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Sunday, November 16, 2008

Film Data For 1962

The Film Daily's Ten Best Pictures of 1962 1) The Manchurian Candidate- 193 
2) The Music Man- 177 
3) The Miracle Worker- 174 
4) The Longest Day- 163 
5) To Kill a Mockingbird- 154 
6) Requiem for a Heavyweight- 150 
7) Bird Man of Alcatraz- 128 
8) Lawrence of Arabia- 122 
9) Billy Budd- 117 
10) A Taste of Honey (1961)- 111 

The Honor Roll: 
11) Advise and Consent- 81 
12) Gigot- 78 
13) Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?- 68 
14) Lolita- 67 
15) Sweet Bird of Youth- 65 
16) That Touch of Mink- 63 
17) Flower Drum Song (1961)- 62 
18) Hatari!- 59 
19) Lover Come Back (1961)- 58 
20) Divorce- Italian Style- 54 
21) Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation- 52 
22) The Interns- 51 
23) A View From the Bridge- 48 
24) Boccaccio ‘70- 47 
25) Gypsy- 44 
26) Summer and Smoke (1961)- 43 (placed #25 in 1961 with 20 votes) 
27) Period of Adjustment- 31 
28) In Search of the Castaways- 30 
      Walk on the Wild Side- 30 
30) Bon Voyage!- 28 
31) Shoot the Piano Player- 26 
32) David and Lisa- 24 (placed 4th in 1963 poll with 122 votes) 
33) Days of Wine and Roses- 22 (placed 13th in 1963 poll with 58 votes) 
34) The Chapman Report- 20 
35) Mutiny on the Bounty- 18 
36) Whistle Down the Wind (1961)- 12 

The Film Daily- Filmdom’s Famous Fives of 1962 (No vote counts given, but I believe The Film Daily listed them in order of preference) 

Best Performances by Male Stars 
1) Burt Lancaster in Bird Man of Alcatraz 
2) Robert Preston in The Music Man 
3) Jackie Gleason in Gigot 
4) James Cagney in One, Two, Three (1961) 
5) Anthony Quinn in Requiem for a Heavyweight

Best Performances by Female Stars 
1) Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker 
2) Sophia Loren in Two Women (1961) 
3) Doris Day in Lover Come Back (1961) 
4) Geraldine Page in Sweet Bird of Youth 
5) Deborah Kerr in The Innocents 

Best Performances by Supporting Actors 
1) Terence Stamp in Billy Budd 
2) Mickey Rooney in Requiem for a Heavyweight 
3) Charles Laughton in Advise and Consent 
4) Neville Brand in Bird Man of Alcatraz 
5) Paul Ford in The Music Man (tied with) Walter Matthau in Lonely are the Brave 

Best Performances by Supporting Actresses 
1) Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate 
2) Hermione Gingold in The Music Man 
3) Arlene Francis in One, Two, Three (1961) 
4) Betty Field in Bird Man of Alcatraz 
5) Audrey Meadows in That Touch of Mink 

Best Performances by Juvenile Actors 
1) Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker 
2) Hayley Mills in Whistle Down the Wind (1961) 
3) Kevin Corcoran in Bon Voyage! 
4) Sue Lyon in Lolita 

“Finds of the Year” 
1) Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker 
2) Terence Stamp in Billy Budd 
3) Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker 
4) Marcello Mastroianni in Divorce- Italian Style 
5) Rita Tushingham in A Taste of Honey 

The National Board of Review (winners announced on December 21, 1962. Source: Tom O’Neil’s Movie Awards) The Top Ten Pictures (in order of preference) 
1) The Longest Day 
2) Billy Budd 
3) The Miracle Worker 
4) Lawrence of Arabia 
5) Long Day’s Journey into Night 
6) Whistle Down the Wind 
7) Requiem for a Heavyweight 
8) A Taste of Honey 
9) Bird Man of Alcatraz 
10) War Hunt 

Best Director 
David Lean for Lawrence of Arabia 

Best Actor 
Jason Robards for Long Day’s Journey into Night and Tender is the Night 

Best Actress 
Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker 

Best Supporting Actor 
Burgess Meredith in Advise and Consent 

Best Supporting Actress Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate and All Fall Down

Best Foreign Films (in order of preference) 
1) Sundays and Cybele (France) 
2) Barabbas (Italy) 
3) Divorce- Italian Style (Italy) 
4) The Island (Japan) 
5) Through a Glass Darkly (Sweden) 

The New York Times Ten Best Films of 1962 (in chronological order) 
Lover Come Back (1961) 
Last Year at Marienbad 
Whistle Down the Wind 
A Taste of Honey 
Divorce-Italian Style 
The Longest Day 
Long Day’s Journey into Night 
Sundays and Cybele 
Freud 
Electra 

1962 Berlin Film Festival Best Film 
A Kind of Loving (John Schlesinger, England) 

Best Direction 
Francesco Rosi for Salvatore Giuliano 

Best Actor 
James Stewart in Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation 

Best Actress 
Rita Gam and Viveca Lindfors in No Exit 

Best Documentary 
Galapagos (Germany)

Best Short Subject 
The Painter Karel Appel (Holland)

International Film Critics Prize 
Zoo (Holland) 

Most Promising Newcomer 
Jon Young Sun in To the Last Day (Korea) 

1962 Cannes Film Festival 

Best Film 
The Given Word (Anselmo Duarte, Brazil) 

Best Acting 
Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards and Dean Stockwell in Long Day’s Journey into Night 
Rita Tushingham and Murray Melvin in A Taste of Honey 

Special Jury Prize 
Robert Bresson for Le Proces de Jeanne D’Arc 
Michelangelo Antonioni for L’Eclipse 

International Critics Prize 
Luis Bunuel for The Exterminating Angel 

Catholic Film Office Award 
Michelangelo Antonioni for L’Eclipse 

1962 Venice Film Festival 

Best Film: Lion of St. Mark 
Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy) 

Best Actor 
Tom Courtenay in King and Country (England) 

Best Actress 
Harriet Anderson in To Love (Sweden) 

Special Jury Prizes 
Hamlet (Kosintzev, USSR) 
Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy) 

Best First Film 
La Vie a l’Envers (Alain Jessua, France) 

Catholic Film Office Award 
Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (Italy) 

International Film Critics Award 
Red Desert (Italy) 

San Giorgio Prize
Nothing But a Man (USA) 


The Golden Globes (Nominations announced on January 23, 1963. Awards presented on March 5th, 1963. Source: Tom O’Neil’s Movie Awards) Winners listed in bold print.

