Film Data For 1960

The Film Daily’s Ten Best Pictures of 1960 

1) The Apartment- 208 votes 

2) Elmer Gantry- 196 

3) Ben-Hur (1959)- 194 

4) Inherit the Wind- 160 

5) Sunrise at Campobello- 144 

6) The Dark at the Top of the Stairs- 104 

7) Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)- 101 

8) Spartacus- 98 

9) Sons and Lovers- 96 

10) Midnight Lace- 85 

Interesting to see The Apartment come out on top in the battle of the 1959 and 1960 Oscar Best Pictures. 

 

 The Honor Roll: 

11) Psycho- 84 votes (I have always wished I was around in 1960 to see Psycho upon its release, but I really wouldn’t want to live in a world where Midnight Lace is deemed a superior film and knocks Psycho out of the top ten by one vote) 

12) Operation Petticoat (1959)- 83 

13) Butterfield 8- 82 

14) From the Terrace- 80 

15) Can-Can- 70 

16) The Mouse That Roared (1959)- 69 

17) I’m All Right, Jack (1959)- 66 

18) Pollyanna- 59 

19) Home From the Hill- 57 

20) Conspiracy of Hearts- 56 

21) Please Don’t eat the Daisies- 52 

22) A Summer Place (1959)- 51 

23) Our Man in Havana (1959)- 50 

24) Bells Are Ringing- 49 

25) Ocean’s Eleven- 47 

26) The Entertainer- 45 

27) The Fugitive Kind- 32 

28) The Sundowners- 26 

29) Let’s Make Love- 25 

30) Song Without End- 24 

31) The Bramble Bush- 23 

       It Started in Naples- 23 

32) Hell to Eternity- 22 

33) Crack in the Mirror- 21 

34) Portrait in Black- 20 

35) Toby Tyler- 19 

36) The Rat Race- 14 

37) Expresso Bongo (1959)- 13 

      The Savage Eye- 13 

38) The House of Usher- 12 

      Jungle Cat (1959)- 12 

The Film Daily- Filmdom’s Famous Fives of 1960

Best Performances by Male Stars 

1) Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry 

2) Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur (1959) 

3) Jack Lemmon in The Apartment 

4) Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind 

5) Ralph Bellamy in Sunrise at Campobello 

Best Performances by Female Stars 

1) Elizabeth Taylor in Butterfield 8 

2) Greer Garson in Sunrise at Campobello 

3) Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment 

4) Doris Day in Midnight Lace 

5) Jean Simmons in Elmer Gantry 

Best Performances by Supporting Actors 

1) Arthur Kennedy in Elmer Gantry 

2) Stephen Boyd in Ben-Hur (1959) 

3) Hugh Griffith in Ben-Hur (1959) 

4) George Peppard in Home From the Hill 

5) Hume Cronyn in Sunrise at Campobello 

Best Performances by Supporting Actresses 

1) Shirley Jones in Elmer Gantry 

2) Angela Lansbury in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs 

3) Eve Arden in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs 

4) Ina Balin in From the Terrace 

5) Myrna Loy in Midnight Lace 

Best Performances by Juvenile Actors 

1) Kevin Corcoran in Toby Tyler 

2) Troy Donahue in A Summer Place (1959) 

3) Lee Kinsolving in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs 

4) James MacArthur in Kidnapped 

5) Robert Eyer in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs 

Best Performances by Juvenile Actresses 

1) Hayley Mills in Pollyanna 

2) Sandra Dee in Portrait in Black 

3) Shirley Knight in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs 

4) Penny Parker in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs 

5) Luana Patten in Home From the Hill 

The Year’s Outstanding Directors 

1) William Wyler for Ben-Hur (1959) 

2) Billy Wilder for The Apartment 

3) Richard Brooks for Elmer Gantry 

4) Stanley Kramer for Inherit the Wind 

5) Vincent Donahue for Sunrise at Campobello 

The Best Photographed Pictures of the Year 

1) Robert L. Surtees for Ben-Hur (1959) 

2) James R. Simon, Hugh A. Wilmar and Lloyd Beebe for Jungle Cat (1959) 

3) Freddie Francis for Sons & Lovers 

4) John Alton for Elmer Gantry 

5) Jack Hildyard for Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) 

The Best Screenplays of the Year 

1) Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond for The Apartment 

2) Richard Brooks for Elmer Gantry 

3) Karl Tunberg for Ben-Hur (1959) 

4) Dore Schary for Sunrise at Campobello 

5) Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith for Inherit the Wind 

“Finds of the Year” 

1) Hayley Mills in Pollyanna 

2) George Peppard in Home From the Hill 

3) Peter Sellers in I’m All Right, Jack 

4) Ina Balin in From the Terrace 

5) Troy Donahue in A Summer Place (1959) 

