19th Golden Globe Awards

19th Golden Globe Awards
Date	March 5, 1962
Highlights
Best Film: Drama	The Guns of Navarone
Best Film: Comedy	A Majority of One
Best Film: Musical	West Side Story
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The 19th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1961 films, were held on March 5, 1962.

Winners and nominees[]

Film[]

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Best Film - Drama[]

The Guns of Navarone

• El Cid
• Fanny
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• Splendor in the Grass

Best Film - Comedy[]

A Majority of One

• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• One, Two, Three
• The Parent Trap
• Pocketful of Miracles

Best Film - Musical[]

West Side Story

• Babes in Toyland
• Flower Drum Song

Best Actor - Drama[]

Maximilian Schell – Judgment at Nuremberg

• Warren Beatty – Splendor in the Grass
• Maurice Chevalier – Fanny
• Paul Newman – The Hustler
• Sidney Poitier – A Raisin in the Sun

Best Actress - Drama[]

Geraldine Page – Summer and Smoke

• Leslie Caron – Fanny
• Shirley MacLaine – The Children's Hour
• Claudia McNeil – A Raisin in the Sun
• Natalie Wood – Splendor in the Grass

Best Actor - Comedy or Musical[]

Glenn Ford – Pocketful of Miracles

• Fred Astaire – The Pleasure of His Company
• Richard Beymer – West Side Story
• Bob Hope – Bachelor in Paradise
• Fred MacMurray – The Absent-Minded Professor

Best Actress - Comedy or Musical[]

Rosalind Russell – A Majority of One

• Bette Davis – Pocketful of Miracles
• Audrey Hepburn – Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Hayley Mills – The Parent Trap
• Miyoshi Umeki – Flower Drum Song

Best Supporting Actor[]

George Chakiris – West Side Story^[3]

• Montgomery Clift – Judgment at Nuremberg
• Jackie Gleason – The Hustler
• Tony Randall – Lover Come Back
• George C. Scott – The Hustler

Best Supporting Actress[]

Rita Moreno – West Side Story

• Fay Bainter – The Children's Hour
• Judy Garland – Judgment at Nuremberg
• Lotte Lenya – The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
• Pamela Tiffin – One, Two, Three

Best Director[]

Stanley Kramer – Judgment at Nuremberg

• Anthony Mann – El Cid
• Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise – West Side Story
• J. Lee Thompson – The Guns of Navarone
• William Wyler – The Children's Hour

Best Foreign Language Film[]

Two Women (La ciociara) • Italy

• The Good Soldier Schweik (Der Brave Soldat Schwejk) • West Germany
• The Important Man (Ánimas Trujano: El hombre importante) • Mexico

Silver Globe[]

The Good Soldier Schweik (Der Brave Soldat Schwejk) (West Germany)
The Important Man (Ánimas Trujano: El hombre importante) (Mexico)

Best Music, Original Score[]

"The Guns of Navarone" – Dimitri Tiomkin

• "El Cid" – Miklós Rózsa
• "Fanny" – Harold Rome
• "King of Kings" – Miklós Rózsa
• "Summer and Smoke" – Elmer Bernstein

Best Song[]

"Town Without Pity" - Town Without Pity (Dimitri Tiomkin - music, Ned Washington - lyrics)

Best Film Promoting International Understanding[]

A Majority of One

• Judgment at Nuremberg
• Bridge to the Sun

Most Promising Newcomer - Male[]

Warren Beatty
Richard Beymer
Bobby Darin

• George C. Scott

Most Promising Newcomer - Female[]

Ann-Margret
Jane Fonda
Christine Kaufmann

• Pamela Tiffin
• Cordula Trantow

Henrietta Award (World Film Favorite)[]

Charlton Heston
Marilyn Monroe

Television[]

Only winners announced

Best TV Show[]

What's My Line?
My Three Sons

Best TV Star - Male[]

Bob Newhart
John Daly

Best TV Star - Female[]

Pauline Frederick

Special Journalistic Merit Award[]

Army Archerd (Daily Variety)
Mike Connolly (The Hollywood Reporter)

Special Merit Award[]

Samuel Bronston - El Cid

Samuel Goldwyn Award[]

• The Mark

Cecil B. DeMille Award[]

Judy Garland

Award breakdown[]

Film[]

Winners

3 / 3 A Majority of One: Best Actress-Musical or Comedy, Film-Comedy & Film Promoting International Understanding

3 / 5 West Side Story: Best Film-Musical & Supporting Actor and Actress

2 / 3 The Guns of Navarone: Best Film-Drama & Original Score

1 / 3 Summer and Smoke: Best Actress-Drama

References[]

• IMdb 1962 Golden Globe Awards