33rd Academy Awards

33rd Academy Awards
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
Most awards The Apartment (5)
Most nominations The Apartment (10)
TV in the United States
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. This was the first ceremony to be aired on ABC television, which has aired the Academy Awards ever since (save for the mid-1970s, when they were aired on NBC for the first time since the previous year.)

The Apartment marked the last black and white film to win Best Picture during the era when use of black and white film was still common, as well as the last until 1993 when Schindler's List won.

Gary Cooper was selected by the Academy Board of Governors to be the year's recipient of the Academy Honorary Award "for his many memorable screen performances and the international recognition he, as an individual, has gained for the motion picture industry." Cooper was too ill to attend the ceremony, though his condition was not publicly disclosed, save for his family and close friends. Naturally, Cooper chose his close friend James Stewart to accept the Honorary Oscar on his behalf. Stewart's emotional speech hinted that something was seriously wrong, and the next day newspapers ran the headline, "Gary Cooper has cancer." One month later, on May 13, 1961, six days after his 60th birthday, Cooper died.

Young and rising star Hayley Mills was selected by the Academy Board of Governors to be the year's recipient of the Academy Juvenile Award for her breakthrough performance in Walt Disney's production of Pollyanna. Mills became the very last recipient of the award, as the Academy retired the award afterwards. From 1963 onward, juvenile actors can officially compete in competitive acting awards with their adult counterparts.

Despite receiving mixed-to-negative critical reception and poor box office receipts, The Alamo was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Its successful bid for Oscar nominations over such films like Psycho and Spartacus was largely due to intense lobbying by the film's lead actor, producer, and director John Wayne.[1] The film is thought to have been denied awards because Academy voters were alienated by an overblown publicity campaign by Wayne, particularly one Variety ad claiming that the film's cast was praying harder for Chill Wills to win his award than the defenders of the Alamo prayed for their lives before the battle. The ad, placed by Wills, reportedly angered Wayne, who took out an ad of his own deploring Wills' tastelessness. In response to Wills' ad, claiming that all the voters were his "Alamo Cousins," Groucho Marx took out a small ad which simply said, "Dear Mr. Wills, I am delighted to be your cousin, but I voted for Sal Mineo," (Wills' rival nominee for Exodus).[2]

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface[3]

Best Picture Best Director
Best Actor Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
Best Original Screenplay Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Foreign Language Film
Best Documentary Feature Best Documentary Short
Best Live Action Short Best Animated Short
Best Dramatic or Comedy Score Best Musical Score
Best Original Song Best Sound Recording
Best Art Direction, Black and White Best Art Direction, Color
Best Cinematography, Black and White Best Cinematography, Color
Best Costume Design, Black and White Best Costume Design, Color
Best Film Editing Best Visual Effects

Academy Honorary Awards

Academy Juvenile Award

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Presenters and performers

Presenters

Performers

Multiple nominations and awards

These films had multiple nominations:

  • 10 nominations: The Apartment
  • 7 nominations: The Alamo, Pepe, Sons and Lovers
  • 6 nominations: Spartacus
  • 5 nominations: Elmer Gantry, The Facts of Life, Never on Sunday, The Sundowners
  • 4 nominations: Inherit The Wind, Psycho, Sunrise at Campobello
  • 3 nominations: Exodus
  • 2 nominations: Butterfield 8, Can-Can, Cimarron, The Virgin Spring

The following films received multiple awards.

  • 5 wins: The Apartment
  • 4 wins: Spartacus
  • 3 wins: Elmer Gantry

See also

References

External links

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