Katie-Bar-The-Door Award Nominees And Winners—1950s

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1950
PICTURE (Drama)
winner: Sunset Boulevard (prod. Charles Brackett)
nominees: All About Eve (prod. Darryl F. Zanuck); The Asphalt Jungle (prod. Arthur Hornblow, Jr.); Gun Crazy (prod. Frank King and Maurice King); The Gunfighter (prod. Nunnally Johnson); In A Lonely Place (prod. Robert Lord); Night and the City (prod. Samuel G. Engel); Wagon Master (prod. Merian C. Cooper and John Ford); Winchester '73 (prod. Aaron Rosenberg)
Must-See Drama:

PICTURE (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Harvey (prod. John Beck)
nominees: Born Yesterday (prod. S. Sylvan Simon); Cinderella (prod. Walt Disney)
Must-See Comedy/Musical:

PICTURE (Foreign Language)
winner: Rashômon (prod. Minoru Jingo )
nominees: Los olvidados (prod. Óscar Dancigers, Sergio Kogan and Jaime A. Menasce); Orphée (Orpheus) (prod. André Paulvé); La Ronde (prod. Ralph Baum and Sacha Gordine)
Must-See Foreign Language:

ACTOR (Drama)
winner: William Holden (Sunset Boulevard)
nominees: Dana Andrews (Where The Sidewalk Ends); Humphrey Bogart (In A Lonely Place); Marlon Brando (The Men); José Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac); John Garfield (The Breaking Point); Stewart Granger (King Solomon's Mines); Gregory Peck (The Gunfighter); James Stewart (Winchester '73); Richard Widmark (Night and the City, Panic in the Streets and No Way Out)

ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Spencer Tracy (Father Of The Bride)
nominees: Ronald Colman (Champagne For Caesar); William Holden (Born Yesterday); Alastair Sim (The Happiest Days of Your Life); James Stewart (Harvey); Clifton Webb (Cheaper By The Dozen)

ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Gloria Swanson (Sunset Boulevard)
nominees: Anne Baxter (All About Eve); Peggy Cummins (Gun Crazy); Bette Davis (All About Eve); Gloria Grahame (In A Lonely Place); Eleanor Parker (Caged)

ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday)
nominees: Joan Bennett (Father Of The Bride); Betty Hutton (Annie Get Your Gun); Margaret Rutherford (The Happiest Days of Your Life)

DIRECTOR (Drama)
winner: Akira Kurosawa (Rashômon)
nominees: Luis Buñuel (Los olividados); Jean Cocteau (Orphée a.k.a. Orpheus); Jules Dassin (Night and the City); John Huston (The Asphalt Jungle); Joseph H. Lewis (Gun Crazy); Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve); Anthony Mann (Winchester '73); Nicholas Ray (In A Lonely Place); Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard)

DIRECTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Henry Koster (Harvey)
nominees: George Cukor (Born Yesterday); Vincente Minnelli (Father Of The Bride); George Sidney (Annie Get Your Gun)

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Drama)
winner: George Sanders (All About Eve)
nominees: Louis Calhern (The Asphalt Jungle); Sam Jaffe (The Asphalt Jungle); Toshirô Mifune (Rashômon); Erich von Stroheim (Sunset Boulevard)

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Broderick Crawford (Born Yesterday)
nominees:

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Nancy Olson (Sunset Boulevard)
nominees: Jean Hagen (The Asphalt Jungle); Celeste Holm (All About Eve); Machiko Kyo (Rashômon); Marilyn Monroe (The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve); Thelma Ritter (All About Eve)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Josephine Hull (Harvey)
nominees: Joyce Grenfell (The Happiest Days of Your Life); Elizabeth Taylor (Father of the Bride)

SCREENPLAY
winner: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and D.M. Marshman, Jr. (Sunset Boulevard)
nominees: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, from the story "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr (All About Eve); Mary Chase and Oscar Brodney, from the play by Mary Chase (Harvey); Akira Kurosawa and Shinobu Hashimoto, from the stories "Rashômon" and "In A Grove" by Ryûnosuke Akutagawa (Rashômon)

SPECIAL AWARDS
Hans Dreier, John Meehan, Sam Comer and Ray Moyer (Sunset Boulevard) (Art Direction-Set Decoration); Russell Harlan (Gun Crazy) (Cinematography)

best Oscar-eligible actor of 1950 - Spencer Tracy (Adam's Rib and Father of the Bride)
best Oscar-eligible director of 1950 - Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard)
best Oscar-eligible supporting actress of 1950 - Joan Greenwood (Kind Hearts and Coronets)

1951
PICTURE (Drama)
winner: Strangers on a Train (prod. Alfred Hitchcock)
nominees: Ace In The Hole (prod. Billy Wilder); The Day The Earth Stood Still (prod. Julian Blaustein); Detective Story (prod. William Wyler); A Place In The Sun (prod. George Stevens); The River (prod. Jean Renoir and Kenneth McEldowney); Scrooge (prod. Brian Desmond Hurst); A Streetcar Named Desire (prod. Charles K. Feldman); The Thing From Another World (prod. Howard Hawks)
Must-See Drama:

PICTURE (Comedy/Musical)
winner: The African Queen (prod. Sam Spiegel)
nominees: Alice In Wonderland (prod. Walt Disney); An American In Paris (prod. Arthur Freed); The Lavender Hill Mob (prod. Michael Balcon); The Man In The White Suit (prod. Michael Balcon)
Must-See Comedy/Musical:

PICTURE (Foreign Language)
winner: Journal d'un curé de campagne (Diary Of A Country Priest) (prod. Union Générale Cinématographique)
nominees: Bakushû (Early Summer) (prod. Takeshi Yamamoto)
Must-See Foreign Language:

