33rd Academy Awards

33rd Academy Awards
04/17/1961 AD won

Best Motion Picture

• The Apartment – Billy Wilder, producer
• The Alamo – John Wayne, producer
• Elmer Gantry – Bernard Smith, producer
• Sons and Lovers – Jerry Wald, producer
• The Sundowners – Fred Zinnemann, producer

Best Director

• Billy Wilder – The Apartment
• Jules Dassin – Never on Sunday
• Alfred Hitchcock – Psycho
• Jack Cardiff – Sons and Lovers
• Fred Zinnemann – The Sundowners

Best Actor

• Burt Lancaster – Elmer Gantry as Elmer Gantry
• Trevor Howard – Sons and Lovers as Walter Morel
• Jack Lemmon – The Apartment as Calvin Clifford "Bud" Baxter
• Laurence Olivier – The Entertainer as Archie Rice
• Spencer Tracy – Inherit the Wind as Henry Drummond

Best Actress

• Elizabeth Taylor – BUtterfield 8 as Gloria Wandrous
  • Greer Garson – Sunrise at Campobello as Eleanor Roosevelt
• Deborah Kerr – The Sundowners as Ida Carmody
• Shirley MacLaine – The Apartment as Fran Kubelik
• Melina Mercouri – Never on Sunday as Ilya

Best Supporting Actor

• Peter Ustinov – Spartacus as Batiatus
• Peter Falk – Murder, Inc. as Abe "Kid Twist" Reles
• Jack Kruschen – The Apartment as Dr. Dreyfuss
• Sal Mineo – Exodus as Dov Landau
• Chill Wills – The Alamo as Beekeeper

Best Supporting Actress

• Shirley Jones – Elmer Gantry as Lulu Bains
• Glynis Johns – The Sundowners as Mrs. Firth
• Shirley Knight – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs as Reenie Flood
• Janet Leigh – Psycho as Marion Crane
• Mary Ure – Sons and Lovers as Clara Dawes

Santa Monica, CA

Lattitude: 34.0219° N
Longitude: 118.4813° W
Region: North America

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