GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (Sol C. Siegel); HOW TO MARRY A
MILLIONAIRE (Nunnally Johnson); LILI (Edwin H. Knopf); THE NAKED SPUR (William H. Wright); NIAGARA (Charles Brackett); THE ROBE (Frank Ross); STALAG 17 (Billy Wilder); TOKYO STORY (Takeshi
Yamamoto); UGETSU MONOGATARI (Masaichi Nagata); WAR OF THE WORLDS (George Pal)
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Marlon Brando as "Johnny Strabler" - THE WILD
ONE
Montgomery Clift as "Robert E. Lee Prewitt" - FROM
HERE TO ETERNITY
Alec Guinness as "Capt. Henry St. James" - THE
CAPTAIN'S PARADISE
William Holden as "Sgt. J.J. Sefton" - STALAG
17
Alan Ladd as "Shane" - SHANE
Burt Lancaster as "Sgt. Milton Warden" - FROM HERE TO
ETERNITY
Yves Montand as "Mario" - THE WAGES OF
FEAR
James Stewart as "Howard Kemp" - THE NAKED
SPUR
Spencer Tracy as "Clinton Jones" - THE
ACTRESS
Richard Widmark as "Skip McCoy" - PICKUP ON SOUTH
STREET
Also Considered:
Fred Astaire (THE BAND WAGON); Lew Ayres (DONOVAN'S
BRAIN); Richard Burton (THE ROBE); Joseph Cotten (NIAGARA); Glenn Ford (THE BIG HEAT); John Gregson (GENEVIEVE); Jack Hawkins (THE CRUEL SEA); Gregory Peck (ROMAN HOLIDAY); Chishü Ryû (TOKYO
STORY); Norman Wisdom (TROUBLE IN STORE)
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Lauren Bacall as "Schatze Page" - HOW TO MARRY A
MILLIONAIRE
Leslie Caron as "Lili Daurier" - LILI
Danielle Darrieux as "Comtesse Louise" - THE EARRINGS OF
MADAME DE...
Doris Day as "Calamity Jane" - CALAMITY JANE
Audrey Hepburn as "Princess Ann" - ROMAN HOLIDAY
Deborah Kerr as "Karen Holmes" - FROM HERE TO
ETERNITY
Maggie McNamara as “Patty O’Neill” - THE MOON IS
BLUE
Ethel Merman as "Sally Adams" - CALL ME
MADAM
Dinah Sheridan as "Wendy McKim" - GENEVIEVE
Jean Simmons as "Ruth Gordon Jones" - THE
ACTRESS
Also Considered:
Harriet Anderson (SUMMER WITH MONIKA); Joan Crawford
(TORCH SONG); Ava Gardner (MOGAMBO); Celia Johnson (THE CAPTAIN'S PARADISE); Marilyn Monroe (GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES); Marilyn Monroe (HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE); Jean Peters (PICKUP ON
SOUTH STREET); Jane Russell (GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES); Barbara Stanwyck (ALL I DESIRE); Esther Williams (DANGEROUS WHEN WET)
BEST DIRECTOR
Henri-Georges Clouzet - THE WAGES OF FEAR
Samuel Fuller - PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET
Fritz Lang - THE BIG HEAT
Walter Lang - CALL ME MADAM
Anthony Mann - THE NAKED SPUR
Kenji Mizoguchi - UGETSU MONOGATARI
Yasujiro Ozu - TOKYO STORY
George Stevens - SHANE
William Wyler - ROMAN HOLIDAY
Fred Zinnemann - FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
Also Considered:
Henry Cornelius (GENEVIEVE); Charles Frend (THE CRUEL
SEA); Byron Haskin (WAR OF THE WORLDS); Henry Hathaway (NIAGARA); Henry Koster (THE ROBE); Joseph L. Mankiewicz (JULIUS CAESAR); Vincente Minnelli (THE BAND WAGON); Jean Negulesco (TITANIC);
Charles Walters (LILI); Billy Wilder (STALAG 17)
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Marlon Brando as "Mark Antony" - JULIUS
CAESAR
Charles Coburn as "Sir Francis 'Piggy' Beekman" -
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES
Brandon de Wilde as "Joey Starrett" - SHANE
John Gielgud as "Cassius" - JULIUS CAESAR
