Date: April 17, 1961
Best Picture
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