33rd Academy Awards
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award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 1960
Key facts
- Date
- April 17, 1961
- Site
- Santa Monica Civic Auditorium , Santa Monica, California
- Hosted by
- Bob Hope
- Produced by
- Arthur Freed
- Directed by
- Richard Dunlap
- Best picture
- The Apartment
- Most awards
- The Apartment (5)
- Most nominations
- The Apartment (10)
- Network
- ABC
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Series
- Academy Awards
- Followed by
- 34th Academy Awards
- Follows
- 32nd Academy Awards
- Location
- Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
- Producer
- Arthur Freed
- Official website
- www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1961
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- point in time
- 1961-04-17
- edition number
- 33
- presenter
- Bob Hope
- awarded for period
- 1960-00-00
- broadcast by
- American Broadcasting Company
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Encyclopedic overview
The 33rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1960, were held on April 17, 1961, hosted by Bob Hope at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. This was the first ceremony to be aired on ABC television, which has aired the Academy Awards ever since (except between 1971 and 1975, when they were aired on NBC for the first time since the previous year).
Billy Wilder's The Apartment won Best Picture, the last black-and-white film to do so until Schindler's List and The Artist at the 66th and 84th Academy Awards, respectively.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “33rd Academy Awards” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.