Oscars Best Picture 1959-1968 - Choreographers Guild
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Oscars Best Picture: Choreography in Film

1959-1968

Credit notation: Individuals listed below are credited as choreographers, unless noted otherwise in parentheses.

 

Percentage of Winners that Involve Choreography:
50%
Overall Percentage of Nominees that Involve Choreography:
24%

 

Year Film Nominee/Winner Choreographer(s)
1959 Gigi Winner Alex Romero (Assistant Choreographer)
1961 The Apartment Winner Miriam Nelson
1962 West Side Story Winner Jerome Robbins
Peter Gennaro
Hal Bell (Assistant Choreographer)
Howard Jeffrey (Assistant Choreographer/Dance Assistant)
Lee Theodore (Assistant Choreographer)
Margaret Banks (Dance Assistant)
Tommy Abott (Dance Assistant)
Tony Mordente (Dance Assistant)
1963 Mutiny on the Bounty Nominee Hamil Petroff
1963 The Music Man Nominee Kitty Malone
Onna White
Tom Panko (Assistant Choreographer)
1964 Cleopatra Nominee Hermes Pan
Gino Malaria (Assistant Choreographer)
1965 Mary Poppins Nominee Dee Dee Wood
Marc Breaux
1965 My Fair Lady Winner Hermes Pan
1965 Zorba the Greek Nominee Giorgos Provias
1966 The Sound of Music Winner Dee Dee Wood
Marc Breaux
1967 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Nominee Herbert Ross
1968 Doctor Dolittle Nominee Herbert Ross

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