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29th Academy Awards

March 27, 1957 · Honoring films from 1956

BEST PICTURE
Poster for Around the World in 80 Days
Michael Todd
Around the World in 80 Days
BEST DIRECTOR
Photo of George Stevens
George Stevens
Giant
BEST ACTOR
Photo of Yul Brynner
Yul Brynner
The King and I
BEST ACTRESS
Photo of Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman
Anastasia
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Poster for Around the World in 80 Days
James Poe, John Farrow, S.J. Perelman
Around the World in 80 Days
Category:
1956 (29th)
Best Actor
Yul Brynner
The King, The King and I
James Dean
Jett Rink, Giant
Kirk Douglas
Vincent Van Gogh, Lust for Life
Rock Hudson
Bick Benedict, Giant
Sir Laurence Olivier
Richard III, Richard III
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Anthony Quinn
Paul Gauguin, Lust for Life
Don Murray
Bo, Bus Stop
Anthony Perkins
Josh Birdwell, Friendly Persuasion
Mickey Rooney
Dooley, The Bold and the Brave
Robert Stack
Kyle Hadley, Written on the Wind
Best Actress
Ingrid Bergman
The Woman, Anastasia
Carroll Baker
Baby Doll, Baby Doll
Katharine Hepburn
Lizzie Curry, The Rainmaker
Nancy Kelly
Christine Penmark, The Bad Seed
Deborah Kerr
Anna, The King and I
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Dorothy Malone
Marylee Hadley, Written on the Wind
Mildred Dunnock
Aunt Rose Comfort, Baby Doll
Eileen Heckart
Mrs. Daigle, The Bad Seed
Mercedes McCambridge
Luz Benedict, Giant
Patty McCormack
Rhoda Penmark, The Bad Seed
Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)
Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm F. Brown, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Takashi Matsuyama
The Magnificent Seven
Hal Pereira, A. Earl Hedrick, Samuel M. Comer, Frank R. McKelvy
The Proud and Profane
Ross Bellah, William R. Kiernan, Louis Diage
The Solid Gold Cadillac
Lyle R. Wheeler, Jack Martin Smith, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss
Teenage Rebel
Best Art Direction (Color)
Lyle R. Wheeler, John DeCuir, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox
The King and I
James W. Sullivan, Ken Adam, Ross J. Dowd
Around the World in 80 Days
Boris Leven, Ralph S. Hurst
Giant
Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason
Lust for Life
Hal Pereira, Walter H. Tyler, Albert Nozaki, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer
The Ten Commandments
Best Motion Picture
Michael Todd
Around the World in 80 Days
William Wyler
Friendly Persuasion
George Stevens, Henry Ginsberg
Giant
Charles Brackett
The King and I
Cecil B. DeMille
The Ten Commandments
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Joseph Ruttenberg
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Boris Kaufman
Baby Doll
Hal Rosson
The Bad Seed
Burnett Guffey
The Harder They Fall
Walter Strenge
Stagecoach to Fury
Best Cinematography (Color)
Lionel Lindon
Around the World in 80 Days
Harry Stradling
The Eddy Duchin Story
Leon Shamroy
The King and I
Loyal Griggs
The Ten Commandments
Jack Cardiff
War and Peace
Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)
Jean Louis
The Solid Gold Cadillac
Kohei Ezaki
The Magnificent Seven
Helen Rose
The Power and the Prize
Edith Head
The Proud and Profane
Charles LeMaire, Mary Wills
Teenage Rebel
Best Costume Design (Color)
Irene Sharaff
The King and I
Miles White
Around the World in 80 Days
Moss Mabry, Marjorie Best
Giant
Edith Head, Ralph Jester, John Jensen, Dorothy Jeakins, Arnold Friberg
The Ten Commandments
Marie De Matteis
War and Peace
Best Director
George Stevens
Giant
Michael Anderson
Around the World in 80 Days
William Wyler
Friendly Persuasion
Walter Lang
The King and I
King Vidor
War and Peace
Best Documentary (Feature)
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The Silent World
Louis Clyde Stoumen
The Naked Eye
The Government Film Committee of Denmark
Where Mountains Float
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Louis Clyde Stoumen
The True Story of the Civil War
Charles Guggenheim & Associates, Inc.
A City Decides
John Healy
The Dark Wave
Valentine Davies
The House without a Name
Ward Kimball
Man in Space
Best Film Editing
Gene Ruggiero, Paul Weatherwax
Around the World in 80 Days
Merrill G. White
The Brave One
William Hornbeck, Philip W. Anderson, Fred Bohanan
Giant
Albert Akst
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Anne Bauchens
The Ten Commandments
Best Foreign Language Film
Italy, Dino De Laurentiis, Carlo Ponti
La Strada N
Federal Republic of Germany - West, Gyula Trebitsch, Walter Koppel
The Captain of Kopenick N
France, Annie Dorfmann
Gervaise N
Japan, Masayuki Takagi
Harp of Burma N
Denmark, O. Dalsgaard-Olsen
Qivitoq N
Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
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 Scoring of a Musical Picture
Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
The King and I
Lionel Newman
The Best Things in Life Are Free
Morris Stoloff, George Duning
The Eddy Duchin Story
Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin
High Society
George Stoll, Johnny Green
Meet Me in Las Vegas
Best Song
Jay Livingston, Ray Evans
“Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)”, The Man Who Knew Too Much
Dimitri Tiomkin, Paul Francis Webster
“Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)”, Friendly Persuasion
Leith Stevens, Tom Adair
“Julie”, Julie
Cole Porter
“True Love”, High Society
Victor Young, Sammy Cahn
“Written On The Wind”, Written on the Wind
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)
Stephen Bosustow
Mister Magoo's Puddle Jumper
Stephen Bosustow
Gerald McBoing-Boing on Planet Moo
Stephen Bosustow
The Jaywalker
Short Subject (One-reel)
Konstantin Kalser
Crashing the Water Barrier
Robert Youngson
I Never Forget a Face
Cedric Francis
Time Stood Still
Best Short Subject (Two-reel)
Romulus Films
The Bespoke Overcoat
Larry Lansburgh
Cow Dog
John Healy
The Dark Wave
Walt Disney
Samoa
Best Sound Recording
20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Carl Faulkner
The King and I
King Bros. Productions, Inc., Sound Department, John Myers
The Brave One
Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary
The Eddy Duchin Story
Westrex Sound Services, Inc., Gordon R. Glennan, Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon Sawyer
Friendly Persuasion
Paramount Studio Sound Department, Loren L. Ryder
The Ten Commandments
Best Special Effects
John Fulton
The Ten Commandments
A. Arnold Gillespie, Irving Ries, Wesley C. Miller
Forbidden Planet
Best Motion Picture Story
Dalton Trumbo
The Brave One N
Leo Katcher
The Eddy Duchin Story
Edward Bernds, Elwood Ullman
High Society N
Jean Paul Sartre
The Proud and the Beautiful
Cesare Zavattini
Umberto D.
Best Screenplay—Adapted
James Poe, John Farrow, S.J. Perelman
Around the World in 80 Days
Tennessee Williams
Baby Doll
Michael Wilson
Friendly Persuasion N
Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat
Giant
Norman Corwin
Lust for Life
Best Screenplay—Original
Albert Lamorisse
The Red Balloon
Robert Lewin
The Bold and the Brave
Andrew L. Stone
Julie
Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli
La Strada
William Rose
The Ladykillers