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Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, George W. Davis; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Jack Stubbs Cinematography (Color) - Leon Shamroy Best Motion Picture - Buddy Adler, Producer Sound Recording - 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Carl W. Faulkner, Sound Director
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Around the World in 80 Days – Michael Todd Friendly Persuasion – William Wyler Giant – George Stevens, Henry Ginsberg The King and I – Charles Brackett The Ten Commandments– Cecil B. DeMille
Around the World in 80 Days – Michael Anderson Friendly Persuasion – William Wyler Giant – George Stevens The King and I – Walter Lang War and Peace– King Vidor
Yul Brynner – The King and I James Dean – Giant Kirk Douglas – Lust for Life Rock Hudson – Giant Sir Laurence Olivier – Richard III
Carroll Baker – Baby Doll Ingrid Bergman – Anastasia Katharine Hepburn – The Rainmaker Nancy Kelly – The Bad Seed Deborah Kerr – The King and I
Don Murray – Bus Stop Anthony Perkins – Friendly Persuasion Anthony Quinn – Lust for Life Mickey Rooney – The Bold and the Brave Robert Stack – Written on the Wind
Mildred Dunnock – Baby Doll Eileen Heckart – The Bad Seed Dorothy Malone – Written on the Wind Mercedes McCambridge – Giant Patty McCormack – The Bad Seed
The Brave One – Dalton Trumbo The Eddy Duchin Story – Leo Katcher High Society – Edward Bernds, Elwood Ullman The Proud and the Beautiful – Jean Paul Sartre Umberto D.– Cesare Zavattini
“Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)” – Friendly Persuasion – Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster “Julie” – Julie – Music by Leith Stevens; Lyrics by Tom Adair “True Love” – High Society – Music, Lyrics by Cole Porter “Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)” – The Man Who Knew Too Much – Music, Lyrics by Jay Livingston, Ray E...
Around the World in 80 Days – Gene Ruggiero, Paul Weatherwax The Brave One – Merrill G. White Giant – William Hornbeck, Philip W. Anderson, Fred Bohanan Somebody Up There Likes Me – Albert Akst The Ten Commandments– Anne Bauchens
Baby Doll – Boris Kaufman The Bad Seed – Hal Rosson The Harder They Fall – Burnett Guffey Somebody Up There Likes Me – Joseph Ruttenberg Stagecoach to Fury– Walter Strenge
The 28th Academy Awards were held on March 21, 1956 to honor the films of 1955, at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, California. In this year, Jerry Lewis became the host, replacing Bob Hope .
Best Motion PictureBest DirectorMarty – Harold Hecht for United Artists ‡ ...Delbert Mann – Marty ‡ John Sturges – Bad ...Ernest Borgnine – Marty as Marty Piletti ...Anna Magnani – The Rose Tattoo as ...Jack Lemmon – Mister Roberts as Ensign ...Jo Van Fleet – East of Eden as Cathy Ames ...Marty – Paddy Chayefsky from Marty by ...Interrupted Melody – William Ludwig and ...The 28th Academy Awards | 1956. RKO Pantages Theatre. Wednesday, March 21, 1956. ... Cinematography (Color) Winner. To Catch a Thief. Robert Burks Nominees. Guys and ...
This was the first year (and last until 1967) in which all Best Picture nominees were in color, and all were large-scale epics: The King and I, Giant, The Ten Commandments (the highest-grossing film of the year), Friendly Persuasion, and the winner, Around the World in 80 Days.
Best Motion PictureBest DirectorAround the World in 80 Days – Mike Todd, ...George Stevens – Giant ‡ Michael Anderson ...Yul Brynner – The King and I as King ...Ingrid Bergman – Anastasia as Anna Koreff ...Anthony Quinn – Lust for Life as Paul ...Dorothy Malone – Written on the Wind as ...The Red Balloon – Albert Lamorisse ‡ The ...Around the World in 80 Days – James Poe, ...From 1939 to 1967 with the exception of 1957, there were also separate awards for color and black-and-white cinematography. After Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), the most recent black-and-white films to win since then are Schindler's List (1993), Roma (2018) and Mank (2020).
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Best Picture. Past Winners See Rating & Posters. Marty. Winner. 8 nominations 4 awards. Love is a Many-Splendored Thing. 8 nominations 3 awards. Mister Roberts. 3 nominations 1 award. Picnic. 6 nominations 2 awards. The Rose Tattoo. 8 nominations 3 awards.
