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The 29th Academy Awards
| 1957
RKO Pantages Theatre
Wednesday, March 27, 1957
Honoring movies released in 1956
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Highlights
Best Directing
Giant
George Stevens
Best Actress
Anastasia
Ingrid Bergman, accepted by Cary Grant
Best Picture
Around the World in 80 Days
Michael Todd
Memorable Moments
La Strada
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Host Jerry Lewis with Dino De Laurentiis and Federico Fellini, producer and director of the Foreign Language Film winner from Italy
Dorothy Malone and Anthony Quinn
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Supporting Actress winner for Written on the Wind and Supporting Actor winner for Lust for Life
Yul Brynner
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Best Actor winner for The King and I, with presenter Anna Magnani
WINNERS & NOMINEES
Actor
Winner
Yul Brynner
The King and I
Nominees
James Dean
Giant
Nominees
Kirk Douglas
Lust for Life
Nominees
Rock Hudson
Giant
Nominees
Sir Laurence Olivier
Richard III
Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner
Anthony Quinn
Lust for Life
Nominees
Don Murray
Bus Stop
Nominees
Anthony Perkins
Friendly Persuasion
Nominees
Mickey Rooney
The Bold and the Brave
Nominees
Robert Stack
Written on the Wind
Actress
Winner
Ingrid Bergman
Anastasia
Nominees
Carroll Baker
Baby Doll
Nominees
Katharine Hepburn
The Rainmaker
Nominees
Nancy Kelly
The Bad Seed
Nominees
Deborah Kerr
The King and I
Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner
Dorothy Malone
Written on the Wind
Nominees
Mildred Dunnock
Baby Doll
Nominees
Eileen Heckart
The Bad Seed
Nominees
Mercedes McCambridge
Giant
Nominees
Patty McCormack
The Bad Seed
Art Direction (Black-and-White)
Winner
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm F. Brown; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason
Nominees
The Magnificent Seven
Takashi Matsuyama
Nominees
The Proud and Profane
Art Direction: Hal Pereira, A. Earl Hedrick; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer, Frank R. McKelvy
Nominees
The Solid Gold Cadillac
Art Direction: Ross Bellah; Set Decoration: William R. Kiernan, Louis Diage
Nominees
Teenage Rebel
Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler, Jack Martin Smith; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss
Art Direction (Color)
Winner
The King and I
Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler, John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox
Nominees
Around the World in 80 Days
Art Direction: James W. Sullivan, Ken Adam; Set Decoration: Ross J. Dowd
Nominees
Giant
Art Direction: Boris Leven; Set Decoration: Ralph S. Hurst
Nominees
Lust for Life
Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason
Nominees
The Ten Commandments
Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Walter H. Tyler, Albert Nozaki; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer
Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Winner
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Joseph Ruttenberg
Nominees
Baby Doll
Boris Kaufman
Nominees
The Bad Seed
Hal Rosson
Nominees
The Harder They Fall
Burnett Guffey
Nominees
Stagecoach to Fury
Walter Strenge
Cinematography (Color)
Winner
Around the World in 80 Days
Lionel Lindon
Nominees
The Eddy Duchin Story
Harry Stradling
Nominees
The King and I
Leon Shamroy
Nominees
The Ten Commandments
Loyal Griggs
Nominees
War and Peace
Jack Cardiff
Costume Design (Black-and-White)
Winner
The Solid Gold Cadillac
Jean Louis
Nominees
The Magnificent Seven
Kohei Ezaki
Nominees
The Power and the Prize
Helen Rose
Nominees
The Proud and Profane
Edith Head
Nominees
Teenage Rebel
Charles LeMaire, Mary Wills
Costume Design (Color)
Winner
The King and I
Irene Sharaff
Nominees
Around the World in 80 Days
Miles White
Nominees
Giant
Moss Mabry, Marjorie Best
Nominees
The Ten Commandments
Edith Head, Ralph Jester, John Jensen, Dorothy Jeakins, Arnold Friberg
Nominees
War and Peace
Marie De Matteis
Directing
Winner
Giant
George Stevens
Nominees
Around the World in 80 Days
Michael Anderson
Nominees
Friendly Persuasion
William Wyler
Nominees
The King and I
Walter Lang
Nominees
War and Peace
King Vidor
Documentary (Feature)
Winner
The Silent World
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Producer
Nominees
The Naked Eye
Louis Clyde Stoumen, Producer
Nominees
Where Mountains Float
The Government Film Committee of Denmark
Documentary (Short Subject)
Winner
The True Story of the Civil War
Louis Clyde Stoumen, Producer
Nominees
A City Decides
Charles Guggenheim & Associates, Inc.
