| Best Motion Picture |
Auntie Mame (Warner Bros.) |
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Lawrence Weingarten, producer
(MGM) |
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The Defiant Ones, Stanley Kramer, producer (United
Artists) |
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Gigi, Arthur Freed, producer (MGM) |
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Separate Tables, Harold Hecht, producer (United
Artists) |
| Best Actor |
Tony Curtis, The Defiant Ones |
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Paul Newman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
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David Niven, Separate Tables |
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Sidney Poitier, The Defiant Ones |
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Spencer Tracy, The Old Man and the Sea |
| Best Actress |
Susan Hayward, I Want to Live! |
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Deborah Kerr, Separate Tables |
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Shirley MacLaine, Some Came Running |
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Rosalind Russell, Auntie Mame |
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Elizabeth Taylor, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| Actor in a Supporting Role |
Theodore Bikel, The Defiant Ones |
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Lee J. Cobb, The Brothers Karamazov |
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Burl Ives, The Big Country |
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Arthur Kennedy, Some Came Running |
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Gig Young, Teacher's Pet |
| Actress in a Supporting Role |
Peggy Cass, Auntie Mame |
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Wendy Hiller, Separate Tables |
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Martha Hyer, Some Came Running |
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Maureen Stapleton, Lonelyhearts |
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Cara Williams, The Defiant Ones |
| Directing |
Richard Brooks, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
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Stanley Kramer, The Defiant Ones |
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Vincente Minnelli, Gigi |
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Mark Robson, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness |
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Robert Wise, I Want to Live! |
| Writing |
| Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium |
Richard Brooks and James Poe, Cat on a Hot
Tin Roof |
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Nelson Gidding and Don Mankiewicz, I Want to
Live! |
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Alec Guinness, The Horse's Mouth |
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Alan Jay Lerner, Gigi |
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Terence Rattigan and John Gay, Separate Tables |
| Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the
Screen |
Paddy Chayefsky, The Goddess |
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James Edward Grant and William Bowers, The
Sheepman |
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Fay and Michael Kanin, Teacher's Pet |
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Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose, Houseboat |
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Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith, The
Defiant Ones |
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| Cinematography |
| Black-and-White |
Daniel L. Fapp, Desire Under the Elms |
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Charles Lang, Jr., Separate Tables |
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Sam Leavitt, The Defiant Ones |
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Lionel Lindon, I Want to Live! |
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Joe MacDonald, The Young Lions |
| Color |
William Daniels, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
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James Wong Howe, The Old Man and the Sea |
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Joseph Ruttenberg, Gigi |
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Leon Shamroy, South Pacific |
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Harry Stradling, Sr., Auntie Mame |
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| Art Direction |
Malcolm Bert, art direction; George James Hopkins, set
decoration, Auntie Mame |
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William A. Horning and Preston Ames, art direction;
Henry Grace and Keogh Gleason, set decoration, Gigi |
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Cary Odell, art direction; Louis Diage, set decoration,
Bell, Book and Candle |
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Hal Pereira and Henry Bumstead, art direction; Sam Comer
and Frank McKelvy, set decoration, Vertigo |
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Lyle R. Wheeler and John DeCuir, art direction; Walter
M. Scott and Paul S. Fox, set decoration, A Certain
Smile |
| Sound |
Paramount Studio Sound Dept., Vertigo |
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Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept., I Want to Live! |
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Todd-AO Sound Dept., South Pacific |
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Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Dept., The Young
Lions |
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Universal-International Studio Sound Dept., A Time
to Love and a Time to Die |
| Music |
| Song |
“Almost in Your Arms” (Love Song From Houseboat),
Houseboat, Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, music
and lyrics |
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“A Certain Smile,” A Certain Smile, Sammy
Fain, music; Paul Francis Webster, lyrics |
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“Gigi,” Gigi, Frederick Loewe, music;
Alan Jay Lerner, lyrics |
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“To Love and Be Loved,” Some Came Running,
James Van Heusen, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics |
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“A Very Precious Love,” Marjorie Morningstar,
Sammy Fain, music; Paul Francis Webster, lyrics |
| Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture |
Hugo Friedhofer, The Young Lions |
|
Jerome Moross, The Big Country |
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David Raksin, Separate Tables |
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Dimitri Tiomkin, The Old Man and the Sea |
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Oliver Wallace, White Wilderness |
| Scoring of a Musical Picture |
Yuri Faier and G. Rozhdestvensky, The Bolshoi
Ballet |
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Ray Heindorf, Damn Yankees |
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Alfred Newman and Ken Darby, South Pacific |
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Lionel Newman, Mardi Gras |
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André Previn, Gigi |
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| Film Editing |
Adrienne Fazan, Gigi |
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William Hornbeck, I Want to Live! |
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Frederick Knudtson, The Defiant Ones |
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William A. Lyon and Al Clark, Cowboy |
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William Ziegler, Auntie Mame |
| Costume Design |
Black-and-White or Color |
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Cecil Beaton, Gigi |
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Ralph Jester, Edith Head and John Jensen, The Buccaneer |
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Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills, A Certain Smile |
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Jean Louis, Bell, Book and Candle |
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Walter Plunkett, Some Came Running |
| Special Effects |
A. Arnold Gillespie, visual; Harold Humbrock, audible,
Torpedo Run |
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Tom Howard, visual, tom thumb |
| Short Subjects |
| Cartoon |
Knighty Knight Bugs (Bugs Bunny Series)
(John W. Burton, producer; Warner Bros.) |
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Paul Bunyan (Walt Disney Productions; Buena
Vista) |
|
Sidney's Family Tree (Silly Sidney Series)
(Terrytoons; Twentieth Century-Fox) |
| Live Action |
Grand Canyon (Walt Disney Productions;
Buena Vista) |
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Journey Into Spring (British Transport
Films; Lester A. Schoenfeld Films) |
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The Kiss (Cohay Productions; Continental
Distributing, Inc.) |
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Snows of Aorangi (New Zealand Screen Board;
George Brest and Associates) |
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T Is for Tumbleweed (James A. Lebenthal
Productions; Continental Distributing, Inc.) |
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| Documentary |
| Short Subject |
AMA Girls (People and Places Series)
(Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista) |
|
Employees Only (Kenneth G. Brown, producer;
Hughes Aircraft Co.) |
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Journey Into Spring (British Transport
Films; Lester A. Schoenfeld Films) |
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The Living Stone (Tom Daly, producer; National
Film Board of Canada) |
|
Overture (United Nations Film Services;
Kingsley International Pictures) |
| Feature |
Antarctic Crossing (World Wide Pictures;
Lester A. Schoenfeld Films) |
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The Hidden World (Robert Snyder, producer;
Small World Co.) |
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Psychiatric Nursing (Nathan Zucker, producer;
Dynamic Films, Inc.) |
|
White Wilderness (True Life Adventure Series)
(Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista) |
|
| Foreign Language Film |
Arms and the Man, Federal Republic of Germany—West |
|
La Venganza, Spain |
|
My Uncle, France |
|
The Road a Year Long, Yugoslavia |
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The Usual Unidentified Thieves, Italy |
| Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award |
Jack L. Warner |
| Honorary Award |
To Maurice Chevalier for his contributions to
the world of entertainment over more than half a century |