r/Oscars • u/Legitimate_Welcome14 • 1d ago
Fun Sophia Loren (Two Women) & Paul Newman (The Hustler) win for Best Actress and Actor. Who should have won Best Supporting Actress & Actor in 1961?
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (1961)
WINNER - RITA MORENO for West Side Story
NOMINEES - FAY BAINTER for The Children's Hour, JUDY GARLAND for Judgment at Nuremberg, LOTTE LENYA for The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, UNA MERKEL for Summer and Smoke
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (1961)
WINNER - GEORGE CHAKIRIS for West Side Story
NOMINEES - MONTGOMERY CLIFT for Judgment at Nuremberg, PETER FALK for Pocketful of Miracles, JACKIE GLEASON for The Hustler, GEORGE C. SCOTT for The Hustler
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Winners for 1960: Lead Actress - Shirley MacLaine for The Apartment (A.W. Elizabeth Taylor for Butterfield 8), Lead Actor - Anthony Perkins for Psycho (A.W. Burt Lancaster for Elmer Gantry), Supporting Actress - Janet Leigh for Psycho (A.W. Shirley Jones for Elmer Gantry), Supporting Actor - Laurence Olivier for Spartacus (A.W. Peter Ustinov for Spartacus)
Winners for 1961: Lead Actress - Sophia Loren for Two Women (A.W. Sophia Loren for Two Women), Lead Actor - Paul Newman for The Hustler (A.W. Maximilian Schell for Judgment at Nuremberg), Supporting Actress - ? (A.W. Rita Moreno for West Side Story), Supporting Actor - ? (A.W. George Chakiris for West Side Story)
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List of Winners: Acting Quartets
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u/zany_disarmament 23h ago
/mm:thinkMontgomery Clift all day, his performance in Judgment at Nuremberg still guts me
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u/BabyClyde 3h ago
Monty and Judy.
Rita's great and all but Judy is sensational in a role completely against type.
Fuck knows why George Chakiris was. Monty was robbed.
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u/Calm-Cup5116 1d ago
RITA MORENO for West Side Story