Your Favourite Performances from 1929 to present are...

[Bogie56]

My choice for the Juvenile Acting award for 1961 is…

 

Martin Stephens (Miles), The Innocents. 

 

[LawrenceA]

1961

 

BEST ACTOR

Marcello Mastroianni  Divorce - Italian Style****
Toshiro Mifune  Yojimbo

Paul Newman  The Hustler

Maximilian Schell  Judgment at Nuremberg

Anthony Quinn  Barabbas

Stuart Whitman  The Mark

David Niven  The Guns of Navarone

Sidney Poitier  A Raisin In the Sun

Dirk Bogarde  Victim

John Davis Chandler  Mad Dog Coll

Alec Guinness  A Majority of One

Spencer Tracy  Judgment at Nuremberg

 

BEST ACTRESS

Piper Laurie  The Hustler****

Harriet Andersson  Through a Glass Darkly

Deborah Kerr  The Innocents

Natalie Wood  Splendor In the Grass

Anouk Aimee  Lola

Ruby Dee  A Raisin In the Sun

Audrey Hepburn  Breakfast at Tiffany's

Shirley MacLaine  The Children's Hour

Rosalind Russell  A Majority of One

Geraldine Page  Summer and Smoke

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

George C. Scott  The Hustler****

Montgomery Clift  Judgment at Nuremberg

Anthony Quinn  The Guns of Navarone

George Chakiris  West Side Story

Eli Wallach  The Misfits

Jackie Gleason  The Hustler

Lee Marvin  The Comancheros

Murray Hamilton  The Hustler

Eijoro Tono  Yojimbo

Rod Steiger  The Mark

Dennis Price  Victim

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Rita Moreno  West Side Story****

Miriam Hopkins  The Children's Hour

Lotte Lenya  The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

Meg Jenkins  The Innocents

Judy Garland  Judgment at Nuremberg

 

BEST JUVENILE PERFORMANCE

Martin Stephens  The Innocents****

[Swithin]

1961 Favorites

 

Best Actor

 

Dirk Bogarde (Victim)

Paul Newman (The Hustler)

Oliver Reed (The Curse of the Werewolf)

Maximilian Schell (Judgement at Nuremberg)

Spencer Tracy (Judgement at Nuremberg)

 

Best Actress

 

Deborah Kerr (The Innocents)

Claudia McNeil (A Raisin int he Sun)

Geraldine Page (Summer and Smoke)

Rita Tushingham (A Taste of Honey)

Natalie Wood (Splendor in the Grass)

Susannah York (The Greengage Summer)

 

Best Supporting Actor

 

Montgomery Clift (Judgement at Nuremberg)

Jackie Gleason (The Hustler)

Murray Melvin (A Taste of Honey)

Anthony Quinn (The Guns of Navarone)

Eli Wallach (The Misfits)

 

Best Supporting Actress

 

Dora Bryan (A Taste of Honey)

Marlene Dietrich (Judgement at Nuremberg)

Judy Garland (Judgement at Nuremberg)

Una Merkel (Summer and Smoke)

Rita Moreno (West Side Story)

 

Best Musical Scenes

 

“(Why) Because He Loves Me” sung by Dora Bryan (A Taste of Honey)

“Chop Suey” sung by Juanita Hall and company (Flower Drum Song)

 

[Bogie56]

Here are my choices of the 94 films I've seen from 1961 for…

 

Best Supporting Actress of 1961

 

1.  DORA BRYAN (Helen), A Taste of Honey

2.  RITA MORENO (Anita), West Side Story

3.  FAY BAINTER (Mrs. Amelia Tilford), The Children's Hour

4.  LOTTE LENYA (Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales), The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

5.  THELMA RITTER (Isabelle Steers), The Misfits

 

6.  MARLENE DIETRICH (Frau Bertholt), Judgment at Nuremberg

7.  BRENDA DE BANZIE (Gertrude Cartwright), The Mark

8.  JUDY GARLAND (Irene Hoffman Wallner), Judgment at Nuremberg

9.  MEGS JENKINS (Mrs. Grose), The Innocents

10. DIANA SANDS (Beneatha Younger), A Raisin In the Sun

 

and ...

