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Best Picture

• Around the World in Eighty Days
  • Friendly Persuasion
  • Giant
  • The King and I
  • The Ten Commandments

Best Director

• Giant - George Stevens
  • Around the World in Eighty Days - Michael Anderson
  • Friendly Persuasion - William Wyler
  • The King and I - Walter Lang
  • War and Peace - King Vidor

Best Actor

• The King and I - Yul Brynner
  • Giant - James Dean
  • Giant - Rock Hudson
  • Lust for Life - Kirk Douglas
  • Richard III - Laurence Olivier

Best Actress

• Anastasia - Ingrid Bergman
  • Baby Doll - Carroll Baker
  • The Bad Seed - Nancy Kelly
  • The King and I - Deborah Kerr
  • The Rainmaker - Katharine Hepburn

Best Supporting Actor

• Lust for Life - Anthony Quinn
  • The Bold and the Brave - Mickey Rooney
  • Bus Stop - Don Murray
  • Friendly Persuasion - Anthony Perkins
  • Written on the Wind - Robert Stack

Best Supporting Actress

• Written on the Wind - Dorothy Malone
  • Baby Doll - Mildred Dunnock
  • The Bad Seed - Eileen Heckart
  • The Bad Seed - Patty McCormack
  • Giant - Mercedes McCambridge

Best Original Screenplay

• Le Ballon rouge - Albert Lamorisse
  • The Bold and the Brave - Robert Lewin
  • Julie - Andrew L. Stone
  • The Ladykillers - William Rose
  • La Strada - Federico Fellini and Tullio Pinelli

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Around the World in Eighty Days - James Poe , John Farrow and S. J. Perelman
  • Baby Doll - Tennessee Williams
  • Friendly Persuasion - Michael Wilson
  • Giant - Ivan Moffat and Fred Guiol
  • Lust for Life - Norman Corwin

Best Writing, Motion Picture Story

• The Brave One - Dalton Trumbo
  • The Eddy Duchin Story - Leo Katcher
  • High Society - Edward Bernds and Elwood Ullman
  • Les Orgueilleux - Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Umberto D. - Cesare Zavattini

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

• Somebody Up There Likes Me
  • Baby Doll
  • The Bad Seed
  • The Harder They Fall
  • Stagecoach to Fury

Best Cinematography, Color

• Around the World in Eighty Days
  • The Eddy Duchin Story
  • The King and I
  • The Ten Commandments
  • War and Peace

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color

• The King and I
  • Around the World in Eighty Days
  • Giant
  • Lust for Life
  • The Ten Commandments

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White

• Somebody Up There Likes Me
  • The Proud and Profane
  • The Seven Samurai
  • The Solid Gold Cadillac
  • Teenage Rebel

Best Costume Design, Color

• The King and I
  • Around the World in Eighty Days
  • Giant
  • The Ten Commandments
  • War and Peace

Best Costume Design, Black-and-White

• The Solid Gold Cadillac
  • The Power and the Prize
  • The Proud and Profane
  • The Seven Samurai
  • Teenage Rebel

Best Sound, Recording

• The King and I
  • The Brave One
  • The Eddy Duchin Story
  • Friendly Persuasion
  • The Ten Commandments

Best Film Editing

• Around the World in Eighty Days
  • The Brave One
  • Giant
  • Somebody Up There Likes Me
  • The Ten Commandments

Best Effects, Special Effects

• The Ten Commandments
  • Forbidden Planet

Best Original Song

• Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) from The Man Who Knew Too Much - Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
  • Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love) from Friendly Persuasion
  • True Love from High Society
  • Julie from Julie
  • Written on the Wind from Written on the Wind

Best Original Score, Comedy or Dramatic Picture

• Around the World in Eighty Days
  • Anastasia
  • Between Heaven and Hell
  • Giant
  • The Rainmaker

Best Original Score, Musical Picture

• The King and I
  • The Best Things in Life Are Free
  • The Eddy Duchin Story
  • High Society
  • Meet Me in Las Vegas

Best Foreign Language Film

• La Strada - Italy
  • Biruma no tategoto - Japan
  • Gervaise - France
  • Der Hauptmann von Kopenick - Germany
  • Qivitoq - Denmark

Honorary Award

• Eddie Cantor