Awards
Academy Awards:
- Best Picture: West Side Story - Mirisch-B&P Enterprises, United Artists
- Best Director: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins - West Side Story
- Best Actor: Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg
- Best Actress: Sophia Loren - Two Women
- Best Supporting Actor: George Chakiris - West Side Story
- Best Supporting Actress: Rita Moreno - West Side Story
- Best Foreign Language Film: Through a Glass Darkly (Såsom i en spegel), directed by Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
Golden Globe Awards:
- Drama:
- Best Picture: The Guns of Navarone
- Best Actor: Maximilian Schell - Judgement at Nuremberg
- Best Actress: Geraldine Page - Summer and Smoke
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture (tie): A Majority of One
- Best Picture (tie): West Side Story
- Best Actor: Glenn Ford - Pocketful of Miracles
- Best Actress: Rosalind Russell - A Majority of One
- Other
- Best Director: Stanley Kramer - Judgment at Nuremberg
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- The Long Absence (Une aussi longue absence), directed by Henri Colpi, France
- Viridiana, directed by Luis Buñuel, Spain
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- Last Year at Marienbad (L'année dernière à Marienbad), directed by Alain Resnais, France
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- La Notte (The Night), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy
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