32nd Annual Academy Awards
April 4, 1960

The RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood

Your Host: Bob Hope
Televised over ABC
Welcome and introduction of Bob Hope:Academy President B.B. Kahane
Documentary Awards:Mitzi Gaynor
Bert Haanstra, Documentary Short Subject winner, was not present at the ceremony. Ann Blyth accepted the Award on his behalf.
Costume Design Awards:Arlene Dahl & Fernando Lamas
Special Effects:Haya Harareet
Supporting Actor:Olivia de Havilland
Hugh Griffith was not present at the ceremony. William Wyler accepted the Award on his behalf.
Sound:Natalie Wood & Robert Wagner
Short Subjects:Hope Lange & Carl Reiner
Introduction of Yves Montand:Fred Astaire
Performance of French song and dance to
"The Continental":		Yves Montand
Supporting Actress:Edmond O'Brien
Foreign Film:Eric Johnston
Film Editing:Barbara Rush
Art Direction:Angie Dickinson & Richard Conte
Cinematography:Edward Curtis
Song:Doris Day
Musical Scoring:Gene Kelly
Writing Awards:Janet Leigh & Tony Curtis
Stanley Shapiro, one of the winners for Pillow Talk, was not present at the ceremony.
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award:B.B. Kahane
Director:John Wayne
Actor:Susan Hayward
Actress:Rock Hudson
Best Picture:Gary Cooper
Producer Sam Zimbalist died on location during the filming of Ben-Hur; his widow, Mary, accepted the Award on his behalf.
"The Best of Everything"-- Frankie Vaughan
"The Five Pennies"-- Joni James
"The Hanging Tree"-- Frankie Laine
"High Hopes"-- Sammy Davis, Jr.
"Strange Are the Ways of Love"-- Gogi Grant

Charlton Heston, Best Actor,
with presenter Susan Hayward
Best Actress winner Simone Signoret
with presenter Rock Hudson
Shelley Winters, Best Supporting Actress,
with presenter Edmond O'Brien
Show Producer:Arthur Freed
Telecast Producer & Director for NBC:Alan Handley
Musical Director:André Previn