The 33rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1960, were held on April 17, 1961, hosted by Bob Hope at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. This was the first ceremony to be aired on ABC television, which has aired the Academy Awards ever since (except between 1971 and 1975, when they were aired on NBC for the first time since the previous year).

Billy Wilder's The Apartment won Best Picture, the last black-and-white film to do so until Schindler's List and The Artist at the 66th and 84th Academy Awards, respectively.

Elizabeth Taylor, who had a near-fatal bout with pneumonia a short time before the ceremony, was viewed as having received her Oscar out of sympathy rather than for her performance in BUtterfield 8.

Gary Cooper was selected by the Academy Board of Governors to receive an Academy Honorary Award "for his many memorable screen performances and the international recognition he, as an individual, has gained for the motion picture industry". Cooper was too ill to attend the ceremony, though his condition was not publicly disclosed; James Stewart, a close friend of Cooper, accepted the Oscar on his behalf. Stewart's emotional speech hinted that something was seriously wrong, and the following day newspapers ran the headline, "Gary Cooper has cancer". Cooper died less than four weeks later.

Rising star Hayley Mills was selected by the Academy Board of Governors as the year's recipient of the Academy Juvenile Award for her breakthrough and acclaimed performance in Walt Disney's Pollyanna. She was the last recipient of the award; going forward, juvenile actors could officially compete in competitive categories. This was the first year a red carpet lined the walk into the theater.

Winners and nominees

Nominees were announced on February 27, 1961. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

