1960 Film Year: Oscar Winners & Nominees
The AwardWentTo archive contains 119 Academy Award records for the 1960 film year, covering 56 films and including 26 wins.
Years follow the source film eligibility/dataset year, which may differ from the ceremony calendar year. Counts describe film-linked archive records, including historical and special-award context where supplied.
Best Picture result
- ★ The ApartmentBilly Wilder, Producer
5 Best Picture award records for this film year. See the full result · Best Picture history
Acting category results
Leading winning films
Ranked by winning records in this film-year selection.
- The Apartment
5 wins from 10 award records
- Spartacus
4 wins from 6 award records
- Elmer Gantry
3 wins from 5 award records
- Sons and Lovers
1 win from 7 award records
- The Alamo
1 win from 7 award records
- Never on Sunday
1 win from 5 award records
Category winners
Select a category to explore its history, or jump to this year's full records.
- ★ Elmer Gantry — Elmer Gantry
- ★ Spartacus — Batiatus
- ★ Butterfield 8 — Gloria Wandrous
- ★ Elmer Gantry — Lulu Bains
- ★ Exodus
- ★ Never on Sunday — Never On Sunday
- ★ Munro
Nominations and award records by category
Showing 119 of 119 archive records. Gold stars mark winning records.
Best Picture
- ★ The Apartment IMDB — Billy Wilder, Producer
- The Alamo IMDB — John Wayne, Producer
- Elmer Gantry IMDB — Bernard Smith, Producer
- Sons and Lovers IMDB — Jerry Wald, Producer
- The Sundowners IMDB — Fred Zinnemann, Producer
Best Actor
- ★ Elmer Gantry IMDB — Burt LancasterElmer Gantry
- Sons and Lovers IMDB — Trevor HowardMorel
- The Apartment IMDB — Jack LemmonC.C. 'Bud' Baxter
- The Entertainer IMDB — Laurence OlivierArchie Rice
- Inherit the Wind IMDB — Spencer TracyHenry Drummond
Best Supporting Actor
- ★ Spartacus IMDB — Peter UstinovBatiatus
- Murder, Inc. IMDB — Peter FalkAbe Reles
- The Apartment IMDB — Jack KruschenDr. Dreyfuss
- Exodus IMDB — Sal MineoDov Landau
- The Alamo IMDB — Chill WillsBeekeeper
Best Actress
- ★ Butterfield 8 IMDB — Elizabeth TaylorGloria Wandrous
- Sunrise at Campobello IMDB — Greer GarsonEleanor Roosevelt
- The Sundowners IMDB — Deborah KerrIda Carmody
- The Apartment IMDB — Shirley MacLaineFran Kubelik
- Never on Sunday IMDB — Melina MercouriIlya
Best Supporting Actress
- ★ Elmer Gantry IMDB — Shirley JonesLulu Bains
- The Sundowners IMDB — Glynis JohnsMrs. Firth
- The Dark at the Top of the Stairs IMDB — Shirley KnightReenie
- Psycho IMDB — Janet LeighMarion Crane
- Sons and Lovers IMDB — Mary UreClara Dawes
Art Direction (Black-and-White)
- ★ The Apartment IMDB — Art Direction: Alexander Trauner; Set Decoration: Edward G. Boyle
- The Facts of Life IMDB — Art Direction: Joseph McMillan Johnson, Kenneth A. Reid; Set Decoration: Ross Dowd
- Psycho IMDB — Art Direction: Joseph Hurley, Robert Clatworthy; Set Decoration: George Milo
- Sons and Lovers IMDB — Art Direction: Tom Morahan; Set Decoration: Lionel Couch
- Visit to a Small Planet IMDB — Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Arthur Krams
Art Direction (Color)
- ★ Spartacus IMDB — Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen, Eric Orbom; Set Decoration: Russell A. Gausman, Julia Heron
- Cimarron IMDB — Art Direction: George W. Davis, Addison Hehr; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt, Otto Siegel
- It Started in Naples IMDB — Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Arrigo Breschi
- Pepe IMDB — Art Direction: Ted Haworth; Set Decoration: William Kiernan
- Sunrise at Campobello IMDB — Art Direction: Edward Carrere; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Cinematography (Color)
- ★ Spartacus IMDB — Russell Metty
- The Alamo IMDB — William H. Clothier
- Butterfield 8 IMDB — Joseph Ruttenberg, Charles Harten
- Exodus IMDB — Sam Leavitt
- Pepe IMDB — Joe MacDonald
Costume Design (Black-and-White)
- ★ The Facts of Life IMDB — Edith Head, Edward Stevenson
- Never on Sunday IMDB — Deni Vachlioti
- The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond IMDB — Howard Shoup
- Seven Thieves IMDB — Bill Thomas
- The Virgin Spring IMDB — Marik Vos
Costume Design (Color)
- ★ Spartacus IMDB — Valles, Bill Thomas
- Can-Can IMDB — Irene Sharaff
- Midnight Lace IMDB — Irene
- Pepe IMDB — Edith Head
- Sunrise at Campobello IMDB — Marjorie Best
Best Director
Documentary Feature
- ★ The Horse with the Flying Tail IMDB — Larry Lansburgh, Producer
- Rebel in Paradise IMDB — Robert D. Fraser, Producer
Documentary Short Subject
- ★ Giuseppina IMDB — James Hill, Producer
- Beyond Silence IMDB — United States Information Agency
- A City Called Copenhagen IMDB — Statens Filmcentral, The Danish Government Film Office
- George Grosz' Interregnum IMDB — Charles Carey and Altina Carey, Producers
- Universe IMDB — Colin Low, Producer
Film Editing
- ★ The Apartment IMDB — Daniel Mandell
- The Alamo IMDB — Stuart Gilmore
- Inherit the Wind IMDB — Frederic Knudtson
- Pepe IMDB — Viola Lawrence, Al Clark
- Spartacus IMDB — Robert Lawrence
Honorary Award
International Feature Film