The National Board of Review (Results announced on December 22, 1960. Source: Tom O’Neil’s Movie Awards)

The Ten Best Pictures (in order of preference) 

1) Sons and Lovers 

2) The Alamo 

3) The Sundowners 

4) Inherit the Wind 

5) Sunrise at Campobello 

6) Elmer Gantry 

7) Home from the Hill 

8) The Apartment 

9) Wild River 

10) The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

Best Director 

Jack Cardiff for Sons and Lovers 

Best Actor 

Robert Mitchum for The Sundowners and Home from the Hill 

Best Actress 

Greer Garson in Sunrise at Campobello

Best Supporting Actor 

George Peppard in Home from the Hill 

Best Supporting Actress 

Shirley Jones in Elmer Gantry 

Best Foreign Films (in order of preference) 

1) The World of Apu (1959- India) 

2) General della Rovere (1959- Italy/France) 

3) The Angry Silence (U.K.) 

4) I’m All Right, Jack (1959- U.K.) 

5) Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959- France/Japan) 

The New York Film Critics Awards (Winners announced on December 29, 1960. Awards presented on January 23, 1961. Sources: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001 and Donald Lyons, "The Lights of New York," Film Comment, March-April, 1993).

Best Picture 

The Apartment tied with Sons and Lovers on final ballot VI (8 votes each) 

Best Director 

Jack Cardiff for Sons and Lovers tied with Billy Wilder for The Apartment on final ballot VI (8 votes each)

Best Actor 

Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry (8 votes on final ballot VI) 

Runners up: Trevor Howard in Sons and Lovers (5 votes) Laurence Olivier in The Entertainer (3 votes) 

Best Actress

Deborah Kerr in The Sundowners (9 votes on final ballot VI) 

Runner up: Melina Mercouri in Never on Sunday (7 votes) 

 

Best Screenplay 

Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond for The Apartment 

  

Best Foreign Film 

Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959- France/Japan) 

The Golden Globes (Nominations announced on February 8, 1961. Awards presented on March 16, 1961). (Winners in bold print).

Best Drama Picture 

Elmer Gantry 

Inherit the Wind 

Sons and Lovers 

Spartacus 

Sunrise at Campobello 

Best Comedy Picture 

The Apartment 

The Facts of Life 

The Grass is Greener 

It Started in Naples 

Our Man in Havana 

Best Musical Picture 

Bells Are Ringing 

Can-Can 

Let’s Make Love 

Pepe 

Song Without End 

Best Motion Picture Promoting International Understanding 

Hand in Hand 

Conspiracy of Hearts 

Best Director 

Richard Brooks for Elmer Gantry 

Jack Cardiff for Sons and Lovers 

Stanley Kubrick for Spartacus

Billy Wilder for The Apartment 

Fred Zinnemann for The Sundowners 

Best Actor, Drama 

Trevor Howard in Sons and Lovers 

Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry 

Laurence Olivier in The Entertainer 

Dean Stockwell in Sons and Lovers 

Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind 

Best Actress, Drama 

Doris Day in Midnight Lace 

Greer Garson in Sunrise at Campobello 

Nancy Kwan in The World of Suzie Wong 

Jean Simmons in Elmer Gantry 

Elizabeth Taylor in Butterfield 8 

Best Actor, Comedy or Musical 

Dirk Bogarde in Song Without End 

Cantinflas in Pepe 

Cary Grant in The Grass is Greener 

Bob Hope in The Facts of Life 

Jack Lemmon in The Apartment 

Best Actress, Musical or Comedy 

Lucille Ball in The Facts of Life 

Capucine in Song Without End 

Judy Holliday in Bells Are Ringing 

Sophia Loren in It Started in Naples 

Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment 

Best Supporting Actor 

Lee Kinsolving in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

Sal Mineo in Exodus 

Ray Stricklyn in The Plunderers 

Woody Strode in Spartacus 

Peter Ustinov in Spartacus

Best Supporting Actress

Ina Balin in From the Terrace 

Shirley Jones in Elmer Gantry 

Shirley Knight in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs 

Janet Leigh in Psycho 

Mary Ure in Sons and Lovers 

Most Promising Newcomer- Male 

Michael Callan

Mark Damon

Brett Halsey 

Peter Falk 

David Janssen 

Robert Vaughn 

 Promising Newcomer- Female 

Ina Balin 

Nancy Kwan 

Hayley Mills 

Jill Haworth 

Shirley Knight 

Julie Newmar 

Best Foreign-Language Films 

The Man With the Green Carnation (English language) 

La Verite (France) 

