1957
The 29th Academy Awards | 1957
RKO Pantages Theatre
Wednesday, March 27, 1957
Honoring movies released in 1956
Highlights
Memorable Moments
Winners & Nominees
Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner
Anthony Quinn
Lust for Life
Nominees
Don Murray
Bus Stop
Anthony Perkins
Friendly Persuasion
Mickey Rooney
The Bold and the Brave
Robert Stack
Written on the Wind
Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner
Dorothy Malone
Written on the Wind
Nominees
Mildred Dunnock
Baby Doll
Eileen Heckart
The Bad Seed
Mercedes McCambridge
Giant
Patty McCormack
The Bad Seed
Directing
Winner
Giant
George Stevens
Nominees
Around the World in 80 Days
Michael Anderson
Friendly Persuasion
William Wyler
The King and I
Walter Lang
War and Peace
King Vidor
Film Editing
Winner
Around the World in 80 Days
Gene Ruggiero, Paul Weatherwax
Nominees
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
Foreign Language Film
Winner
La Strada
Italy; Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti, Producers
Nominees
The Captain of Kopenick
Federal Republic of Germany - West; Gyula Trebitsch and Walter Koppel, Producers
Gervaise
France; Annie Dorfmann, Producer
Harp of Burma
Japan; Masayuki Takagi, Producer
Qivitoq
Denmark; O. Dalsgaard-Olsen, Producer
Actor
Winner
Yul Brynner
The King and I
Nominees
James Dean
Giant
Kirk Douglas
Lust for Life
Rock Hudson
Giant
Sir Laurence Olivier
Richard III
Actress
Winner
Ingrid Bergman
Anastasia
Nominees
Carroll Baker
Baby Doll
Katharine Hepburn
The Rainmaker
Nancy Kelly
The Bad Seed
Deborah Kerr
The King and I
Sound Recording
Winner
The King and I
20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Carl Faulkner, Sound Director
Nominees
The Ten Commandments
Paramount Studio Sound Department, Loren L. Ryder, Sound Director
The Brave One
King Bros. Productions, Inc., Sound Department, John Myers, Sound Director
The Eddy Duchin Story
Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary, Sound Director
Friendly Persuasion
Westrex Sound Services, Inc., Gordon R. Glennan, Sound Director; and Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon Sawyer, Sound Director
Short Subject (Cartoon)
Winner
Mister Magoo's Puddle Jumper
Stephen Bosustow, Producer
Nominees
Gerald McBoing-Boing on Planet Moo
Stephen Bosustow, Producer
The Jaywalker
Stephen Bosustow, Producer
Music (Song)
Winner
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera) in "The Man Who Knew Too Much" Music and Lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
Nominees
Friendly Persuasion
Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love) in "Friendly Persuasion" Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
Julie
Julie in "Julie" Music by Leith Stevens; Lyrics by Tom Adair
High Society
True Love in "High Society" Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Written on the Wind
Written On The Wind in "Written on the Wind" Music by Victor Young; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Short Subject (One-reel)
Winner
Crashing the Water Barrier
Konstantin Kalser, Producer
Nominees
I Never Forget a Face
Robert Youngson, Producer
Time Stood Still
Cedric Francis, Producer
Short Subject (Two-reel)
Winner
The Bespoke Overcoat
Romulus Films
Nominees
Cow Dog
Larry Lansburgh, Producer
The Dark Wave
John Healy, Producer
Samoa
Walt Disney, Producer
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Winner
Buddy Adler
Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Winner
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Joseph Ruttenberg
Nominees
Baby Doll
Boris Kaufman
The Bad Seed
Hal Rosson
The Harder They Fall
Burnett Guffey
Stagecoach to Fury
Walter Strenge
Cinematography (Color)
Winner
Around the World in 80 Days
Lionel Lindon
Nominees
The Eddy Duchin Story
Harry Stradling
The King and I
Leon Shamroy
The Ten Commandments
Loyal Griggs
War and Peace
Jack Cardiff
Special Effects
Winner
