33rd Academy Awards

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33rd Academy Awards
DateApril 17, 1961
SiteSanta Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California
Hosted byBob Hope
Produced byArthur Freed
Directed byRichard Dunlap
Highlights
Best PictureThe Apartment
Most awardsThe Apartment (5)
Most nominationsThe Apartment (10)
TV in the United States
NetworkABC

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 (save for the period between 1971 and 1975, when they were aired on NBC for the first time since the previous year.)

The Apartment was the last black-and-white film to win Best Picture until Schindler's List (1993).

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.[1]

Awards[]

Billy Wilder (right); Best Picture and Best Director winner and Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen co-winner
Burt Lancaster; Best Actor winner
Peter Ustinov; Best Supporting Actor winner
Shirley Jones; Best Supporting Actress winner
Richard Brooks; Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium winner
Bill Thomas; Best Costume Design, Color co-winner
Hayley Mills; Academy Juvenile Award recipient

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface[2]

Best Motion Picture Best Director
  • The ApartmentBilly Wilder, producerdouble-dagger
    • The AlamoJohn Wayne, producer
    • Elmer GantryBernard Smith, producer
    • Sons and LoversJerry Wald, producer
    • The SundownersFred Zinnemann, producer
Best Actor Best Actress
  • Burt Lancaster – Elmer Gantry as Elmer Gantrydouble-dagger
    • 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 Wandrousdouble-dagger
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
  • Peter Ustinov – Spartacus as Batiatusdouble-dagger
    • 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
Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
  • Elmer Gantry – Richard Brooks based on the novel by Sinclair Lewisdouble-dagger
    • 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 Film Best Documentary Feature
  • The Virgin Spring (Sweden)double-dagger
Best Documentary Short Subject Best Live Action Short Subject
Best Short Subjects – Cartoons Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
  • Exodus – Ernest Golddouble-dagger
    • The Alamo – Dimitri Tiomkin
    • Elmer Gantry – André Previn
    • The Magnificent Seven – Elmer Bernstein
    • Spartacus – Alex North
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture Best Song
Best Sound Best Art Direction, Black-and-White
Best Art Direction, Color Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
  • Sons and Lovers – Freddie Francisdouble-dagger
    • The Apartment – Joseph LaShelle
    • The Facts of Life – Charles Lang
    • Inherit the Wind – Ernest Laszlo
    • Psycho – John L. Russell
Best Cinematography, Color Best Costume Design, Black-and-White
  • Spartacus – Russell Mettydouble-dagger
    • The Alamo – William H. Clothier
    • BUtterfield 8 – Joseph Ruttenberg and Charles Harten
    • Exodus – Sam Leavitt
    • Pepe – Joseph MacDonald
Best Costume Design, Color Best Film Editing
  • The Apartment – Daniel Mandelldouble-dagger
    • The Alamo – Stuart Gilmore
    • Inherit the Wind – Frederic Knudtson
    • Pepe – Viola Lawrence and Al Clark
    • Spartacus – Robert Lawrence
Best Special Effects

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[]

  • Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows (Presenters: Best Song)
  • Polly Bergen and Richard Widmark (Presenters: Best Special Effects)
  • Yul Brynner (Presenter: Best Actress)
  • Kitty Carlisle and Moss Hart (Presenters: Writing Awards)
  • Cyd Charisse and Tony Martin (Presenters: Cinematography Awards)
  • Betty Comden and Adolph Green (Presenters: Best Film Editing)
  • Wendell Corey and Susan Strasberg (Presenters: Short Subjects Awards)
  • Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh (Presenters: Documentary Awards)
  • Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee (Presenters: Music Awards)
  • Greer Garson (Presenter: Best Actor)
  • Hugh Griffith (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress)
  • Audrey Hepburn (Presenter: Best Motion Picture)
  • Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss (Presenters: Best Sound)
  • Eric Johnston (Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film)
  • Danny Kaye (Presenter: Honorary Award to Stan Laurel)
  • Gina Lollobrigida (Presenter: Best Director)
  • Tina Louise and Tony Randall (Presenters: Art Direction Awards)
  • Barbara Rush and Robert Stack (Presenters: Costume Design Awards)
  • Eva Marie Saint (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor)
  • Shirley Temple (Presenter: Juvenile Award to Hayley Mills)
  • William Wyler (Presenter: Honorary Award to Gary Cooper)

Performers[]

Multiple nominations and awards[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Daniel Miller (February 24, 2017). "The red carpet isn't actually red, and other secrets underfoot at the Oscars". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  2. ^ "The 33rd Academy Awards (1961) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on October 15, 2015. Retrieved May 4, 2015.

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