Awards - Academy Awards - 1955-1964

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Tom Jones
• America, America
• Cleopatra
• How the West Was Won
• Lilies of the Field

Best Achievement in Directing

• Tony Richardson (Tom Jones)
• Federico Fellini (8½)
• Elia Kazan (America, America)
• Otto Preminger (The Cardinal)
• Martin Ritt (Hud)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field)
• Albert Finney (Tom Jones)
• Richard Harris (This Sporting Life)
• Rex Harrison (Cleopatra)
• Paul Newman (Hud)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Patricia Neal (Hud)
• Leslie Caron (The L-Shaped Room)
• Shirley MacLaine (Irma la Douce)
• Rachel Roberts (This Sporting Life)
• Natalie Wood (Love with the Proper Stranger)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Melvyn Douglas (Hud)
• Nick Adams (Twilight of Honor)
• Bobby Darin (Captain Newman, M.D.)
• Hugh Griffith (Tom Jones)
• John Huston (The Cardinal)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Margaret Rutherford (The V.I.P.s)
• Diane Cilento (Tom Jones)
• Edith Evans (Tom Jones)
• Joyce Redman (Tom Jones)
• Lilia Skala (Lilies of the Field)

Best Foreign Language Film

• 8½ (Federico Fellini) Itálie
• Knife in the Water (Roman Polański) Polsko
• Los Tarantos (Francisco Rovira Beleta) Španělsko
• The Red Lanterns (Vassilis Georgiadis) Řecko
• Twin Sisters of Kyoto (Noboru Nakamura) Japonsko

Best Documentary Feature

• Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World
• The Yanks Are Coming
• Le Maillon et la chaîne

Best Original Screenplay

• James R. Webb (How the West Was Won)
• Elia Kazan (America, America)
• Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi (8½)
• Pasquale Festa Campanile, Nanni Loy (The Four Days of Naples)
• Arnold Schulman (Love with the Proper Stranger)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• John Osborne (Tom Jones)
• Richard L. Breen, Phoebe Ephron (Captain Newman, M.D.)
• Harriet Frank Jr., Irving Ravetch (Hud)
• James Poe (Lilies of the Field)
• Serge Bourguignon, Antoine Tudal (Sundays and Cybele)

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Leon Shamroy (Cleopatra)
• Leon Shamroy (The Cardinal)
• William H. Daniels, Milton R. Krasner, Charles Lang, Joseph LaShelle (How the West Was Won)
• Joseph LaShelle (Irma la Douce)
• Ernest Laszlo (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• James Wong Howe (Hud)
• George J. Folsey (The Balcony)
• Lucien Ballard (The Caretakers)
• Ernest Haller (Lilies of the Field)
• Milton R. Krasner (Love with the Proper Stranger)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• How the West Was Won
• The Cardinal
• Cleopatra
• The Great Escape
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• John Addison (Tom Jones)
• Alex North (55 Days at Peking)
• Dimitri Tiomkin (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)
• Ken Darby, Alfred Newman (How the West Was Won)
• Ernest Gold (Cleopatra)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Jimmy Van Heusen (Papa's Delicate Condition) - "Call Me Irresponsible"
• Charade - "Charade"
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World"
• Mondo Cane No. 1 - "More"
• 55 Days at Peking - "So Little Time"

Best Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment

• André Previn (Irma la Douce)
• Bye Bye Birdie
• A New Kind of Love
• Sundays and Cybele
• The Sword in the Stone

Best Achievement in Production Design

• America, America
• The Cardinal
• Come Blow Your Horn
• How the West Was Won
• Tom Jones

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White)

• America, America
• 8½
• Hud
• Love with the Proper Stranger
• Twilight of Honor

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• Cleopatra
• The Cardinal
• How the West Was Won
• The Leopard
• A New Kind of Love

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• 8½
• Love with the Proper Stranger
• The Stripper
• Toys in the Attic
• Wives and Lovers

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• Emil Kosa Jr. (Cleopatra)
• The Birds

Best Sound Mixing

• How the West Was Won
• Bye Bye Birdie
• Captain Newman, M.D.
• Cleopatra
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Best Sound Editing

• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
• A Gathering of Eagles

Best Live Action Short Film

• Incident at Owl Creek
• Koncert
• Home-Made Car, The
• That's Me
• The Six-Sided Triangle

Best Animated Short Film

• The Critic
• Automania 2000
• Play
• My Financial Career
• Pianissimo

Best Documentary Short Film

• Chagall
• Five Cities of June, The
• The Spirit of America
• Thirty Million Letters
• To Live Again

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Lawrence of Arabia
• The Longest Day
• The Music Man
• Mutiny on the Bounty
• To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Achievement in Directing

• David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia)
• Pietro Germi (Divorce Italian Style)
• Robert Mulligan (To Kill a Mockingbird)
• Arthur Penn (The Miracle Worker)
• Frank Perry (David and Lisa)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird)
• Burt Lancaster (Birdman of Alcatraz)
• Jack Lemmon (Days of Wine and Roses)
• Marcello Mastroianni (Divorce Italian Style)
• Peter O'Toole (Lawrence of Arabia)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Anne Bancroft (The Miracle Worker)
• Bette Davis (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?)
• Katharine Hepburn (Long Day's Journey into Night)
• Geraldine Page (Sweet Bird of Youth)
• Lee Remick (Days of Wine and Roses)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Ed Begley (Sweet Bird of Youth)
• Victor Buono (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?)
• Telly Savalas (Birdman of Alcatraz)
• Omar Sharif (Lawrence of Arabia)
• Terence Stamp (Billy Budd)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Patty Duke (The Miracle Worker)
• Mary Badham (To Kill a Mockingbird)
• Shirley Knight (Sweet Bird of Youth)
• Angela Lansbury (The Manchurian Candidate)
• Thelma Ritter (Birdman of Alcatraz)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Sundays and Cybele (Serge Bourguignon) Francie
• Electra (Michalis Kakojannis) Řecko
• The Four Days of Naples (Nanni Loy) Itálie
• Keeper of Promises (Anselmo Duarte) Brazílie
• Tlayucan (Luis Alcoriza) Mexiko

