Date: March 21, 1956

Best Picture

• Marty

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