The most memorable event of the night came when Stan Berman, a New York City cabdriver famous for crashing celebrity parties, evaded security and made his way onstage to award Hope a homemade Oscar.[1]
William L. 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."
Fred L. Metzler "for his dedication and outstanding service to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences."
Jerome Robbins "for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film."
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The 34th Academy Awards honoring the best in film for 1961 were held on April 9 1962 hosted by Bob Hope at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica California 34th Academy AwardsDateApril 9 1962SiteSanta Monica Civic Auditorium Santa Monica CaliforniaHosted byBob HopeProduced byArthur FreedDirected byRichard DunlapHighlightsBest PictureWest Side StoryMost awardsWest Side Story 10 Most nominationsJudgment at Nuremberg and West Side Story 11 TV in the United StatesNetworkABCDuration2 hours 10 minutes 33rd Academy Awards 35th Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins became the first Best Director co winners for West Side Story The film won 10 of its 11 nominations including Best Picture and both supporting acting Oscars becoming the most successful musical in Oscars history Legendary filmmaker Federico Fellini received his first Best Director nomination for La Dolce Vita while fellow Italian Sophia Loren became the second performer to win an Oscar for a non English language role after Jane Wyman s American Sign Language performance in Johnny Belinda 1948 The most memorable event of the night came when Stan Berman a New York City cabdriver famous for crashing celebrity parties evaded security and made his way onstage to award Hope a homemade Oscar 1 Contents 1 Awards 1 1 Academy Honorary Awards 1 2 Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award 1 3 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award 2 Presenters and performers 2 1 Presenters 2 2 Performers 3 Multiple nominations and awards 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksAwards edit nbsp Robert Wise Best Picture winner and Best Director co winner nbsp Jerome Robbins Best Director co winner nbsp Maximilian Schell Best Actor winner nbsp Sophia Loren Best Actress winner nbsp George Chakiris Best Supporting Actor winner nbsp Rita Moreno Best Supporting Actress winner nbsp William Inge Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen winner nbsp Henry Mancini Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture winner and Best Song co winner nbsp Johnny Mercer Best Song co winner nbsp Boris Leven Best Art Direction Color co winner Nominations are announced on February 26 1962 Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface 2 Best Motion Picture Best DirectorWest Side Story Robert Wise producer Fanny Joshua Logan producer The Guns of Navarone Carl Foreman producer The Hustler Robert Rossen producer Judgment at Nuremberg Stanley Kramer producer Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins West Side Story Federico Fellini La Dolce Vita J Lee Thompson The Guns of Navarone Robert Rossen The Hustler Stanley Kramer Judgment at NurembergBest Actor Best ActressMaximilian Schell Judgment at Nuremberg as Hans Rolfe Charles Boyer Fanny as Cesar Paul Newman The Hustler as Eddie Felson Spencer Tracy Judgment at Nuremberg as Dan Haywood Stuart Whitman The Mark as Jim Fuller Sophia Loren Two Women as Cesira Audrey Hepburn Breakfast at Tiffany s as Holly Golightly Piper Laurie The Hustler as Sarah Packard Geraldine Page Summer and Smoke as Alma Winemiller Natalie Wood Splendor in the Grass as Wilma Dean Deanie LoomisBest Supporting Actor Best Supporting ActressGeorge Chakiris West Side Story as Bernardo Montgomery Clift Judgment at Nuremberg as Rudolph Peterson Peter Falk Pocketful of Miracles as Joy Boy Jackie Gleason The Hustler as Minnesota Fats George C Scott The Hustler as Bert Gordon Rita Moreno West Side Story as Anita Fay Bainter The Children s Hour as Mrs Amelia Tilford Judy Garland Judgment at Nuremberg as Irene Hoffmann Wallner Lotte Lenya The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone as Contessa Una Merkel Summer and Smoke as Mrs WinemillerBest Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another MediumSplendor in the Grass William Inge Ballad of a Soldier Valentin Yezhov and Grigori Chukhrai La Dolce Vita Federico Fellini Tullio Pinelli Ennio Flaiano and Brunello Rondi General Della Rovere Sergio Amidei Diego Fabbri and Indro Montanelli Lover Come Back Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning Judgment at Nuremberg Abby Mann Breakfast at Tiffany s George Axelrod The Guns of Navarone Carl Foreman The Hustler Robert Rossen and Sidney Carroll West Side Story Ernest LehmanBest Foreign Language Film Best Documentary FeatureThrough a Glass Darkly Sweden Harry and the Butler Denmark Immortal Love Japan The Important Man Mexico Placido Spain Sky Above and Mud Beneath The Grand OlympicsBest Documentary Short Subject Best Live Action Short SubjectProject Hope Breaking the Language Barrier Cradle of Genius Kahl The Man in Gray Seawards the Great Ships The Face of Jesus Play Ball Rooftops of New York Very Nice Very NiceBest Short Subject Cartoons Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy PictureSurogat Aquamania Beep Prepared Nelly s Folly The Pied Piper of Guadalupe Breakfast at Tiffany s Henry Mancini El Cid Miklos Rozsa Fanny Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman The Guns of Navarone Dimitri Tiomkin Summer and Smoke Elmer BernsteinBest Scoring of a Musical Picture Best SongWest Side Story Saul Chaplin Johnny Green Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal Babes in Toyland George Bruns Flower Drum Song Alfred Newman and Ken Darby Khovanshchina Dmitri Shostakovich Paris Blues Duke Ellington Moon River from Breakfast at Tiffany s Music by Henry Mancini Lyric by Johnny