Best Documentary Feature

• Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler
• Alvorada: Brazil's Changing Face

Best Original Screenplay

• Ennio De Concini, Pietro Germi, Alfredo Giannetti (Divorce Italian Style)
• Charles Kaufman, Wolfgang Reinhardt (Freud)
• Alain Robbe-Grillet (Last Year at Marienbad)
• Nate Monaster, Stanley Shapiro (That Touch of Mink)
• Ingmar Bergman (Through a Glass Darkly)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Horton Foote (To Kill a Mockingbird)
• Eleanor Perry (David and Lisa)
• Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson (Lawrence of Arabia)
• Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita)
• William Gibson (The Miracle Worker)

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Freddie Young (Lawrence of Arabia)
• Harry Stradling Sr. (Gypsy)
• Russell Harlan (Hatari!)
• Robert Surtees (Mutiny on the Bounty)
• Paul Vogel (The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm)

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Jean Bourgoin, Walter Wottitz (The Longest Day)
• Burnett Guffey (Birdman of Alcatraz)
• Russell Harlan (To Kill a Mockingbird)
• Ted D. McCord (Two for the Seesaw)
• Ernest Haller (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• Lawrence of Arabia
• The Longest Day
• The Manchurian Candidate
• The Music Man
• Mutiny on the Bounty

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Maurice Jarre (Lawrence of Arabia)
• Jerry Goldsmith (Freud)
• Bronislau Kaper (Mutiny on the Bounty)
• Franz Waxman (Taras Bulba)
• Elmer Bernstein (To Kill a Mockingbird)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Henry Mancini (Days of Wine and Roses) - "Days of Wine and Roses"
• Mutiny on the Bounty - "Love Song from Mutiny on the Bounty (Follow Me)"
• Two for the Seesaw - "Song from Two for the Seesaw (Second Chance)"
• Tender Is the Night - "Tender Is the Night (1962)"
• Walk on the Wild Side - "Walk on the Wild Side"

Best Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment

• Ray Heindorf (The Music Man)
• Billy Rose's Jumbo
• Gigot
• Gypsy
• The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Lawrence of Arabia
• The Music Man
• Mutiny on the Bounty
• That Touch of Mink
• The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White)

• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Days of Wine and Roses
• The Longest Day
• Period of Adjustment
• The Pigeon That Took Rome

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
• Bon Voyage!
• Gypsy
• The Music Man
• My Geisha

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
• Days of Wine and Roses
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
• The Miracle Worker
• Phaedra

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• The Longest Day
• Mutiny on the Bounty

Best Sound Mixing

• Lawrence of Arabia
• Bon Voyage!
• The Music Man
• That Touch of Mink
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Best Live Action Short Film

• The Anniversary
• Cadillac, The
• Big City Blues
• The Cliff Dwellers
• Fire in Castilla

Best Animated Short Film

• The Hole
• Icarus Montgolfier Wright
• Now Hear This
• Self Defense... for Cowards
• A Symposium on Popular Songs

Best Documentary Short Film

• Dylan Thomas
• The John Glenn Story
• The Road to the Wall

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Steve Broidy

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• West Side Story
• Fanny
• The Guns of Navarone
• The Hustler
• Judgment at Nuremberg

Best Achievement in Directing

• Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise (West Side Story)
• Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita)
• Stanley Kramer (Judgment at Nuremberg)
• Robert Rossen (The Hustler)
• J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Maximilian Schell (Judgment at Nuremberg)
• Charles Boyer (Fanny)
• Paul Newman (The Hustler)
• Spencer Tracy (Judgment at Nuremberg)
• Stuart Whitman (The Mark)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Sophia Loren (Two Women)
• Audrey Hepburn (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
• Piper Laurie (The Hustler)
• Geraldine Page (Summer and Smoke)
• Natalie Wood (Splendor in the Grass)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• George Chakiris (West Side Story)
• Montgomery Clift (Judgment at Nuremberg)
• Peter Falk (Pocketful of Miracles)
• Jackie Gleason (The Hustler)
• George C. Scott (The Hustler)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Rita Moreno (West Side Story)
• Fay Bainter (The Children's Hour)
• Judy Garland (Judgment at Nuremberg)
• Lotte Lenya (The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone)
• Una Merkel (Summer and Smoke)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman) Švédsko
• Harry og kammertjeneren (Bent Christensen) Dánsko
• Immortal Love (Keisuke Kinoshita) Japonsko
• The Important Man (Ismael Rodríguez) Mexiko
• Placido (Luis García Berlanga) Španělsko

Best Documentary Feature

• Le Ciel et la boue
• La grande olimpiade

Best Original Screenplay

• William Inge (Splendor in the Grass)
• Grigoriy Chukhray, Valentin Ezhov (Ballad of a Soldier)
• Sergio Amidei, Diego Fabbri, Indro Montanelli (General Della Rovere)
• Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi (La Dolce Vita)
• Paul Henning, Stanley Shapiro (Lover Come Back)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg)
• George Axelrod (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
• Carl Foreman (The Guns of Navarone)
• Sidney Carroll, Robert Rossen (The Hustler)
• Ernest Lehman (West Side Story)

