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Best Picture
 AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS (Won 5 Awards) - Todd, UA. Produced by Michael Todd
 FRIENDLY PERSUASION - Allied Artists. Produced by William Wyler
GIANT - Warner Bros. Produced by George Stevens and Henry Ginsberg
THE KING AND I (Won 5 Awards) - 20th Century-Fox. Produced by Charles Brackett
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - De Mille, Paramount. Produced by Cecil B. De Mille
Actor
Yul Brynner in THE KING AND I
James Dean in GIANT
Kirk Douglas in LUST FOR LIFE
Rock Hudson in GIANT
Sir Laurence Olivier in RICHARD III
Actress
Carroll Baker in BABY DOLL
Ingrid Bergman in ANASTASIA
Katharine Hepburn in THE RAINMAKER
Nancy Kelly in THE BAD SEED
Deborah Kerr in THE KING AND I
Supporting Actor
Don Murray in BUS STOP
Anthony Perkins in FRIENDLY PERSUASION
Anthony Quinn in LUST FOR LIFE
Mickey Rooney in THE BOLD AND THE BRAVE
Robert Stack in WRITTEN ON THE WIND
Supporting Actress
Mildred Dunnock in BABY DOLL
Eileen Heckart in THE BAD SEED
Mercedes McCambridge in GIANT
Patty McCormack in THE BAD SEED
Dorothy Malone in WRITTEN ON THE WIND
Director
Michael Anderson for AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
Walter Lang for THE KING AND I
George Stevens for GIANT
King Vidor for WAR AND PEACE
William Wyler for FRIENDLY PERSUASION
Writing: Motion Picture Story
Dalton Trumbo - THE BRAVE ONE (Dalton Trumbo used the name "Robert Rich" in this film's credits.)
Leo Katcher - THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY
Edward Bernds & Elwood Ullman HIGH SOCIETY Withdrew from final ballot due to being mistakenly placed in the running for their 1956 Bowery Boys film HIGH SOCIETY.
Jean Paul Sartre - THE PROUD AND THE BEAUTIFUL
Cesare Zavattini - UMBERTO D.
Writing: Screenplay -- Original
Robert Lewin - THE BOLD AND THE BRAVE
Andrew L. Stone - JULIE
Federico Fellini & Tullio Pinelli - LA STRADA
William Rose - THE LADYKILLERS
Albert Lamorisse - THE RED BALLOON
Writing: Screenplay -- Adapted
James Poe, John V. Farrow & S. J. Perelman - AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
Tennessee Williams - BABY DOLL
Fred Guiol & Ivan Moffat - GIANT
Norman Corwin - LUST FOR LIFE
Michael Wilson - FRIENDLY PERSUASION (Nomination was declared eligible, but writer's name was ineligible under Academy by-laws. Wilson was blacklisted since pleading the Fifth before the House Un-American Activities Commitee in 1952. This by-law was repealed by the Academy in 1959.)
Foreign Language Film
Prior to 1956 an Honorary Award voted by Board of Governors.
DER HAUPTMANN VON KÖPENICK (THE CAPTAIN OF KOPENICK, West Germany)
GERVAISE (France)
BIRUMA NO TATEGOTO (THE BURMESE HARP, a.k.a. THE HARP OF BURMA, Japan)
LA STRADA (THE ROAD, Italy)
QIVITOQ - FJELDGÆGEREN (QIVITOQ, Denmark)
Art Direction/Set Decoration (Color)
James W. Sullivan & Ken Adam - Art Direction, Ross J. Dowd - Set Decoration AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
Boris Leven - Art Direction, Ralph S. Hurst - Set Decoration GIANT
Lyle Wheeler & John De Cuir - Art Direction, Walter M. Scott & Paul S. Fox - Set Decoration THE KING AND I
Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters & Preston Ames - Art Direction, Edwin B. Willis & Keogh Gleason - Set Decoration LUST FOR LIFE
Hal Pereira, Walter H. Tyler & Albert Nozaki - Art Direction, Sam M. Comer & Ray Moyer - Set Decoration THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Art Direction/Set Decoration (Black and White)
Takashi Matsuyama - Art Direction THE SEVEN SAMURAI
Hal Pereira & A. Earl Hedrick - Art Direction, Sam M. Comer & Frank R. McKelvy - Set Decoration THE PROUD AND THE PROFANE
Ross Bellah - Art Direction, William R. Kiernan & Louis Diage - Set Decoration THE SOLID GOLD CADILLAC
Cedric Gibbons & Malcolm Brown - Art Direction, Edwin B. Willis & Keogh Gleason - Set Decoration SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME
Lyle Wheeler & Jack Martin Smith - Art Direction, Walter M. Scott & Stuart A. Reiss - Set Decoration TEENAGE REBEL
Cinematography (Color)
Lionel Lindon - AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
Harry Stradling - THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY
Leon Shamroy - THE KING AND I
Loyal Griggs THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Jack Cardiff - WAR AND PEACE
Cinematography (Black and White)
