32nd Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1960)

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• Date of Ceremony: Monday, April 4, 1960
• For films released in: 1959

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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 32nd Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Motion Picture

• Anatomy of a Murder
  Otto Preminger [Producer]
• Ben-Hur
  Sam Zimbalist [Producer]
• The Diary of Anne Frank
  George Stevens [Producer]
• The Nun's Story
  Henry Blanke
• Room at the Top
  John Woolf [Producer] and James Woolf [Producer]

Best Directing

• Ben-Hur
  William Wyler
• The Diary of Anne Frank
  George Stevens
• The Nun's Story
  Fred Zinnemann
• Room at the Top
  Jack Clayton
• Some Like It Hot
  Billy Wilder

Best Actor

• Anatomy of a Murder
  James Stewart
• Ben-Hur
  Charlton Heston
• The Last Angry Man
  Paul Muni
• Room at the Top
  Laurence Harvey
• Some Like It Hot
  Jack Lemmon

Best Actress

• The Nun's Story
  Audrey Hepburn
• Pillow Talk
  Doris Day
• Room at the Top
  Simone Signoret
• Suddenly, Last Summer
  Katharine Hepburn
• Suddenly, Last Summer
  Elizabeth Taylor

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Anatomy of a Murder
  Arthur O'Connell
• Anatomy of a Murder
  George C. Scott
• Ben-Hur
  Hugh Griffith
• The Diary of Anne Frank
  Ed Wynn
• The Young Philadelphians
  Robert Vaughn

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• The Diary of Anne Frank
  Shelley Winters
• Imitation of Life
  Sarah Kohner
• Imitation of Life
  Juanita Moore
• Pillow Talk
  Thelma Ritter
• Room at the Top
  Hermione Baddeley

Best Foreign Language Film

• Black Orpheus
• The Bridge
• The Great War
• Paw
• The Village on the River

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

• Career
  Hal Pereira [Art Direction], Walter Tyler [Art Direction], Sam Comer [Set Decoration] and Arthur Krams [Set Decoration]
• The Diary of Anne Frank
  Lyle R. Wheeler [Art Direction], George W. Davis [Art Direction], Walter M. Scott [Set Decoration] and Stuart A. Reiss [Set Decoration]
• The Last Angry Man
  Carl Anderson [Art Direction] and William Kiernan [Set Decoration]
• Some Like It Hot
  Ted Haworth [Art Direction] and Edward G. Boyle [Set Decoration]
• Suddenly, Last Summer
  Oliver Messel [Art Direction], William Kellner [Art Direction] and Scot Slimon [Set Decoration]

Best Art Direction (Color)

• Ben-Hur
  William A. Horning [Art Direction], Edward Carfagno [Art Direction] and Hugh Hunt [Set Decoration]
• The Big Fisherman
  John DeCuir [Art Direction] and Julia Heron [Set Decoration]
• Journey to the Center of the Earth
  Lyle R. Wheeler [Art Direction], Franz Bachelin [Art Direction], Herman A. Blumenthal [Art Direction], Walter M. Scott [Set Decoration] and Joseph Kish [Set Decoration]
• North by Northwest
  William A. Horning [Art Direction], Robert Boyle [Art Direction], Merrill Pye [Art Direction], Henry Grace [Set Decoration] and Frank R. McKelvy [Set Decoration]
• Pillow Talk
  Richard H. Riedel [Art Direction], Russell A. Gausman [Set Decoration] and Ruby R. Levitt [Set Decoration]

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Anatomy of a Murder
  Sam Leavitt
• Career
  Joseph LaShelle
• The Diary of Anne Frank
  William C. Mellor
• Some Like It Hot
  Charles B. Lang Jr.
• The Young Philadelphians
  Harry Stradling Sr.

