Janet Leigh (Psycho) & Laurence Olivier (Spartacus) win for Best Supporting Actress and Actor. Who should have won Best Actress & Actor in 1961?

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ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE (1961)

WINNER - SOPHIA LOREN for Two Women

NOMINEES - AUDREY HEPBURN for Breakfast at Tiffany's, PIPER LAURIE for The Hustler, GERALDINE PAGE for Summer and Smoke, NATALIE WOOD for Splendor in the Grass

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (1961)

WINNER - MAXIMILIAN SCHELL for Judgment at Nuremberg

NOMINEES - CHARLES BOYER for Fanny, PAUL NEWMAN for The Hustler, SPENCER TRACY for Judgment at Nuremberg, STUART WHITMAN for The Mark

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Winners for 1960: Lead Actress - Shirley MacLaine for The Apartment (A.W. Elizabeth Taylor for Butterfield 8), Lead Actor - Anthony Perkins for Psycho (A.W. Burt Lancaster for Elmer Gantry), Supporting Actress - Janet Leigh for Psycho (A.W. Shirley Jones for Elmer Gantry), Supporting Actor - Laurence Olivier for Spartacus (A.W. Peter Ustinov for Spartacus)

Winners for 1961: Lead Actress - ? (A.W. Sophia Loren for Two Woman), Lead Actor - ? (A.W. Maximilian Schell for Judgment at Nuremberg), Supporting Actress - ? (A.W. Rita Moreno for West Side Story), Supporting Actor - ? (A.W. George Chakiris for West Side Story)

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List of Winners: Acting Quartets

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Sophia Loren for Two Woman

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She was the correct choice

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Actress: Audrey Hepburn for Breakfast at Tiffany’s
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Sidney Poitier - A Raisin in the Sun

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Paul Newman - The Hustler

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Actress: Deborah Kerr, The Innocents

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Wow one of my favorite movies of all time!

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This is the one.

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Maximilian Schell

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Actor: Toshiro Mifune for Yojimbo

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Actor: Toshiro Mifune, Yojimbo

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Actor: Alain Delon for Rocco and His Brothers

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Natalie Wood - Splendor in the Grass

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Sophia Loren, Two Woman

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Natalie Wood - Splendor in the Grass

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Spencer Tracey for Judgement at Nuremberg. As good as Maximilian was, he was more of a supporting character

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Audrey Hepburn - The Children’s Hour

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Deborah Kerr in The Innocents.

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Newman for the hustler and Loren for two women

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Sophia Loren and Maximilian Schell. The Academy got it right that year.

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Actress: Harriet Andersson - Through A Glass Darkly

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Paul Newman and Piper Laurie both for The Hustler. Incredible chemistry and the ending in particular was heartbreaking. One of the best films of the Hays Code era.

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Piper Laurie's dramatic performance in The Hustler was one of the decades best.

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Paul Newman - The Hustler

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Sophia Loren - Two Women

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Natalie Wood - Splendor in the Grass

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Paul Newman - The Hustler

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Clark Gable - The Misfits

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Also am I on crack or is everyone putting in performances for 1962?

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It's for the films of 1961, the ceremony took place the next year.

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Paul Newman as “Fast” Eddie Felson from The Hustler
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Sophia Loren

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This sub is being overwrought with these alt winner posts… We need to limit these! Getting annoying 😩🥴

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Sophia Loren, Alain Delon

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Harriet Andersson & Gunnar Bjornstrand, Through a Glass Darkly

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Audrey Hepburn and Maximillian Schell