Boris Kaufman - BABY DOLL
Hal Rosson - THE BAD SEED
Burnett Guffey - THE HARDER THEY FALL
Joseph Ruttenberg - SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME
Walter Strenge - STAGECOACH TO FURY
Costume Design (Color)
Miles White - AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
Moss Mabry & Marjorie Best - GIANT
Irene Sharaff - THE KING AND I
Edith Head, Ralph Jester, John Jensen, Dorothy Jeakins & Arnold Friberg - THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Maria De Matteis - WAR AND PEACE
Costume Design (Black and White)
Kohei Ezaki - THE SEVEN SAMURAI
Helen Rose - THE POWER AND THE PRIZE
Edith Head - THE PROUD AND THE PROFANE
Jean Louis - THE SOLID GOLD CADILLAC
Charles LeMaire & Mary Wills - TEENAGE REBEL
Documentary (Features)
Louis Clyde Stoumen - Producer THE NAKED EYE
Jacques-Yves Cousteau - Producer THE SILENT WORLD
HVOR BJERGENE SEJLER (WHERE MOUNTAINS FLOAT; the Government Film Committee of Denmark - Producer)
Documentary (Short Subjects)
A CITY DECIDES
John Healy - Producer THE DARK WAVE
Valentine Davies - Producer THE HOUSE WITHOUT A NAME
Ward Kimball - Producer MAN IN SPACE
Louis Clyde Stoumen - Producer THE TRUE STORY OF THE CIVIL WAR
Film Editing
Gene Ruggiero & Paul Weatherwax - AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
Merrill G. White - THE BRAVE ONE
William Hornbeck, Philip W. Anderson & Fred Bohanan - GIANT
Albert Akst - SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME
Anne Bauchens - THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Music: Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Alfred Newman - ANASTASIA
Victor Young - AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
Hugo Friedhofer - BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL
Dimitri Tiomkin - GIANT
Alex North - THE RAINMAKER
Music: Scoring of a Musical Picture
Lionel Newman - THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE
Morris Stoloff & George Duning - THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY
Johnny Green & Saul Chaplin - HIGH SOCIETY
Alfred Newman & Ken Darby - THE KING AND I
George Stoll & Johnny Green - MEET ME IN LAS VEGAS
Music: Song
Dimitri Tiomkin - Music, Paul Francis Webster - Lyrics FRIENDLY PERSUASION "Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)"
Cole Porter - Music & Lyrics HIGH SOCIETY "True Love"
Leith Stevens - Music, Tom Adair - Lyrics JULIE "Julie"
Jay Livingston & Ray Evans - Music & Lyrics THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Será, Será)" 
Victor Young - Music, Sammy Cahn - Lyrics WRITTEN ON THE WIND "Written on the Wind"
Short Subjects (Cartoons)
Stephen Bosustow - Producer GERALD MCBOING BOING ON PLANET MOO
Stephen Bosustow - Producer THE JAYWALKER
Stephen Bosustow - Producer MISTER MAGOO'S PUDDLE JUMPER
Short Subjects (One-reel)
Konstantin Kaiser - Producer CRASHING THE WATER BARRIER
Robert Youngson - Producer I NEVER FORGET A FACE
Cedric Francis - Producer TIME STOOD STILL
Short Subjects (Two-reel)
George K. Arthur - Producer THE BESPOKE OVERCOAT
Larry Lansburgh - Producer COW DOG
John Healy - Producer THE DARK WAVE
Walt Disney - Producer SAMOA
Sound Recording
John Myers - Sound Director THE BRAVE ONE
John P. Livadary (Columbia Studio Sound Department) THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY
Gordon R. Glennan (Westrex Sound Services Inc.) & Gordon E. Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department) FRIENDLY PERSUASION
Carl W. Faulkner (20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department) THE KING AND I
Loren L. Ryder (Paramount Studio Sound Department) THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Special Effects
A. Arnold Gillespie, Irving G. Ries & Wesley C. Miller - FORBIDDEN PLANET
John P. Fulton - THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Scientific Or Technical
Class I (Statuette):
No award given for 1956.
Class II (Plaque):
No award given for 1956.
Class III (Citation):
 Richard Ranger (Rangertone Inc.) - For the development of a synchronous recording and reproducing system for quarter-inch magnetic tape.
Ted Hirsch, Carl Hauge & Edward Reichard (Consolidated Film
Industries) - For an automatic scene counter for laboratory projection rooms.
Technical Departments of Paramount Pictures Corporation - For the engineering and development of the Paramount light-weight horizontal-movement VistaVision camera.
