Pictures

• Best Picture: Ben-Hur - Sam Zimbalist (producer)
• Best Foreign Language Film: Orfeu Negro, France

Best Director

• William Wyler for Ben-Hur

Acting

• Best Actor: Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur
• Best Supporting Actor: Hugh Griffith in Ben-Hur
• Best Actress: Simone Signoret in Room at the Top
• Best Supporting Actress: Shelley Winters in The Diary of Anne Frank

Writing

• Best Story and Screenplay: Pillow Talk by Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene, Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin
• Best Adapted Screenplay: Room at the Top by Neil Paterson

Music

• Best Original Song: "High Hopes" from A Hole in the Head
• Best Scoring of a Comedy or Dramatic Picture: Ben-Hur by Miklos Rozsa
• Best Scoring of a Musical Picture: Porgy and Bess by Andre Previn and Ken Darby

Honorary Oscar

An Honorary Oscar, a bittersweet recognition, was awarded to the under-appreciated Buster Keaton, one of the silent screen's greatest comedic characters, who was known as 'The Great Stone Face.' His award was for "his unique talents which brought immortal comedies to the screen", such as Sherlock, Jr. (1924), The Navigator (1924), The General (1927), Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), and The Cameraman (1928).