Date: April 9, 1962
Best Picture
Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Maximilian Schell for Judgment at Nuremberg
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Sophia Loren for Two Women
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- George Chakiris for West Side Story
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Rita Moreno for West Side Story
Best Director
- Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins for West Side Story
Best Original Story & Screenplay
- William Inge for Splendor in the Grass
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Abby Mann for Judgment at Nuremberg
Best Cinematography, Colour
- Daniel L. Fapp for West Side Story
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
- Eugen Schüfftan for The Hustler
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White
- Harry Horner & Gene Callahan for The Hustler
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Colour
- Boris Leven & Victor A. Gangelin for West Side Story
Best Costume Design, Black-and-White
- Piero Gherardi for La Dolce Vita
Best Costume Design, Colour
- Irene Sharaff for West Side Story
Best Sound
- Fred Hynes & Gordon Sawyer for West Side Story
Best Film Editing
- Thomas Stanford for West Side Story
Best Special Effects
- Bill Warrington (visual) & Chris Greenham (audio) for The Guns of Navarone
Best Original Song
- Henry Mancini (music) & Johnny Mercer (lyrics) for “Moon River” from Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
- Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin, & Irwin Kostal for West Side Story
Best Music, Scoring of Dramatic or Comedy Picture
- Henry Mancini for Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Best Short Subject, Live-Action Subjects
- (Templar Film Studios) for Seawards the Great Ships
Best Short Subject, Cartoons
- (Zagreb Film) for The Substitute
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
- Frank P. Bibas for Project Hope
Best Documentary, Features
- Arthur Cohn & René Lafuite for Le ciel et la boue
Best Foreign Language Film
- Through a Glass Darkly (Sweden)
Honorary Award
- William L. Hendricks for A Force in Readiness
- Fred L. Metzler
- Jerome Robbins