33rd Academy Awards

33rd
Date	April 17 1961
Site	Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California
Hosted by	Bob Hope
Produced by	Arthur Freed
Directed by	Richard Dunlap
Highlights
Best Picture	The Apartment
Television coverage
Network	ABC

The 33rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1960, were held on April 17, 1961 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Bob Hope.

Due to an intense ad campaign and appeals to patriotism from producer John Wayne, The Alamo edged out more acclaimed films such as Psycho and Spartacus for a Best Picture nomination.

Prolific actress and movie star Janet Leigh received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Marion Crane in Psycho - the only one of her career.

Best Picture

The Apartment

• Elmer Gantry
• Sons and Lovers
• The Alamo
• The Sundowners

Best Director

The Apartment - Billy Wilder

• Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock
• Never on Sunday - Jules Dassin
• Sons and Lovers - Jack Cardiff
• The Sundowners - Fred Zinnemann

Best Actor

Elmer Gantry - Burt Lancaster

• Inherit The Wind - Spencer Tracy
• Sons and Lovers - Trevor Howard
• The Apartment - Jack Lemmon
• The Entertainer - Laurence Olivier

Best Actress

Butterfield 8 - Elizabeth Taylor

• Never on Sunday - Melina Mercouri
• Sunrise at Campobello - Greer Garson
• The Apartment - Shirley MacLaine
• The Sundowners - Deborah Kerr

Best Supporting Actor

Spartacus - Peter Ustinov

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

Best Supporting Actress

Elmer Gantry - Shirley Jones

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

Best Original Screenplay

The Apartment - Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond

• Never on Sunday - Jules Dassin
• Hiroshima, My Love - Marguerite Duras
• The Angry Silence - Richard Gregson , Michael Craig and Bryan Forbes
• The Facts of Life - Melvin Frank and Norman Panama

Best Adapted Screenplay

Elmer Gantry - Richard Brooks

• Inherit the Wind - Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith
• Sons and Lovers - Gavin Lambert and T. E. B. Clarke
• The Sundowners - Isobel Lennart
• Tunes of Glory - James Kennaway

Best Cinematography, Color

Spartacus

• BUtterfield 8
• Exodus
• Pepe
• The Alamo

Best Cinematography, Black & White

Sons and Lovers

• Inherit the Wind
• Psycho
• The Apartment
• The Facts of Life

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black & White

The Apartment

• Psycho
• Sons and Lovers
• The Facts of Life
• Visit to a Small Planet

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color

Spartacus

• Cimarron
• It Started in Naples
• Pepe
• Sunrise at Campobello

Best Costume Design, Black & White

The Facts of Life

• Never on Sunday
• The Virgin Spring
• Seven Thieves
• The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

Best Costume Design, Color

Spartacus

• Can-Can
• Midnight Lace
• Pepe
• Sunrise at Campobello

Best Sound

The Alamo

• Cimarron
• Pepe
• Sunrise at Campobello
• The Apartment

Best Film Editing

The Apartment

• Inherit the Wind
• Pepe
• Spartacus
• The Alamo

Best Effects, Special Effects

The Time Machine

• The Last Voyage

Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture

Song Without End

• Bells Are Ringing
• Can-Can
• Pepe
• Let's Make Love

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

Exodus

• Elmer Gantry
• Spartacus
• The Alamo
• The Magnificent Seven

Best Music, Original Song

Never on Sunday - Never on Sunday ; Music and Lyrics by Manos Hatzidakis

• High Time - The Second Time Around ; Music by Jimmy Van Heusen and Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
• Pepe - Faraway Part of Town ; Music by Andre Previn and Lyrics by Dory Previn
• The Alamo - The Green Leaves of Summer ; Music by Dimitri Tiomkin and Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
• The Facts of Life - The Facts of Life ; Music and Lyrics by Johnny Mercer

Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects

Day of the Painter

Best Short Subject, Cartoons

Munro

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

Giuseppina

Best Documentary, Features

The Horse with the Flying Tail

Best Foreign Language Film

The Virgin Spring - Sweden

External links

• The 33rd Annual Academy Awards at IMDB
• List of winners at Infoplease