33rd Academy Awards


The 33rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1960, were held on April 17, 1961, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Bob Hope. This was the first ceremony to be aired on ABC television, which has aired the Academy Awards ever since
The Apartment was the last black-and-white film to win Best Picture until Schindler's List.
Gary Cooper was selected by the Academy Board of Governors to be the year's recipient of the Academy Honorary Award "for his many memorable screen performances and the international recognition he, as an individual, has gained for the motion picture industry". Cooper was too ill to attend the ceremony, though his condition was not publicly disclosed, save for his family and close friends. At the awards ceremony James Stewart, a close friend of Cooper, accepted the Honorary Oscar on his behalf. Stewart's emotional speech hinted that something was seriously wrong, and the next day newspapers ran the headline, "Gary Cooper has cancer". Less than four weeks later, on May 13, 1961, six days after his 60th birthday, Cooper died.
Young and rising star Hayley Mills was selected by the Academy Board of Governors to be the year's recipient of the Academy Juvenile Award for her breakthrough and acclaimed performance in Walt Disney's production of Pollyanna. Mills became the last recipient of the award, as the Academy retired the award afterwards. From 1963 onward, juvenile actors could officially compete in competitive acting awards with their adult counterparts. This was the first year a red carpet would line the walk into the theater.

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface
Best Motion PictureBest Director

