1960
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- DirectorBilly WilderStarsJack LemmonShirley MacLaineFred MacMurrayA Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but office politics and his own romantic hopes complicate matters.*[BEST PICTURE]* *Top Rated Movies*
ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White) -- Art Direction: Alexander Trauner; Set Decoration: Edward G. Boyle
DIRECTING -- Billy Wilder
FILM EDITING -- Daniel Mandell
BEST MOTION PICTURE -- Billy Wilder, Producer
WRITING (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) -- Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond - DirectorRichard BrooksStarsBurt LancasterJean SimmonsArthur KennedyA fast-talking traveling salesman with a charming, loquacious manner convinces a sincere evangelist that he can be an effective preacher for her cause.[BEST PICTURE]
ACTOR -- Burt Lancaster
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Shirley Jones
WRITING (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) -- Richard Brooks - DirectorJack CardiffStarsTrevor HowardDean StockwellWendy HillerA young man with artistic talent lives in a close-knit coal-mining town and finds himself inhibited by his emotionally manipulative mother.[BEST PICTURE]
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- Freddie Francis - DirectorJohn WayneStarsJohn WayneRichard WidmarkLaurence HarveyIn 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.[BEST PICTURE]
SOUND -- Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer, Sound Director; and Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes, Sound Director - DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsDeborah KerrRobert MitchumPeter UstinovIn Australia's Outback during the early twentieth century, the impoverished Carmody family lives a nomadic life out of their wagon, but the mom and son want to settle, while the dad is against it.[BEST PICTURE] Nominated for 5 Oscars.
- DirectorsStanley KubrickAnthony MannStarsKirk DouglasLaurence OlivierTony CurtisThe slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Peter Ustinov
ART DIRECTION (Color) -- Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen, Eric Orbom; Set Decoration: Russell A. Gausman, Julia Heron
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color) -- Russell Metty
COSTUME DESIGN (Color) -- Valles, Bill Thomas - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMax von SydowBirgitta ValbergGunnel LindblomIn 14th-century Sweden, an innocent yet pampered teenage girl and her family's pregnant and jealous servant set out from their farm to deliver candles to church, but only one returns from events that transpire in the woods along the way.FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM -- Sweden
- DirectorGeorge PalStarsRod TaylorAlan YoungYvette MimieuxA man's vision for a utopian society is disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark and dangerous society.SPECIAL EFFECTS -- Visual Effects by Gene Warren, Tim Baar
- DirectorDavid SwiftStarsJane WymanHayley MillsRichard EganA young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.*HONORARY AWARD*
To Hayley Mills for Pollyanna, the most outstanding juvenile performance during 1960. - DirectorJules DassinStarsMelina MercouriJules DassinGiorgos FoundasAn American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated.MUSIC (Song) -- "Never On Sunday," Music and Lyrics by Manos Hadjidakis
- DirectorOtto PremingerStarsPaul NewmanEva Marie SaintRalph RichardsonThe State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) -- Ernest Gold
- DirectorMelvin FrankStarsBob HopeLucille BallRuth HusseySophisticated comedy with Larry and Kitty leaving their spouses for an interlude together.COSTUME DESIGN (Black-and-White) -- Edith Head, Edward Stevenson
- DirectorDaniel MannStarsElizabeth TaylorLaurence HarveyEddie FisherA beautiful New York model and socialite enjoys a very active night-life, but all things change when she falls for a married man and the consequences are tragic.ACTRESS -- Elizabeth Taylor
- DirectorsCharles VidorGeorge CukorStarsDirk BogardeCapucineGeneviève PageThe romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt (Sir Dirk Bogarde), whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture) -- Morris Stoloff, Harry Sukman
- DirectorRobert P. DavisStarEzra R. BakerAn extremely funny film of abstract-expressionist painting.SHORT SUBJECT (Live Action) -- Ezra R. Baker, Producer
- DirectorJames HillStarsAntonia ScalariGiulio MarchettiOscar® - winning short in which a young girl observes the array of quirky characters who pass her father's rural petrol station.DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject) -- James Hill, Producer
- DirectorLarry LansburghStarsGeorge FennemanNautical the HorseQueen Elizabeth the Queen MotherA palimino cow pony, through a series of owners and adventures becomes a champion mount for one of the US equestrian team.DOCUMENTARY (Feature) -- Larry Lansburgh, Producer
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnita EkbergAnouk AiméeA series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.COSTUME DESIGN (Black-and-White) -- Piero Gherardi
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsSophia LorenJean-Paul BelmondoRaf ValloneIn WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.ACTRESS -- Sophia Loren
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsCantinflasDan DaileyShirley JonesThe young Mexican Pepe's beloved horse is sold to Hollywood director Ted Holt, leading to Pepe's journey to Hollywood to get the horse back, and Pepe's encounter with half the stars working in Hollywood at the time.Nominated for 7 Oscars.
- DirectorsAnthony MannCharles WaltersStarsGlenn FordMaria SchellAnne BaxterThe Oklahoma Land Run of April 1889 sets the stage for an epic saga of a frontier adventurer, his wife and family and their friends.Nominated for 2 Oscars.
- DirectorWalter LangStarsFrank SinatraShirley MacLaineMaurice ChevalierIn 1896 Paris, a female nightclub proprietor fights against the forces of public morality for the right to feature her performers doing the risqué dance, the Can-Can.Nominated for 2 Oscars.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera MilesA secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.*Top Rated Movies* Nominated for 4 Oscars.
- DirectorStanley KramerStarsSpencer TracyFredric MarchGene KellyBased on a real-life case in 1925; two great lawyers argue the case for, and against, a Tennessee science teacher accused of the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.Nominated for 4 Oscars.
- DirectorVincent J. DonehueStarsRalph BellamyGreer GarsonHume CronynAfter a bout with polio, future president Franklin D. Roosevelt fights to save his political career.Nominated for 4 Oscars.