1956 Milstead Movie Awards
BEST PICTURE
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
United Artists; Michael Todd
FORBIDDEN PLANET
MGM; Nicholas Nayfack
GIANT
Warner Bros; George Stevens & Henry
Ginsberg
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
Allied Artists; Walter Wanger
THE KING & I
20th Century Fox; Charles Brackett
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
Paramount; Alfred Hitchcock
THE SEARCHERS
Warner Bros; Merian C. Cooper & C.V.
Whitney
SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME
MGM; Charles Schnee
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Paramount; Cecil B. DeMille
THE WRONG MAN
Warner Bros; Alfred Hitchcock
Also Considered:
BABY DOLL (Elia Kazan); THE BURMESE HARP (Masayuki
Takagi); BUS STOP (Buddy Adler); FRIENDLY PERSUASION (William Wyler); THE KILLING (James B. Harris); LUST FOR LIFE (John Houseman); A MAN ESCAPED (Alain Poiré & Jean Thullier); THE
RAINMAKER (Hal B. Wallis); THE SOLID GOLD CADILLAC (Fred Kohlmar); WAR & PEACE (Dino de Laurentiis)
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Humphrey Bogart as "Eddie Willis" - THE HARDER THEY
FALL
Yul Brynner as "King Mongkut of Siam" - THE KING &
I
Kirk Douglas as "Vincent Van Gogh" - LUST FOR
LIFE
Henry Fonda as "Christopher Emanuel Balestrero" - THE
WRONG MAN
Glenn Ford as "Capt. Fisby" - THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST
MOON
Rock Hudson as "Jordan 'Bick' Benedict" -
GIANT
Burt Lancaster as "Bill Starbuck" - THE
RAINMAKER
Jack Palance as "Lt. Joe Costa" - ATTACK
Gregory Peck as "Tom Rath" - THE MAN IN THE GREY FLANNEL
SUIT
John Wayne as "Ethan Edwards" - THE SEARCHERS
Also Considered:
Ernest Borgnine (THE CATERED AFFAIR); Peter Finch (A
TOWN LIKE ALICE); Stirling Hayden (THE KILLING); Karl Malden (BABY DOLL); James Mason (BIGGER THAN LIFE); Kevin McCarthy (INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS); Paul Newman (SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES
ME); David Niven (AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS); James
Stewart (THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH); Clifton Webb (THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS)
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Carroll Baker as "Baby Doll Meighan" - BABY
DOLL
Brigitte Bardot as "Juliete Hardy" - AND GOD CREATED
WOMAN
Ingrid Bergman as "Anna Koreff / Anastasia" - ANASTASIA
Katharine Hepburn as "Lizzie Curry" - THE
RAINMAKER
Nancy Kelly as "Christine Penmark" - THE BAD
SEED
Deborah Kerr as "Anna Leonowens" - THE KING &
I
Jayne Mansfield as "Jerri Jordan" - THE GIRL CAN'T HELP
IT
Virginia McKenna as "Jean Paget" - A TOWN LIKE
ALICE
Marilyn Monroe as "Cherie" - BUS STOP
Elizabeth Taylor as "Leslie Benedict" -
GIANT
Also Considered:
Bette Davis (THE CATERED AFFAIR); Doris Day (THE MAN WHO
KNEW TOO MUCH); Diana Dors (BLONDE SINNER); Ava Gardner (BHOWANI JUNCTION); Judy Holliday (THE SOLID GOLD CADILLAC); Deborah Kerr (TEA & SYMPATHY); Gina Lollabrigida (TRAPEZE); Dorothy
McGuire (FRIENDLY PERSUASION); Maria Schell (GERVAISE); Jane Wyman (MIRACLE IN THE RAIN)
BEST DIRECTOR
Michael Anderson - AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
John Ford - THE SEARCHERS
Alfred Hitchcock - THE WRONG MAN
Albert Lamorisse - THE RED BALLOON
Don Siegel - INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
George Stevens - GIANT
King Vidor - WAR & PEACE
Fred M. Wilcox - FORBIDDEN PLANET
Robert Wise - SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME
William Wyler - FRIENDLY PERSUASION
Also Considered:
Robert Bresson (A MAN ESCAPED); Rene Clement
(GERVAISE); Cecil B. DeMille (THE TEN COMMANDMENTS); Alfred
Hitchcock (THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH); John Huston (MOBY DICK); Kon Ichikawa (THE BURMESE HARP); Elia Kazan (BABY DOLL); Stanley Kubrick (THE KILLING); Walter Lang (THE KING & I);
