33rd Academy Awards

33rd Academy Awards
Date	April 17, 1961
Site	Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California
Host	Bob Hope
Producer	Arthur Freed
Director	Richard Dunlap
Highlights
Best Picture	The Apartment
Most awards	The Apartment (5)
Most nominations	The Apartment (10)
TV in the United States
Network	ABC

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.

Gary Cooper was too ill to attend the ceremony, so his close friend James Stewart 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." One month later, on May 13, 1961, six days after his 60th birthday, Cooper died.

The Apartment marked the last black and white film to win Best Picture during the era when use of black and white film was still common, as well as the last until 1993 when Schindler's List won.

Despite receiving mixed-to-negative reception and bombing at the box office, The Alamo received several Oscar nominations over better-regarded and prestigious films Psycho, Spartacus, and Swiss Family Robinson. This was largely due to intense lobbying by the film's lead actor, producer, and director John Wayne. The film is thought to have been denied awards because Academy voters were alienated by an overblown publicity campaign by Wayne, particularly one Variety ad claiming that the film's cast was praying harder for Chill Wills to win his award than the defenders of the Alamo prayed for their lives before the battle. The ad, placed by Wills, reportedly angered Wayne, who took out an ad of his own deploring Wills' tastelessness. In response to Wills' ad, claiming that all the voters were his "Alamo Cousins," Groucho Marx took out a small ad which simply said, "Dear Mr. Wills, I am delighted to be your cousin, but I voted for Sal Mineo," (Wills' rival nominee for Exodus).

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface

Best Picture	Best Director
The Apartment The Alamo Elmer Gantry Sons and Lovers The Sundowners	Billy Wilder – The Apartment Alfred Hitchcock – Psycho Jules Dassin – Never on Sunday Jack Cardiff – Sons and Lovers Fred Zinnemann – The Sundowners
Best Actor	Best Actress
Burt Lancaster – Elmer Gantry Trevor Howard – Sons and Lovers Jack Lemmon – The Apartment Laurence Olivier – The Entertainer Spencer Tracy – Inherit The Wind	Elizabeth Taylor – BUtterfield 8 Greer Garson – Sunrise at Campobello Deborah Kerr – The Sundowners Shirley MacLaine – The Apartment Melina Mercouri – Never on Sunday
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Peter Ustinov – Spartacus Peter Falk – Murder, Inc. Jack Kruschen – The Apartment Sal Mineo – Exodus Chill Wills – The Alamo	Shirley Jones – Elmer Gantry Glynis Johns – The Sundowners Shirley Knight – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs Janet Leigh – Psycho Mary Ure – Sons and Lovers
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
The Apartment – Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond Never on Sunday – Jules Dassin Hiroshima, My Love – Marguerite Duras The Angry Silence – Richard Gregson, Michael Craig and Bryan Forbes The Facts of Life – Melvin Frank and Norman Panama	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 Foreign Language Film
The Virgin Spring (Sweden) Kapo (Italy) La Vérité (France) Macario (Mexico) The Ninth Circle (Yugoslavia)
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
The Horse with the Flying Tail Rebel in Paradise	Giuseppina Beyond Silence A City Called Copenhagen George Grosz' Interregnum Universe
Best Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
Day of the Painter The Creation of Woman Islands of the Sea A Sport Is Born	Munro Goliath II High Note Mouse and Garden A Place in the Sun
Best Dramatic or Comedy Score	Best Musical Score
Exodus – Ernest Gold Elmer Gantry – André Previn Spartacus – Alex North The Alamo – Dimitri Tiomkin The Magnificent Seven – Elmer Bernstein	Song Without End – Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman Bells Are Ringing – André Previn Can-Can – Nelson Riddle Pepe – Johnny Green Let's Make Love – Lionel Newman and Earle H. Hagen
Best Original Song	Best Sound Recording
"Never on Sunday" from Never on Sunday – Music and Lyric by Manos Hatzidakis "The Second Time Around" from High Time – Music by Jimmy Van Heusen and Lyrics by Sammy Cahn "Faraway Part of Town" from Pepe – Music by André Previn; Lyric by Dory Previn "The Green Leaves of Summer" from The Alamo – Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyric by Paul Francis Webster "The Facts of Life" from The Facts of Life – Music and Lyric by Johnny Mercer	The Alamo – Gordon E. Sawyer and Fred Hynes, Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department and Todd-AO Sound Department Cimarron – Franklin E. Milton, MGM Studio Sound Department Pepe – Charles Rice, Columbia Studio Sound Department Sunrise at Campobello – George R. Groves, Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department The Apartment – Gordon E. Sawyer, Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department
Best Art Direction, Black and White	Best Art Direction, Color
The Apartment – Art Direction: Alexander Trauner; Set Decoration: Edward G. Boyle Psycho – Art Direction: Joseph Hurley and Robert Clatworthy; Set Decoration: George Milo Sons and Lovers – Art Direction: Tom Morahan; Set Decoration: Lionel Couch The Facts of Life – Art Direction: Joseph McMillan Johnson and Kenneth A. Reid; Set Decoration: Ross Dowd Visit to a Small Planet – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Walter Tyler; Set Decoration: Sam Comer and Arthur Krams	Spartacus – Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen and Eric Orbom; Set Decoration: Russell A. Gausman and Julia Heron Cimarron – Art Direction: George Davis and Addison Hehr; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt and Otto Siegel It Started in Naples – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer and Arrigo Breschi Pepe – Art Direction: Ted Haworth; Set Decoration: William Kiernan Sunrise at Campobello – Art Direction: Edward Carrere; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
Best Cinematography, Black and White	Best Cinematography, Color
Sons and Lovers – Freddie Francis Inherit the Wind – Ernest Laszlo Psycho – John L. Russell The Apartment – Joseph LaShelle The Facts of Life – Charles Lang, Jr.	Spartacus – Russell Metty BUtterfield 8 – Joseph Ruttenberg and Charles Harten Exodus – Sam Leavitt Pepe – Joseph MacDonald The Alamo – William H. Clothier
Best Costume Design, Black and White	Best Costume Design, Color
The Facts of Life – Edith Head and Edward Stevenson Never on Sunday – Deni Vachlioti The Virgin Spring – Marik Vos Seven Thieves – Bill Thomas The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond – Howard Shoup	Spartacus – Bill Thomas and Valles Can-Can – Irene Sharaff Midnight Lace – Irene Pepe – Edith Head Sunrise at Campobello – Marjorie Best
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
The Apartment – Daniel Mandell Inherit the Wind – Frederic Knudtson Pepe – Viola Lawrence and Al Clark Spartacus – Robert Lawrence The Alamo – Stuart Gilmore	The Time Machine – Gene Warren and Tim Baar The Last Voyage – A.J. Lohman