ACTOR (Drama)
winner: Robert Walker (Strangers on a Train)
nominees: Marlon Brando (A Streetcar Named Desire); Montgomery Clift (A Place In The Sun); Kirk Douglas (Ace In The Hole and Detective Story); Michael Rennie (The Day The Earth Stood Still); Alastair Sim (Scrooge)

ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Alec Guinness (The Lavender Hill Mob and The Man In The White Suit)
nominees: Fred Astaire (Royal Wedding); Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen); Paul Douglas (Angels in the Outfield); Cary Grant (People Will Talk); Gene Kelly (An American In Paris); Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis (That's My Boy)

ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Vivien Leigh (A Streetcar Named Desire)
nominees: Anita Björk (Fröken Julie a.k.a. Miss Julie); Patricia Neal (The Day The Earth Stood Still); Eleanor Parker (Detective Story)

ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Katharine Hepburn (The African Queen)
nominees: Jeanne Crain (People Will Talk); Ava Gardner (Show Boat); Jane Powell (Royal Wedding); Thelma Ritter (The Mating Season)

DIRECTOR (Drama)
winner: Elia Kazan (A Streetcar Named Desire)
nominees: Robert Bresson (Journal d'un curé de campagne a.k.a. Diary Of A Country Priest); Alfred Hitchcock (Strangers on a Train); George Stevens (A Place in The Sun); Billy Wilder (Ace In The Hole); Robert Wise (The Day The Earth Stood Still)

DIRECTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: John Huston (The African Queen)
nominees: Charles Crichton (The Lavender Hill Mob); Alexander Mackendrick (The Man In The White Suit); Vincente Minnelli (An American in Paris)

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Drama)
winner: Karl Malden (A Streetcar Named Desire)
nominees: Porter Hall (Ace In The Hole); Vincent Price (His Kind of Woman); Peter Ustinov (Quo Vadis)

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Oscar Levant (An American In Paris)
nominees: Stanley Holloway (The Lavender Hill Mob)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Shelley Winters (A Place In The Sun)
nominees: Lee Grant (Detective Story); Kathleen Harrison (Scrooge); Kim Hunter (A Streetcar Named Desire); Jan Sterling (Ace In The Hole); Elizabeth Taylor (A Place In The Sun)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Mary Wickes (On Moonlight Bay)
nominees: Donna Corcoran (Angels in the Outfield); Joan Greenwood (The Man in the White Suit)

SCREENPLAY
winner: James Agee and John Huston, from the novel by C.S. Forester (The African Queen)
nominees: Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels and Walter Newman (Ace In The Hole); Edmund H. North, from the story "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates (The Day The Earth Stood Still); T.E.B. Clarke (The Lavender Hill Mob); Raymond Chandler and Czenzi Ormonde, adaptation by Whitfield Cook, from the novel by Patricia Highsmith (Strangers on a Train); Tennessee Williams, adaptation by Oscar Saul, from the play by Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire); Charles Lederer, from the short story "Who Goes There" by John W. Campbell, Jr. (The Thing From Another World)

SPECIAL AWARDS
Russell Harlan (The Thing From Another World) (Cinematography); Phil Brigandi and Clem Portman (The Thing From Another World) (Sound); Bernard Herrmann (The Day The Earth Stood Still) (Score)


1952
PICTURE (Drama)
winner: High Noon (prod. Stanley Kramer)
nominees: The Bad and the Beautiful (prod. John Houseman); Bend of the River (prod. Aaron Rosenberg); The Narrow Margin (prod. Stanley Rubin)
Must-See Drama:

PICTURE (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Singin' In The Rain (prod. Arthur Freed)
nominees: The Importance of the Being Earnest (prod. Teddy Baird); Limelight (prod. Charles Chaplin); Monkey Business (prod. Howard Hawks); Pat and Mike (prod. Lawrence Weingarten); The Quiet Man (prod. Merian C. Cooper and John Ford)
Must-See Comedy/Musical:

PICTURE (Foreign Language)
winner: Ikiru (prod. Sôjirô Motoki)
nominees: Casque d’Or (prod. Raymond Hakim, Robert Hakim and André Paulvé); Le plaisir (prod. Édouard Harispuru, M. Kieffer and Max Ophüls); Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games) (prod. Robert Dorfmann); Saikaku ichidai onna (The Life of Oharu) (prod. Hideo Koi and Kenji Mizoguchi); Umberto D. (prod. Giuseppe Amato, Vittorio De Sica and Angelo Rizzoli)
Must-See Foreign Language:

ACTOR (Drama)
winner: Takashi Shimura (Ikiru)
nominees: Gary Cooper (High Noon); Kirk Douglas (The Bad and the Beautiful); José Ferrer (Moulin Rouge); Stewart Granger (Scaramouche and The Prisoner of Zenda); Charles McGraw (The Narrow Margin); Robert Mitchum (Macao, The Lusty Men and Angel Face); Robert Ryan (On Dangerous Ground); James Stewart (Bend of the River)

ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: John Wayne (The Quiet Man)
nominees: Charles Chaplin (Limelight); Cary Grant (Monkey Business); Gene Kelly (Singin' In The Rain); Michael Redgrave (The Importance of Being Earnest); Spencer Tracy (Pat And Mike)

ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba)
nominees: Marlene Dietrich (Rancho Notorious); Julie Harris (The Member of the Wedding); Jennifer Jones (Ruby Gentry); Eleanor Parker (Scaramouche); Jean Simmons (Angel Face); Lana Turner (The Bad and the Beautiful)

ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Maureen O'Hara (The Quiet Man)
nominees: Claire Bloom (Limelight); Joan Greenwood (The Importance of Being Earnest); Katharine Hepburn (Pat and Mike); Judy Holliday (The Marrying Kind); Anna Magnani (Le carrosse d'or a.k.a. The Golden Coach); Debbie Reynolds (Singin' In The Rain); Ginger Rogers (Monkey Business)

