31st Academy Awards - Awards

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface

Best Motion Picture Best Director
  • Gigi
    • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    • Auntie Mame
    • Separate Tables
    • The Defiant Ones
  • Vincente Minnelli – Gigi
    • Richard Brooks – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    • Robert Wise – I Want to Live!
    • Stanley Kramer – The Defiant Ones
    • Mark Robson – The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Best Actor Best Actress
  • David Niven – Separate Tables
    • Paul Newman – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    • Tony Curtis – The Defiant Ones
    • Sidney Poitier – The Defiant Ones
    • Spencer Tracy – The Old Man and the Sea
  • Susan Hayward – I Want to Live!
    • Rosalind Russell – Auntie Mame
    • Elizabeth Taylor – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    • Deborah Kerr – Separate Tables
    • Shirley MacLaine – Some Came Running
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
  • Burl Ives – The Big Country
    • Arthur Kennedy – Some Came Running
    • Gig Young – Teacher's Pet
    • Lee J. Cobb – The Brothers Karamazov
    • Theodore Bikel – The Defiant Ones
  • Wendy Hiller – Separate Tables
    • Peggy Cass – Auntie Mame
    • Maureen Stapleton – Lonelyhearts
    • Martha Hyer – Some Came Running
    • Cara Williams – The Defiant Ones
Best Original Screenplay Best Adapted Screenplay
  • The Defiant Ones – Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith
    • Houseboat – Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose
    • Teacher's Pet – Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin
    • The Goddess – Paddy Chayefsky
    • The Sheepman – William Bowers and James Edward Grant
  • Gigi – Alan Jay Lerner
    • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Richard Brooks and James Poe
    • I Want to Live! – Don Mankiewicz and Nelson Gidding
    • Separate Tables – John Gay and Terence Rattigan
    • The Horse's Mouth – Alec Guinness
Best Foreign Language Film
  • My Uncle (France)
    • Arms and the Man (Germany)
    • Big Deal on Madonna Street (Italy)
    • The Road a Year Long (Yugoslavia)
    • La venganza (Spain)
Best Documentary Feature Best Documentary Short
  • White Wilderness – Ben Sharpsteen
    • Antarctic Crossing
    • The Hidden World
    • Psychiatric Nursing
  • Ama Girls – Ben Sharpsteen
    • Employees Only
    • Journey Into Spring
    • The Living Stone
    • Overture
Best Live Action Short Best Animated Short
  • Grand Canyon – Walt Disney
    • Journey Into Spring
    • The Kiss
    • Snows of Aorangi
    • T Is for Tumbleweed
  • Knighty Knight Bugs – John W. Burton
    • Paul Bunyan
    • Sidney's Family Tree
Best Dramatic or Comedy Score Best Musical Score
  • The Old Man and the Sea – Dimitri Tiomkin
    • Separate Tables – David Raksin
    • The Big Country – Jerome Moross
    • The Young Lions – Hugo Friedhofer
    • White Wilderness – Oliver Wallace
  • Gigi – André Previn
    • Damn Yankees! – Ray Heindorf
    • Mardi Gras – Lionel Newman
    • South Pacific – Alfred Newman and Ken Darby
    • The Bolshoi Ballet – Yuri Faier and G. Rozhdestvensky
Best Original Song Best Sound Recording
  • "Gigi" from Gigi – Music by Alan Jay Lerner; Lyric by Frederick Loewe
    • "A Certain Smile" from A Certain Smile – Music by Sammy Fain; Lyric by Paul Francis Webster
    • "Almost In Your Arms (Love Song from Houseboat)" from Houseboat – Music and Lyric by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
    • "A Very Precious Love" from Marjorie Morningstar – Music by Sammy Fain; Lyric by Paul Francis Webster
    • "To Love and Be Loved" from Some Came Running – Music by James Van Heusen; Lyric by Sammy Cahn
  • South Pacific – Fred Hynes, Todd-AO Sound Department
    • A Time to Love and a Time to Die – Leslie I. Carey, Universal-International Studio Sound Department
    • I Want to Live! – Gordon E. Sawyer, Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department
    • The Young Lions – Carlton W. Faulkner, Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Department
    • Vertigo – George Dutton, Paramount Studio Sound Department
Best Art Direction Best Costume Design
  • Gigi – Art Direction: William A. Horning and Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Henry Grace and Keogh Gleason
    • A Certain Smile – Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler and John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott and Paul S. Fox
    • Auntie Mame – Art Direction: Malcolm Bert; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
    • Bell Book and Candle – Art Direction: Cary Odell; Set Decoration: Louis Diage
    • Vertigo – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Henry Bumstead; Set Decoration: Sam Comer and Frank McKelvy
  • Gigi – Cecil Beaton
    • A Certain Smile – Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills
    • Bell Book and Candle – Jean Louis
    • Some Came Running – Walter Plunkett
    • The Buccaneer – Ralph Jester, Edith Head and John Jensen
Best Cinematography, Black and White Best Cinematography, Color
  • 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 – Joseph MacDonald
  • Gigi – Joseph Ruttenberg
    • Auntie Mame – Harry Stradling, Sr.
    • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – William Daniels
    • South Pacific – Leon Shamroy
    • The Old Man and the Sea – James Wong Howe
Best Film Editing Best Visual Effects
  • Gigi – Adrienne Fazan
    • Auntie Mame – William Ziegler
    • Cowboy – William A. Lyon and Al Clark
    • I Want to Live! – William Hornbeck
    • The Defiant Ones – Frederick Knudtson
  • tom thumb – Tom Howard
    • Torpedo Run – A. Arnold Gillespie and Harold Humbrock

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