Nominees
The Dark Wave
John Healy, Producer
Nominees
The House without a Name
Valentine Davies, Producer
Nominees
Man in Space
Ward Kimball, Producer
Film Editing
Winner
Around the World in 80 Days
Gene Ruggiero, Paul Weatherwax
Nominees
The Brave One
Merrill G. White
Nominees
Giant
William Hornbeck, Philip W. Anderson, Fred Bohanan
Nominees
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Albert Akst
Nominees
The Ten Commandments
Anne Bauchens
Foreign Language Film
Winner
La Strada
Italy; Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti, Producers
Nominees
The Captain of Kopenick
Federal Republic of Germany - West; Gyula Trebitsch and Walter Koppel, Producers
Nominees
Gervaise
France; Annie Dorfmann, Producer
Nominees
Harp of Burma
Japan; Masayuki Takagi, Producer
Nominees
Qivitoq
Denmark; O. Dalsgaard-Olsen, Producer
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Winner
Buddy Adler
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Winner
Y. Frank Freeman
Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)
Winner
Around the World in 80 Days
Victor Young
Nominees
Anastasia
Alfred Newman
Nominees
Between Heaven and Hell
Hugo Friedhofer
Nominees
Giant
Dimitri Tiomkin
Nominees
The Rainmaker
Alex North
Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)
Winner
The King and I
Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
Nominees
The Best Things in Life Are Free
Lionel Newman
Nominees
The Eddy Duchin Story
Morris Stoloff, George Duning
Nominees
High Society
Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin
Nominees
Meet Me in Las Vegas
George Stoll, Johnny Green
Music (Song)
Winner
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera) in "The Man Who Knew Too Much" Music and Lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
Nominees
Friendly Persuasion
Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love) in "Friendly Persuasion" Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
Nominees
Julie
Julie in "Julie" Music by Leith Stevens; Lyrics by Tom Adair
Nominees
High Society
True Love in "High Society" Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Nominees
Written on the Wind
Written On The Wind in "Written on the Wind" Music by Victor Young; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Best Motion Picture
Winner
Around the World in 80 Days
Michael Todd, Producer
Nominees
Friendly Persuasion
William Wyler, Producer
Nominees
Giant
George Stevens and Henry Ginsberg, Producers
Nominees
The King and I
Charles Brackett, Producer
Nominees
The Ten Commandments
Cecil B. DeMille, Producer
Short Subject (Cartoon)
Winner
Mister Magoo's Puddle Jumper
Stephen Bosustow, Producer
Nominees
Gerald McBoing-Boing on Planet Moo
Stephen Bosustow, Producer
Nominees
The Jaywalker
Stephen Bosustow, Producer
Short Subject (One-reel)
Winner
Crashing the Water Barrier
Konstantin Kalser, Producer
Nominees
I Never Forget a Face
Robert Youngson, Producer
Nominees
Time Stood Still
Cedric Francis, Producer
Short Subject (Two-reel)
Winner
The Bespoke Overcoat
Romulus Films
Nominees
Cow Dog
Larry Lansburgh, Producer
Nominees
The Dark Wave
John Healy, Producer
Nominees
Samoa
Walt Disney, Producer
Sound Recording
Winner
The King and I
20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Carl Faulkner, Sound Director
Nominees
The Brave One
King Bros. Productions, Inc., Sound Department, John Myers, Sound Director
Nominees
The Eddy Duchin Story
Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary, Sound Director
Nominees
Friendly Persuasion
Westrex Sound Services, Inc., Gordon R. Glennan, Sound Director; and Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon Sawyer, Sound Director
Nominees
The Ten Commandments
Paramount Studio Sound Department, Loren L. Ryder, Sound Director
Special Effects
Winner
The Ten Commandments
John Fulton
Nominees
Forbidden Planet
A. Arnold Gillespie, Irving Ries, Wesley C. Miller
Writing (Motion Picture Story)
Winner
The Brave One
Dalton Trumbo
Nominees
The Eddy Duchin Story
Leo Katcher
Nominees
The Proud and the Beautiful
Jean Paul Sartre
Nominees
Umberto D.
