At what would be the beginning of a stellar career with multiple awards, Rita Moreno won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in West Side Story at the 34th annual ceremony held April 9, 1962.
West Side Story was the big winner of the evening, winning ten awards out of eleven nominations. Besides Moreno's win, it won:
Best Motion Picture
Best Directing for Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins
Best Supporting Actor for George Chakiris
Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) for Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin, and Irwin Kostal
Best Sound for Gordon Sawyer and Fred Hynes
Best Art Direction (Color) for Boris Leven and Victor Gangelin
Best Cinematography (Color) for Daniel Fapp
Best Costume Design (Color) for Irene Sharaff, beating Edith Head.
Best Film Editing for Thomas Stanford
West Side Story's only loss was for Best Writing (Screenplay-Based on Material from Another Medium).
Breakfast at Tiffany's was nominated for five awards but won only two, both going to Henry Mancini: Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) and Best Music (Song) for Moon River with Johnny Mercer who wrote the lyrics.
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