1962
Best Picture
1962
Best Cinematography
1962
Best Costume Design
1962
Best Editing
1962
Best Production Design (Art Direction)
1962
Best Sound
1962
Best Original Musical or Comedy Score - Discontinued
1962
Best Supporting Actor
George Chakiris
1962
Best Supporting Actress
Rita Moreno
1962
Nominated Adapted Screenplay
1962
Best Director
Robert Wise
1962
Best Director
Jerome Robbins
West Side Story
1961
Rank
488
Score
75.71
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
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Crime Drama Romance Musical Film
Robert Wise and co-director Jerome Robbins adapted a Broadway musical that updates Romeo and Juliet to a contemporary setting where two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
The unique adaptation of Shakespeare , the performances, and some of the songs make this musical worth to be in our All-Time Best Films but the issues that it deals with probably could have been treated with more depth .
DIRECTOR
Robert Wise
American film director, producer and editor with unusual flexibility in different genres (1914-2005).
Jerome Robbins
Imaginative American coreographer , director and dancer (1918-1998) .
CAST
Natalie Wood
American (1938–1981)
Richard Beymer
American (born 1939)
Russ Tamblyn
American (born 1934)
Rita Moreno
Puerto Rico (born 1931)
George Chakiris
American (born 1934)
Simon Oakland
American (1915-1983)