 

LILO PULVER (Fraulein Ingeborg), One,Two,Three

MIRIAM HOPKINS (Mrs. Lily Mortar), The Children's Hour

UNA MERKEL (Mrs. Winemiller), Summer and Smoke

PATRICIA NEAL (Mrs. Emily Eustace Fallenson/“2-E”), Breakfast at Tiffany's

PAMELA TIFFIN (Scarlett Hazeltine), One,Two,Three

MONICA VITTI (Valentina Gherardini), La Notte

ARLENE FRANCIS (Phyllis MacNamara), One, Two, Three

DANIELLA ROCCA (Rosalia Cefalu), Divorce-Italian Style

[Bogie56]

Here are my choices of the 94 films I've seen from 1961 for…

 

Best Supporting Actor of 1961

 

1.  GEORGE C. SCOTT (Bert Gordon), The Hustler

2.  MONTGOMERY CLIFT (Rudolf Petersen), Judgment at Nuremberg

3.  MONTGOMERY CLIFT (Perce Howland), The Misfits

4.  JACKIE GLEASON (“Minnesota Fats”), The Hustler

5.  MAURICE CHEVALIER  (Panisse), Fanny

 

6.  CHARLES BOYER (Cesar), Fanny

7.  GEORGE CHAKIRIS (Bernardo Nunez), West Side Story

8.  KARL MALDEN (Dad Longworth), One-Eyed Jacks

9.  LARS PASSGARD (Minus), Through a Glass Darkly

10. ROD STEIGER (Dr. Edmund McNally), The Mark

 

and ...

 

ROBERT STEPHENS (Peter Smith), A Taste of Honey

MYRON MCCORMICK (Charlie Burns), The Hustler

HANNS LOTHAR (Schlemmer), One, Two, Three

ANTHONY QUINN (Colonel Andrea Stavrou), The Guns of Navarone

ALEX MACKENZIE (John Grey/“Auld Jock”), Greyfriar’s Bobby: The True Story of a Dog

BUDDY EBSEN (Doc Golightly), Breakfast at Tiffany's

CHILL WILLS (Turk), The Deadly Companions

MURRAY MELVIN (Geoffrey Ingham), A Taste of Honey

 

 

[TomJH]

My performance picks for 1961:

 

BEST ACTOR

 

Maximilian Schell, JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG

Paul Newman, THE HUSTLER

Sidney PoitIer, A RAISIN IN THE SUN

Toshiro Mifune, YOJIMBO

James Cagney, ONE TWO THREE

 

Honourable Mention: Marlon Brando in One Eyed Jacks, Clark Gable in The Misfits, Spencer Tracy in Judgment at Nuremberg.

 

BEST ACTRESS

 

Sophia Loren, TWO WOMEN

Deborah Kerr, THE INNOCENTS

Audrey Hepburn, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S

Ruby Dee, A RAISIN IN THE SUN

Shirley MacLaine, THE CHILDREN'S HOUR

 

Honourable Mention: Marilyn Monroe in The Misfits.

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

 

George C. Scott, THE HUSTLER

Karl Malden, ONE EYED JACKS

Montgomery Clift, JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG

Jackie Gleason, THE HUSTLER

Richard Widmark, JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

 

Judy Garland, JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG

Piper Laurie, THE HUSTLER

Thelma Ritter, THE MISFITS

Eleanora Brown, TWO WOMEN

Marlene Dietrich, JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG

 

Best Surprise Promotion of a Product

 

 

Billy Wilder did this surprise gag ending in One Two Three to appease complaints from Joan Crawford (married to Al Steele, President of Pepsi) when she heard that Wilder's comedy would be promoting Coca Cola.

[TomJH]

1961

 

BEST ACTRESS

 

Harriet Andersson  Through a Glass Darkly

Natalie Wood  Splendor In the Grass

Anouk Aimee  Lola

Geraldine Page  Summer and Smoke

 

 

Lawrence, we were discussing the quality of actresses' performances this year. These are the performances you cited that I haven't seen. Thanks for the recommendations. As far as Piper Laurie in The Hustler is concerned (a very impressive portrayal) I appear to be in a minority by considering it a supporting performance.

[Swithin]

Lawrence, we were discussing the quality of actresses' performances this year. These are the performances you cited that I haven't seen. Thanks for the recommendations. As far as Piper Laurie in The Hustler is concerned (a very impressive portrayal) I appear to be in a minority by considering it a supporting performance.

