1956 Oscars 28th Academy Awards |
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1956 Oscar Nominees and Winners |
| Best Motion Picture: Marty – Harold Hecht for United Artists (WINNER) Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Buddy Adler for 20th Century Fox Mister Roberts – Leland Hayward for Warner Bros. Picnic – Fred Kohlmar for Columbia Pictures The Rose Tattoo – Hal B. Wallis for Paramount Pictures |
| Best Director: Delbert Mann – Marty (WINNER) John Sturges – Bad Day at Black Rock Elia Kazan – East of Eden Joshua Logan – Picnic David Lean – Summertime |
| Best Actor: Ernest Borgnine – Marty as Marty Piletti (WINNER) James Cagney – Love Me or Leave Me as Martin Snyder James Dean (posthumous nomination) – East of Eden as Caleb Trask Frank Sinatra – The Man with the Golden Arm as Frankie “Dealer” Machine Spencer Tracy – Bad Day at Black Rock as John J. Macreedy |
| Best Actress: Anna Magnani – The Rose Tattoo as Serafina Delle Rose (WINNER) Susan Hayward – I’ll Cry Tomorrow as Lillian Roth Katharine Hepburn – Summertime as Jane Hudson Jennifer Jones – Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing as Dr. Han Suyin Eleanor Parker – Interrupted Melody as Marjorie Lawrence |
| Best Supporting Actor: Jack Lemmon – Mister Roberts as Ensign Frank Thurlowe Pulver (WINNER) Arthur Kennedy – Trial as Bernard Castle Joe Mantell – Marty as Angie Sal Mineo – Rebel Without a Cause as John “Plato” Crawford Arthur O’Connell – Picnic as Howard Bevans |
| Best Supporting Actress: Jo Van Fleet – East of Eden as Cathy Ames/Kate Trask (WINNER) Betsy Blair – Marty as Clara Peggy Lee – Pete Kelly’s Blues as Rose Hopkins Marisa Pavan – The Rose Tattoo as Rosa Delle Rose Natalie Wood – Rebel Without a Cause as Judy |
| Best Screenplay: Marty – Paddy Chayefsky from Marty by Paddy Chayefsky (WINNER) Bad Day at Black Rock – Millard Kaufman from “Bad Time at Honda” by Howard Breslin Blackboard Jungle – Richard Brooks from Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter East of Eden – Paul Osborn from East of Eden by John Steinbeck Love Me or Leave Me – Daniel Fuchs and Isobel Lennart |
| Best Story and Screenplay: Interrupted Melody – William Ludwig and Sonya Levien (WINNER) The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell – Milton Sperling and Emmet Lavery It’s Always Fair Weather – Betty Comden and Adolph Green Mr. Hulot’s Holiday – Jacques Tati and Henri Marquet The Seven Little Foys – Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose |
| Best Motion Picture Story: Love Me or Leave Me – Daniel Fuchs (WINNER) The Private War of Major Benson – Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher Rebel Without a Cause – Nicholas Ray The Sheep Has Five Legs – Jean Marsan, Henri Troyat, Jacques Perret, Henri Verneuil, and Raoul Ploquin Strategic Air Command – Beirne Lay Jr. |
| Best Short Subject – Cartoons: Speedy Gonzales (WINNER) Good Will to Men The Legend of Rockabye Point No Hunting |
| Best Documentary Feature: Helen Keller in Her Story (WINNER) Heartbreak Ridge |
| Best Documentary Short Subject: Men Against the Arctic – Walt Disney (WINNER) The Battle of Gettysburg The Face of Lincoln |
| Best Live Action Short Subject, One-Reel: Survival City – Edmund Reek (WINNER) 3rd Ave. El – Carson Davidson Gadgets Galore – Robert Youngson Three Kisses – Justin Herman |
| Best Live Action Short Subject, Two-Reel: The Face of Lincoln (WINNER) 24-Hour Alert The Battle of Gettysburg On The Twelfth Day Switzerland |
| Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture: Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Alfred Newman (WINNER) Battle Cry – Max Steiner The Man with the Golden Arm – Elmer Bernstein Picnic – George Duning The Rose Tattoo – Alex North |
| Best Scoring of a Musical Picture: Oklahoma! – Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton and Adolph Deutsch (WINNER) Daddy Long Legs – Alfred Newman Guys and Dolls – Jay Blackton and Cyril J. Mockridge It’s Always Fair Weather – André Previn Love Me or Leave Me – Percy Faith and Georgie Stoll |
| Best Song: “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” from Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster (WINNER) “I’ll Never Stop Loving You” from Love Me or Leave Me – Music by Nicholas Brodszky; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn “Something’s Gotta Give” from Daddy Long Legs – Music and Lyrics by Johnny Mercer “The Tender Trap” from The Tender Trap – Music by Jimmy Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn “Unchained Melody” from Unchained – Music by Alex North; Lyrics by Hy Zaret |
| Best Sound Recording: Oklahoma! – Fred Hynes (WINNER) Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Carlton W. Faulkner Love Me or Leave Me – Wesley C. Miller Mister Roberts – William A. Mueller Not as a Stranger – Watson Jones |
| Best Art Direction, Black-and-White: The Rose Tattoo – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Tambi Larsen; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Arthur Krams (WINNER) Blackboard Jungle – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Randall Duell; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Henry Grace I’ll Cry Tomorrow – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Malcolm Brown; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt The Man with the Golden Arm – Art Direction: Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Darrell Silvera Marty – Art Direction: Ted Haworth and Walter M. Simonds; Set Decoration: Robert Priestley |
| Best Art Direction, Color: Picnic – Art Direction: William Flannery and Jo Mielziner; Set Decoration: Robert Priestley (WINNER) Daddy Long Legs – Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler and John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott and Paul S. Fox Guys and Dolls – Art Direction: Oliver Smith and Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Howard Bristol Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler and George Davis; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott and Jack Stubbs To Catch a Thief – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Joseph McMillan Johnson; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Arthur Krams |
| Best Cinematography, Black-and-White: The Rose Tattoo – James Wong Howe (WINNER) Blackboard Jungle – Russell Harlan I’ll Cry Tomorrow – Arthur Arling Marty – Joseph LaShelle Queen Bee – Charles Lang |
| Best Cinematography, Color: To Catch a Thief – Robert Burks (WINNER) Guys and Dolls – Harry Stradling Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Leon Shamroy A Man Called Peter – Harold Lipstein Oklahoma! – Robert Surtees |
| Best Costume Design, Black-and-White: I’ll Cry Tomorrow – Helen Rose (WINNER) The Pickwick Papers – Beatrice Dawson Queen Bee – Jean Louis The Rose Tattoo – Edith Head Ugetsu – Tadaoto Kainosho |
| Best Costume Design, Color: Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Charles LeMaire (WINNER) Guys and Dolls – Irene Sharaff Interrupted Melody – Helen Rose To Catch a Thief – Edith Head The Virgin Queen – Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills |
| Best Film Editing: Picnic – Charles Nelson and William Lyon (WINNER) Blackboard Jungle – Ferris Webster The Bridges at Toko-Ri – Alma Macrorie Oklahoma! – Gene Ruggiero and George Boemler The Rose Tattoo – Warren Low |
| Best Special Effects: The Bridges at Toko-Ri (WINNER) The Dam Busters The Rains of Ranchipur |
| Best Foreign Language Film: Samurai, The Legend of Musashi (Japan) |
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