Academy Awards 1960 Nominations

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Best Motion Picture	Best Director
Best Actor	Best Actress
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen	Best Screenplay based on material from another medium
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short	Best Live Action Short Subject
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)	Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture	Best Song
Best Sound	Best Art Direction (Color)
Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)	Best Cinematography (Color)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)	Best Costume Design (Color)
Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)	Best Film Editing
Best Special Effects

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Best Motion Picture

• Anatomy of a Murder
• Ben-Hur
• Room at the Top
• The Diary of Anne Frank
• The Nun's Story

Best Director

• Ben-Hur (William Wyler)
• Room at the Top (Jack Clayton)
• Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
• The Diary of Anne Frank (George Stevens)
• The Nun's Story (Fred Zinnemann)

Best Actor

• Anatomy of a Murder (James Stewart)
• Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston)
• Room at the Top (Laurence Harvey)
• Some Like It Hot (Jack Lemmon)
• The Last Angry Man (Paul Muni)

Best Actress

• Pillow Talk (Doris Day)
• Room at the Top (Simone Signoret)
• Suddenly, Last Summer (Elizabeth Taylor)
• Suddenly, Last Summer (Katharine Hepburn)
• The Nun's Story (Audrey Hepburn)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Anatomy of a Murder (George C. Scott)
• Anatomy of a Murder (Arthur O'Connell)
• Ben-Hur (Hugh Griffith)
• The Diary of Anne Frank (Ed Wynn)
• The Young Philadelphians (Robert Vaughn)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Imitation of Life (Susan Kohner)
• Imitation of Life (Juanita Moore)
• Pillow Talk (Thelma Ritter)
• Room at the Top (Hermione Baddeley)
• The Diary of Anne Frank (Shelley Winters)

Best Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen

• North by Northwest
• Operation Petticoat
• Pillow Talk
• The 400 Blows
• Wild Strawberries

Best Screenplay based on material from another medium

• Anatomy of a Murder
• Ben-Hur
• Room at the Top
• Some Like It Hot
• The Nun's Story

Best Foreign Language Film

• Black Orpheus (France)
• Boy of Two Worlds (Denmark)
• The Bridge (Germany)
• The Great War (Italy)
• Village by the River (Netherlands)

Best Documentary Feature

• Serengeti
• The Race for Space

Best Documentary Short

• Donald in Mathmagic Land
• From Generation to Generation
• Glas

Best Live Action Short Subject

• Between the Tides
• Mysteries of the Deep
• Skyscraper
• The Golden Fish
• The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• Mexicali Shmoes
• Moonbird
• Noah's Ark
• The Violinist

Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

• Ben-Hur
• On the Beach
• Pillow Talk
• The Diary of Anne Frank
• The Nun's Story

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Li'l Abner
• Porgy and Bess
• Say One for Me
• Sleeping Beauty
• The Five Pennies

Best Song

• A Hole in the Head ("High Hopes")
• The Best of Everything ("The Best of Everything")
• The Five Pennies ("The Five Pennies")
• The Hanging Tree ("The Hanging Tree")
• The Young Land ("Strange Are the Ways of Love")

Best Sound

• Ben-Hur
• Journey to the Center of the Earth
• Libel
• Porgy and Bess
• The Nun's Story

Best Art Direction (Color)

• Ben-Hur
• Journey to the Center of the Earth
• North by Northwest
• Pillow Talk
• The Big Fisherman

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

• Career
• Some Like It Hot
• Suddenly, Last Summer
• The Diary of Anne Frank
• The Last Angry Man

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Ben-Hur
• Porgy and Bess
• The Big Fisherman
• The Five Pennies
• The Nun's Story

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Anatomy of a Murder
• Career
• Some Like It Hot
• The Diary of Anne Frank
• The Young Philadelphians

Best Costume Design (Color)

• Ben-Hur
• Porgy and Bess
• The Best of Everything
• The Big Fisherman
• The Five Pennies

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• Career
• Some Like It Hot
• The Diary of Anne Frank
• The Gazebo
• The Young Philadelphians

Best Film Editing

• Anatomy of a Murder
• Ben-Hur
• North by Northwest
• On the Beach
• The Nun's Story

Best Special Effects

• Ben-Hur
• Journey to the Center of the Earth