Winner 34th Academy Awards
The 1961 file: winners first, ballot trails on demand, and the films that shaped the ceremony.
Year
1961
Nominations
129
Categories Decided
All 30
Top Winner
West Side Story
Ceremony at a glance
Best Picture went to West Side Story. The winning leader is West Side Story with 10 wins. The most nominated title is West Side Story with 11 nominations. 35 winners named across 30 categories.
Most awarded titles
- West Side Story 10 wins11 nominations
- Judgment at Nuremberg 2 wins11 nominations
- The Hustler 2 wins9 nominations
- Breakfast at Tiffany's 2 wins5 nominations
- The Guns of Navarone 1 win7 nominations
Best Picture Nominees
The major races
The 1961 ceremony centers on West Side Story. Picture, Director, Actor and Actress: 4 of 4 decided, 20 nominees in all.
Best Picture Winner
- Fanny Joshua Logan
- Judgment at Nuremberg Stanley Kramer
- The Guns of Navarone Carl Foreman
- The Hustler Robert Rossen
Best Director Winner
Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
Best Actor Winner
Best Actress Winner
Complete Ceremony Ledger
Every winner and nominee in every category, with film, person and review links.
25 categories129 records35 winners
1 winner5 records
Winner
West Side Story
Credit: Robert Wise
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Fanny
Credit: Joshua Logan
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Judgment at Nuremberg
Credit: Stanley Kramer
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The Guns of Navarone
Credit: Carl Foreman
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The Hustler
Credit: Robert Rossen
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Judgment at Nuremberg
Credit: Stanley Kramer
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La Dolce Vita
Credit: Federico Fellini
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The Guns of Navarone
Credit: J. Lee Thompson
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The Hustler
Credit: Robert Rossen
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Judgment at Nuremberg
Credit: Abby Mann
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
Credit: George Axelrod
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The Guns of Navarone
Credit: Carl Foreman
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West Side Story
Credit: Ernest Lehman
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Through a Glass Darkly
Credit: Sweden
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Harry and the Butler
Credit: Denmark
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Immortal Love
Credit: Japan
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Placido
Credit: Spain
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The Important Man
Credit: Mexico
1 winner5 records
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
Credit: Henry Mancini
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El Cid
Credit: Miklos Rozsa
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Fanny
Credit: Morris StoloffHarry Sukman
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Summer and Smoke
Credit: Elmer Bernstein
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The Guns of Navarone
Credit: Dimitri Tiomkin
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West Side Story
Credit: Thomas Stanford
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Fanny
Credit: William H. Reynolds
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The Guns of Navarone
Credit: Alan Osbiston
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The Parent Trap
Credit: Philip W. Anderson
1 winner2 records
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The Hustler
Credit: Harry HornerGene Callahan
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La Dolce Vita
Credit: Piero Gherardi
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The Hustler
Credit: Eugen Shuftan
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Judgment at Nuremberg
Credit: Ernest Laszlo
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One, Two, Three
Credit: Daniel L. Fapp
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The Children's Hour
Credit: Franz F. Planer
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West Side Story
Credit: Daniel L. Fapp
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A Majority of One
Credit: Harry Stradling Sr.
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Fanny
Credit: Jack Cardiff
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Flower Drum Song
Credit: Russell Metty
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One-Eyed Jacks
Credit: Charles Lang Jr.
1 winner5 records
Winner
La Dolce Vita
Credit: Piero Gherardi
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Claudelle Inglish
Credit: Howard Shoup
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Judgment at Nuremberg
Credit: Jean Louis
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The Children's Hour
Credit: Dorothy Jeakins
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Yojimbo
Credit: Yoshiro Muraki
1 winner5 records
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West Side Story
Credit: Irene Sharaff
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Babes in Toyland
Credit: Bill Thomas
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Back Street
Credit: Jean Louis
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Flower Drum Song
Credit: Irene Sharaff
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1 winner2 records
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La Grande Olimpiade (Olympic Games 1960)
Credit: dell Istituto Nazionale LuceComitato Organizzatore Del Giochi Della XVII Olimpiade
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Winner
Project Hope
Credit: Frank P. Bibas
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Breaking the Language Barrier
Credit: United States Air Force
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Kahl
Credit: Dido-Film-GmbH
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Babes in Toyland
Credit: George Bruns
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Khovanshchina
Credit: Dimitri Shostakovich
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Paris Blues
Credit: Duke Ellington
1 winner5 records
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Ersatz (The Substitute)
Credit: Zagreb Film
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Aquamania
Credit: Walt Disney
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Beep Prepared
Credit: Chuck Jones
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Nelly's Folly
Credit: Chuck Jones
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Seawards the Great Ships
Credit: Templar Film Studios
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Rooftops of New York
Credit: Robert Gaffney
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Ceremony Highlights
Winner Two Women
Winner La Dolce Vita
Winner Le Ciel et la Boue (Sky Above and Mud Beneath)
Winner Project Hope
Oscar Profile
A Force in Readiness
A Force in Readiness
Winner Through a Glass Darkly
Winner Breakfast at Tiffany's
Winner Ersatz (The Substitute)
Winner Seawards the Great Ships
Winner Splendor in the Grass
The Mark
Pocketful of Miracles
Summer and Smoke
Categories in this ceremony
Best Actor
Best Supporting Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actress
ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White)
ART DIRECTION (Color)
Best Picture
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White)
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color)
COSTUME DESIGN (Black-and-White)
COSTUME DESIGN (Color)
Best Director
DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)
FILM EDITING
HONORARY AWARD
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD
JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD
MUSIC (Original Score)
MUSIC (Original Song Score or Adaptation Score)
MUSIC (Original Song)
SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class II)
SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class III)
SHORT FILM (Animated)
SHORT FILM (Live Action)
SOUND MIXING
VISUAL EFFECTS
WRITING (Adapted Screenplay)
WRITING (Original Screenplay)
Winner Circle
West Side Story
Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
Sophia Loren
Maximilian Schell
Rita Moreno
George Chakiris
Splendor in the Grass
Judgment at Nuremberg
Through a Glass Darkly
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Moon River
Thomas Stanford
Visual Effects by Bill Warrington; Audible Effects by Vivian C. Greenham
Art Direction: Harry Horner; Set Decoration: Gene Callahan
Art Direction: Boris Leven; Set Decoration: Victor A. Gangelin
Eugen Shuftan
Daniel L. Fapp
Piero Gherardi
Irene Sharaff
Arthur Cohn and Rene Lafuite, Producers
Frank P. Bibas, Producer
HONORARY AWARD
Fred L. Metzler
Jerome Robbins
HONORARY AWARD
William L. Hendricks
Stanley Kramer
George Seaton
Saul Chaplin | Johnny Green | Sid Ramin | Irwin Kostal
SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class II)
20Th Century-Fox, E.I. Sponable, Herbert E. Bragg, Deluxe Laboratories Inc., F.D. Leslie, R.D. Whitmore, A.A. Alden, Endel Pool and James B. Gordon
SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class II)
James Dale, S. WILSON, H.E. RICE, JOHN RUDE, LAURIE ATKIN, WADSWORTH E. POHL, H. PEASGOOD and TECHNICOLOR CORP.
SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class II)
Sylvania Electric Products Inc.
SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class III)
Hurletron Inc.
SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class III)
WADSWORTH E. POHL and TECHNICOLOR CORP.
Zagreb Film
Templar Film Studios
Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes, Sound Director; and Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer, Sound Director
Sortable ledger
Every nomination from this ceremony as a sortable table, for research that needs the raw record beside the posters and winners above.