Academy Awards 1961 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

• Elmer Gantry
• Sons and Lovers
• The Alamo
• The Apartment
• The Sundowners

Best Director

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

Best Actor

• Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster)
• Inherit the Wind (Spencer Tracy)
• Sons and Lovers (Trevor Howard)
• The Apartment (Jack Lemmon)
• The Entertainer (Laurence Olivier)

Best Actress

• Butterfield 8 (Elizabeth Taylor)
• Never on Sunday (Melina Mercouri)
• Sunrise at Campobello (Greer Garson)
• The Apartment (Shirley MacLaine)
• The Sundowners (Deborah Kerr)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Exodus (Sal Mineo)
• Murder, Inc. (Peter Falk)
• Spartacus (Peter Ustinov)
• The Alamo (Chill Wills)
• The Apartment (Jack Kruschen)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Elmer Gantry (Shirley Jones)
• Psycho (Janet Leigh)
• Sons and Lovers (Mary Ure)
• The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (Shirley Knight)
• The Sundowners (Glynis Johns)

Best Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen

• Hiroshima mon amour
• Never on Sunday
• The Angry Silence
• The Apartment
• The Facts of Life

Best Screenplay based on material from another medium

• Elmer Gantry
• Inherit the Wind
• Sons and Lovers
• The Sundowners
• Tunes of Glory

Best Foreign Language Film

• Kapò (Italy)
• La vérité (France)
• Macario (Mexico)
• The Ninth Circle (Yugoslavia)
• The Virgin Spring (Sweden)

Best Documentary Feature

• Rebel in Paradise
• The Horse with the Flying Tail

Best Documentary Short

• Beyond Silence
• En by ved navn København
• George Grosz' Interregnum
• Giuseppina
• Universe

Best Live Action Short Subject

• A Sport Is Born
• Day of the Painter
• Islands of the Sea
• The Creation of Woman

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• Goliath II
• High Note
• Mouse and Garden
• Munro
• O místo na slunci

Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

• Elmer Gantry
• Exodus
• Spartacus
• The Alamo
• The Magnificent Seven

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Bells Are Ringing
• Can-Can
• Let's Make Love
• Pepe
• Song Without End

Best Song

• High Time ("The Second Time Around")
• Never on Sunday ("Ta paidia tou Peiraia")
• Pepe ("Faraway Part of Town")
• The Alamo ("The Green Leaves of Summer")
• The Facts of Life ("The Facts of Life")

Best Sound

• Cimarron
• Pepe
• Sunrise at Campobello
• The Alamo
• The Apartment

Best Art Direction (Color)

• Cimarron
• It Started in Naples
• Pepe
• Spartacus
• Sunrise at Campobello

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

• Psycho
• Sons and Lovers
• The Apartment
• The Facts of Life
• Visit to a Small Planet

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Butterfield 8
• Exodus
• Pepe
• Spartacus
• The Alamo

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Inherit the Wind
• Psycho
• Sons and Lovers
• The Apartment
• The Facts of Life

Best Costume Design (Color)

• Can-Can
• Midnight Lace
• Pepe
• Spartacus
• Sunrise at Campobello

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• Never on Sunday
• Seven Thieves
• The Facts of Life
• The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
• The Virgin Spring

Best Film Editing

• Inherit the Wind
• Pepe
• Spartacus
• The Alamo
• The Apartment

Best Special Effects

• The Last Voyage
• The Time Machine