1962
The 34th Academy Awards | 1962
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
Monday, April 9, 1962
Honoring movies released in 1961
Highlights
Memorable Moments
Winners & Nominees
Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner
George Chakiris
West Side Story
Nominees
Montgomery Clift
Judgment at Nuremberg
Peter Falk
Pocketful of Miracles
Jackie Gleason
The Hustler
George C. Scott
The Hustler
Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner
Rita Moreno
West Side Story
Nominees
Fay Bainter
The Children's Hour
Judy Garland
Judgment at Nuremberg
Lotte Lenya
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Una Merkel
Summer and Smoke
Directing
Winner
West Side Story
Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
Nominees
The Guns of Navarone
J. Lee Thompson
The Hustler
Robert Rossen
Judgment at Nuremberg
Stanley Kramer
La Dolce Vita
Federico Fellini
Film Editing
Winner
West Side Story
Thomas Stanford
Nominees
Fanny
William H. Reynolds
The Guns of Navarone
Alan Osbiston
Judgment at Nuremberg
Frederic Knudtson
The Parent Trap
Philip W. Anderson
Foreign Language Film
Winner
Through a Glass Darkly
Sweden
Nominees
Harry and the Butler
Denmark
Immortal Love
Japan
The Important Man
Mexico
Placido
Spain
Actor
Winner
Maximilian Schell
Judgment at Nuremberg
Nominees
Charles Boyer
Fanny
Paul Newman
The Hustler
Spencer Tracy
Judgment at Nuremberg
Stuart Whitman
The Mark
Actress
Winner
Sophia Loren
Two Women
Nominees
Natalie Wood
Splendor in the Grass
Audrey Hepburn
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Piper Laurie
The Hustler
Geraldine Page
Summer and Smoke
Short Subject (Cartoon)
Winner
Ersatz (The Substitute)
Zagreb Film
Nominees
Nelly's Folly
Chuck Jones, Producer
The Pied Piper of Guadalupe
Friz Freleng, Producer
Aquamania
Walt Disney, Producer
Beep Prepared
Chuck Jones, Producer
Music (Song)
Winner
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Moon River in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Nominees
Bachelor in Paradise
Bachelor In Paradise in "Bachelor in Paradise" Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Mack David
El Cid
Love Theme From El Cid (The Falcon And The Dove) in "El Cid" Music by Miklos Rozsa; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
Pocketful of Miracles
Pocketful Of Miracles in "Pocketful of Miracles" Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Town without Pity
Town Without Pity in "Town without Pity" Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Ned Washington
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Winner
Stanley Kramer
Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Winner
The Hustler
Eugen Shuftan
Nominees
The Absent Minded Professor
Edward Colman
The Children's Hour
Franz F. Planer
Judgment at Nuremberg
Ernest Laszlo
One, Two, Three
Daniel L. Fapp
Cinematography (Color)
Winner
West Side Story
Daniel L. Fapp
Nominees
Fanny
Jack Cardiff
Flower Drum Song
Russell Metty
A Majority of One
Harry Stradling, Sr.
One-Eyed Jacks
Charles Lang, Jr.
