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Feb 5, 2014 · 34th Academy Awards (1961): Nominees and Winners – Cinema Sight by Wesley Lovell. BEST MOTION PICTURE. Fanny – Joshua Logan. The Guns of Navarone – Carl Foreman. The Hustler – Robert Rossen. Judgment at Nuremberg – Stanley Kramer. West Side Story – Robert Wise. DIRECTING. The Guns of Navarone – J. Lee Thompson. The Hustler – Robert Rossen.
Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: Tom Morahan; Set Decoration: Lionel Couch Directing - Jack Cardiff Best Motion Picture - Jerry Wald, Producer
The Hustler is a 1961 drama film, directed by Robert Rossen. It tells the story of small-time pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson, who challenges legendary pool player " Minnesota Fats ". The film, which was based on a book of the same name by Walter Tevis , stars Paul Newman as Fast Eddie, Jackie Gleason as Minnesota Fats, Piper Laurie as Sarah, George C. Scott as Bert, and Myron McCormick as ...
The Apartment also won Academy Awards for Black-and-White Art Direction-Set Decoration (Alexander Trauner and Edward G. Boyle), Directing (Billy Wilder), Film Editing (Daniel Mandell), and Writing – Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen (Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond).
The 34th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1961, were held on April 9, 1962, hosted by Bob Hope at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins became the first Best Director co-winners for West Side Story .
Best Motion PictureBest DirectorWest Side Story – Robert Wise, producer ...Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins – West ...Maximilian Schell – Judgment at Nuremberg ...Sophia Loren – Two Women as Cesira Audrey ...George Chakiris – West Side Story as ...Rita Moreno – West Side Story as Anita ...Splendor in the Grass – William Inge ...Judgment at Nuremberg – Abby Mann ...The 1961 Academy Awards were presented April 9, 1962 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Best Motion Picture. Fanny, Joshua Logan, producer (Warner Bros.)
Hans Dreier -- The Patriot. [NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. There were no announcements of nominations, no certificates of nomination or honorable mention, and only the winners (*) were...
