Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Actor

• Tony Curtis in "The Defiant Ones"
• Paul Newman in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
• David Niven in "Separate Tables"
• Sidney Poitier in "The Defiant Ones"
• Spencer Tracy in "The Old Man and the Sea"

Actor in a Supporting Role

• Theodore Bikel in "The Defiant Ones"
• Lee J. Cobb in "The Brothers Karamazov"
• Burl Ives in "The Big Country"
• Arthur Kennedy in "Some Came Running"
• Gig Young in "Teacher's Pet"

Actress

• Susan Hayward in "I Want to Live!"
• Deborah Kerr in "Separate Tables"
• Shirley MacLaine in "Some Came Running"
• Rosalind Russell in "Auntie Mame"
• Elizabeth Taylor in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"

Actress in a Supporting Role

• Peggy Cass in "Auntie Mame"
• Wendy Hiller in "Separate Tables"
• Martha Hyer in "Some Came Running"
• Maureen Stapleton in "Lonelyhearts"
• Cara Williams in "The Defiant Ones"

Art Direction

• "Auntie Mame" Art Direction: Malcolm Bert; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
• "Bell, Book and Candle" Art Direction: Cary Odell; Set Decoration: Louis Diage
• "A Certain Smile" Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler, John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox
• "Gigi" Art Direction: William A. Horning, Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Keogh Gleason
• "Vertigo" Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Henry Bumstead; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Frank McKelvy

Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• "The Defiant Ones" Sam Leavitt
• "Desire under the Elms" Daniel L. Fapp
• "I Want to Live!" Lionel Lindon
• "Separate Tables" Charles Lang, Jr.
• "The Young Lions" Joe MacDonald

Cinematography (Color)

• "Auntie Mame" Harry Stradling, Sr.
• "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" William Daniels
• "Gigi" Joseph Ruttenberg
• "The Old Man and the Sea" James Wong Howe
• "South Pacific" Leon Shamroy

Costume Design

• "Bell, Book and Candle" Jean Louis
• "The Buccaneer" Ralph Jester, Edith Head, John Jensen
• "A Certain Smile" Charles LeMaire, Mary Wills
• "Gigi" Cecil Beaton
• "Some Came Running" Walter Plunkett

Directing

• "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" Richard Brooks
• "The Defiant Ones" Stanley Kramer
• "Gigi" Vincente Minnelli
• "I Want to Live!" Robert Wise
• "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness" Mark Robson

Documentary (Feature)

• "Antarctic Crossing" James Carr, Producer
• "The Hidden World" Robert Snyder, Producer
• "Psychiatric Nursing" Nathan Zucker, Producer
• "White Wilderness" Ben Sharpsteen, Producer

Documentary (Short Subject)

• "Ama Girls" Ben Sharpsteen, Producer
• "Employees Only" Kenneth G. Brown, Producer
• "Journey into Spring" Ian Ferguson, Producer
• "The Living Stone" Tom Daly, Producer
• "Overture" Thorold Dickinson, Producer

Film Editing

• "Auntie Mame" William Ziegler
• "Cowboy" William A. Lyon, Al Clark
• "The Defiant Ones" Frederic Knudtson
• "Gigi" Adrienne Fazan
• "I Want to Live!" William Hornbeck

Foreign Language Film

• "Arms and the Man" West Germany
• "La Venganza" Spain
• "My Uncle" France
• "The Road a Year Long" Yugoslavia
• "The Usual Unidentified Thieves" Italy

Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

• "The Big Country" Jerome Moross
• "The Old Man and the Sea" Dimitri Tiomkin
• "Separate Tables" David Raksin
• "White Wilderness" Oliver Wallace
• "The Young Lions" Hugo Friedhofer

Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

• "The Bolshoi Ballet" Yuri Faier, G. Rozhdestvensky
• "Damn Yankees" Ray Heindorf
• "Gigi" Andre Previn
• "Mardi Gras" Lionel Newman
• "South Pacific" Alfred Newman, Ken Darby

Music (Song)

• "Almost in Your Arms (Love Song from 'Houseboat')" from "Houseboat" Music and Lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
• "A Certain Smile" from "A Certain Smile" Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
• "Gigi" from "Gigi" Music by Frederick Loewe; Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
• "To Love and Be Loved" from "Some Came Running" Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
• "A Very Precious Love" from "Marjorie Morningstar" Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster

Best Motion Picture

• "Auntie Mame" Warner Bros.
• "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" Lawrence Weingarten, Producer
• "The Defiant Ones" Stanley Kramer, Producer
• "Gigi" Arthur Freed, Producer
• "Separate Tables" Harold Hecht, Producer

Short Subject (Cartoon)

• "Knighty Knight Bugs" John W. Burton, Producer
• "Paul Bunyan" Walt Disney, Producer
• "Sidney's Family Tree" William M. Weiss, Producer

Short Subject (Live Action)

• "Grand Canyon" Walt Disney, Producer
• "Journey into Spring" Ian Ferguson, Producer
• "The Kiss" John Patrick Hayes, Producer
• "Snows of Aorangi" New Zealand Screen Board
• "T Is for Tumbleweed" James A. Lebenthal, Producer

Sound

• "I Want to Live!" Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer, Sound Director
• "South Pacific" Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes, Sound Director
• "A Time to Love and a Time to Die" Universal-International Studio Sound Department, Leslie I. Carey, Sound Director
• "Vertigo" Paramount Studio Sound Department, George Dutton, Sound Director
• "The Young Lions" 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Carl Faulkner, Sound Director

Special Effects

• "tom thumb" Visual Effects by Tom Howard
• "Torpedo Run" Visual Effects by A. Arnold Gillespie; Audible Effects by Harold Humbrock

Writing (Screenplay – based on material from another medium)

• "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" Richard Brooks, James Poe
• "Gigi" Alan Jay Lerner
• "The Horse's Mouth" Alec Guinness
• "I Want to Live!" Nelson Gidding, Don Mankiewicz
• "Separate Tables" Terence Rattigan, John Gay

Writing (Story and Screenplay – written directly for the screen)

• "The Defiant Ones" Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith
• "The Goddess" Paddy Chayefsky
• "Houseboat" Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose
• "The Sheepman" Story by James Edward Grant; Screenplay by William Bowers, James Edward Grant
• "Teacher's Pet" Fay Kanin, Michael Kanin

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• Star indicates a win.