Oscars of 1956

Best Motion Picture
Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Todd, producer (United Artists)

Friendly Persuasion, William Wyler, producer (Allied Artists)

Giant, George Stevens and Henry Ginsberg, producers (Warner Bros.)

The King and I, Charles Brackett, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox)

The Ten Commandments, Cecil B. DeMille, producer (Paramount)

 

Best Actor
Yul Brynner, The King and I

James Dean, Giant

Kirk Douglas, Lust for Life

Rock Hudson, Giant

Sir Laurence Olivier, Richard III

 

Best Actress
Carroll Baker, Baby Doll

Ingrid Bergman, Anastasia

Katharine Hepburn, The Rainmaker

Nancy Kelly, The Bad Seed

Deborah Kerr, The King and I

 

Actor in a Supporting Role
Don Murray, Bus Stop

Anthony Perkins, Friendly Persuasion

Anthony Quinn, Lust for Life

Mickey Rooney, The Bold and the Brave

Robert Stack, Written on the Wind

 

Actress in a Supporting Role
Mildred Dunnock, Baby Doll

Eileen Heckart, The Bad Seed

Mercedes McCambridge, Giant

Patty McCormack, The Bad Seed

Dorothy Malone, Written on the Wind

 

Directing
Michael Anderson, Around the World in 80 Days

Walter Lang, The King and I

George Stevens, Giant

King Vidor, War and Peace

William Wyler, Friendly Persuasion

 

Writing


Motion Picture Story

Leo Katcher, The Eddy Duchin Story

 

Jean Paul Sartre, The Proud and the Beautiful

 

Dalton Trumbo, The Brave One

 

Cesare Zavattini, Umberto D.

Screenplay, Adapted

Norman Corwin, Lust for Life

 

Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat, Giant

 

James Poe, John Farrow and S.J. Perelman, Around the World in 80 Days

 

Tennessee Williams, Baby Doll

Screenplay, Original

Federico Fellini and Tullio Pinelli, La Strada

 

Albert Lamorisse, The Red Balloon

 

Robert Lewin, The Bold and the Brave

 

William Rose, The Lady Killers

 

Andrew L. Stone, Julie

 

Cinematography


Black-and-White

Burnett Guffey, The Harder They Fall

 

Boris Kaufman, Baby Doll

 

Hal Rosson, The Bad Seed

 

Joseph Ruttenberg, Somebody Up There Likes Me

 

Walter Strenge, Stagecoach to Fury

Color

Jack Cardiff, War and Peace

 

Loyal Griggs, The Ten Commandments

 

Lionel Lindon, Around the World in 80 Days

 

Leon Shamroy, The King and I

 

Harry Stradling, The Eddy Duchin Story

 

Art Direction


Black-and-White

Ross Bellah, art direction; William R. Kiernan and Louis Diage, set decoration, The Solid Gold Cadillac

 

Cedric Gibbons and Malcolm F. Brown, art direction; Edwin B. Willis and F. Keogh Gleason, set decoration, Somebody Up There Likes Me

 

Takashi Matsuyama, art direction and set decoration, The Magnificent Seven

 

Hal Pereira and A. Earl Hedrick, art direction; Samuel M. Comer and Frank R. McKelvy, set decoration, The Proud and the Profane

 

Lyle R. Wheeler and Jack Martin Smith, art direction; Walter M. Scott and Stuart A. Reiss, set decoration, Teenage Rebel

Color

Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters and Preston Ames, art direction; Edwin B. Willis and F. Keogh Gleason, set decoration, Lust for Life

 

Boris Leven, art direction; Ralph S. Hurst, set decoration, Giant

 

Hal Pereira, Walter H. Tyler and Albert Nozaki, art direction; Sam M. Comer and Ray Moyer, set decoration, The Ten Commandments

 

James W. Sullivan and Ken Adam, art direction; Ross J. Dowd, set decoration, Around the World in 80 Days

 

Lyle R. Wheeler and John DeCuir, art direction; Walter M. Scott and Paul S. Fox, set decoration, The King and I

Sound Recording
Columbia Studio Sound Dept., The Eddy Duchin Story

Paramount Studio Sound Dept., The Ten Commandments

RKO Radio Studio Sound Dept., The Brave One

Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Dept., The King and I

Westrex Sound Services, Inc. and Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept., Friendly Persuasion
Music


