The 33rd Academy Awards (1960): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS

AWARDS

  • 10
  • 7
  • 7
  • 7
  • 6
  • 5
  • 5
  • 5
  • 5
  • 4
  • 4
  • 4
  • 3
  • The Apartment
  • The Alamo
  • Pepe
  • Sons and Lovers
  • Spartacus
  • Elmer Gantry
  • The Facts of Life
  • Never on Sunday
  • The Sundowners
  • Inherit the Wind
  • Psycho
  • Sunrise at Campobello
  • Exodus
  • 5
  • 4
  • 3
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • The Apartment
  • Spartacus
  • Elmer Gantry
  • The Alamo
  • Butterfield 8
  • Day of the Painter
  • Exodus
  • The Facts of Life
  • Giuseppina
  • The Horse with the Flying Tail
  • Munro
  • Never on Sunday
  • Song without End (The Story of Franz Liszt)
  • Sons and Lovers
  • The Time Machine
  • The Virgin Spring
  • NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND
  • Best Picture winner
  • Best Picture nominee
  • Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

PICTURE (Best Motion Picture)

  • The Alamo - John Wayne
  • The Apartment - Billy Wilder
  • Elmer Gantry - Bernard Smith
  • Sons and Lovers - Jerry Wald
  • The Sundowners - Fred Zinnemann

DIRECTING

  • The Apartment - Billy Wilder
  • Never on Sunday - Jules Dassin
  • Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock
  • Sons and Lovers - Jack Cardiff
  • The Sundowners - Fred Zinnemann

ACTOR

  • Trevor Howard - Sons and Lovers
  • Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry
  • Jack Lemmon - The Apartment
  • Laurence Olivier - The Entertainer
  • Spencer Tracy - Inherit the Wind

ACTRESS

  • Greer Garson - Sunrise at Campobello
  • Deborah Kerr - The Sundowners
  • Shirley MacLaine - The Apartment
  • Melina Mercouri - Never on Sunday
  • Elizabeth Taylor - Butterfield 8

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Actor in a Supporting Role)

  • Peter Falk - Murder, Inc.
  • Jack Kruschen - The Apartment
  • Sal Mineo - Exodus
  • Peter Ustinov - Spartacus
  • Chill Wills - The Alamo

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Actress in a Supporting Role)

  • Glynis Johns - The Sundowners
  • Shirley Jones - Elmer Gantry
  • Shirley Knight - The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
  • Janet Leigh - Psycho
  • Mary Ure - Sons and Lovers

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (Screenplay--based on material from another medium)

  • Elmer Gantry - Richard Brooks
  • Inherit the Wind - Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith [1]
  • Sons and Lovers - Gavin Lambert, T. E. B. Clarke
  • The Sundowners - Isobel Lennart
  • Tunes of Glory - James Kennaway

STORY AND SCREENPLAY (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen)

  • The Angry Silence - Story by Richard Gregson, Michael Craig; Screenplay by Bryan Forbes
  • The Apartment - Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
  • The Facts of Life - Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
  • Hiroshima, Mon Amour - Marguerite Duras
  • Never on Sunday - Jules Dassin

SONG

  • "The Facts of Life" - The Facts of Life - Music, Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
  • "Faraway Part of Town" - Pepe - Music by Andre Previn; Lyrics by Dory Langdon
  • "The Green Leaves of Summer" - The Alamo - Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
  • "Never On Sunday" - Never on Sunday - Music, Lyrics by Manos Hadjidakis
  • "The Second Time Around" - High Time - Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn

MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

  • The Alamo - Dimitri Tiomkin
  • Elmer Gantry - Andre Previn
  • Exodus - Ernest Gold
  • The Magnificent Seven - Elmer Bernstein
  • Spartacus - Alex North

SCORING OF A MUSICAL PICTURE

  • Bells Are Ringing - Andre Previn
  • Can-Can - Nelson Riddle
  • Let's Make Love - Lionel Newman, Earle H. Hagen
  • Pepe - Johnny Green
  • Song without End (The Story of Franz Liszt) - Morris Stoloff, Harry Sukman

FILM EDITING

  • The Alamo - Stuart Gilmore
  • The Apartment - Daniel Mandell
  • Inherit the Wind - Frederic Knudtson
  • Pepe - Viola Lawrence, Al Clark
  • Spartacus - Robert Lawrence

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White)

  • The Apartment - Joseph LaShelle
  • The Facts of Life - Charles B. Lang Jr.
  • Inherit the Wind - Ernest Laszlo
  • Psycho - John L. Russell
  • Sons and Lovers - Freddie Francis

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color)

