Academy Awards 1962 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

• Fanny
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• The Guns of Navarone
• The Hustler
• West Side Story

Best Director

• Judgment at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer)
• La dolce vita (Federico Fellini)
• The Guns of Navarone (J. Lee Thompson)
• The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
• West Side Story (Robert Wise)

Best Actor

• Fanny (Charles Boyer)
• Judgment at Nuremberg (Spencer Tracy)
• Judgment at Nuremberg (Maximilian Schell)
• The Hustler (Paul Newman)
• The Mark (Stuart Whitman)

Best Actress

• Breakfast at Tiffany's (Audrey Hepburn)
• Splendor in the Grass (Natalie Wood)
• Summer and Smoke (Geraldine Page)
• The Hustler (Piper Laurie)
• Two Women (Sophia Loren)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Judgment at Nuremberg (Montgomery Clift)
• Pocketful of Miracles (Peter Falk)
• The Hustler (George C. Scott)
• The Hustler (Jackie Gleason)
• West Side Story (George Chakiris)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Judgment at Nuremberg (Judy Garland)
• Summer and Smoke (Una Merkel)
• The Children's Hour (Fay Bainter)
• The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (Lotte Lenya)
• West Side Story (Rita Moreno)

Best Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen

• Ballad of a Soldier
• Il generale Della Rovere
• La dolce vita
• Lover Come Back
• Splendor in the Grass
• Through a Glass Darkly

Best Screenplay based on material from another medium

• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• The Guns of Navarone
• The Hustler
• West Side Story

Best Foreign Language Film

• Ánimas Trujano (El hombre importante) (Mexico)
• Bitter Spirit (Japan)
• Harry og kammertjeneren (Denmark)
• Placido (Spain)
• Through a Glass Darkly (Sweden)

Best Documentary Feature

• Le ciel et la boue
• The Grand Olympics

Best Documentary Short

• Breaking the Language Barrier
• Cradle of Genius
• Kahl
• L'uomo in grigio
• Project Hope

Best Live Action Short Subject

• Ballon vole
• Rooftops of New York
• Seawards the Great Ships
• The Face of Jesus
• Very Nice, Very Nice

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• Aquamania
• Beep Prepared
• Nelly's Folly
• The Pied Piper of Guadalupe
• The Substitute

Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• El Cid
• Fanny
• Summer and Smoke
• The Guns of Navarone

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Babes in Toyland
• Flower Drum Song
• Khovanschina
• Paris Blues
• West Side Story

Best Song

• Bachelor in Paradise ("Bachelor in Paradise")
• Breakfast at Tiffany's ("Moon River")
• El Cid ("Love Theme from El Cid (The Falcon and the Dove)")
• Pocketful of Miracles ("Pocketful of Miracles")
• Town Without Pity ("Town Without Pity")

Best Sound

• Flower Drum Song
• The Children's Hour
• The Guns of Navarone
• The Parent Trap
• West Side Story

Best Art Direction (Color)

• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• El Cid
• Flower Drum Song
• Summer and Smoke
• West Side Story

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

• Judgment at Nuremberg
• La dolce vita
• The Absent Minded Professor
• The Children's Hour
• The Hustler

Best Cinematography (Color)

• A Majority of One
• Fanny
• Flower Drum Song
• One-Eyed Jacks
• West Side Story

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Judgment at Nuremberg
• One, Two, Three
• The Absent Minded Professor
• The Children's Hour
• The Hustler

Best Costume Design (Color)

• Babes in Toyland
• Back Street
• Flower Drum Song
• Pocketful of Miracles
• West Side Story

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• Claudelle Inglish
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• La dolce vita
• The Children's Hour
• Yojimbo

Best Film Editing

• Fanny
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• The Guns of Navarone
• The Parent Trap
• West Side Story

Best Special Effects

• The Absent Minded Professor
• The Guns of Navarone