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Ben-Hur
  Robert L. Surtees
• The Big Fisherman
  Lee Garmes
• The Five Pennies
  Daniel L. Fapp
• The Nun's Story
  Franz F. Planer
• Porgy and Bess
  Leon Shamroy

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• Career
  Edith Head
• The Diary of Anne Frank
  Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills
• The Gazebo
  Helen Rose
• Some Like It Hot
  Orry-Kelly
• The Young Philadelphians
  Howard Shoup

Best Costume Design (Color)

• Ben-Hur
  Elizabeth Haffenden
• The Best of Everything
  Adele Palmer
• The Big Fisherman
  Renie
• The Five Pennies
  Edith Head
• Porgy and Bess
  Irene Sharaff

Best Documentary (Feature)

• The Race for Space
  David L. Wolper
• Serengeti Shall Not Die
  Bernhard Grzimek

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

• Donald in Mathmagic Land
  Walt Disney
• From Generation to Generation
  Edward F. Cullen
• Glass
  Bert Haanstra

Best Film Editing

• Anatomy of a Murder
  Louis R. Loeffler
• Ben-Hur
  Ralph E. Winters and John D. Dunning
• North by Northwest
  George Tomasini
• The Nun's Story
  Walter Thompson
• On the Beach
  Frederic Knudtson

Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

• Ben-Hur
  Miklos Rozsa
• The Diary of Anne Frank
  Alfred Newman
• The Nun's Story
  Franz Waxman
• On the Beach
  Ernest Gold
• Pillow Talk
  Frank DeVol

Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

• The Five Pennies
  Leith Stevens
• Li'l Abner
  Nelson Riddle and Joseph J. Lilley
• Porgy and Bess
  Andre Previn and Ken Darby
• Say One for Me
  Lionel Newman
• Sleeping Beauty
  George Bruns

Best Music (Song)

• The Best of Everything "The Best of Everything"
  Alfred Newman [Music by] and Sammy Cahn [Lyrics by]
• The Five Pennies "The Five Pennies"
  Sylvia Fine [Music and Lyrics by]
• The Hanging Tree "The Hanging Tree"
  Jerry Livingston [Music by] and Mack David [Lyrics by]
• A Hole in the Head "High Hopes"
  James Van Heusen [Music by] and Sammy Cahn [Lyrics by]
• The Young Land "Strange Are the Ways of Love"
  Dimitri Tiomkin [Music by] and Ned Washington [Lyrics by]

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• Mexicali Shmoes
  John W. Burton
• Moonbird
  John Hubley
• Noah's Ark
  Walt Disney
• The Violinist
  Ernest Pintoff

Best Short Subject (Live Action)

• Between the Tides
  Ian Ferguson
• The Golden Fish
  Jacques-Yves Cousteau
• Mysteries of the Deep
  Walt Disney
• The Running, Jumping and Standing-Still Film
  Peter Sellers
• Skyscraper
  Shirley Clarke, Willard Van Dyke and Irving Jacoby

Best Sound

• Ben-Hur
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department and Franklin E. Milton [Sound Director]
• Journey to the Center of the Earth
  20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department and Carl W. Faulkner [Sound Director]
• Libel!
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer London Studio Sound Department and A.W. Watkins [Sound Director]
• The Nun's Story
  Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department and George R. Groves [Sound Director]
• Porgy and Bess
  Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer [Sound Director], Todd-AO Sound Department and Fred Hynes [Sound Director]

Best Special Effects

• Ben-Hur
  A. Arnold Gillespie [Visual Effects by], Robert MacDonald [Visual Effects by] and Milo Lory [Audible Effects by]
• Journey to the Center of the Earth
  L.B. Abbott [Visual Effects by], James B. Gordon [Visual Effects by] and Carl W. Faulkner [Audible Effects by]

Best Writing (Screenplay - based on material from another medium)

• Anatomy of a Murder
  Wendell Mayes
• Ben-Hur
  Karl Tunberg
• The Nun's Story
  Robert Anderson
• Room at the Top
  Neil Paterson
• Some Like It Hot
  Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond

Best Writing (Story and Screenplay - written directly for the screen)

• The 400 Blows
  Francois Truffaut and Marcel Moussy
• North by Northwest
  Ernest Lehman
• Operation Petticoat
  Paul King [Story by], Joseph Stone [Story by], Stanley Shapiro [Screenplay by] and Maurice Richlin [Screenplay by]
• Pillow Talk
  Russell Rouse [Story by], Clarence Greene [Story by], Stanley Shapiro [Screenplay by] and Maurice Richlin [Screenplay by]
• Wild Strawberries
  Ingmar Bergman