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Daniel L. Fapp (West Side Story)
• Jack Cardiff (Fanny)
• Russell Metty (Flower Drum Song)
• Harry Stradling Sr. (A Majority of One)
• Charles Lang (One-Eyed Jacks)

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Eugen Schüfftan (The Hustler)
• Edward Colman (The Absent Minded Professor)
• Franz Planer (The Children's Hour)
• Ernest Laszlo (Judgment at Nuremberg)
• Daniel L. Fapp (One, Two, Three)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• West Side Story
• Fanny
• The Guns of Navarone
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• The Parent Trap

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Henry Mancini (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
• Miklós Rózsa (El Cid)
• Harry Sukman (Fanny)
• Dimitri Tiomkin (The Guns of Navarone)
• Elmer Bernstein (Summer and Smoke)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Henry Mancini (Breakfast at Tiffany's) - "Moon River"
• Bachelor in Paradise - "Bachelor in Paradise"
• El Cid - "Love Theme from El Cid (The Falcon and the Dove)"
• Pocketful of Miracles - "Pocketful of Miracles"
• Town Without Pity - "Town Without Pity"

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Irwin Kostal, Sid Ramin (West Side Story)
• George Bruns (Babes in Toyland)
• Ken Darby, Alfred Newman (Flower Drum Song)
• Dmitri Shostakovich (Khovanshchina)
• Duke Ellington (Paris Blues)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• West Side Story
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• El Cid
• Flower Drum Song
• Summer and Smoke

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White)

• The Hustler
• The Absent Minded Professor
• The Children's Hour
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• La Dolce Vita

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• West Side Story
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• El Cid
• Flower Drum Song
• Summer and Smoke

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• La Dolce Vita
• The Children's Hour
• Claudelle Inglish
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• Yojimbo

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• The Guns of Navarone
• The Absent Minded Professor

Best Sound Mixing

• West Side Story
• The Children's Hour
• Flower Drum Song
• The Guns of Navarone
• The Parent Trap

Best Live Action Short Film

• Seawards the Great Ships
• Ballon vole
• The Face of Jesus
• Rooftops of New York
• And Very Nice Too

Best Animated Short Film

• Surogat
• Aquamania
• Beep Prepared
• Nelly's Folly
• The Pied Piper of Guadalupe

Best Documentary Short Film

• Project Hope
• L'uomo in grigio
• Kahl
• Cradle of Genius
• Breaking the Language Barrier

Honorary Award

• Fred L. Metzler
• Jerome Robbins
• William L. Hendricks

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• George Seaton

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• The Apartment
• The Alamo
• Elmer Gantry
• Sons and Lovers
• The Sundowners

Best Achievement in Directing

• Billy Wilder (The Apartment)
• Jack Cardiff (Sons and Lovers)
• Jules Dassin (Never on Sunday)
• Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho)
• Fred Zinnemann (The Sundowners)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Burt Lancaster (Elmer Gantry)
• Trevor Howard (Sons and Lovers)
• Jack Lemmon (The Apartment)
• Laurence Olivier (The Entertainer)
• Spencer Tracy (Inherit the Wind)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Elizabeth Taylor (BUtterfield 8)
• Greer Garson (Sunrise at Campobello)
• Deborah Kerr (The Sundowners)
• Shirley MacLaine (The Apartment)
• Melina Mercouri (Never on Sunday)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Peter Ustinov (Spartacus)
• Peter Falk (Murder, Inc.)
• Jack Kruschen (The Apartment)
• Sal Mineo (Exodus)
• Chill Wills (The Alamo)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Shirley Jones (Elmer Gantry)
• Glynis Johns (The Sundowners)
• Shirley Knight (The Dark at the Top of the Stairs)
• Janet Leigh (Psycho)
• Mary Ure (Sons and Lovers)

Best Foreign Language Film

• The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman) Švédsko
• Kapò (Gillo Pontecorvo) Itálie
• The Truth (Henri-Georges Clouzot) Francie
• Macario (Roberto Gavaldón) Mexiko
• The Ninth Circle (France Štiglic) Jugoslávie

Best Documentary Feature

• Horse with the Flying Tail, The
• Rebel in Paradise

Best Original Screenplay

• I.A.L. Diamond, Billy Wilder (The Apartment)
• Michael Craig, Bryan Forbes (The Angry Silence)
• Melvin Frank, Norman Panama (The Facts of Life)
• Marguerite Duras (Hiroshima Mon Amour)
• Jules Dassin (Never on Sunday)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Richard Brooks (Elmer Gantry)
• Harold Jacob Smith, Nedrick Young (Inherit the Wind)
• T.E.B. Clarke, Gavin Lambert (Sons and Lovers)
• Isobel Lennart (The Sundowners)
• James Kennaway (Tunes of Glory)

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Russell Metty (Spartacus)
• William H. Clothier (The Alamo)
• Charles Harten, Joseph Ruttenberg (BUtterfield 8)
• Sam Leavitt (Exodus)
• Joseph MacDonald (Pepe)

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Freddie Francis (Sons and Lovers)
• Joseph LaShelle (The Apartment)
• Charles Lang (The Facts of Life)
• Ernest Laszlo (Inherit the Wind)
• John L. Russell (Psycho)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• The Apartment
• The Alamo
• Inherit the Wind
• Pepe
• Spartacus

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Ernest Gold (Exodus)
• Dimitri Tiomkin (The Alamo)
• André Previn (Elmer Gantry)
• Elmer Bernstein (The Magnificent Seven)
• Alex North (Spartacus)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Manos Hatzidakis (Never on Sunday) - Ta paidia tou Peiraia" ("Never on Sunday")
• The Facts of Life - "The Facts of Life"
• Pepe - "Faraway Part of Town"
• The Alamo - "The Green Leaves of Summer"
• High Time - "The Second Time Around"