Song

"Friendly Persuasion" (Thee I Love), Friendly Persuasion, Dimitri Tiomkin, music; Paul Francis Webster, lyrics

 

"Julie" Julie, Leith Stevens, music; Tom Adair, lyrics

 

"True Love" High Society; Cole Porter, music and lyrics

 

"Whatever Will Be, Will Be" (Que Sera, Sera), The Man Who Knew Too Much, Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, music and lyrics

 

"Written on the Wind" Written on the Wind, Victor Young, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics

Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

Hugo Friedhofer, Between Heaven and Hell

 

Alfred Newman, Anastasia

 

Alex North, The Rainmaker

 

Dimitri Tiomkin, Giant

 

Victor Young, Around the World in 80 Days

Scoring of a Musical Picture

Johnny Green and Saul Chaplin, High Society

 

Alfred Newman and Ken Darby, The King and I

 

Lionel Newman, The Best Things in Life Are Free

 

George Stoll and Johnny Green, Meet Me in Las Vegas

 

Morris Stoloff and George Duning, The Eddy Duchin Story

 

Film Editing
Albert Akst, Somebody Up There Likes Me

Anne Bauchens, The Ten Commandments

William Hornbeck, Philip W. Anderson and Fred Bohanan, Giant

Gene Ruggiero and Paul Weatherwax, Around the World in 80 Days

Merrill G. White, The Brave One

 

Costume Design


Black-and-White

Kohei Ezaki, The Magnificent Seven

 

Edith Head, The Proud and the Profane

 

Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills, Teenage Rebel

 

Jean Louis, The Solid Gold Cadillac

 

Helen Rose, The Power and the Prize

Color

Marie De Matteis, War and Peace

 

Edith Head, Ralph Jester, John Jensen, Dorothy Jeakins and Arnold Friberg, The Ten Commandments

 

Moss Mabry and Marjorie Best, Giant

 

Irene Sharaff, The King and I

 

Miles White, Around the World in 80 Days

 

Special Effects
John Fulton, The Ten Commandments

A. Arnold Gillespie, Irving Ries and Wesley C. Miller, Forbidden Planet

 

Short Subjects


Cartoon

Gerald McBoing-Boing on Planet Moo (Jolly Frolics Series) (United Productions of America; Columbia)

 

The Jay Walker (UPA Special Series) (United Productions of America; Columbia)

 

Mister Magoo's Puddle Jumper (Mr. Magoo Series) (United Productions of America; Columbia)

One-Reel

Crashing the Water Barrier (The Sports Parade Series) (Konstantin Kalser, producer; Warner Bros.)

 

I Never Forget a Face (Warner Specials Series) (Robert Youngson, producer; Warner Bros.)

 

Time Stood Still (Scope Gems Series) (Cedric Francis, producer; Warner Bros.)

Two-Reel

The Bespoke Overcoat (Go Pictures, Inc.; Romulus Films)

 

Cow Dog (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista)

 

The Dark Wave (John Healy, producer; Twentieth Century-Fox)

 

Samoa (People and Places Series) (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista)

 

Documentary


Short Subject

A City Decides (Charles Guggenheim and Associates, Inc.)

 

The Dark Wave (John Healy, producer; Twentieth Century-Fox)

 

The House Without a Name (Valentine Davies, producer; Universal-International)

 

Man in Space (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista)

 

The True Story of the Civil War (Louis Clyde Stoumen, producer; Camera Eye Pictures, Inc.)

Feature

The Naked Eye (Camera Eye Pictures, Inc.; Film Representatives, Inc.)

 

The Silent World (Filmad-F.S.J.Y.C. Production; Columbia)

 

Where Mountains Float (Arno/Studios, Copenhagen; Brandon Films, Inc.)

 

Foreign Language Film
The Captain of Kopenick, Federal Republic of Germany, West

Gervaise, France

Harp of Burma, Japan

Qivitoq, Denmark

La Strada, Italy
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Buddy Adler
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (Not necessarily given each year )
Y. Frank Freeman
Honorary Award
To Eddie Cantor for distinguished service to the film industry