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Laurel Awards: 1960

Golden Laurel

Date:28 September

Top Female Supporting Performance
  Placings:
 

1. Diary of Anne Frank, The (1959) - Shelley Winters
2. Pillow Talk (1959) - Thelma Ritter
3. Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960) - Janis Paige

  Other Nominees:
 
  • Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960) - Spring Byington
    - 4th place.
  • Anatomy of a Murder (1959) - Eve Arden
    - 5th place.

  • Top Male Supporting Performance
      Placings:
     

    1. Anatomy of a Murder (1959) - Arthur O'Connell
    2. Summer Place, A (1959) - Arthur Kennedy (I)
    3. Ben-Hur (1959) - Hugh Griffith (I)

      Other Nominees:
     
  • Young Philadelphians, The (1959) - Robert Vaughn (I)
    - 4th place.
  • Last Angry Man, The (1959) - Luther Adler
    - 5th place.

  • Top Producer/Director
      Placings:
     

    1. Alfred Hitchcock (I)
    2. William Wyler
    3. Billy Wilder

      Other Nominees:
     
  • Mervyn LeRoy
    - 4th place.
  • Stanley Kramer
    - 5th place.
  • Otto Preminger
    - 6th place.
  • George Stevens (I)
    - 7th place.
  • John Huston (I)
    - 8th place.
  • Leo McCarey
    - 9th place.
  • Dick Powell (I)
    - 10th place.

  • Top Director
      Placings:
     

    1. Vincente Minnelli
    2. Fred Zinnemann
    3. Delmer Daves

      Other Nominees:
     
  • Richard Brooks (I)
    - 4th place.
  • Michael Gordon (I)
    - 5th place.
  • Edward Dmytryk
    - 6th place.
  • George Sidney (II)
    - 7th place.
  • John Sturges
    - 8th place.
  • Mark Robson (I)
    - 9th place.
  • Michael Curtiz
    - 10th place.

  • Top Score
      Placings:
     

    1. Summer Place, A (1959) - Max Steiner (I)
    2. Diary of Anne Frank, The (1959) - Alfred Newman
    3. Nun's Story, The (1959) - Franz Waxman

      Other Nominees:
     
  • Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) - Buxton Orr; Malcolm Arnold (I)
    - 4th place.
  • Home from the Hill (1960) - Bronislau Kaper
    - 5th place.

  • Top Musical
      Placings:
     

    1. Can-Can (1960)
    2. Five Pennies, The (1959)
    3. Porgy and Bess (1959)

      Other Nominees:
     
  • Li'l Abner (1959)
    - 4th place.
  • Gene Krupa Story, The (1959)
    - 5th place.

  • Top Male Musical Performance
      Placings:
     

    1. Can-Can (1960) - Frank Sinatra
    2. Five Pennies, The (1959) - Danny Kaye
    3. Say One for Me (1959) - Bing Crosby

      Other Nominees:
     
  • Porgy and Bess (1959) - Sammy Davis Jr.
    - 4th place.
  • Can-Can (1960) - Maurice Chevalier (I)
    - 5th place.

  • Top Female Musical Performance
      Placings:
     

    1. Can-Can (1960) - Shirley MacLaine
    2. Porgy and Bess (1959) - Pearl Bailey
    3. Say One for Me (1959) - Debbie Reynolds (I)

      Other Nominees:
     
  • Porgy and Bess (1959) - Dorothy Dandridge
    - 4th place.
  • Can-Can (1960) - Juliet Prowse
    - 5th place.

  • Top Female New Personality
      Placings:
     

    1. Jane Fonda
    2. Luana Patten
    3. Joan O'Brien (I)

      Other Nominees:
     
  • Tuesday Weld
    - 4th place.
  • Carol Lynley
    - 5th place.
  • Haya Harareet
    - 6th place.
  • Cindy Robbins
    - 7th place.
  • Joan Blackman (I)
    - 8th place.
  • Leslie Parrish
    - 9th place.
  • Donna Anderson (I)
    - 10th place.

  • Top Action Performance
      Placings:
     

    1. They Came to Cordura (1959) - Gary Cooper (I)
    2. Last Voyage, The (1960) - Robert Stack
    3. Warlock (1959) - Richard Widmark

      Other Nominees:
     
  • Last Train from Gun Hill (1959) - Anthony Quinn (I)
    - 4th place.
  • They Came to Cordura (1959) - Richard Conte
    - 5th place.

  • Top Male Comedy Performance
      Placings:
     

    1. Operation Petticoat (1959) - Cary Grant
    2. Some Like It Hot (1959) - Jack Lemmon (I)
    3. Pillow Talk (1959) - Rock Hudson

      Other Nominees:
     
  • Who Was That Lady? (1960) - Tony Curtis (I)
    - 4th place.
  • It Started with a Kiss (1959) - Glenn Ford (I)
    - 5th place.