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Morris Stoloff, Harry Sukman (Song Without End)
• André Previn (Bells Are Ringing)
• Nelson Riddle (Can-Can)
• Earle Hagen, Lionel Newman (Let's Make Love)
• Johnny Green (Pepe)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Spartacus
• Cimarron
• It Started in Naples
• Pepe
• Sunrise at Campobello

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White)

• The Apartment
• The Facts of Life
• Psycho
• Sons and Lovers
• Visit to a Small Planet

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• Spartacus
• Can-Can
• Midnight Lace
• Pepe
• Sunrise at Campobello

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• The Facts of Life
• Never on Sunday
• The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
• Seven Thieves
• The Virgin Spring

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• The Time Machine
• The Last Voyage

Best Sound Mixing

• The Alamo
• The Apartment
• Cimarron
• Pepe
• Sunrise at Campobello

Best Live Action Short Film

• Day of the Painter
• Creation of Woman, The
• Islands of the Sea
• A Sport Is Born

Best Animated Short Film

• Munro
• Goliath II
• High Note
• Mouse and Garden
• A Place in the Sun

Best Documentary Short Film

• Giuseppina
• Beyond Silence
• George Grosz' Interregnum
• Universe
• My Flat

Juvenile Award

• Hayley Mills (Pollyanna)

Honorary Award

• Gary Cooper
• Stan Laurel

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Sol Lesser

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Ben-Hur
• Anatomy of a Murder
• The Diary of Anne Frank
• The Nun's Story
• Room at the Top

Best Achievement in Directing

• William Wyler (Ben-Hur)
• Jack Clayton (Room at the Top)
• George Stevens (The Diary of Anne Frank)
• Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot)
• Fred Zinnemann (The Nun's Story)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Charlton Heston (Ben-Hur)
• Laurence Harvey (Room at the Top)
• Jack Lemmon (Some Like It Hot)
• Paul Muni (The Last Angry Man)
• James Stewart (Anatomy of a Murder)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Simone Signoret (Room at the Top)
• Doris Day (Pillow Talk)
• Audrey Hepburn (The Nun's Story)
• Katharine Hepburn (Suddenly, Last Summer)
• Elizabeth Taylor (Suddenly, Last Summer)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Hugh Griffith (Ben-Hur)
• Arthur O'Connell (Anatomy of a Murder)
• George C. Scott (Anatomy of a Murder)
• Robert Vaughn (The Young Philadelphians)
• Ed Wynn (The Diary of Anne Frank)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Shelley Winters (The Diary of Anne Frank)
• Hermione Baddeley (Room at the Top)
• Susan Kohner (Imitation of Life)
• Juanita Moore (Imitation of Life)
• Thelma Ritter (Pillow Talk)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus) Francie
• The Bridge (Bernhard Wicki) Německo
• The Great War (Mario Monicelli) Itálie
• Paw (Astrid Henning-Jensen) Dánsko
• Dorp aan de rivier (Fons Rademakers) Nizozemí

Best Documentary Feature

• Serengeti
• The Race for Space

Best Original Screenplay

• Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse, Stanley Shapiro (Pillow Talk)
• Marcel Moussy, François Truffaut (The 400 Blows)
• Ernest Lehman (North by Northwest)
• Maurice Richlin, Stanley Shapiro (Operation Petticoat)
• Ingmar Bergman (Wild Strawberries)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Neil Paterson (Room at the Top)
• Wendell Mayes (Anatomy of a Murder)
• Karl Tunberg (Ben-Hur)
• Robert Anderson (The Nun's Story)
• I.A.L. Diamond, Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot)

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Robert Surtees (Ben-Hur)
• Lee Garmes (The Big Fisherman)
• Daniel L. Fapp (The Five Pennies)
• Franz Planer (The Nun's Story)
• Leon Shamroy (Porgy and Bess)

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• William C. Mellor (The Diary of Anne Frank)
• Sam Leavitt (Anatomy of a Murder)
• Joseph LaShelle (Career)
• Charles Lang (Some Like It Hot)
• Harry Stradling Sr. (The Young Philadelphians)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• Ben-Hur
• Anatomy of a Murder
• North by Northwest
• The Nun's Story
• On the Beach

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Miklós Rózsa (Ben-Hur)
• Alfred Newman (The Diary of Anne Frank)
• Franz Waxman (The Nun's Story)
• Ernest Gold (On the Beach)
• Frank De Vol (Pillow Talk)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Jimmy Van Heusen (A Hole in the Head) - "High Hopes"
• The Best of Everything - "The Best of Everything"
• The Five Pennies - "The Five Pennies"
• The Hanging Tree - "The Hanging Tree"
• The Young Land - "Strange Are the Ways of Love"

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Ken Darby, André Previn (Porgy and Bess)
• Leith Stevens (The Five Pennies)
• Joseph J. Lilley, Nelson Riddle (Li'l Abner)
• Lionel Newman (Say One for Me)
• George Bruns (Sleeping Beauty)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Ben-Hur
• The Big Fisherman
• Journey to the Center of the Earth
• North by Northwest
• Pillow Talk

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White)

• The Diary of Anne Frank
• Career
• The Last Angry Man
• Some Like It Hot
• Suddenly, Last Summer

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• Ben-Hur
• The Big Fisherman
• The Best of Everything
• The Five Pennies
• Porgy and Bess

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• Some Like It Hot
• Career
• The Diary of Anne Frank
• The Gazebo
• The Young Philadelphians

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• Ben-Hur
• Journey to the Center of the Earth