Karl Malden as "Inspector Larrue" - I
CONFESS
Kenneth More as "Ambrose Claverhouse" -
GENEVIEVE
Jack Palance as "Jack Wilson" - SHANE
Frank Sinatra as "Pvt. Angelo Maggio" - FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
Robert Strauss as "Sgt. Stanislaus 'Animal' Kuzawa" -
STALAG 17
Charles Vanel as "Jo" - THE WAGES OF FEAR
Also Considered:
Eddie Albert (ROMAN HOLIDAY); Ernest Borgnine (FROM HERE
TO ETERNITY); Jack Buchanan (THE BAND WAGON); Richard Egan (THE GLORY BRIGADE); Steve Forrest (SO BIG); Oscar Levant (THE BAND WAGON); Hugh O'Brien (THE MAN FROM THE ALAMO); Robert Ryan (THE
NAKED SPUR); Jon Whiteley (THE LITTLE KIDNAPPERS); Vincent Winter (THE LITTLE KIDNAPPERS)
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Nanette Fabray as "Lily Marton" - THE BAND
WAGON
Zsa Zsa Gabor as "Rosalie" - LILI
Gloria Grahame as "Debby Marsh" - THE BIG
HEAT
Grace Kelly as "Linda Nordley" - MOGAMBO
Kay Kendall as "Rosalind Peters" - GENEVIEVE
Janet Leigh as "Lina Patch" - THE NAKED SPUR
Geraldine Page as "Angie Lowe" - HONDO
Marjorie Rambeau as "Mrs. Stewart" - TORCH
SONG
Donna Reed as "Alma 'Lorene' Burke" - FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
Thelma Ritter as "Moe Williams" - PICKUP ON SOUTH
STREET
Also Considered:
Hillary Brooke (INVADERS FROM MARS); Pat Crowley (FOREVER
FEMALE); Charlotte Greenwood (DANGEROUS WHEN WET); Joyce Grenfell (GENEVIEVE); Setsuko Hara (TOKYO STORY); Ann Miller (KISS ME KATE); Mitsuko Mito (UGETSU MONOGATARI); Jean Peters (NIAGARA);
Marisa Prado (THE BANDIT); Vera-Ellen (CALL ME MADAM)
BEST ENSEMBLE
CAST
FROM HERE TO
ETERNITY
GENEVIEVE
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE
JULIUS CAESAR
LILI
NIAGARA
ROMAN HOLIDAY
SHANE
THE WAGES OF FEAR
Also Considered:
THE ACTRESS; THE BAND WAGON; THE BIG HEAT; CALL ME MADAM;
MOGAMBO; THE MOON IS BLUE; THE NAKED SPUR; PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET; STALAG 17; TOKYO STORY
BEST SCREENPLAY - ADAPTATION
THE BIG HEAT
Sydney Boehm
THE CRUEL SEA
Eric Ambler
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
Daniel Taradash
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES
Charles Lederer
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE
Nunnally Johnson
LILI
Helen Deutsch
SHANE
A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
STALAG 17
Billy Wilder & Edwin Blum
UGETSU MONOGATARI
Matsutaro Kawaguchi
THE WAGES OF FEAR
Henri-Georges Clouzet & Jerome Geronimi
Also Considered:
THE ACTRESS (Ruth Gordon); CALL ME MADAM (Arthur
Sheekman); GATE OF HELL (Teinosuke Kinugasa & Masaichi Nagata); HONDO (James Edward Grant); JULIUS CAESAR (Joseph L. Mankiewicz); KISS ME KATE (Dorothy Kingsley); MOGAMBO (John Lee
Mahin); THE MOON IS BLUE (F. Hugh Herbert); THE ROBE (Philip Dunne & Albert Maltz); WAR OF THE WORLDS (Barre Lyndon)
BEST SCREENPLAY - ORIGINAL
GENEVIEVE
William Rose
LITTLE FUGITIVE
Ray Ashley, Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin
THE MAGGIE
William Rose
MONSIEUR HULOT'S HOLIDAY
Jacques Tati & Henri Marquet
THE NAKED SPUR
Sam Rolfe & Harold Jack Bloom
PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET
Samuel Fuller
ROMAN
HOLIDAY
Dalton Trumbo, Ian McLellan
Hunter & John Dighton
TAKE THE HIGH GROUND
Millard Kaufman
TITANIC
Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch & Richard L.
