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Best Motion Picture

• Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (Twentieth Century-Fox)
• Marty (United Artists)
• Mister Roberts (Warner Bros.)
• Picnic (Columbia)
• The Rose Tattoo (Paramount)

Best Actor

• Ernest Borgnine, Marty
• James Cagney, Love Me or Leave Me
• James Dean, East of Eden
• Frank Sinatra, The Man with the Golden Arm
• Spencer Tracy, Bad Day at Black Rock

Best Actress

• Susan Hayward, I'll Cry Tomorrow
• Katharine Hepburn, Summertime
• Jennifer Jones, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Anna Magnani, The Rose Tattoo
• Eleanor Parker, Interrupted Melody

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Arthur Kennedy, Trial
• Jack Lemmon, Mister Roberts
• Joe Mantell, Marty
• Sal Mineo, Rebel Without a Cause
• Arthur O'Connell, Picnic

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Betsy Blair, Marty
• Jo Van Fleet, East of Eden
• Peggy Lee, Pete Kelly's Blues
• Marisa Pavan, The Rose Tattoo
• Natalie Wood, Rebel Without a Cause

Best Directing

• Elia Kazan, East of Eden
• David Lean, Summertime
• Joshua Logan, Picnic
• Delbert Mann, Marty
• John Sturges, Bad Day at Black Rock

Best Writing

Motion Picture Story

• Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher for The Private War of Major Benson
• Daniel Fuchs for Love Me or Leave Me
• Beirne Lay, Jr. for Strategic Air Command
• Jean Marsan, Henri Troyat, Jacques Perret, Henri Verneuil and Raoul Ploquin for The Sheep Has Five Legs
• Nicholas Ray for Rebel Without a Cause

Screenplay

• Richard Brooks, Blackboard Jungle
• Paddy Chayefsky, Marty
• Daniel Fuchs and Isobel Lennart, Love Me or Leave Me
• Millard Kaufman, Bad Day at Black Rock
• Paul Osborn, East of Eden

Story and Screenplay

• Betty Comden and Adolph Green, It's Always Fair Weather
• William Ludwig and Sonya Levien, Interrupted Melody
• Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose, The Seven Little Foys
• Milton Sperling and Emmet Lavery, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
• Jacques Tati and Henri Marquet, Mr. Hulot's Holiday

Cinematography

Black-and-White

• Arthur E. Arling, I'll Cry Tomorrow
• Russell Harlan, Blackboard Jungle
• James Wong Howe, The Rose Tattoo
• Charles Lang, Queen Bee
• Joseph LaShelle, Marty

Color

• Robert Burks, To Catch a Thief'
• Harold Lipstein, A Man Called Peter
• Leon Shamroy, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Harry Stradling, Guys and Dolls
• Robert Surtees, Oklahoma!

Art Direction

Black-and-White

• Cedric Gibbons and Malcolm Brown, art direction; Edwin B. Willis and Hugh B. Hunt, set decoration, I'll Cry Tomorrow
• Cedric Gibbons and Randall Duell, art direction; Edwin B. Willis and Henry Grace, set decoration, Blackboard Jungle
• Edward S. Haworth and Walter Simonds, art direction; Robert Priestley, set decoration, Marty
• Hal Pereira and Tambi Larsen, art direction; Sam Comer and Arthur Krams, set decoration, The Rose Tattoo
• Joseph C. Wright, art direction; Darrell Silvera, set decoration, The Man with the Golden Arm

Color

• William Flannery and Jo Mielziner, art direction; Robert Priestley, set decoration, Picnic
• Hal Pereira and Joseph McMillan Johnson, art direction; Sam Comer and Arthur Krams, set decoration, To Catch a Thief
• Oliver Smith and Joseph C. Wright, art direction; Howard Bristol, set decoration, Guys and Dolls
• Lyle Wheeler and George W. Davis, art direction; Walter M. Scott and Jack Stubbs, set decoration, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Lyle Wheeler and John DeCuir, art direction; Walter M. Scott and Paul S. Fox, set decoration, Daddy Long Legs

