The 34th Academy Awards (1961): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS

AWARDS

  • 11
  • 11
  • 9
  • 7
  • 5
  • 5
  • 5
  • 5
  • 4
  • 4
  • 3
  • 3
  • 3
  • Judgment at Nuremberg
  • West Side Story
  • The Hustler
  • The Guns of Navarone
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's
  • The Children's Hour
  • Fanny
  • Flower Drum Song
  • La Dolce Vita
  • Summer and Smoke
  • The Absent Minded Professor
  • El Cid
  • Pocketful of Miracles
  • 10
  • 2
  • 2
  • 2
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • West Side Story
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's
  • The Hustler
  • Judgment at Nuremberg
  • Le Ciel et la Boue (Sky Above and Mud Beneath)
  • La Dolce Vita
  • Ersatz (The Substitute)
  • The Guns of Navarone
  • Project Hope
  • Seawards the Great Ships
  • Splendor in the Grass
  • Through a Glass Darkly
  • Two Women
  • NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND
  • Best Picture winner
  • Best Picture nominee
  • Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

PICTURE (Best Motion Picture)

  • Fanny - Joshua Logan
  • The Guns of Navarone - Carl Foreman
  • The Hustler - Robert Rossen
  • Judgment at Nuremberg - Stanley Kramer
  • West Side Story - Robert Wise

DIRECTING

  • La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini
  • The Guns of Navarone - J. Lee Thompson
  • The Hustler - Robert Rossen
  • Judgment at Nuremberg - Stanley Kramer
  • West Side Story - Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins

ACTOR

  • Charles Boyer - Fanny
  • Paul Newman - The Hustler
  • Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg
  • Spencer Tracy - Judgment at Nuremberg
  • Stuart Whitman - The Mark

ACTRESS

  • Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's
  • Piper Laurie - The Hustler
  • Sophia Loren - Two Women
  • Geraldine Page - Summer and Smoke
  • Natalie Wood - Splendor in the Grass

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Actor in a Supporting Role)

  • George Chakiris - West Side Story
  • Montgomery Clift - Judgment at Nuremberg
  • Peter Falk - Pocketful of Miracles
  • Jackie Gleason - The Hustler
  • George C. Scott - The Hustler

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Actress in a Supporting Role)

  • Fay Bainter - The Children's Hour
  • Judy Garland - Judgment at Nuremberg
  • Lotte Lenya - The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
  • Una Merkel - Summer and Smoke
  • Rita Moreno - West Side Story

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

  • Breakfast at Tiffany's - George Axelrod
  • The Guns of Navarone - Carl Foreman
  • The Hustler - Sidney Carroll, Robert Rossen
  • Judgment at Nuremberg - Abby Mann
  • West Side Story - Ernest Lehman

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

  • Ballad of a Soldier - Valentin Yoshov, Grigori Chukhrai
  • La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, Brunello Rondi
  • General Della Rovere - Sergio Amidei, Diego Fabbri, Indro Montanelli
  • Lover Come Back - Stanley Shapiro, Paul Henning
  • Splendor in the Grass - William Inge

SONG

  • "Bachelor in Paradise" - Bachelor in Paradise - Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Mack David
  • "Love Theme from El Cid (The Falcon and the Dove)" - El Cid - Music by Miklos Rozsa; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
  • "Moon River" - Breakfast at Tiffany's - Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
  • "Pocketful of Miracles" - Pocketful of Miracles - Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
  • "Town without Pity" - Town without Pity - Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Ned Washington

MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

  • Breakfast at Tiffany's - Henry Mancini
  • El Cid - Miklos Rozsa
  • Fanny - Morris Stoloff, Harry Sukman
  • The Guns of Navarone - Dimitri Tiomkin
  • Summer and Smoke - Elmer Bernstein

SCORING OF A MUSICAL PICTURE

  • Babes in Toyland - George Bruns
  • Flower Drum Song - Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
  • Khovanshchina - Dimitri Shostakovich
  • Paris Blues - Duke Ellington
  • West Side Story - Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin, Irwin Kostal

FILM EDITING

  • Fanny - William H. Reynolds
  • The Guns of Navarone - Alan Osbiston
  • Judgment at Nuremberg - Frederic Knudtson
  • The Parent Trap - Philip W. Anderson
  • West Side Story - Thomas Stanford

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White)

  • The Absent Minded Professor - Edward Colman
  • The Children's Hour - Franz F. Planer
  • The Hustler - Eugen Shuftan
  • Judgment at Nuremberg - Ernest Laszlo
  • One, Two, Three - Daniel L. Fapp

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color)

  • Fanny - Jack Cardiff
  • Flower Drum Song - Russell Metty
  • A Majority of One - Harry Stradling Sr.
  • One-Eyed Jacks - Charles Lang Jr.
  • West Side Story - Daniel L. Fapp

ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White)