Best Drama Picture 
The Chapman Report 
Days of Wine and Roses 
Freud 
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man 
Lawrence of Arabia 
Lisa 
The Longest Day
The Miracle Worker
Mutiny on the Bounty
To Kill a Mockingbird 

Best Comedy Picture 
Best of Enemies 
Boys Night Out 
If a Man Answers 
Period of Adjustment 
That Touch of Mink 

Best Musical Picture 
Girls! Girls! Girls! 
Gypsy 
Jumbo 
The Music Man 
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

Best Motion Picture Promoting International Understanding 
Best of Enemies 
The Interns 
To Kill a Mockingbird 

Best Director 
George Cukor for The Chapman Report 
Morton DaCosta for The Music Man 
Blake Edwards for Days of Wine and Roses 
John Frankenheimer for The Manchurian Candidate 
John Huston for Freud 
Stanley Kubrick for Lolita 
David Lean for Lawrence of Arabia 
Mervyn LeRoy for Gypsy 
Robert Mulligan for To Kill a Mockingbird 
Martin Ritt for Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man 
Ismael Rodriguez for Los Hermanos del Hierro

Best Actor, Drama 
Bobby Darin in Pressure Point 
Jackie Gleason in Gigot 
Laurence Harvey in The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm 
Burt Lancaster in Bird Man of Alcatraz 
Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses 
James Mason in Lolita 
Paul Newman in Sweet Bird of Youth 
Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia 
Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird 
Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia 

Best Actress, Drama 
Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker 
Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? 
Katharine Hepburn in Long Day’s Journey into Night 
Glynis Johns in The Chapman Report 
Melina Mercouri in Phaedra 
Geraldine Page in Sweet Bird of Youth 
Lee Remick in Days of Wine and Roses 
Susan Strasberg in Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
Shelley Winters in Lolita
Susannah York in Freud

Best Actor, Comedy or Musical 
Stephen Boyd in Jumbo 
Jimmy Durante in Jumbo 
Cary Grant in That Touch of Mink 
Charlton Heston in The Pigeon That Took Rome 
Karl Malden in Gypsy 
Marcello Mastroianni in Divorce- Italian Style 
Robert Preston in The Music Man 
Alberto Sordi in The Best of Enemies 
James Stewart in Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation 

Best Actress, Comedy or Musical 
Doris Day in Jumbo 
Jane Fonda in Period of Adjustment 
Shirley Jones in The Music Man 
Rosalind Russell in Gypsy 
Natalie Wood in Gypsy 

Best Supporting Actor 
Ed Begley in Sweet Bird of Youth 
Victor Buono in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? 
Harry Guardino in The Pigeon That Took Rome 
Ross Martin in Experiment in Terror 
Paul Newman in Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man 
Cesar Romero in If a Man Answers 
Telly Savalas in Bird Man of Alcatraz
Peter Sellers in Lolita 
Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia 
Harold J. Stone in The Chapman Report 

Best Supporting Actress 
Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker 
Hermione Gingold in The Music Man 
Shirley Knight in Sweet Bird of Youth 
Susan Kohner in Freud 
Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate 
Gabriella Pollotta in The Pigeon That Took Rome 
Martha Raye in Jumbo 
Kay Stevens in The Interns 
Jessica Tandy in Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man 
Tarita in Mutiny on the Bounty 

Most Promising Newcomer- Male 
Keir Dullea in David and Lisa 
Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia 
Terence Stamp in Billy Budd 
Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia 
Paul Wallace in Gypsy 

Most Promising Newcomer- Female 
Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker 
Sue Lyon in Lolita 
Rita Tushingham in A Taste of Honey 
Dahlia Lavi in Two Weeks in Another Town 
Janet Margolin in David and Lisa 
Suzanne Pleshette in Rome Adventure 

Best Foreign-Language Film
Best of Enemies (Italy) (tied with) Divorce-Italian Style (Italy) 

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White) 
The Longest Day 

Best Cinematography (Color)
Lawrence of Arabia 

Best Original Score 
Elmer Bernstein for To Kill a Mockingbird 

World Film Favorites 
Doris Day 
Rock Hudson
 
Samuel Goldwyn International Award 
Sundays and Cybele (France) 

Cecil B. DeMille Award 
Bob Hope 

The Academy Awards (nominations announced February 25, 1963. Awards presented April 8, 1963. Sources: Tom O’Neil’s Movie Awards and Mason Wiley and Damien Bona’s Inside Oscar).

  Best Picture 
Lawrence of Arabia 
The Longest Day 
The Music Man 
Mutiny on the Bounty 
To Kill a Mockingbird 

Best Director 
Pietro Germi for Divorce- Italian Style 
David Lean for Lawrence of Arabia 
Robert Mulligan for To Kill a Mockingbird 
Arthur Penn for The Miracle Worker 
Frank Perry for David and Lisa 

Best Actor 
Burt Lancaster in Bird Man of Alcatraz 
Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses 
Marcello Mastroianni in Divorce- Italian Style 
Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia 
Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird 

Best Actress 
Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker 
Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Katharine Hepburn in Long Day’s Journey into Night
Geraldine Page in Sweet Bird of Youth 
Lee Remick in Days of Wine and Roses

Best Supporting Actor 
Ed Begley in Sweet Bird of Youth 
Victor Buono in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? 
Telly Savalas in Bird Man of Alcatraz 
Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia 
Terence Stamp in Billy Budd 

Best Supporting Actress 
Mary Badham in To Kill a Mockingbird 
Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker 
Shirley Knight in Sweet Bird of Youth 
Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate 
Thelma Ritter in Bird Man of Alcatraz 

Best Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium
Robert Bolt for Lawrence of Arabia 
Horton Foote for To Kill a Mockingbird
William Gibson for The Miracle Worker 
Vladimir Nabokov for Lolita 
Eleanor Perry for David and Lisa 
 
Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen 
Ennio de Concini, Alfredo Giannetti and Pietro Germi for Divorce- Italian Style 
Charles Kaufman and Wolfgang Reinhardt for Freud 
Alain Robbe-Grillet for Last Year at Marienbad 
Stanley Shapiro and Nate Monaster for That Touch of Mink 
Ingmar Bergman for Through a Glass Darkly 

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White) 
Jean Bourgoin and Walter Wottitz for The Longest Day
Burnett Guffey for Bird Man of Alcatraz 
Ernest Haller for Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? 
Russell Harlan for To Kill a Mockingbird 
Ted McCord for Two for the Seesaw 

Best Cinematography (Color) 
Russell Harlan for Hatari! 
Harry Stradling, Sr. for Gypsy 
Robert L. Surtees for Mutiny on the Bounty 
Paul C. Vogel for The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm 
Fred A. Young for Lawrence of Arabia 

Art Direction-Set Direction (Black-and-White)
George W. Davis and Edward Carfagno; Henry Grace and Dick Pefferle for Period of Adjustment 
Alexander Golitzen and Henry Bumstead; Oliver Emert for To Kill a Mockingbird 
Ted Haworth, Leon Barasa and Vincent Korda; Gabriel Bechir for The Longest Day 
Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson; Sam Comer and Frank R. McKelvy for The Pigeon That Took Rome 
Joseph Wright; George James Hopkins for Days of Wine and Roses 

