The year 1961 in film involved some significant events, with West Side Story winning 10 Academy Awards.
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The top ten 1961 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic rentals |
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1 | West Side Story | United Artists | $19,645,000[1] |
2 | The Guns of Navarone | Columbia | $13,000,000[2] |
3 | El Cid | Allied Artists | $12,000,000[2] |
4 | The Parent Trap | Buena Vista | $9,300,000[3] |
5 | The Absent-Minded Professor | $9,000,000[3] | |
6 | King of Kings | MGM | $8,000,000[4] |
7 | Lover Come Back | Universal | $7,625,000[5] |
8 | One Hundred and One Dalmatians | Buena Vista | $6,200,000[6] |
9 | La Dolce Vita | Cineriz / Pathé | $6,000,000[3] |
10 | Come September | Universal | $5,772,000[5] |
The highest-grossing 1961 films from countries outside of North America.
Country | Title | Studio | Gross |
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India | Gunga Jumna | Mehboob Studio | $14,610,000[n 2] |
Soviet Union | Striped Trip | Lenfilm[9] | $12,720,000[n 3] |
Category/Organization | 19th Golden Globe Awards March 5, 1962 |
34th Academy Awards April 9, 1962 | |
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Drama | Comedy or Musical | ||
Best Film | The Guns of Navarone | A Majority of One (Comedy) West Side Story (Musical) |
West Side Story |
Best Director | Stanley Kramer Judgment at Nuremberg |
Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins West Side Story | |
Best Actor | Maximilian Schell Judgment at Nuremberg |
Glenn Ford Pocketful of Miracles |
Maximilian Schell Judgment at Nuremberg |
Best Actress | Geraldine Page Summer and Smoke |
Rosalind Russell A Majority of One |
Sophia Loren Two Women |
Best Supporting Actor | George Chakiris West Side Story | ||
Best Supporting Actress | Rita Moreno West Side Story | ||
Best Original Score | Dimitri Tiomkin The Guns of Navarone |
Henry Mancini Breakfast at Tiffany's (Drama or Comedy) Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal West Side Story (Musical) | |
Best Original Song | "Town Without Pity" Town Without Pity |
"Moon River" Breakfast at Tiffany's | |
Best Foreign Language Film | Two Women | Through a Glass Darkly |
United States unless stated
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