The Virgin Spring (Sweden) 

Best Original Score 

Dimitri Tiomkin for The Alamo  

World Film Favorites 

Tony Curtis 

Rock Hudson 

Gina Lollobrigida

Samuel Goldwyn International Award 

Never on Sunday (Greece) 

Cecil B. DeMille Award 

Fred Astaire 

Special Merit Award 

The Sundowners 

Special Achievement Awards 

Cantinflas 

Stanley Kramer 

The Academy Awards (Nominations announced on February 27, 1961. Awards presented on April 17, 1961. Sources: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards and Mason Wiley and Damien Bona's Inside Oscar) 

Best Picture 

The Alamo, Batjac, UA. Produced by John Wayne. 

The Apartment, Mirisch, UA. Produced by Billy Wilder.

Elmer Gantry, Lancaster-Brooks, UA. Produced by Bernard Smith. 

Sons and Lovers, Wald, 20th Century-Fox. Produced by Jerry Wald.

The Sundowners, Warner Bros. Produced by Fred Zinnemann.

Best Director 

Jack Cardiff for Sons and Lovers (Wald, 20th Century-Fox).

Jules Dassin for Never on Sunday (Melinafilm, Lopert Pictures)(Greek).

Alfred Hitchcock for Psycho (Hitchcock, Paramount).

Billy Wilder for The Apartment (Mirisch, UA).

Fred Zinnemann for The Sundowners (Warner Bros.).

 Best Actor 

Trevor Howard in Sons and Lovers (Wald, 20th Century-Fox).

Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry (Lancaster-Brooks, UA).

Jack Lemmon in The Apartment (Mirsch, UA).

Laurence Olivier in The Entertainer (Woodfall, Continental)(British).

Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind (Kramer, UA).

 

Best Actress 

Greer Garson in Sunrise at Campobello (Schary, Warner Bros.).

Deborah Kerr in The Sundowners (Warner Bros.).

Melinda Mercouri in Never on Sunday (Melinafilm, Lopert Pictures)(Greek).

Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment The Apartment (Mirsch, UA).

Elizabeth Taylor in Butterfield 8 (Afton-Linebrook, MGM).

Best Supporting Actor 

Peter Falk in Murder, Inc. (20th Century-Fox).

Jack Kruschen in The Apartment (Mirsch, UA).

Sal Mineo in Exodus (Preminger, UA).

Peter Ustinov in Spartacus (Bryna, U-I).

Chill Willis in The Alamo (Batjac, UA).

Best Supporting Actress 

Glynis Johns in The Sundowners (Warner Bros.).

Shirley Jones in Elmer Gantry (Lancaster-Brooks, UA).

Shirley Knight in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (Warner Bros.).

Janet Leigh in Psycho (Hitchcock, Paramount).

Mary Ure in Sons and Lovers (Wald, 20th Century-Fox).

Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium 

Elmer Gantry, Lancaster-Brooks, UA. Richard Brooks.

Inherit the Wind, Kramer, UA. Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith.

Sons and Lovers, Wald, 20th Century-Fox. Gavin Lambert and T.E.B. Clarke.

The Sundowners, Warner Bros. Isobel Lennart.

Tunes of Glory, Lopert Pictures (British). James Kennaway.

Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen 

The Angry Silence, Beaver Films, Lion International (British). Richard Gregson and Michael Craig; Bryan Forbes.

The Apartment, Mirsch, UA. Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond.

The Facts of Life, Panama and Frank, UA. Norman Panama and Melvin Frank.

Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959), Zenith International (French-Japanese). Marguerite Duras.

Never on Sunday, Melinafilm, Lopert Pictures (Greek). Jules Dassin.

  

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

The Apartment, Mirsch, UA. Joseph LaShelle.

The Facts of Life, Panama and Frank, UA. Charles B. Lang, Jr.

Inherit the Wind, Kramer, UA. Ernest Laszlo.

Psycho, Hitchcock, Paramount. John L. Russell.

Sons and Lovers, Wald, 20th Century-Fox. Freddie Francis.

Best Cinematography (Color) 

The Alamo, Batjac, UA. William H. Clothier.

Butterfield 8, Afton-Linebrook, MGM. Joseph Ruttenberg and Charles Harten.

Exodus, Preminger, UA. Sam Leavitt.

Pepe, Sidney, Columbia. Joe MacDonald.

Spartacus, Bryna, U-I. Russell Metty.

Best Art Direction-Set Direction (Black-and-White) 

The Apartment, Mirisch, UA. Alexander Trauner; Edward G. Boyle.

The Facts of Life, Panama and Frank, UA. Joseph McMillan Johnson and Kenneth A. Reid; Ross Dowd.

