34th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1962)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Monday, April 9, 1962
  • For films released in: 1961
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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 34th Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Motion Picture

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

Best Directing

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

Best Actor

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

Best Actress

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

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

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

Best Foreign Language Film

  • Harry and the Butler
  • Immortal Love
  • The Important Man
  • Placido
  • Through a Glass Darkly

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

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

Best Art Direction (Color)

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

Best 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

Best Cinematography (Color)

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

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

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

Best Costume Design (Color)

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

Best Documentary (Feature)

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

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

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

Best 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

Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

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

Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

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

Best Music (Song)

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

Best 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

Best Short Subject (Live Action)

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

Best Sound

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

Best Special Effects

  • The Absent Minded Professor
    Robert A. Mattey [Visual Effects by] and Eustace Lycett [Visual Effects by]
  • The Guns of Navarone
    Bill Warrington [Visual Effects by] and Vivian C. Greenham [Audible Effects by]

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

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

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

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