DIRECTOR (Drama)
winner: Fred Zinnemann (High Noon)
nominees: René Clément (Jeux interdits a.k.a. Forbidden Games); Vittorio De Sica (Umberto D.); Akira Kurosawa (Ikiru); Anthony Mann (Bend of the River); Kenji Mizoguchi (Saikaku ichidai onna a.k.a. The Life of Oharu); Max Ophüls (Le plaisir)

DIRECTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly (Singin' In The Rain)
nominees: Anthony Asquith (The Importance of Being Earnest); Charles Chaplin (Limelight); George Cukor (Pat and Mike); John Ford (The Quiet Man)

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Drama)
winner: Arthur Kennedy (Bend of the River, Rancho Notorious and The Lusty Men)
nominees:

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Donald O'Connor (Singin' In The Rain)
nominees: Ward Bond (The Quiet Man); Barry Fitzgerald (The Quiet Man); Buster Keaton (Limelight); Victor McLaglen (The Quiet Man)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Marie Windsor (The Narrow Margin)
nominees: Gloria Grahame (The Bad and the Beautiful); Katy Jurado (High Noon)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Jean Hagen (Singin' In The Rain)
nominees: Edith Evans (The Importance of Being Earnest); Margaret Rutherford (The Importance of Being Earnest)

SCREENPLAY
winner: Adolph Green and Betty Comden (Singin' In The Rain)
nominees: Carl Foreman, from the story "The Tin Star" by John W. Cunningham (High Noon); Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni (Ikiru); Frank S. Nugent, from a story by Maurice Walsh (The Quiet Man)

SPECIAL AWARDS
"Make 'Em Laugh" (Singin' In The Rain) music and lyrics by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown (Song)

best Oscar-eligible actor of 1952 - John Wayne (The Quiet Man)

1953
PICTURE (Drama)
winner: From Here To Eternity (prod. Buddy Adler)
nominees: The Big Heat (prod. Robert Arthur); The Naked Spur (prod. William H. Wright); Pickup on South Street (prod. Jules Schermer); Shane (prod. George Stevens); Stalag 17 (prod. Billy Wilder); The War of the Worlds (prod. George Pal)
Must-See Drama:

PICTURE (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Roman Holiday (prod. William Wyler)
nominees: The Band Wagon (prod. Arthur Freed); Genevieve (prod. Henry Cornelius); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (prod. Sol C. Siegel)
Must-See Comedy/Musical:

PICTURE (Foreign Language)
winner: Tôkyô monogatari (Tokyo Story) (prod. Takeshi Yamamoto)
nominees: El (prod. Óscar Dancigers); I Vitelloni (prod. Jacques Bar, Mario De Vecchi and Lorenzo Pegoraro); Madame de... (The Earrings Of Madame de...) (prod. Ralph Baum); Le salaire de la peur (The Wages of Fear) (prod. Raymond Borderie and Henri-Georges Clouzot); Ugetso Monogatari (prod. Masaichi Nagata); Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Mr. Hulot's Holiday) (prod. Fred Orain and Jacques Tati)
Must-See Foreign Language:

ACTOR (Drama)
winner: Montgomery Clift (From Here To Eternity)
nominees: Charles Boyer (Madame de... a.k.a. The Earrings of Madame de...); William Holden (Stalag 17); Alan Ladd (Shane); Burt Lancaster (From Here To Eternity); Yves Montand (Le salaire de la peur a.k.a. The Wages of Fear); Vincent Price (House of Wax); Chishû Ryû (Tôkyô monogatari a.k.a. Tokyo Story); James Stewart (The Naked Spur); John Wayne (Hondo); Richard Widmark (Pickup on South Street)

ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Gregory Peck (Roman Holiday)
nominees: Fred Astaire (The Band Wagon); Howard Keel (Kiss Me Kate); Jacques Tati (Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot a.k.a. Mr. Hulot's Holiday)

ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Gloria Grahame (The Big Heat)
nominees: Danielle Darrieux (Madame de... a.k.a. The Earrings of Madame de...); Chieko Higashiyama (Tôkyô monogatari a.k.a. Tokyo Story); Deborah Kerr (From Here To Eternity); Evelyn Keyes (99 River Street); Jean Peters (Pickup on South Street)

ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Jane Russell (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
nominees: Leslie Caron (Lili); Kathryn Grayson (Kiss Me Kate); Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday); Marilyn Monroe (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)

DIRECTOR (Drama)
winner: Yasujirô Ozu (Tôkyô monogatari a.k.a. Tokyo Story)
nominees: Luis Buñuel (El); Henri-Georges Clouzot (Le salaire de la peur a.k.a.The Wages of Fear); Federico Fellini (I Vitelloni); Samuel Fuller (Pickup on South Street); Anthony Mann (The Naked Spur); Kenji Mizoguchi (Ugetso Monogatari); Max Ophüls (Madame de... a.k.a. The Earrings of Madame de...); George Stevens (Shane); Billy Wilder (Stalag 17); Fred Zinnemann (From Here To Eternity)

DIRECTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Jacques Tati (Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot a.k.a. Mr. Hulot's Holiday)
nominees: Henry Cornelius (Genevieve); Howard Hawks (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes); Vincente Minnelli (The Band Wagon); William Wyler (Roman Holiday)

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Drama)
winner: Frank Sinatra (From Here To Eternity)
nominees: Van Heflin (Shane); Lee Marvin (The Big Heat); Robert Ryan (The Naked Spur); Jack Palance (Shane); Robert Strauss (Stalag 17); Brandon de Wilde (Shane)

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Jack Buchanan (The Band Wagon)
nominees: Eddie Albert (Roman Holiday); Charles Coburn (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Donna Reed (From Here To Eternity)
nominees: Jean Arthur (Shane); Setsuko Hara (Tôkyô monogatari a.k.a. Tokyo Story); Geraldine Page (Hondo); Thelma Ritter (Pickup On South Street)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Ann Miller (Kiss Me Kate)
nominees: Nanette Fabray (The Band Wagon); Kay Kendall (Genevieve); Vera-Ellen (Call Me Madam)