  • Billy Wilder – The Apartment
  • *Jules Dassin – Never on Sunday
  • *Alfred Hitchcock – Psycho
  • *Jack Cardiff – Sons and Lovers
  • *Fred Zinnemann – The Sundowners
    • Best ActorBest Actress
  • Burt Lancaster – Elmer Gantry as Elmer Gantry
  • *Trevor Howard – Sons and Lovers as Walter Morel
  • *Jack Lemmon – The Apartment as Calvin Clifford "Bud" Baxter
  • *Laurence Olivier – The Entertainer as Archie Rice
  • *Spencer Tracy – Inherit the Wind as Henry Drummond
  • Elizabeth Taylor – Butterfield 8 as Gloria Wandrous
  • *Greer Garson – Sunrise at Campobello as Eleanor Roosevelt
  • *Deborah Kerr – The Sundowners as Ida Carmody
  • *Shirley MacLaine – The Apartment as Fran Kubelik
  • *Melina Mercouri – Never on Sunday as Ilya
    • Best Supporting ActorBest Supporting Actress
  • Peter Ustinov – Spartacus as Batiatus
  • *Peter Falk – Murder, Inc. as Abe "Kid Twist" Reles
  • *Jack Kruschen – The Apartment as Dr. Dreyfuss
  • *Sal Mineo – Exodus as Dov Landau
  • *Chill Wills – The Alamo as Beekeeper
  • Shirley Jones – Elmer Gantry as Lulu Bains
  • *Glynis Johns – The Sundowners as Mrs. Firth
  • *Shirley Knight – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs as Reenie Flood
  • *Janet Leigh – Psycho as Marion Crane
  • *Mary Ure – Sons and Lovers as Clara Dawes
    • Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the ScreenBest Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
  • The Apartment – Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond
  • *The Angry Silence – Richard Gregson, Michael Craig and Bryan Forbes
  • *The Facts of Life – Melvin Frank and Norman Panama
  • *Hiroshima, My Love – Marguerite Duras
  • *Never on Sunday – Jules Dassin
  • Elmer Gantry – Richard Brooks based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis
  • *Inherit the Wind – Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith based on the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
  • *Sons and Lovers – Gavin Lambert and T. E. B. Clarke based on the novel by D. H. Lawrence
  • *The Sundowners – Isobel Lennart based on the novel by Jon Cleary
  • *Tunes of Glory – James Kennaway based on his novel
    • Best Foreign Language FilmBest Documentary Feature
  • The Virgin Spring
  • *Kapo
  • *Macario
  • *The Ninth Circle
  • *La Vérité
  • The Horse with the Flying Tail
  • *Rebel in Paradise
    • Best Documentary Short SubjectBest Live Action Short Subject
  • Giuseppina
  • *Beyond Silence
  • *A City Called Copenhagen
  • *George Grosz' Interregnum
  • *Universe
  • Day of the Painter
  • *The Creation of Woman
  • *Islands of the Sea
  • *A Sport Is Born
    • Best Short Subjects – CartoonsBest Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
  • Munro
  • *Goliath II
  • *High Note
  • *Mouse and Garden
  • *A Place in the Sun
  • Exodus – Ernest Gold
  • *The Alamo – Dimitri Tiomkin
  • *Elmer Gantry – André Previn
  • *The Magnificent Seven – Elmer Bernstein
  • *Spartacus – Alex North
    • Best Scoring of a Musical PictureBest Song
  • Song Without End – Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman
  • *Bells Are Ringing – André Previn
  • *Can-Can – Nelson Riddle
  • *Let's Make Love – Lionel Newman and Earle H. Hagen
  • *Pepe – Johnny Green
  • "Never on Sunday" from Never on Sunday – Music and Lyrics by Manos Hatzidakis
  • *"The Second Time Around" from High Time – Music by Jimmy Van Heusen and Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
  • *"Faraway Part of Town" from Pepe – Music by André Previn; Lyrics by Dory Previn
  • *"The Green Leaves of Summer" from The Alamo – Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
  • *"The Facts of Life" from The Facts of Life – Music and Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
    • Best SoundBest Art Direction, Black-and-White
  • The Alamo – Gordon E. Sawyer and Fred Hynes
  • *The Apartment – Gordon E. Sawyer
  • *Cimarron – Franklin Milton
  • *Pepe – Charles Rice
  • *Sunrise at Campobello – George Groves
  • The Apartment – Art Direction: Alexandre Trauner; Set Decoration: Edward G. Boyle
  • *The Facts of Life – Art Direction: Joseph McMillan Johnson and Kenneth A. Reid; Set Decoration: Ross Dowd
  • *Psycho – Art Direction: Joseph Hurley and Robert Clatworthy; Set Decoration: George Milo
  • *Sons and Lovers – Art Direction: Thomas N. Morahan; Set Decoration: Lionel Couch
  • *Visit to a Small Planet – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Walter Tyler; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Arthur Krams
    • Best Art Direction, ColorBest Cinematography, Black-and-White
  • Spartacus – Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen and Eric Orbom ; Set Decoration: Russell A. Gausman and Julia Heron
  • *Cimarron – Art Direction: George Davis and Addison Hehr; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt and Otto Siegel
  • *It Started in Naples – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Arrigo Breschi
  • *Pepe – Art Direction: Ted Haworth; Set Decoration: William Kiernan
  • *Sunrise at Campobello – Art Direction: Edward Carrere; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
  • Sons and Lovers – Freddie Francis
  • *The Apartment – Joseph LaShelle
  • *The Facts of Life – Charles Lang
  • *Inherit the Wind – Ernest Laszlo
  • *Psycho – John L. Russell
    • Best Cinematography, ColorBest Costume Design, Black-and-White
  • Spartacus – Russell Metty
  • *The Alamo – William H. Clothier
  • *BUtterfield 8 – Joseph Ruttenberg and Charles Harten
  • *Exodus – Sam Leavitt
  • *Pepe – Joseph MacDonald
  • The Facts of Life – Edith Head and Edward Stevenson
  • *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, ColorBest Film Editing
  • Spartacus – Bill Thomas and Valles
  • *Can-Can – Irene Sharaff
  • *Midnight Lace – Irene Lentz
  • *Pepe – Edith Head
  • *Sunrise at Campobello – Marjorie Best
  • The Apartment – Daniel Mandell
  • *The Alamo – Stuart Gilmore
  • *Inherit the Wind – Frederic Knudtson
  • *Pepe – Viola Lawrence and Al Clark
  • *Spartacus – Robert Lawrence
    • Best Special Effects-
  • The Time Machine – Gene Warren and Tim Baar
  • *The Last Voyage – Augie Lohman
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    Academy Honorary Awards

  • Gary Cooper "for his many memorable screen performances and the international recognition he, as an individual, has gained for the motion picture industry".
  • Stan Laurel "for his creative pioneering in the field of cinema comedy".

    Academy Juvenile Award

  • Hayley Mills

    Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

  • Sol Lesser

    Presenters and performers

    • Presenters

    These films had multiple nominations:
    The following films received multiple awards.