33rd Academy Awards explained

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
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).^[1]

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.^[1]

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.^[2]

Winners and nominees

Nominees were announced on February 27, 1961. Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface.^[3]

Best Motion Picture	Best Director
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
Best Actor	Best Actress
*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
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
*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
Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen	Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
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 novel
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Documentary Feature
The Virgin Spring (Sweden) Kapo (Italy) Macario (Mexico) The Ninth Circle (Yugoslavia) La Vérité (France)	*The Horse with the Flying Tail* Rebel in Paradise
Best Documentary Short Subject	Best Live Action Short Subject
*Giuseppina* Beyond Silence A City Called Copenhagen George Grosz' Interregnum Universe	*Day of the Painter* The Creation of Woman Islands of the Sea A Sport Is Born
Best Short Subjects – Cartoons	Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
*Munro* Goliath II High Note Mouse and Garden A Place in the Sun	Exodus – Ernest Gold The Alamo – Dimitri Tiomkin Elmer Gantry – André Previn The Magnificent Seven – Elmer Bernstein Spartacus – Alex North
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture	Best Song
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 Mercer
Best Sound	Best Art Direction, Black-and-White
The 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
Best Art Direction, Color	Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
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 Hopkins	Sons and Lovers – Freddie Francis The Apartment – Joseph LaShelle The Facts of Life – Charles Lang Inherit the Wind – Ernest Laszlo Psycho – John L. Russell
Best Cinematography, Color	Best Costume Design, Black-and-White
Spartacus – 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 Vos
Best Costume Design, Color	Best Film Editing
Spartacus – Bill Thomas and Valles Can-Can – Irene Sharaff Midnight Lace – Irene Lentz Pepe – Edith Head Sunrise at Campobello – Marjorie Best	The Apartment – Daniel Mandell The Alamo – Stuart Gilmore Inherit the Wind – Frederic Knudtson Pepe – Viola Lawrence and Al Clark Spartacus – Robert Lawrence
Best Special Effects
The Time Machine – Gene Warren and Tim Baar The Last Voyage – Augie Lohman

Academy Honorary Awards

Gary Cooper "for his many memorable screen performances and the international recognition he, as an individual, has gained for the motion picture industry".
Stan Laurel "for his creative pioneering in the field of cinema comedy".

Academy Juvenile Award

See main article: Academy Juvenile Award.

Hayley Mills

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

These films had multiple nominations:

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

The following films received multiple awards.

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

External links

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

Notes and References

Book: Wallechinsky . David . Wallace . Irving . 1975 . The People's Almanac . Garden City, New York . Doubleday & Company, Inc. . 843 . 0-385-04060-1.
News: Daniel Miller . February 24, 2017 . The red carpet isn't actually red, and other secrets underfoot at the Oscars. Los Angeles Times. 2018-04-18.
Web site: The 33rd Academy Awards (1961) Nominees and Winners . May 4, 2015 . oscars.org . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151015234831/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1961 . October 15, 2015 .