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Matt Taylor and our film editor Marisa Carpico are finally back for the fourth season of their Oscar retrospective podcast, And the Winner Still Is… This podcast drops every Tuesday.
In this podcast series, Matt and Marisa go in the way-back machine to break down the the Best Picture winner and nominees as well as the major categories like Director, Actresses and Actors. They discuss the context in which the winners won, looking back on things should they have win and are they still award-worthy today. They also discuss the losers, the snubs and films, directors and performers they’d nominate.
In this episode, they go back to 1960 when The Apartment starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley McLaine won Best Picture. Elsewhere in the episode they discuss Elizabeth Taylor’s infamous win for BUtterfield 8, the culture-shifting influence of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, and as always go to bat for a few under-appreciated gems.
For the other major categories, the nominees for the 1960 Oscars were:
Best Picture:
The Apartment (winner)
The Alamo
Elmer Gantry
Sons and Lovers
The Sundowners
Best Director:
Billy Wilder – The Apartment (winner)
Jules Dassin – Never on Sunday
Alfred Hitchcock – Psycho
Jack Cardiff – Sons and Lovers
Fred Zinnemann – The Sundowners
Best Actress:
Elizabeth Taylor – BUtterfield 8
Greer Garson – Sunrise at Campobello
Deborah Kerr – The Sundowners
Shirley MacLaine – The Apartment
Melina Mercouri – Never on Sunday
Best Supporting Actress:
Shirley Jones – Elmer Gantry (winner)
Glynis Johns – The Sundowners
Shirley Knight – The Dark at the Top of the Stars
Janet Leigh – Psycho
Mary Ure – Sons and Lovers
Best Actor:
Burt Lancaster – Elmer Gantry (winner)
Trevor Howard – Sons and Lovers
Jack Lemmon – The Apartment
Laurence Olivier – The Entertainer
Spencer Tracy – Inherit the Wind
Best Supporting Actor:
Peter Ustinov – Spartacus (winner)
Peter Falk – Murder Inc.
Jack Kruschen – The Apartment
Sal Mineo – Exodus
Chill Wills – The Alamo
