Official website (https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1960)
32nd Academy Awards
Sign in to saveAlso known as The 32nd Academy Awards
award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 1959
Key facts
- Date
- April 4, 1960
- Site
- RKO Pantages Theatre , (Hollywood, California)
- Hosted by
- Bob Hope
- Produced by
- Arthur Freed
- Directed by
- Alan Handley
- Best picture
- Ben-Hur
- Most awards
- Ben-Hur (11)
- Most nominations
- Ben-Hur (12)
- Network
- NBC
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Link to the official site · 40,000 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Series
- Academy Awards
- Followed by
- 33rd Academy Awards
- Follows
- 31st Academy Awards
- Location
- Hollywood Pantages Theatre
- Producer
- Arthur Freed
- Official website
- www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1960
Show 5 more facts
via Wikidata · CC0
~4 min read
Encyclopedic overview
The 32nd Academy Awards ceremony was held on April 4, 1960, at the RKO Pantages Theatre, to honor the films of 1959.
William Wyler's Bible epic Ben-Hur won 11 Oscars, breaking the record of nine set the previous year by Gigi. This total was later tied by Titanic in 1997 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003. Wyler became the third (and most recent) person to win more than two Best Director awards (following Frank Capra and John Ford), as well as the only person to date to direct three Best Picture winners (following Mrs. Miniver in 1942 and The Best Years of Our Lives in 1946).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “32nd Academy Awards” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.