Psycho, Hitchcock, Paramount. Joseph Hurley and Robert Clatworthy; George Milo. 

Sons and Lovers, Wald, 20th Century-Fox. Tom Morahan; Lionel Couch.

Visit to a Small Planet, Wallis, Paramount. Hal Pereira and Walter Tyler; Sam Comer and Arthur Krams.

Best Art Direction-Set Direction (Color) 

Cimarron, MGM. George W. Davis and Addison Hehr; Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt and Otto Siegel.

It Started in Naples, Paramount. Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson; Sam Comer and Arrigo Breschi.

Pepe, Sidney, Columbia. Ted Haworth; William Kiernan.

Spartacus, Bryna, U-I. Alexander Golitzen and Eric Orbom; Russell A. Gausman and Julia Heron.

Sunrise at Campobello, Schary, Warner Bros. Edward Carrere; George James Hopkins.

Best Sound 

The Alamo, Batjac, UA.  Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept.; Gordon E. Sawyer, sound director; and Todd-AO Sound Dept.; Fred Hynes, sound director. 

The Apartment, Mirisch, UA. Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept.; Gordon E. Sawyer, sound director. 

Cimarron, MGM. MGM Studio Sound Dept.; Franklin E. Milton, sound director.

Pepe, Sidney, Columbia. Columbia Studio Sound Dept.; Charles Rice, sound director. 

Sunrise at Campobello, Schary, Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept.; George R. Groves, sound director. 

Best Song 

"The Facts of Life" (The Facts of Life, Panama and Frank, UA); Music and Lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

"Faraway Part of Town" (Pepe, Sidney, Columbia); Music by Andre Previn. Lyrics by Dory Langdon. 

"The Green Leaves of Summer" (The Alamo, Batjac, UA); Music by Dimitri Tiomkin. Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.

"Never on Sunday" (Never on Sunday, Melindafilm, Lopert Pictures) (Greek); Music and lyrics by Manos Hadjidakis. 

"The Second Time Around" (High Time, Crosby, 20th Century-Fox); Music by James Van Heusen. Lyrics by Sammy Cahn.

Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture 

The Alamo, Batjac, UA. Dimitri Tiomkin.

Elmer Gantry, Lancaster-Brooks, UA. Andre Previn.

Exodus, Preminger, UA. Ernest Gold.

The Magnificent Seven, Mirisch-Alpha, UA. Elmer Bernstein.

Spartacus, Bryna, U-I. Alex North. 

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture 

Bells Are Ringing, Freed, MGM. Andre Previn.

Can-Can, Suffolk-Cummings, 20th Century-Fox. Nelson Riddle.

Let's Make Love, Wald, 20th Century-Fox. Lionel Newman and Earle H. Hagen.

Pepe, Sidney, Columbia. Johnny Green.

Song Without End, Goetz, Columbia. Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman.

Best Film Editing 

The Alamo, Batjac, UA. Stuart Gilmore.

The Apartment, Mirisch, UA. Daniel Mandell.

Inherit the Wind, Kramer, U-I. Frederic Knudtson.

Pepe, Sidney, Columbia. Viola Lawrence and Al Clark.

Spartacus, Bryna, U-I. Robert Lawrence.

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White) 

The Facts of Life, Panama and Frank, UA. Edith Head and Edward Stevenson.

Never on Sunday, Melindafilm, Lopert Pictures (Greek). Denny Vachlioto.

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond, United States Prods., Warner Bros. Howard Shoup.

Seven Thieves, 20th Century-Fox. Bill Thomas.

The Virgin Spring, Janus Films (Swedish). Marik Vos.  

Best Costume Design (Color) 

Can-Can, Suffolk-Cummings, 20th Century-Fox. Irene Shariff.

Midnight Lace, Hunter-Arwin, U-I. Irene. 

Pepe, Sidney, Columbia. Edith Head.

Spartacus, Bryna, U-I. Valles and Bill Thomas.

Sunrise at Campobello, Schary, Warner Bros. Marjorie Best.

Best Special Effects 

The Last Voyage, Stone, MGM.A.J. Lohman.

The Time Machine, Galaxy, MGM. Gene Warren and Tim Baar.

Best Short Subject Cartoon 

Goliath II, Disney, Buena Vista. Walt Disney, producer.

High Note, Warner Bros. 

Mouse and Garden, Warner Bros. 

Munro, Rembrandt Films, Film Representations. William L. Snyder, producer. 

A Place in the Sun, George K. Arthur-Go Pictures (Czechoslovakian). Frantisek Vystrecil, producer.

Best Live Action Short Subject 

The Creation of Woman, Trident Films, Sterling World Distributors (Indian). Charles F. Schwep and Ismail Merchant, producers.