Breen
THE WILD ONE
John Paxton
Also Considered:
THE BAND WAGON (Betty Comden & Adolph Green); THE
5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T (Dr. Seuss & Allan Scott); I VITELLONI (Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano & Tullio Pinelli); IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (Harry Essex & Ray Bradbury); LITTLE BOY
LOST (George Seaton); THE LITTLE KIDNAPPERS (Neil Paterson); NIAGARA (Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch & Richard L. Breen); THE TITFIELD THUNDERBOLT (T.E.B. Clarke); TOKYO STORY (Yasujiro
Ozu & Kôgo Noda); TROUBLE IN STORE (John Paddy Carstairs, Maurice Cowan & Ted Willis)
BEST ANIMATED FILM
LUMBERJACK RABBIT
Edward Selzer
PETER PAN
Walt Disney
RUGGED BEAR
Walt Disney
TV OF TOMORROW
Fred Quimby
TWO LITTLE INDIANS
Fred Quimby
Also Considered:
CHRISTOPHER CRUMPET (Stephen Bosustow); FROM A TO Z-Z-Z-Z
(Edward Selzer); JERRY & JUMBO (Fred Quimby); THE TELL-TALE HEART (Stephen Bosustow); TOOT, WHISTLE, PLUNK & BOOM (Walt Disney)
Cedric Gibbons & Edward Carfango; Edwin B. Willis & Hugh Hunt
KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE
Alfred Junge & Hans Peters; John Jarvis
THE PRESIDENT'S LADY
Lyle Wheeler & Leland Fuller; Paul S. Fox
THE ROBE
Lyle Wheeler & George W. Davis; Walter M. Scott & Paul
S. Fox
STALAG 17
Hal Pereira & Franz Bachelin; Sam Comer & Ray
Moyer
TITANIC
Lyle Wheeler & Maurice Ransford; Stuart A.
Reiss
Also Considered:
THE FARMER TAKES A WIFE (Lyle Wheeler & Addison Hehr;
Claude Carpenter); FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (Cary Odell; Frank Tuttle); HERE COME THE GIRLS (Roland Anderson & Hal Pereira; Sam Comer & Grace Gregory); HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE (Lyle
Wheeler & Leland Fuller; Stuart A. Reiss & Walter M. Scott); INVADERS FROM MARS (William Cameron Menzies & Boris Leven); LILI (Cedric Gibbons & Paul Groesse; Edwin B. Willis
& Arthur Krams); MARTIN LUTHER (Fritz Maurischat & Paul Markwitz); ROMAN HOLIDAY (Hal Pereira & Walter Tyler); THE STORY OF THREE LOVES (Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames, Edward
Carfango & Gabrielle Scognamillo; Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason, Arthur Krams & Jack D. Moore); YOUNG BESS (Cedric Gibbons & Urie McCleary; Edwin B. Willis & Jack D.
Moore)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
BENEATH THE 12-MILE REEF
Edward Cronjager
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
Burnett Guffey
GATE OF HELL
Kohei Sugiyama
LITTLE FUGITIVE
Morris Engel
MARTIN LUTHER
Joseph C. Brun
NIAGARA
Joseph MacDonald
THE ROBE
Leon Shamroy
SHANE
Loyal Griggs
UGETSU MONOGATARI
Kazuo Miyagawa)
THE WAGES OF FEAR
Armand Thirard
Also Considered:
ALL THE BROTHERS WERE VALIANT (George Folsey); JULIUS
CAESAR (Joseph Ruttenberg); LILI (Robert Planck); THE LIVING DESERT (Robert H. Crandall & Paul Kenworthy); THE NAKED SPUR (William C. Mellor); PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (Joseph MacDonald);
THE PRESIDENT'S LADY (Leo Tover); ROMAN HOLIDAY (Franz Planer & Henri Alekan); SAWDUST & TINSEL (Sven Nykvist & Hilding Bladh); TOKYO STORY (Yûhara Atsuta)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
THE BAND WAGON
Mary Ann Nyberg
THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE...
George Annenkov & Rosine Delamare
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
Jean Louis
GATE OF HELL
Sanzo Wada
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES
Travilla
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE
Charles LeMaire & Travilla
THE ROBE
Charles LeMaire & Emile Santiago
ROMAN HOLIDAY
Edith Head
UGETSU MONOGATARI
Tadaoto Kainoscho
YOUNG BESS
Walter Plunkett
Also Considered:
THE ACTRESS (Walter Plunkett); CALL ME MADAM (Irene
Sharaff); DREAM WIFE (Helen Rose & Herschel McCoy); THE FARMER TAKES A WIFE (Travilla); HOUSE OF WAX (Howard Shoup); JULIUS CAESAR (Herschel McCoy); LILI (Mary Ann Nyberg);
THE PRESIDENT'S LADY (Charles LeMaire & Renie); SHANE (Edith Head); TITANIC (Dorothy Jeakins)
BEST FILM EDITING
THE BIG HEAT
Charles Nelson
THE DESERT RATS
Barbara McLean
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
William Lyon
THE LIVING DESERT
Norman Palmer
THE NAKED SPUR
George White
PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET
Nick DiMaggio
ROMAN HOLIDAY
Robert E. Swink
STALAG 17
Doane Harrison & George Tomasini
THE WAGES OF FEAR
Henri Rust, Madeliene Gug & Etiennette Muse
WAR OF THE WORLDS
Everett Douglas
Also Considered:
CRAZYLEGS (Cotton Warburton); LILI (Ferris Webster);
LITTLE FUGITIVE (Ruth Orkin & Lester Troob); MOGAMBO (Frank Clarke); THE MOON IS BLUE (Otto Ludwig); NIAGARA (Barbara McLean); THE ROBE (Barbara McLean); SHANE (William Hornbeck); TITANIC
(Louis Loeffler); UGETSU MONOGATARI (Mitsuzô Miyata)
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
THE BANDIT
Brazil; Lima Barreto
CRIN BLANC (WHITE MANE)
France; Albert Lamorisse
THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE...