Art Direction-Set Direction (Color) 
John Box and John Stoll; Dario Simoni for Lawrence of Arabia 
George W. Davis and J. McMillan Johnson; Henry Grace and Hugh Hunt for Mutiny on the Bounty
George W. Davis and Edward Carfagno; Henry Grace and Dick Pefferle for The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm 
Alexander Golitzen and Robert Clatworthy; George Milo for That Touch of Mink 
Paul Groesse; George James Hopkins for The Music Man 

Best Sound 
Bon Voyage Walt Disney Studios Sound Department; Robert O. Cook, sound director 
Lawrence of Arabia Shepperton Studio Sound Dept.; John Cox, sound director 
The Music Man Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept.; George R. Groves, sound director 
That Touch of Mink Universal City Studio Sound Dept.; Waldon O. Watson, sound director 
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Warner Bros. Glen Glenn Sound Dept.; Joseph Kelly, sound director

Best Song 
"Days of Wine and Roses" from Days and Wine Roses. Music by Henry Mancini. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer 
"Love Song from Mutiny on the Bounty (Follow Me).” Music by Bronislau Kaper. Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster 
“Song from Two for the Seesaw (Second Chance)." Music by Andre Previn. Lyrics by Dory Langdon. “Tender is the Night” from Tender is the Night. Music by Sammy Fain. Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. 
“Walk on the Wild Side” from Walk on the Wild Side. Music by Elmer Bernstein. Lyrics by Mack David.

Best Music Score- Substantially Original 
Elmer Bernstein for To Kill a Mockingbird 
Jerry Goldsmith for Freud 
Maurice Jarre for Lawrence of Arabia 
Bronislau Kaper for Mutiny on the Bounty 
Franz Waxman for Taras Bulba 

Best Scoring of Music- Adaptation or Treatment 
Leigh Harline for The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm 
Ray Heindorf for The Music Man 
 Michel Magne for Gigot 
Frank Perkins for Gypsy 
George Stoll for Billy Rose’s Jumbo

Best Film Editing 
Samuel E. Beetley for The Longest Day 
Anne Coates for Lawrence of Arabia 
John McSweeney, Jr. Mutiny on the Bounty 
Ferris Webster for The Manchurian Candidate 
William Ziegler for The Music Man 

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White) 
Don Feld for Days of Wine and Roses 
Edith Head for The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 
Norma Koch for Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? 
Ruth Morley for The Miracle Worker 
Denny Vachlioti for Phaedra 

Best Costume Design (Color) 
Edith Head for My Geisha 
Dorothy Jeakins for The Music Man 
Orry-Kelly for Gypsy 
Bill Thomas for Bon Voyage 
Mary Wills for The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

Best Special Effects 
Robert MacDonald (Visual) and Jacques Maumont (Audible) for The Longest Day 
A.Arnold Gillespie (Visual) and Milo Lory (Audible) for Mutiny on the Bounty 

Best Short Subject Cartoon 
The Hole John and Faith Hubley, producers 
Icarus Montgolfier Wright Jules Engel, producer 
Now Hear This Warner Brothers 
Self-Defense-For Cowards William L. Snyder, producer 
Symposium on Popular Songs Walt Disney, producer
 
Best Live Action Short Subject
Big City Blues Martina and Charles Huguenot van der Linden, producers
The Cadillac Robert Clouse, producer
The Cliff Dwellers (a.k.a. One Plus One) Hayward Anderson, producer
Heureux Anniversaire (Happy Anniversary) Pierre Etaix and J.C. Carriere, producers 
Pan Herman van der Horst, producer 

Best Documentary Short Subject 
Dylan Thomas Jack Howells, producer 
The John Glenn Story William L. Hendricks, producer 
The Road to the Wall Robert Saudek, producer 

Best Documentary Feature 
Alvorada (Brazil’s Changing Face) Hugo Niebeling, producer 
Black Fox Louis Clyde Stoumen, producer Best Foreign Language Film 
Electra (Greece) The Four Days of Naples (Italy) 
The Keeper of Promises (The Given Word) (Brazil) 
Sundays and Cybele (France)
Tlayucan (Mexico) 

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award 
Steve Broidy 

The 1962 British Academy Awards (Source: Bo Smith- The BAFTA Film Awards, 1989) 

Best Film From Any Source and Best British Film 
Billy Budd (G.B.) 
The Island (Japan) 
Jules et Jim (France) 
A Kind of Loving (G.B.) 
The Lady with the Little Dog (USSR) 
Last Year at Marienbad (France/Italy) 
Lawrence of Arabia (G.B.)- won both awards 
Lola (France/Italy) 
The Long Absence (France/Italy) 
The L-Shaped Room (G.B.) 
The Manchurian Candidate (U.S.) 
The Miracle Worker (U.S.) 
Only Two Can Play (G.B.) 
Phaedra (Greece) 
Thou Shalt Not Kill (Italy/Yugoslavia/Liechtenstein) 
Through a Glass Darkly (Sweden) 
The Vanishing Corporal (France) 
West Side Story (U.S.- 1961) 

Best British Actor Richard Attenborough in The Dock Brief Alan Bates in A Kind of Loving James Mason in Lolita Laurence Olivier in Term of Trial Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia Peter Sellers in Only Two Can Play Best British Actress 
Leslie Caron in The L-Shaped Room 
Virginia Maskell in The Wild and the Willing 
Janet Munro in Life for Ruth 

Best Foreign Actor 
Jean-Paul Belmondo in Leon Marin, Priest 
Franco Citti in Accatone! 
Kirk Douglas in Lonely are the Brave 
George Hamilton in A Light in the Piazza 
Burt Lancaster in Bird Man of Alcatraz 
Charles Laughton in Advise and Consent 
Anthony Quinn in Lawrence of Arabia 
Robert Ryan in Billy Budd 
Georges Wilson in The Long Absence

Best Foreign Actress 
Anouk Aimee in Lola 
Harriet Andersson in Through a Glass Darkly 
Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker 
Melina Mercouri in Phaedra 
Jeanne Moreau in Jules et Jim 
Geraldine Page in Sweet Bird of Youth 
Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass 

Most Promising Newcomer 
Tom Courtenay in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 
Mariette Hartley in Guns in the Afternoon (Ride the High Country
Ian Hendry in Live Now, Pay Later 
Sarah Miles in Term of Trial 
Terence Stamp in Billy Budd 

Best British Screenplay 
Peter Ustinov and DeWitt Bodeen for Billy Budd 
Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall for A Kind of Loving 
Robert Bolt for Lawrence of Arabia 
Bryan Forbes for Only Two Can Play 
Geoffrey Cotterell and Ivan Foxwell for Tiara Tahiti 
Wolf Mankowitz for The Waltz of the Toreadors 

Best Short Film 
Lonely Boy (Canada)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (France)
Pan (Holland) 
Zoo (Holland) 

Best Specialized Film 
Four Line Conics (Canada) 
What’s the Time (G.B.) 

