34th Academy Awards

The winners of the 34th Academy Awards, presented in Los Angeles on April 9th, 1961are as follow:

Best Motion Picture: Judgement at Nuremberg - Stanley Kramer, producer

Best Director: Federico Fellini - La Dolce Vita

Best Actor: Paul Newman - The Hustler

Best Actress: Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Best Supporting Actor: George Chakiris - West Side Story

Best Supporting Actress: Judy Garland - Justice at Nuremberg

Best Story and Screenplay Written Director for the Screen: Ballad of a Soldier - Valentin Ezhov and Grigori Chukhrai

Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: Justice at Nuremberg - Abby Mann

Best Foreign Language Film: Through A Glass Darkly (Sweden)

Best Special Effects: The Guns of Navarone - Visual Effects by Bill Warrington; Audible Effects by Vivian C. Greenham

Best Documentary Feature: Play Ball!

Best Short Subject – Cartoons: Nelly’s Folly

Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture: Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Henry Mancini

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture: West Side Story - Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin, and Irwin Kostal

Best Song: “Moon River” from Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Music by Henry Mancini; Lyric by Johnny Mercer

Best Sound: West Side Story - Gordon E. Sawyer and Fred Hynes

Best Art Direction, Black-and-White: La Dolce Vita - Art Direction and Set Decoration: Piero Gherardi

Best Art Direction, Color: West Side Story - Art Direction: Boris Leven; Set Decoration: Victor A. Gangelin

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White: Judgment at Nuremberg - Ernest Laszlo

Best Cinematography, Color: One-Eyed Jacks - Charles Lang

Best Costume Design, Black-and-White: Yojimbo - Yoshirō Muraki

Best Costume Design, Color: West Side Story - Irene Sharaff

Best Film Editing: The Parent Trap - Philip W. Anderson