Date: March 21, 1956
Best Picture
Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Ernest Borgnine for Marty
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Anna Magnani for The Rose Tattoo
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Jack Lemmon for Mister Roberts
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Jo Van Fleet for East of Eden
Best Director
- Delbert Mann for Marty
Best Screenplay
- Paddy Chayevsky for Marty
Best Motion Picture Story
- Daniel Fuchs for Love Me or Leave Me
Best Story and Screenplay
- William Ludwig & Sonya Levien for Interrupted Melody
Best Cinematography, Colour
- Robert Burks for To Catch a Thief
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
- James Wong Howe for The Rose Tattoo
Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White
- Hal Pereira, Tambi Larson, Sam Comer, Arthur Krams for The Rose Tattoo
Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Colour
- William Flannery, Jo Mielziner, Robert Priestley for Picnic
Best Costume Design, Black-and-White
- Helen Rose for I’ll Cry Tomorrow
Best Costume Design, Colour
- Charles Le Maire for Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
Best Sound, Recording
- Fred Hynes for Oklahoma!
Best Film Editing
- Charles Nelson & William A. Lyon for Picnic
Best Special Effects
- The Bridge of the Toko-Ri
Best Original Song
- Sammy Fain & Paul Francis Webster for “Love is a Many-Splendored Thing” from Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
- Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackston, & Adolph Deutsch for Oklahoma!
Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
- Alfred Newman for Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Best Short Subject, Two-Reel
- Wilbur T. Blume for The Face of Lincoln
Best Short Subject, One-Reel
- Edmund Reek for Survival City
Best Short Subject, Cartoons
- Edward Selzer for Speedy Gonzales
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
- Walt Disney for Men Against the Arctic
Best Documentary, Features
- Nancy Hamilton for The Unconquered
Honorary Award
- Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
