18th Golden Globe Awards

18th Golden Globe Awards
Date	16 March 1961
Highlights
Best Film: Drama	Spartacus
Best Film: Comedy	The Apartment
Best Film: Musical	Song Without End
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The 18th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1960 films, were held on March 16, 1961.

Winners and nominees[]

Film[]

Best Film – Drama[]

Spartacus

• Elmer Gantry
• Inherit the Wind
• Sons and Lovers
• Sunrise at Campobello

Best Film – Comedy[]

The Apartment

• The Facts of Life
• The Grass Is Greener
• It Started in Naples
• Our Man in Havana

Best Film – Musical[]

Song Without End

• Bells Are Ringing
• Can-Can
• Let's Make Love
• Pepe

Best Actor – Drama[]

Burt Lancaster – Elmer Gantry

• Trevor Howard – Sons and Lovers
• Laurence Olivier – Spartacus
• Dean Stockwell – Sons and Lovers
• Spencer Tracy – Inherit the Wind

Best Actress – Drama[]

Greer Garson – Sunrise at Campobello

• Doris Day – Midnight Lace
• Nancy Kwan – The World of Suzie Wong
• Jean Simmons – Elmer Gantry
• Elizabeth Taylor – BUtterfield 8

Best Actor – Comedy or Musical[]

Jack Lemmon – The Apartment

• Cantinflas – Pepe
• Dirk Bogarde – Song Without End
• Cary Grant – The Grass Is Greener
• Bob Hope – The Facts of Life

Best Actress – Comedy or Musical[]

Shirley MacLaine – The Apartment

• Lucille Ball – The Facts of Life
• Capucine – Song Without End
• Judy Holliday – Bells Are Ringing
• Sophia Loren – It Started in Naples

Best Supporting Actor[]

Sal Mineo – Exodus

• Lee Kinsolving – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
• Ray Stricklyn – The Plunderers
• Woody Strode – Spartacus
• Peter Ustinov – Spartacus

Best Supporting Actress[]

Janet Leigh – Psycho

• Ina Balin – From the Terrace
• Shirley Jones – Elmer Gantry
• Shirley Knight – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
• Mary Ure – Sons and Lovers

Best Director[]

Jack Cardiff – Sons and Lovers

• Richard Brooks – Elmer Gantry
• Stanley Kubrick – Spartacus
• Billy Wilder – The Apartment
• Fred Zinnemann – The Sundowners

Best Music, Original Score[]

Dimitri Tiomkin – The Alamo

• Ernest Gold – Exodus
• Johnny Green – Pepe
• Alex North – Spartacus
• George Duning – The World of Suzie Wong

Best Film to Promote International Understanding[]

Hand in Hand

• Conspiracy of Hearts

Most Promising Newcomer – Male[]

Michael Callan
Mark Damon
Brett Halsey

• Peter Falk
• David Janssen
• Robert Vaughn

Most Promising Newcomer – Female[]

Ina Balin
Nancy Kwan
Hayley Mills

• Jill Haworth
• Shirley Knight
• Julie Newmar

Henrietta Award (World Film Favorite)[]

Tony Curtis
Rock Hudson
Gina Lollobrigida

Special Award[]

Cantinflas (For comedy)
Stanley Kramer (For artistic integrity)

Special Merit Award[]

The Sundowners

Samuel Goldwyn Award[]

The Trials of Oscar Wilde (English-Language Foreign Film)
La Vérité (France) (Foreign-Language Foreign Film)
The Virgin Spring (Sweden) (Foreign-Language Foreign Film)

• Pote tin Kyriaki (Greece)

Cecil B. DeMille Award[]

Fred Astaire

References[]

• IMdb 1961 Golden Globe Awards