18th Annual Golden Globe Awards Nominations (1961)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Thursday, March 16, 1961
  • For films released in: 1960
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Here is the complete list of nominations for the 18th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Motion Picture - Drama

  • Elmer Gantry
  • Inherit the Wind
  • Sons and Lovers
  • Spartacus
  • Sunrise at Campobello

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

  • Elmer Gantry
    Burt Lancaster
  • Inherit the Wind
    Spencer Tracy
  • Sons and Lovers
    Trevor Howard
  • Sons and Lovers
    Dean Stockwell
  • Spartacus
    Laurence Olivier

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama

  • Butterfield 8
    Elizabeth Taylor
  • Elmer Gantry
    Jean Simmons
  • Midnight Lace
    Doris Day
  • Sunrise at Campobello
    Greer Garson
  • The World of Suzie Wong
    Nancy Kwan

Best Motion Picture - Comedy

  • The Apartment
  • The Facts of Life
  • The Grass Is Greener
  • It Started in Naples
  • Our Man in Havana

Best Motion Picture - Musical

  • Bells Are Ringing
  • Can-Can
  • Let's Make Love
  • Pepe
  • Song without End (The Story of Franz Liszt)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical/Comedy

  • The Apartment
    Jack Lemmon
  • The Facts of Life
    Bob Hope
  • The Grass Is Greener
    Cary Grant
  • Pepe
    Cantinflas
  • Song without End (The Story of Franz Liszt)
    Dirk Bogarde

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical/Comedy

  • The Apartment
    Shirley MacLaine
  • Bells Are Ringing
    Judy Holliday
  • The Facts of Life
    Lucille Ball
  • It Started in Naples
    Sophia Loren
  • Song without End (The Story of Franz Liszt)
    Capucine

Best Directing

  • The Apartment
    Billy Wilder
  • Elmer Gantry
    Richard Brooks
  • Sons and Lovers
    Jack Cardiff
  • Spartacus
    Stanley Kubrick
  • The Sundowners
    Fred Zinnemann

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

  • The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
    Lee Kinsolving
  • Exodus
    Sal Mineo
  • The Plunderers
    Ray Stricklyn
  • Spartacus
    Woody Strode
  • Spartacus
    Peter Ustinov

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

  • The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
    Shirley Knight
  • Elmer Gantry
    Shirley Jones
  • From the Terrace
    Ina Balin
  • Psycho
    Janet Leigh
  • Sons and Lovers
    Mary Ure

Best Film Promoting International Understanding

  • Conspiracy of Hearts
  • Hand in Hand

Best Original Score - Motion Picture

  • The Alamo
    Dimitri Tiomkin
  • Exodus
    Ernest Gold
  • Pepe
    Johnny Green
  • Spartacus
    Alex North
  • The World of Suzie Wong
    George Duning

Henrietta Award (World Film Favorites) - Male

  • Rock Hudson
  • Tony Curtis

Henrietta Award (World Film Favorites) - Female

  • Gina Lollobrigida

Most Promising Newcomer - Male

  • Michael Callan
  • Mark Damon
  • Brett Halsey
  • Peter Falk
  • Robert Vaughn
  • David Janssen

Most Promising Newcomer - Female

  • Ina Balin
  • Nancy Kwan
  • Hayley Mills
  • Shirley Knight
  • Jill Hayworth
  • Julie Newmar

Special Award

  • Cantinflas
    Note: For comedy.
  • Stanley Kramer
    Note: For artistic integrity.

Special Merit Award

  • The Sundowners

Samuel Goldwyn Award

  • La verite
  • Pote tin Kyriaki
  • The Trials of Oscar Wilde
  • The Virgin Spring