  • The Absent Minded Professor - Art Direction: Carroll Clark; Set Decoration: Emile Kuri, Hal Gausman
  • The Children's Hour - Art Direction: Fernando Carrere; Set Decoration: Edward G. Boyle
  • La Dolce Vita - Piero Gherardi
  • The Hustler - Art Direction: Harry Horner; Set Decoration: Gene Callahan
  • Judgment at Nuremberg - Art Direction: Rudolph Sternad; Set Decoration: George Milo

ART DIRECTION (Color)

  • Breakfast at Tiffany's - Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
  • El Cid - Art Direction: Veniero Colasanti, John Moore
  • Flower Drum Song - Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen, Joseph Wright; Set Decoration: Howard Bristol
  • Summer and Smoke - Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Arthur Krams
  • West Side Story - Art Direction: Boris Leven; Set Decoration: Victor A. Gangelin

COSTUME DESIGN (Black-and-White)

  • The Children's Hour - Dorothy Jeakins
  • Claudelle Inglish - Howard Shoup
  • La Dolce Vita - Piero Gherardi
  • Judgment at Nuremberg - Jean Louis
  • Yojimbo - Yoshiro Muraki

COSTUME DESIGN (Color)

  • Babes in Toyland - Bill Thomas
  • Back Street - Jean Louis
  • Flower Drum Song - Irene Sharaff
  • Pocketful of Miracles - Edith Head, Walter Plunkett
  • West Side Story - Irene Sharaff

SOUND

  • The Children's Hour - Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer (Sound Director)
  • Flower Drum Song - Revue Studio Sound Department, Waldon O. Watson (Sound Director)
  • The Guns of Navarone - Shepperton Studio Sound Department, John Cox (Sound Director)
  • The Parent Trap - Walt Disney Studio Sound Department, Robert O. Cook (Sound Director)
  • West Side Story - Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes (Sound Director); Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer (Sound Director)

SPECIAL EFFECTS

  • The Absent Minded Professor - Visual Effects by Robert A. Mattey, Eustace Lycett
  • The Guns of Navarone - Visual Effects by Bill Warrington; Audible Effects by Vivian C. Greenham

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

  • Harry and the Butler - Denmark
  • Immortal Love - Japan
  • The Important Man - Mexico
  • Placido - Spain
  • Through a Glass Darkly - Sweden

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

  • Le Ciel et la Boue (Sky Above and Mud Beneath) - Arthur Cohn, Rene Lafuite
  • La Grande Olimpiade (Olympic Games 1960) - dell Istituto Nazionale Luce, Comitato Organizzatore Del Giochi Della XVII Olimpiade

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

  • Breaking the Language Barrier - United States Air Force
  • Cradle of Genius - Jim O'Connor, Tom Hayes
  • Kahl - Dido-Film-GmbH
  • Project Hope - Frank P. Bibas
  • L'Uomo in Grigio (The Man in Gray) - Benedetto Benedetti

SHORT SUBJECT (Cartoon)

  • Aquamania - Walt Disney
  • Beep Prepared - Chuck Jones
  • Ersatz (The Substitute) - Zagreb Film
  • Nelly's Folly - Chuck Jones
  • The Pied Piper of Guadalupe - Friz Freleng

SHORT SUBJECT (Live Action)

  • Ballon Vole (Play Ball!) - Cin-Documents
  • The Face of Jesus - Dr. John D. Jennings
  • Rooftops of New York - Robert Gaffney
  • Seawards the Great Ships - Lester A. Schoenfeld Films
  • Very Nice, Very Nice - National Film Board of Canada

HONORARY AWARDS

  • To Fred L. Metzler for his dedication and outstanding service to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
  • To Jerome Robbins for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film.
  • To William L. Hendricks for his outstanding patriotic service in the conception, writing and production of the Marine Corps film, A Force in Readiness, which has brought honor to the Academy and the motion picture industry.

IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD

  • Stanley Kramer

JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD

  • George Seaton

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

  • To 20TH CENTURY-FOX RESEARCH DEPARTMENT, under the direction of E.I. SPONABLE and HERBERT E. BRAGG, and DELUXE LABORATORIES, INC., with the assistance of F.D. LESLIE, R.D. WHITMORE, A.A. ALDEN, ENDEL POOL and JAMES B. GORDON for a system of decompressing and recomposing CinemaScope pictures for conventional aspect ratios. [Laboratory]
  • To JAMES DALE, S. WILSON, H.E. RICE, JOHN RUDE, LAURIE ATKIN, WADSWORTH E. POHL, H. PEASGOOD and TECHNICOLOR CORP. for a process of automatic selective printing. [Laboratory]
  • To SYLVANIA ELECTRIC PRODUCTS, INC., for the development of a hand held high-power photographic lighting unit known as the Sun Gun Professional. [Lighting]

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

  • To HURLETRON, INC., ELECTRIC EYE EQUIPMENT DIVISION, for an automatic light changing system for motion picture printers. [Laboratory]
  • To WADSWORTH E. POHL and TECHNICOLOR CORP. for an integrated sound and picture transfer process. [Laboratory]