 

I almost listed Piper Laurie -- it would have been for supporting actress.  I see that others have listed Ruby Dee for Best Actress in A Raisin in the Sun. I almost listed her -- for Best Supporting.  I listed Claudia McNeil for Best Actress from that film. McNeil was nominated for Best Actress for that role by the Golden Globes and BAFTAs. The mother's role was also considered the lead on Broadway as well -- for the original production, when McNeil was nominated (Dee was also in the cast); and in a recent revival, when Phylicia Rashad won the Best Actress Tony for her role as the mother; with Audra McDonald winning Best Featured Actress for her role as Ruth.

[TomJH]

Born six days apart, dying six months apart, Clark Gable and Gary Cooper both had their last films released in 1961. It must have felt like the passing of an era to so many followers of Golden Age Hollywood, especially with the deaths of a number of other major film leading men during the previous four years (Bogart, Colman, Power, Flynn).

 

 

Gable's last scene in The Misfits, as well as that of Monroe, also to become a legend.

 

 

Cooper in The Naked Edge.

[LawrenceA]

I almost listed Piper Laurie -- it would have been for supporting actress.  I see that others have listed Ruby Dee for Best Actress in A Raisin in the Sun. I almost listed her -- for Best Supporting.  I listed Claudia McNeil for Best Actress from that film. McNeil was nominated for Best Actress for that role by the Golden Globes and BAFTAs. The mother's role was also considered the lead on Broadway as well -- for the original production, when McNeil was nominated (Dee was also in the cast); and in a recent revival, when Phylicia Rashad won the Best Actress Tony for her role as the mother; with Audra McDonald winning Best Featured Actress for her role as Ruth.

 

As far as Ruby Dee, you may be right about her. It's been a long time since I've seen it, so I'm not certain of the size of her part. I just recall being impressed by her.

 

Piper Laurie I feel is a lead in The Hustler, as 1) she's the primary female character of the story, and 2) her character carries as much weight as Newman's. I would be more likely to accept Scott as another lead character before I would Laurie as supporting. With her limited screentime, I can see why some would consider it supporting. But I think she's deserving of lead recognition, and the not-very-reliable Oscars agree.

[kingrat]

1961 is perplexing. My favorite performance is in the supporting actor category; it's the one several of you have already placed at the top of your lists. Otherwise, there's not a lot of depth in the supporting categories. 1960 had much stronger lead actor and lead actress nominations, too. I hesitate to place Paul Newman at the top of the best actor list for The Hustler because to me he's overshadowed by two of his co-stars. (Clearly, I need to see Divorce Italian Style.) It's also weird to give three of the four acting awards to a film which isn't a favorite; I do like it a lot until the interminable pool match.

 

On a more positive note, this year has one of my absolute favorite juvenile performances.

 

Best Actor of 1961:

 

Paul Newman, THE HUSTLER****

Spencer Tracy, JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG

Laurence Harvey, TWO LOVES

Peter Finch, NO LOVE FOR JOHNNIE

James Cagney, ONE, TWO, THREE

 

Honorable mention: Warren Beatty, SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS; Gunnar Bjornstrand, THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY; Dirk Bogarde, VICTIM; Toshiro Mifune, YOJIMBO; Kenneth More, THE GREENGAGE SUMMER (LOSS OF INNOCENCE); David Niven, THE GUNS OF NAVARONE; Stuart Whitman, THE MARK

 

Best Actress of 1961:

 

Piper Laurie, THE HUSTLER****

Rita Tushingham, A TASTE OF HONEY

Harriet Andersson, THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY

Deborah Kerr, THE INNOCENTS

Natalie Wood, SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS

 

Honorable mention: Anouk Aimee, LOLA; Marlene Dietrich, JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG; Audrey Hepburn, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S; Shirley MacLaine, TWO LOVES; Jeanne Moreau, LA NOTTE; Maureen O'Hara, THE DEADLY COMPANIONS; Margaret Rutherford, MURDER, SHE SAID; Miyoshi Umeki, FLOWER DRUM SONG

 

Best Supporting Actor of 1961:

 

George C. Scott, THE HUSTLER****

Anthony Quinn, THE GUNS OF NAVARONE

Russ Tamblyn, WEST SIDE STORY

Juano Hernandez, TWO LOVES

 

Best Supporting Actress of 1961:

 

Beatrice Kay, UNDERWORLD USA****

Zohra Lampert, SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS

Rita Moreno, WEST SIDE STORY

Monica Vitti, LA NOTTE

Lotte Lenya, THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS. STONE

 

Honorable mention: Judy Garland, JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG

 

Best Juvenile Performance: Alan Barnes, WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND

 

Best Line: Alan Barnes as "Our Charlie" in WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND: "He's not Jesus. He's just a fella."

