1961 awards

Academy Award for Best Picture

Winner The ApartmentBilly Wilder

Academy Award for Best Director

Winner The ApartmentBilly Wilder

Academy Award for Best Actor

Winner Elmer GantryBurt Lancaster

Academy Award for Best Actress

Winner BUtterfield 8Elizabeth Taylor

Golden Globe Awards

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Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama

Winner Spartacus

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Winner The Apartment

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama

Winner Elmer GantryBurt Lancaster Winner The ApartmentJack Lemmon

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama

Winner Sunrise at Campobello Winner The ApartmentShirley MacLaine

BAFTA Award for Best Film

Winner The Angry Silence Winner Inherit the Wind Winner Let's Make Love Winner Elmer Gantry Winner Shadows Winner Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Winner Spartacus Winner Tunes of Glory Winner The Trials of Oscar Wilde Winner La Dolce Vita Winner Hiroshima Mon Amour Winner Black Orpheus Winner Never on Sunday Winner Testament of Orpheus Winner The 400 Blows Winner L'Avventura Winner The ApartmentBilly Wilder

Best British Film

Winner The Angry Silence Winner The Trials of Oscar Wilde Winner Tunes of Glory

Best Foreign Actor

Winner Crime & Punishment, USAGeorge Hamilton

Winner Elmer GantryBurt Lancaster Winner Inherit the WindFredric March Winner Inherit the WindSpencer Tracy Winner Let's Make LoveYves Montand

Best British Actor

Winner The Angry SilenceRichard Attenborough Winner The EntertainerLaurence Olivier Winner Saturday Night and Sunday MorningAlbert Finney Winner The Trials of Oscar WildeJohn Fraser Winner Tunes of GloryAlec Guinness Winner Tunes of GloryJohn Mills

Main competition

Winner Jean Giono

Winner Sergei Yutkevich

Winner Pedro Armendariz

Winner Luigi Chiarini

Winner Tonino Delli Colli

Winner Claude Mauriac

Winner Edouard Molinaro

Winner Jean Paulhan

Winner Raoul Ploquin

Winner Liselotte Pulver

Winner Fred Zinnemann

Winner The Long AbsenceHenri Colpi Winner ViridianaLuis Buñuel

Short Films Competition

Prix spécial du Jury

Winner Mother Joan of the AngelsJerzy Kawalerowicz

Best Director

Golden Lion

Winner Last Year at MarienbadAlain Resnais

Special Jury Prize

Winner Peace to Him Who EntersAleksandr Alov

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

Winner Toshirō Mifune

Volpi Cup for Best Actress

Golden Bear

Winner La NotteMichelangelo Antonioni

Silver Bear

Silver Bear for Best Director

Winner The Miracle of Father MalachiaBernhard Wicki

Silver Bear for Best Actress

Winner A Woman Is a WomanAnna Karina

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series

Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Children's Programming

David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress

David di Donatello for Best Director

Winner La NotteMichelangelo Antonioni

David di Donatello for Best Actress

German Film Award

Filmband in Gold

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film

Winner The ApartmentBilly Wilder

Television

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Musical

Winner Bells Are RingingBetty Comden, Adolph Green

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Drama

Winner Elmer GantryRichard Brooks, Sinclair Lewis

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy

Winner The ApartmentBilly Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond

Episodic, Longer than 30 Minutes in Length