33rd Academy Awards
Held in 1961 · 18 categories
Best Picture
- Winner The Apartment
- Nominee Elmer Gantry
- Nominee Sons and Lovers
- Nominee The Alamo
- Nominee The Sundowners
Best Actor
- Winner Elmer Gantry · Burt Lancaster
- Nominee Inherit the Wind · Spencer Tracy
- Nominee Sons and Lovers · Trevor Howard
- Nominee The Apartment · Jack Lemmon
- Nominee The Entertainer · Laurence Olivier
Best Actress
- Winner BUtterfield 8 · Elizabeth Taylor
- Nominee Never on Sunday · Melina Mercouri
- Nominee Sunrise at Campobello · Greer Garson
- Nominee The Apartment · Shirley MacLaine
- Nominee The Sundowners · Deborah Kerr
Best Supporting Actor
- Winner Spartacus · Peter Ustinov
- Nominee Exodus · Sal Mineo
- Nominee Murder, Inc. · Peter Falk
- Nominee The Alamo · Chill Wills
- Nominee The Apartment · Jack Kruschen
Best Supporting Actress
- Winner Elmer Gantry · Shirley Jones
- Nominee Psycho · Janet Leigh
- Nominee Sons and Lovers · Mary Ure
- Nominee The Dark at the Top of the Stairs · Shirley Knight
- Nominee The Sundowners · Glynis Johns
Best Director
- Winner The Apartment · Billy Wilder
- Nominee Never on Sunday · Jules Dassin
- Nominee Psycho · Alfred Hitchcock
- Nominee Sons and Lovers · Jack Cardiff
- Nominee The Sundowners · Fred Zinnemann
Best Original Screenplay
- Winner The Apartment · Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
- Nominee Hiroshima mon amour · Marguerite Duras
- Nominee Never on Sunday · Jules Dassin
- Nominee The Angry Silence · Bryan Forbes, Michael Craig, Richard Gregson
- Nominee The Facts of Life · Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Winner Elmer Gantry · Richard Brooks
- Nominee Inherit the Wind · Harold Jacob Smith, Nedrick Young
- Nominee Sons and Lovers · Gavin Lambert, T. E. B. Clarke
- Nominee The Sundowners · Isobel Lennart
- Nominee Tunes of Glory · James Kennaway
Best International Feature Film
- Winner The Virgin Spring
- Nominee Kapò
- Nominee Macario
- Nominee The Ninth Circle
- Nominee The Truth
Best Documentary Feature
- Winner The Horse with the Flying Tail · Larry Lansburgh
- Nominee Rebel in Paradise · Robert D. Fraser
Best Original Score
- Winner Exodus · Ernest Gold
- Winner Song Without End · Harry Sukman, Morris Stoloff
- Nominee Bells Are Ringing · André Previn
- Nominee Can-Can · Nelson Riddle
- Nominee Let's Make Love · Earle H. Hagen, Lionel Newman
- Nominee Pepe · Johnny Green
- Nominee Spartacus · Alex North
- Nominee The Alamo · Dimitri Tiomkin
- Nominee The Magnificent Seven · Elmer Bernstein
Best Original Song
- Winner Never on Sunday from Never on Sunday · Manos Hatzidakis
- Nominee Faraway Part of Town from Pepe · André Previn, Dory Previn
- Nominee The Facts of Life · Johnny Mercer
- Nominee The Faraway Part of Town · André Previn, Dory Previn
- Nominee The Green Leaves of Summer from The Alamo · Dimitri Tiomkin, Paul Francis Webster
- Nominee The Second Time Around from High Time · Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn
Best Cinematography
- Winner Sons and Lovers · Freddie Francis
- Winner Spartacus · Russell Metty
- Nominee BUtterfield 8 · Joseph Ruttenberg
- Nominee Exodus · Sam Leavitt
- Nominee Inherit the Wind · Ernest Laszlo
- Nominee Pepe · Joseph MacDonald
- Nominee Psycho · John L. Russell
- Nominee The Alamo · William H. Clothier
- Nominee The Apartment · Joseph LaShelle
- Nominee The Facts of Life · Charles Lang
Best Film Editing
- Winner The Apartment · Daniel Mandell
- Nominee Inherit the Wind · Frederic Knudtson
- Nominee Pepe · Al Clark, Viola Lawrence
- Nominee Spartacus · Robert Lawrence
- Nominee The Alamo · Stuart Gilmore
Best Production Design
- Winner Spartacus · Alexander Golitzen, Eric Orbom, Julia Heron, Russell A. Gausman, posthumous award
- Winner The Apartment · Alexandre Trauner, Edward G. Boyle
- Nominee Cimarron · Addison Hehr, George Davis, Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt, Otto Siegel
- Nominee It Started in Naples · Arrigo Breschi, Arthur Krams, Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, Walter H. Tyler
- Nominee Pepe · Ted Haworth, William Kiernan
- Nominee Psycho · George Milo, Joseph Hurley, Robert Clatworthy
- Nominee Sons and Lovers · Lionel Couch, Thomas N. Morahan
- Nominee Sunrise at Campobello · Edward Carrere, George Hopkins
- Nominee The Facts of Life · Joseph McMillan Johnson, Kenneth A. Reid, Ross Dowd
Best Costume Design
- Winner Spartacus · Bill Thomas, Valles
- Nominee Can-Can · Irene Sharaff
- Nominee Midnight Lace · Irene Lentz
- Nominee Never on Sunday
- Nominee Pepe · Edith Head, Edward Stevenson
- Nominee Sunrise at Campobello · Marjorie Best
- Nominee The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond · Howard Shoup
- Nominee The Virgin Spring · Marik Vos-Lundh
Best Sound
- Winner The Alamo · Fred Hynes, Gordon E. Sawyer
- Nominee Cimarron · Franklin Milton
- Nominee Pepe · Charles Rice
- Nominee Sunrise at Campobello · George Groves
- Nominee The Apartment · Gordon E. Sawyer
Best Visual Effects
- Winner The Time Machine · Gene Warren, Tim Baar
- Nominee The Last Voyage · Augie Lohman