Date: April 4, 1960
Best Picture
Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Charlton Heston for Ben-Hur
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Simone Signoret for Room at the Top
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Hugh Griffith for Ben-Hur
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Shelley Winters for The Diary of Anne Frank
Best Director
- William Wyler for Ben-Hur
Best Original Screenplay
- Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene, Stanley Shapiro, & Maurice Richlin for Pillow Talk
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Neil Paterson for Room at the Top
Best Cinematography, Colour
- Robert Surtees for Ben-Hur
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
- William C. Mellor for The Diary of Anne Frank
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White
- Lyle R. Wheeler, George W. Davis, Walter M. Scott, & Stuart A. Reiss for The Diary of Anne Frank
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Colour
- William A. Horning, Edward C. Carfagno, & Hugh Hunt for Ben-Hur
Best Costume Design, Black-and-White
- Orry-Kelly for Some Like It Hot
Best Costume Design, Colour
- Elizabeth Haffenden for Ben-Hur
Best Sound
- Franklin Milton for Ben-Hur
Best Film Editing
- Ralph E. Winters & John D. Dunning for Ben-Hur
Best Special Effects
- A. Arnold Gillespie, Robert MacDonald, & Milo B. Lory for Ben-Hur
Best Original Song
- Jimmy Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn for “High Hopes” from A Hole in the Head
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
- André Previn & Ken Darby for Porgy and Bess
Best Music, Scoring of Dramatic or Comedy Picture
- Miklós Rózsa for Ben-Hur
Best Short Subject, Live-Action Subjects
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau for The Golden Fish
Best Short Subject, Cartoons
- John Hubley for Moonbird
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
- Bert Haanstra for Glas
Best Documentary, Features
- Bernhard Grzimek for Serengeti
Best Foreign Language Film
- Black Orpheus (France)
Honorary Award
- Lee De Forest
- Buster Keaton