Vincente Minnelli (LUST FOR LIFE)
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Eddie Albert as "Capt. Erskine Cooney" -
ATTACK
James Dean as "Jett Rink" - GIANT
Earl Holliman as "Jim Curry" - THE RAINMAKER
Peter Lorre as "Col. Arragas" - CONGO
CROSSING
Don Murray as "Beauregard 'Bo' Decker" - BUS
STOP
Arthur O'Connell as "Gordon Walker" - THE MAN IN THE GREY
FLANNEL SUIT
Anthony Quinn as "Paul Gauguin" - LUST FOR
LIFE
Mickey Rooney as "Willie Dooley" - THE BOLD & THE
BRAVE
Robert Stack as "Kyle Hadley" - WRITTEN ON THE
WIND
Rod Steiger as "Nick Benko" - THE HARDER THEY
FALL
Also Considered:
Eddie Albert (THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON); Ed Begley
(PATTERNS); Stephen Boyd (THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS); Yul Brynner (THE TEN COMMANDMENTS); Cantinflas
(AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS); Francis Matthews (BHOWANI JUNCTION); Edmond O'Brien (THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT); Anthony Perkins (FRIENDLY PERSUASION); Anthony Quayle (THE WRONG MAN); Eli Wallach
(BABY DOLL)
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Mildred Dunnock as "Aunt Rose Comfort" - BABY
DOLL
Helen Hayes as "Empress Maria Feodorovna" -
ANASTASIA
Eileen Heckart as "Hortense Daigle" - THE BAD
SEED
Julie London as "Carol Larson" - THE GREAT
MAN
Dorothy Malone as "Marylee Hadley" - WRITTEN ON THE
WIND
Patty McCormack as "Rhoda Penmark" - THE BAD SEED
Vera Miles as "Laurie Jorgensen" - THE
SEARCHERS
Evelyn Varden as "Mrs. Burns" - HILDA CRANE
Marie Windsor as "Sherry Peatty" - THE
KILLING
Estella Winwood as "Symphorosa" - THE SWAN
Also Considered:
Karuna Bannerjee (APARAJITO); Carroll Baker (GIANT); Anita
Ekberg (WAR & PEACE); Machiko Kyo (THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON); Marjorie Main (FRIENDLY PERSUASION); Mercedes McCambridge (GIANT); Yvonne Mitchell (BLONDE SINNER); Debbie Reynolds
(THE CATERED AFFAIR); Victoria Shaw (THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY); Dana Wynter (INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS)
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
BABY DOLL
THE BAD SEED
FRIENDLY PERSUASION
GIANT
THE KILLING
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
THE RAINMAKER
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
THE WRONG MAN
Also Considered:
ANASTASIA; BUS STOP; HIGH SOCIETY; INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS; THE KING & I; LUST FOR LIFE; THE SEARCHERS; SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME; THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON; WRITTEN ON THE WIND
BEST SCREENPLAY - ADAPTATION
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
James Poe, John Farrow & S.J. Perelman
BABY DOLL
Tennessee Williams
THE BAD SEED
John Lee Mahin
THE BURMESE HARP
Natto Wada
CRIME IN THE STREETS
Reginald Rose
GIANT
Fred Guiol & Ivan Moffat
THE GREAT MAN
José Ferrer & Al Morgan
THE KILLING
Stanley Kubrick & Jim Thompson
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
John Michael Hayes & Angus MacPhail
THE SEARCHERS
Frank S. Nugent
Also Considered:
BIGGER THAN LIFE (Cyril Hume & Richard Maibaum); BUS
STOP (George Axelrod); THE CATERED AFFAIR (Gore Vidal); FRIENDLY PERSUASION (Michael Wilson); INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (Daniel Mainwaring); THE KING & I (Ernest Lehman); LUST FOR
LIFE (Norman Corwin); THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS (Nigel Balchin); MIRACLE IN THE RAIN (Ben Hecht); SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME (Ernest Lehman)
BEST SCREENPLAY - ORIGINAL
AND GOD CREATED WOMAN
Roger Vadim
BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT
Douglas Morrow
THE BOLD & THE BRAVE
Robert Lewin
THE DOOR IN THE WALL
Glenn H. Alvey, Jr.
