29th Academy Awards (1956)
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- DirectorMichael AndersonJohn FarrowStarsDavid NivenCantinflasFinlay CurrieA Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.Winner - Best Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Michael Anderson
Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for James Poe, John Farrow and S. J. Perelman
Winner - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Victor Young
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Color
Winner - Best Cinematography, Color for Lionel Lindon
Nominated - Best Costume Design, Color for Miles White
Winner - Best Film Editing for Gene Ruggiero and Paul Weatherwax - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGary CooperDorothy McGuireAnthony PerkinsThe pacifist attitude of a Quaker family is tested as a result of the American Civil War.Nominated - Best Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Director for William Wyler
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Anthony Perkins
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Michael Wilson
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)"
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Gordon R. Glennan - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsElizabeth TaylorRock HudsonJames DeanSprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.Nominated - Best Motion Picture
Winner - Best Director for George Stevens
Nominated - Best Actor for James Dean
Nominated - Best Actor for Rock Hudson
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Mercedes McCambridge
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Ivan Moffat and Fred Guiol
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Dimitri Tiomkin
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Color
Nominated - Best Costume Design, Color for Moss Mabry and Marjorie Best
Nominated - Best Film Editing for William Hornbeck, Philip W. Anderson and Fred Bohanan - DirectorWalter LangStarsYul BrynnerDeborah KerrRita MorenoA widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam's children.Nominated - Best Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Walter Lang
Winner - Best Actor for Yul Brynner
Nominated - Best Actress for Deborah Kerr
Winner - Best Musical Score for Alfred Newman and Ken Darby
Winner - Best Sound Recording for Carlton W. Faulkner
Winner - Best Art Direction, Color
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for Leon Shamroy
Winner - Best Costume Design, Color for Irene Sharaff - DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsCharlton HestonYul BrynnerAnne BaxterMoses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.Nominated - Best Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Loren L. Ryder
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Color
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for Loyal Griggs
Nominated - Best Costume Design, Color for Edith Head, Ralph Jester, John Jensen, Dorothy Jeakins and Arnold Friberg
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Anne Bauchens
Winner - Best Visual Effects - DirectorKing VidorStarsAudrey HepburnHenry FondaMel FerrerNapoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia, including his disastrous 1812 invasion, serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.Nominated - Best Director for King Vidor
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for Jack Cardiff
Nominated - Best Costume Design, Color for Maria De Matteis - DirectorVincente MinnelliGeorge CukorStarsKirk DouglasAnthony QuinnJames DonaldThe life of brilliant but tortured artist Vincent van Gogh.Nominated - Best Actor for Kirk Douglas
Winner - Best Supporting Actor for Anthony Quinn
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Norman Corwin
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Color - DirectorLaurence OlivierStarsLaurence OlivierCedric HardwickeNicholas HannenShakespeare's powerful tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.Nominated - Best Actor for Laurence Olivier
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsIngrid BergmanYul BrynnerHelen HayesAn opportunistic businessman tries to pass off a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and she is so convincing that even the biggest skeptics believe her.Winner - Best Actress for Ingrid Bergman
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Alfred Newman - DirectorElia KazanStarsKarl MaldenCarroll BakerEli WallachAn immature, naive teenage bride holds her anxious husband at bay while flirting with an amorous Sicilian farmer.Nominated - Best Actress for Carroll Baker
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Mildred Dunnock
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Tennessee Williams
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Boris Kaufman - DirectorJoseph AnthonyStarsBurt LancasterKatharine HepburnWendell CoreyDuring the Depression, a con-man promises rain to a desperate drought-ridden Kansas town and marriage to a local desperate spinster.Nominated - Best Actress for Katharine Hepburn
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Alex North - DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsNancy KellyPatty McCormackGage ClarkeRhoda Penmark seems like your average, sweet eight-year-old girl. After her rival at school dies in mysterious circumstances at the school picnic, her mother starts to suspect that Rhoda was responsible.Nominated - Best Actress for Nancy Kelly
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Eileen Heckart
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Patty McCormack
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Harold Rosson - DirectorJoshua LoganStarsMarilyn MonroeDon MurrayArthur O'ConnellA naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Don Murray
- DirectorLewis R. FosterMickey RooneyStarsWendell CoreyMickey RooneyDon TaylorAn assortment of American types come together in the Italian campaign of 1944.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Mickey Rooney
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Robert Lewin - DirectorDouglas SirkStarsRock HudsonLauren BacallRobert StackAlcoholic playboy Kyle Hadley marries the woman secretly loved by his poor but hard-working best friend, who in turn is pursued by Kyle's nymphomaniac sister.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Robert Stack
Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Dorothy Malone