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

Islands of the Sea, Disney, Buena Vista. Walt Disney, producer A Sport is Born Leslie Winik, producer. 

Best Documentary Short Subject 

Beyond Silence, U.S. Information Agency.

A City Called Copenhagen, Statens Filmcentral, Danish Film Office (Danish).

George Grosz' Interregnum, Educational Communications Corp. Charles and Altina Carey, producers.

Giuseppina, Schoenfeld Films (British). James Hill, producer.

Universe, National Film Board of Canada, Schoenfeld Films (Canadian). Colin Low, producer. 

Best Documentary Feature 

The Horse with the Flying Tail, Disney, Buena Vista. Larry Lansburgh, producer 

Rebel in Paradise, Tiare Co. Robert D. Fraser, producer 

Best Foreign Language Film 

Kapo (Italy). 

La Verite (France). 

Macario (Mexico). 

The Ninth Circle (Yugoslavia).

The Virgin Spring (Sweden).

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Not given this year.

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Sol Lesser.

Honorary Awards 

Gary Cooper for his many memorable screen performances and the international recognition he, as an individual, has gained for the motion picture industry (statuette).

Stan Laurel for his creative pioneering in the field of cinema comedy (statuette).

Hayley Mills for Pollyanna, the most outstanding juvenile performance during 1960 (miniature statuette).

Scientific or Technical

Class I (Statuette)

None.

Class II (Plaque)

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 (Citation)

Arthur Holcomb, Petro Vlahos and COlumbia Studio Camera Dept. for a camera flicker indicating device.

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

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

                                     

Directors Guild of America (Best Director award was presented on February 4, 1961 via a dual ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles and the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001).

Best Director
Billy Wilder, The Apartment

Other finalists:
Jack Cardiff, Sons and Lovers

Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho

Vincente Minnelli, Bells are Ringing

Fred Zinnemann, The Sundowners

Other directors mentioned:
Richard Brooks, Elmer Gantry
Vincent J. Donehue, Sunrise at Campobello

Lewis Gilbert, Sink the Bismark

Walter Lang, Can-Can

Delbert Mann, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

Vincente Minnelli, Home from the Hill

Carol Reed, Our Man in Havana (1959)

Alain Resnais, Hiroshima, Mon Amour

Charles Walters, Please Don't Eat the Daisies

D.W. Griffith Award

Frank Borzage

Writers Guild of America (Awards were presented on March 26, 1961 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards). (Winners in bold print).

Best Written Drama

Elmer Gantry, Richard Brooks, based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis

Psycho, Joseph Stefano, based on the novel by Roberth Bloch

Sons and Lovers, Gavin Lambert, T.E.B. Clarke, based on the novel by D.H. Lawrence

Spartacus, Dalton Trumbo, based on the novel by Howard Fast

The Sundowners, Isobel Lennart, based on the novel by Jon Cleary

Best Written Comedy

The Apartment, Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond

The Facts of Life, Norman Panama, Melvin Frank

North to Alaska, Martin Rackin, Lee Mahin, Claude Binyon, based on the play Birthday Gift, by Laszlo Fodor and an idea by Hans Kafka

Ocean's Eleven, Harry Brown, Charles Lederer, story by George Clayton Johnson and Jack Golden Russell

Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Isobel Lennart, based on the novel by Jean Kerr

Best Written Musical

Bells are Ringing, Betty Comden, Adolph Green

Can-Can, Dorothy Kingsley, Charles Lederer, based on the musical play by Abe Burrows

G.I. Blues, Edmund Belion, Henry Garson

Let's Make Love, Norman Krasna, Hal Kanter

Laurel Award

George Seaton

Berlin Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).

Best Film:

Lazarillo de Tormes (1959- Spain)

Best Direction:

The Love Game (France)

Best Actor:

Fredric March, Inherit the Wind

 

Best Actress:

Juliette Mayniel, Country Fair

Best Feature Documentary:

Faja Lobbi (Holland)

Best Short Documentary:

Les Songs des Chevaux Sauvages (France)

International Critics Prize:

The Angry Silence (England)

 

Cannes Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).

Best Film:

La Dolce Vita (Fredrico Fellini, Italy) (Ingmar Bergman, The Virgin Spring, and Luis Bunuel, The Young One, were announced as too good to be judged)

Best Director:

Not awarded

Best Actor:

Not awarded

Best Actress:

Melina Mercouri, Never on Sunday and Jeanne Moreau, Moderato Cantabile

Special Jury Prize:

Michelangelo Antonioni, L'Avventura

Special Prizes:

Ballad of a Soldier (1959- USSR)

Lady with a Pet Dog (USSR)

Kaji (Japan)

International Critics Award:

Ingmar Bergman, The Virgin Spring

Catholic Film Office Award:

Astrid Henning-Jenson, Paw (1959)

Venice Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).

