34th Academy Awards
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The 34th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1961, were held on April 9, 1962, hosted by Bob Hope at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California.
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Robert Wise, Best Picture winner and Best Director co-winner
Jerome Robbins, Best Director co-winner
Maximilian Schell, Best Actor winner
The Guns of Navarone (film)
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The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 epic adventure war film directed by J. Lee Thompson, written and produced by Carl Foreman, and starring Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn, along with Stanley B
34th Academy Awards
…1962. Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface. Best Motion Picture West Side Story – Robert Wise, producer Fanny – Joshua Logan, producer The Guns of Navarone – Carl Foreman, producer The Hustler – Robert Rossen, producer Judgment at Nuremberg – Stanley Kramer, producer Best Directing Robert Wise and Jerome…
Theatrical release poster
Cliffs of 'Navarone', showing how the openings to gun positions were portrayed in the film by marble quarries on the island of Palmaria, off the west coast of Italy