Mercer Bachelor in Paradise from Bachelor in Paradise Music by Henry Mancini Lyric by Mack David Love Theme from El Cid The Falcon and the Dove from El Cid Music by Miklos Rozsa Lyric by Paul Francis Webster Pocketful of Miracles from Pocketful of Miracles Music by Jimmy Van Heusen Lyric by Sammy Cahn Town Without Pity from Town Without Pity Music by Dimitri Tiomkin Lyric by Ned WashingtonBest Sound Best Art Direction Black and WhiteWest Side Story Gordon E Sawyer and Fred Hynes The Children s Hour Gordon E Sawyer Flower Drum Song Waldon O Watson The Guns of Navarone John Cox The Parent Trap Robert O Cook The Hustler Art Direction Harry Horner Set Decoration Gene Callahan The Absent Minded Professor Art Direction Carroll Clark Set Decoration Emile Kuri and Hal Gausman The Children s Hour Art Direction Fernando Carrere Set Decoration Edward G Boyle La Dolce Vita Art Direction and Set Decoration Piero Gherardi Judgment at Nuremberg Art Direction Rudolph Sternad Set Decoration George MiloBest Art Direction Color Best Cinematography Black and WhiteWest Side Story Art Direction Boris Leven Set Decoration Victor A Gangelin Breakfast at Tiffany s Art Direction Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson Set Decoration Samuel M Comer and Ray Moyer El Cid Art Direction and Set Decoration Veniero Colasanti and John Moore Flower Drum Song Art Direction Alexander Golitzen and Joseph C Wright Set Decoration Howard Bristol Summer and Smoke Art Direction Hal Pereira and Walter H Tyler Set Decoration Samuel M Comer and Arthur Krams The Hustler Eugen Schufftan The Absent Minded Professor Edward Colman The Children s Hour Franz Planer Judgment at Nuremberg Ernest Laszlo One Two Three Daniel L FappBest Cinematography Color Best Costume Design Black and WhiteWest Side Story Daniel L Fapp Fanny Jack Cardiff Flower Drum Song Russell Metty A Majority of One Harry Stradling One Eyed Jacks Charles Lang La Dolce Vita Piero Gherardi The Children s Hour Dorothy Jeakins Claudelle Inglish Howard Shoup Judgment at Nuremberg Jean Louis Yojimbo Yoshirō MurakiBest Costume Design Color Best Film EditingWest Side Story Irene Sharaff Babes in Toyland Bill Thomas Back Street Jean Louis Flower Drum Song Irene Sharaff Pocketful of Miracles Edith Head and Walter Plunkett West Side Story Thomas Stanford Fanny William H Reynolds The Guns of Navarone Alan Osbiston Judgment at Nuremberg Frederic Knudtson The Parent Trap Philip W AndersonBest Special EffectsThe Guns of Navarone Visual Effects by Bill Warrington Audible Effects by Vivian C Greenham The Absent Minded Professor Visual Effects by Robert A Mattey and Eustace LycettAcademy Honorary Awards edit William L 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 Fred L Metzler for his dedication and outstanding service to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Jerome Robbins for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award edit Stanley KramerJean Hersholt Humanitarian Award edit George SeatonPresenters and performers editThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed September 2015 Learn how and when to remove this template message Presenters edit Eddie Albert and Dina Merrill Presenters Costume Design Awards Fred Astaire Presenter Best Picture Carroll Baker and Richard Chamberlain Presenters Art Direction Awards Charles Brackett Presenter Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to George Seaton Macdonald Carey and Shirley Knight Presenters Best Special Effects George Chakiris and Carolyn Jones Presenters Documentary Awards Cyd Charisse and Tony Martin Presenters Music Awards Wendell Corey Presenter Honorary Award to Fred L Metzler Joan Crawford Presenter Best Actor Vince Edwards and Shelley Winters Presenters Cinematography Awards Anthony Franciosa and Joanne Woodward Presenters Best Sound Recording Arthur Freed Presenter Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award to Stanley Kramer George Hamilton and Glynis Johns Presenters Short Subjects Awards Rock Hudson Presenter Best Supporting Actress Eric Johnston Presenter Best Foreign Language Film Shirley Jones Presenter Best Supporting Actor Gene Kelly Presenter Honorary Award to Jerome Robbins Burt Lancaster Presenter Best Actress Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick Presenters Writing Awards Debbie Reynolds Presenter Best Original Song Rosalind Russell Presenter Best Director Performers edit Ann Margret Bachelor in Paradise from Bachelor in Paradise Gogi Grant Pocketful of Miracles from Pocketful of Miracles Johnny Mathis Love Theme from El Cid The Falcon and the Dove from El Cid Gene Pitney Town Without Pity from Town Without Pity Andy Williams Moon River from Breakfast at Tiffany s Multiple nominations and awards editThese films had multiple nominations 11 nominations Judgment at Nuremberg and West Side Story 9 nominations The Hustler 7 nominations The Guns of Navarone 5 nominations Breakfast at Tiffany s The Children s Hour Fanny and Flower Drum Song 4 nominations La Dolce Vita and Summer and Smoke 3 nominations The Absent Minded Professor El Cid and Pocketful of Miracles 2 nominations Babes in Toyland The Parent Trap and Splendor in the Grass The following films received multiple awards 10 wins West Side Story 2 wins Breakfast at Tiffany s Judgment at Nuremberg and The HustlerSee also edit19th Golden Globe Awards 1961 in film 4th Grammy Awards 13th Primetime Emmy Awards 14th Primetime Emmy Awards 15th British Academy Film Awards 16th Tony AwardsReferences edit How the World s Greatest Gate Crasher Made It to the Oscar Stage 60 Years Ago Vanity Fair March 23 2022 The 34th Academy Awards 1962 Nominees and Winners oscars org Archived from the original on February 15 2015 Retrieved February 19 2015 External links editThe 34th Annual Academy Awards at IMDb List of winners at Infoplease Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 34th Academy Awards amp oldid 1178834492, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