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Written on the Wind" - DirectorAlbert LamorisseStarsPascal LamorisseSabine LamorisseGeorges SellierA red balloon with a mind of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris.Winner - Best Original Screenplay for Albert Lamorisse
- DirectorAndrew L. StoneStarsDoris DayLouis JourdanBarry SullivanA terrified wife tries to escape from her insanely jealous husband who is bent on killing her.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Andrew L. Stone
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Julie" - DirectorFederico FelliniStarsAnthony QuinnGiulietta MasinaRichard BasehartA care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Federico Fellini and Tullio Pinelli
Winner - Best Foreign Language Film (Italy) - DirectorAlexander MackendrickStarsAlec GuinnessPeter SellersCecil ParkerFive oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for William Rose
- DirectorIrving RapperStarsMichel RayRodolfo Hoyos Jr.Elsa CárdenasA young boy named Leonardo adopts a bull after saving it during a storm, but their friendship is soon threatened by the legal owners of the animal who claim ownership of it and ship it off to the bullring to face a legendary bullfighter.Winner - Best Story for Dalton Trumbo
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Buddy Myers
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Merrill G. White - DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsTyrone PowerKim NovakVictoria ShawThe life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.Nominated - Best Story for Leo Katcher
Nominated - Best Musical Score for Morris Stoloff and George Duning
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for John Livadary
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for Harry Stradling - DirectorCharles WaltersStarsBing CrosbyGrace KellyFrank SinatraWith socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him.Nominated - Best Story for Edward Bernds and Elwood Ullman
Nominated - Best Musical Score for Johnny Green and Saul Chaplin
Nominated - Best Original Song for "True Love" - DirectorYves AllégretRafael E. PortasStarsMichèle MorganGérard PhilipeVíctor Manuel MendozaLife in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.Nominated - Best Story for Jean-Paul Sartre
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsCarlo BattistiMaria Pia CasilioLina GennariAn elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome.Nominated - Best Story for Cesare Zavattini
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsRentarô MikuniShôji YasuiTatsuya MihashiA conscience-driven Japanese soldier traumatized by the events of WWII adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Japan)
- DirectorHelmut KäutnerStarsHeinz RühmannMartin HeldHannelore SchrothA young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is released after being jailed for 15 years. He wants to have a pass to get a job and start anew, but without a job he doesn't get a pass; and without a pass, he doesn't get a job. He gets into the net of Prussian bureaucracy, and can't see a solution. Until he enters a small Second-Hand Shop, and sees a Prussian Uniform that fits him like a second skin...Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Germany)
- DirectorRené ClémentStarsMaria SchellFrançois PérierJany HoltA poor laundrywoman tries to cope with a depressing burden of society.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (France)
- DirectorErik BallingStarsAstrid VillaumeGunnar LauringRandi MichelsenIn this visual masterpiece and first Oscar nominated Danish film, young teacher Eva arriving in Greenland, surprising her fiancée in the arms of a woman. Seeking refuge, she meets a man also carrying a broken heart in the scenic landscape.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Denmark)
- DirectorJacques-Yves CousteauLouis MalleStarsFrédéric DumasAlbert FalcoJacques-Yves CousteauA documentary about the undersea explorers and how they penetrate into the underwater world.Winner - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorLouis Clyde StoumenStarsRaymond MasseyEdward WestonArthur 'Weegee' FelligFollows history of camera and photography development from Da Vinci through Louis-Jacques Daguerre and Matthew Brady, to Margaret Bourke-White, Alfred Eisenstadt, Weegee and Edward Weston.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorBjarne Henning-JensenStarsLars Henning-JensenHannibal MathiasenFrederikke FlyDrama documentary about the 10-year-old boy Mikisoq (Hannibal Mathiesen), who lives with his family in a remote settlement on the west coast of Greenland.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorLouis Clyde StoumenStarsRaymond MasseyAcademy-Award winning short subject documentary that chronicles the Civil War through nearly 400 authentic artifacts, as opposed to using actors or sets.Winner - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorCharles GuggenheimA City Decides chronicles the events that led to the integration of the St. Louis public schools in 1954.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsCharles BickfordNancy ReaganCornell BorchersA young girl, played by Pamela Beaird, normal in every way is affected with severe epilepsy. What happens in regard to her parents and school friends and their reactions, is shown. In addition, an explanation of the affliction and demonstrations of the treatment involved, both physically and psychologically, are detailed.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel - DirectorJoe ParkerStarsRaymond BurrMarilyn HareVera MilesStory about the Motion Picture Country Hospital in Calabasas, CA. Key grip gets injured and his story is told how the foundation helped him back to health.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorWard KimballStarsDick TufeldWalt DisneyHeinz HaberWith a combination of documentary footage and animation, the science and history of rockets, and the effects of space travel on man are illustrated.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorKonstantin KalserStarsJay JacksonDonald CampbellLeo VillaThis Oscar-winning short documentary follows the exploits of Donald Campbell on Lake Mead, Nevada in his boat Bluebird as he attempts to be the first to successfully set a water speed record in excess of 200 mph.Winner - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- DirectorRobert YoungsonStarsDwight WeistWard WilsonHiram JohnsonA look at various famous figures in the 1920s, including political figures, entertainers, writers, adventurers and inventors, beginning with the 1920 presidential campaign and including various newsmakers.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- DirectorAndré de la VarreStarsMarvin Miller"Scope Gem" tour of Dinkelsbuhl, Germany.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- DirectorJack ClaytonStarsDavid KossoffAlfie BassAlf DeanFender is a lowly clerk in the warehouse of clothing manufacturers Ranting and Co. His one ambition is to have an overcoat of his own. Refused one by the cold hearted Ranting he asks a tailor friend, Morry, to make him one instead, but dies of cold before he can take delivery of it. Unwilling to give up his only desire even in death, he returns as a ghost to persuade Morry to steal him the overcoat he so coveted in life.Winner - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
