Golden Globe Awards 1961
The 18th Golden Globe Awards ceremony took place on March 16, 1961.
Award winners and nominations
Statistics (films with more than one nomination are listed) N = nomination; G = Won |
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Movie | N | G |
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Elmer Gantry | 5 | 1 |
Spartacus | 5 | 1 |
The apartment | 4th | 3 |
Sons and lovers | 4th | 1 |
The world of Suzie Wong | 3 | 1 |
Exodus | 3 | 1 |
Only a few are chosen | 3 | 1 |
The darkness at the end of the stairs | 3 | 0 |
Pepe - What can the world cost | 3 | 0 |
Such an affair | 3 | 0 |
Sunrise at Campobello | 2 | 1 |
From the terrace | 2 | 1 |
Just give us a call - come to the house | 2 | 0 |
It started in Naples | 2 | 0 |
There is a warning against house friends | 2 | 0 |
Who sows the wind | 2 | 0 |
Best film - drama
Spartacus - Director: Stanley Kubrick
- Elmer Gantry - Director: Richard Brooks
- Sons and Lovers (Sons and Lovers) - Director: Jack Cardiff
- Sunrise at Campobello - Director: Vincent J. Donahue
- Who sows the Wind (Inherit the Wind) - Director: Stanley Kramer
Best Film - Comedy
The apartment (The Apartment) - Director: Billy Wilder
- It Started in Naples (It Started in Naples) - Director: Melville Shavelson
- Such an Affair (The Facts of Life) - Director: Melvin Frank
- Our Man in Havana (Our Man in Havana) - Director: Carol Reed
- Warning of House Friends (The Grass Is Greener) - Director: Stanley Donen
Best film - musical
Few Are Chosen (Song Without End) - Directed by Charles Vidor
- Just give us a call - come to the house (Bells Are Ringing) - Director: Vincente Minnelli
- Can-Can - Director: Walter Lang
- Let's Make Love (Let's Make Love) - Director: George Cukor
- Pepe - What Can the World Cost (Pepe) - Director: George Sidney
Best film to promote international understanding
Hand in Hand - Director: Philip Leacock
- Conspiracy of Hearts (Conspiracy of Hearts) - Director: Charles Vidor
Best director
Jack Cardiff - Sons and Lovers (Sons and Lovers)
- Richard Brooks - Elmer Gantry
- Stanley Kubrick - Spartacus
- Billy Wilder - The Apartment (The Apartment)
- Fred Zinnemann - The Endless Horizon (The Sundowners)
Best Actor - Drama
- Trevor Howard - Sons and Lovers (Sons and Lovers)
- Laurence Olivier - Spartacus
- Dean Stockwell - Sons and Lovers (Sons and Lovers)
- Spencer Tracy - who sows the wind (Inherit the Wind)
Best Actress - Drama
Greer Garson - Sunrise at Campobello
- Doris Day - Mitternachtsspitzen (Midnight Lace)
- Nancy Kwan - Die Welt der Suzie Wong (The World of Suzie Wong)
- Jean Simmons - Elmer Gantry
- Elizabeth Taylor - Telephone Butterfield 8 (BUtterfeld 8)
Best Actor - Musical / Comedy
Jack Lemmon - Appartement (The Apartment)
- Cantinflas - Pepe - What can the world cost (Pepe)
- Dirk Bogarde - Only Few Are Chosen (Song Without End)
- Cary Grant - House Friends Warned (The Grass Is Greener)
- Bob Hope - Such An Affair (The Facts of Life)
Best Actress - Musical / Comedy
Shirley MacLaine - The Apartment (The Apartment)
- Lucille Ball - Such An Affair (The Facts of Life)
- Capucine - Few Are Chosen (Song Without End)
- Sophia Loren - It Started in Naples (It Started in Naples)
- Judy Holliday - just give us a call - come into the house (Bells Are Ringing)
Best supporting actor
- Lee Kinsolving - The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (The Dark at the Top of Stairs)
- Ray stricklyn - The Marauders (The Plunderers)
- Woody Strode - Spartacus
- Peter Ustinov - Spartacus
The best supporting actress
- Ina Balin - From the terrace (From the Terace)
- Shirley Jones - Elmer Gantry
- Shirley Knight - The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (The Dark at the Top of Stairs)
- Mary Ure - Sons and Lovers (Sons and Lovers)
Best newcomer of the year
Michael Callan - Because They're Young
Mark Damon - The Cursed (The Fall of the House of Usher)
Brett Halsey - lust in the dust (Desire in the Dust)
- Peter Falk - Underworld (Murder, Inc.)
- David Janssen - From Hell to Eternity (Hell to Eternity)
- Robert Vaughn - The Magnificent Seven (The Magnificent Seven)
Best newcomer of the year
Ina Balin - Von der Terrasse (From the Terace)
Nancy Kwan - Die Welt der Suzie Wong (The World of Suzie Wong)
Hayley Mills - Everyone loves Pollyanna (Pollyanna)
- Jill Hayworth - Exodus
- Shirley Knight - The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (The Dark at the Top of Stairs)
- Julie Newmar - Ehekarussell (The Marriage-Go-Round)
Best film score
Dimitri Tiomkin - The Alamo (The Alamo)
- George Duning - Die Welt der Suzie Wong (The World of Suzie Wong)
- Ernest Gold - Exodus
- Johny Green - Pepe - What can the world cost (Pepe)
- Alex North - Spartacus
Best foreign language film
Die Jungfrauenquelle (Jungfrukällan) , Sweden - Director: Ingmar Bergman
The Truth (La vérité) , France - Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Apus way into life: Apus Welt (Apur Sansar) , India - Director: Satyajit Ray
- The Angel's House (La casa del ángel) , Argentina - Director: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
- The Ballade from the Soldier (Ballada o soldate) , Soviet Union - Director: Grigori Naumowitsch Tschuchrai
- Kap , Italy - Director: Unknown
- Macario , Mexico - Director: Roberto Gavaldón
- Sundays ... never! (Ποτέ Την Κυριακή) Greece - Director: Jules Dassin
Samuel Goldwyn Award (Best English-Language Foreign Film)
The Man with the Green Carnation (The Trials of Oscar Wilde) , United Kingdom - Director: Ken Hughes
- Once a Hero (Tunes of Glory) , United Kingdom - Director: Ronald Neame
- Angry silence (The Angry Silence) , United Kingdom - Director: Guy Green
Cecil B. DeMille Award
Henrietta Award (world star male)
Henrietta Award (world star female)
Special Achievement Award
Cantinflas for his comedic performance.
Stanley Kramer for artistic integrity
Special Merit Award
The Endless Horizon (The Sundowners)