| Best Motion Picture |
Best Director |
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Sayonara
- Peyton Place
- Witness for the Prosecution
- 12 Angry Men
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- David Lean – The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Sidney Lumet – 12 Angry Men
- Billy Wilder – Witness for the Prosecution
- Joshua Logan – Sayonara
- Mark Robson – Peyton Place
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| Best Actor |
Best Actress |
- Alec Guinness – The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Marlon Brando – Sayonara
- Anthony Quinn – Wild Is the Wind
- Anthony Franciosa – A Hatful of Rain
- Charles Laughton – Witness for the Prosecution
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- Joanne Woodward – The Three Faces of Eve
- Deborah Kerr – Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
- Lana Turner – Peyton Place
- Anna Magnani – Wild Is the Wind
- Elizabeth Taylor – Raintree County
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| Best Supporting Actor |
Best Supporting Actress |
- Red Buttons – Sayonara
- Sessue Hayakawa – The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Russ Tamblyn – Peyton Place
- Vittorio De Sica – A Farewell to Arms
- Arthur Kennedy – Peyton Place
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- Miyoshi Umeki – Sayonara
- Hope Lange – Peyton Place
- Carolyn Jones – The Bachelor Party
- Diane Varsi – Peyton Place
- Elsa Lanchester – Witness for the Prosecution
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| Best Original Screenplay |
Best Adapted Screenplay |
- Designing Woman – George Wells
- I vitelloni – Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano
- Funny Face – Leonard Gershe
- Man of a Thousand Faces – Ralph Wheelwright, R. Wright Campbell, Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts
- The Tin Star – Barney Slater, Joel Kane and Dudley Nichols
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- The Bridge on the River Kwai – Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman and Pierre Boulle
- 12 Angry Men – Reginald Rose
- Peyton Place – John Michael Hayes
- Sayonara – Paul Osborn
- Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison – John Lee Mahin and John Huston
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| Best Foreign Language Film |
Best Documentary Feature |
- Nights of Cabiria (Italy)
- Mother India (India)
- The Devil Came at Night (Germany)
- Nine Lives (Norway)
- The Gates of Paris (France)
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| Best Live Action Short |
Best Animated Short |
- The Wetback Hound
- A Chairy Tale
- City of Gold
- Foothold on Antarctica
- Portugal
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- Birds Anonymous
- One Droopy Knight
- Tabasco Road
- Trees and Jamaica Daddy
- The Truth About Mother Goose
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| Best Original Score |
Best Original Song |
- The Bridge on the River Kwai – Malcolm Arnold
- An Affair to Remember – Hugo Friedhofer
- Boy on a Dolphin – Hugo Friedhofer
- Perri – Paul J. Smith
- Raintree County – Johnny Green
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- "All the Way" from The Joker Is Wild – Music by Jimmy Van Heusen; Lyric by Sammy Cahn
- "An Affair to Remember" from An Affair to Remember – Music by Harry Warren; Lyric by Leo McCarey and Harold Adamson
- "April Love" from April Love – Music by Sammy Fain; Lyric by Paul Francis Webster
- "Wild Is the Wind" from Wild Is the Wind – Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyric by Ned Washington
- "Tammy" from Tammy and the Bachelor – Music and Lyric by Ray Evans and Johnny Livingston
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| Best Sound Recording |
Best Costume Design |
- Sayonara – George Groves, Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral – George Dutton, Paramount Studio Sound Department
- Les Girls – Wesley C. Miller, MGM Studio Sound Department
- Witness for the Prosecution – Gordon E. Sawyer, Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department
- Pal Joey – John P. Livadary, Columbia Studio Sound Department
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- Les Girls – Orry-Kelly
- An Affair to Remember – Charles LeMaire
- Funny Face – Edith Head and Hubert de Givenchy
- Pal Joey – Jean Louis
- Raintree County – Walter Plunkett
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| Best Art Direction |
Best Cinematography |
- Sayonara – Art Direction: Ted Haworth; Set Decoration: Robert Priestley
- Funny Face – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and George W. Davis; Set Decoration: Sam Comer and Ray Moyer
- Raintree County – Art Direction: William A. Horning and Urie McCleary; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt
- Les Girls – Art Direction: William A. Horning and Gene Allen; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Richard Pefferle
- Pal Joey – Art Direction: Walter Holscher; Set Decoration: William Kiernan and Louis Diage
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- The Bridge on the River Kwai – Jack Hildyard
- Peyton Place – William C. Mellor
- Funny Face – Ray June
- An Affair to Remember – Milton Krasner
- Sayonara – Ellsworth Fredericks
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| Best Film Editing |
Best Visual Effects |
- The Bridge on the River Kwai – Peter Taylor
- Sayonara – Arthur P. Schmidt and Philip W. Anderson
- Pal Joey – Viola Lawrence and Jerome Thoms
- Witness for the Prosecution – Daniel Mandell
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral – Warren Low
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- The Enemy Below – Walter Rossi
- The Spirit of St. Louis – Louis Lichtenfield
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