FORBIDDEN PLANET
Cyril Hume, Irving Block & Allen Adler
JULIE
Andrew L. Stone
THE LONG ARM
Janet Green & Robert Barr
PATTERNS
Rod Serling
THE RED BALLOON
Albert Lamorisse
THE WRONG MAN
Maxwell Anderson & Angus MacPhail
Also Considered:
THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE (Michael Powell & Emeric
Pressburger); THE BLACK TENT (Bryan Forbes & Robin Maugham); THE BRAVE ONE (Harry Franklin & Merrill G. White); EARLY SPRING (Kogo Noda & Yasujiro Ozu); THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY
(Samuel Taylor); HOLLYWOOD OR BUST (Erna Lazarus); A MAN ESCAPED (Robert Bresson); MEET ME IN LAS VEGAS (Isobel Lennart); RANSOM (Cyril Hume & Richard Maibaum); SEVEN MEN FROM NOW (Burt
Kennedy)
BEST ANIMATED FILM
GERALD MCBOING-BOING ON PLANET MOO
Stephen Bosustow
MISTER MAGOO'S PUDDLE JUMPER
Stephen Bosustow
RABBITSON CRUSOE
Edward Selzer
Also Considered:
BLUE CAT BLUES (William Hanna & Joseph Barbera); THE EGG
& JERRY (William Hanna & Joseph Barbera); NAPOLEON BUNNY-PARTE (Edward Selzer)
BEST ART DIRECTION - SET DECORATION
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Ken Adam & James W. Sullivan; Ross J. Dowd
FORBIDDEN PLANET
Cedric Gibbons & Arthur Lonergan; Edwin B. Willis &
Hugh Hunt
GERVAISE
Paul Bertrand
GIANT
Boris Leven; Ralph S. Hurst
THE KING & I
Lyle Wheeler & John de Cuir; Walter M. Scott & Paul S. Fox
LUST FOR LIFE
Hans Peters & Preston Ames; Edwin B. Willis & Keogh
Gleason
THE SOLID GOLD CADILLAC
Ross Bellah; William Kiernan & Louis Diage
SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME
Cedric Gibbons & Malcolm Brown; Edwin B. Willis &
Keogh Gleason
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler & Albert Nozaki; Sam Comer &
Ray Moyer
WAR & PEACE
Mario Chiari; Franz Bachlin & Gianni
Polidori
Also Considered:
ANYTHING GOES (Hal Pereira & J. McMillan Johnson; Sam
Comer & Grace Gregory); CAROUSEL (Lyle Wheeler & Jack Martin Smith; Walter M. Scott & Chester Bayhi); FRIENDLY PERSUASION (Ted Haworth; Joseph Kish); HIGH SOCIETY (Cedric Gibbons
& Hans Peters; Edwin B. Willis & Richard Pefferle); THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (Henry Bumstead & Hal Pereira; Sam Comer & Arthur Krams); 1984 (Terence Verity); THE PROUD &
THE PROFANE (Hal Pereira & A. Earl Hedrick; Sam Comer & Frank McKelvy); THE RAINMAKER (Hal Pereira & Walter Tyler; Sam Comer & Arthur Krams); THE SEARCHERS (James Basevi &
Frank Hotaling; Victor A. Gangelin); TEENAGE REBEL (Lyle Wheeler & Jack Martin Smith; Walter M. Scott & Stuart A. Reiss)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Lionel Lindon
ATTACK
Joseph Biroc
BABY DOLL
Boris Kaufman
THE BLACK TENT
Desmond Dickinson
THE BURMESE HARP
Minoru Yokoyama
THE HARDER THEY FALL
Burnett Guffey
THE RED BALLOON
Edmond Séchan
THE SEARCHERS
Winton C. Hoch
SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME
Joseph Ruttenberg
WAR & PEACE
Jack Cardiff & Aldo Tonti
Also Considered:
THE BAD SEED (Harold Rosson); THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY (Harry
Stradling); GERVAISE (Robert Juillard); GIANT (William C. Mellor); THE KILLING (Lucien Ballard); THE KING & I (Leon Shamroy); THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (Robert Burks); MOBY DICK (Oswald
Morris); STAGECOACH TO FURY (Walter Strenge); THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (Loyal Griggs)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Miles White
GIANT
Moss Mabry & Marjorie Best
HIGH SOCIETY
Helen Rose
THE KING & I
Irene Sharaff
THE POWER & THE PRIZE
Helen Rose
THE PROUD & THE PROFANE
Edith Head)
THE SOLID GOLD CADILLAC
Jean Louis
TEENAGE REBEL
Charles LeMaire & Mary Wills
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Edith Head, Ralph Jester, John Jensen, Dorothy Jeakins &