Best Sound Mixing

• Ben-Hur
• Journey to the Center of the Earth
• Libel
• The Nun's Story
• Porgy and Bess

Best Live Action Short Film

• The Golden Fish
• Mysteries of the Deep
• Running Jumping & Standing Still Film, The
• Skyscraper
• Between the Tides

Best Animated Short Film

• Moonbird
• Mexicali Shmoes
• Noah's Ark
• The Violinist

Best Documentary Short Film

• Glass
• Donald in Mathmagic Land
• From Generation to Generation

Honorary Award

• Buster Keaton
• Lee de Forest

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Bob Hope

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Gigi
• Auntie Mame
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• The Defiant Ones
• Separate Tables

Best Achievement in Directing

• Vincente Minnelli (Gigi)
• Mark Robson (The Inn of the Sixth Happiness)
• Robert Wise (I Want to Live!)
• Richard Brooks (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
• Stanley Kramer (The Defiant Ones)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• David Niven (Separate Tables)
• Tony Curtis (The Defiant Ones)
• Paul Newman (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
• Sidney Poitier (The Defiant Ones)
• Spencer Tracy (The Old Man and the Sea)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Susan Hayward (I Want to Live!)
• Deborah Kerr (Separate Tables)
• Shirley MacLaine (Some Came Running)
• Rosalind Russell (Auntie Mame)
• Elizabeth Taylor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Burl Ives (The Big Country)
• Theodore Bikel (The Defiant Ones)
• Lee J. Cobb (The Brothers Karamazov)
• Arthur Kennedy (Some Came Running)
• Gig Young (Teacher's Pet)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Wendy Hiller (Separate Tables)
• Peggy Cass (Auntie Mame)
• Martha Hyer (Some Came Running)
• Maureen Stapleton (Lonelyhearts)
• Cara Williams (The Defiant Ones)

Best Foreign Language Film

• My Uncle (Jacques Tati) Francie
• Helden (Franz Peter Wirth) Německo
• Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli) Itálie
• Strada lunga un anno, La (Giuseppe De Santis) Jugoslávie
• Vengeance (Juan Antonio Bardem) Španělsko

Best Documentary Feature

• White Wilderness
• Antarctic Crossing
• The Hidden World
• Psychiatric Nursing

Best Original Screenplay

• Harold Jacob Smith, Nedrick Young (The Defiant Ones)
• Paddy Chayefsky (The Goddess)
• Jack Rose, Melville Shavelson (Houseboat)
• James Edward Grant (The Sheepman)
• Fay Kanin, Michael Kanin (Teacher's Pet)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Alan Jay Lerner (Gigi)
• Richard Brooks, James Poe (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
• Alec Guinness (The Horse's Mouth)
• Nelson Gidding, Don Mankiewicz (I Want to Live!)
• John Gay, Terence Rattigan (Separate Tables)

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Joseph Ruttenberg (Gigi)
• Harry Stradling Sr. (Auntie Mame)
• William H. Daniels (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
• James Wong Howe (The Old Man and the Sea)
• Leon Shamroy (South Pacific)

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Sam Leavitt (The Defiant Ones)
• Daniel L. Fapp (Desire Under the Elms)
• Lionel Lindon (I Want to Live!)
• Charles Lang (Separate Tables)
• Joseph MacDonald (The Young Lions)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• Gigi
• Auntie Mame
• Cowboy
• The Defiant Ones
• I Want to Live!

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Dimitri Tiomkin (The Old Man and the Sea)
• Jerome Moross (The Big Country)
• David Raksin (Separate Tables)
• Oliver Wallace (White Wilderness)
• Hugo Friedhofer (The Young Lions)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Frederick Loewe (Gigi) - "Gigi"
• Houseboat - "Almost in Your Arms (Love Song from Houseboat)"
• A Certain Smile - "A Certain Smile"
• Some Came Running - "To Love and Be Loved"
• Marjorie Morningstar - "A Very Precious Love"

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• André Previn (Gigi)
• Yuri Faier, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (The Bolshoi Ballet)
• Ray Heindorf (Damn Yankees!)
• Lionel Newman (Mardi Gras)
• Ken Darby, Alfred Newman (South Pacific)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Gigi
• Auntie Mame
• Bell Book and Candle
• A Certain Smile
• Vertigo

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• Gigi
• Bell Book and Candle
• The Buccaneer
• A Certain Smile
• Some Came Running

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• Tom Thumb
• Torpedo Run

Best Sound Mixing

• South Pacific
• I Want to Live!
• A Time to Love and a Time to Die
• Vertigo
• The Young Lions

Best Live Action Short Film

• Grand Canyon
• Journey Into Spring
• Kiss, The
• Snows of Aorangi
• T Is for Tumbleweed

Best Animated Short Film

• Knighty Knight Bugs
• Paul Bunyan
• Sidney's Family Tree

Best Documentary Short Film

• Ama Girls
• Oeuverture
• Employees Only
• Journey Into Spring
• The Living Stone

Honorary Award

• Maurice Chevalier

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Peyton Place
• Sayonara
• 12 Angry Men
• Witness for the Prosecution

