Edward Stevenson Winner
Never on Sunday Deni Vachlioti
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond Howard Shoup
Seven Thieves Bill Thomas
The Virgin Spring Marik Vos
Best Costume Design (Color)
Spartacus Bill Thomas, Valles Winner
Can-Can Irene Sharaff
Midnight Lace Irene Lentz
Pepe Edith Head
Sunrise at Campobello Marjorie Best
Best Special Effects
The Time Machine Gene Warren, Tim Baar Winner
The Last Voyage Augie Lohman
Best Short Film (Live Action)
Day of the Painter Winner
The Creation of Woman
Islands of the Sea
A Sport Is Born
Best Documentary Short Film
Giuseppina Winner
Beyond Silence
A City Called Copenhagen
George Grosz' Interregnum
Universe
Best Animated Short Film
Munro Winner
Goliath II
High Note
Mouse and Garden
A Place in the Sun
Honorary Award
Gary Cooper - for his many memorable screen performances and the international recognition he, as an individual, has gained for the motion picture industry. Winner
Stan Laurel - for his creative pioneering in the field of cinema comedy. Winner
Hayley Mills - for Pollyanna, the most outstanding juvenile performance during 1960. Winner
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Sol Lesser Winner
Statistics

Most Awarded

2 or more wins
  • The Apartment 5
  • Spartacus 4
  • Elmer Gantry 3

Most Nominated

3 or more nominations
  • The Apartment 10
  • The Alamo 7
  • Pepe 7
  • Sons and Lovers 7
  • Spartacus 6
  • Elmer Gantry 5
  • The Facts of Life 5
  • Never on Sunday 5
  • The Sundowners 5
  • Inherit the Wind 4
  • Psycho 4
  • Sunrise at Campobello 4
  • Exodus 3

Most Unluckiest

wins / nominations
  • Pepe 0 / 7
  • The Alamo 1 / 7
  • Sons and Lovers 1 / 7
  • The Apartment 5 / 10
  • The Sundowners 0 / 5
  • The Facts of Life 1 / 5
  • Never on Sunday 1 / 5
  • Inherit the Wind 0 / 4
  • Psycho 0 / 4
  • Sunrise at Campobello 0 / 4
  • Spartacus 4 / 6
  • Elmer Gantry 3 / 5
  • Exodus 1 / 3

Only one nomination

38 movies:
  • The Angry Silence
  • Bells Are Ringing
  • Beyond Silence
  • A City Called Copenhagen
  • The Creation of Woman
  • The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
  • Day of the Painter
  • The Entertainer
  • George Grosz' Interregnum
  • Giuseppina
  • Goliath II
  • High Note
  • High Time
  • Hiroshima Mon Amour
  • The Horse with the Flying Tail
  • Islands of the Sea
  • It Started in Naples
  • Kapo
  • The Last Voyage
  • Let's Make Love
  • Macario
  • The Magnificent Seven
  • Midnight Lace
  • Mouse and Garden
  • Munro
  • Murder, Inc.
  • The Ninth Circle
  • A Place in the Sun
  • Rebel in Paradise
  • The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
  • Seven Thieves
  • Song Without End
  • A Sport Is Born
  • The Time Machine
  • The Truth
  • Tunes of Glory
  • Universe
  • Visit to a Small Planet

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