Best Film, Lion of St. Mark:

Le Passage du Rhine (Andre Cayatte, France)

Best Actor:

John Mills, Tunes of Glory (England)

Best Actress:

Shirely MacLaine, The Apartment (USA)

Special Jury Prize:

Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti, Italy)

Catholic Film Office Award:

Voyage in a Balloon (Albert Lamorisses, France)

International Film Critics Award:

The Motorcart (Spain)

Rocco and His Brothers (Italy)

Best First Feature:

Florestano Vancini, That Long Night in '43 (Italy)

The New York Times Annual Ten Best List (in chronological order. Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

I'm All Right, Jack (1959)

The Apartment

Psycho

Elmer Gantry

Sunrise at Campobello

The Entertainer

Inherit the Wind

The Angry Silence

Exodus

Tunes of Glory

Best Foreign Films

Rosemary (1958- Germany)

Ikiru (1952- Japan)

The Cranes are Flying (1957- Russia)

Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959- France)

The World of Apu (1959- India)

Never on Sunday (Greece)

The Virgin Spring (Sweden)

General della Rovere (1959- Italy)

The Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958- Italy)

The Ballad of a Soldier (1959- Russia)

                     

Time Magazine’s Best Films of 1960 (in chronological order. Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg) 

The Apartment 

Come Back, Africa 

Elmer Gantry 

Sons and Lovers 

Sunrise at Campobello

Spartacus 

Weddings and Babies 

Exodus 

Best Foreign Films

Ikiru (1952-Japan)

A Lesson in Love (1954)

Dreams (1955)

The Virgin Spring

I’m All Right, Jack (1959)

Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959)

The World of Apu (1959)

General della Rovere (1959)

The Loving Game 

The Golden Laurel Awards- 1961 (Mainly covers 1960 films. Published in Motion Picture Exhibitor magazine on September 27, 1961)

In order of preference:

Top Drama
1) Elmer Gantry

2) Butterfield 8

3) Psycho

4) The World of Suzie Wong

5) Midnight Lace

Top Comedy
1) The Apartment

2) Where the Boys Are

3) The Facts of Life

4) The Great Imposter

5) The Grass is Greener

Top Musical
1) Pepe

2) G.I. Blues

3) Let's Make Love

4) Song Without End

5) High Time

 
Top Action Drama
1) The Alamo

2) The Magnificent Seven

3) Pay or Die

4) Ocean's 11

5) The Lost World

Best General Entertainment
The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)

Sleepers of the Year:

North to Alaska

House of Usher

Top Director (no films listed)
1) Fred Zinnemann

2) Vincente Minnelli

3) Henry King

4) Michael Curtiz

5) Richard Quine

6) Raoul Walsh

7) Richard Brooks

8) George Cukor

9) Walter Lang

10) John Sturges

Top Producer/Director (no films listed)
1) Alfred Hitchcock

2) Billy Wilder

3) Otto Preminger

4) William Wyler

5) Delmar Daves

6) George Sidney

7) Stanley Kramer

8) Mervyn Le Roy

9) George Stevens

10) Elia Kazan

Top Producer
1) Walt Disney

2) Ross Hunter

3) Jerry Wald

4) Joseph Pasternak

5) Sam Spiegel

6) Arthur Freed

7) Sol C. Siegel

8) Pandro S. Berman

9) Henry Blanke

10) Charles Brackett

Top Male Dramatic Performance
1) Burt Lancaster, Elmer Gantry

2) William Holden, The World of Suzie Wong

3) Kirk Douglas, Spartacus

4) Paul Newman, Exodus

5) Spencer Tracy, Inherit the Wind

Top Female Dramatic Performance
1) Sirley MacLaine, The Apartment

2) Elizabeth Taylor, Butterfield 8

3) Jean Simmons, Elmer Gantry

4) Doris Day, Midnight Lace

5) Deborah Kerr, The Sundowners

Top Male Comedy Performance
1) Jack Lemmon, The Apartment

2) Fred MacMurray, The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)

