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 Actor

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

Best Actress

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

Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Actress in a Supporting Role

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

Directing

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

Writing

• Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium
  • Richard Brooks, Elmer Gantry
  • James Kennaway, Tunes of Glory
  • Gavin Lambert and T. E. B. Clarke, Sons and Lovers
  • Isobel Lennart, The Sundowners
  • Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith, Inherit the Wind
• Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
  • Jules Dassin, Never on Sunday
  • Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima, Mon Amour
  • Richard Gregson and Michael Craig, story; Bryan Forbes, screenplay, The Angry Silence
  • Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, The Facts of Life
  • Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, The Apartment

Cinematography

• Black-and-White
  • Freddie Francis, Sons and Lovers
  • Charles B. Lang, Jr., The Facts of Life
  • Joseph LaShelle, The Apartment
  • Ernest Laszlo, Inherit the Wind
  • John L. Russell, Psycho
• Color
  • William H. Clothier, The Alamo
  • Sam Leavitt, Exodus
  • Joe MacDonald, Pepe
  • Russell Metty, Spartacus
  • Joseph Ruttenberg and Charles Harten, Butterfield 8

Art Direction

• Black-and-White
  • Joseph Hurley and Robert Clatworthy, art direction; George Milo, set decoration, Psycho
  • Joseph McMillan Johnson and Kenneth A. Reid, art direction; Ross Dowd, set decoration, The Facts of Life
  • Tom Morahan, art direction; Lionel Couch, set decoration, Sons and Lovers
  • Hal Pereira and Walter Tyler, art direction; Sam Comer and Arthur Krams, set decoration, Visit to a Small Planet
  • Alexander Trauner, art direction; Edward G. Boyle, set decoration, The Apartment
• Color
  • Edward Carrere, art direction; George James Hopkins, set decoration, Sunrise at Campobello
  • George W. Davis and Addison Hehr, art direction; Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt and Otto Siegel, set decoration, Cimarron
  • Alexander Golitzen and Eric Orbom, art direction; Russell A. Gausman and Julia Heron, set decoration, Spartacus
  • Ted Haworth, art direction; William Kiernan, set decoration, Pepe
  • Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson, art direction; Sam Comer and Arrigo Breschi, set decoration, It Started in Naples

Sound

• Columbia Studio Sound Dept., Pepe
• MGM Studio Sound Dept., Cimarron
• Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept. and Todd-AO Sound Dept., The Alamo
• Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept., The Apartment
• Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept., Sunrise at Campobello

Music

• Song
  • "The Facts of Life", The Facts of Life, Johnny Mercer, music and lyrics
  • "Faraway Part of Town", Pepe, André Previn, music; Dory Langdon, lyrics
  • "The Green Leaves of Summer", The Alamo, Dimitri Tiomkin, music; Paul Francis Webster, lyrics
  • "Never on Sunday", Never on Sunday, Manos Hadjidakis, music and lyrics
  • "The Second Time Around", High Time, James Van Heusen, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics
• Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
  • Elmer Bernstein, The Magnificent Seven
  • Ernest Gold, Exodus
  • Alex North, Spartacus
  • André Previn, Elmer Gantry
  • Dimitri Tiomkin, The Alamo
• Scoring of a Musical Picture
  • Johnny Green, Pepe
  • Lionel Newman and Earle H. Hagen, Let's Make Love
  • André Previn, Bells Are Ringing
  • Nelson Riddle, Can-Can
  • Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman, Song Without End

Film Editing

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

Costume Design

• Black-and-White
  • Edith Head and Edward Stevenson, The Facts of Life
  • Howard Shoup, The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
  • Bill Thomas, Seven Thieves
  • Deni Vachlioti, Never on Sunday
  • Marik Vos, The Virgin Spring
• Color
  • Marjorie Best, Sunrise at Campobello
  • Edith Head, Pepe
  • Irene, Midnight Lace
  • Irene Sharaff, Can-Can
  • Bill Thomas and Valles, Spartacus

Special Effects

• A.J. Lohman, visual, The Last Voyage
• Gene Warren and Tim Baar, visual, The Time Machine

Short Subjects

• Cartoon
  • Goliath II (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista)
  • High Note (Looney Tune Series) (Warner Bros.)
  • Mouse and Garden (Sylvester the Cat Series) (Warner Bros.)
  • Munro (Noveltoon Series) (Rembrandt Films; Film Representations)
  • A Place in the Sun (Frantisek Vystrecil, producer; George K. Arthur-Go Pictures)
• Live Action
  • The Creation of Woman (Trident Films, Inc.; Sterling World Distributors)
  • Day of the Painter (Little Movies; Kingsley-Union Films)
  • Islands of the Sea (True Life Adventure Series) (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista)
  • A Sport Is Born (Sports Illustrated Series) (Leslie Winik, producer; Paramount)

Documentary

• Short Subject
  • Beyond Silence (U.S. Information Agency)
  • A City Called Copenhagen (Statens Filmcentral; Danish Government Film Office)
  • George Grosz' Interregnum (Charles Carey and Altina Carey, producers; Educational Communications Corp.)
  • Giuseppina (James Hill Production; Lester A. Schoenfeld Films)
  • Universe (National Film Board of Canada; Lester A. Schoenfeld Films)
• Feature
  • The Horse With the Flying Tail (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista)
  • Rebel in Paradise (Robert D. Fraser, producer; Tiare Co.)

Foreign Language Film

• Kapo, Italy
• La vérité, France
• Macario, Mexico
• The Ninth Circle, Yugoslavia
• The Virgin Spring, Sweden

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Sol Lesser

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 Pollyana, the most outstanding juvenile performance during 1960

Facts:

• Winners Announced: April 17, 1961
• Held at: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California
• Host: Bob Hope
• Eligibility Year: 1960