France; Max Ophuls
GATE OF HELL
Japan; Teinosuke Kinusaga
I VITELLONI
Italy; Federico Fellini
MONSIEUR HULOT'S HOLIDAY
France; Jacques Tati
SUMMER WITH MONIKA
Sweden; Ingmar Bergman
TOKYO STORY
Japan; Yasujiro Ozu
UGETSU MONOGATARI
Japan; Kenji Mizoguchi
THE WAGES OF FEAR
France; Henri-Georges Clouzet
Also Considered:
BARABBAS (Sweden; Alf Sjöberg); BIENVENIDO MR. MARSHALL
(Spain; Luis Garcia Berlanger); EL BRUTO (Mexico; Luis Buñuel); THE GREAT ADVENTURE (Sweden; Arne Sucksdorff); LOVE IN THE CITY (Italy; Michelangelo Antonioni); NO WAY BACK (West Germany;
Victor Vicas); THE PROUD ONES (France; Yves Allégret); SAWDUST & TINSEL (Sweden; Ingmar Bergman); THE STATE DEPARTMENT STORE (Hungary; Viktor Gertler); THERESE RAQUIN (France; Marcel
Carné)
BEST MAKEUP
HOUSE OF WAX
Gordon Bau
JULIUS CAESAR
William Tuttle
THE ROBE
Ben Nye
Also Considered:
IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (Bud Westmore); ROMAN HOLIDAY (Wally
Westmore); YOUNG BESS (William Tuttle)
BEST ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE
THE BANDIT
Gabriel Migliori
BENEATH THE 12-MILE REEF
Bernard Herrmann
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
Morris Stoloff & George Duning
HOUSE OF WAX
David Buttolph
JULIUS CAESAR
Miklos Rozsa
THE LIVING DESERT
Paul Smith
THE ROBE
Alfred Newman
SHANE
Victor Young
THE SUN SHINES BRIGHT
Victor Young
THE WAGES OF FEAR
Georges Auric
Also Considered:
ANGEL FACE (Dimitri Tiomkin); THE DESERT RATS (Leigh
Harline); KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE (Miklos Rozsa); NIAGARA (Sol Kaplan); PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (Leigh Harline); ROMAN HOLIDAY (Georges Auric); THE STORY OF THREE LOVES (Miklos Rozsa);
TOKYO STORY (Takanobu Saitô); WAR OF THE WORLDS (Leith Stevens); YOUNG BESS (Miklos Rozsa)
BEST ORIGINAL MUSICAL OR COMEDY SCORE
THE BAND WAGON
Adolph Deutsch
CALAMITY JANE
Ray Heindorf
CALL ME MADAM
Alfred Newman
THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T
Frederick Hollander & Morris Stoloff
GENEVIEVE
Larry Adler
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES
Lionel Newman
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE
Cyril J. Mockridge
KISS ME KATE
Andre Previn & Saul Chaplin
LILI
Bronislau Kaper
PETER PAN
Oliver Wallace & Edward Plumb
Also Considered:
BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOON (Max Steiner & Ray
Heindorf); THE DESERT SONG (Max Steiner); THE FARMER TAKES A WIFE (Cyril Mockridge); FOREVER FEMALE (Victor Young); I LOVE MELVIN (George Stoll); THE MAGGIE (John Addison); MISS SADIE
THOMPSON (George Duning); MONSIEUR HULOT'S HOLIDAY (Alain Romans); THE MOON IS BLUE (Herschel Burke Gilbert); THE TITFIELD THUNDERBOLT (Georges Auric)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Anyone Here For Love?" - GENTLEMEN PREFER
BLONDES
Hoagy Carmichael & Harold Adamson
"Blue Pacific Blues" - MISS SADIE
THOMPSON
Lester Lee & Ned Washington
"I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan" - THE BAND
WAGON
Howard Dietz & Arthur Schwartz
"The Moon Is Blue" - THE MOON IS BLUE
Herschel Burke Gilbert & Sylvia Fine
"A Pirate's Life" - PETER PAN
Oliver Wallace & Erdman Penner
"The Second Star To The Right" - PETER
PAN
Sammy Fain & Sammy Cahn
"Secret Love" - CALAMITY JANE
Sammy Fain & Paul Francis Webster
"That's Amore" - THE CADDY
Harry Warren & Jack Brooks