3) Bob Hope, The Facts of Life

4) Jerry Lewis, Cinderfella

5) Cantinflas, Pepe

Top Female Comedy Performance
1) Janet Leigh, Pepe

2) Lucille Ball, The Facts of Life

3) Paula Prentiss, Where the Boys Are

4) Sophia Loren, It Started in Naples

5) Jean Simmons, The Grass is Greener

Top Action Performance
1) John Wayne, The Alamo

2) Ernest Borgnine, Pay or Die

3) Glenn Ford, Cimarron

4) Jeffrey Hunter, Hell to Eternity

5) Yul Brynner, The Magnificent Seven

Top Male Supporting Performances
1) Sal Mineo, Exodus

2) Peter Ustinov, Spartacus
3) Chill Willis, The Alamo

4) Lee J. Cobb, Exodus

5) Tony Randall, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 

Top Female Supporting Performance
1) Shirley Jones, Elmer Gantry

2) Janet Leigh, Psycho

3) Julie Newmar, The Marriage Go-Round (1961)

4) Eve Arden, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

5) Dina Merrill, Butterfield 8

Top Musical Score
1) Dimitri Tiomkin, The Alamo

2) Max Steiner, The Dark at the Top of the Stars

3) Alfred Newman, 20th Century-Fox's Musical Director

4) Elmer Bernstein, The Magnificent Seven

5) Andre Previn, Pepe

Top Male Star
1) Burt Lancaster

2) Rock Hudson

3) Jack Lemmon

4) Tony Curtis

5) William Holden

6) Cary Grant

7) Kirk Douglas

8) John Wayne

9) Glenn Ford

10) Yul Brynner

11) James Stewart

12) Marlon Brando

13) Frank Sinatra

14) Jerry Lewis

15) Bing Crosby

Top Female Star
1) Doris Day

2) Elizabeth Taylor

3) Shirley MacLaine

4) Debbie Reynolds

5) Sandra Dee

6) Kim Novak

7) Janet Leigh

8) Jean Simmons

9) Lana Turner

10) Marilyn Monroe

11) Deborah Kerr

12) Audrey Hepburn

13) Sophia Loren

14) Natalie Wood

15) Rosalind Russell

Top New Male Personality
1) David Janssen

2) Ricky Nelson

3) Jim Hutton

4) Horst Buchholtz

5) Rod Taylor

6) Frankie Avalon

7) Jimmie Rodgers

8) Frank Gorshin

9) Fabian

10) Dick Shawn

Top New Female Personality
1) Hayley Mills

2) Nancy Kwan

3) Dolores Hart

4) Connie Francis

5) Julie Newmar

6) Ina Balin

7) Juliet Prowse

8) Capucine

9) Paula Prentiss

10) Barbara Eden

The Top Box-Office Hits of 1960 (According to Variety- lists U.S. and Canadian rental fees up to the end of the calendar year. Late 1959 releases that primarily earned revenue in 1960 are included. Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg. Includes actual and estimated domestic rentals to theaters in U.S. and Canada, not box-office takes, which would be higher. If the final first-run rental take for films gaining $4,000,000 or more in rentals varies from the total originally listed, I'm showing that figure after the original total. Final first-run rentals data comes from Variety's January 9, 1963 "All-Time Top Film Grosses" list (only films taking $4,000,000 or more in rentals were mentioned on the "All-Time" list; unfortunately, I have no data for films with a final gross under $4,000,000 that may have ended up with a higher take than shown below). Occasionally a film will end up on the "All-Time" list with a lower rental box-office take than when the film originally appeared on the yearly list of top box-office films. This is due to the estimated rentals, which were sometimes revised to a lower amount for the All-Time list).

1) Ben-Hur (1959)- $17,300,000 (final rentals of $38,000,000)

2) Psycho- $8,500,000 (final rentals of $9,000,000)

3) Operation Petticoat (1959)- $6,800,000 (final rentals of $9,500,000)

4) Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)- $5,500,000

5) On the Beach (1959)- $5,300,000 (final rentals of $5,000,000)

6) Solomon and Sheba (1959)- $5,250,000 (final rentals of $5,500,000)

7) The Apartment- $5,100,000 (final rentals of $9,300,000)

8) From the Terrace- $5,000,000 (final rentals of $5,200,000)

    Please Don't Eat the Daisies- $5,000,000  (final rentals of $5,500,000)

10) Ocean's 11- $4,900,000  (final rentals of $5,500,000)

11) Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)- $4,700,000 (final rentals of $5,000,000)

12) The Bellboy- $3,550,000

13) Elmer Gantry- $3,500,000 (final rentals of $5,200,000)

 

14) The Rat Race- $3,400,000

15) Portrait in Black- $3,200,000

      Li'l Abner (1959)- $3,200,000

      Visit to a Small Planet- $3,200,000

18) Home from the Hill- $3,150,000

19) Who Was That Lady?- $3,00,000

       Toby Tyler- $3,000,000

       Can-Can- $3,000,000  (final rentals of $4,200,000)

Notes: 

Butterfield 8 is not on the 1960 or 1961 list, but shows final rentals of $6,000,000 on Variety's January 6, 1965 All-Time list.