Best Animated Film 
The Apple (G.B.) 
Four Line Conics (Canada) 
The Traveling Rune (Holland) 

United Nations Award 
Food or Famine (G.B.) 
Reach for Glory (G.B.) 
Thou Shalt Not Kill (Italy/Yugoslavia/Liechtenstein) 

The Top Box-Office Hits of 1962 (According to Variety- lists U.S. and Canadian rental fees up to the end of the calendar year. Late 1961 releases that primarily earned revenue in 1962 are included. Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

1) Spartacus (1960)- $13,500,000
2) West Side Story (1961)- $11,000,000
3) Lover Come Back (1961)- $8,500,000
    That Touch of Mink- $8,500,000
5) El Cid (1961)- $8,000,000
    The Music Man- $8,000,000
7) King of Kings (1961)- $7,500,000
8) Hatari!- $6,000,000
9) Flower Drum Song (1961)- $5,000,000
    The Interns- $5,000,000
11) Blue Hawaii (1961)- $4,700,000
12) Lolita (1962)- $4,500,000
13) Babes in Toyland (1961)- $4,400,000
14) Bon Voyage!- $4,100,000
15) Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?- $4,000,000
16) Sergeants 3- $3,955,000
17) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance- $3,900,000
18) Judgement at Nuremberg (1961)- $3,800,000
19) Moon Pilot- $3,500,000
      Splendor in the Grass (1961)- $3,500,000 (Splendor also placed at #10 on Variety's 1961 list)

The Top Ten Box-Office Stars of 1962 (according to Quigley Publishing’s poll of film exhibitors) 
1) Doris Day 
2) Rock Hudson
3) Cary Grant 
4) John Wayne 
5) Elvis Presley 
6) Elizabeth Taylor
7) Jerry Lewis 
8) Frank Sinatra 
9) Sandra Dee 
10) Burt Lancaster 

The Next Fifteen: 
11) Paul Newman 
12) Charlton Heston 
13) James Stewart 
14) Jack Lemmon 
15) William Holden 
16) Debbie Reynolds 
17) Kirk Douglas 
18) Tony Curtis 
19) Natalie Wood 
20) Hayley Mills 
21) Glenn Ford 
22) Kin Novak 
23) Shirley MacLaine 
24) Audrey Hepburn 
25) Gregory Peck 

1962's Top Ten "Stars of Tomorrow" (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors) 
1) Bobby Darin 
2) Ann-Margret 
3) Richard Beymer 
4) Suzanne Pleshette 
5) Capucine 
6) George Peppard 
7) James MacArthur 
8) Peter Falk
 9) Michael Callan 
10) Yvette Mimieux 

The Next Fifteen: 
11) Patty Duke 
12) Pamela Tiffin 
13) Dean Stockwell 
14) Elsa Martinelli 
15) Barbara Eden 
16) Sue Lyon 
17) David Ladd 
18) Tommy Sands 
19) Brandon deWilde 
20) Joan Blackman
21) Kevin Corcoran 
22) Harry Guardino 
23) Christine Kaufmann 
24) Stella Stevens 
25) Ty Hardin 

Great Britain’s Top Ten Box-Office Stars of 1962 (according to the Motion Picture Herald’s poll of British film exhibitors) 
1) Cliff Richard 
2) Elvis Presley 
3) Peter Sellers 
4) Kenneth More 
5) Hayley Mills 
6) Doris Day 
7) Sophia Loren
 8) John Wayne 
9) Frank Sinatra 
10) Sean Connery 

Great Britain’s Top Ten Box-Office hits of 1962 (according to the Motion Picture Herald) 
1) The Guns of Navarone 
2) The Young Ones 
3) Only Two Can Play 
4) The Comancheros 
5) Dr. No 
6) A Kind of Loving 
7) Sergeants Three 
8) Blue Hawaii 
9) The Road to Hong Kong 
10) That Touch of Mink 
11) The Waltz of the Toreadors 
12) Carry On Cruising 
The Golden Laurel Awards for 1963 (1962 films, unless otherwise noted. Published in the Motion Picture Exhibitor Magazine on September 11th, 1963. Listed in order of preference) 

Top Drama 
1) Days of Wine and Roses 
2) The Miracle Worker 
3) Bird Man of Alcatraz 
4) Mutiny on the Bounty 
5) The Interns 

Top Comedy
1) That Touch of Mink 
2) Son of Flubber (1963) 
3) Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation 
4) The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963) 
5) 40 Pounds of Trouble 

Top Action Drama 
1) The Longest Day 
2) Hatari! 
3) The Manchurian Candidate 
4) In Search of the Castaways 
5) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Top Musical 
1) The Music Man 
2) Gypsy 
3) Girls! Girls! Girls! 
4) Billy Rose’s Jumbo 

Top General Entertainment 
To Kill a Mockingbird 

Top Road Show 
Lawrence of Arabia Sleeper of the Year (two winners) 
David and Lisa 
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? 

Top Male Dramatic Performance 
1) Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses 
2) Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird 
3) Burt Lancaster in Birdman of Alcatraz 
4) Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia 
5) Henry Fonda in Spencer’s Mountain (1963) 

Top Female Dramatic Performance 
1) Lee Remick in Days of Wine and Roses 
2) Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker 
3) Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? 
4) Shirley MacLaine in Two for the Seesaw 
5) Katharine Hepburn in Long Day’s Journey into Night 

Top Male Comedy Performance 
1) Cary Grant in That Touch of Mink 
2) Tony Curtis in 40 Pounds of Trouble 
3) James Stewart in Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation 
4) Glenn Ford in The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963) 
5) Fred MacMurray in Son of Flubber (1963) 

Top Female Comedy Performance 
1) Doris Day in That Touch of Mink 
2) Jane Fonda in Period of Adjustment 
3) Debbie Reynolds in My Six Loves (1963) 
4) Sandra Dee in If a Man Answers 
5) Maureen O’Hara in Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation 

Top Male Musical Performance 
1) Robert Preston in The Music Man 
2) Elvis Presley in Girls! Girls! Girls! 
3) Maurice Chevalier in In Search of the Castaways 
4) Pat Boone in State Fair 
5) Jimmy Durante in Billy Rose’s Jumbo
Top Female Comedy Performance 
1) Ann-Margret in State Fair 
2) Natalie Wood in Gypsy 
3) Shirley Jones in The Music Man 
4) Connie Francis in Follow the Boys (1963) 
5) Rosalind Russell in Gypsy 

Top Action Performance 
1) John Wayne in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 
2) Frank Sinatra in The Manchurian Candidate 
3) Kirk Douglas in Lonely are the Brave 
4) Lee Marvin in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 
5) Robert Mitchum in The Longest Day 

Top Male Supporting Performance 
1) Gig Young in That Touch of Mink 
2) Karl Malden in Gypsy 
3) Charles Bickford in Days of Wine and Roses 
4) Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia 
5) Mickey Rooney in Requiem for a Heavyweight 

Top Female Supporting Performance 
1) Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker 
2) Mary Badham in To Kill a Mockingbird 
3) Thelma Ritter in Bird Man of Alcatraz 
4) Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate 
5) Roberta Sherwood in The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963) 

