The 18th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1960, were held on March 16, 1961.

Winners and nominees

Film

Best Film – Drama

Spartacus

• Elmer Gantry
• Inherit the Wind
• Sons and Lovers
• Sunrise at Campobello

Best Film – Comedy

The Apartment

• The Facts of Life
• The Grass Is Greener
• It Started in Naples
• Our Man in Havana

Best Film – Musical

Song Without End

• Bells Are Ringing
• Can-Can
• Let's Make Love
• Pepe

Best Actor – Drama

Burt Lancaster – Elmer Gantry

• Trevor Howard – Sons and Lovers
• Laurence Olivier – Spartacus
• Dean Stockwell – Sons and Lovers
• Spencer Tracy – Inherit the Wind

Best Actress – Drama

Greer Garson – Sunrise at Campobello

• Doris Day – Midnight Lace
• Nancy Kwan – The World of Suzie Wong
• Jean Simmons – Elmer Gantry
• Elizabeth Taylor – BUtterfield 8

Best Actor – Comedy or Musical

Jack Lemmon – The Apartment

• Cantinflas – Pepe
• Dirk Bogarde – Song Without End
• Cary Grant – The Grass Is Greener
• Bob Hope – The Facts of Life

Best Actress – Comedy or Musical

Shirley MacLaine – The Apartment

• Lucille Ball – The Facts of Life
• Capucine – Song Without End
• Judy Holliday – Bells Are Ringing
• Sophia Loren – It Started in Naples

Best Supporting Actor

Sal Mineo – Exodus

• Lee Kinsolving – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
• Ray Stricklyn – The Plunderers
• Woody Strode – Spartacus
• Peter Ustinov – Spartacus

Best Supporting Actress

Janet Leigh – Psycho

• Ina Balin – From the Terrace
• Shirley Jones – Elmer Gantry
• Shirley Knight – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
• Mary Ure – Sons and Lovers

Best Director

Jack Cardiff – Sons and Lovers

• Richard Brooks – Elmer Gantry
• Stanley Kubrick – Spartacus
• Billy Wilder – The Apartment
• Fred Zinnemann – The Sundowners

Best Music, Original Score

Dimitri Tiomkin – The Alamo

• Ernest Gold – Exodus
• Johnny Green – Pepe
• Alex North – Spartacus
• George Duning – The World of Suzie Wong

Best Film to Promote International Understanding

Hand in Hand

• Conspiracy of Hearts

Most Promising Newcomer – Male

Michael Callan
Mark Damon
Brett Halsey

• Peter Falk
• David Janssen
• Robert Vaughn

Most Promising Newcomer – Female

Ina Balin
Nancy Kwan
Hayley Mills

• Jill Haworth
• Shirley Knight
• Julie Newmar

Henrietta Award (World Film Favorite)

Tony Curtis
Rock Hudson
Gina Lollobrigida

Special Award

Cantinflas (For comedy)
Stanley Kramer (For artistic integrity)

Special Merit Award

The Sundowners

Samuel Goldwyn Award

The Trials of Oscar Wilde (English-Language Foreign Film)
La Vérité (France) (Foreign-Language Foreign Film)
The Virgin Spring (Sweden) (Foreign-Language Foreign Film)

• Pote tin Kyriaki (Greece)

Cecil B. DeMille Award

Fred Astaire

References

• IMdb 1961 Golden Globe Awards