Arnold Friberg
WAR & PEACE
Marie de Matteis
Also Considered:
THE AMBASSADOR'S DAUGHTER (Christian Dior); ANASTASIA
(Rene Hubert); AND GOD CREATED WOMAN (Pierre Balmain); CAROUSEL (Mary Wills); FORBIDDEN PLANET (Helen Rose & Walter Plunkett); FRIENDLY PERSUASION (Dorothy Jeakins & Bert Henrikson);
HELEN OF TROY (Roger Furse); LUST FOR LIFE (Walter Plunkett); THE RAINMAKER (Edith Head); THE SEARCHERS (Frank Beetson & Ann Peck)
BEST FILM EDITING
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Gene Ruggerio & Paul Weatherwax
THE BRAVE ONE
Merrill G. White
FORBIDDEN PLANET
Ferris Webster
GIANT
William Hornbeck, Philip W. Anderson & Fred
Bonahan
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
Robert S. Eisen
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
George Tomasini
THE SEARCHERS
Jack Murray
SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME
Albert Akst
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Anne Bauchens
WAR & PEACE
Stuart Gilmore & Leo Catozzo
Also Considered:
ATTACK (Michael Luciano); BABY DOLL (Gene Milford);
FRIENDLY PERSUASION (Robert Swink, Edward A. Biery & Robert Blecher); THE HARDER THEY FALL (Jerome Thomas); THE KILLING (Betty Steinberg); LUST FOR LIFE (Adrienne Fazan); A MAN ESCAPED
(Raymond Lamy); THE RAINMAKER (Warren Low); RANSOM (Ferris Webster); THE WRONG MAN (George Tomasini)
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
AND GOD CREATED WOMAN
France; Roger Vadim
APARAJITO
India; Satyajit Ray
BOB LE FLAMBEUR
France; Jean-Pierre Melville
THE BURMESE HARP
Japan; Kon Ichikawa
DEATH IN THE GARDEN
France; Luis Bunuel
EARLY SPRING
Japan; Yasujiro Ozu
GERVAISE
France; Rene Clement
A GIRL IN BLACK
Greece; Michael Cacoyannis
A MAN ESCAPED
France; Robert Bresson
THE SILENT WORLD
France; Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Also Considered:
BEFORE SUNDOWN (West Germany; Gottfried Reinhardt);
CALABUCH (Spain; Luis Garcia Berlanga); CALLE MAYOR (Spain; Juan Antonio Bardem); THE CAPTAIN FROM KOPENICK (West Germany; Helmut Käutner); CHILD OF SORROW (The Philippines; Lamberto
Avellana); MAN OF IRON (Italy; Pietro Germi); QIVITOQ (Denmark; Erik Balling); THE RED BALLOON (France; Albert Lamorisse); THE
ROAD OF LIFE (Mexico; Alfonso Corona Blake); STREET OF SHAME (Japan; Kenji Mizoguchi)
BEST MAKEUP
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Gary Morris & Gus Norin
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Georges Klein
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Wally Westmore
Also Considered:
THE KING & I (Ben Nye); LUST FOR LIFE (William Tuttle);
SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME (William Tuttle)
BEST ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE
ANASTASIA
Alfred Newman
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Victor Young
FRIENDLY PERSUASION
Dimitri Tiomkin
GIANT
Dimitri Tiomkin
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
Carmen Dragon
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
Bernard Herrmann
THE RAINMAKER
Alex North
THE SEARCHERS
Max Steiner
SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME
Bronislau Kaper
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Elmer Bernstein
Also Considered:
ALEXANDER THE GREAT (Mario Nascimbene); THE BAD SEED (Alex
North); BETWEEN HEAVEN & HELL (Hugo Friedhofer); THE BURMESE HARP (Akira Ifukube); FORBIDDEN PLANET (Bebe Barron & Louis Barron); THE HARDER THEY FALL (Hugo Friedhofer); THE KILLING
(Gerald Fried); LUST FOR LIFE (Miklos Rozsa); WAR & PEACE (Nino Rota); THE WRONG MAN (Bernard Herrmann)
BEST ORIGINAL MUSICAL OR COMEDY SCORE
THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE
Leigh Harline
BUS STOP
Alfred Newman & Cyril J. Mockridge
CAROUSEL
Alfred Newman
THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY
Morris Stoloff & George Duning
THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT
Leigh Harline & Lionel Newman
HIGH SOCIETY
Cole Porter, Johnny Green & Conrad Salinger
THE KING & I
Alfred Newman & Ken Darby
MEET ME IN LAS VEGAS
George Stoll & Johnny Green
THE RED BALLOON
Maurice Le Roux
THE SOLID GOLD CADILLAC
Cyril J. Mockridge
Also Considered:
BUNDLE OF JOY (Josef Myrow); THE GREEN MAN (Hall Johnson);
HOLLYWOOD OR BUST (Walter Scharf); IN THE BAG (George Bruns); LOVE ME TENDER (Lionel Newman); THE OPPOSITE SEX (Nicholas Brodzsky); PARDNERS (Frank de Vol); THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON
(Saul Chaplin); YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY FROM IT (George Duning); THE VAGABOND KING (Johnny Burke)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Autumn Leaves" - AUTUMN LEAVES
Joseph Kosma & Johnny Mercer
"Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)" - FRIENDLY
PERSUASION
Dimitri Tiomkin & Paul Francis Webster
"The Girl Can't Help It" - THE GIRL CAN'T HELP
IT
Bobby Troup
"Julie" - JULIE
Leith Stevens & Tom Adair
"Love Me Tender" - LOVE ME TENDER
Elvis Presley & Vera Matson
"Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" - THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
Jay Livingston & Ray Evans
"The Searchers" - THE SEARCHERS
Stan Jones
"True Love" - HIGH SOCIETY
Cole Porter
"Written On The Wind" - WRITTEN ON THE
WIND
Victor Young & Sammy Cahn
"Yaller, Yaller, Gold" - DAVY CROCKETT & THE
RIVER PIRATES
George Bruns & Tom Blackburn
Also Considered:
"The Bus Stop Song" - BUS STOP (Ken Darby); "Giant (This
Then Is Texas)" - GIANT (Dimitri Tiomkin & Paul Francis Webster); "A Kiss Before Dying" - A KISS BEFORE DYING (Lionel Newman & Carroll Coates); "Let Me" - LOVE ME TENDER (Elvis
Presley & Vera Matson); "Meet Me In Las Vegas" - MEET ME IN LAS VEGAS (Nicholas Brodszky & Sammy Cahn); "Mockingbird In A Willow Tree" - FRIENDLY PERSUASION (Dimitri Tiomkin &
Paul Francis Webster); "Poor Boy" - LOVE ME TENDER (Elvis Presley & Vera Matson); "Somebody Up There Likes Me" - SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME (Bronislau Kaper & Sammy
Cahn); "There's Never Been Anyone Else But You" - GIANT (Dimitri Tiomkin & Paul Francis Webster); "We'll
Love Again" - THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (Jay Livingston & Ray Evans)
BEST SOUND
THE BRAVE ONE
Buddy Myers
THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY
John Livardary
FORBIDDEN PLANET
Wesley C. Miller
FRIENDLY PERSUASION
Gordon R. Glennan & Gordon Sawyer
GIANT
Earl Crain, Sr.
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
Ralph Butler
THE KING & I
Carlton W. Faulkner
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
Paul Franz & Gene Garvin
THE SEARCHERS
Hugh McDowell & Howard Wilson
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Loren L. Ryder
Also Considered:
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (Fred Hynes); ATTACK (Jack
Solomon); CAROUSEL (Bernard Freericks & Harry M. Leonard); GODZILLA: KING OF
THE MONSTERS (Hisashi Shimonaga & Art Smith); THE KILLING (Earl Snyder); LUST FOR LIFE (Wesley C. Miller); MOBY DICK (John W. Mitchell); SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME (Wesley C. Miller); WAR
& PEACE (Charles Knott)
BEST SOUND EFFECTS
FORBIDDEN PLANET
Kurt Hernfeld, Kendrick Kinney & John Lipow
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
Del Harris
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Howard Beals
Also Considered:
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (Ted Bellinger); THE KILLING (Rex
Lipton); THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (Bill Wistrom)
