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- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsSimone SignoretVéra ClouzotPaul MeurisseThe wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.BEST PICTURE
The Fiends (Les Diaboliques)
Rebel Without a Cause
To Catch a Thief
East of Eden
Marty
The Ladykillers
Song of the Road (Pather Panchali)
The Word (Ordet)
The Night of the Hunter
The Dam Busters - DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsSimone SignoretVéra ClouzotPaul MeurisseThe wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.BEST DIRECTOR
Henri-Georges Clouzot - The Fiends (Les Diaboliques)
Nicholas Ray - Rebel Without a Cause
Charles Laughton - The Night of the Hunter
Elia Kazan - East of Eden
Alfred Hitchcock - To Catch a Thief
Carl Theodor Dreyer - The Word (Ordet) - DirectorLaurence OlivierStarsLaurence OlivierCedric HardwickeNicholas HannenShakespeare's powerful tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.BEST ACTOR
Laurence Olivier - Richard III
James Dean - Rebel Without a Cause
Ernest Borgnine - Marty
James Dean - East of Eden
Alec Guinness - The Ladykillers
Robert Mitchum - The Night of the Hunter
Cary Grant - To Catch a Thief - DirectorCharles VidorStarsDoris DayJames CagneyCameron MitchellA fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.BEST ACTRESS
Doris Day - Love Me or Leave Me
Deborah Kerr - The End of the Affair
Grace Kelly - To Catch a Thief
Simone Signoret - The Fiends (Les Diaboliques)
Véra Clouzot - The Fiends (Les Diaboliques)
Jennifer Jones - Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - DirectorNicholas RayStarsJames DeanNatalie WoodSal MineoA rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Sal Mineo - Rebel Without a Cause
Jack Lemmon - Mister Roberts
Ralph Richardson - Richard III
Joe Mantell - Marty
Billy Chapin - The Night of the Hunter
Arthur O'Connell - Picnic
Peter Cushing - The End of the Affair - DirectorDelbert MannStarsErnest BorgnineBetsy BlairEsther MinciottiA middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other.BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Betsy Blair - Marty
Natalie Wood - Rebel Without a Cause
Lillian Gish - The Night of the Hunter
Jo Van Fleet - East of Eden
Katie Johnson - The Ladykillers
Claire Bloom - Richard III
Jessie Royce Landis - To Catch a Thief - DirectorNicholas RayStarsJames DeanNatalie WoodSal MineoA rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.BEST CASTING
Rebel Without a Cause
East of Eden
To Catch a Thief
Marty
Richard III
Picnic
The Ladykillers - 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.BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Ladykillers
Rebel Without a Cause
Love Me or Leave Me - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCary GrantGrace KellyJessie Royce LandisA retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation.BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
To Catch a Thief
East of Eden
The Fiends (Les Diaboliques)
Marty
The Night of the Hunter
Richard III
The Word (Ordet) - 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.BEST TITLES/CREDITS DESIGN
The Ladykillers
Lady and the Tramp
Love Me or Leave Me
Richard III
Oklahoma!
Song of the Road (Pather Panchali)
To Catch a Thief - DirectorMichael AndersonStarsRichard ToddMichael RedgraveUrsula JeansDrama based on the attempt by the RAF to destroy six dams in Germany during World War II.BEST EDITING
The Dam Busters
Rebel Without a Cause
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Oklahoma!
Picnic
To Catch a Thief - DirectorCharles LaughtonStarsRobert MitchumShelley WintersLillian GishA self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Night of the Hunter
To Catch a Thief
The Fiends (Les Diaboliques)
The Word (Ordet)
The End of the Affair
The Dam Busters - DirectorCharles VidorStarsDoris DayJames CagneyCameron MitchellA fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Love Me or Leave Me
Guys and Dolls
Richard III
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Oklahoma!
To Catch a Thief
The Ladykillers - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCary GrantGrace KellyJessie Royce LandisA retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation.BEST COSTUME DESIGN
To Catch a Thief
Love Me or Leave Me
Guys and Dolls
Richard III
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Oklahoma!
Picnic - 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.BEST MAKE-UP & HAIR
The Ladykillers
Richard III
Song of the Road (Pather Panchali)
Love Me or Leave Me
To Catch a Thief
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Guys and Dolls - DirectorMichael AndersonStarsRichard ToddMichael RedgraveUrsula JeansDrama based on the attempt by the RAF to destroy six dams in Germany during World War II.BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Dam Busters
To Catch a Thief
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Mister Roberts - DirectorSatyajit RayStarsKanu BannerjeeKaruna BannerjeeSubir BanerjeeImpoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.BEST SCORE
Song of the Road (Pather Panchali)
The Dam Busters
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Richard III
To Catch a Thief
Lady and the Tramp
The End of the Affair - DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsGordon MacRaeGloria GrahameGene NelsonIn Oklahoma, several farmers, cowboys and a traveling salesman compete for the romantic favors of various local ladies.BEST SOUNDTRACK/ADAPTED SCORE
Oklahoma!
Guys and Dolls
Love Me or Leave Me - DirectorHenry KingOtto LangStarsWilliam HoldenJennifer JonesTorin ThatcherA widowed Chinese-English doctor falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist Revolution.BEST SONG
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing"
Lady and the Tramp - "The Siamese Cat Song"
Love Me or Leave Me - "Never Look Back"
Love Me or Leave Me - "I'll Never Stop Loving You" - DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsGordon MacRaeGloria GrahameGene NelsonIn Oklahoma, several farmers, cowboys and a traveling salesman compete for the romantic favors of various local ladies.BEST DANCE CHOREOGRAPHY
Oklahoma!
Guys and Dolls
Love Me or Leave Me - DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsGordon MacRaeGloria GrahameGene NelsonIn Oklahoma, several farmers, cowboys and a traveling salesman compete for the romantic favors of various local ladies.BEST SOUND
Oklahoma!
The Dam Busters
Love Me or Leave Me
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
To Catch a Thief
Mister Roberts - DirectorMichael AndersonStarsRichard ToddMichael RedgraveUrsula JeansDrama based on the attempt by the RAF to destroy six dams in Germany during World War II.BEST SOUND EDITING
The Dam Busters
Mister Roberts
Oklahoma!
Lady and the Tramp
To Catch a Thief
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - DirectorMichael AndersonStarsRichard ToddMichael RedgraveUrsula JeansDrama based on the attempt by the RAF to destroy six dams in Germany during World War II.BEST STUNTS
The Dam Busters
Rebel Without a Cause
Mister Roberts
Richard III
To Catch a Thief
Oklahoma! - DirectorClyde GeronimiWilfred JacksonHamilton LuskeStarsBarbara LuddyLarry RobertsPeggy LeeThe romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt.BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Lady and the Tramp - DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsSimone SignoretVéra ClouzotPaul MeurisseThe wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.BEST FOREIGN FILM
The Fiends (Les Diaboliques)
Song of the Road (Pather Panchali)
The Word (Ordet)