33rd Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1961)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Monday, April 17, 1961
  • For films released in: 1960
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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 33rd Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Motion Picture

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

Best Directing

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

Best Actor

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

Best Actress

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

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

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

Best Foreign Language Film

  • Kapo
  • La Vérité
  • Macario
  • The Ninth Circle
  • The Virgin Spring

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

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

Best Art Direction (Color)

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

Best 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

Best Cinematography (Color)

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

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

  • The Facts of Life
    Edith Head and 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

Best Costume Design (Color)

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

Best Documentary (Feature)

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

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

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

Best Film Editing

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

Best 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

Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

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

Best Music (Song)

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

Best 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

Best Short Subject (Live Action)

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

Best Sound

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

Best Special Effects

  • The Last Voyage
    A.J. Lohman [Visual Effects by]
  • The Time Machine
    Gene Warren [Visual Effects by] and Tim Baar [Visual Effects by]

Best Writing (Screenplay - based on material from another medium)

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

Best Writing (Story and Screenplay - written directly for the screen)

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