Golden Globe Awards 1961

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The 18th Golden Globe Awards ceremony took place on March 16, 1961.

Award winners and nominations

Movie	N	G
Statistics (films with more than one nomination are listed) N = nomination; G = Won
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

Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry

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

Sal Mineo - Exodus

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

Janet Leigh - Psycho

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

Fred Astaire

Henrietta Award (world star male)

Tony Curtis
Rock Hudson

Henrietta Award (world star female)

Gina Lollobrigida

Special Achievement Award

Cantinflas for his comedic performance.
Stanley Kramer for artistic integrity

Special Merit Award

The Endless Horizon (The Sundowners)

Best TV performance

Walter Cronkite
William Hanna

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