Oscars 1961 Winners (My Version)

Best Picture!

Winner: Psycho!

Nominees:
The Apartment
Elmer Gantry
Spartacus
The Sundowners

Best Director!

Winner: Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho!

Nominees:
Billy Wilder - The Apartment
Stanley Kubrick - Spartacus
Fred Zinnemann - The Sundowners
Ingmar Bergman - The Virgin Spring

Best Actor!

Winner: Anthony Perkins, Psycho!

Nominees:
Kirk Douglas - Spartacus
Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry
Jack Lemmon - The Apartment
Laurence Olivier - The Entertainer

Best Actress!

Winner: Shirley MacLaine, The Apartment!

Nominees:
Deborah Kerr - The Sundowners
Sophia Loren - Two Women
Jean Seberg - Breathless
Elizabeth Taylor - Butterfield 8

Best Supporting Actor!

Winner: Peter Ustinov, Spartacus!

Nominees:
Peter Falk - Murder, Inc.
Fred MacMurray - The Apartment
Laurence Olivier - Spartacus
Eli Wallach - The Magnificent Seven

Best Supporting Actress!

Winner: Janet Leigh, Psycho!

Nominees:
Glynis Johns - The Sundowners
Shirley Jones - Elmer Gantr
Mary Ure - Sons and Lovers
Jo Van Fleet - Wild River

Best Original Screenplay!

Winner: Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, The Apartment!

Nominees:
Richard Gregson, Michael Craig and Bryan Forbes - The Angry Silence
Melvin Frank and Norman Panama - The Facts of Life
Marguerite Duras - Hiroshima, My Love
Jules Dassin - Never on Sunday

Best Adapted Screenplay!

Winner: Joseph Stefano, Psycho!

Nominees:
Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith - Inherit the Wind
Richard Brooks - Elmer Gantry
Gavin Lambert and T. E. B. Clarke - Sons and Lovers
Isobel Lennart - The Sundowners

Best Foreign Language Film!

Winner: The Virgin Spring!

Nominees:
Kapo
La Verite
Macario
The Ninth Circle

Best Documentary Feature!

Winner: The Horse with the Flying Tail!

Nominees:
Rebel in Paradise

Best Documentary Short!

Winner: Giuseppina!

Nominees:
Beyond Silence
A City Called Copenhagen
George Grosz' Interregnum
Universe

Best Live Action Short!

Winner: Day of the Painter!

Nominees:
The Creation of Woman
Islands of the Sea
A Sport Is Born

Best Animated Short!

Winner: Munro!

Nominees:
Goliath II
High Note
Mouse and Garden
A Place in the Sun

Best Dramatic or Comedy Score!

Winner: Psycho!

Nominees:
The Alamo
Elmer Gantry
Exodus
Spartacus

Best Musical Score!

Winner: Song Without End!

Nominees:
Bells Are Ringing
Can-Can
Pepe
Let's Make Love

Best Original Song!

Winner: Manos Hatzidakis - Never on Sunday, Never on Sunday!

Nominees:
Dimitri Tiomkin and Paul Francis Webster - The Green Leaves of Summer, The Alamo
Johnny Mercer - The Facts of Life, The Facts of Life
Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn - The Second Time Around - High Time
Andre Previn and Dory Previn - Faraway Part of Town, Pepe

Best Sound Recording!

Winner: The Apartment!

Nominees:
The Alamo
Cimarron
Pepe
Sunrise at Campobello

Best Art Direction - Black and White!

Winner: Psycho!

Nominees:
The Apartment
The Facts of Life
Sons and Lovers
Visit to a Small Planet

Best Art Direction - Color!

Winner: Spartacus!

Nominees:
Cimarron
It Started in Naples
Pepe
Sunrise at Campobello

Best Cinematography - Black and White!

Winner: Psycho!

Nominees:
The Apartment
The Facts of Life
Inherit the Wind
Sons and Lovers

Best Cinematography - Color!

Winner: Spartacus!

Nominees:
The Alamo
BUtterfield 8
Exodus
Pepe

Best Costume Design - Black and White!

Winner: The Facts of Life!

Nominees:
Never on Sunday
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Seven Thieves
The Virgin Spring

Best Costume Design - Color!

Winner: Spartacus!

Nominees:
Can-Can
Midnight Lace
Pepe
Sunrise at Campobello

Best Film Editing!

Winner: Psycho!

Nominees:
The Alamo
The Apartment
Inherit the Wind
Spartacus

Best Visual Effects!

Winner: The Time Machine!

Nominees:
The Last Voyage