Best Achievement in Directing

• David Lean (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
• Joshua Logan (Sayonara)
• Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men)
• Mark Robson (Peyton Place)
• Billy Wilder (Witness for the Prosecution)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Alec Guinness (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
• Marlon Brando (Sayonara)
• Anthony Franciosa (A Hatful of Rain)
• Charles Laughton (Witness for the Prosecution)
• Anthony Quinn (Wild Is the Wind)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve)
• Deborah Kerr (Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison)
• Anna Magnani (Wild Is the Wind)
• Elizabeth Taylor (Raintree County)
• Lana Turner (Peyton Place)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Red Buttons (Sayonara)
• Vittorio De Sica (A Farewell to Arms)
• Sessue Hayakawa (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
• Arthur Kennedy (Peyton Place)
• Russ Tamblyn (Peyton Place)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Miyoshi Umeki (Sayonara)
• Carolyn Jones (The Bachelor Party)
• Elsa Lanchester (Witness for the Prosecution)
• Hope Lange (Peyton Place)
• Diane Varsi (Peyton Place)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini) Itálie
• The Devil Strikes at Night (Robert Siodmak) Německo
• The Gates of Paris (René Clair) Francie
• Mother India (Mehboob Khan) Indie
• Nine Lives (Arne Skouen) Norsko

Best Documentary Feature

• Albert Schweitzer
• On the Bowery
• Bullfighter

Best Original Screenplay

• George Wells (Designing Woman)
• Leonard Gershe (Funny Face)
• R. Wright Campbell, Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts (Man of a Thousand Faces)
• Dudley Nichols (The Tin Star)
• Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano (I Vitelloni)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
• John Huston, John Lee Mahin (Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison)
• John Michael Hayes (Peyton Place)
• Paul Osborn (Sayonara)
• Reginald Rose (12 Angry Men)

Best Achievement in Cinematography

• Jack Hildyard (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
• Milton R. Krasner (An Affair to Remember)
• Ray June (Funny Face)
• William C. Mellor (Peyton Place)
• Ellsworth Fredericks (Sayonara)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
• Pal Joey
• Sayonara
• Witness for the Prosecution

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Malcolm Arnold (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
• Hugo Friedhofer (An Affair to Remember)
• Hugo Friedhofer (Boy on a Dolphin)
• Paul J. Smith (Perri)
• Johnny Green (Raintree County)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Jimmy Van Heusen (The Joker Is Wild) - "All the Way"
• An Affair to Remember - "An Affair to Remember"
• April Love - "April Love"
• Tammy and the Bachelor - "Tammy"
• Wild Is the Wind - "Wild Is the Wind"

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Sayonara
• Funny Face
• Les Girls
• Pal Joey
• Raintree County

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• Les Girls
• An Affair to Remember
• Funny Face
• Pal Joey
• Raintree County

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• The Enemy Below
• The Spirit of St. Louis

Best Sound Mixing

• Sayonara
• Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
• Les Girls
• Pal Joey
• Witness for the Prosecution

Best Live Action Short Film

• Wetback Hound, The
• A Chairy Tale
• City of Gold
• Foothold on Antarctica
• Portugal

Best Animated Short Film

• Birds Anonymous
• One Droopy Knight
• Tabasco Road
• Trees and Jamaica Daddy
• The Truth About Mother Goose

Honorary Award

• Charles Brackett
• Gilbert M. Anderson
• B.B. Kahane
• Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Samuel Goldwyn

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Around the World in 80 Days
• Friendly Persuasion
• Giant
• The King and I
• The Ten Commandments

Best Achievement in Directing

• George Stevens (Giant)
• Michael Anderson (Around the World in 80 Days)
• Walter Lang (The King and I)
• King Vidor (War and Peace)
• William Wyler (Friendly Persuasion)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Yul Brynner (The King and I)
• James Dean (Giant)
• Kirk Douglas (Lust for Life)
• Rock Hudson (Giant)
• Laurence Olivier (Richard III)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Ingrid Bergman (Anastasia)
• Carroll Baker (Baby Doll)
• Katharine Hepburn (The Rainmaker)
• Nancy Kelly (The Bad Seed)
• Deborah Kerr (The King and I)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Anthony Quinn (Lust for Life)
• Don Murray (Bus Stop)
• Anthony Perkins (Friendly Persuasion)
• Mickey Rooney (The Bold and the Brave)
• Robert Stack (Written on the Wind)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Dorothy Malone (Written on the Wind)
• Mildred Dunnock (Baby Doll)
• Eileen Heckart (The Bad Seed)
• Mercedes McCambridge (Giant)
• Patty McCormack (The Bad Seed)

Best Foreign Language Film

• The Road (Federico Fellini) Itálie
• The Captain from Köpenick (Helmut Käutner) Německo
• Gervaise (René Clément) Francie
• The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa) Japonsko
• Qivitoq (Erik Balling) Dánsko

Best Documentary Feature

• The Silent World
• The Naked Eye
• Where Mountains Float

Best Original Screenplay

• Albert Lamorisse (The Red Balloon)
• Robert Lewin (The Bold and the Brave)
• Andrew L. Stone (Julie)
• Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli (The Road)
• William Rose (The Ladykillers)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• John Farrow, S.J. Perelman, James Poe (Around the World in 80 Days)
• Tennessee Williams (Baby Doll)
• Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat (Giant)
• Norman Corwin (Lust for Life)
• Michael Wilson (Friendly Persuasion)

Best Original Story

• Dalton Trumbo (The Brave One)
• The Eddy Duchin Story
• High Society
• The Proud and the Beautiful
• Umberto D.