SCREENPLAY
winner: Daniel Taradash, from the novel by James Jones (From Here To Eternity)
nominees: Marcel Achard, Max Ophüls and Annette Wademant, from the novel by Louise de Vilmorin (Madame de... a.k.a. The Earrings of Madame de...); Dalton Trumbo, Ian McLellan Hunter and John Dighton, from a story by Dalton Trumbo (Roman Holiday); A.B. Guthrie, Jr, additional dialogue by Jack Sher, from the novel by Jack Shaefer (Shane); Billy Wilder and Edwin Blum, from the play by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski (Stalag 17); Kôgo Noda and Yasujirô Ozu (Tôkyô monogatari a.k.a. Tokyo Story)

SPECIAL AWARDS
Gordon Jennings (The War of the Worlds) (Special Effects); Loren L. Ryder (The War of the Worlds) (Sound); Duck Amuck (Animated Short)

best Oscar-eligible film of 1953 - From Here To Eternity
best Oscar-eligible director of 1953 - Fred Zinnemann (From Here To Eternity)

- denotes tie

1954
PICTURE (Drama)
winner: Rear Window (prod. Alfred Hitchcock)
nominees: The Caine Mutiny (prod. Stanley Kramer); Creature From The Black Lagoon (prod. William Allard); Dial 'M' For Murder (prod. Alfred Hitchcock); The Far Country (prod. Aaron Rosenberg); Johnny Guitar (prod. Republic Pictures); On The Waterfront (prod. Sam Spiegel); 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (prod. Walt Disney)
Must-See Drama:

PICTURE (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Hobson's Choice (prod. David Lean)
nominees: Sabrina (prod. Billy Wilder); Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (prod. Jack Cummings); A Star Is Born (prod. Sidney Luft)
Must-See Comedy/Musical:

PICTURE (Foreign Language)
winner: Shichinin no samurai (Seven Samurai) (prod. Sôjirô Motoki)
nominees: Gojira (Godzilla) (prod. Tomoyuki Tanaka); Miyamoto Musashi (Samurai I: Miyamoto Musashi) (prod. Kazuo Takimura); Sanshô dayû (Sansho The Bailff) (prod. Masaichi Nagata); Senso (prod. Lux Film); La Strada (prod. Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti); Touchez pas au grisbi (prod. Robert Dorfmann)
Must-See Foreign Language:

ACTOR (Drama)
winner: Marlon Brando (On The Waterfront)
nominees: Humphrey Bogart (The Caine Mutiny and The Barefoot Contessa); Bing Crosby (The Country Girl); Kirk Douglas (20,000 Leagues Under The Sea); Ray Milland (Dial 'M' For Murder); Takashi Shimura (Shichinin no samurai a.k.a. Seven Samurai); James Stewart (The Far Country and Rear Window)

ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: James Mason (A Star Is Born)
nominees: Howard Keel (Seven Brides For Seven Brothers); Gene Kelly (Brigadoon); Charles Laughton (Hobson's Choice); John Mills (Hobson's Choice)

ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Grace Kelly (Dial 'M' For Murder, Rear Window and The Country Girl)
nominees: Shirley Booth (About Mrs. Leslie); Joan Crawford (Johnny Guitar); Ava Gardner (The Barefoot Contessa); Giulietta Masina (La Strada); Eleanor Parker (The Naked Jungle); Jane Wyman (Magnificent Obsession)

ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Judy Garland (A Star Is Born)
nominees: June Allyson (The Glenn Miller Story); Brenda de Banzie (Hobson's Choice); Dorothy Dandridge (Carmen Jones); Doris Day (Young At Heart); Audrey Hepburn (Sabrina); Judy Holliday (It Should Happen to You); Jennifer Jones (Beat the Devil); Debbie Reynolds (Susan Slept Here)

DIRECTOR (Drama)
winner: Akira Kurosawa (Shichinin no samurai a.k.a. Seven Samurai)
nominees: Edward Dmytryk (The Caine Mutiny); Federico Fellini (La Strada); Alfred Hitchcock (Dial 'M' For Murder and Rear Window); Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront); Kenji Mizoguchi (Sanshô dayû a.k.a. Sansho the Bailiff); Nicholas Ray (Johnny Guitar)

DIRECTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: David Lean (Hobson's Choice)
nominees: George Cukor (A Star Is Born); Stanley Donen (Seven Brides For Seven Brothers); Billy Wilder (Sabrina)

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Drama)
winner: Toshirô Mifune (Shichinin no samurai a.k.a. Seven Samurai)
nominees: Lee J. Cobb (On the Waterfront); José Ferrer (The Caine Mutiny); Fred MacMurray (The Caine Mutiny); Karl Malden (On The Waterfront); Fredric March (Executive Suite); Edmond O'Brien (The Barefoot Contessa); Rod Steiger (On The Waterfront); John Williams (Dial M for Murder)

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Jack Carson (A Star Is Born)
nominees: Walter Hampden (Sabrina); John Williams (Sabrina)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Thelma Ritter (Rear Window)
nominees: Nina Foch (Executive Suite); Kyoko Kagawa (Sanshô dayû a.k.a. Sansho the Bailiff); Mercedes McCambridge (Johnny Guitar); Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront); Kinuyo Tanaka (Sanshô dayû a.k.a. Sansho the Bailiff)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Glenda Farrell (Susan Slept Here)
nominees:

SCREENPLAY
winner: John Michael Hayes, from the short story by Cornell Woolrich (Rear Window)
nominees: Budd Schulberg (screenplay and story), suggested by articles by Malcolm Johnson (On The Waterfront); Billy Wilder, Samuel A. Taylor and Ernest Lehman, from the play "Sabrina Fair" by Samuel A. Taylor (Sabrina); Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni (Shichinin no samurai a.k.a. Seven Samurai)