[Swithin]

As far as Ruby Dee, you may be right about her. It's been a long time since I've seen it, so I'm not certain of the size of her part. I just recall being impressed by her.

 

Piper Laurie I feel is a lead in The Hustler, as 1) she's the primary female character of the story, and 2) her character carries as much weight as Newman's. I would be more likely to accept Scott as another lead character before I would Laurie as supporting. With her limited screentime, I can see why some would consider it supporting. But I think she's deserving of lead recognition, and the not-very-reliable Oscars agree.

 

Like you with Raisin, I haven't seen The Hustler in so long. I remember the greatness of Piper Laurie's performance, but not its "length."

[Swithin]

Best Line: Alan Barnes as "Our Charlie" in WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND: "He's not Jesus. He's just a fella."

 

That was the best line of the year. Theology in a nutshell. Great film. ALW turned it into a musical.

 

Also -- glad you mentioned Kenneth More. I remember how much I enjoyed The Greengage Summer. Susannah York, who was the female lead, was on my list.

[skimpole]

Actor

Paul Newman,  The Hustler
James Cagney, One, Two, Three
Toshiro Mifune, Yojimbo
1960 movie nominated in 1961 Marcello Mastroianni, La Dolce Vita
Clark Gable, The Misfits

Substitute for Mastroianni

Dirk Bogarde, Victim


Runner-ups:  James Stewart (Two Rode Together), Marcello Mastroianni (La Notte), Max von Sydow (Through a Glass Darkly), Gunnar Bjornstrand (Through a Glass Darkly), Richard Widmark (Two Rode Together), Franco Citti (Accattone), Sandro Pansero (Il Posto), Ganjiro Nakamura (The End of Summer), David Niven (The Guns of Navarone),


Actress

Anouk Aimee, Lola
Marilyn Monroe, The Misfits
Delphine Seyrig, Last Year in Marienbad
Anna Karina, A Woman is a Woman
Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's
 

Runner-ups:   Jeanne Moreau (La Notte), Sophia Loren (Two Women), Harriet Andersson (Through a Glass Darkly), Silvia Panel (Virdiana), Piper Laurie (The Hustler), Deborah Kerr (The Innocents), Natalie Wood (West Side Story), Rita Tushingham (A Taste of Honey)

,

Supporting Actor

Sacha Pitoeff, Last Year in Marienbad

George C. Scott, The Hustler
Montgomery Clift, The Misfits
Fernando Rey, Viridiana
Jackie Gleason, The Hustler


Runner-ups:  George Chakiris, (West Side Story), Tatsuya Nakadai (Yojimbo), Marc Michel (Lola), Horst Buchholz (One, Two, Three), James Lanphier (Flight of the Lost Balloon)

Supporting Actress

Rita Moreno, West Side Story
1960 movie nominated in 1961:  Anita Ekberg, La Dolce Vita
Anouk Aimee, La Dolce Vita
Setsuko Hara, The End of Summer
Thelma Ritter, The Misfits

Substitute for Ekberg and Aimee

Annie Duperoux, Lola
Margarita Lozano, Viridiana

Runner-ups:  Sylvia Syms (Victim), Yoko Tsukasa (The End of Summer)


Not seen:  Fanny, The Mark, Summer and Smoke, Pocketful of Miracles, The Children's Hour, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

 

 

 

[CoraSmith]

ACTOR:

1. Sidney Poitier - A Raisin in the Sun

2. Paul Newman - The Hustler

3. Warren Beatty - Splendor in the Grass

4. Gregory Peck - The Guns of Navarone

5. Clark Gable - The Misfits

6. George Peppard - Breakfast at Tiffany's

7. Spencer Tracy - Judgment at Nuremberg

8. Richard Beymer - West Side Story

9. Anthony Quinn - Barabbas

10. Marcello Mastroianni - Divorce Italian Style

 

ACTRESS:

1. Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's
2. Shirley MacLaine - The Children's Hour

3. Natalie Wood - Splendor in the Grass

4. Marilyn Monroe - The Misfits

5. Natalie Wood - West Side Story

6. Audrey Hepburn - The Children's Hour

7. Sophia Loren - El Cid

8. Deborah Kerr - The Innocents

9. Margaret Rutherford - Murder She Said 

10. Anna Karina - A Woman Is a Woman

SUPPORTING ACTOR:

1. Anthony Quinn - The Guns of Navarone

2. Montgomery Clift - Judgment at Nuremberg

3. George Chakiris - West Side Story

4. Pat Hingle - Splendor in the Grass

5. Jackie Gleason - The Hustler

6. James Garner - The Children's Hour

7. Anthony Quayle - The Guns of Navarone

8. George C. Scott - The Hustler

 

SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

1. Fay Bainter - The Children's Hour

2. Ruby Dee - A Raisin in the Sun 

3. Rita Moreno - West Side Story

4. Patricia Neal - Breakfast at Tiffany's

5. Gia Scala - The Guns of Navarone

6. Barbara Loden - Splendor in the Grass

7. Judy Garland - Judgment at Nuremberg

8. Monica Vitti - La Notte

 

BEST JUVENILE PERFORMANCE: 

1. Karen Balkin - The Children's Hour

2. Pamela Franklin - The Innocents

3. Hayley Mills - The Parent Trap

 

BEST ANIMAL PERFORMANCE: Mustang stallion in The Misfits

BEST EXTRA: John Huston - The Misfits

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FORMER SPORTS STAR: Jake LaMotta - The Hustler

BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Edith Head & Hubert de Givenchy - Breakfast at Tiffany's

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Breakfast at Tiffany's (Henry Mancini)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG: Moon River (Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's)

BEST NON-ORIGINAL SONG: Somewhere (Jimmy Bryant & Marni Nixon in West Side Story)

BEST QUOTE: "We're all dying, aren't we? We're not teaching each other what we really know, are we?" (The Misfits)

[Bogie56]

The New York Film Critics Circle Awards for 1961 were:

 

Best Actor

Maximilian Schell, Judgment at Nuremberg*

James Cagney, One, Two, Three

Paul Newman, The Hustler

 

Best Actress

Sophia Loren, Two Women* (60)

Geraldine Page, Summer and Smoke

Piper Laurie, The Hustler

 

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The National Board of Review Awards for 1961 were…

 

Best Actor

Albert Finney, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning* (60)

 

Best Actress

Geraldine Page, Summer and Smoke*

 

Best Supporting Actor

Jackie Gleason, The Hustler*

 

Best Supporting Actress

Ruby Dee, A Raisin In the Sun*

[TomJH]

The Misfits remains one of the most famous releases of 1961, much of that for tragic reasons since it was the final film of both Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe. Many have speculated, too, that Gable's heart attack was directly related to his decision to do the film's final horse wrangling scene himself, putting his 59-year-old body through a physical stress that no 59-year-old body should go through.

 

But it's a fascinating film in many respects because of what appears on screen, as well. As the film progresses, particularly its final chapters as his character comes to the realization that his macho cowboy lifestyle is a thing of the past, Gable delivers one of the most nuanced (for him, at least) moving characterizations of his career, I feel.

 

Certainly the performances of others in that largely doomed cast, Marilyn and Monty Clift, in particular, are worthy of notice, as well.

 

 

The following is an anecdote by Steve Haynes from his book Googies Coffeeshop to the Stars, Vol. 2, that I think is pertinent here, in which he talks about visiting an abandoned Paramount soundstage late at night towards the end of 1960:

 

As I walked past one of the soundstages I noticed the giant doors were open: I poked my head in to see if there were any sets still standing. But whatever film had been shooting there all the sets had been "struck (taken down)" and the cavernous space was silent and, at first glance, empty. Then I heard a man cough and saw a man seated in a director's chair next to a dressing room trailer, some cables and Klieg lights. I couldn't see his face - until he lit a cigar and then I realized it was Clark Gable. He looked very old and very tired. Pulling a leather-bound script from a pouch attached to the chair, he started to rise - then stopped, as if he felt unsteady and sat down again.

 

I quickly approached him and asked him if he was all right. He didn't recognize me, but he nodded and gruffly muttered something I didn't catch but sounded like: "Yeah, yeah, yeah, fine, just fine." I knew about Gable's instinctive need to protect his macho image so I didn't question him further. But I did tell him who I was and how we'd met several times, the last being at his house in Encino when Bobby Hall and I followed him on Bobby's motorcycle. Gable looked at me with that famous squint and then smiled wearily and offered me his hand.