BEST SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Fred Sersen & Lee Zavitz
FORBIDDEN PLANET
A. Arnold Gillespie, Irving G. Reis, Joshua Meador & Warren Newcombe
GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS
Kuichirô Kishida, Hiroshi Mukoyama, Eiji Tsuburaya & Akira
Watanabe
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
Milt Rice & Don Post
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
John P. Fulton
Also Considered:
THE ANIMAL WORLD (Ray Harryheusen & Willis O'Brien);
THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE (Bill Warrington & James Snow); D-DAY: THE SIXTH OF JUNE (Ray Kellogg); EARTH VERSUS THE FLYING SAUCERS (Ray Harryheusen); INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
(Milt Rice & Don Post); THE
MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (John P. Fulton & Farciot Edouart)
Most Wins:
5 - The King & I
3 - Giant
2 - Around the World in 80 Days; The Searchers; The Ten Commandments
1 - Anastasia; The Bad Seed; The Burmese Harp; Forbidden Planet; Gerald McBoing-Boing on Planet Moo; The Man Who Knew Too Much; The Red Balloon; Somebody Up There Likes Me
Most Nominations:
12 - Giant
10 - Around the World in 80 Days; The Searchers; The Ten Commandments
8 - Forbidden Planet
7 - The King & I; Invasion of the Body Snatchers; The Man Who Knew Too Much
6 - Somebody Up There Likes Me; The Wrong Man
5 - Baby Doll; The Bad Seed; Friendly Persuasion; The Rainmaker; War & Peace
WORST FILM
THE BEAST OF HOLLOW MOUNTAIN (Edward Nassour & William
Nassour)
THE CONQUEROR (Dick Powell & Howard Hughes)
THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US (William Alland)
CURUCU: BEAST OF THE AMAZON (Richard Kay & Harry
Rybnick)
FIRE MAIDENS FROM OUTER SPACE (Cy Roth)
IT CONQUERED THE WORLD (Roger Corman)
MANHUNT IN SPACE (Roland D. Reed)
THE OKLAHOMA WOMAN (Roger Corman)
SWAMP WOMEN (Bernard Woolner)
THE VIOLENT YEARS (Roy Reid)
WORST MALE PERFORMANCE
John
Agar - THE MOLE PEOPLE
Pedro
Armendariz - THE CONQUEROR
John
Bromfield - CURUCU: BEAST OF THE AMAZON
Lon
Chaney, Jr. - INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN
Paul
Douglas - THE GAMMA PEOPLE
Guy
Madison - THE BEAST OF HOLLOW MOUNTAIN
Don
Megowan - THE WEREWOLF
Jeff
Morrow - THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US
Lee
Van Cleef - IT CONQUERED THE WORLD
John Wayne - THE CONQUEROR
WORST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Eva Bartok - THE GAMMA PEOPLE
Peggie Castle - THE OKLAHOMA WOMAN
Jacqueline Curtis - FIRE MAIDENS FROM OUTER SPACE
Beverly Garland - CURUCU: BEAST OF THE AMAZON / IT CONQUERED THE
WORLD / SWAMP WOMEN
Susan Hayward - THE CONQUEROR
Asa Maynor - MAN BEAST
Jean Moorhead - THE VIOLENT YEARS
Susan Shaw - FIRE MAIDENS FROM OUTER SPACE
Barbara Weeks - THE VIOLENT YEARS
Marie Windsor - SWAMP WOMEN
WORST DIRECTOR
Roger Corman - IT CONQUERED THE WORLD / THE OKLAHOMA WOMAN / SWAMP
WOMEN
John Gilling - THE GAMMA PEOPLE
William Morgan - THE VIOLENT YEARS
Edward Nassour & Ismael Rodriguez - THE BEAST OF HOLLOW MOUNTAIN
Dick Powell - THE CONQUEROR
Aleksandr Ptushko - THE EPIC HERO & THE BEAST
Cy Roth - FIRE MAIDENS FROM OUTER SPACE
Fred F. Sears - THE WEREWOLF
John Sherwood - THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US
Curt Siodmak - CURUCU: BEAST OF THE AMAZON
WORST SCREENPLAY
THE
BEAST OF HOLLOW MOUNTAIN (Robert Hill & Jack DeWitt)
THE
CREATURE WALKS AMONG US (Arthur A. Ross)
CURUCU: BEAST OF THE AMAZON (Curt Siodmak)
FIRE
MAIDENS FROM OUTER SPACE (Cy Roth)
THE
GAMMA PEOPLE (John W. Gossage)
THE
OKLAHOMA WOMAN (Lou Rusoff)
SATELLITE IN THE SKY (John Mather, J.T. McIntosh & Edith
Dell)
SWAMP
WOMEN (David Stern)
THE
VIOLENT YEARS (Edward D. Wood, Jr.)
THE
WEREWOLF (Robert E. Kent & James B. Gordon)
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