Top Male Star 
1) Rock Hudson 
2) Cary Grant 
3) Gregory Peck 
4) John Wayne 
5) Jack Lemmon 
6) Frank Sinatra 
7) Burt Lancaster 
8) Jerry Lewis 
9) Paul Newman 
10) Elvis Presley 
11) Henry Fonda 
12) James Stewart 
13) Tony Curtis 
14) William Holden 
15) Charlton Heston 

Top Female Star 
1) Doris Day 
2) Elizabeth Taylor 
3) Natalie Wood 
4) Ann-Margret 
5) Debbie Reynolds 
6) Sandra Dee 
7) Lee Remick 
8) Hayley Mills 
9) Shirley MacLaine 
10) Audrey Hepburn 
11) Kim Novak 
12) Anne Bancroft
13) Angie Dickinson 
14) Shirley Jones 
15) Jane Fonda 

Top New Male Personality 
1) Peter O’Toole 
2) James MacArthur 
3) Terence Stamp 
4) Omar Sharif 
5) Robert Walker 
6) Ty Hardin 
7) Victor Buono 
8) Keir Dullea 
9) Ron Howard 
10) Telly Savalas 

Top New Female Personality 
1) Suzanne Pleshette 
2) Elizabeth Allen 
3) Sue Lyon 
4) Stefanie Powers 
5) Janet Margolin 
6) Mimsy Farmer 
7) Rita Tushingham 
8) Anne Helm 
9) Lois Nettleton 
10) Pamela Franklin 

Top Director 
1) Fred Zinnemann 
2) Joseph L. Mankiewicz 
3) David Lean 
4) Henry Koster 
5) George Seaton 
6) John Frankenheimer 
7) Stanley Kubrick 
8) Vincente Minnelli 
9) John Sturges 
10) Delbert Mann 

Top Producer/Director 
1) Billy Wilder 
2) Alfred Hitchcock 
3) John Ford 
4) John Huston 
5) William Wyler 
6) Stanley Kramer 
7) Mervyn LeRoy 
8) Darryl F. Zanuck 
9) Otto Preminger 
10) Delmer Daves 

Top Producer 
1) Walt Disney 
2) Ross Hunter 
3) Sam Spiegel 
4) Hal B. Wallis 
5) Carl Foreman 
6) Walter Mirisch 
7) Samuel Bronston 
8) Robert Arthur 
9) Joe Pasternak 
10) Jerry Bresler 

Top Song 
1) “Love Song from Mutiny on the Bounty (Follow Me).” Music by Bronislau Kaper. Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster 
2) “Song from Two for the Seesaw (Second Chance).” Music by Andre Previn. Lyrics by Dory Langdon. 
3) “The Dancing Princess” from The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm. Music and Lyrics by Bob Merrill 
4) "Days of Wine and Roses" from Days of Wine and Roses. Music by Henry Mancini. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer 
5) Theme Song from Lawrence of Arabia. Music by Maurice Jarre 
 
Top Music 
1) Dimitri Tiomkin 
2) Johnny Green 
3) Max Steiner 
4) Andre Previn 
5) Meredith Wilson
Special Award (Three winners) Bob Hope How the West Was Won The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

Film Data For 1961


The Film Daily’s Ten Best Pictures of 1961
1) The Guns of Navarone- 187
2) The Hustler- 167
3) Breakfast at Tiffany’s- 161
4) Fanny- 159
5) West Side Story- 155
6) Judgement of Nuremberg- 150
7) The Parent Trap- 128
8) Exodus (1960)- 126
9) Splendor in the Grass- 122
10) The Mark- 117

The Honor Roll:
11) The World of Suzie Wong (1960)- 77
12) A Raisin in the Sun- 60
13) The Alamo (1960)- 58
14) King of Kings- 52
15) Pocketful of Miracles- 48
16) Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)- 42
17) The Absent-Minded Professor- 40
18) One-Eyed Jacks- 35
19) The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone- 28
20) Come September- 27
21) Swiss Family Robinson (1960)- 25
22) Bachelor in Paradise- 24
23) 101 Dalmatians- 23
24) Devil at 4 O'Clock- 21
      Where the Boys Are (1960)- 21
26) Pepe (1960)- 20
      Summer and Smoke- 20
28) The Pleasure of His Company- 19
29) Cimarron- 18
30) Francis of Assisi- 17
31) Romanoff and Juliet- 15
32) The Great Imposter- 14
       Parrish- 14
34) La Dolce Vita (1960)- 13
      The Grass is Greener- 13
36) The Village of the Damned- 12
37) Return to Peyton Place- 11

The Film Daily- Filmdom’s Famous Fives of 1961 (no vote counts given, but I believe they're listed in order of preference)

Best Performances by Male Stars
1) Paul Newman in The Hustler
2) Gregory Peck in The Guns of Navarone
3) Spencer Tracy in Judgement at Nuremberg
4) Albert Finney in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
5) Sidney Poitier in A Raisin in the Sun


Best Performances by Female Stars
1) Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s
2) Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass
3) Natalie Wood in West Side Story
4) Leslie Caron in Fanny
5) Geraldine Page in Summer and Smoke

Best Performances by Supporting Actors
1) George C. Scott in The Hustler
2) Jackie Gleason in The Hustler
3) Anthony Quinn in The Guns of Navarone
4) Karl Malden in One-Eyed Jacks

Best Performances by Supporting Actresses
1) Rita Moreno in West Side Story
2) Piper Laurie in The Hustler
3) Mary Astor in Return to Peyton Place
4) Paula Prentiss in Where the Boys Are (1960)
5) Judy Garland in Judgement at Nuremberg

Best Performances by Juvenile Actors
1) David Ladd in Misty
2) Tommy Kirk in The Absent-Minded Professor
3) Kevin Corcoran in Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
4) David Kory in Dondi

Best Performances by Juvenile Actresses
1) Hayley Mills in The Parent Trap
2) Jill Haworth in Exodus (1960)

The Year’s Outstanding Directors
1) Robert Rossen for The Hustler
2) Joshua Logan for Fanny
3) Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for West Side Story
4) Otto Preminger for Exodus (1960)
5) J. Lee Thompson for The Guns of Navarone

Best Photographed Pictures of the Year
1) Daniel Fapp for West Side Story
2) Oswald Morris and John Wilcox for The Guns of Navarone
3) Jack Cardiff for Fanny
4) Geoffrey Unsworth for The World of Suzie Wong (1960)
5) Franz F. Planer, Milton Kransner and Manuel Berenguer for King of Kings

Best Screenplays of the Year
1) Robert Rossen and Sidney Carroll for The Hustler
2) Carl Foreman for The Guns of Navarone
3) William Inge for Splendor in the Grass
4) Julius J. Epstein for Fanny
5) Ernest Lehman for West Side Story

“Finds of the Year”
1) Warren Beatty in Splendor in the Grass
2) George Chakiris in West Side Story
3) Nancy Kwan in The World of Suzie Wong
4) Paula Prentiss in Where the Boys Are (1960)
5) Albert Finney in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)

The National Board of Review (winners announced on December 19, 1961, Source: Tom O’Neil’s Movie Awards, 2001).

