Chill Wills’ Big Blunder: Best Supporting Actor, 1960

The 1960 nominees for Best Supporting Actor: Peter Falk, Murder, Inc. Jack Kruschen, The Apartment Sal Mineo, Exodus Peter Ustinov, Spartacus Chill Wills, The Alamo Peter Ustinov won, but that win has been overshadowed by Chill Wills’ infamous awards campaign. Wills, who’d been in the business a good long time and figured this was his one short at the gold, hired a publicist named W.S.…