Recap / Thirty Fourth Academy Awards

The 34th Academy Awards

Host: Bob Hope

Air Date: April 9, 1962

Best Motion Picture

• West Side Story (1961) (winner)
• Fanny
• The Guns of Navarone
• The Hustler (1961)
• Judgment at Nuremberg

Best Actor

• Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg (winner)
• Charles Boyer - Fanny
• Paul Newman - The Hustler (1961)
• Spencer Tracy - Judgment at Nuremberg
• Stuart Whitman - The Mark

Best Actress

• Sophia Loren - Two Women (winner)
• Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Piper Laurie - The Hustler (1961)
• Geraldine Page - Summer And Smoke
• Natalie Wood - Splendor In The Glass

Best Supporting Actor

• George Chakiris - West Side Story (1961) (winner)
• Montgomery Clift - Judgment at Nuremberg
• Peter Falk - Pocketful of Miracles
• Jackie Gleason - The Hustler (1961)
• George C. Scott - The Hustler (1961)

Best Supporting Actress

• Rita Moreno - West Side Story (1961) (winner)
• Fay Bainter - The Children's Hour
• Judy Garland - Judgment at Nuremberg
• Lotte Lenya - The Roman Spring Of Mrs Stone
• Una Merkel - Summer And Smoke

Best Director

• Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins - West Side Story (1961) (winner)
• Federico Fellini - La Dolce Vita
• J Lee Thompson - The Guns of Navarone
• Robert Rossen - The Hustler (1961)
• Stanley Kramer - Judgment at Nuremberg

Best Story and Screenplay Directly for Screen

• Splendor in the Grass (winner)
• Ballad of a Soldier
• La Dolce Vita
• General Della Rovere
• Lover Come Back

Best Story Based on Material from Another Medium

• Judgment at Nuremberg (winner)
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• The Guns of Navarone
• The Hustler (1961)
• West Side Story (1961)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Through a Glass Darkly (winner)
• Harry and the Butler
• Immortal Love
• The Important Man
• Plácido

Best Documentary (feature)

• Sky Above And Mud Beneath (winner)
• The Grand Olympics

Best Documentary (short subject)

• Project Hope (winner)
• Breaking The Language Barrier
• Cradle Of Genius
• Kahl
• The Man In Gray

Best Short Subject (live action)

• Sewards The Great Ships (winner)
• The Face of Jesus
• Play Ball!
• Rooftops of New York
• Very Nice, Very Nice

Best Short Subject (cartoons)

• Surogat (winner)
• Aquamania
• Beep Prepared
• Nelly's Folly
• The Pied Piper Of Guadalupe

Best Music Score of Comedy or Drama

• Breakfast at Tiffany's (winner)
• El Cid
• Fanny
• The Guns of Navarone
• Summer And Smoke

Best Scoring of a Musical

• West Side Story (1961) (winner)
• Babes in Toyland
• Flower Drum Song
• Khovanshchina
• Paris Blues

Best Song

• "Moon River" - Breakfast at Tiffany's (winner)
• "Bachelor in Paradise" - Bachelor In Paradise
• "The Falcon and the Dove" - El Cid
• "Pocketful of Miracles" - Pocketful of Miracles
• "Town Without Pity" - Town Without Pity

Best Sound

• West Side Story (1961) (winner)
• The Children's Hour
• Flower Drum Song
• The Guns of Navarone
• The Parent Trap (1961)

Best Art Direction (black and white)

• The Hustler (1961) (winner)
• The Absent-Minded Professor
• The Children's Hour
• La Dolce Vita
• Judgment at Nuremberg

Best Art Direction (color)

• West Side Story (1961) (winner)
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• El Cid
• Flower Drum Song
• Summer And Smoke

Best Cinematography (black and white)

• The Hustler (1961) (winner)
• The Absent-Minded Professor
• The Children's Hour
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• One, Two, Three

Best Cinematography (color)

• West Side Story (1961) (winner)
• Fanny
• Flower Drum Song
• A Majority Of One
• One-Eyed Jacks

Best Costume Design (black and white)

• La Dolce Vita (winner)
• The Children's Hour
• Claudelle Inglish
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• Yojimbo

Best Costume Design (color)

• West Side Story (1961) (winner)
• Babes in Toyland
• Back Street
• Flower Drum Song
• Pocketful of Miracles

Best Film Editing

• West Side Story (1961) (winner)
• Fanny
• The Guns of Navarone
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• The Parent Trap (1961)

Best Special Effects

• The Guns of Navarone (winner)
• The Absent-Minded Professor

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