- Winners and nominees Film Best Film – Drama Best Film – Comedy Best Film – Musical Best Actor – Drama Best Actress – Drama Best Actor – Comedy or Musical Best Actress – Comedy or Musical Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Best Director Best Music, Original Score Best Film to Promote International Understanding Most Promising Newcomer – Male Most Promising Newcomer – Female Henrietta Award (World Film Favorite) Special Award Special Merit Award Samuel Goldwyn Award Cecil B. DeMille Award
- References
{{Infobox film awards
| number = 18
| award = Golden Globe Awards
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| date = 16 March 1961
| best_film_drama = Spartacus
| best_film_comedy = The Apartment
| best_film_musical = Song Without End
| last = 17th
| next = 19th
}}The 18th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1960 films, were held on March 16, 1961. Winners and nomineesFilmBest Film – Drama' Spartacus - Elmer Gantry
- Inherit the Wind
- Sons and Lovers
- Sunrise at Campobello
Best Film – Comedy' The Apartment - The Facts of Life
- The Grass Is Greener
- It Started in Naples
- Our Man in Havana
Best Film – Musical' Song Without End - Bells Are Ringing
- Can-Can
- Let's Make Love
- Pepe
Best Actor – Drama' Burt Lancaster – Elmer Gantry - Trevor Howard – Sons and Lovers
- Laurence Olivier – Spartacus
- Dean Stockwell – Sons and Lovers
- Spencer Tracy – Inherit the Wind
Best Actress – Drama' Greer Garson – Sunrise at Campobello - Doris Day – Midnight Lace
- Nancy Kwan – The World of Suzie Wong
- Jean Simmons – Elmer Gantry
- Elizabeth Taylor – BUtterfield 8
Best Actor – Comedy or Musical' Jack Lemmon – The Apartment - Cantinflas – Pepe
- Dirk Bogarde – Song Without End
- Cary Grant – The Grass Is Greener
- Bob Hope – The Facts of Life
Best Actress – Comedy or Musical' Shirley MacLaine – The Apartment - Lucille Ball – The Facts of Life
- Capucine – Song Without End
- Judy Holliday – Bells Are Ringing
- Sophia Loren – It Started in Naples
Best Supporting Actor' Sal Mineo – Exodus - Lee Kinsolving – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
- Ray Stricklyn – The Plunderers
- Woody Strode – Spartacus
- Peter Ustinov – Spartacus
Best Supporting Actress' Janet Leigh – Psycho - Ina Balin – From the Terrace
- Shirley Jones – Elmer Gantry
- Shirley Knight – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
- Mary Ure – Sons and Lovers
Best Director' Jack Cardiff – Sons and Lovers - Richard Brooks – Elmer Gantry
- Stanley Kubrick – Spartacus
- Billy Wilder – The Apartment
- Fred Zinnemann – The Sundowners
Best Music, Original ScoreDimitri Tiomkin – The Alamo- Ernest Gold – Exodus
- Johnny Green – Pepe
- Alex North – Spartacus
- George Duning – The World of Suzie Wong
Best Film to Promote International UnderstandingHand in HandMost Promising Newcomer – MaleMichael Callan
Mark Damon
Brett Halsey
- Peter Falk
- David Janssen
- Robert Vaughn
Most Promising Newcomer – FemaleIna Balin
Nancy Kwan
Hayley Mills
- Jill Haworth
- Shirley Knight
- Julie Newmar
Henrietta Award (World Film Favorite)Tony Curtis
Rock Hudson
Gina LollobrigidaSpecial AwardCantinflas (For comedy)
Stanley Kramer (For artistic integrity)Special Merit AwardThe SundownersSamuel Goldwyn AwardThe Trials of Oscar Wilde (English-Language Foreign Film)
La Vérité (France) (Foreign-Language Foreign Film)
The Virgin Spring (Sweden) (Foreign-Language Foreign Film)
- Pote tin Kyriaki (Greece)
Cecil B. DeMille AwardFred AstaireReferences- [https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000292/1961 IMdb 1961 Golden Globe Awards]
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