G.I. Blues is not on the 1960 or 1961 list, but shows final rentals of $4,300,000 on the 1963 list. 

La Dolce Vita is not on the 1960 or 1961 list, but shows final rentals of $6,000,000 on the 1963 All-Time list. 

The Top Ten Box-Office Stars of 1960 (according to Quigley Publishing’s poll of film exhibitors) 

1) Doris Day 

2) Rock Hudson 

3) Cary Grant 

4) Elizabeth Taylor 

5) Debbie Reynolds 

6) Tony Curtis 

7) Sandra Dee 

8) Frank Sinatra 

9) Jack Lemmon 

10) John Wayne 

The Next Fifteen: 

11) Jerry Lewis 

12) Glenn Ford 

13) Paul Newman 

14) William Holden 

15) Kirk Douglas 

16) Charlton Heston 

17) Shirley MacLaine

18) James Stewart 

19) Burt Lancaster 

20) Joanne Woodward 

21) Elvis Presley 

22) Pat Boone 

23) Yul Brynner 

24) Robert Mitchum 

25) Gary Cooper 

1960's Top Ten "Stars of Tomorrow" (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors) 

1) Jane Fonda 

2) Stephen Boyd 

3) John Gavin 

4) Susan Kohner 

5) Troy Donahue 

6) Angie Dickinson 

7) Tuesday Weld 

8) Fabian 

9) James Darren 

10) George Hamilton 

The Next Fifteen: 

11) Barbara Rush 

12) Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. 

13) George Peppard 

14) Eddie Hodges 

15) Steve McQueen 

16) David Ladd 

17) Capucine 

18) Gary Crosby 

19) Dean Stockwell 

20) Vera Miles 

21) Suzy Parker 

22) Ina Balin 

23) Ben Gazarra 

24) Peggy Cass 

25) Linda Cristal 

Great Britain's Top Ten Box-Office Stars of 1960 (according to the Motion Picture Herald's poll of British film exhibitors) 

1) Kenneth More 

2) Peter Sellers 

3) Sophia Loren 

4) Sir Alec Guinness 

5) Elizabeth Taylor 

6) Audrey Hepburn 

7) Jack Lemmon 

8) Stanley Baker 

9) Dirk Bogarde 

10) Norman Wisdom 

Great Britain's top Box-Office films of 1960 (according to the Motion Picture Herald- listed in order of precedence) 1) Doctor in Love 

2) Carry On, Constable 

3) Hercules Unchained 

4) Two-Way Stretch 

5) Conspiracy of Hearts 

6) The League of Gentlemen 

7) Sink the Bismark! 

8) Psycho

9) Ocean's 11 

10) Suddenly, Last Summer 

11) Dentist in the Chair 

12) School for Scoundrels

 

Harvard Lampoon's Movie Worst Awards (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).

Ten Worst:

Butterfield 8

Strangers When We Meet

The Gazebo

Ice Palace

Exodus

It Started in Naples

Pepe

Pollyanna

Because They're Young

High Time

Worst Actor:

Frank Sinatra, Can-Can

Worst Actress:

Eva Marie Saint, Exodus

Worst Supporting Actor:

Eddie Fisher, Butterfield 8 (with honorable mention to Cameron Mitchell for failing to meet his alimony payments)

Worst Supporting Actress:

Annette Funicello, The Horse Masters

The Uncrossed Heart:

(awarded to the least promising young actor of the year)

Fabian, North to Alaska

The Merino Award:

(to that motion picture personality who, in the opinion of the officers, editors, and staff of the Havard Lampoon, has done the most to enhance the fame and glory of the merino)

Maureen O'Hara

The Bratwurst Award:

(to the most obnoxious child star of the year)

David Ladd, Dog of Flanders (1959)

The But-Not-For-Us-Either:

But Not for Me (1959)

The Mirror-On-The-Wall:

(to the movie whose title reflects the action of the audience rather than that of its characters)

The Angry Silence

The Off-Color Investiture:

The Green Carnation

The Bad-Taste Citation:

Broth of a Boy (1959)

The Wilde Oscar:

(presented to that actor who is willing to flaunt convention and reputation in the pursuit of artistic fulfillment)

The The-World-in-the-Future-if-Karl-Marx's-Basic-Political-Precepts-Are-Proved-Correct-but-His-Hypothesis-That-the-People-Will-Not-Be-Disgruntled-Is-Sorely-in-Error Award:

The Angry Red Planet (1959)

The Along-the-Mohawk Grant:

(to that film with the most drummed-up publicity campaign)

The Alamo

The Roscoe Award:

Robert Mitchum