33rd Academy Awards (1961)
Highlights of 33rd Academy Awards ceremony
The 33rd Academy Awards honored the best films of 1960.
The award ceremony was held on 17th April 1961.
The Apartment won the Best Picture award.
Elmer Gantry won the Best Actor award for his role in Burt Lancaster.
Elizabeth Taylor won the Best Actess award for her role in Butterfield 8.
Billy Wilder won the Best Director award for The Apartment.
- WINNER
Best Picture
The Apartment
Elmer Gantry
Sons and Lovers
The Alamo
The Sundowners
Best Director
The Apartment
- Billy Wilder
Psycho
- Alfred Hitchcock
Jules Dassin
- Never on Sunday
Sons and Lovers
- Jack Cardiff
The Sundowners
- Fred Zinnemann
Best Original Screenplay
The Apartment
- Billy Wilder, I A L Diamond
Never on Sunday
- Jules Dassin
Hiroshima Mon Amour
- Marguerite Duras
The Angry Silence
- Richard Gregson, Michael Craig, Bryan Forbes
The Facts of Life
- Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Best Adapted Screenplay
Elmer Gantry
- Richard Brooks
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 Actor in a Leading Role
Elmer Gantry
- Burt Lancaster
Inherit The Wind
- Spencer Tracy
Sons and Lovers
- Trevor Howard
The Apartment
- Jack Lemmon
The Entertainer
- Laurence Olivier
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Butterfield 8
- Elizabeth Taylor
Never on Sunday
- Melina Mercouri
Sunrise at Campobello
- Greer Garson
The Apartment
- Shirley MacLaine
The Sundowners
- Deborah Kerr
Best Supporting Actor
Spartacus
- Peter Ustinov
Exodus
- Sal Mineo
Murder, Inc.
- Peter Falk
The Alamo
- Chill Wills
The Apartment
- Jack Kruschen
Best Supporting Actress
Elmer Gantry
- Shirley Jones
Psycho
- Janet Leigh
Sons and Lovers
- Mary Ure
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
- Shirley Knight
The Sundowners
- Glynis Johns
Best Original Song
Never on Sunday
- Manos Hatzidakis
for "Never on Sunday"
High Time
- Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn
for "The Second Time Around"
Pepe
- Andre Previn, Dory Previn
for "Faraway Part of Town"
The Alamo
- Dimitri Tiomkin, Paul Francis Webster
for "The Green Leaves of Summer"
The Facts of Life
- Johnny Mercer
for "The Facts of Life"
Best Sound Mixing
The Alamo
Cimarron
Pepe
Sunrise at Campobello
The Apartment
Best Documentary Feature
The Horse with the Flying Tail
Best Documentary Short Subject
Giuseppina
Best Foreign Language Film
The Virgin Spring
Best Live Action Short Film
Day of the Painter
Best Film Editing
The Apartment
Inherit the Wind
Pepe
Spartacus
The Alamo
Best Cinematography, Color
Spartacus
Butterfield 8
Exodus
Pepe
The Alamo
Best Cinematography, Black & White
Sons and Lovers
Inherit the Wind
Psycho
The Apartment
The Facts of Life
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
Spartacus
Cimarron
It Started in Naples
Pepe
Sunrise at Campobello
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black & White
The Apartment
Psycho
Sons and Lovers
The Facts of Life
Visit to a Small Planet
Best Costume Design, Color
Spartacus
Can-Can
Midnight Lace
Pepe
Sunrise at Campobello
Best Costume Design, Black & White
The Facts of Life
Never on Sunday
The Virgin Spring
Seven Thieves
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Best Short Subject - Cartoon
Munro
Best Music - Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Exodus
Elmer Gantry
Spartacus
The Alamo
The Magnificent Seven
Best Music - Scoring of a Musical Picture
Song Without End
Bells Are Ringing
Can-Can
Pepe
Let's Make Love
Best Effects, Special Effects
The Time Machine
The Last Voyage