The Top Ten Pictures (in order of preference)
1) Question 7
2) The Hustler
3) West Side Story
4) The Innocents
5) The Hoodlum Priest
6) Summer and Smoke
7) The Young Doctors
8) Judgement at Nuremberg
9) One, Two, Three
10) Fanny


Best Director
Jack Clayton for The Innocents

Best Actor
Albert Finney in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Best Actress
Geraldine Page in Summer and Smoke

Best Supporting Actor
Jackie Gleason in The Hustler

Best Supporting Actress
Ruby Dee in A Raisin in the Sun

Best Foreign Films (in order of preference)
1) The Bridge (Federal Republic of Germany)
2) La Dolce Vita (Italy/France)
3) Two Women (Italy/France)
4) Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (U.K.)
5) A Summer to Remember (U.S.S.R.)

New York Film Critics Awards (Winners announced on December 28, 1961. Awards presented on January 20, 1962 at Sardi's restaurant in New York. Sources: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001 and Donald Lyons, "The Lights of New York," Film Comment, March-April, 1993).

Best Picture
West Side Story (8 votes on ballot III)
Runner-up: Judgement at Nuremberg (3 votes)

Best Director
Robert Rossen, The Hustler (10 votes on ballot VI)
Runner-up: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, West Side Story, 6 votes)

Best Actor
Maximilian Schell, Judgement at Nuremberg (10 votes on ballot VI)
Runner-up: James Cagney, One, Two, Three (4 votes)
3rd Place: Paul Newman, The Hustler (2 votes)

Best Actress
Sophia Loren, Two Women (11 votes on ballot VI)
Runner-up: Geraldine Page, Summer and Smoke (4 votes)
3rd Place: Piper Laurie, The Hustler (1 vote)

On ballot I, Loren and Page both had 4 votes, and Laurie had 3 votes.

Best Screenplay
Abby Mann, Judgement at Nuremberg

Best Foreign Film
La Dolce Vita (Italy- 1960)

The Golden Globes (Nominations announced on January 31, 1962. Awards presented on March 5, 1962. Source Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards)

Winners listed in bold print

Best Drama Picture
El Cid
Fanny
The Guns of Navarone
Judgement at Nuremberg
Splendor in the Grass


Best Comedy Picture
Breakfast at Tiffany's
A Majority of One
One, Two, Three
The Parent Trap
Pocketful of Miracles

Best Musical Picture
Babes in Toyland
Flower Drum Song
West Side Story

Best Motion Picture Promoting International Understanding
Bridge to the Sun
Judgement at Nuremberg
A Majority of One

Best Director
Stanley Kramer for Judgement at Nuremberg
Anthony Mann for El Cid
J. Lee Thompson for The Guns of Navarone
Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for West Side Story
William Wyler for The Children's Hour


Best Actor, Drama
Warren Beatty in Splendor in the Grass
Maurice Chevalier in Fanny
Paul Newman in The Hustler
Sidney Poitier in A Raisin in the Sun
Maximilian Schell in Judgement at Nuremberg

Best Actress, Drama
Leslie Caron in Fanny
Shirley MacLaine in The Children's Hour
Claudia McNeil in A Raisin in the Sun
Geraldine Page in Summer and Smoke
Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass

Best Actor, Comedy or Musical
Fred Astaire in The Pleasure of His Company
Richard Beymer in West Side Story
Glenn Ford in Pocketful of Miracles
Bob Hope in Bachelor in Paradise
Fred MacMurray in The Absent-Minded Porfessor

Best Actress, Comedy or Musical
Bette Davis in Pocketful of Miracles
Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's
Hayley Mills in The Parent Trap
Rosalind Russell in A Majority of One
Miyoshi Umeki in Flower Drum Song

Best Supporting Actor
George Chakiris in West Side Story
Montgomery Clift in Judgement at Nuremberg
Jackie Gleason in The Hustler
Tony Randall in Lover Come Back
George C. Scott in The Hustler

Best Supporting Actress
Fay Bainter in The Children's Hour
Judy Garland in Judgement at Nuremberg
Lotte Lenya in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Rita Moreno in West Side Story
Pamela Tiffin in One, Two, Three

Most Promising Newcomer- Male
Warren Beatty
Richard Beymer
George Chakiris
Bobby Darin
George C. Scott

Most Promising Newcomer- Female
Ann-Margret
Jane Fonda
Christine Kaufmann
Pamela Tiffin
Cordula Trantow

Best Foreign-Language Film
Two Women (Italy)

Silver Globes
Animas Tru Jano (Mexico)
The Good Soldier Schweik (Germany)

Best Original Score
Dimitri Tiomkin for The Guns of Navarone

Best Song
"Town Without Pity" from Town Without Pity. Music by Dimitri Tiomkin. Lyrics by Ned Washington

World Film Favorites
Charlton Heston
Marlyn Monroe

Samuel Goldwyn International Award
The Mark

Cecil B. DeMille Award
Judy Garland


Special Merit Award
Samuel Bronston for El Cid

Special Journalistic Merit Award
Army Archerd, Daily Variety
Mike Connolly, Hollywood Reporter

The Academy Awards (Nominations announced on February 26, 1962. Awards presented on April 9, 1962. Sources Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards and Mason Wiley and Damien Bona's Inside Oscar)


Best Picture
Fanny
The Guns of Navarone
The Hustler
Judgement at Nuremberg
West Side Story

Best Actor
Charles Boyer in Fanny
Paul Newman in The Hustler
Stuart Whitman in The Mark
Maximilian Schell in Judgement at Nuremberg
Spencer Tracy in Judgement at Nuremberg

Best Actress
Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Piper Laurie in The Hustler
Sophia Loren in Two Women
Geraldine Page in Summer and Smoke
Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass

Best Supporting Actor
George Chakiris in West Side Story
Montgomery Clift in Judgement at Nuremberg
Peter Falk in Pocketful of Miracles
Jackie Gleason in The Hustler
George C. Scott in The Hustler

Best Supporting Actress
Fay Bainter in The Children’s Hour
Judy Garland in Judgement at Nuremberg
Lotte Lenya in The Roman of Mrs. Stone
Una Merkel in Summer and Smoke
Rita Moreno in West Side Story

Best Director
Federico Fellini for La Dolce Vita
Stanley Kramer for Judgement at Nuremberg
Robert Rossen for The Hustler
J. Lee Thompson for The Guns of Navarone
Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for West Side Story

Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
George Axelrod for Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Carl Foreman for The Guns of Navarone
Sidney Carroll and Robert Rossen for The Hustler
Abby Mann for Judgement at Nuremberg
Ernest Lehman for West Side Story


Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Valentin Yoshov and Grigori Chukhrai for Ballad of a Soldier
Sergio Amidei, Deigo Fabbri and Indro Montanelli for General Della Rovere
Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano and Brunello Rondi for La Dolce Vita
Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning for Lover Come Back
William Inge for Splendor in the Grass

