33rd Academy Awards

{{Infobox film awards

| number = 33

| award = Academy Awards

| date = April 17, 1961

| site = Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California

| host = Bob Hope

| producer = Arthur Freed

| director = Richard Dunlap

| best_picture = The Apartment

| most_wins = The Apartment (5)

| most_nominations = The Apartment (10)

| network = ABC

| duration =

| last = 32nd

| next = 34th

}}

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).

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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.{{Cite news |author=Daniel Miller |date=February 24, 2017 |url=https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-oscars-red-carpet-20170224-htmlstory.html|title=The red carpet isn't actually red, and other secrets underfoot at the Oscars|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2018-04-18}}

Winners and nominees

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| image1 = Gloria Swanson & Billy Wilder - ca. 1950.JPG

| caption1 = Billy Wilder (right); Best Picture and Best Director winner and Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen co-winner

| image2 = Burt Lancaster - publicity 1947.JPG

| caption2 = Burt Lancaster; Best Actor winner

| image3 = Elizabeth Taylor, late 1950s.jpg

| caption3 = Elizabeth Taylor; Best Actress winner

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| caption4 = Peter Ustinov; Best Supporting Actor winner

| image5 = The Partridge Family Shirley Jones 1972.jpg

| caption5 = Shirley Jones; Best Supporting Actress winner

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| caption6 = Richard Brooks; Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium winner

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| caption7 = Bill Thomas; Best Costume Design, Color co-winner

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| caption8 = Hayley Mills; Academy Juvenile Award recipient

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Nominees were announced on February 27, 1961. Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1961 |title=The 33rd Academy Awards (1961) Nominees and Winners |access-date=May 4, 2015 |work=oscars.org |date=October 5, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015234831/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1961 |archive-date=October 15, 2015 }}

style="background:#F9EFAA; width:50%" \| Best Motion Picture ! style="background:#F9EFAA; width:50%" \| Best Directing
class=wikitable
valign="top" \| The Apartment – Billy Wilder, producer{{double dagger}} The Alamo – John Wayne, producer Elmer Gantry – Bernard Smith, producer Sons and Lovers – Jerry Wald, producer The Sundowners – Fred Zinnemann, producer \| valign="top" \| Billy Wilder – The Apartment{{double dagger}} Jules Dassin – Never on Sunday Alfred Hitchcock – Psycho Jack Cardiff – Sons and Lovers Fred Zinnemann – The Sundowners
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Actor ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Actress
valign="top" \| *Burt Lancaster – Elmer Gantry* as Elmer Gantry*{{double dagger}} 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 \| valign="top" \| *Elizabeth Taylor – BUtterfield 8* as Gloria Wandrous*{{double dagger}} 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
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Actor in a Supporting Role ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Actress in a Supporting Role
valign="top" \| *Peter Ustinov – Spartacus* as Batiatus*{{double dagger}} 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 \| valign="top" \| *Shirley Jones – Elmer Gantry* as Lulu Bains*{{double dagger}} 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
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Writing (Story and Screenplay -- Written Directly for the Screen) ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Writing (Screenplay -- Based on Material from Another Medium)
valign="top" \| The Apartment – Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond{{double dagger}} 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 \| valign="top" \| Elmer Gantry – Richard Brooks based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis{{double dagger}} 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 novel
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Foreign Language Film ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Documentary (Feature)
valign="top" \| The Virgin Spring (Sweden){{double dagger}} Kapo (Italy) Macario (Mexico) The Ninth Circle (Yugoslavia) La Vérité (France) \| valign="top" \| *The Horse with the Flying Tail{{double dagger}} Rebel in Paradise*
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Documentary (Short Subject) ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Short Subject (Live Action)
valign="top" \| *Giuseppina{{double dagger}} Beyond Silence* A City Called Copenhagen George Grosz' Interregnum Universe \| valign="top" \| *Day of the Painter{{double dagger}} The Creation of Woman* Islands of the Sea A Sport Is Born
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Short Subject (Cartoon) ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)
valign="top" \| *Munro{{double dagger}} Goliath II* High Note Mouse and Garden A Place in the Sun \| valign="top" \| Exodus – Ernest Gold{{double dagger}} The Alamo – Dimitri Tiomkin Elmer Gantry – André Previn The Magnificent Seven – Elmer Bernstein Spartacus – Alex North
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Music (Song)
valign="top" \| Song Without End – Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman{{double dagger}} Bells Are Ringing – André Previn Can-Can – Nelson Riddle Let's Make Love – Lionel Newman and Earle H. Hagen Pepe – Johnny Green \| valign="top" \| *"Never on Sunday" from Never on Sunday* – Music and Lyrics by Manos Hatzidakis*{{double dagger}} "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 Mercer
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Sound ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)
valign="top" \| The Alamo – Gordon E. Sawyer and Fred Hynes{{double dagger}} The Apartment – Gordon E. Sawyer Cimarron – Franklin Milton Pepe – Charles Rice Sunrise at Campobello – George Groves \| valign="top" \| The Apartment – Art Direction: Alexandre Trauner; Set Decoration: Edward G. Boyle{{double dagger}} 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
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Art Direction (Color) ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
valign="top" \| Spartacus – Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen and Eric Orbom (posthumous award); Set Decoration: Russell A. Gausman and Julia Heron{{double dagger}} 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 Hopkins \| valign="top" \| Sons and Lovers – Freddie Francis{{double dagger}} The Apartment – Joseph LaShelle The Facts of Life – Charles Lang Inherit the Wind – Ernest Laszlo Psycho – John L. Russell
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Cinematography (Color) ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)
valign="top" \| Spartacus – Russell Metty{{double dagger}} The Alamo – William H. Clothier BUtterfield 8 – Joseph Ruttenberg and Charles Harten Exodus – Sam Leavitt Pepe – Joseph MacDonald \| valign="top" \| The Facts of Life – Edith Head and Edward Stevenson{{double dagger}} Never on Sunday – Deni Vachlioti The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond – Howard Shoup Seven Thieves – Bill Thomas The Virgin Spring – Marik Vos
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Costume Design (Color) ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Film Editing
valign="top" \| Spartacus – Bill Thomas and Valles{{double dagger}} Can-Can – Irene Sharaff Midnight Lace – Irene Lentz Pepe – Edith Head Sunrise at Campobello – Marjorie Best \| valign="top" \| The Apartment – Daniel Mandell{{double dagger}} The Alamo – Stuart Gilmore Inherit the Wind – Frederic Knudtson Pepe – Viola Lawrence and Al Clark Spartacus – Robert Lawrence
colspan="2" style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Special Effects
colspan="2" valign="top" \| The Time Machine – Gene Warren and Tim Baar{{double dagger}} 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.