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Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Andre Previn Best Motion Picture - Bernard Smith, Producer
Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Dimitri Tiomkin Best Motion Picture - Carl Foreman, Producer Sound - Shepperton Studio Sound Department, John Cox, Sound Director
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Fanny – Joshua Logan The Guns of Navarone – Carl Foreman The Hustler – Robert Rossen Judgment at Nuremberg – Stanley Kramer West Side Story– Robert Wise
The Guns of Navarone – J. Lee Thompson The Hustler – Robert Rossen Judgment at Nuremberg – Stanley Kramer La Dolce Vita – Federico Fellini West Side Story– Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
Charles Boyer – Fanny Paul Newman – The Hustler Maximilian Schell – Judgment at Nuremberg Spencer Tracy – Judgment at Nuremberg Stuart Whitman – The Mark
Audrey Hepburn – Breakfast at Tiffany’s Piper Laurie – The Hustler Sophia Loren – Two Women Geraldine Page – Summer and Smoke Natalie Wood – Splendor in the Grass
George Chakiris – West Side Story Montgomery Clift – Judgment at Nuremberg Peter Falk – Pocketful of Miracles Jackie Gleason – The Hustler George C. Scott – The Hustler
Fay Bainter – The Children’s Hour Judy Garland – Judgment at Nuremberg Lotte Lenya – The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone Una Merkel – Summer and Smoke Rita Moreno – West Side Story
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – George Axelrod The Guns of Navarone – Carl Foreman The Hustler – Sidney Carroll, Robert Rossen Judgment at Nuremberg – Abby Mann West Side Story– Ernest Lehman
“Bachelor In Paradise” – Bachelor in Paradise – Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Mack David “Love Theme From El Cid (The Falcon And The Dove)” – El Cid – Music by Miklos Rozsa; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster “Moon River” – Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer “Pocketful Of Miracles” – Pocketful of Miracles – Mus...
Fanny – William H. Reynolds The Guns of Navarone – Alan Osbiston Judgment at Nuremberg – Frederic Knudtson The Parent Trap – Philip W. Anderson West Side Story– Thomas Stanford
The Absent Minded Professor – Edward Colman The Children’s Hour – Franz F. Planer The Hustler – Eugen Shuftan Judgment at Nuremberg – Ernest Laszlo One, Two, Three– Daniel L. Fapp
Henry Mancini, Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture winner and Best Song co-winner
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 ...- 1961: Ernest Gold, Exodus (drama or comedy); Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman, Song Without End (musical) The Apartment was the big winner this year (and the last black-and-white Best Picture winner until Schindler's List in 1993), but Adolph Deutsch wasn't even nominated for Best Original Score.
- 1962: Henry Mancini, Breakfast at Tiffany's (drama or comedy); Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin, and Irwin Kostal, West Side Story (musical) It was a given that the team behind West Side Story’s film score would win in their category, though stage composer Leonard Bernstein didn't love the way his music sounded on screen, with an orchestra three times the size of his Broadway band.
- 1963: Maurice Jarre, Lawrence of Arabia (original); Ray Heindorf, The Music Man (adaptation or treatment) Maurice Jarre easily landed this year's drama/comedy score Oscar with his career-defining music for the grand Hollywood epic Lawrence of Arabia: one of the top three film scores of all time, if you believe the American Film Institute.
- 1964: John Addison, Tom Jones (original); André Previn, Irma la Douce (adaptation) The buzz at this year's Oscars surrounded the Best Supporting Actress category — where, for the only time ever, three of the five nominations went to performers from the same movie.
Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Hugo Friedhofer Sound - 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Carl Faulkner, Sound Director
Nominations and Winners. Listed below are the Academy Award nominations and winners for the year 1961. The symbol appears next to the winner in each category. Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song.
