1960, Film and Television Awards: British Academy Awards (BAFTAs)

Best Film From Any Source
Winner: Ben-Hur (USA, William Wyler)

Ben-Hur Podter

Nominees:

• Anatomy of a Murder (USA, Otto Preminger)
• Ansiktet (Sweden, Ingmar Bergman)
• The Big Country (USA, William Wyler)
• Compulsion (USA, Richard Fleischer)
• Gigi (USA, Vincente Minnelli)
• Look Back in Anger (UK, Tony Richardson)
• North West Frontier (UK, J. Lee Thompson)
• The Nun's Story (USA, Fred Zinnemann)
• Sapphire (UK, Basil Dearden)
• Some Like It Hot (USA, Billy Wilder)
• Tiger Bay (UK, J. Lee Thompson) 
• Yesterday's Enemy (UK, Val Guest)
• Maigret tend un piège (France / Italy, Jean Delannoy)
• Popiół i diament (Poland, Andrzej Wajda)

Best British Film
Winner: Sapphire (Basil Dearden)

Sapphire Poster

Nominees:

• Look Back in Anger (Tony Richardson)
• North West Frontier (J. Lee Thompson)
• Tiger Bay (J. Lee Thompson)
• Yesterday's Enemy (Val Guest)

Best Foreign Actor
Winner: Jack Lemmon as Jerry / Daphne in Some Like It Hot

Marilyn Monroe as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk and Jack Lemmon as Daphne

Nominees:

• James Stewart as Paul Biegler in Anatomy of a Murder
• Takashi Shimura as Kanji Watanabe in Ikiru
• Zbigniew Cybulski as Maciek Chelmicki in Popiół i diament
• Jean Gabin as Jules Maigret in Maigret tend un piège
• Jean Desailly as Marcel Maurin in Maigret tend un piège

Best British Actor
Winner: Peter Sellers as Fred Kite / Sir John Kennaway in I'm All Right Jack

Peter Sellers as Fred Kite

Nominees:

• Laurence Olivier as General John Burgoyne in The Devil's Disciple
• Laurence Harvey as Johnny Jackson in Expresso Bongo
• Richard Burton as Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger
• Peter Finch as Dr. Fortunati in The Nun's Story
• Stanley Baker as Captain Alan Langford in Yesterday's Enemy
• Gordon Jackson as Sergeant MacKenzie in Yesterday's Enemy

Best Foreign Actress
Winner: Shirley MacLaine as Meg Wheeler in Ask Any Girl

Shirley MacLaine as Meg Wheeler

Nominees:

• Rosalind Russell as Mame Dennis in Auntie Mame
• Susan Hayward as Barbara Graham in I Want to Live!
• Ava Gardner Moira Davidson in On The Beach
• Ellie Lambeti as Chloe Pella in A Matter of Dignity

Best British Actress
Winner: Audrey Hepburn as Sister Luke in The Nun's Story

Audrey Hepburn as Sister Luke

Nominees:

• Kay Walsh as Miss D. Coker in The Horse's Mouth
• Sylvia Syms as Hetty in No Trees in the Street
• Peggy Ashcroft as Mother Mathilde in The Nun's Story
• Yvonne Mitchell as Mildred Farr in Sapphire

Best British Screenplay
Winner: Frank Harvey, John Boulting and Alan Hackney with I'm All Right Jack

I'm All Right Jack Poster

Nominees:

• Ben Barzman and Millard Lampell: Chance Meeting
• Wolf Mankowitz: Expresso Bongo
• Alec Guinness: The Horse's Mouth
• Nigel Kneale: Look Back in Anger
• Ted Willis: No Trees in the Street
• Robin Estridge: North West Frontier
• Janet Green: Sapphire
• John Hawkesworth and Shelley Smith: Tiger Bay

Most Promising Newcomer To Leading Film Roles
Winner: Hayley Mills as Gillie Evans in Tiger Bay

Nominees:

• Joseph N. Welch as Judge Weaver in Anatomy of a Murder
• Liz Fraser as Cynthia Kite in I'm All Right Jack
• Gerry Duggan as Pat Fulton in Four Desperate Men

1961, Film and Television Awards: British Academy Awards (BAFTAs)

Best Film From Any Source
Winner: ‘The Apartment’

Nominees:

• ‘The Angry Silence’
• ‘Inherit the Wind’
• ‘Let's Make Love’
• ‘Elmer Gantry’
• ‘Shadows’
• ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’
• ‘Spartacus’
• ‘Tunes of Glory’
• ‘The Trials of Oscar Wilde’
• ‘La Dolce Vita’
• ‘Hiroshima mon amour’
• ‘Orfeu Negro’
• ‘Pote tin Kyriaki’
• ‘Le testament d'Orphée’
• ‘Les Quatre cents coups’
• ‘L'Avventura’

Best British Film
Winner: ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’

Nominees:

• ‘The Angry Silence’
• ‘The Trials of Oscar Wilde’
• ‘Tunes of Glory’

Best Foreign Actor
Winner:  Jack Lemmon
As in Calvin Clifford (C.C.) "Bud" Baxter in ‘The Apartment’

Nominees:

• George Hamilton as as Robert in ‘Crime & Punishment USA’
• Burt Lancaster as Elmer Gantry in ‘Elmer Gantry’
• Fredric March as Matthew Harrison Brady in ‘Inherit the Wind’
• Spencer Tracy as Henry Drummond in ‘Inherit the Wind’
• Yves Montand as Jean-Marc Clément in ‘Let's Make Love’

Best British Actor
Winner:  Peter Finch
As Oscar Wilde in ‘The Trials of Oscar Wilde’

Nominees:

• Richard Attenborough as Tom Curtis in ‘The Angry Silence’
• Laurence Olivier as Archie Rice in ‘The Entertainer’
• Albert Finney as Arthur Seaton in ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’
• John Fraser as Lord Alfred Douglas in ‘The Trials of Oscar Wilde’
• Alec Guinness as Major Jock Sinclair in ‘Tunes of Glory’
• John Mills as Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow in ‘Tunes of Glory’

Best Foreign Actress
Winner:  Shirley MacLaine
As Fran Kubelik in ‘The Apartment’

Nominees:

• Pier Angeli as Anna Curtis in ‘The Angry Silence’
• Monica Vitti as Claudia in ‘L'Avventura’
• Jean Simmons as Sister Sharon Falconer in ‘Elmer Gantry’
• Emmanuelle Riva as Elle in ‘Hiroshima mon amour’
• Melina Mercouri as Ilya in ‘Pote tin Kyriaki’

Best British Actress
Winner:  Rachel Roberts
As Brenda in ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’

Nominees:

• Hayley Mills as Pollyanna Whittier in ‘Pollyanna’
• Wendy Hiller as Mrs. Morel in ‘Sons and Lovers’

 

Best British Screenplay
Winner: Bryan Forbes with ‘The Angry Silence’

Nominees:

• Howard Clewes: ‘The Day They Robbed The Bank Of England’
• John Osborne, Nigel Kneale: ‘The Entertainer’
• Val Guest: ‘Hell Is A City’
• Bryan Forbes: ‘The League Of Gentlemen’
• Wolf Mankowitz: ‘The Millionairess’
• Alan Sillitoe: ‘Saturday Night And Sunday Morning’
• Roger MacDougall, Guy Hamilton, Ivan Foxwell: ‘A Touch Of Larceny’
• Ken Hughes: ‘The Trials Of Oscar Wilde’
• James Kennaway: ‘Tunes Of Glory’

Most Promising Newcomer To Leading Film Roles
Winner: Albert Finney
As Arthur Seaton in ‘Saturday Night And Sunday Morning’

Nominees:

• Lelia Goldoni as Lelia in ‘Shadows’
• Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel in ‘Les quatre cents coups’
• George Peppard as Rafe Copley in ‘Home From The Hill’
• Joan Plowright as Jean Rice in ‘The Entertainer’
• Anthony Ray as Tony in ‘Shadows’
• Billie Whitelaw as Chloe Hawkins in ‘Hell Is A City’

1960, Film: The Apartment

The Apartment a 1960 American comedy produced and directed by Billy Wilder stars Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray.

The film tells the story of Bud Baxter a struggling clerk in a huge New York insurance company. He discoveres a quick way to climb the corporate ladder by lending out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. He often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits and one night he's left with a major problem to solve...

The Apartment received 10 Academy Award nominations and won 5 Academy Awards.

Best Motion Picture: Billy Wilder

Best Director: Billy Wilder

Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen: I. A. L. Diamond and Billy Wilder

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration: Edward G. Boyle and Alexandre Trauner

Best Film Editing: Daniel Mandell

Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray

Jack Lemmon

Lunch with Billy Wilder during filming

Jack Lemmon & Shirley MacLaine