  • The Alamo - William H. Clothier
  • Butterfield 8 - Joseph Ruttenberg, Charles Harten
  • Exodus - Sam Leavitt
  • Pepe - Joe MacDonald
  • Spartacus - Russell Metty

ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White)

  • The Apartment - Art Direction: Alexander Trauner; Set Decoration: Edward G. Boyle
  • The Facts of Life - Art Direction: Joseph McMillan Johnson, Kenneth A. Reid; Set Decoration: Ross Dowd
  • Psycho - Art Direction: Joseph Hurley, Robert Clatworthy; Set Decoration: George Milo
  • Sons and Lovers - Art Direction: Tom Morahan; Set Decoration: Lionel Couch
  • Visit to a Small Planet - Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Arthur Krams

ART DIRECTION (Color)

  • Cimarron - Art Direction: George W. Davis, Addison Hehr; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt, Otto Siegel
  • It Started in Naples - Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Arrigo Breschi
  • Pepe - Art Direction: Ted Haworth; Set Decoration: William Kiernan
  • Spartacus - Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen, Eric Orbom; Set Decoration: Russell A. Gausman, Julia Heron
  • Sunrise at Campobello - Art Direction: Edward Carrere; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins

COSTUME DESIGN (Black-and-White)

  • The Facts of Life - Edith Head, 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

COSTUME DESIGN (Color)

  • Can-Can - Irene Sharaff
  • Midnight Lace - Irene
  • Pepe - Edith Head
  • Spartacus - Valles, Bill Thomas
  • Sunrise at Campobello - Marjorie Best

SOUND

  • The Alamo - Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer (Sound Director); Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes (Sound Director)
  • The Apartment - Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer (Sound Director)
  • Cimarron - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Franklin E. Milton (Sound Director)
  • Pepe - Columbia Studio Sound Department, Charles Rice (Sound Director)
  • Sunrise at Campobello - Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, George R. Groves (Sound Director)

SPECIAL EFFECTS

  • The Last Voyage - Visual Effects by A.J. Lohman
  • The Time Machine - Visual Effects by Gene Warren, Tim Baar

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

  • Kapo - Italy
  • Macario - Mexico
  • The Ninth Circle - Yugoslavia
  • La Vrit - France
  • The Virgin Spring - Sweden

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

  • The Horse with the Flying Tail - Larry Lansburgh
  • Rebel in Paradise - Robert D. Fraser

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

  • Beyond Silence - United States Information Agency
  • A City Called Copenhagen - Statens Filmcentral, The Danish Government Film Office
  • George Grosz' Interregnum - Charles Carey, Altina Carey
  • Giuseppina - James Hill
  • Universe - Colin Low

SHORT SUBJECT (Cartoon)

  • Goliath II - Walt Disney
  • High Note - Warner Bros.
  • Mouse and Garden - Warner Bros.
  • Munro - William L. Snyder
  • A Place in the Sun - Frantisek Vystrecil

SHORT SUBJECT (Live Action)

  • The Creation of Woman - Charles F. Schwep, Ismail Merchant
  • Day of the Painter - Ezra R. Baker
  • Islands of the Sea - Walt Disney
  • A Sport Is Born - Leslie Winik

HONORARY AWARDS

  • To Gary Cooper for his many memorable screen performances and the international recognition he, as an individual, has gained for the motion picture industry.
  • To Hayley Mills for Pollyanna, the most outstanding juvenile performance during 1960.
  • To Stan Laurel for his creative pioneering in the field of cinema comedy.

JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD

  • Sol Lesser

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE II (Plaque)

  • To AMPEX PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTS CO. for the production of a well-engineered multi-purpose sound system combining high standards of quality with convenience of control, dependable operation and simplified emergency provisions. [Sound]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE III (Certificate)

  • To CARL HAUGE, ROBERT GRUBEL and EDWARD REICHARD of Consolidated Film Industries for the development of an automatic developer replenisher system. [Laboratory]
  • To ARTHUR HOLCOMB, PETRO VLAHOS and COLUMBIA STUDIO CAMERA DEPARTMENT for a camera flicker indicating device. [Photography]
  • To ANTHONY PAGLIA and the 20TH CENTURY-FOX STUDIO MECHANICAL EFFECTS DEPARTMENT for the design and construction of a miniature flak gun and ammunition. [Stage Operations]

ACADEMY NOTES

  1. Upon request of his widow and upon recommendation of the Writers Branch Executive Committee, the Board of Governors voted on June 22, 1993, to restore the name of Nedrick Young to the nominations and award presented to Nathan E. Douglas (Mr. Young's pseudonym during the blacklisting period).