1960 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1960 (Poll Closed)

• ✔ The Apartment  18.92%  (14 votes)  
   
• L’Avventura  4.05%  (3 votes)  
   
• ★ Breathless  9.46%  (7 votes)  
   
• La Dolce Vita  18.92%  (14 votes)  
   
• Elmer Gantry  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• Inherit The Wind  1.35%  (1 votes)  
   
• The Magnificent Seven  6.76%  (5 votes)  
   
• Rocco and His Brothers  10.81%  (8 votes)  
   
• Psycho  28.38%  (21 votes)  
   
• Spartacus  1.35%  (1 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 74

 

Best Actor of 1960

Jean-Paul Belmondo (Breathless)

✔ Burt Lancaster (Elmer Gantry)

Jack Lemmon (The Apartment)

★ Anthony Perkins (Psycho)

Spencer Tracy (Inherit the Wind)

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Best Actress of 1960

Deborah Kerr (The Sundowners)

★ Shirley MacLaine (The Apartment)

Melina Mercouri (Never On Sunday)

Jean Simmons (Elmer Gantry and Spartacus)

Monica Vitti (L’Avventura)

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Best Director of 1960 (Poll Closed)

• Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura)  10.14%  (7 votes)  
   
• Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita)  15.94%  (11 votes)  
   
• ★ Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless)  20.29%  (14 votes)  
   
• Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho)  31.88%  (22 votes)  
   
• ✔ Billy Wilder (The Apartment)  21.74%  (15 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 69

 

Best Supporting Actor of 1960

★ Fred MacMurray (The Apartment)

John Mills (Tunes of Glory)

Renato Salvatori (Rocco and His Brothers)

✔ Peter Ustinov (Spartacus)

Eli Wallach (The Magnificent Seven)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1960

Annie Girardot (Rocco and His Brothers)

Wendy Hiller (Sons and Lovers)

Glynis Johns (The Sundowners)

✔ Shirley Jones (Elmer Gantry)

★ Janet Leigh (Psycho)

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Special Award

Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond (The Apartment) (original screenplay)

Joseph Stephano, from the novel by Robert Bloch (Psycho) (adapted screenplay)

George Tomasini (Psycho) (film editing)

"Mrs. Bates" (Psycho) (mother of the year award)

Elmer Bernstein (The Magnificent Seven) (score)

Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn (The Magnificent Seven) (most magnificent seven)

Jazz on a Summer's Day (documentary feature)

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My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ.

Roger Ebert called Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless the greatest movie debut by a director since Orson Welles's Citizen Kane and went so far as to say, "Modern movies begin here."

Thus, Godard's nod for best director.