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Edward Colman for The Absent-Minded Professor
Franz F. Planner for The Children's Hour
Eugen Shuftan for The Hustler
Ernest Laszlo for Judgement at Nuremberg
Daniel L. Fapp for One, Two, Three

Best Cinematography (Color)
Jack Cardiff for Fanny
Russell Metty for Flower Drum Song
Harry Stradling, Sr. for A Majority of One
Charles Lang, Jr. for One-Eyed Jacks
Daniel L. Fapp for West Side Story

Best Art Direction-Set Direction (Black-and-White)
Carroll Clark; Emile Kuri and Hal Gausman for The Absent-Minded Professor
Fernando Carrere; Edward G. Boyle for The Children's Hour
Harry Horner; Gene Callahan for The Hustler
Rudolph Sternad; George Milo for Judgement at Nuremberg
Piero Gherardi for La Dolce Vita

Best Art Direction-Set Direction (Color)
Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson; Sam Comer and Ray Moyer for Breakfast at Tiffany's
Veniero Colasanti and John Moore for El Cid
Alexander Golitzen and Joseph Wright; Howard Bristol for Flower Drum Song
Hal Pereira and Walter Tyler; Sam Comer and Arthur Krams for Summer and Smoke
Boris Leven; Victor A. Gangelin for West Side Story

Best Sound
The Children's Hour Gordon E. Sawyer, sound director
Flower Drum Song Waldon O. Watson, sound director
The Guns of Navarone John Cox, sound director
The Parent Trap Robert O. Cook, sound director
West Side Story Fred Hynes, sound director and Gordon E. Sawyer, sound director

Best Song
"Bachelor in Paradise" from Bachelor in Paradise. Music by Henry Mancini. Lyrics by Mack David.
"Love Theme from El Cid (The Falcon and the Dove)" from El Cid. Music by Miklos Rozsa. Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.
"Moon River" from Breakfast at Tiffany's. Music by Henry Mancini. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
"Pocketful of Miracles" from Pocketful of Miracles. Music by James Van Heusen. Lyrics by Sammy Cahn.
"Town Without Pity" from Town Without Pity. Music by Dimitri Tiomkin. Lyrics by Ned Washington.

Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Henry Mancini for Breakfast at Tiffany's
Miklos Rozsa for El Cid
Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman for Fanny
Dimitri Tiomkin for The Guns of Navarone
Elmer Bernstein for Summer and Smoke

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
George Bruns for Babes in Toyland
Alfred Newman and Ken Darby for Flower Drum Song
Dimitri Shostakovich for Khovanshchina
Duke Ellington for Paris Blues
Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal for West Side Story

Best Film Editing
William H. Reynolds for Fanny
Alan Osbiston for The Guns of Navarone
Frederic Knudtson for Judgement at Nuremberg
Philip W. Anderson for The Parent Trap
Thomas Stanford for West Side Story

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)
Dorothy Jeakins for The Chidren's Hour
Howard Shoup for Claudelle Inglish
Jean Louis for Judgement at Nuremberg
Piero Gherardi for La Dolce Vita
Yoshiro Muraki for Yojimbo

Best Costume Design (Color)
Bill Thomas for Babes in Toyland
Jean Louis for Back Street
Irene Shariff for Flower Drum Song
Edith Head and Walter Plunkett for Pocketful of Miracles
Irene Shariff for West Side Story

Best Special Effects
Robert A. Mattey and Eustace Lycett for The Absent-Minded Professor
Bill Warrington (Visual) and Vivian C. Greenham (Audible) for The Guns of Navarone

Best Short Subject Cartoon
Aquamania Walt Disney, producer
Beep Prepared Chuch Jones, producer
Ersatz (The Substitute) Zagred Film, Herts-Lion International
Nelly's Folly Chuck Jones, producer
Pied Piper of Guadalupe Friz Freleng, producer

Best Live Action Short Subject
Ballon Vole (Play Ball!) Cine-Documents, Kingley International
The Face of Jesus Dr. John D. Jennings, producer
Rooftops of New York McCarty-Rush-Gaffney, Columbia
Seawards the Great Ships Templar Film Studios, Schoenfeld Films
Very Nice, Very Nice National Film Board of Canada, Kingley International

Best Documentary Short Subject
Breaking the Language Barrier U.S. Air Force
Cradle of Genius (Irish) Jim O'Connor and Tom Hayes, producers
Kahl (German) Dido-Film-GmbH., AEG-Filmdienst
L'Uomo in Grigio (The Man in Gray) (Italian) Benedetto Benedetti, producer
Project Hope Frank P. Bibas, producer

Best Documentary Feature
La Grande Olimipade (Olympic Games 1960) Cineriz (Italian)
Le Ciel et la Boue (Sky Above and Mud Beneath) Arthur Cohn and Rene Lafuite, producers

Best Foreign Film
Harry and the Butler (Denmark)
Immortal Love (Japan)
The Important Man (Mexico)
Placido (Spain)
Through a Glass Darkly (Sweden)

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Stanley Kramer

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
George Seaton

Honorary Awards
William Hendricks for his outstanding patriotic service in the conception, writing and production of the Marine Corps film, A Force in Readiness, which has brought honor to the Academy and the motion picture industry (statuette)

Fred L. Metzler for his dedication and outstanding service to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (statuette)

Jerome Robbins for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography (statuette)

The 1961 British Academy Awards (Source: Bo Smith- The BAFTA Film Awards, 1989)


Best Film From Any Source and Best British Film
Ballad of a Soldier (USSR)- won for Best Film From Any Source (tie)
The Hustler (U.S.)- won for Best Film from Any Source (tie)
The Innocents (Great Britain)
Judgement at Nuremberg (U.S.)
Le Trou (France)
The Long and the Short and the Tall
Rocco and His Brothers (Italy)
The Sundowners (G.B.)
A Taste of Honey (G.B.)- won for Best British Film
Whistle Down the Wind (G.B.)
The World of Apu (India)

Best British Actor
Dirk Bogarde in Victim
Peter Finch in No Love for Johnnie

Best British Actress
Dora Bryan in A Taste of Honey
Deborah Kerr in The Sundowners
Hayley Mills in Whistle Down the Wind

Best Foreign Actor
Montgomery Clift in Judgement at Nuremberg
Vladimir Ivashov in Ballad of a Soldier
Philippe Leroy in Le Trou
Paul Newman in The Hustler
Sidney Poitier in A Raisin in the Sun
Maximilian Schell in Judgement at Nuremberg
Alberto Sordi in The Best of Enemies


Best Foreign Actress
Annie Girardot in Rocco and His Brothers
Piper Laurie in The Hustler
Sophia Loren in Two Women
Claudia McNeil in A Raisin in the Sun
Jean Seberg in Breathless

Most Promising Newcomer
Anthony Hancock in The Rebel
Murray Melvin in A Taste of Honey
Rita Tushingham in A Taste of Honey

Best British Screenplay
Wolf Mankowitz and Val Guest for The Day the Earth Caught Fire (tie)
Ted Willis for Flame in the Streets
Carl Foreman for The Guns of Navarone
Shelagh Delaney and Tony Richardson for A Taste of Honey (tie)
Janet Green and John McCormick for Victim
Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall for Whistle Down the Wind

The Robert Flaherty Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary
Volcano (Le Rendez-Vous du Diable) (France)

Best Short Film
Eyes of a Child(G.B.)
Let My People Go (G.B.)
Terminus (G.B.)