SPECIAL AWARDS
"The Man That Got Away" (A Star Is Born) music by Harold Arlen; lyrics by Ira Gershwin (Song); John Meehan; Emile Kuri (20,000 Leagues Under The Sea) (Art Direction-Set Decoration); Loren L. Ryder (Rear Window) (Sound)

best Oscar-eligible film of 1954 - Rear Window
best Oscar-eligible director of 1954 - Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window)
best Oscar-eligible supporting actor of 1954 - Jack Carson (A Star is Born)

1955
PICTURE (Drama)
winner: The Night Of The Hunter (prod. Paul Gregory)
nominees: Bad Day At Black Rock (prod. Dore Schary); East of Eden (prod. Elia Kazan); Kiss Me Deadly (prod. Robert Aldrich); The Man From Laramie (prod. William Goetz); Rebel Without A Cause (prod. David Weisbart); To Catch A Thief (prod. Alfred Hitchcock)
Must-See Drama:

PICTURE (Comedy/Musical)
winner: The Ladykillers (prod. Michael Balcon)
nominees: Guys And Dolls (prod. Samuel Goldwyn); Lady And The Tramp (prod. Walt Disney); Mister Roberts (prod. Leland Hayward); Oklahoma! (prod. Arthur Hornblow, Jr.); The Seven Year Itch (prod. Charles K. Feldman and Billy Wilder); The Trouble With Harry (prod. Alfred Hitchcock)
Must-See Comedy/Musical:

PICTURE (Foreign Language)
winner: Pather Panchali (prod. Satyajit Ray)
nominees: Les diaboliques (Diabolique) (prod. Henri-Georges Clouzot); Du rififi chez les hommes (Rififi) (prod. René Bezard, Henri Bérard and Pierre Cabaud); Lola Montès (prod. Albert Caraco); Ordet (prod. Carl Theodor Dreyer, Erik Nielsen and Tage Nielsen); Sommarnattens leende (Smiles of a Summer Night) (prod. Allan Ekelund)
Must-See Foreign Language:

ACTOR (Drama)
winner: James Dean (East of Eden and Rebel Without A Cause)
nominees: Ernest Borgnine (Marty); Cary Grant (To Catch A Thief); Robert Mitchum (The Night Of The Hunter); Laurence Olivier (Richard III); Jean Servais (Du rififi chez les hommes a.k.a. Rififi); Frank Sinatra (The Man With The Golden Arm); James Stewart (The Man From Laramie); Spencer Tracy (Bad Day At Black Rock)

ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Edmund Gwenn (The Trouble With Harry)
nominees: Gunnar Björnstrand (Sommarnattens leende a.k.a. Smiles of a Summer Night); James Cagney (Love Me Or Leave Me and Mister Roberts); Henry Fonda (Mister Roberts); Alec Guinness (The Ladykillers); Gordon MacRae (Oklahoma!)

ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Susan Hayward (I'll Cry Tomorrow)
nominees: Julie Harris (East of Eden and I Am A Camera); Katharine Hepburn (Summertime); Grace Kelly (To Catch A Thief); Anna Magnani (The Rose Tattoo); Eleanor Parker (Interrupted Melody); Simone Signoret (Les diaboliques a.k.a. Diabolique); Jane Wyman (All That Heaven Allows)

ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Doris Day (Love Me Or Leave Me)
nominees: Eva Dahlbeck (Sommarnattens leende a.k.a. Smiles of a Summer Night); Katie Johnson (The Ladykillers); Shirley MacLaine (The Trouble With Harry); Marilyn Monroe (The Seven Year Itch); Eleanor Parker (Interrupted Melody)

DIRECTOR (Drama)
winner: Satyajit Ray (Pather Panchali)
nominees: Robert Aldrich (Kiss Me Deadly); Henri-Georges Clouzot (Les diaboliques a.k.a. Diabolique); Jules Dassin (Du rififi chez les hommes a.k.a. Rififi); Carl Theodor Dreyer (Ordet); Alfred Hitchcock (To Catch A Thief); Elia Kazan (East of Eden); Charles Laughton (The Night Of The Hunter); Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without A Cause); John Sturges (Bad Day At Black Rock)

DIRECTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Alexander Mackendrick (The Ladykillers)
nominees: Ingmar Bergman (Sommarnattens leende a.k.a. Smiles of a Summer Night); John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy (Mister Roberts); Chuck Jones (One Froggy Evening); Billy Wilder (The Seven Year Itch)

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Drama)
winner: Robert Ryan (Bad Day At Black Rock)
nominees: Sal Mineo (Rebel Without A Cause); Sidney Poitier (Blackboard Jungle); John Williams (To Catch a Thief)

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Jack Lemmon (Mister Roberts)
nominees:

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Lillian Gish (The Night Of The Hunter)
nominees: Betsy Blair (Marty); Eleanor Parker (The Man with the Golden Arm); Jo Van Fleet (East of Eden); Shelley Winters (The Night Of The Hunter); Natalie Wood (Rebel Without A Cause)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Mildred Natwick (The Trouble With Harry)
nominees: Harriet Andersson (Sommarnattens leende a.k.a. Smiles of a Summer Night)

SCREENPLAY
winner: Millard Kaufman (Bad Day At Black Rock)
nominees: William Rose (The Ladykillers); Paddy Chayefsky, from his teleplay (Marty); James Agee, from the novel by Davis Grubb (The Night Of The Hunter); Nicholas Ray, Irving Shulman and Stewart Stern (Rebel Without a Cause); Ingmar Bergman (Sommarnattens leende a.k.a. Smiles of a Summer Night)

SPECIAL AWARDS
One Froggy Evening (Cartoon Short); Stanley Cortez (The Night Of The Hunter) (Cinematography); Hilyard M. Brown and Alfred E. Spencer (The Night Of The Hunter) (Art Direction-Set Decoration)

best Oscar-eligible film of 1955 - The Night of the Hunter
best Oscar-eligible director of 1955 - Jacques Tati (Mr. Hulot's Holiday)

