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Official site of the Academy with history and general information on the Academy Awards, as well as photographs, events and screenings, and press releases.
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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
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 Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Nominations for this award are closely correlated with the Academy Award for Best Picture.
The Best Picture winner's awards included: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director (Robert Wise and co-credited choreographer Jerome Robbins), Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Musical Score, Best Film Editing, and Best Costume Design.
Check winners and nominations of 1961 Academy Awards. Check awards winners of 34th Academy Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)
It went on to win the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. On September 26, 1960, Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy participated in the first televised Presidential debate. On November 8, Kennedy defeated Nixon and became the youngest U.S. president in history.