The Apartment – Billy Wilder, producer The Alamo – John Wayne, producer Elmer Gantry – Bernard Smith, producer Sons and Lovers – Jerry Wald, producer The Sundowners – Fred Zinnemann, producer Billy Wilder – The Apartment Jules Dassin – Never on Sunday Alfred Hitchcock – Psycho Jack Cardiff – Sons and Lovers Fred Zinnemann – The Sundowners Burt Lancaster – Elmer Gantry as Elmer Gantry Trevor Howard – Sons and Lovers as Walter Morel Jack Lemmon – The Apartment as Calvin Clifford "Bud" Baxter Laurence Olivier – The Entertainer as Archie Rice Spencer Tracy – Inherit the Wind as Henry Drummond Elizabeth Taylor – BUtterfield 8 as Gloria Wandrous Greer Garson – Sunrise at Campobello as Eleanor Roosevelt Deborah Kerr – The Sundowners as Ida Carmody Shirley MacLaine – The Apartment as Fran Kubelik Melina Mercouri – Never on Sunday as Ilya Peter Ustinov – Spartacus as Batiatus Peter Falk – Murder, Inc. as Abe "Kid Twist" Reles Jack Kruschen – The Apartment as Dr. Dreyfuss Sal Mineo – Exodus as Dov Landau Chill Wills – The Alamo as Beekeeper Shirley Jones – Elmer Gantry as Lulu Bains Glynis Johns – The Sundowners as Mrs. Firth Shirley Knight – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs as Reenie Flood Janet Leigh – Psycho as Marion Crane Mary Ure – Sons and Lovers as Clara Dawes The Apartment – Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond The Angry Silence – Richard Gregson, Michael Craig and Bryan Forbes The Facts of Life – Melvin Frank and Norman Panama Hiroshima, My Love – Marguerite Duras Never on Sunday – Jules Dassin Elmer Gantry – Richard Brooks based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis Inherit the Wind – Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith based on the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Sons and Lovers – Gavin Lambert and T. E. B. Clarke based on the novel by D. H. Lawrence The Sundowners – Isobel Lennart based on the novel by Jon Cleary Tunes of Glory – James Kennaway based on his novelThe Virgin Spring (Sweden) Kapo (Italy) Macario (Mexico) The Ninth Circle (Yugoslavia) La Vérité (France)The Horse with the Flying Tail – Larry Lansburgh Rebel in Paradise – Robert D. FraserGiuseppina – James Hill Beyond Silence – United States Information Agency A City Called Copenhagen – Statens Filmcentral, The Danish Government Film Office George Grosz' Interregnum – Charles Carey and Altina Carey Universe – Colin LowDay of the Painter – Ezra R. Baker The Creation of Woman – Charles F. Schwep and Ismail Merchant Islands of the Sea – Walt Disney A Sport Is Born – Leslie WinikMunro – William L. Snyder Goliath II – Walt Disney High Note – Warner Bros. Mouse and Garden – Warner Bros. A Place in the Sun – František VystrčilExodus – Ernest Gold The Alamo – Dimitri Tiomkin Elmer Gantry – André Previn The Magnificent Seven – Elmer Bernstein Spartacus – Alex North Song Without End – Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman Bells Are Ringing – André Previn Can-Can – Nelson Riddle Let's Make Love – Lionel Newman and Earle H. Hagen Pepe – Johnny Green"Never on Sunday" from Never on Sunday – Music and Lyrics 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; Lyrics by Dory Previn "The Green Leaves of Summer" from The Alamo – Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster "The Facts of Life" from The Facts of Life – Music and Lyrics by Johnny MercerThe Alamo – Gordon E. Sawyer and Fred Hynes The Apartment – Gordon E. Sawyer Cimarron – Franklin Milton Pepe – Charles Rice Sunrise at Campobello – George Groves The Apartment – Art Direction: Alexandre Trauner; Set Decoration: Edward G. Boyle The Facts of Life – Art Direction: Joseph McMillan Johnson and Kenneth A. Reid; Set Decoration: Ross Dowd Psycho – Art Direction: Joseph Hurley and Robert Clatworthy; Set Decoration: George Milo Sons and Lovers – Art Direction: Thomas N. Morahan; Set Decoration: Lionel Couch Visit to a Small Planet – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Walter Tyler; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Arthur Krams Spartacus – Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen and Eric Orbom (posthumous award); 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: Samuel M. Comer and Arrigo Breschi Pepe – Art Direction: Ted Haworth; Set Decoration: William Kiernan Sunrise at Campobello – Art Direction: Edward Carrere; Set Decoration: George James HopkinsSons and Lovers – Freddie Francis The Apartment – Joseph LaShelle The Facts of Life – Charles Lang Inherit the Wind – Ernest Laszlo Psycho – John L. RussellSpartacus – Russell Metty The Alamo – William H. Clothier BUtterfield 8 – Joseph Ruttenberg and Charles Harten Exodus – Sam Leavitt Pepe – Joseph MacDonald 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 VosSpartacus – Bill Thomas and Valles Can-Can – Irene Sharaff Midnight Lace – Irene Lentz Pepe – Edith Head Sunrise at Campobello – Marjorie BestThe Apartment – Daniel Mandell The Alamo – Stuart Gilmore Inherit the Wind – Frederic Knudtson Pepe – Viola Lawrence and Al Clark Spartacus – Robert Lawrence The Time Machine – Gene Warren and Tim Baar The Last Voyage – Augie Lohman

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 Stan Laurel for his creative pioneering in the field of cinema comedy. To Hayley Mills for Pollyanna, the most outstanding juvenile performance during 1960.

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Sol Lesser

Presenters and performers

Presenters Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows (Presenters: Best Song) Polly Bergen and Richard Widmark (Presenters: Best Special 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 Motion Picture) Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss (Presenters: Best Sound) 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 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

+ Films with multiple nominationsNominationsFilm 10 The Apartment 7 The Alamo Pepe Sons and Lovers 6 Spartacus 5 Elmer Gantry The Facts of Life Never on Sunday The Sundowners 4 Inherit the Wind Psycho Sunrise at Campobello 3 Exodus 2 BUtterfield 8 Can-Can Cimarron The Virgin Spring

+ Films with multiple awardsAwardsFilm 5 The Apartment 4 Spartacus 3 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

References

External links The 33rd Annual Academy Awards at IMDb List of winners at Infoplease