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Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Franz Waxman Best Motion Picture - Henry Blanke, Producer Sound - Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, George R. Groves, Sound Director Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Robert Anderson
32nd Academy Awards; Date: April 4, 1960: Site: RKO Pantages Theatre, (Hollywood, California) Hosted by: Bob Hope: Produced by: Arthur Freed: Directed by: Alan Handley: Highlights; Best Picture: Ben-Hur: Most awards: Ben-Hur (11) Most nominations: Ben-Hur (12) TV in the United States; Network: NBC
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 ...Scoring of a Musical Picture: Yankee Doodle Dandy: Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld: Flying with Music: Edward Ward: For Me and My Gal: Roger Edens and Georgie Stoll: Holiday Inn: Robert E. Dolan: It Started with Eve: Hans J. Salter and Charles Previn: Johnny Doughboy: Walter Scharf: My Gal Sal: Alfred Newman: You Were Never Lovelier: Leigh ...
Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) - Johnny Green Music (Song) - Faraway Part Of Town in "Pepe" Music by Andre Previn; Lyrics by Dory Langdon Sound - Columbia Studio Sound Department, Charles Rice, Sound Director
- 1961: Ernest Gold, Exodus (drama or comedy); Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman, Song Without End (musical) The Apartment was the big winner this year (and the last black-and-white Best Picture winner until Schindler's List in 1993), but Adolph Deutsch wasn't even nominated for Best Original Score.
- 1962: Henry Mancini, Breakfast at Tiffany's (drama or comedy); Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin, and Irwin Kostal, West Side Story (musical) It was a given that the team behind West Side Story’s film score would win in their category, though stage composer Leonard Bernstein didn't love the way his music sounded on screen, with an orchestra three times the size of his Broadway band.
- 1963: Maurice Jarre, Lawrence of Arabia (original); Ray Heindorf, The Music Man (adaptation or treatment) Maurice Jarre easily landed this year's drama/comedy score Oscar with his career-defining music for the grand Hollywood epic Lawrence of Arabia: one of the top three film scores of all time, if you believe the American Film Institute.
- 1964: John Addison, Tom Jones (original); André Previn, Irma la Douce (adaptation) The buzz at this year's Oscars surrounded the Best Supporting Actress category — where, for the only time ever, three of the five nominations went to performers from the same movie.
In January 1959, Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty was released. It earned a nomination for Music – Scoring of a Musical Picture. In March 1959, the Barbie doll went on display at the American Toy Fair in New York City. On August 21, 1959, Hawaii was admitted as the 50th U.S. state.