Special Effects
Winner
The Guns of Navarone
Visual Effects by Bill Warrington; Audible Effects by Vivian C. Greenham
Nominees
The Absent Minded Professor
Visual Effects by Robert A. Mattey, Eustace Lycett
Art Direction (Black-and-White)
Winner
The Hustler
Art Direction: Harry Horner; Set Decoration: Gene Callahan
Nominees
The Absent Minded Professor
Art Direction: Carroll Clark; Set Decoration: Emile Kuri, Hal Gausman
The Children's Hour
Art Direction: Fernando Carrere; Set Decoration: Edward G. Boyle
Judgment at Nuremberg
Art Direction: Rudolph Sternad; Set Decoration: George Milo
La Dolce Vita
Piero Gherardi
Art Direction (Color)
Winner
West Side Story
Art Direction: Boris Leven; Set Decoration: Victor A. Gangelin
Nominees
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
El Cid
Art Direction: Veniero Colasanti, John Moore
Flower Drum Song
Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen, Joseph Wright; Set Decoration: Howard Bristol
Summer and Smoke
Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Arthur Krams
Documentary (Short Subject)
Winner
Project Hope
Frank P. Bibas, Producer
Nominees
Breaking the Language Barrier
United States Air Force
Cradle of Genius
Jim O'Connor and Tom Hayes, Producers
Kahl
Dido-Film-GmbH
L'Uomo in Grigio (The Man in Gray)
Benedetto Benedetti, Producer
Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)
Winner
West Side Story
Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin, Irwin Kostal
Nominees
Flower Drum Song
Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
Khovanshchina
Dimitri Shostakovich
Paris Blues
Duke Ellington
Babes in Toyland
George Bruns
Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)
Winner
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Henry Mancini
Nominees
El Cid
Miklos Rozsa
Fanny
Morris Stoloff, Harry Sukman
The Guns of Navarone
Dimitri Tiomkin
Summer and Smoke
Elmer Bernstein
Documentary (Feature)
Winner
Le Ciel et la Boue (Sky Above and Mud Beneath)
Arthur Cohn and Rene Lafuite, Producers
Nominees
La Grande Olimpiade (Olympic Games 1960)
dell Istituto Nazionale Luce, Comitato Organizzatore Del Giochi Della XVII Olimpiade
Best Motion Picture
Winner
West Side Story
Robert Wise, Producer
Nominees
Fanny
Joshua Logan, Producer
The Guns of Navarone
Carl Foreman, Producer
The Hustler
Robert Rossen, Producer
Judgment at Nuremberg
Stanley Kramer, Producer
Costume Design (Black-and-White)
Winner
La Dolce Vita
Piero Gherardi
Nominees
The Children's Hour
Dorothy Jeakins
Claudelle Inglish
Howard Shoup
Judgment at Nuremberg
Jean Louis
Yojimbo
Yoshiro Muraki
Costume Design (Color)
Winner
West Side Story
Irene Sharaff
Nominees
Back Street
Jean Louis
Flower Drum Song
Irene Sharaff
Pocketful of Miracles
Edith Head, Walter Plunkett
Babes in Toyland
Bill Thomas
Honorary Award
Winner
A Force in Readiness
Special Award
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Winner
George Seaton
Short Subject (Live Action)
Winner
Seawards the Great Ships
Templar Film Studios
Nominees
Ballon Vole (Play Ball!)
Ballon Vole (Play Ball!)
The Face of Jesus
Dr. John D. Jennings, Producer
Rooftops of New York
Robert Gaffney, Producer
Very Nice, Very Nice
National Film Board of Canada
Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium)
Winner
Judgment at Nuremberg
Abby Mann
Nominees
The Guns of Navarone
Carl Foreman
The Hustler
Sidney Carroll, Robert Rossen
West Side Story
Ernest Lehman
Breakfast at Tiffany's
George Axelrod
Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen)
Winner
Splendor in the Grass
William Inge
Nominees
Ballad of a Soldier
Valentin Yoshov, Grigori Chukhrai
General Della Rovere
Sergio Amidei, Diego Fabbri, Indro Montanelli
La Dolce Vita
Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, Brunello Rondi
Lover Come Back
Stanley Shapiro, Paul Henning
Sound
Winner
West Side Story
Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes, Sound Director; and Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer, Sound Director
Nominees
The Children's Hour
Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer, Sound Director
Flower Drum Song
Revue Studio Sound Department, Waldon O. Watson, Sound Director
The Guns of Navarone
Shepperton Studio Sound Department, John Cox, Sound Director
The Parent Trap
Walt Disney Studio Sound Department, Robert O. Cook, Sound Director
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One, Two, Three
1 NominationCinematography (Black-and-White) - Daniel L. Fapp
One-Eyed Jacks
1 NominationCinematography (Color) - Charles Lang, Jr.