Cesare Zavattini
Writing (Screenplay—Adapted)
Winner
Around the World in 80 Days
James Poe, John Farrow, S.J. Perelman
Nominees
Baby Doll
Tennessee Williams
Nominees
Friendly Persuasion
Michael Wilson
Nominees
Giant
Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat
Nominees
Lust for Life
Norman Corwin
Writing (Screenplay—Original)
Winner
The Red Balloon
Albert Lamorisse
Nominees
The Bold and the Brave
Robert Lewin
Nominees
Julie
Andrew L. Stone
Nominees
La Strada
Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli
Nominees
The Ladykillers
William Rose
A
Anastasia
2 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Actress - Ingrid Bergman
- Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Alfred Newman
Around the World in 80 Days
8 NOMINATIONS,
5 WINS
- * Cinematography (Color) - Lionel Lindon
- * Film Editing - Gene Ruggiero, Paul Weatherwax
- * Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Victor Young
- * Best Motion Picture - Michael Todd, Producer
- * Writing (Screenplay--Adapted) - James Poe, John Farrow, S.J. Perelman
- Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: James W. Sullivan, Ken Adam; Set Decoration: Ross J. Dowd
- Costume Design (Color) - Miles White
- Directing - Michael Anderson
B
Baby Doll
4 NOMINATIONS
- Actress - Carroll Baker
- Actress in a Supporting Role - Mildred Dunnock
- Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Boris Kaufman
- Writing (Screenplay--Adapted) - Tennessee Williams
The Bad Seed
3 NOMINATIONS
- Actress - Nancy Kelly
- Actress in a Supporting Role - Eileen Heckart, Patty McCormack
- Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Hal Rosson
The Bespoke Overcoat
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Short Subject (Two-reel) - Romulus Films
The Best Things in Life Are Free
1 NOMINATION
- Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) - Lionel Newman
Between Heaven and Hell
1 NOMINATION
- Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Hugo Friedhofer
The Bold and the Brave
2 NOMINATIONS
- Actor in a Supporting Role - Mickey Rooney
- Writing (Screenplay--Original) - Robert Lewin
The Brave One
3 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Writing (Motion Picture Story) - Dalton Trumbo
- Film Editing - Merrill G. White
- Sound Recording - King Bros. Productions, Inc., Sound Department, John Myers, Sound Director
Bus Stop
1 NOMINATION
- Actor in a Supporting Role - Don Murray
C
The Captain of Kopenick
1 NOMINATION
- Foreign Language Film - Federal Republic of Germany - West; Gyula Trebitsch and Walter Koppel, Producers
A City Decides
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Short Subject) - Charles Guggenheim & Associates, Inc.
Cow Dog
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (Two-reel) - Larry Lansburgh, Producer
Crashing the Water Barrier
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Short Subject (One-reel) - Konstantin Kalser, Producer
D
The Dark Wave
2 NOMINATIONS
- Documentary (Short Subject) - John Healy, Producer
- Short Subject (Two-reel) - John Healy, Producer
E
The Eddy Duchin Story
4 NOMINATIONS
- Cinematography (Color) - Harry Stradling
- Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) - Morris Stoloff, George Duning
- Sound Recording - Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary, Sound Director
- Writing (Motion Picture Story) - Leo Katcher
F
Forbidden Planet
1 NOMINATION
- Special Effects - A. Arnold Gillespie, Irving Ries, Wesley C. Miller
Friendly Persuasion
6 NOMINATIONS
- Actor in a Supporting Role - Anthony Perkins
- Directing - William Wyler
- Music (Song) - Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love) in "Friendly Persuasion" Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
- Best Motion Picture - William Wyler, Producer
- Sound Recording - Westrex Sound Services, Inc., Gordon R. Glennan, Sound Director; and Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon Sawyer, Sound Director
- Writing (Screenplay--Adapted) - Michael Wilson
G
Gerald McBoing-Boing on Planet Moo
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (Cartoon) - Stephen Bosustow, Producer
Gervaise
1 NOMINATION
- Foreign Language Film - France; Annie Dorfmann, Producer
Giant
9 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Directing - George Stevens
- Actor - James Dean, Rock Hudson
- Actress in a Supporting Role - Mercedes McCambridge
- Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: Boris Leven; Set Decoration: Ralph S. Hurst
- Costume Design (Color) - Moss Mabry, Marjorie Best
- Film Editing - William Hornbeck, Philip W. Anderson, Fred Bohanan
- Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Dimitri Tiomkin
- Best Motion Picture - George Stevens and Henry Ginsberg, Producers
- Writing (Screenplay--Adapted) - Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat
H
The Harder They Fall
1 NOMINATION
- Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Burnett Guffey
Harp of Burma
1 NOMINATION
- Foreign Language Film - Japan; Masayuki Takagi, Producer
High Society
2 NOMINATIONS
- Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) - Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin
- Music (Song) - True Love in "High Society" Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
The House without a Name
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Short Subject) - Valentine Davies, Producer
I
I Never Forget a Face
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (One-reel) - Robert Youngson, Producer
J
The Jaywalker
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (Cartoon) - Stephen Bosustow, Producer
