34th Academy Awards (1962)

Highlights of 34th Academy Awards ceremony

The 34th Academy Awards honored the best films of 1961.
The award ceremony was held on 9th April 1962 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California.
West Side Story won the Best Picture award.
Maximilian Schell won the Best Actor award for his role in Judgment at Nuremberg.
Sophia Loren won the Best Actess award for her role in La Ciociara.
Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise won the Best Director award for West Side Story.
- WINNER

Best Picture

West Side Story
Fanny
Judgment at Nuremberg
The Hustler
The Guns of Navarone

Best Director

West Side Story - Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
Judgment at Nuremberg - Stanley Kramer
La dolce vita - Federico Fellini
The Guns of Navarone - J. Lee Thompson
The Hustler - Robert Rossen

Best Original Screenplay

Splendor in the Grass - William Inge
La dolce vita - Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, Brunello Rondi
Ballada o soldate - Valentin Ezhov, Grigori Chukhrai
Il generale della Rovere - Sergio Amidei, Diego Fabbri, Indro Montanelli
Lover Come Back - Stanley Shapiro, Paul Henning

Best Adapted Screenplay

Judgment at Nuremberg - Abby Mann
West Side Story - Ernest Lehman
Breakfast at Tiffany's - George Axelrod
The Guns of Navarone - Carl Foreman
The Hustler - Robert Rossen, Sidney Carroll

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Judgment at Nuremberg - Maximilian Schell
The Hustler - Paul Newman
Judgment at Nuremberg - Spencer Tracy
Fanny - Charles Boyer
The Mark - Stuart Whitman

Best Actress in a Leading Role

La Ciociara - Sophia Loren
The Hustler - Piper Laurie
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Audrey Hepburn
Splendor in the Grass - Natalie Wood
Summer and Smoke - Geraldine Page

Best Supporting Actor

West Side Story - George Chakiris
Judgment at Nuremberg - Montgomery Clift
The Hustler - George C. Scott
The Hustler - Jackie Gleason
Pocketful of Miracles - Peter Falk

Best Supporting Actress

West Side Story - Rita Moreno
Judgment at Nuremberg - Judy Garland
Summer and Smoke - Una Merkel
The Children's Hour - Fay Bainter
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone - Lotte Lenya

Best Original Song

Breakfast at Tiffany's - Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer for "Moon River"
Bachelor in Paradise - Henry Mancini, Mack David for "Bachelor in Paradise"
El Cid - Miklos Rozsa, Paul Francis Webster
Pocketful of Miracles - Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn for "Pocketful of Miracles"
Town Without Pity - Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington for "Town Without Pity"

Best Sound Mixing

West Side Story
The Parent Trap
The Children's Hour
Flower Drum Song
The Guns of Navarone

Best Costume Design

West Side Story
Back Street
Babes in Toyland
Flower Drum Song
Pocketful of Miracles

Best Documentary Feature

Le ciel et la boue

Best Documentary Short Subject

Project Hope

Best Foreign Language Film

Sasom i en spegel
Eien no hito
Harry og kammertjeneren
Placido
Animas Trujano

Academy Honorary Award

Fred L. Meltzer for "His dedication and outstanding service to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences"
Jerome Robbins for "His brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film"
William L. Hendricks for "His outstanding patriotic service in the conception"
A Force in Readiness

Best Live Action Short Film

Seawards the Great Ships

Best Film Editing

West Side Story
The Parent Trap
Fanny
Judgment at Nuremberg
The Guns of Navarone

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

George Seaton

Best Cinematography, Color

West Side Story
A Majority of One
Fanny
Flower Drum Song
One-Eyed Jacks

Best Cinematography, Black & White

The Hustler - Eugen Schüfftan
Judgment at Nuremberg - Ernest Laszlo
One, Two, Three - Daniel L Fapp
The Absent Minded Professor - Edward Colman
The Children's Hour - Franz Planer

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color

West Side Story
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Flower Drum Song
El Cid
Summer and Smoke

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black & White

The Hustler
Judgment at Nuremberg
The Absent Minded Professor
La dolce vita
The Children's Hour

Best Costume Design, Black & White

La dolce vita
Claudelle Inglish
Judgment at Nuremberg
The Children's Hour
Yojimbo

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Stanley Kramer

Best Short Subject - Cartoon

Surogat

Best Music - Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

Breakfast at Tiffany's - Henry Mancini
El Cid - Miklos Rozsa
Fanny - Morris Stoloff, Harry Sukman
Summer and Smoke - Elmer Bernstein
The Guns of Navarone - Dimitri Tiomkin

Best Music - Scoring of a Musical Picture

West Side Story - Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin, Irwin Kostal
Babes in Toyland - George Bruns
Flower Drum Song - Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
Khovanshchina - Dmitri Shostakovich
Paris Blues - Duke Ellington

Best Effects, Special Effects

The Guns of Navarone
The Absent Minded Professor
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