1961 Academy Awards – Best Picture Winner
![The Apartment Billy Wilder](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-apartment-billy-wilder-image.jpg)
The Apartment
Billy Wilder
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
1961 Academy Awards – Best Picture Nominees
![Elmer Gantry Bernard Smith](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/elmer-gantry-richard-brooks-image.jpg)
Elmer Gantry
Bernard Smith
![Sons and Lovers Jerry Wald](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/sons-and-lovers-jack-cardiff-image.jpg)
Sons and Lovers
Jerry Wald
![The Alamo John Wayne](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-alamo-john-wayne-image.jpg)
The Alamo
John Wayne
![The Sundowners Fred Zinnemann](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-sundowners-fred-zinnemann-image.jpg)