Date: March 27, 1957
Best Picture
Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Yul Brynner for The King and I
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Ingrid Bergman for Anastasia
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Anthony Quinn for Lust for Life
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Dorothy Malone forWritten on the Wind
Best Director
- George Stevens for Giant
Best Original Screenplay
- Albert Lamorisse for Le ballon rouge
Best Motion Picture Story
- Dalton Trumbo for The Brave One
- Because he was blacklisted from Hollywood, Trumbo wrote the story and was nominated under the pseudonym Robert Rich. Trumbo finally received his Oscar on May 2, 1975, shortly before his death. However, the screen credit wasn’t changed until much later.
Best Adapted Screenplay
- James Poe, John Farrow, S.J. Perelman for Around the World in 80 Days
Best Cinematography, Colour
- Lionel Lindon for Around the World in 80 Days
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
- Joseph Ruttenberg for Somebody Up There Likes Me
Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White
- Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm Brown, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason for Somebody Up There Likes Me
Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Colour
- Lyle R. Wheeler, John DeCuir, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox for The King and I
Best Costume Design, Black-and-White
- Jean Louis for The Solid Gold Cadillac
Best Costume Design, Colour
- Irene Sharaff for The King and I
Best Sound, Recording
- Carlton W. Faulkner for The King and I
Best Film Editing
- Gene Ruggiero & Paul Weatherwax for Around the World in 80 Days
Best Special Effects
- John P. Fulton for The Ten Commandments
Best Original Song
- Jay Livingston & Ray Evans for “Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)” from The Man Who Knew Too Much
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
- Alfred Newman & Ken Darby for The King and I
Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
- Victor Young for Around the World in 80 Days
Best Short Subject, Two-Reel
- George K. Arthur for The Bespoke Overcoat
Best Short Subject, One-Reel
- Konstantin Kalser for Crashing the Water Barrier
Best Short Subject, Cartoons
- Stephen Bosustow for Magoo’s Puddle Jumper
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
- Louis Clyde Stoumen for The True Story of the Civil War
Best Documentary, Features
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau for The Silent World
Best Foreign Language Film
- La Strada
Honorary Award
- (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers)
- Eddie Cantor