Die 18de Golden Globe-toekenningsaand, wat uitnemendheid in die rolprente van 1960 vereer het, is op 16 Maart 1961 gehou. Beste rolprent – drama Spartacus Elmer Gantry Inherit the Wind Sons and Lovers Sunrise at Campobello Beste rolprent – komedie The Apartment The Facts of Life The Grass Is Greener It Started in Naples Our Man in Havana Beste rolprent – musiekspel Song Without End Bells Are Ringing Can-Can Let's Make Love Pepe Beste rolprentregisseur Jack Cardiff – Sons and Lovers Richard Brooks – Elmer Gantry Stanley Kubrick – Spartacus Billy Wilder – The Apartment Fred Zinnemann – The Sundowners Beste akteur in ’n drama Burt Lancaster – Elmer Gantry Trevor Howard – Sons and Lovers Laurence Olivier – Spartacus Dean Stockwell – Sons and Lovers Spencer Tracy – Inherit the Wind Beste akteur in ’n komedie of musiekspel Jack Lemmon – The Apartment Cantinflas – Pepe Dirk Bogarde – Song Without End Cary Grant – The Grass Is Greener Bob Hope – The Facts of Life Beste aktrise in ’n drama Greer Garson – Sunrise at Campobello Doris Day – Midnight Lace Jean Simmons – Elmer Gantry Elizabeth Taylor – BUtterfield 8 Nancy Kwan – The World of Suzie Wong Beste aktrise in ’n komedie of musiekspel Shirley MacLaine – The Apartment Capucine – Song Without End Lucille Ball – The Facts of Life Sophia Loren – It Started in Naples Judy Holliday – Bells Are Ringing Beste manlike byspeler in ’n rolprent Sal Mineo – Exodus Lee Kinsolving – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs Ray Stricklyn – The Plunderers Woody Strode – Spartacus Peter Ustinov – Spartacus Beste vroulike byspeler in ’n rolprent Janet Leigh – Psycho Ina Balin – From the Terrace Shirley Jones – Elmer Gantry Shirley Knight – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs Mary Ure – Sons and Lovers Beste oorspronklike musiek The Alamo – Dimitri Tiomkin Exodus – Ernest Gold Pepe – Johnny Green Spartacus – Alex North The World of Suzie Wong – George Duning Wikimedia Commons het meer media in die kategorie Golden Globe-pryse.