1960 (33rd Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1960 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Motion Picture

The Apartment, The Mirisch Company, Inc.; United Artists. Billy Wilder, Producer.

Best Actor

Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry, Burt Lancaster-Richard Brooks Production; United Artists.

Best Actress

Elizabeth Taylor in Butterfield 8, Afton-Linebrook Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Peter Ustinov in Spartacus, Bryna Productions, Inc.; Universal-International.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Shirley Jones in Elmer Gantry, Burt Lancaster-Richard Brooks Production; United Artists.

Directing

The Apartment, The Mirisch Company, Inc.; United Artists. Billy Wilder.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

(Black-and-White)

The Apartment, The Mirisch Company, Inc.; United Artists. Art direction by Alexander Trauner; set decoration by Edward G. Boyle.

(Color)

Spartacus, Bryna Productions, Inc.; Universal-International. Art direction by Alexander Golitzen and Eric Orbom; set decoration by Russell A. Gausman and Julia Heron.

Cinematography

(Black-and-White)

Sons and Lovers, Company of Artists, Inc.; 20th Century-Fox. (UK) Freddie Francis.

(Color)

Spartacus, Bryna Productions, Inc.; Universal-International. Russell Metty.

Costume Design

(Black-and-White)

The Facts of Life, Panama and Frank Production; United Artists. Edith Head and Edward Stevenson.

(Color)

Spartacus, Bryna Productions, Inc.; Universal-International. Valles and Bill Thomas.

Documentary

(Feature)

The Horse with the Flying Tail, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. Larry Lansburgh, Producer.

(Short Subject)

Giuseppina, James Hill Production; Lester A. Schoenfeld Films. (UK) James Hill, Producer.

Film Editing

The Apartment, The Mirisch Company, Inc.; United Artists. Daniel Mandell.

Foreign Language Film

The Virgin Spring, A.B. Svensk Filmindustri Production; Janus Films. (Sweden)

Music

(Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

Exodus, Carlyle-Alpina S.A. Production; United Artists. Ernest Gold.

(Scoring of a Musical Picture)

Song Without End (The Story of Franz Liszt), Goetz-Vidor Pictures Production; Columbia. Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman.

(Song)

Never on Sunday from Never on Sunday, Melinafilm Production; Lopert Pictures Corporation. (Greece) Music and lyrics by Manos Hadjidakis.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

Munro, Rembrandt Films; Film Representations, Inc. (USA, Czechoslovakia) [Noveltoon Series] William L. Snyder, Producer.

(Live Action)

Day of the Painter, Little Movies; Kingsley-Union Films. Ezra R. Baker, Producer.

Sound

The Alamo, Batjac Production; United Artists. Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer, Sound Director; and Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes, Sound Director.

Special Effects

The Time Machine, Galaxy Films Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Visual effects by Gene Warren and Tim Baar.

Writing

(Screenplay—based on material from another medium)

Elmer Gantry, Burt Lancaster-Richard Brooks Production; United Artists. Richard Brooks.

(Story and Screenplay—written directly for the screen)

The Apartment, The Mirisch Company, Inc.; United Artists. Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond.

Honorary Award

To Gary Cooper for his many memorable screen performances and the international recognition he, as an individual, has gained for the motion picture industry. [ [Statuette]]

To Stan Laurel for his creative pioneering in the field of cinema comedy. [ [Statuette]]

(Juvenile)

To Hayley Mills for “Pollyanna”, the most outstanding juvenile performance during 1960. [ [Miniature Statuette]]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Sol Lesser

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class II)

To Ampex Professional Products Co. for the production of a well-engineered multi-purpose sound system combining high standards of quality with convenience of control, dependable operation and simplified emergency provisions.

(Class III)

To Arthur Holcomb, Petro Vlahos and Columbia Studio Camera Department for a camera flicker indicating device.

To Anthony Paglia and the 20th Century-Fox Studio Mechanical Effects Department for the design and construction of a miniature flak gun and ammunition.

To Carl Hauge, Robert Grubel and Edward Reichard of Consolidated Film Industries for the development of an automatic developer replenisher system.