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Lionel Lindon (Around the World in 80 Days)
• Harry Stradling Sr. (The Eddy Duchin Story)
• Leon Shamroy (The King and I)
• Loyal Griggs (The Ten Commandments)
• Jack Cardiff (War and Peace)

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Joseph Ruttenberg (Somebody Up There Likes Me)
• Boris Kaufman (Baby Doll)
• Harold Rosson (The Bad Seed)
• Burnett Guffey (The Harder They Fall)
• Walter Strenge (Stagecoach to Fury)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• Around the World in 80 Days
• The Brave One
• Giant
• Somebody Up There Likes Me
• The Ten Commandments

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Victor Young (Around the World in 80 Days)
• Alfred Newman (Anastasia)
• Hugo Friedhofer (Between Heaven and Hell)
• Dimitri Tiomkin (Giant)
• Alex North (The Rainmaker)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Ray Evans, Jay Livingston (The Man Who Knew Too Much) - "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)"
• Friendly Persuasion - "Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)"
• Julie - "Julie"
• High Society - "True Love"
• Written on the Wind - "Written on the Wind"

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Ken Darby, Alfred Newman (The King and I)
• Lionel Newman (The Best Things in Life Are Free)
• George Duning, Morris Stoloff (The Eddy Duchin Story)
• Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green (High Society)
• Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green (Meet Me in Las Vegas)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• The King and I
• Around the World in 80 Days
• Giant
• Lust for Life
• The Ten Commandments

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White)

• Somebody Up There Likes Me
• The Proud and Profane
• Seven Samurai
• The Solid Gold Cadillac
• Teenage Rebel

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• The King and I
• Around the World in 80 Days
• Giant
• The Ten Commandments
• War and Peace

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• The Solid Gold Cadillac
• The Power and the Prize
• The Proud and Profane
• Seven Samurai
• Teenage Rebel

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• The Ten Commandments
• Forbidden Planet

Best Sound Mixing

• The King and I
• The Brave One
• The Eddy Duchin Story
• Friendly Persuasion
• The Ten Commandments

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• Crashing the Water Barrier
• I Never Forget a Face
• Time Stood Still

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• The Bespoke Overcoat
• Cow Dog
• Dark Wave, The

Best Animated Short Film

• Magoo's Puddle Jumper
• Gerald McBoing! Boing! on Planet Moo
• Jaywalker, The

Best Documentary Short Film

• True Story of the Civil War, The
• City Decides, A
• Dark Wave, The
• The House Without a Name
• Disneyland Za episodu Man in Space (#1.20)

Honorary Award

• Eddie Cantor

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Y. Frank Freeman

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Marty
• Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Mister Roberts
• Picnic
• The Rose Tattoo

Best Achievement in Directing

• Delbert Mann (Marty)
• Elia Kazan (East of Eden)
• David Lean (Summertime)
• Joshua Logan (Picnic)
• John Sturges (Bad Day at Black Rock)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Ernest Borgnine (Marty)
• James Cagney (Love Me or Leave Me)
• James Dean (East of Eden)
• Frank Sinatra (The Man with the Golden Arm)
• Spencer Tracy (Bad Day at Black Rock)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Anna Magnani (The Rose Tattoo)
• Susan Hayward (I'll Cry Tomorrow)
• Katharine Hepburn (Summertime)
• Jennifer Jones (Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing)
• Eleanor Parker (Interrupted Melody)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Jack Lemmon (Mister Roberts)
• Arthur Kennedy (Trial)
• Joe Mantell (Marty)
• Sal Mineo (Rebel Without a Cause)
• Arthur O'Connell (Picnic)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Jo Van Fleet (East of Eden)
• Betsy Blair (Marty)
• Peggy Lee (Pete Kelly's Blues)
• Marisa Pavan (The Rose Tattoo)
• Natalie Wood (Rebel Without a Cause)

Best Documentary Feature

• Unconquered, The
• Heartbreak Ridge

Best Original Screenplay

• Sonya Levien, William Ludwig (Interrupted Melody)
• Emmet Lavery, Milton Sperling (The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell)
• Betty Comden, Adolph Green (It's Always Fair Weather)
• Henri Marquet, Jacques Tati (Mr. Hulot's Holiday)
• Jack Rose, Melville Shavelson (The Seven Little Foys)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Paddy Chayefsky (Marty)
• Millard Kaufman (Bad Day at Black Rock)
• Richard Brooks (Blackboard Jungle)
• Paul Osborn (East of Eden)
• Daniel Fuchs, Isobel Lennart (Love Me or Leave Me)

Best Original Story

• Daniel Fuchs (Love Me or Leave Me)
• The Private War of Major Benson
• Rebel Without a Cause
• The Sheep Has Five Legs
• Strategic Air Command

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Robert Burks (To Catch a Thief)
• Harry Stradling Sr. (Guys and Dolls)
• Leon Shamroy (Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing)
• Harold Lipstein (A Man Called Peter)
• Robert Surtees (Oklahoma!)

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• James Wong Howe (The Rose Tattoo)
• Russell Harlan (Blackboard Jungle)
• Arthur E. Arling (I'll Cry Tomorrow)
• Joseph LaShelle (Marty)
• Charles Lang (Queen Bee)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• Picnic
• Blackboard Jungle
• The Bridges at Toko-Ri
• Oklahoma!
• The Rose Tattoo

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Alfred Newman (Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing)
• Max Steiner (Battle Cry)
• Elmer Bernstein (The Man with the Golden Arm)
• George Duning (Picnic)
• Alex North (The Rose Tattoo)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Sammy Fain (Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing) - "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing"
• Love Me or Leave Me - "I'll Never Stop Loving You"
• Daddy Long Legs - "Something's Gotta Give"
• The Tender Trap - "(Love Is) The Tender Trap"
• Unchained - "Unchained Melody"

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton, Adolph Deutsch (Oklahoma!)
• Alfred Newman (Daddy Long Legs)
• Jay Blackton, Cyril J. Mockridge (Guys and Dolls)
• André Previn (It's Always Fair Weather)
• Percy Faith, George Stoll (Love Me or Leave Me)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Picnic
• Guys and Dolls
• Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• To Catch a Thief
• Daddy Long Legs

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White)

