The Apartment: 1960 Best Picture

“The Apartment”, starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray, was the most nominated (10) film at the 33rd Academy Awards. It won Best Picture and 4 other Oscars, as you will see in the video.

The other Best Pictures nominees were: “Elmer Gantry”, “Sons and Lovers”, “The Alamo” and “The Sundowners.” Here are some of the other films nominated for awards in other categories: “Pepe”, “Spartacus”, “The Facts of Life”, “Never on a Sunday”, “Inherit The Wind”, “Psycho”, “Sunrise at Campobello”, “Exodus”, “Can-Can”, “Cimarron”, “The Virgin Spring” and “BUtterfield 8”. (The BU is capitalized because it was a phone number. They had no area codes at the time, just exchange names and you used the first two letter to call someone).

Other notable titles include: “The Magnificent Seven”, “The Entertainer”, “Two Women”, “Swiss Family Robinson”, “Village of the Damned”, “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies”, “Ocean’s 11”, “Cinderfella”, “The Dark at the Top of the Stairs”, “G.I. Blues”, and “North to Alaska”.

Some Jeopardy! clues on “The Apartment”
MOVIES ON MY TiVo DVR $1200: Just wanted to see Jack Lemmon strain spaghetti through his tennis racket
’60s CINEMA $400: Jack Lemmon has his ups & downs with elevator operator Shirley MacLaine in this Billy Wilder classic
THE OSCARS: The last movie in black & white to win Best Picture was this 1960 Billy Wilder film
LAST LINES FROM MOVIES $1000: Shirley MacLaine’s last line to Jack Lemmon in this 1960 film was “Shut up and deal.”
SHOW BIZ BILLYs $600: He’s the only filmmaker ever to take home three Academy Awards in 1 night for 1 film, in 1960 for “The Apartment”

More 1960 film clues:
WE GET LETTERS $800: (I’m Ben Mankiewicz of Turner Classic Movies.) Hitchcock’s reply to an angry dad who wrote that his daughter was refusing to shower after seeing this 1960 film? “Send her to the dry cleaners”
SHIP OUT $800: The classy ocean liner called “Ile de” this was partially sunk for the filming of the 1960 movie “The Last Voyage”
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Italian for “the sweet life”, it was popularized by a 1960 Fellini film
SONGS ABOUT GIRLS $2000: Appropriately, the 2011 film “Rio” featured the 1960s hit about “The Girl From” this place
CLASSIC MOVIE TRAILERS $200: In the trailer for this 1960 film Alfred Hitchcock says, “Here we have a quiet little motel tucked way off the main highway”
HERE COMES THE JUDGE $1000: Harry Morgan tries to keep the peace between Spencer Tracy & Fredric March in this blustery film from 1960
DEATH & CINEMA $400: The murder of Marion Crane in this 1960 film is one of the most famous in film history
SCIENCE FICTION FILMS $1600: Alan Young, who co-starred in the 1960 version of this film based on an H.G. Wells book, had a bit role in the 2002 remake
HOLLYWOOD REMAKES $400: This 1960 Rat Pack film was remade in 2001
SHIRLEY MacLAINE $600: Shirley was great friends with the fabled Rat Pack & starred with them in this 1960 caper film
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Italian for “the sweet life”, it served as the title for a 1960 Federico Fellini film
THE SILVER SCREEN $200: 1960 film that says “Matricide is probably the most unbearable crime of all”, especially for “the son who commits it”
EUROPE $1200: An obscenity case against “I Am Curious (Yellow)” a 1960’s film from this country, went to the U.S. Supreme Court
GLOBAL “VILLAGE” $2000: This freaky 1960 film starring George Sanders concerned a town where children used mysterious powers on adults
C’EST FRANC”A” $1200: This singer-actor played the lead in the 1960 French film “Shoot the Piano Player”
“E”PICS $400: In 1960 it was let my people go to this film in which Paul Newman helps establish the state of Israel
THE KING $1000: Fittingly, this 1960 film was Elvis’ first after returning from the army
ODD NUMBER, PLEASE $300: In a 1960 film, this title number of crooks, led by Danny Ocean, plan a Vegas caper
ACTORS & ACTRESSES $100: James Coburn shot to fame in 1960 as part of this title film septet
COURTROOM DRAMAS $800: Spencer Tracy defends Dick York for teaching Darwinism in this 1960 film
“SEVEN”s $600: This Akira Kurosawa film was the basis for the 1960 classic western “The Magnificent Seven”
PUT A KIRK IN IT $200: Kirk Douglas was a slave in & executive producer of this 1960 film
HITCHCOCK’S CATTLE $300: Before he played Ted Baxter, Ted Knight had a bit role as a cop guarding Norman Bates in this 1960 film
ON- & OFF-SCREEN ROMANCES $500: Yves Montand & this blond sex symbol took the title of their 1960 film “Let’s Make Love” literally
“OY”! $300: Comedian Jerry Lewis made his directorial debut with a 1960 film in which he played this title role
YUL TIDE FILMS $1,000 (Daily Double): Steve McQueen & Charles Bronson, among others, joined Yul in this 1960 western based on a Japanese film
“WORLD” CINEMA $1000: In this 1960 film, William Holden falls for lady of the evening Nancy Kwan in Hong Kong
MOVIE TRIVIA $500: This “Mrs. Miniver” star played Eleanor Roosevelt in the 1960 film “Sunrise at Campobello”
“NORTH” $400 (Daily Double): (AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE): This 1960 hit song served as the title tune to a 20th Century Fox film:
EXODUS $600: In the 1960 film “Exodus”, he played Ari Ben Canaan
CLASSIC FILMS: The first scene of this movie was shot on the first day of filming, Oct. 2, 1960 at 5 A.M. at 727 5th Ave. at 57th St. in New York City
DISNEY FILMS: Disney theme park attractions based on this 1960 film flew the flag seen here
FILMS OF THE ’60s: In the top films of 2 consecutive years in the 1960s, she played a nanny & a governess

List of Best Picture Oscars (50s-70s)