Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Actor

• Marlon Brando in "Sayonara"
• Anthony Franciosa in "A Hatful of Rain"
• Alec Guinness in "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
• Charles Laughton in "Witness for the Prosecution"
• Anthony Quinn in "Wild Is the Wind"

Actor in a Supporting Role

• Red Buttons in "Sayonara"
• Vittorio De Sica in "A Farewell to Arms"
• Sessue Hayakawa in "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
• Arthur Kennedy in "Peyton Place"
• Russ Tamblyn in "Peyton Place"

Actress

• Deborah Kerr in "Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison"
• Anna Magnani in "Wild Is the Wind"
• Elizabeth Taylor in "Raintree County"
• Lana Turner in "Peyton Place"
• Joanne Woodward in "The Three Faces of Eve"

Actress in a Supporting Role

• Carolyn Jones in "The Bachelor Party"
• Elsa Lanchester in "Witness for the Prosecution"
• Hope Lange in "Peyton Place"
• Miyoshi Umeki in "Sayonara"
• Diane Varsi in "Peyton Place"

Art Direction

• "Funny Face" Art Direction: Hal Pereira, George W. Davis; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
• "Les Girls" Art Direction: William A. Horning, Gene Allen; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Richard Pefferle
• "Pal Joey" Art Direction: Walter Holscher; Set Decoration: William Kiernan, Louis Diage
• "Raintree County" Art Direction: William A. Horning, Urie McCleary; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt
• "Sayonara" Art Direction: Ted Haworth; Set Decoration: Robert Priestley

Cinematography

• "An Affair to Remember" Milton Krasner
• "The Bridge on the River Kwai" Jack Hildyard
• "Funny Face" Ray June
• "Peyton Place" William Mellor
• "Sayonara" Ellsworth Fredricks

Costume Design

• "An Affair to Remember" Charles LeMaire
• "Funny Face" Edith Head, Hubert de Givenchy
• "Les Girls" Orry-Kelly
• "Pal Joey" Jean Louis
• "Raintree County" Walter Plunkett

Directing

• "The Bridge on the River Kwai" David Lean
• "Peyton Place" Mark Robson
• "Sayonara" Joshua Logan
• "12 Angry Men" Sidney Lumet
• "Witness for the Prosecution" Billy Wilder

Documentary (Feature)

• "Albert Schweitzer" Jerome Hill, Producer
• "On the Bowery" Lionel Rogosin, Producer
• "Torero!" Manuel Barbachano Ponce, Producer

Film Editing

• "The Bridge on the River Kwai" Peter Taylor
• "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" Warren Low
• "Pal Joey" Viola Lawrence, Jerome Thoms
• "Sayonara" Arthur P. Schmidt, Philip W. Anderson
• "Witness for the Prosecution" Daniel Mandell

Foreign Language Film

• "The Devil Came at Night" West Germany
• "Gates of Paris" France
• "Mother India" India
• "The Nights of Cabiria" Italy
• "Nine Lives" Norway

Music (Scoring)

• "An Affair to Remember" Hugo Friedhofer
• "Boy on a Dolphin" Hugo Friedhofer
• "The Bridge on the River Kwai" Malcolm Arnold
• "Perri" Paul Smith
• "Raintree County" Johnny Green

Music (Song)

• "An Affair To Remember" from "An Affair to Remember" Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Harold Adamson and Leo McCarey
• "All The Way" from "The Joker Is Wild" Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
• "April Love" from "April Love" Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
• "Tammy" from "Tammy and the Bachelor" Music and Lyrics by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston
• "Wild Is the Wind" from "Wild Is the Wind" Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Ned Washington

Best Motion Picture

• "The Bridge on the River Kwai" Sam Spiegel, Producer
• "Peyton Place" Jerry Wald, Producer
• "Sayonara" William Goetz, Producer
• "12 Angry Men" Henry Fonda and Reginald Rose, Producers
• "Witness for the Prosecution" Arthur Hornblow, Jr., Producer

Short Subject (Cartoon)

• "Birds Anonymous" Edward Selzer, Producer
• "One Droopy Knight" William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, Producers
• "Tabasco Road" Edward Selzer, Producer
• "Trees and Jamaica Daddy" Stephen Bosustow, Producer
• "The Truth about Mother Goose" Walt Disney, Producer

Short Subject (Live Action)

• "A Chairy Tale" Norman McLaren, Producer
• "City of Gold" Tom Daly, Producer
• "Foothold on Antarctica" James Carr, Producer
• "Portugal" Ben Sharpsteen, Producer
• "The Wetback Hound" Larry Lansburgh, Producer

Sound Recording

• "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" Paramount Studio Sound Department, George Dutton, Sound Director
• "Les Girls" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Dr. Wesley C. Miller, Sound Director
• "Pal Joey" Columbia Studio Sound Department, John P. Livadary, Sound Director
• "Sayonara" Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, George Groves, Sound Director
• "Witness for the Prosecution" Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer, Sound Director

Special Effects

• "The Enemy Below" Audible Effects by Walter Rossi
• "The Spirit of St. Louis" Visual Effects by Louis Lichtenfield

Writing (Screenplay – based on material from another medium)

• "The Bridge on the River Kwai" Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman, Pierre Boulle
• "Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison" John Lee Mahin, John Huston
• "Peyton Place" John Michael Hayes
• "Sayonara" Paul Osborn
• "12 Angry Men" Reginald Rose

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

• "Designing Woman" George Wells
• "Funny Face" Leonard Gershe
• "Man of a Thousand Faces" Story by Ralph Wheelwright; Screenplay by R. Wright Campbell, Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts
• "The Tin Star" Story by Barney Slater, Joel Kane; Screenplay by Dudley Nichols
• "Vitelloni" Story by Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli; Screenplay by Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano

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• Star indicates a win.