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The 34th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1961, were held on April 9, 1962 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Bob Hope; this was the seventh time Hope hosted the Oscars. For the first time in Oscar history, the show lasted longer than two hours.^[1]

Legendary filmmaker Federico Fellini received his first Best Director nomination for his film La Dolce Vita, though the movie itself failed to garner a nomination for Best Picture.

News and recap

The most memorable event of the night was when Stan Berman, a New York City cabdriver, awarded Bob Hope a homemade Oscar after he had slipped through security and made his way to the stage. Both Jackie Gleason (in "The Hustler") and Judy Garland (in "Judgment At Nuremberg") were heavily favored to win the awards for best supporting actor and actress. However, they were defeated by Ceorge Chakiris and Rita Moreno as part of the "West Side Story" sweep. The musical film wound up winning a total of ten Academy Awards including Best Picture.

Notable quotes

• "Ladies and gentlemen, I'm the world's greatest gatecrasher, and I just came here to present Bob Hope with his 1938 trophy." -- Stan Berman, a Brooklyn cabdriver.
• "We'll give it to him." -- Shelley Winters, in response to Berman. She had been onstage awarding the Academy Award for Best Cinematography with Vince Edwards.
• "Who needs Price Waterhouse? All we need is a doorman" -- Bob Hope, about the incident.^[2]

Winners & Nominees

Best Picture

West Side Story

• Fanny
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• The Hustler
• The Guns of Navarone

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Maximilian Schell in Judgment at Nuremberg

• Paul Newman in The Hustler
• Spencer Tracy in Judgment at Nuremberg
• Charles Boyer in Fanny
• Stuart Whitman in The Mark

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Sophia Loren in La Ciociara

• Piper Laurie in The Hustler
• Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass
• Geraldine Page in Summer and Smoke

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

George Chakiris in West Side Story

• Montgomery Clift in Judgment at Nuremberg
• George C. Scott in The Hustler
• Jackie Gleason in The Hustler
• Peter Falk in Pocketful of Miracles

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Rita Moreno in West Side Story

• Judy Garland in Judgment at Nuremberg
• Una Merkel in Summer and Smoke
• Fay Bainter in The Children's Hour
• Lotte Lenya in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

Best Director

Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise for West Side Story

• Stanley Kramer for Judgment at Nuremberg
• Federico Fellini for La dolce vita
• J. Lee Thompson for The Guns of Navarone
• Robert Rossen for The Hustler

Best Original Screenplay

Splendor in the Grass - William Inge

• La dolce vita - Federico Fellini , Tullio Pinelli , Ennio Flaiano and Brunello Rondi
• Ballada o soldate - Valentin Ezhov and Grigori Chukhrai
• Il generale della Rovere - Sergio Amidei , Diego Fabbri and Indro Montanelli
• Lover Come Back - Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning

Best Adapted Screenplay

Judgment at Nuremberg - Abby Mann

• West Side Story - Ernest Lehman
• Breakfast at Tiffany's - George Axelrod
• The Guns of Navarone - Carl Foreman
• The Hustler - Robert Rossen and Sidney Carroll

Best Cinematography, Color

West Side Story

• A Majority of One
• Fanny
• Flower Drum Song
• One-Eyed Jacks

Best Cinematography, Black & White

The Hustler

• Judgment at Nuremberg
• One, Two, Three
• The Absent Minded Professor
• The Children's Hour

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black & White

The Hustler

• Judgment at Nuremberg
• The Absent Minded Professor
• La dolce vita
• The Children's Hour

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color

West Side Story

• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Flower Drum Song
• El Cid
• Summer and Smoke

Best Costume Design, Black & White

La dolce vita

• Claudelle Inglish
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• The Children's Hour
• Yojimbo

Best Costume Design

West Side Story

• Back Street
• Babes in Toyland
• Flower Drum Song
• Pocketful of Miracles

Best Sound

West Side Story

• The Parent Trap
• The Children's Hour
• Flower Drum Song
• The Guns of Navarone

Best Film Editing

West Side Story

• The Parent Trap
• Fanny
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• The Guns of Navarone

Best Effects, Special Effects

The Guns of Navarone

• The Absent Minded Professor

Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture

West 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

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

Breakfast at Tiffany's - Henry Mancini

• El Cid - Miklos Rozsa
• Fanny - Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman
• Summer and Smoke - Elmer Bernstein
• The Guns of Navarone - Dimitri Tiomkin

Best Music, Original Song

Moon River from Breakfast at Tiffany's - Music by Henry Mancini and Lyrics by Johnny Mercer

• Bachelor in Paradise from Bachelor in Paradise - Music by Henry Mancini and Lyrics by Mack David
• Love Theme from El Cid (The Falcon and the Dove) from El Cid - Music by Miklos Rozsa and Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
• Pocketful of Miracles from Pocketful of Miracles - Music by Jimmy Van Heusen and Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
• Town Without Pity from Town Without Pity - Music by Dimitri Tiomkin and Lyrics by Ned Washington

Best Short Subjects, Live Action Subjects

Seawards the Great Ships

Best Short Subjects, Cartoons

Surogat

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

Project Hope

Best Documentary, Features

Le ciel et la boue

Best Foreign Language Film

Sasom i en spegel - Sweden

• Eien no hito - Japan
• Harry og kammertjeneren - Denmark
• Placido - Spain
• Animas Trujano (El hombre importante) - Mexico

Honorary Awards

Fred L. Meltzer - 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.

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.

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Stanley Kramer

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

George Seaton

Breakdown

Awards Won/Nominations

• 10/11 West Side Story
• 2/11 Judgment at Nuremberg
• 2/9 The Hustler
• 2/5 Breakfast at Tiffany's
• 1/7 The Guns of Navarone
• 1/2 Splendor in the Grass
• 0/5 Fanny

References

External links

• The 34th Annual Academy Awards at IMDB
• List of winners at Infoplease