"That's Entertainment" - THE BAND WAGON
Howard Dietz & Arthur Schwartz
"When Love Goes Wrong" - GENTLEMEN PREFER
BLONDES
Hoagy Carmichael & Harold Adamson
Also Considered:
"Angel Eyes" - JENNIFER (Matt Dennis & Earl Brent);
"The Desert Song" - THE DESERT SONG (Sigmund Romberg & Oscar Hammerstein II); "The Dungeon Song" - THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T (Frederick Hollander & Dr. Seuss); "Hi-Lili Hi-Lo" -LILI
(Bronislau Kaper & Helen Deutsch); "It's A Lovely Day Today" - CALL ME MADAM (Irving Berlin); "My Flaming Heart" - SMALL TOWN GIRL (Nicholas Brodzsky & Leo Robin); "New York" - HOW TO
MARRY A MILLIONAIRE (Lionel Newman & Ken Darby); "Re-Enlistment Blues" - FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (James Jones, Fred Karger & Robert Wells); "Ten Happy Fingers" - THE 5,000 FINGERS OF
DR. T (Frederick Hollander & Dr. Seuss); "You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly!" - PETER PAN (Sammy Fain & Sammy Cahn)
BEST SOUND
CALAMITY JANE
William A. Mueller
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
John P. Livardary
KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE
A.W. Watkins
THE LIVING DESERT
C.O. Slyfield
MISSISSIPPI GAMBLER
Leslie I. Carey
MOGAMBO
A.W. Watkins
PETER PAN
Robert O. Cook
SHANE
Gene Garvin & Harry Lindgren
THE WAGES OF FEAR
William Robert Sivel
WAR OF THE WORLDS
Loren Ryder
Also Considered:
THE BAND WAGON (Douglas Shearer); THE BEAST FROM 20,000
FATHOMS (George Groves); THE BIG HEAT (George Cooper); CALL ME MADAM (Bernard Freericks & Roger Heman); THE CRUEL SEA (Stephen Dalby); HOUSE OF WAX (Charles Lang); JULIUS CAESAR (Douglas
Shearer); LILI (Douglas Shearer); THE ROBE (Bernard Freericks & Roger Heman); TAKE THE HIGH GROUND (Douglas Shearer)
BEST SOUND EFFECTS
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
John P. Livardary
THE WAGES OF FEAR
William Robert Sivel
WAR OF THE WORLDS
Howard Beals & William M. Andrews
Also Considered:
BENEATH THE 12-MILE REEF (Ray Craddock & Ben Hendricks);
THE LIVING DESERT (James MacDonald); THE MAGNETIC MONSTER (Bill Naylor)
BEST SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS
Ray Harryheusen
IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
David S. Horsley & Roswell A. Hoffman
THE LIVING DESERT
Ub Iwerks
THE ROBE
Ray Kellogg & James B. Gordon
WAR OF THE WORLDS
Gordon Jennings, Paul K. Lerpae & Wallace Kelley
Also Considered:
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (credit unknown); HOUSE OF WAX
(Julian Gunzberg); INVADERS FROM MARS (Jack Cosgrove); THE MAGNETIC MONSTER (Eugen Schüfftan & Jack Glass); TITANIC (Ray Kellogg)
Most Wins:
8 - From Here to Eternity
2 - Roman Holiday; Shane; The Wages of Fear; War of the
Worlds
1 - The Caddy; Calamity Jane; Gate of Hell; House of Wax;
Julius Caesar; Peter Pan
Most Nominations:
15 - From Here to Eternity
12 - The Wages of Fear
10 - Shane
7 - The Band Wagon; Genevieve; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes;
Julius Caesar; Roman Holiday
6 - Pickup on South Street; The Robe
5 - The Big Heat; How to Marry a Millionaire; Lili; The Naked
Spur; Peter Pan; Stalag 17; Ugetsu Monogatari
WORST FILM
CAT-WOMEN OF THE MOON (Al Zimbalist & Jack Rabin)
GLEN OR GLENDA (or; HOW I CHANGED MY SEX) (George Weiss)
MESA OF LOST WOMEN (Melvin Gordon & William
Perkins)
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