  • Top Male Dramatic Performance
      Placings:
     

    1. Anatomy of a Murder (1959) - James Stewart (I)
    2. Ben-Hur (1959) - Charlton Heston
    3. Ben-Hur (1959) - Stephen Boyd (I)

      Other Nominees:
     
  • Home from the Hill (1960) - Robert Mitchum
    - 4th place.
  • Career (1959) - Dean Martin (I)
    - 5th place.

  • Top Male Star
      Placings:
     

    1. Rock Hudson
    2. Cary Grant
    3. Frank Sinatra

      Other Nominees:
     
  • James Stewart (I)
    - 4th place.
  • John Wayne (I)
    - 5th place.
  • Tony Curtis (I)
    - 6th place.
  • William Holden (I)
    - 7th place.
  • Jerry Lewis (I)
    - 8th place.
  • Dean Martin (I)
    - 9th place.
  • Jack Lemmon (I)
    - 10th place.
  • Kirk Douglas (I)
    - 11th place.
  • Bing Crosby
    - 12th place.
  • Gregory Peck
    - 13th place.
  • Richard Widmark
    - 14th place.
  • Robert Mitchum
    - 15th place.

  • Top General Entertainment
      Winner:
     

    Special Award
      Winner:
     

    Top Female Comedy Performance
      Placings:
     

    1. Pillow Talk (1959) - Doris Day (I)
    2. Some Like It Hot (1959) - Marilyn Monroe
    3. It Started with a Kiss (1959) - Debbie Reynolds (I)

      Other Nominees:
     
  • Who Was That Lady? (1960) - Janet Leigh
    - 4th place.
  • Gidget (1959) - Sandra Dee (I)
    - 5th place.

  • Top Female Dramatic Performance
      Placings:
     

    1. Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) - Elizabeth Taylor (I)
    2. Nun's Story, The (1959) - Audrey Hepburn
    3. Room at the Top (1959) - Simone Signoret

      Other Nominees:
     
  • Summer Place, A (1959) - Dorothy McGuire (I)
    - 4th place.
  • Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) - Katharine Hepburn
    - 5th place.

  • Top Comedy
      Placings:
     

    1. Pillow Talk (1959)
    2. Operation Petticoat (1959)
    3. Some Like It Hot (1959)

      Other Nominees:
     
  • Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
    - 4th place.
  • Hole in the Head, A (1959)
    - 5th place.

  • Top Action Drama
      Placings:
     

    1. North by Northwest (1959)
    2. Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
    3. FBI Story, The (1959)

      Other Nominees:
     
  • Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
    - 4th place.
  • Big Circus, The (1959)
    - 5th place.

  • Top Male New Personality
      Placings:
     

    1. George Peppard
    2. George Hamilton (I)
    3. Troy Donahue

      Other Nominees:
     
  • Laurence Harvey (I)
    - 4th place.
  • Robert Vaughn (I)
    - 5th place.
  • Steve McQueen (I)
    - 6th place.
  • Ray Danton
    - 7th place.
  • Steve Reeves (I)
    - 8th place.
  • David Ladd
    - 9th place.
  • Warren Berlinger
    - 10th place.

  • Top Producer
      Placings:
     

    1. Buddy Adler
    2. Walt Disney
    3. Jerry Wald (I)

      Other Nominees:
     
  • Hal B. Wallis
    - 4th place.
  • Arthur Freed
    - 5th place.
  • Sam Spiegel (I)
    - 6th place.
  • Joe Pasternak
    - 7th place.
  • Ross Hunter (I)
    - 8th place.
  • Charles Brackett
    - 9th place.
  • George Seaton (I)
    - 10th place.
  • William Perlberg
    - 10th place.

  • Top Female Star
      Placings:
     

    1. Doris Day (I)
    2. Elizabeth Taylor (I)
    3. Debbie Reynolds (I)

      Other Nominees:
     
  • Shirley MacLaine
    - 4th place.
  • Audrey Hepburn
    - 5th place.
  • Marilyn Monroe
    - 6th place.
  • Susan Hayward (I)
    - 7th place.
  • Kim Novak (I)
    - 8th place.
  • Natalie Wood (I)
    - 9th place.
  • Ingrid Bergman (I)
    - 10th place.
  • Deborah Kerr
    - 11th place.
  • Dorothy McGuire (I)
    - 12th place.
  • Lana Turner
    - 13th place.
  • Sandra Dee (I)
    - 14th place.
  • Eleanor Parker (I)
    - 15th place.

  • Top Drama
      Placings:
     

    1. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
    2. Summer Place, A (1959)
    3. Nun's Story, The (1959)

      Other Nominees:
     
  • On the Beach (1959)
    - 4th place.
  • Compulsion (1959)
    - 5th place.

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