Julie
2 NOMINATIONS
- Music (Song) - Julie in "Julie" Music by Leith Stevens; Lyrics by Tom Adair
- Writing (Screenplay--Original) - Andrew L. Stone
K
The King and I
9 NOMINATIONS,
5 WINS
- * Actor - Yul Brynner
- * Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler, John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox
- * Costume Design (Color) - Irene Sharaff
- * Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) - Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
- * Sound Recording - 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Carl Faulkner, Sound Director
- Actress - Deborah Kerr
- Cinematography (Color) - Leon Shamroy
- Directing - Walter Lang
- Best Motion Picture - Charles Brackett, Producer
L
La Strada
2 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Foreign Language Film - Italy; Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti, Producers
- Writing (Screenplay--Original) - Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli
The Ladykillers
1 NOMINATION
- Writing (Screenplay--Original) - William Rose
Lust for Life
4 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Actor in a Supporting Role - Anthony Quinn
- Actor - Kirk Douglas
- Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason
- Writing (Screenplay--Adapted) - Norman Corwin
M
The Magnificent Seven
2 NOMINATIONS
- Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Takashi Matsuyama
- Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Kohei Ezaki
Man in Space
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Short Subject) - Ward Kimball, Producer
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Music (Song) - Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera) in "The Man Who Knew Too Much" Music and Lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
Meet Me in Las Vegas
1 NOMINATION
- Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) - George Stoll, Johnny Green
Mister Magoo's Puddle Jumper
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Short Subject (Cartoon) - Stephen Bosustow, Producer
N
The Naked Eye
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Feature) - Louis Clyde Stoumen, Producer
P
The Power and the Prize
1 NOMINATION
- Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Helen Rose
The Proud and Profane
2 NOMINATIONS
- Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: Hal Pereira, A. Earl Hedrick; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer, Frank R. McKelvy
- Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Edith Head
The Proud and the Beautiful
1 NOMINATION
- Writing (Motion Picture Story) - Jean Paul Sartre
Q
Qivitoq
1 NOMINATION
- Foreign Language Film - Denmark; O. Dalsgaard-Olsen, Producer
R
The Rainmaker
2 NOMINATIONS
- Actress - Katharine Hepburn
- Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Alex North
The Red Balloon
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Writing (Screenplay--Original) - Albert Lamorisse
Richard III
1 NOMINATION
- Actor - Sir Laurence Olivier
S
Samoa
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (Two-reel) - Walt Disney, Producer
The Silent World
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Documentary (Feature) - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Producer
The Solid Gold Cadillac
2 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Jean Louis
- Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: Ross Bellah; Set Decoration: William R. Kiernan, Louis Diage
Somebody Up There Likes Me
3 NOMINATIONS,
2 WINS
- * Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm F. Brown; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason
- * Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Joseph Ruttenberg
- Film Editing - Albert Akst
Stagecoach to Fury
1 NOMINATION
- Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Walter Strenge
T
Teenage Rebel
2 NOMINATIONS
- Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler, Jack Martin Smith; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss
- Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Charles LeMaire, Mary Wills
The Ten Commandments
7 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Special Effects - John Fulton
- Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Walter H. Tyler, Albert Nozaki; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer
- Cinematography (Color) - Loyal Griggs
- Costume Design (Color) - Edith Head, Ralph Jester, John Jensen, Dorothy Jeakins, Arnold Friberg
- Film Editing - Anne Bauchens
- Best Motion Picture - Cecil B. DeMille, Producer
- Sound Recording - Paramount Studio Sound Department, Loren L. Ryder, Sound Director
Time Stood Still
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (One-reel) - Cedric Francis, Producer
The True Story of the Civil War
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Documentary (Short Subject) - Louis Clyde Stoumen, Producer
U
Umberto D.
1 NOMINATION
- Writing (Motion Picture Story) - Cesare Zavattini
W
War and Peace
3 NOMINATIONS
- Cinematography (Color) - Jack Cardiff
- Costume Design (Color) - Marie De Matteis
- Directing - King Vidor
Where Mountains Float
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Feature) - The Government Film Committee of Denmark
Written on the Wind
3 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Actress in a Supporting Role - Dorothy Malone
- Actor in a Supporting Role - Robert Stack
- Music (Song) - Written On The Wind in "Written on the Wind" Music by Victor Young; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
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