Sound Recording

• MGM Studio Sound Dept., Love Me or Leave Me
• RCA Sound Department, Not as a Stranger
• Todd-AO Sound Department, Oklahoma!
• Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Dept., Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept., Mister Roberts

Music

Song

• "I'll Never Stop Loving You", Love Me or Leave Me, Nicholas Brodszky, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics
• "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing", Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Sammy Fain, music; Paul Francis Webster, lyrics
• "Something's Gotta Give", Daddy Long Legs, Johnny Mercer, music and lyrics
• (Love Is) "The Tender Trap", The Tender Trap, James Van Heusen, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics
• "Unchained Melody", Unchained, Alex North, music; Hy Zaret, lyrics

Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

• Elmer Bernstein, The Man with the Golden Arm
• George Duning, Picnic
• Alfred Newman, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Alex North, The Rose Tattoo
• Max Steiner, Battle Cry

Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton and Adolph Deutsch, Oklahoma!
• Jay Blackton and Cyril J. Mockridge, Guys and Dolls
• Percy Faith and George Stoll, Love Me or Leave Me
• Alfred Newman, Daddy Long Legs
• André Previn, It's Always Fair Weather

Film Editing

• Warren Low, The Rose Tattoo
• Alma Macrorie, The Bridges at Toko-Ri
• Charles Nelson and William A. Lyon, Picnic
• Gene Ruggiero and George Boemler, Oklahoma!
• Ferris Webster, Blackboard Jungle

Costume Design

Black-and-White

• Beatrice Dawson, The Pickwick Papers
• Edith Head, The Rose Tattoo
• Tadaoto Kainosho, Ugetsu
• Jean Louis, Queen Bee
• Helen Rose, I'll Cry Tomorrow

Color

• Edith Head, To Catch a Thief
• Charles LeMaire, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills, The Virgin Queen
• Helen Rose, Interrupted Melody
• Irene Sharaff, Guys and Dolls

Special Effects

• The Bridges at Toko-Ri (Paramount)
• The Dam Busters (Warner Bros.)
• The Rains of Ranchipur (Twentieth Century-Fox)

Short Subjects

Cartoon

• Good Will to Men (MGM Cartoon Series) (Frederick Quimby, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, producers; MGM)
• The Legend of Rock-a-Bye Point (Walter Lantz Productions; Universal-International)
• No Hunting (Donald Duck Series) (Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio)
• Speedy Gonzales (Merrie Melodies Series) (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.; Warner Bros.)

One-Reel

• Gadgets Galore (Warner Varieties Series) (Robert Youngson, producer; Warner Bros.)
• Survival City (Movietone CinemaScope Series) (Edmund Reek, producer; Twentieth Century-Fox)
• 3rd Ave. El (Carson Davidson Productions; Ardee Films)
• Three Kisses (Topper Special Series) (Justin Herman, producer; Paramount)

Two-Reel

• The Battle of Gettysburg (Dore Schary, producer; MGM)
• The Face of Lincoln (University of Southern California Presentation; Cavalcade Pictures, Inc.)
• On The Twelfth Day… (United Kingdom Series) (Go Pictures, Inc.; George Brest and Associates)
• Switzerland (People and Places Series) (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista)
• 24-Hour Alert (Cedric Francis, producer; Warner Bros.)

Documentary

Short Subject

• The Battle of Gettysburg (Dore Schary, producer; MGM)
• The Face of Lincoln (University of Southern California Presentation; Cavalcade Pictures, Inc.)
• Men Against the Arctic (People and Places Series) (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista)

Feature

• Heartbreak Ridge (Rene Risacher Production; Tudor Pictures)
• Helen Keller in Her Story (Nancy Hamilton, producer; Nancy Hamilton Presentation)

Special Awards

• To Samurai, The Legend of Musashi (Japan) , best foreign language film first released in the United States during 1955