Date: April 17, 1961

Best Picture

• The Apartment

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Burt Lancaster for Elmer Gantry

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Elizabeth Taylor for BUtterfield-8

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Peter Ustinov for Spartacus

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Shirley Jones for Elmer Gantry

Best Director

• Billy Wilder for The Apartment

Best Original Story & Screenplay

• Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond for The Apartment

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Richard Brooks for Elmer Gantry

Best Cinematography, Colour

• Russell Metty for Spartacus

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

• Freddie Francis for Sons and Lovers

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White

• Alexandre Trauner & Edward G. Boyle for The Apartment

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Colour

• Alexander Golitzen, Eric Orbom, Russell A. Gausman, & Julia Heron for Spartacus

Best Costume Design, Black-and-White

• Edith Head & Edward Stevenson for The Facts of Life

Best Costume Design, Colour

• Valles & Bill Thomas for Spartacus

Best Sound

• Gordon Sawyer & Fred Hynes for The Alamo

Best Film Editing

• Daniel Mandell for The Apartment

Best Special Effects

• Gene Warren & Tim Baar for The Time Machine

Best Original Song

• Manos Hatzidakis for “Ta paidia tou Peiraia (Never on Sunday)” from Never on Sunday

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Morris Stoloff & Harry Sukman for Song Without End

Best Music, Scoring of Dramatic or Comedy Picture

• Ernest Gold for Exodus

Best Short Subject, Live-Action Subjects

• Robert P. Davis for Day of the Painter

Best Short Subject, Cartoons

• William L. Snyder for Munro

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

• James Hill for Giuseppina

Best Documentary, Features

• Larry Lansburgh for The Horse with the Flying Tail

Best Foreign Language Film

• The Virgin Spring (Sweden)

Honorary Award

• Gary Cooper
• Stan Laurel

Juvenile Award

• Hayley Mills for Pollyanna