 

"Sure, I remember you," he said, his voice raspy. "How is that big ugly sunuvagun anyway? I haven't seen him around lately."

 

I explained that Bobby was in Rome, working in movies being shot there, and that I had gotten several letters from him - most of them griping about the conditions on Italian films. Gable grinned and puffed his cigar. "Sounds like Bobby. He'd . . ." He coughed again, a hacking cigarette smoker's cough, muttered something about cigars supposedly being better for you than cigarettes, then said "Rome, huh? Well, God help those poor spaghetti benders if he's on the prod. They'd be better off tangling with a bobcat than Mr. Hall."

 

We went on talking. Mostly it was me asking him questions about The Misfits. Gable answered each one with no bitterness or animosity toward Marilyn. He had seen a rough cut he said, and felt that next to Gone With the Wind this was the best thing he's ever done. And for that he would always be grateful to John (Huston the director) and Arthur Miller who wrote the script. He then got to his feet, shook my hand one more time and wearily plodded to his dressing room.

 

A few days later he was dead.

 

[Bogie56]

Here are my choices of the 94 films I've seen from 1961 for…

 

Best Actress of 1961

 

1.  HARRIET ANDERSSON (Karin/"Little Kajsa"), Through a Glass Darkly

2.  PIPER LAURIE (Sarah Packard), The Hustler

3.  NATALIE WOOD (Wilma Dean “Deannie” Loomis), Splendor In the Grass

4.  MARILYN MONROE (Roslyn Taber), The Misfits

5.  AUDREY HEPBURN (Holly Golightly/Lulu-Mae Barn), Breakfast at Tiffany's

 

6.  DEBORAH KERR (Miss Giddens), The Innocents

7.  MARIA SCHELL (Mrs. Ruth Leyton), The Mark

8.  SHIRLEY MACLAINE (Martha Dobie), The Children's Hour

9.  AUDREY HEPBURN (Karen Wright), The Children's Hour

10. RITA TUSHINGHAM (Josephine/‘Jo’), A Taste of Honey

 

and ...

 

GERALDINE PAGE (Alma Winemiller), Summer and Smoke 

CLAUDIA MCNEIL (Lena Younger), A Raisin In the Sun

MARGARET RUTHERFORD (Miss Jane Marple), Murder, She Said

ANOUK AIMEE (Cecile/”Lola”), Lola

ANNA KARINA (Angela Recamier), A Woman Is a Woman

MAUREEN O'HARA (Kit Tildon), The Deadly Companions

[Bogie56]

Here are my choices of the 94 films I've seen from 1961 for…

 

Best Actor of 1961

 

1.  MAXIMILIAN SCHELL (Hans Rolfe), Judgment at Nuremberg

2.  PAUL NEWMAN ("Fast" Eddie Felson), The Hustler

3.  JAMES CAGNEY (C.R. ‘Mac’ MacNamara), One, Two, Three

4.  STUART WHITMAN ("James Fuller"/James Fontaine), The Mark

5.  ANTHONY QUINN (Barabbas), Barabbas

 

6.  SPENCER TRACY (Chief Judge Dan Haywood), Judgment at Nuremberg

7.  CLARK GABLE (Gay Langland), The Misfits

8.  WARREN BEATTY (Bud Stamper), Splendor In the Grass

9.  ELI WALLACH (G uido Dellini/”Pilot”), The Misfits

10. MARCELLO MASTROIANNI (Baron Ferdinando “Fefe” Cefalu), Divorce-Italian Style

 

and ...

 

GUNNAR BJORNSTRAND (David), Through a Glass Darkly

DIRK BOGARDE (Melville Farr), Victim

JAMES GARNER (Dr. Joseph Cardin), The Children's Hour

LAURENCE HARVEY (John Buchanan, Jr.), Summer and Smoke

MAX VON SYDOW (Martin), Through a Glass Darkly

DON MURRAY (Father Charles Dismas Clark, S.J.), The Hoodlum Priest

TONY CURTIS (Pfc. Ira Hamilton Hayes), The Outsider

TOSHIRO MIFUNE (Sanjuro Kuwabatake/“Two Bit”), Yojimbo

 

I wonder why G uido is a no-no with auto censor

[LawrenceA]

I wonder why G uido is a no-no with auto censor

 

It's an ethnic slur against Italians, as well as a name. It's popular in the NYC/New Jersey area. 