- DirectorLarry LansburghStarsRex AllenSlim PickensJay SislerThis featurette demonstrates how trained dogs are instrumental in helping round up an outlaw Brahma bull which has been plaguing a ranchers pure-bred Hereford cattle.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
- DirectorBen SharpsteenStarsWinston HiblerThe story of a happy people on an island paradise begins with a description of life and cultural events in the communities. There are glimpses of fishing and local foods being prepared, and the building of a guest house is shown.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
- DirectorPete BurnessStarsJim BackusDaws ButlerAt a used car lot, Mr. Magoo is intent on buying a car for his nephew Waldo. He is slick talked into buying an old clunker thanks to a shifty salesman but he drives it off anyway. Unfortunately, the myopic Magoo drives off a pier and under the ocean where he mistakes the various aquatic surroundings such as fish, sunken boats, and seals for other cars, dilapidated mansions, and a horn happy driver respectively.Winner - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorRobert CannonStarsMarvin MillerMarian RichmanWhile meeting a new friend, Gerald is abducted by aliens and whisked to the planet Moo. The king of Moo mistakenly thinks that all Earthlings - like Gerald - speak only in sound effects, and he attempts to converse with Gerald. Hoping to lure Earth tourism to his planet, the king brings the boy back to Earth in the hope of establishing good relations, but Earth diplomats are puzzled by the king's unusual language.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorRobert CannonStarsEugene BollayMilton Muffet is confessed poor pedestrian. He's addicted to "the most awful, habit-forming vice" man falls prey to, jaywalking.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsRobert WagnerTerry MooreBroderick CrawfordThe spoiled rich son of a wealthy Southerner is changed by his experiences in the Pacific during World War II.Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Hugo Friedhofer
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsGordon MacRaeDan DaileyErnest BorgnineRay joins Buddy and Lew to form a successful 1920s musical show writing team. Soon, they've got several hits on Broadway, but Buddy's ambition leads to friction among the group, as the other 2 feel increasingly left out.Nominated - Best Musical Score for Lionel Newman
- DirectorRoy RowlandStarsDan DaileyCyd CharisseAgnes MooreheadIn 1950s Las Vegas, a gambling rancher and a ballerina discover that some people have luck at cards while others have luck at love.Nominated - Best Musical Score for George Stoll and Johnny Green
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartDoris DayBrenda de BanzieAn American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.Winner - Best Original Song for "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)"
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsPaul NewmanPier AngeliEverett SloaneBoxer Rocky Graziano's biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947.Winner - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Winner - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Joseph Ruttenberg
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Albert Akst - DirectorGeorge SeatonStarsWilliam HoldenDeborah KerrThelma RitterIn the Pacific during WWII, a Roman Catholic widow falls for a tough lieutenant colonel.Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Nominated - Best Costume Design, Black and White for Edith Head - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneTakashi ShimuraKeiko TsushimaFarmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Nominated - Best Costume Design, Black and White for Kohei Ezaki - DirectorRichard QuineStarsJudy HollidayJohn WilliamsPaul DouglasA minority stockholder takes on the crooked board of directors at a billion dollar corporation.Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Winner - Best Costume Design, Black and White for Jean Louis - DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsGinger RogersMichael RennieBetty Lou KeimNancy Fallon gets custody of her teenage daughter Dodie back from her ex-husband after she remarries, but she must win her love.Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Nominated - Best Costume Design, Black and White for Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills - DirectorMark RobsonStarsHumphrey BogartRod SteigerJan SterlingAn ex-sportswriter is hired by a shady fight promoter to promote his latest find, an unknown but easily exploitable rising star from Argentina.Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Burnett Guffey
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsForrest TuckerMari BlanchardWallace FordA cavalry officer organizes fellow passangers against Mexican outlaws, while at a stagecoach stop. A character study of each passenger is provided, via flashback.Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Walter Strenge
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsRobert TaylorElisabeth MüllerBurl IvesAn American business executive (Robert Taylor) plans to marry an Austrian refugee (Elisabeth Müller) in London but he encounters disapproval and opposition from his American social and business circles.Nominated - Best Costume Design, Black and White for Helen Rose
- DirectorFred M. WilcoxStarsWalter PidgeonAnne FrancisLeslie NielsenA starship crew in the 23rd century goes to investigate the silence of a distant planet's colony, only to find just two survivors, a powerful robot, and the deadly secret of a lost civilization.Nominated - Best Visual Effects