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The Apartment
- The Best Picture Award winner was director/producer/writer Billy Wilder's cynical and risque black and white comedy/tragi-drama The Apartment (with a total of ten nominations and five wins - Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Writing: Story and Screenplay, Best B/W Art Direction, and Best Film Editing).
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Best Motion Picture - Otto Preminger, Producer Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Wendell Mayes
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The 32nd Academy Awards ceremony was held on April 4, 1960, at the RKO Pantages Theatre, to honor the films of 1959. William Wyler's Bible epic Ben-Hur won 11 Oscars, breaking the record of nine set the previous year by Gigi. This total was later tied by Titanic in 1997 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003.
Best Motion PictureBest DirectorBen-Hur – Sam Zimbalist, producer ( ...William Wyler – Ben-Hur ‡ George Stevens ...Charlton Heston – Ben-Hur as Judah ...Simone Signoret – Room at the Top as ...Hugh Griffith – Ben-Hur as Sheik Ilderim ...Shelley Winters – The Diary of Anne Frank ...Pillow Talk – Story by Russell Rouse and ...Room at the Top – Neil Paterson based on ...Mar 13, 2022 · After winning a slew of precursor awards, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” swept the 2023 Oscars with seven trophies, becoming the most-awarded best picture winner since 2008’s...
- 1960. Filmsite's Greatest Films of 1960. THE APARTMENT (1960) The Alamo (1960) Elmer Gantry (1960) Sons and Lovers (1960, UK) The Sundowners (1960)
- 1961. Filmsite's Greatest Films of 1961. WEST SIDE STORY (1961) Fanny (1961) The Guns of Navarone (1961) The Hustler (1961) Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
- 1962. Filmsite's Greatest Films of 1962. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) The Longest Day (1962) The Music Man (1962) Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- 1963. Filmsite's Greatest Films of 1963. TOM JONES (1963, UK) America, America (1963) Cleopatra (1963) How the West Was Won (1962) Lilies of the Field (1963)
A list of films that won the Academy Awards "Oscar" for "Best Motion Picture of the Year". See also Best Picture Nominees. More Awards:
The Honorary Oscar award was awarded to a gravely-ill Gary Cooper this year, "for his many memorable screen performances and the international recognition he, as an individual, has gained for the motion picture industry."
Best Motion Picture - Fred Zinnemann, Producer Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Isobel Lennart
