18th Golden Globe Awards
The 18th ceremony of the Golden Globe Awards took place on 16 March 1961.
Award winners and nominees
Best Motion Picture - Drama
Spartacus
- Elmer Gantry
- Sons and Lovers
- Inherit the Wind
Best Picture - Musical
Only few are chosen
- Just call us - come into the house
- Can-Can
- Let 's Make Love
- Pepe - What can cost the earth already
Best Motion Picture - Comedy
The apartment
- It Started in Naples
- So an affair
- Our man in Havana
- Is used to warn friends house
Best Film for the promotion of international understanding
Hand in Hand
- Conspiracy of Hearts
Samuel Goldwyn Award ( Best English-language foreign film )
The man with the green carnation - United Kingdom
- Once a Hero - United Kingdom
- Angry silence - United Kingdom
Samuel Goldwyn Award ( Best Foreign Film )
The Virgin Spring - Sweden The Truth - France
- Apus Road to Life: Apus World - India
- Ballad of a Soldier - Soviet Union
- The House of the Angel - Argentina
- Cape - Italy
- Macario - Mexico
- Sunday ... never! - Greece
Best Director
Jack Cardiff - Sons and Lovers
- Richard Brooks - Elmer Gantry
- Stanley Kubrick - Spartacus
- Billy Wilder - The Apartment
- Fred Zinnemann - The Sundowners
Best Original Score
Alamo - Dimitri Tiomkin
- Exodus - Ernest Gold
- Pepe - What can already cost the earth - Johnny Green
- Spartacus - Alex North
- The World of Suzie Wong - George Duning
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
- Doris Day - Midnight Lace
- Jean Simmons - Elmer Gantry
- Elizabeth Taylor - Butterfield 8
- Nancy Kwan - The World of Suzie Wong
Best Actor - Musical / Comedy
Jack Lemmon - The Apartment
- Cantinflas - Pepe - What can cost the earth already
- Dirk Bogarde - Only few are chosen
- Cary Grant - is warned Front of house friends
- Bob Hope - How an affair
Best Actress - Musical / Comedy
Shirley MacLaine - The Apartment
- Capucine - Only few are chosen
- Lucille Ball - How an affair
- Sophia Loren - It Started In Naples
- Judy Holliday - Bells Are Ringing
Best Supporting Actor
Sal Mineo - Exodus
- Lee Kinsolving - The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
- Ray Stricklyn - The Looters
- 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 Newcomer of the Year
- Peter Falk
- David Janssen
- Robert Vaughn
Best Newcomer of the Year
Ina Balin Nancy Kwan Hayley Mills
- Jill Hayworth
- Shirley Knight
- Julie Newmar
Cecil B. DeMille Award
Fred Astaire
Henrietta Award (World Star Male )
Tony Curtis rock Hudson
Henrietta Award (World Star Female )
Special Achievement Award
Cantinflas - for his comic performance Stanley Kramer - for artistic integrity
Special Merit Award
The endless horizon