Roy C. Stewart (Stewart-Trans Lux Coporation),Dr. C. R. Daily (Transparency Department of Paramount Pictures Corporation) - For the engineering and development of the HiTrans and Para-HiTrans rear projection screen.
Construction Department of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio - For a new hand-portable fog machine.
Daniel J. Bloomberg, John Pond & William Wade (Engineering and Camera Departments of Republic Studio) - For the Naturama adaptation to the Mitchell camera.
Honorary and Other Awards
Eddie Cantor - For distinguished service to the film industry. Winner presented a Statuette.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Buddy Adler
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Y. Frank Freeman
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FIRSTS
· Every Best Picture nominee is in color.
· James Dean is the only actor to be nominated posthumously twice.
· Best Original Screenplay winner, The Red Balloon, doesn't have a single line of dialogue.
· Anthony Quinn wins a Supporting Award for the shortest nominated performance up to that time -- 9 minutes.
· Don Murray nominated for his film debut; Eileen Heckart in first year in movies.
· After 22 nominations, Victor Young, composer of Around the World in 80 Days, finally wins an Oscar®, posthumously.
· UFA sweeps all three Best Cartoon nominations.
· Around the World in Eighty Days sets record for the longest title for a Best Picture winner, a record it would not share until 1975.
ROLE REVERSALS
· Around the World in 80 Days began with John Farrow as director. He was fired the very first day of shooting because Mike Todd thought he took too long to set up the cameras.
· The cameo role of the manservant that Phileas Fogg discharges at the beginning of the ATWIED was originally offered to Laurence Olivier, who turned it down. It was played in the film by John Gielgud.
RULE CHANGES
· No one may be nominated for an Oscar® if he had admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
· Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award instituted to honor charitable endeavors.
· Foreign Language Film becomes a regular category.
· "Story and Screenplay" now "Screenplay -- Original"; "Screenplay" becomes "Screenplay -- Adapted."
ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID...
· Lust for Life was Kirk Douglas's third unsuccessful Oscar® bid.
· Best Picture winner Around the World in 80 Days didn't receive a single acting nomination.
SINS OF OMISSION
Picture: The Searchers, Baby Doll, The Man Who Knew Too Much
Director: Alfred Hitchcock - The Wrong Man, The Man Who Knew Too Much, John Ford - The Searchers
Actor: John Wayne - The Searchers
Actress: Marilyn Monroe - Bus Stop
Song: "Love Me Tender," "The Girl Can't Help It"
UNMENTIONABLES
· Around the World in 80 Days is generally considered the largest film project ever undertaken in Hollywood. Filming was completed in 75 days. It used 140 sets built at 6 Hollywood studios, as well as in England, Hong Kong and Japan. 74,685 costumes were designed, made or rented for use in the film, and 68,894 extras were used while shooting in 13 countries.
· Producer Mike Todd dubbed the appearance of stars in bit parts "cameos."
· Deborah Kerr's singing in The King and I was dubbed by Marni Nixon.
· An irate Charlton Heston demanded the Academy ban big stars from Best Supporting nominations, claiming, "That's not the purpose of that category." He was ignored.
· In a year of blockbuster films, the hottest ticket was for December's Hollywood premiere of Anastasia, which marked the return of Ingrid Bergman to the American screen after a 7-½ year absence.
· Mike Todd offered to pay for the Awards telecast in order to spare everyone from the tiresome Oldsmobile commercials, but the Academy had already inked a deal with the car maker.
· This year, it was Maureen O'Hara who was shanghaied by Ralph Edwards's "This Is Your Life" TV crew in front of the Pantages.
· Honorary Award winner Eddie Cantor passed out in the lobby on the way into the theatre. A quick thinker administered a shot of whiskey and Cantor was back on his feet as if nothing had happened.
· As Anthony Quinn accepted his Award as Best Supporting Actor, Mickey Rooney turned to fellow nominee Robert Stack in the row behind him and said, "We wuz robbed."
· In the pressroom, Buddy Adler held up his Thalberg Award and discovered it was made of plaster -- the Academy hadn't found a bronze one in time for the ceremony.
· This was the last Academy Awards ceremony that Louis B. Mayer would attend. The man who had dreamed up the organization in the first place had to make several phone calls before he could locate a pair of tickets. When the deposed head of MGM died later in 1957, his funeral was SRO, inspiring Billy Wilder to crack, "It just goes to show, give the public what it wants and they'll show up."
· The Hollywood community was abuzz when it was revealed that Robert Rich, winner of the Best Motion Picture Story Award for The Brave One, didn't really exist. The Academy had been tricked. After all the effort to keep the blacklisted Michael Wilson out of the running, who should win an Oscar® under a pseudonym but Dalton Trumbo, one of the original Hollywood Ten.
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