- ★ The Virgin Spring IMDB — Sweden
- Kapo IMDB — Italy
- La Vérité IMDB — France
- Macario IMDB — Mexico
- The Ninth Circle IMDB — Yugoslavia
Original Score
Original Song
- ★ Never on Sunday IMDB — Music and Lyrics by Manos HadjidakisNever On Sunday
- The Facts of Life IMDB — Music and Lyrics by Johnny MercerThe Facts Of Life
- Pepe IMDB — Music by Andre Previn; Lyrics by Dory LangdonFaraway Part Of Town
- The Alamo IMDB — Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Paul Francis WebsterThe Green Leaves Of Summer
- High Time IMDB — Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy CahnThe Second Time Around
Music (Original Song Score or Adaptation Score)
- ★ Song without End (The Story of Franz Liszt) IMDB — Morris Stoloff, Harry Sukman
- Bells Are Ringing IMDB — Andre Previn
- Can-Can IMDB — Nelson Riddle
- Let's Make Love IMDB — Lionel Newman, Earle H. Hagen
- Pepe IMDB — Johnny Green
Animated Short Film
- ★ Munro IMDB — William L. Snyder, Producer
- Goliath II IMDB — Walt Disney, Producer
- High Note IMDB — Warner Bros.
- Mouse and Garden IMDB — Warner Bros.
- A Place in the Sun IMDB — Frantisek Vystrecil, Producer
Live Action Short Film
- ★ Day of the Painter IMDB — Ezra R. Baker, Producer
- The Creation of Woman IMDB — Charles F. Schwep and Ismail Merchant, Producers
- Islands of the Sea IMDB — Walt Disney, Producer
- A Sport Is Born IMDB — Leslie Winik, Producer
Sound Mixing
- ★ The Alamo IMDB — Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer, Sound Director; and Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes, Sound Director
- The Apartment IMDB — Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer, Sound Director
- Cimarron IMDB — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Franklin E. Milton, Sound Director
- Pepe IMDB — Columbia Studio Sound Department, Charles Rice, Sound Director
- Sunrise at Campobello IMDB — Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, George R. Groves, Sound Director
Visual Effects
- ★ The Time Machine IMDB — Visual Effects by Gene Warren, Tim Baar
- The Last Voyage IMDB — Visual Effects by A.J. Lohman
Adapted Screenplay
- ★ Elmer Gantry IMDB — Richard Brooks
- Inherit the Wind IMDB — Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith
Source context
NOTE: Upon request of his widow and upon recommendation of the Writers Branch Executive Committee, the Board of Governors voted on June 22, 1993, to restore the name of Nedrick Young to the nominations and award presented to Nathan E. Douglas (Mr. Young's pseudonym during the blacklisting period).
- Sons and Lovers IMDB — Gavin Lambert, T. E. B. Clarke
- The Sundowners IMDB — Isobel Lennart
- Tunes of Glory IMDB — James Kennaway
Original Screenplay
- ★ The Apartment IMDB — Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
- The Angry Silence IMDB — Story by Richard Gregson, Michael Craig; Screenplay by Bryan Forbes
- The Facts of Life IMDB — Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
- Hiroshima, Mon Amour IMDB — Marguerite Duras
- Never on Sunday IMDB — Jules Dassin
Nominated films and other recorded entries
56 films represented in the 1960 archive selection.
- A City Called Copenhagen
- A Place in the Sun
- A Sport Is Born
- Bells Are Ringing
- Beyond Silence
- Butterfield 8
- Can-Can
- Cimarron
- Day of the Painter
- Elmer Gantry
- Exodus
- George Grosz' Interregnum
- Giuseppina
- Goliath II
- High Note
- High Time
- Hiroshima, Mon Amour
- Inherit the Wind
- Islands of the Sea
- It Started in Naples
- Kapo
- La Vérité
- Let's Make Love
- Macario
- Midnight Lace
- Mouse and Garden
- Munro
- Murder, Inc.
- Never on Sunday
- Pepe
- Pollyanna
- Psycho
- Rebel in Paradise
- Seven Thieves
- Song without End (The Story of Franz Liszt)
- Sons and Lovers
- Spartacus
- Sunrise at Campobello
- The Alamo
- The Angry Silence
- The Apartment
- The Creation of Woman
- The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
- The Entertainer
- The Facts of Life
- The Horse with the Flying Tail
- The Last Voyage
- The Magnificent Seven
- The Ninth Circle
- The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
- The Sundowners
- The Time Machine
- The Virgin Spring
- Tunes of Glory
- Universe
- Visit to a Small Planet
About these award records
This independent archive groups film-linked award records by film, credited name, category and eligibility year. The film year can differ from the year the ceremony took place. Ceremony numbers are shown where supplied by the records.
Each distinct performance, song or award credit remains a separate record, even when it belongs to the same film. Shared credits stay together. A person's page covers the name shown, without combining aliases or shared credits into a complete career total.
Totals can include honorary, special and historical awards alongside competitive nominations. Awards without a linked film are outside these page totals. Source notes and uncertain records are retained; category comparisons omit groups with unresolved notes, ties or conflicting identities.
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