Best Specialized Film (no winner chosen)
Electron Microscopy
Mr. Marsh Comes to School (G.B.)
"O" for Oxygen

Best Animated Film
Do it Yourself Cartoon Kit (G.B.)
For Better . . . For Worse (G.B.)
101 Dalmatians (U.S.)

United Nations Award
The Best of Enemies (Italy)
Let My People Go (G.B.)
Take a Giant Step (U.S.)

The Top Box-Office Hits of 1961 (According to Variety- lists U.S. and Canadian rental fees up to the end of the calendar year. Late 1960 releases that primarily earned revenue in 1961 are included. Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

1) The Guns of Navarone- $8,600,000
2) The Absent-Minded Professor- $8,200,000
3) The Parent Trap- $8,000,000
4) Swiss Family Robinson (1960)- $7,500,000
5) Exodus (1960)- $7,350,000
6) The World of Suzie Wong (1960)- $7,300,000
7) The Alamo (1960)- $7,250,000
8) Gone With the Wind (1939 reissue)- $6,000,000
9) 101 Dalmatians- $5,800,000
10) Splendor in the Grass- $5,100,000 (Splendor also placed at #19 on Variety's 1962 list)
11) Come September- $4,500,000
      North to Alaska (1960)- $4,500,000
      Fanny- $4,500,000
14) Pepe (1960)- $4,300,000
      One-Eyed Jacks- $4,300,000
16) Parrish- $4,200,000
17) The Misfits- $3,900,000
18) The Sundowners (1960)- $3,800,000
19) Midnight Lace (1960)- $3,500,000
20) Never on Sunday (1960)- $3,300,000
      Where the Boys Are (1960)- $3,300,000
      The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960)- $3,300,000

The Top Ten Box-Office Stars of 1961 (according to Quigley Publishing’s poll of film exhibitors)

1) Elizabeth Taylor
2) Rock Hudson
3) Doris Day
4) John Wayne
5) Cary Grant
6) Sandra Dee
7) Jerry Lewis
8) William Holden
9) Tony Curtis
10) Elvis Presley

The Next Fifteen:

11) Burt Lancaster
12) Frank Sinatra
13) Debbie Reynolds
14) Jack Lemmon
15) Glenn Ford
16) Kirk Douglas
17) Paul Newman
18) Charlton Heston
19) Susan Hayward
20) Gregory Peck
21) Marlon Brando
22) James Stewart
23) Shirley MacLaine
24) Troy Donahue
25) Natalie Wood

Great Britain's Top Ten Box-Office Stars of 1961 (according to the Motion Picture Herald's poll of British film exhibitors)
1) Hayley Mills
2) Sophia Loren
3) Kenneth More
4) Elizabeth Taylor
5) John Mills
6) Peter Sellers
7) Audrey Hepburn
8) Dirk Bogarde
9) Jack Lemmon
10) John Wayne

Great Britain's top Box-Office films (according to the Motion Picture Herald- listed in order of precedence)


1) Swiss Family Robinson
2) The Magnificent Seven
3) Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
4) 101 Dalmatians
5) Pollyanna
6) The Rebel
7) The Sundowners
8) Whistle Down the Wind
9) Butterfield 8
10) Carry On Regardless
11) The Parent Trap
12) The Long and the Short and the Tall

The Golden Laurel Awards for 1962 (Covers 1961 films, unless otherwise noted. Published in the Motion Picture Exhibitor Magazine on September 26th, 1962. Winners listed in order of preference. Source: IMDB)

Top Drama
1) The Guns of Navarone
2) The Hustler
3) Judgement at Nuremberg
4) Fanny
5) La Ciociara (1960)


Top Comedy
1) Lover Come Back
2) Bachelor in Paradise
3) Breakfast at Tiffany's
4) One, Two, Three
5) A Majority of One

Top Musical
1) West Side Story
2) Flower Drum Song
3) Babes in Toyland
4) Blue Hawaii

Top Action Drama
1) El Cid
2) Sergeants Three (1962)
3) The Comancheros
4) One-Eyed Jacks
5) A Thunder of Drums

Top General Entertainment
1) The Parent Trap

Top Male Dramatic Performance
1) Paul Newman in The Hustler
2) Maximilian Schell in Judgement at Nuremberg
3) Gregory Peck in The Guns of Navarone
4) Tony Curtis in The Outsider
5) Charles Boyer in Fanny


Top Female Dramatic Performance
1) Shirley MacLaine in The Children's Hour
2) Piper Laurie in The Hustler
3) Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass
4) Audrey Hepburn in The Children's Hour
5) Leslie Caron in Fanny

Top Male Comedy Performance
1) Bob Hope in Bachelor in Paradise
2) Rock Hudson in Lover Come Back
3) Tony Randall in Lover Come Back
4) James Cagney in One, Two, Three
5) Brian Keith in The Parent Trap

Top Female Comedy Performance
1) Doris Day in Lover Come Back
2) Hayley Mills in The Parent Trap
3) Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's
4) Debbie Reynolds in The Second Time Around
5) Edie Adams in Lover Come Back

Top Action Performance
1) John Wayne in The Comancheros
2) Frank Sinatra in The Devil at 4 O'Clock
3) James Stewart in Two Rode Together
4) Kirk Douglas in The Last Sunset
5) Stuart Whitman in The Comancheros

Top Male Supporting Performance
1) Jackie Gleason in The Hustler
2) George Chakiris in West Side Story
3) Ed Begley in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
4) Montgomery Clift in Judgement at Nuremberg
5) Lee Marvin in The Comancheros

Top Female Supporting Performance
1) Rita Moreno in West Side Story
2) Fay Bainter in The Children's Hour
3) Thelma Ritter in The Second Time Around
4) Juanita Hall in Flower Drum Song
5) Judy Garland in Judgement at Nuremberg

Top Male Star
1) Rock Hudson
2) Cary Grant
3) Paul Newman
4) Tony Curtis
5) Kirk Douglas
6) Robert Mitchum
7) Burt Lancaster
8) John Wayne
9) Jerry Lewis
10) Jack Lemmon
11) Bob Hope
12) William Holden
13) Frank Sinatra
14) James Stewart
15) Charlton Heston

Top Female Star
1) Doris Day
2) Shirley MacLaine
3) Audrey Hepburn
4) Hayley Mills
5) Natalie Wood
6) Elizabeth Taylor
7) Debbie Reynolds
8) Angie Dickinson
9) Shirley Jones
10) Marilyn Monroe
11) Sandra Dee
12) Sophia Loren
13) Kim Novak
14) Paula Prentiss
15) Joanne Woodward