The Academy Awards
1961 Best Picture West Side Story Fanny The Guns of Navarone The Hustler Judgment at Nuremberg Best Director Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins - West Side Story J. Lee Thompson - The Guns of Navarone Robert Rossen - The Hustler Stanley Kramer - Judgment at Nuremberg Federico Fellini - La Dolce Vita Best Actor Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg Charles Boyer - Fanny Paul Newman - The Hustler Spencer Tracy - Judgment at Nuremberg Stuart Whitman - The Mark Best Actress Sophia Loren - Two Women Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany’s Piper Laurie - The Hustler Geraldine Page - Summer and Smoke Natalie Wood - Splendor in the Grass Best Supporting Actor George Chakiris - West Side Story Montgomery Clift - Judgment at Nuremberg Peter Falk - Pocketful of Miracles Jackie Gleason - The Hustler George C. Scott - The Hustler Best Supporting Actress Rita Moreno - West Side Story Fay Bainter - The Children’s Hour Judy Garland - Judgment at Nuremberg Lotte Lenya - The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone Una Merkel - Summer and Smoke Best Original Screenplay Splendor in the Grass Ballad of a Soldier General Della Rovere La Dolce Vita Lover Come Back Best Adapted Screenplay Judgment at Nuremberg Breakfast at Tiffany’s The Guns of Navarone The Hustler West Side Story Best Musical Score Henry Mancini - Breakfast at Tiffany’s Miklos Rozsa - El Cid Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman - Fanny Dimitri Tiomkin - The Guns of Navarone Elmer Bernstein - Summer and Smoke Best Original Song “Moon River” - Breakfast at Tiffany’s “Bachelor in Paradise” - Bachelor in Paradise “The Falcon and the Dove” - El Cid “Pocketful of Miracles” - Pocketful of Miracles “Town without Pity” - Town without Pity |
Hot Toasty Rag Awards (video presentation here)
1961 Best Picture Flower Drum Song The Guns of Navarone Judgment at Nuremberg A Majority of One A Raisin in the Sun West Side Story Best Director Anthony Mann - El Cid Mervyn LeRoy - The Devil at 4 O’Clock J. Lee Thompson - The Guns of Navarone Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise - West Side Story Best Actor Sidney Poitier - A Raisin in the Sun Kirk Douglas - The Last Sunset Clark Gable - The Misfits Sir Alec Guinness - A Majority of One Curd Jurgens - Brainwashed (Schachnovelle) Stuart Whitman - The Mark Best Actress Claudia McNeil - A Raisin in the Sun Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany’s Sophia Loren - Two Women Geraldine Page - Summer and Smoke Rosalind Russell - A Majority of One Miyoshi Umeki - Flower Drum Song Natalie Wood - Splendor in the Grass Best Supporting Actor Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg Montgomery Clift - Judgment at Nuremberg Pat Hingle - Splendor in the Grass David Niven - The Guns of Navarone Rod Steiger - The Mark Best Supporting Actress Shirley MacLaine - The Children’s Hour Fay Bainter - The Children’s Hour Judy Garland - Judgment at Nuremberg Piper Laurie - The Hustler Best Dramatic Screenplay Ballad of a Soldier (Ballada o soldate) Brainwashed (Schachnovelle) Judgment at Nuremberg The Mark The Young Doctors Best Comedic Screenplay A Majority of One Breakfast at Tiffany’s Cry for Happy Romanoff and Juliet Best Musical Score Miklos Rozsa - El Cid David Amram - Splendor in the Grass Leonard Rosenthal - A Raisin in the Sun Best Original Song “Moon River” - Breakfast at Tiffany’s “Lover Come Back” - Lover Come Back “Town Without Pity” - Town Without Pity |
Notes from the Members of the Board:
Congratulations to The Esteemed Miklos Rozsa, newly inducted into the Hall of Fame!
Hidden Gem: The Mark
- M.E.
Congratulations to The Esteemed Miklos Rozsa, newly inducted into the Hall of Fame!
Hidden Gem: The Mark
- M.E.