Best Picture

WINNER

Gigi: Arthur Freed

NOMINEES

Auntie Mame: Jack L. Warner

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Lawrence Weingarten

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The Defiant Ones: Stanley Kramer

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Separate Tables: Harold Hecht

Best Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER

Separate Tables: David Niven

NOMINEES

The Defiant Ones: Tony Curtis

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Paul Newman

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The Defiant Ones: Sidney Poitier

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The Old Man and the Sea: Spencer Tracy

Best Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER

I Want to Live!: Susan Hayward

NOMINEES

Separate Tables: Deborah Kerr

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Some Came Running: Shirley MacLaine

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Auntie Mame: Rosalind Russell

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Elizabeth Taylor

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER

The Big Country: Burl Ives

NOMINEES

The Defiant Ones: Theodore Bikel

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The Brothers Karamazov: Lee J. Cobb

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Some Came Running: Arthur Kennedy

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Teacher's Pet: Gig Young

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER

Separate Tables: Wendy Hiller
Wendy Hiller was not present at the awards ceremony. Harold Hecht, the film's producer, accepted on her behalf.

NOMINEES

Auntie Mame: Peggy Cass

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Some Came Running: Martha Hyer

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Lonelyhearts: Maureen Stapleton

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The Defiant Ones: Cara Williams

Best Director

WINNER

Gigi: Vincente Minnelli

NOMINEES

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Richard Brooks

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The Defiant Ones: Stanley Kramer

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The Inn of the Sixth Happiness: Mark Robson

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I Want to Live!: Robert Wise

Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen

WINNER

The Defiant Ones: Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith
Nedrick Young had been blacklisted at the time and the Oscar went to his pseudonym 'Nathan E. Douglas'. In 1993 AMPAS restored Young's credit upon the request of his widow and recommendation of the Academy's writers branch.

NOMINEES

The Goddess: Paddy Chayefsky

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Houseboat: Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose

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The Sheepman: William Bowers (screenplay), James Edward Grant (screenplay/story)

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Teacher's Pet: Fay Kanin, Michael Kanin

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

WINNER

Gigi: Alan Jay Lerner

NOMINEES

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Richard Brooks, James Poe

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The Horse's Mouth: Alec Guinness

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I Want to Live!: Nelson Gidding, Don Mankiewicz

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Separate Tables: Terence Rattigan, John Gay

Best Cinematography, Color

WINNER

Gigi: Joseph Ruttenberg

NOMINEES

Auntie Mame: Harry Stradling Sr.

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: William H. Daniels

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The Old Man and the Sea: James Wong Howe

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South Pacific: Leon Shamroy

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

WINNER

The Defiant Ones: Sam Leavitt

NOMINEES

Desire Under the Elms: Daniel L. Fapp

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I Want to Live!: Lionel Lindon

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Separate Tables: Charles Lang

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The Young Lions: Joseph MacDonald

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

WINNER

Gigi: William A. Horning, E. Preston Ames, Henry Grace, F. Keogh Gleason

NOMINEES

Auntie Mame: Malcolm C. Bert, George James Hopkins

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Bell Book and Candle: Cary Odell, Louis Diage

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A Certain Smile: Lyle R. Wheeler, John DeCuir, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox

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Vertigo: Hal Pereira, Henry Bumstead, Sam Comer, Frank R. McKelvy

Best Costume Design, Black-and-White or Color

WINNER

Gigi: Cecil Beaton

NOMINEES

Bell Book and Candle: Jean Louis

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The Buccaneer: Ralph Jester, Edith Head, John Jensen

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A Certain Smile: Charles Le Maire, Mary Wills

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Some Came Running: Walter Plunkett

Best Sound

WINNER

South Pacific: Fred Hynes (Todd-AO SSD)

NOMINEES

I Want to Live!: Gordon Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn SSD)

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A Time to Love and a Time to Die: Leslie I. Carey (Universal-International SSD)

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Vertigo: George Dutton (Paramount SSD)

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The Young Lions: Carlton W. Faulkner (20th Century-Fox SSD)

Best Film Editing

WINNER

Gigi: Adrienne Fazan

NOMINEES

Auntie Mame: William H. Ziegler

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Cowboy: William A. Lyon, Al Clark

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The Defiant Ones: Frederic Knudtson

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I Want to Live!: William Hornbeck

Best Effects, Special Effects

WINNER

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NOMINEE

Torpedo Run: A. Arnold Gillespie, Harold Humbrock

Best Music, Original Song

WINNER

Gigi: Frederick Loewe (music), Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics)
For the song "Gigi"

NOMINEES

Houseboat: Jay Livingston, Ray Evans
For the song "Almost in Your Arms (Love Song from Houseboat)"

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A Certain Smile: Sammy Fain (music), Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
For the song "A Certain Smile"

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Some Came Running: Jimmy Van Heusen (music), Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
For the song "To Love and Be Loved"

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Marjorie Morningstar: Sammy Fain (music), Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
For the song "A Very Precious Love"

Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture

WINNER

Gigi: André Previn

NOMINEES

The Bolshoi Ballet: Yuri Faier, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

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Damn Yankees!: Ray Heindorf

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Mardi Gras: Lionel Newman

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South Pacific: Alfred Newman, Ken Darby

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

WINNER

The Old Man and the Sea: Dimitri Tiomkin

NOMINEES

The Big Country: Jerome Moross

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Separate Tables: David Raksin

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White Wilderness: Oliver Wallace

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The Young Lions: Hugo Friedhofer

Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects

WINNER

Grand Canyon: Walt Disney
James Algar accepting this award.

NOMINEES

Journey Into Spring: Ian Ferguson

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The Kiss: John Hayes

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Snows of Aorangi: (New Zealand Screen Board)

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T Is for Tumbleweed: James A. Lebenthal

Best Short Subject, Cartoons

WINNER

Knighty Knight Bugs: John W. Burton

NOMINEES

Paul Bunyan: Walt Disney

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Sidney's Family Tree: William M. Weiss

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

WINNER

Ama Girls: Ben Sharpsteen
James Algar accepting this award.

NOMINEES

Employees Only: Kenneth G. Brown

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Journey Into Spring: Ian Ferguson

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The Living Stone: Tom Daly

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Oeuverture: Thorold Dickinson

Best Documentary, Features

WINNER

White Wilderness: Ben Sharpsteen
James Algar accepting this award.

NOMINEES

Antarctic Crossing: James Carr

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The Hidden World: Robert Snyder

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Psychiatric Nursing: Nathan Zucker

Best Foreign Language Film

WINNER

Mon Oncle
France

NOMINEES

Helden
Germany

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Big Deal on Madonna Street
Italy

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The Year Long Road
Yugoslavia

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La venganza
Spain

WINNER

Maurice Chevalier
For his contributions to the world of entertainment for more than half a century.

WINNER

Jack L. Warner

WINNER

Not awarded.

WINNERS

Don W. Prideaux, Leroy G. Leighton (Lamp Division of General Electric Co.)
For the development and production of an improved 10 kilowatt lamp for motion picture set lighting.

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(Panavision, Inc.)
For the design and development of the Auto Panatar anamorphic photographic lens for 35mm CinemaScope photography.

WINNERS

Willy Borberg (General Precision Laboratory, Inc.)
For the development of a high speed intermittent movement for 35mm motion picture theater projection equipment.

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Fred Ponedel (Warner Bros. Special Effects Dept.), George Brown (Warner Bros. Special Effects Dept.), Conrad Boye (Warner Bros. Special Effects Dept.)
For the design and fabrication of a new rapid-fire marble gun.