| Best Motion Picture |
The Bridge on the River Kwai, Sam Spiegel,
producer (Columbia) |
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Peyton Place, Jerry Wald, producer (Twentieth
Century-Fox) |
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Sayonara, William Goetz, producer (Warner Bros.) |
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12 Angry Men, Henry Fonda and Reginald Rose,
producers (United Artists) |
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Witness for the Prosecution, Arthur Hornblow,
Jr., producer (United Artists) |
| Best Actor |
Marlon Brando, Sayonara |
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Anthony Franciosa, A Hatful of Rain |
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Alec Guinness, The Bridge on the River Kwai |
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Charles Laughton, Witness for the Prosecution |
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Anthony Quinn, Wild Is the Wind |
| Best Actress |
Deborah Kerr, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison |
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Anna Magnani, Wild Is the Wind |
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Elizabeth Taylor, Raintree County |
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Lana Turner, Peyton Place |
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Joanne Woodward, The Three Faces of Eve |
| Actor in a Supporting Role |
Red Buttons, Sayonara |
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Vittorio de Sica, A Farewell to Arms |
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Sessue Hayakawa, The Bridge on the River Kwai |
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Arthur Kennedy, Peyton Place |
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Russ Tamblyn, Peyton Place |
| Actress in a Supporting Role |
Carolyn Jones, The Bachelor Party |
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Elsa Lanchester, Witness for the Prosecution |
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Hope Lange, Peyton Place |
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Miyoshi Umeki, Sayonara |
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Diane Varsi, Peyton Place |
| Directing |
David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai |
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Joshua Logan, Sayonara |
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Sidney Lumet, 12 Angry Men |
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Mark Robson, Peyton Place |
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Billy Wilder, Witness for the Prosecution |
| Writing |
| Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium |
Pierre Boulle, Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman,
The Bridge on the River Kwai |
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John Michael Hayes, Peyton Place |
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John Lee Mahin and John Huston, Heaven Knows,
Mr. Allison |
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Paul Osborn, Sayonara |
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Reginald Rose, 12 Angry Men |
| Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the
Screen |
Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli,
story; Federico Fellini and Ennio Flaiano, screenplay,
I Vitelloni |
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Leonard Gershe, Funny Face |
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Barney Slater and Joel Kane, story; Dudley Nichols,
screenplay, The Tin Star |
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George Wells, Designing Woman |
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Ralph Wheelright, story; R. Wright Campbell, Ivan
Goff and Ben Roberts, screenplay, Man of a Thousand
Faces |
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| Cinematography |
Ellsworth Fredericks, Sayonara |
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Jack Hildyard, The Bridge on the River Kwai |
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Ray June, Funny Face |
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Milton Krasner, An Affair to Remember |
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William Mellor, Peyton Place |
| Art Direction |
Ted Haworth, art direction; Robert Priestley, set
decoration, Sayonara |
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Walter Holscher, art direction; William Kiernan and
Louis Diage, set decoration, Pal Joey |
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William A. Horning and Gene Allen, art direction; Edwin
B. Willis and Richard Pefferle, set decoration, Les
Girls |
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William A. Horning and Urie McCleary, art direction;
Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt, set decoration, Raintree
County |
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Hal Pereira and George W. Davis, art direction; Sam
Comer and Ray Moyer, set decoration, Funny Face |
| Sound Recording |
Columbia Studio Sound Dept., Pal Joey |
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MGM Studio Sound Dept., Les Girls |
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Paramount Studio Sound Dept., Gunfight at the O.K.
Corral |
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Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept., Witness for the
Prosecution |
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Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept., Sayonara |
| Music |
| Song |
“An Affair to Remember,” An Affair to Remember,
Harry Warren, music; Harold Adamson and Leo McCarey,
lyrics |
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“All the Way,” The Joker Is Wild, James
Van Heusen, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics |
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“April Love,” April Love, Sammy Fain, music;
Paul Francis Webster, lyrics |
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“Tammy,” Tammy and the Bachelor, Ray Evans
and Jay Livingston, music and lyrics |
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“Wild Is the Wind,” Wild Is the Wind, Dimitri
Tiomkin, music; Ned Washington, lyrics |
| Score |
Malcolm Arnold, The Bridge on the River
Kwai |
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Hugo Friedhofer, An Affair to Remember |
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Hugo Friedhofer, Boy on a Dolphin |
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Johnny Green, Raintree County |
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Paul Smith, Perri |
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| Film Editing |
Viola Lawrence and Jerome Thoms, Pal Joey |
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Warren Low, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral |
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Daniel Mandell, Witness for the Prosecution |
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Arthur P. Schmidt and Philip W. Anderson, Sayonara |
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Peter Taylor, The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| Costume Design |
Edith Head and Hubert de Givenchy, Funny Face |
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Charles LeMaire, An Affair to Remember |
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Jean Louis, Pal Joey |
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Orry-Kelly, Les Girls |
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Walter Plunkett, Raintree County |
| Special Effects |
Louis Lichtenfield, visual, The Spirit of St. Louis |
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Walter Rossi, audible, The Enemy Below |
| Short Subjects |
| Cartoon |
Birds Anonymous (Tweety and Sylvester Series)
(Edward Selzer, producer; Warner Bros.) |
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One Droopy Knight (Droopy Series) (William
Hanna and Joseph Barbera, producers; MGM) |
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Tabasco Road (Speedy Gonzales Series) (Edward
Selzer, producer; Warner Bros.) |
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Trees and Jamaica Daddy (Ham and Hattie Series)
(United Productions of America; Columbia) |
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The Truth About Mother Goose (Walt Disney
Productions; Buena Vista) |
| Live Action Subjects |
A Chairy Tale (National Film Board of Canada;
Kingsley International) |
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City of Gold (National Film Board of Canada;
Kingsley International) |
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Foothold on Antarctica (World Wide Pictures;
Lester A. Shoenfeld Films) |
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Portugal (People and Places Series) (Walt
Disney Productions; Buena Vista) |
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The Wetback Hound (Walt Disney Productions;
Buena Vista) |
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| Documentary |
| Short Subject |
No award given this year |
| Feature |
Albert Schweitzer (Hill and Anderson
Production; Louis de Rochemont Associates) |
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On the Bowery (Lionel Rogosin Productions;
Film Representations, Inc.) |
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Torero! (Producciones Barbachano Ponce;
Columbia) |
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| Foreign Language Film |
The Devil Came at Night, Federal Republic of
Germany—West |
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Gates of Paris, France |
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Mother India, India |
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The Nights of Cabiria, Italy |
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Nine Lives, Norway |
| Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award |
Samuel Goldwyn |
| Honorary Awards |
To Charles Brackett for outstanding service to
the academy |
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To B. B. Kahane for distinguished service to
the motion picture industry |
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To Gilbert M. “Broncho Billy” Anderson, motion
picture pioneer, for his contributions to the development
of motion pictures as entertainment |
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To the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
for their contributions to the advancement of the motion
picture industry |
