Date: April 4, 1960

Best Picture

• Ben-Hur

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