Host Bob Hope opens the 32nd Academy Awards in 1960, featuring an introduction by Academy President B.B. Kahane. Mitzi Gaynor presents the Oscar for Documentary Feature to Bernhard Grzimek for "Serengeti Shall Not Die," and the Oscar for Documentary Short Subject to Bert Haanstra for "Glass"
The epic drama Ben-Hur won 11 Oscars and broke the all-time record of nine set the year before by Gigi.
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