Academy Honorary Awards

• Gary Cooper
• Stan Laurel

Academy Juvenile Award

Main article: Academy Juvenile Award

• Hayley Mills

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Sol Lesser

Presenters and performers

Presenters

• Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows (Presenters: Best Original Song)
• Polly Bergen and Richard Widmark (Presenters: Best Visual 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 Picture)
• Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss (Presenters: Best Sound Recording)
• 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-Set Decoration 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

• The Brothers Four ("The Green Leaves of Summer" from The Alamo)
• Connie Francis ("Never on Sunday" from Never on Sunday)
• The Hi-Lo's ("The Facts of Life" from The Facts of Life)
• Jane Morgan ("The Second Time Around" from High Time)
• Sarah Vaughan ("The Faraway Part of Town" from Pepe)

Multiple nominations and awards

These films had multiple nominations:

• 10 nominations: The Apartment
• 7 nominations: The Alamo, Pepe, Sons and Lovers
• 6 nominations: Spartacus
• 5 nominations: Elmer Gantry, The Facts of Life, Never on Sunday, The Sundowners
• 4 nominations: Inherit The Wind, Psycho, Sunrise at Campobello
• 3 nominations: Exodus
• 2 nominations: Butterfield 8, Can-Can, Cimarron, The Virgin Spring

The following films received multiple awards.

• 5 wins: The Apartment
• 4 wins: Spartacus
• 3 wins: Elmer Gantry

See also

• 18th Golden Globe Awards
• 1960 in film
• 3rd Grammy Awards
• 12th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 13th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 14th British Academy Film Awards
• 15th Tony Awards

External links

• The 33rd Annual Academy Awards at IMDB
• List of winners at Infoplease