• The Rose Tattoo
• Blackboard Jungle
• I'll Cry Tomorrow
• The Man with the Golden Arm
• Marty

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Guys and Dolls
• Interrupted Melody
• To Catch a Thief
• The Virgin Queen

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• I'll Cry Tomorrow
• The Pickwick Papers
• Queen Bee
• The Rose Tattoo
• Tales of Ugetsu

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• The Bridges at Toko-Ri
• The Dam Busters
• The Rains of Ranchipur

Best Sound Mixing

• Oklahoma!
• Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Love Me or Leave Me
• Mister Roberts
• Not as a Stranger

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• Survival City
• Gadgets Galore
• 3rd Ave. El
• Three Kisses

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• Face of Lincoln, The
• Battle of Gettysburg, The
• Switzerland
• On the Twelfth Day...
• 24 Hour Alert

Best Animated Short Film

• Speedy Gonzales
• Good Will to Men
• The Legend of Rockabye Point
• No Hunting

Best Documentary Short Film

• Men Against the Arctic
• Battle of Gettysburg, The
• Face of Lincoln, The

Honorary Award

• Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• On the Waterfront
• The Caine Mutiny
• The Country Girl
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
• Three Coins in the Fountain

Best Achievement in Directing

• Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront)
• Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window)
• George Seaton (The Country Girl)
• William A. Wellman (The High and the Mighty)
• Billy Wilder (Sabrina)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront)
• Humphrey Bogart (The Caine Mutiny)
• Bing Crosby (The Country Girl)
• James Mason (A Star is Born)
• Dan O'Herlihy (Robinson Crusoe)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Grace Kelly (The Country Girl)
• Dorothy Dandridge (Carmen Jones)
• Judy Garland (A Star is Born)
• Audrey Hepburn (Sabrina)
• Jane Wyman (Magnificent Obsession)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Edmond O'Brien (The Barefoot Contessa)
• Lee J. Cobb (On the Waterfront)
• Karl Malden (On the Waterfront)
• Rod Steiger (On the Waterfront)
• Tom Tully (The Caine Mutiny)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront)
• Nina Foch (Executive Suite)
• Katy Jurado (Broken Lance)
• Jan Sterling (The High and the Mighty)
• Claire Trevor (The High and the Mighty)

Best Documentary Feature

• The Vanishing Prairie
• The Stratford Adventure

Best Original Screenplay

• Budd Schulberg (On the Waterfront)
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz (The Barefoot Contessa)
• William Rose (Genevieve)
• Oscar Brodney, Valentine Davies (The Glenn Miller Story)
• Melvin Frank, Norman Panama (Knock on Wood)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• George Seaton (The Country Girl)
• Stanley Roberts (The Caine Mutiny)
• John Michael Hayes (Rear Window)
• Ernest Lehman, Samuel A. Taylor, Billy Wilder (Sabrina)
• Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Dorothy Kingsley (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)

Best Original Story

• Philip Yordan (Broken Lance)
• Bread, Love and Dreams
• Forbidden Games
• Night People
• There's No Business Like Show Business

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Milton R. Krasner (Three Coins in the Fountain)
• Leon Shamroy (The Egyptian)
• Robert Burks (Rear Window)
• George J. Folsey (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)
• William V. Skall (The Silver Chalice)

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Boris Kaufman (On the Waterfront)
• John F. Warren (The Country Girl)
• George J. Folsey (Executive Suite)
• John F. Seitz (Rogue Cop)
• Charles Lang (Sabrina)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• On the Waterfront
• The Caine Mutiny
• The High and the Mighty
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Dimitri Tiomkin (The High and the Mighty)
• Max Steiner (The Caine Mutiny)
• Larry Adler (Genevieve)
• Leonard Bernstein (On the Waterfront)
• Franz Waxman (The Silver Chalice)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Jule Styne (Three Coins in the Fountain) - "Three Coins in the Fountain"
• White Christmas - "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep"
• The High and the Mighty - "The High and the Mighty"
• Susan Slept Here - "Hold My Hand"
• A Star is Born - "The Man that Got Away"

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Saul Chaplin, Adolph Deutsch (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)
• Herschel Burke Gilbert (Carmen Jones)
• Joseph Gershenson, Henry Mancini (The Glenn Miller Story)
• Ray Heindorf (A Star is Born)
• Alfred Newman, Lionel Newman (There's No Business Like Show Business)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Brigadoon
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• Desirée
• Red Garters
• A Star is Born

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White)

• On the Waterfront
• The Country Girl
• Executive Suite
• Le Plaisir
• Sabrina

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• Gate of Hell
• Brigadoon
• Desirée
• A Star is Born
• There's No Business Like Show Business

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• Sabrina
• The Earrings of Madame de…
• Executive Suite
• Indiscretion of an American Wife
• It Should Happen to You

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• Hell and High Water
• Them!

Best Sound Mixing

• The Glenn Miller Story
• Brigadoon
• The Caine Mutiny
• Rear Window
• Susan Slept Here

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• This Mechanical Age
• First Piano Quartette, The
• Strauss Fantasy

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• A Time Out of War
• Siam
• Beauty and the Bull
• Jet Carrier

Best Animated Short Film

• When Magoo Flew
• Crazy Mixed Up Pup
• Sandy Claws
• Tom and Jerry - Touché, Pussy Cat!
• Pigs Is Pigs

Best Documentary Short Film

• Thursday's Children
• Rembrandt: A Self-Portrait
• Jet Carrier

Juvenile Award

• Jon Whiteley, Vincent Winter (The Little Kidnappers)

Honorary Award

• Kemp Niver
• Danny Kaye
• Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
• Gate of Hell
• Greta Garbo