32nd Academy Awards
Held in 1960 · 21 categories
Best Picture
- Winner Ben-Hur
- Nominee Anatomy of a Murder
- Nominee Room at the Top
- Nominee The Diary of Anne Frank
- Nominee The Nun's Story
Best Actor
- Winner Ben-Hur · Charlton Heston
- Nominee Anatomy of a Murder · James Stewart
- Nominee Room at the Top · Laurence Harvey
- Nominee Some Like It Hot · Jack Lemmon
- Nominee The Last Angry Man · Paul Muni
Best Actress
- Winner Room at the Top · Simone Signoret
- Nominee Pillow Talk · Doris Day
- Nominee Suddenly, Last Summer · Elizabeth Taylor
- Nominee Suddenly, Last Summer · Katharine Hepburn
- Nominee The Nun's Story · Audrey Hepburn
Best Supporting Actor
- Winner Ben-Hur · Hugh Griffith
- Nominee Anatomy of a Murder · George C. Scott
- Nominee Anatomy of a Murder · Arthur O'Connell
- Nominee The Diary of Anne Frank · Ed Wynn
- Nominee The Young Philadelphians · Robert Vaughn
Best Supporting Actress
- Winner The Diary of Anne Frank · Shelley Winters
- Nominee Imitation of Life · Juanita Moore
- Nominee Imitation of Life · Susan Kohner
- Nominee Pillow Talk · Thelma Ritter
- Nominee Room at the Top · Hermione Baddeley
Best Director
- Winner Ben-Hur · William Wyler
- Nominee Room at the Top · Jack Clayton
- Nominee Some Like It Hot · Billy Wilder
- Nominee The Diary of Anne Frank · George Stevens
- Nominee The Nun's Story · Fred Zinnemann
Best Original Screenplay
- Winner Pillow Talk · Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse, Stanley Shapiro
- Nominee North by Northwest · Ernest Lehman
- Nominee Operation Petticoat · Joseph Stone, Maurice Richlin, Paul King, Stanley Shapiro
- Nominee The 400 Blows · François Truffaut, Marcel Moussy
- Nominee Wild Strawberries · Ingmar Bergman
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Winner Room at the Top · Neil Paterson
- Nominee Anatomy of a Murder · Wendell Mayes
- Nominee Ben-Hur · Karl Tunberg
- Nominee Some Like It Hot · Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
- Nominee The Nun's Story · Robert Anderson
Best International Feature Film
- Winner Black Orpheus
- Nominee Paw
- Nominee The Bridge
- Nominee The Great War
- Nominee The Village on the River
Best Documentary Feature
- Winner Serengeti Shall Not Die · Bernhard Grzimek
- Nominee The Race for Space · David L. Wolper
Best Original Score
- Winner Ben-Hur · Miklós Rózsa
- Winner Porgy and Bess · André Previn, Ken Darby
- Nominee Li'l Abner · Joseph J. Lilley, Nelson Riddle
- Nominee On the Beach · Ernest Gold
- Nominee Pillow Talk · Frank De Vol
- Nominee Say One for Me · Lionel Newman
- Nominee Sleeping Beauty · George Bruns
- Nominee The Diary of Anne Frank · Alfred Newman
- Nominee The Five Pennies from The Five Pennies · Leith Stevens
- Nominee The Nun's Story · Franz Waxman
Best Original Song
- Winner High Hopes from A Hole in the Head · Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn
- Nominee Strange Are the Ways of Love from The Young Land · Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington
- Nominee The Best of Everything from The Best of Everything · Alfred Newman, Sammy Cahn
- Nominee The Five Pennies from The Five Pennies · Sylvia Fine
- Nominee The Hanging Tree from The Hanging Tree · Jerry Livingston, Mack David
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
- Winner The Diary of Anne Frank · William C. Mellor
- Nominee Anatomy of a Murder · Sam Leavitt
- Nominee Career · Joseph LaShelle
- Nominee Some Like It Hot · Charles Lang
- Nominee The Young Philadelphians · Harry Stradling
Best Cinematography (Color)
- Winner Ben-Hur · Robert L. Surtees
- Nominee Porgy and Bess · Leon Shamroy
- Nominee The Big Fisherman · Lee Garmes
- Nominee The Five Pennies · Daniel L. Fapp
- Nominee The Nun's Story · Franz Planer
Best Film Editing
- Winner Ben-Hur · John Dunning, Ralph E. Winters
- Nominee Anatomy of a Murder · Louis R. Loeffler
- Nominee North by Northwest · George Tomasini
- Nominee On the Beach · Frederic Knudtson
- Nominee The Nun's Story · Walter A. Thompson
Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)
- Winner The Diary of Anne Frank · George Davis, Lyle R. Wheeler, Stuart A. Reiss, Walter M. Scott
- Nominee Career · Arthur Krams, Hal Pereira, Samuel M. Comer, Walter H. Tyler
- Nominee Some Like It Hot · Edward G. Boyle, Ted Haworth
- Nominee Suddenly, Last Summer · Oliver Messel, Scott Slimon, William Kellner
- Nominee The Last Angry Man · Carl Anderson, William Kiernan
Best Art Direction (Color)
- Winner Ben-Hur · Edward Carfagno, Hugh Hunt, William A. Horning
- Nominee Journey to the Center of the Earth · Franz Bachelin, Herman A. Blumenthal, Joseph Kish, Lyle R. Wheeler, Walter M. Scott
- Nominee North by Northwest · Frank R. McKelvy, Henry Grace, Merrill Pye, Robert F. Boyle, William A. Horning
- Nominee Pillow Talk · Richard H. Riedel, Ruby R. Levitt, Russell A. Gausman
- Nominee The Big Fisherman · John DeCuir, Sr., Julia Heron
Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)
- Winner Some Like It Hot · Orry-Kelly
- Nominee Career · Edith Head
- Nominee The Diary of Anne Frank · Charles LeMaire, Mary Wills
- Nominee The Gazebo · Helen Rose
- Nominee The Young Philadelphians · Howard Shoup
Best Costume Design (Color)
- Winner Ben-Hur · Elizabeth Haffenden
- Nominee Porgy and Bess · Irene Sharaff
- Nominee The Best of Everything · Adele Palmer
- Nominee The Big Fisherman · Renié
- Nominee The Five Pennies · Edith Head
Best Sound
- Winner Ben-Hur · Franklin Milton
- Nominee Journey to the Center of the Earth · Carlton W. Faulkner
- Nominee Libel · A. W. Watkins
- Nominee Porgy and Bess · Fred Hynes, Gordon E. Sawyer
- Nominee The Nun's Story · George Groves
Best Visual Effects
- Winner Ben-Hur · A. Arnold Gillespie, Milo B. Lory, R. A. MacDonald
- Nominee Journey to the Center of the Earth · L. B. Abbott