[JamesStewartFan95]

Best Picture
Breakfast at Tiffany’s

The Children's Hour
The Hustler
Judgement at Nuremberg
The Misfits
A Raisin in the Sun
Splendour in the Grass
West Side Story

Best Director
Blake Edwards, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

John Huston, The Misfits
Stanley Kramer, Judgement at Nuremberg
Robert Rossen, The Hustler
Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, West Side Story

Best Actor
Warren Beatty, Splendour in the Grass
Paul Newman, The Hustler
George Peppard, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Sidney Poitier, A Raisin in the Sun
Maximillian Schell, Judgement at Nuremberg

Best Actress

Ruby Dee, A Raisin in the Sun
Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Shirley MacLaine, The Children’s Hour
Marilyn Monroe, The Misfits
Natalie Wood, Splendour in the Grass

Best Supporting Actor
George Chakiris, West Side Story
Montgomery Cliff, Judgement at Nuremberg
Jackie Gleason, The Hustler
George C. Scott, The Hustler
Russ Tamblyn, West Side Story

Best Supporting Actress
Fay Bainter, The Children’s Hour
Judy Garland, Judgement at Nuremberg
Piper Laurie, The Hustler
Rita Moreno, West Side Story
Shelley Winters, The Young Savages

Best Juvenile Performance
Karen Balkin, The Children’s Hour
Hayley Mills, The Parent Trap
Steven Perry, A Raisin in the Sun

Best Voiceover Performance in a Movie
Betty Lou Gerson, 101 Dalmatians

Best Children’s Movie
101 Dalmatians
Babes In Toyland
The Parent Trap

Best Future Star
Telly Savales in The Young Savages

[Bogie56]

Best Picture

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

The Hustler

Judgement at Nuremberg

The Misfits

A Raisin in the Sun

Splendour in the Grass

The Children's Hour

West Side Story

 

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The BAFTA winners for 1961 were ….

 

Best Actor (British)

Peter Finch, No Love For Johnnie*

Dirk Bogarde, Victim

 

Best Actor (Foreign)

Paul Newman, The Hustler*

Vladimir Ivashov, Ballad of a Soldier (59)

Alberto Sordi, The Best of Enemies

Montgomery Clift, Judgment at Nuremberg

Maximilian Schell, Judgment at Nuremberg

Sidney Poitier, A Raisin In the Sun

Philippe Leroy, Le Trou (60)

 

Best Actress (British)

Dora Bryan, A Taste of Honey*

Deborah Kerr, The Sundowners (60)

Hayley Mills, Whistle Down the Wind

 

Best Actress (Foreign)

Sophia Loren, Two Women* (60)

Piper Laurie, The Hustler

Claudia McNeill, A Raisin In the Sun

Annie Giradot, Rocco and His Brothers (60)

Jean Seberg, Breathless (60)

[TomJH]

As a kid, I loved The Guns of Navarone. I loved it so much that I went to the show to see it THREE times, a record for me inasmuch as I would never go to the movies as often for any other film. It very much seemed like an important movie going event at the time.

 

Perhaps the film seems a little more conventional to me as "high adventure" today compared to some other adventure films and it does go on too long, but there is still a sense of bigness about the film that appeals to me. The cast is superior and the music of Dimitri Tiomkin quite rousing, at times. Director J. Lee Thompson does manage to build up a considerable amount of suspense in a couple of sequences, the climb up the cliff, as well as the finale, of course, when our heroes try to sabotage the guns.

 

One of the big screen moments of audience reaction that stays with me the most, though, is a relatively minor one, that when David Niven informs Gregory Peck that he has just made an investigation of the beat up fishing vessel on which they were travelling and wanted Peck to know that he couldn't swim. It was one of the film's few moments of levity.

 

Unlike some other posters on this thread, I didn't nominate any of the Navarone actors as among the year's best but they do all equip themselves admirably and make solid professional contributions to the film's success. Almost 20 years later Peck and Niven would be reunited in another WW2 "high adventure," The Sea Wolves. Feeling nostalgic about Navarone at the time, I went to the movies to see it. It was not the same experience. Wolves was a minor forgettable effort, with the bigness wow factor of Navarone nowhere to be seen.

 

The '60s would see Hollywood returning to WW2-themed films with increasing frequency. Some would, like Navarone, use the war as backdrop for fantasy adventure. I suspect that the loud box office reception to this film in 1961 had a lot to do with it. After all, I did pay to see it three times.