19th Golden Globe Awards

The 19th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1961 films, were held on March 5, 1962.

19th Golden Globe Awards
Date	March 5, 1962
Highlights
Best Film: Drama	The Guns of Navarone
Best Film: Comedy	A Majority of One
Best Film: Musical	West Side Story

Winners and nominees

Best Film - Drama

The Guns of Navarone

• El Cid
• Fanny
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• Splendor in the Grass

Best Film - Comedy

A Majority of One

• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• One, Two, Three
• The Parent Trap
• Pocketful of Miracles

Best Film - Musical

West Side Story

• Babes in Toyland
• Flower Drum Song

Best Actor - Drama

Maximilian Schell – Judgment at Nuremberg

• Warren Beatty – Splendor in the Grass
• Maurice Chevalier – Fanny
• Paul Newman – The Hustler
• Sidney Poitier – A Raisin in the Sun

Best Actress - Drama

Geraldine Page – Summer and Smoke

• Leslie Caron – Fanny
• Shirley MacLaine – The Children's Hour
• Claudia McNeil – A Raisin in the Sun
• Natalie Wood – Splendor in the Grass

Best Actor - Comedy or Musical

Glenn Ford – Pocketful of Miracles

• Fred Astaire – The Pleasure of His Company
• Richard Beymer – West Side Story
• Bob Hope – Bachelor in Paradise
• Fred MacMurray – The Absent-Minded Professor

Best Actress - Comedy or Musical

Rosalind Russell – A Majority of One

• Bette Davis – Pocketful of Miracles
• Audrey Hepburn – Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Hayley Mills – The Parent Trap
• Miyoshi Umeki – Flower Drum Song

Best Supporting Actor

George Chakiris – West Side Story

• Montgomery Clift – Judgment at Nuremberg
• Jackie Gleason – The Hustler
• Tony Randall – Lover Come Back
• George C. Scott – The Hustler

Best Supporting Actress

Rita Moreno – West Side Story

• Fay Bainter – The Children's Hour
• Judy Garland – Judgment at Nuremberg
• Lotte Lenya – The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
• Pamela Tiffin – One, Two, Three

Best Director

Stanley Kramer – Judgment at Nuremberg

• Anthony Mann – El Cid
• Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise – West Side Story
• J. Lee Thompson – The Guns of Navarone
• William Wyler – The Children's Hour

Best Foreign Language Film

Two Women (La ciociara) • Italy

• The Good Soldier Schweik (Der Brave Soldat Schwejk) • West Germany
• The Important Man (Ánimas Trujano: El hombre importante) • Mexico

Silver Globe

The Good Soldier Schweik (Der Brave Soldat Schwejk) (West Germany)
The Important Man (Ánimas Trujano: El hombre importante) (Mexico)

Best Music, Original Score

"The Guns of Navarone" – Dimitri Tiomkin

• "El Cid" – Miklós Rózsa
• "Fanny" – Harold Rome
• "King of Kings" – Miklós Rózsa
• "Summer and Smoke" – Elmer Bernstein

Best Song

"Town Without Pity" - Town Without Pity (Dimitri Tiomkin - music, Ned Washington - lyrics)

Best Film Promoting International Understanding

A Majority of One

• Judgment at Nuremberg
• Bridge to the Sun

Most Promising Newcomer - Male

Warren Beatty
Richard Beymer
Bobby Darin

• George C. Scott

Most Promising Newcomer - Female

Ann-Margret
Jane Fonda
Christine Kaufmann

• Pamela Tiffin
• Cordula Trantow

Henrietta Award (World Film Favorite)

Charlton Heston
Marilyn Monroe

Television

Only winners announced

Best TV Show

What's My Line?
My Three Sons

Best TV Star - Male

Bob Newhart
John Daly

Best TV Star - Female

Pauline Frederick

Special Journalistic Merit Award

Army Archerd (Daily Variety)
Mike Connolly (The Hollywood Reporter)

Special Merit Award

Samuel Bronston - El Cid

Samuel Goldwyn Award

• The Mark

Cecil B. DeMille Award

Judy Garland

Award breakdown

Film

Winners

3 / 3 A Majority of One: Best Actress-Musical or Comedy, Film-Comedy & Film Promoting International Understanding

3 / 5 West Side Story: Best Film-Musical & Supporting Actor and Actress

2 / 3 The Guns of Navarone: Best Film-Drama & Original Score

1 / 3 Summer and Smoke: Best Actress-Drama

References

• IMdb 1962 Golden Globe Awards