The Ten Commandments
John Fulton
Nominees
Forbidden Planet
A. Arnold Gillespie, Irving Ries, Wesley C. Miller
Art Direction (Black-and-White)
Winner
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm F. Brown; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason
Nominees
The Magnificent Seven
Takashi Matsuyama
The Proud and Profane
Art Direction: Hal Pereira, A. Earl Hedrick; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer, Frank R. McKelvy
The Solid Gold Cadillac
Art Direction: Ross Bellah; Set Decoration: William R. Kiernan, Louis Diage
Teenage Rebel
Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler, Jack Martin Smith; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss
Art Direction (Color)
Winner
The King and I
Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler, John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox
Nominees
Giant
Art Direction: Boris Leven; Set Decoration: Ralph S. Hurst
Lust for Life
Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason
The Ten Commandments
Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Walter H. Tyler, Albert Nozaki; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer
Around the World in 80 Days
Art Direction: James W. Sullivan, Ken Adam; Set Decoration: Ross J. Dowd
Documentary (Short Subject)
Winner
The True Story of the Civil War
Louis Clyde Stoumen, Producer
Nominees
A City Decides
Charles Guggenheim & Associates, Inc.
The Dark Wave
John Healy, Producer
The House without a Name
Valentine Davies, Producer
Man in Space
Ward Kimball, Producer
Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)
Winner
The King and I
Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
Nominees
The Best Things in Life Are Free
Lionel Newman
The Eddy Duchin Story
Morris Stoloff, George Duning
High Society
Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin
Meet Me in Las Vegas
George Stoll, Johnny Green
Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)
Winner
Around the World in 80 Days
Victor Young
Nominees
Between Heaven and Hell
Hugo Friedhofer
Giant
Dimitri Tiomkin
The Rainmaker
Alex North
Anastasia
Alfred Newman
Documentary (Feature)
Winner
The Silent World
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Producer
Nominees
The Naked Eye
Louis Clyde Stoumen, Producer
Where Mountains Float
The Government Film Committee of Denmark
Best Motion Picture
Winner
Around the World in 80 Days
Michael Todd, Producer
Nominees
Giant
George Stevens and Henry Ginsberg, Producers
The King and I
Charles Brackett, Producer
The Ten Commandments
Cecil B. DeMille, Producer
Friendly Persuasion
William Wyler, Producer
Writing (Motion Picture Story)
Winner
The Brave One
Dalton Trumbo
Nominees
The Eddy Duchin Story
Leo Katcher
The Proud and the Beautiful
Jean Paul Sartre
Umberto D.
Cesare Zavattini
Costume Design (Black-and-White)
Winner
The Solid Gold Cadillac
Jean Louis
Nominees
The Proud and Profane
Edith Head
Teenage Rebel
Charles LeMaire, Mary Wills
The Magnificent Seven
Kohei Ezaki
The Power and the Prize
Helen Rose
Costume Design (Color)
Winner
The King and I
Irene Sharaff
Nominees
Around the World in 80 Days
Miles White
Giant
Moss Mabry, Marjorie Best
The Ten Commandments
Edith Head, Ralph Jester, John Jensen, Dorothy Jeakins, Arnold Friberg
War and Peace
Marie De Matteis
Writing (Screenplay--Adapted)
Winner
Around the World in 80 Days
James Poe, John Farrow, S.J. Perelman
Nominees
Baby Doll
Tennessee Williams
Friendly Persuasion
Michael Wilson
Giant
Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat
Lust for Life
Norman Corwin
Writing (Screenplay--Original)
Winner
The Red Balloon
Albert Lamorisse
Nominees
The Ladykillers
William Rose
The Bold and the Brave
Robert Lewin
Julie
Andrew L. Stone
La Strada
Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Winner
Y. Frank Freeman
N
The Naked Eye
1 NominationDocumentary (Feature) - Louis Clyde Stoumen, Producer