1956
PICTURE (Drama)
winner: The Searchers (prod. Merian C. Cooper)
nominees: The Bad Seed (prod. Mervyn LeRoy); Forbidden Planet (prod. Nicholas Nayfack); Giant (prod. Henry Ginsburg and George Stevens); Invasion of the Body Snatchers (prod. Walter Wanger); The Killing (prod. James B. Harris); Lust for Life (prod. John Houseman); Written on the Wind (prod. Albert Zugsmith)
Must-See Drama:

PICTURE (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Baby Doll (prod. Elia Kazan)
nominees: The Girl Can't Help It (prod. Frank Tashlin); High Society (prod. Sol C. Siegel); The King And I (prod. Charles Brackett); The Rainmaker (prod. Hal B. Wallis)
Must-See Comedy/Musical:

PICTURE (Foreign Language)
winner: Bob le flambeur (prod. Jean-Pierre Melville and Serge Silberman)
nominees: Akasen chitai (Street of Shame) (prod. Masaichi Nagata); Aparajito (prod. Satyajit Ray); Biruma no tategoto (The Burmese Harp) (prod. Masayuki Takaki); Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (A Man Escaped) (prod. Alain Poiré and Jean Thuillier); Gervaise (prod. Agnès Delahaie (as Annie Dorfmann)); Sôshun (Early Spring) (prod. Shôchiku Film)
Must-See Foreign Language:

ACTOR (Drama)
winner: John Wayne (The Searchers)
nominees: Kirk Douglas (Lust For Life); Sterling Hayden (The Killing); James Mason (Bigger Than Life); Kevin McCarthy (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)

ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Yul Brynner (The King And I)
nominees: Paul Douglas (The Solid Gold Cadillac); Danny Kaye (The Court Jester); Burt Lancaster (The Rainmaker); Eli Wallach (Baby Doll)

ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Ingrid Bergman (Anastasia)
nominees: Nancy Kelly (The Bad Seed); Dorothy McGuire (Friendly Persuasion); Vera Miles (The Wrong Man); Maria Schell (Gervaise)

ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Carroll Baker (Baby Doll)
nominees: Katharine Hepburn (The Rainmaker); Judy Holliday (The Solid Gold Cadillac); Deborah Kerr (The King And I); Marilyn Monroe (Bus Stop)

DIRECTOR (Drama)
winner: John Ford (The Searchers)
nominees: Robert Bresson (Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut a.k.a. A Man Escaped); Don Siegel (Invasion of the Body Snatchers); Douglas Sirk (Written On The Wind); George Stevens (Giant)

DIRECTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Jean-Pierre Melville (Bob le flambeur)
nominees: Elia Kazan (Baby Doll); Walter Lang (The King And I)

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Drama)
winner: Elisha Cook, Jr. (The Killing)
nominees: Richard Basehart (Moby Dick); Ward Bond (The Searchers); James Dean (Giant); Anthony Quinn (Lust for Life)

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Henry Jones (The Girl Can't Help It)
nominees:

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Dorothy Malone (Written On The Wind)
nominees: Helen Hayes (Anastasia); Mercedes McCambridge (Giant); Marie Windsor (The Killing)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Debbie Reynolds (The Catered Affair)
nominees: Mildred Dunnock (Baby Doll)

SCREENPLAY
winner: Daniel Mainwaring, from the Collier's magazine serial by Jack Finney (Invasion Of The Body Snatchers)
nominees: Auguste Le Breton and Jean-Pierre Melville (Bob le flambeur); Robert Bresson, from the memoir by André Devigny (Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut a.k.a. A Man Escaped); Stanley Kubrick (screenplay), Jim Thompson (dialogue), from the novel Clean break by Lionel White (The Killing); Frank S. Nugent, from the novel by Alan Le May (The Searchers); Tennessee Williams, from his one-act plays 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and The Long Stay Cut Short (Baby Doll)

SPECIAL AWARDS
Winton C. Hoch (The Searchers) (Cinematography); "Love Me Tender" (Love Me Tender) music and lyrics by Elvis Presley and Vera Matson (Song); A. Arnold Gillespie, Irving G. Riles and Wesley C. Miller (Forbidden Planet) (Special Effects)

best Oscar-eligible actor of 1956 - Takashi Shimura (Ikiru and Seven Samurai)
best Oscar-eligible supporting actor of 1956 - Toshirô Mifune (Seven Samurai)

1957
PICTURE (Drama)
winner: Sweet Smell Of Success (prod. James Hill)
nominees: The Bridge On The River Kwai (prod. Sam Spiegel); A Face In The Crowd (prod. Elia Kazan); Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (prod. John Huston); The Incredible Shrinking Man (prod. Albert Zugsmith); Paths Of Glory (prod. James B. Harris and Kirk Douglas); 12 Angry Men (prod. Henry Fonda and Reginald Rose); Witness For the Prosecution (prod. Arthur Hornblow, Jr.)
Must-See Drama:

PICTURE (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (prod. Frank Tashlin)
nominees: Funny Face (prod. Roger Edens); A King In New York (prod. Charles Chaplin); Love in the Afternoon (prod. Billy Wilder)
Must-See Comedy/Musical:

PICTURE (Foreign Language)
winner: Det sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal) (prod. Allan Ekelund)
nominees: Donzoko (The Lower Depths) (prod. Akira Kurosawa); Il Grido (prod. Franco Cancellieri); Kanal (prod. Zespól Filmowy "Kadr"); Kumonosu-jô (Throne of Blood) (prod. Akira Kurosawa and Sôjirô Motoki); Letyat zhuravli (The Cranes Are Flying) (prod. Mikhail Kalatozov); Le notti di Cabiria (Nights Of Cabiria) (prod. Dino De Laurentiis); Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries) (prod. Allan Ekelund)
Must-See Foreign Language:

ACTOR (Drama)
winner: Tony Curtis (Sweet Smell Of Success)
nominees: Lee J. Cobb (12 Angry Men); Kirk Douglas (Paths Of Glory); Henry Fonda (12 Angry Men); Andy Griffith (A Face In The Crowd); Alec Guinness (The Bridge On The River Kwai); William Holden (The Bridge on the River Kwai); Rock Hudson (The Tarnished Angels); Charles Laughton (Witness For The Prosecution); Toshiro Mifune (Kumonosu-jô a.k.a. Throne of Blood); Robert Mitchum (Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison and The Enemy Below); Sidney Poitier (Edge of the City); Victor Sjöström (Smultronstället a.k.a. Wild Strawberries); Max von Sydow (Det sjunde inseglet a.k.a. The Seventh Seal)

ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Elvis Presley (Jailhouse Rock)
nominees: Fred Astaire (Funny Face and Silk Stockings); Gary Cooper (Love In The Afternoon); Tony Randall (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?); Frank Sinatra (Pal Joey)

ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Giulietta Masina (Le notti di Cabiria a.k.a. Nights Of Cabiria)
nominees: Marlene Dietrich (Witness For The Prosecution); Deborah Kerr (Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison); Patricia Neal (A Face In The Crowd); Tatyana Samojlova (Letyat zhuravli a.k.a. The Cranes Are Flying); Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces Of Eve)

ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Audrey Hepburn (Funny Face and Love in the Afternoon)
nominees: Doris Day (The Pajama Game); Rita Hayworth (Pal Joey); Jayne Mansfield (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?)

DIRECTOR (Drama)
winner: Ingmar Bergman (Det sjunde inseglet a.k.a. The Seventh Seal and Smultronstället a.k.a. Wild Strawberries)
nominees: Federico Fellini (Le notti di Cabiria a.k.a. Nights Of Cabiria); Stanley Kubrick (Paths of Glory); Akira Kurosawa (Kumonosu-jô a.k.a. Throne of Blood and Donzoko a.k.a. The Lower Depths); David Lean (The Bridge On The River Kwai); Alexander Mackendrick (Sweet Smell Of Success); Billy Wilder (Witness For The Prosecution)

DIRECTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Chuck Jones (What's Opera, Doc?)
nominees: Charles Chaplin (A King In New York); Stanley Donen (Funny Face); Frank Tashlin (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?); Billy Wilder (Love in the Afternoon)

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Drama)
winner: Burt Lancaster (Sweet Smell Of Success)
nominees: Red Buttons (Sayonara); Errol Flynn (The Sun Also Rises); Sessue Hayakawa (The Bridge On The River Kwai); Curt Jürgens (The Enemy Below); Walter Matthau (A Face In The Crowd); Adolphe Menjou (Paths of Glory); Tyrone Power (Witness For The Prosecution); Jack Warden (12 Angry Men)

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Maurice Chevalier (Love in the Afternoon)
nominees:

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Bibi Andersson (Det sjunde inseglet a.k.a. The Seventh Seal and Smultronstället a.k.a. Wild Strawberries)
nominees: Carolyn Jones (The Bachelor Party); Elsa Lanchester (Witness For The Prosecution); Ingrid Thulin (Smultronstället a.k.a. Wild Strawberries); Miyoshi Umeki (Sayonara)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Kay Kendall (Les Girls)
nominees: Joan Blondell (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?); Mitzi Gaynor (Les Girls); Kay Thompson (Funny Face)

SCREENPLAY
winner: Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, from the novella by Ernest Lehman (Sweet Smell Of Success)
nominees: Pierre Boulle (later accredited to Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson), from the novel by Pierre Boulle (The Bridge On The River Kwai); Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli (story and screenplay), Pier Paolo Pasolini (screenplay), from the novel by Maria Molinari (Le notti di Cabiria a.k.a. Nights Of Cabiria); Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson, from the novel by Humphrey Cobb (Paths Of Glory); Ingmar Bergman, from his play (Det sjunde inseglet a.k.a. The Seventh Seal); Ingmar Bergman (Smultronstället a.k.a. Wild Strawberries); Reginald Rose, from his teleplay (12 Angry Men); Billy Wilder and Harry Kurnitz (screenplay), Larry Marcus (adaptation), from the play by Agatha Christie (Witness For The Prosecution)

SPECIAL AWARDS
"Jailhouse Rock" (Jailhouse Rock) music and lyrics by Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller (Song); What's Opera Doc? (Cartoon Short); James Wong Howe (Sweet Smell Of Success) (Cinematography)

best Oscar-eligible film of 1957 - Sweet Smell of Success
best Oscar-eligible director of 1957 - Stanley Kubrick (Paths of Glory)

1958
PICTURE (Drama)
winner: Vertigo (prod. Alfred Hitchcock)
nominees: The Big Country (prod. Gregory Peck and William Wyler); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (prod. Lawrence Weingarten); The Defiant Ones (prod. Stanley Kramer); Horror of Dracula (prod. Anthony Hinds); A Night To Remember (prod. William MacQuitty); Separate Tables (prod. Harold Hecht); The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (prod. Charles H. Schneer); Touch of Evil (prod. Albert Zugsmith)
Must-See Drama:

PICTURE (Comedy/Musical)
winner: The Horse's Mouth (prod. John Bryan and Ronald Neame)
nominees: Auntie Mame (prod. Morton DaCosta); Bell Book and Candle (prod. Julian Blaustein); Gigi (prod. Arthur Freed); Indiscreet (prod. Stanley Donen)
Must-See Comedy/Musical:

PICTURE (Foreign Language)
winner: Mon Oncle (prod. Jacques Tati)
nominees: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows) (prod. Jean Thuillier); I soliti ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street) (prod. Franco Cristaldi); Jalsaghar (The Music Room) (prod. Satyajit Ray); Kakushi-toride no san-akunin (The Hidden Fortess) (prod. Sanezumi Fujimoto and Akira Kurosawa); Popiól i diament (Ashes and Diamonds) (prod. Zespól Filmowy "Kadr")
Must-See Foreign Language:

ACTOR (Drama)
winner: Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee (Horror of Dracula)
nominees: Tony Curtis (The Defiant Ones); Charlton Heston (Touch of Evil and The Big Country); Paul Newman (The Long, Hot Summer and Cat On A Hot Tin Roof); David Niven (Separate Tables); Sidney Poitier (The Defiant Ones); Vincent Price (The Fly); Frank Sinatra (Some Came Running); James Stewart (Vertigo); Spencer Tracy (The Last Hurrah)

ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Alec Guinness (The Horse's Mouth)
nominees: Cary Grant (Indiscreet and Houseboat); Andy Griffith (No Time For Sergeants); Jacques Tati (Mon Oncle)

ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Kim Novak (Vertigo)
nominees: Ingrid Bergman (The Inn Of The Sixth Happiness); Susan Hayward (I Want To Live!); Rita Hayworth (Separate Tables); Shirley MacLaine (Some Came Running); Jeanne Moreau (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud a.k.a. Elevator to the Gallows); Jean Simmons (The Big Country); Elizabeth Taylor (Cat On A Hot Tin Roof)

ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Rosalind Russell (Auntie Mame)
nominees: Ingrid Bergman (Indiscreet); Doris Day (Teacher's Pet); Kim Novak (Bell Book And Candle)

DIRECTOR (Drama)
winner: Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo)
nominees: Richard Brooks (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof); Stanley Kramer (The Defiant Ones); Akira Kurosawa (Kakushi-toride no san-akunin a.k.a. The Hidden Fortess); Satyajit Ray (Jalsaghar a.k.a. The Music Room); Andrzej Wajda (Popiól i diament a.k.a. Ashes and Diamonds); Orson Welles (Touch Of Evil); William Wyler (The Big Country)

DIRECTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Jacques Tati (Mon Oncle)
nominees: Vincente Minnelli (Gigi); Mario Monicelli (I soliti ignoti a.k.a. Big Deal On Madonna Street); Ronald Neame (The Horse's Mouth); Richard Quine (Bell Book and Candle)

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Drama)
winner: Burl Ives (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Big Country)
nominees: Joseph Calleia (Touch of Evil); Eli Wallach (The Lineup); Orson Welles (Touch Of Evil)

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Ray Walston (Damn Yankees!)
nominees: Ernie Kovacs (Bell Book and Candle)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Wendy Hiller (Separate Tables)
nominees: Gladys Cooper (Separate Tables); Marlene Dietrich (Touch of Evil); Barbara Bel Geddes (Vertigo); Deborah Kerr (Bonjour tristesse); Hope Lange (The Young Lions); Angela Lansbury (The Long, Hot Summer); Tina Louise (God's Little Acre); Lee Remick (The Long, Hot Summer); Cara Williams (The Defiant Ones)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Kay Walsh (The Horse's Mouth)
nominees: Joanna Barnes (Auntie Mame); Coral Browne (Auntie Mame); Hermione Gingold (Gigi and Bell Book and Candle); Gwen Verdon (Damn Yankees!)

SCREENPLAY
winner: Orson Welles, from the novel Badge Of Evil by Whit Masterson (Touch of Evil)
nominees: Alec Guinness, from the novel by Joyce Cary (The Horse's Mouth); Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Suso Cecchi d’Amico and Mario Monicelli (I soliti ignoti a.k.a. Big Deal On Madonna Street); Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto and Akira Kurosawa (Kakushi-toride no san-akunin a.k.a. The Hidden Fortress); Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor, from the novel D'entre les morts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac (Vertigo)

SPECIAL AWARDS
Bernard Herrmann (Vertigo) (Score); Robert Burks (Vertigo) (Cinematography); Ray Harryhausen (The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad) (Special Effects)

best Oscar-eligible film of 1958 - The Seventh Seal
best Oscar-eligible director of 1958 - Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal)

1959
PICTURE (Drama)
winner: Rio Bravo (prod. Howard Hawks)
nominees: Anatomy of a Murder (prod. Otto Preminger); Ben-Hur (prod. Sam Zimbalist); Imitation of Life (prod. Ross Hunter); North By Northwest (prod. Alfred Hitchcock); Shadows (prod. Maurice McEndree); Room at the Top (James Woolf and John Woolf)
Must-See Drama:

PICTURE (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Some Like It Hot (prod. Billy Wilder)
nominees: I'm All Right Jack (prod. Roy Boultin); The Mouse That Roared (prod. Walter Shenson); Our Man In Havana (prod. Carol Reed); Pillow Talk (prod. Ross Hunter and Martin Melcher); Sleeping Beauty (prod. Walt Disney)
Must-See Comedy/Musical:

PICTURE (Foreign Language)
winner: Les quatre cents coups (The 400 Blows) (prod. François Truffaut)
nominees: Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) (prod. Satyajit Ray); Ballada o soldate (Ballad of a Soldier) (prod. M. Chernova); Hiroshima mon amour (prod. Anatole Dauman and Samy Halfon); Ningen no jôken (The Human Condition) (prod. Shigeru Wakatsuki); Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus) (prod. Sacha Gordine); Ukigusa (Floating Weeds) (prod. Masaichi Nagata)
Must-See Foreign Language:

ACTOR (Drama)
winner: Cary Grant (North By Northwest)
nominees: Peter Cushing (The Hound of the Baskervilles); Charlton Heston (Ben-Hur); Jean-Pierre Léaud (Les quatre cents coups a.k.a. The 400 Blows); Dean Martin (Rio Bravo); Paul Muni (The Last Angry Man); James Stewart (Anatomy of a Murder); John Wayne (Rio Bravo)

ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Jack Lemmon (Some Like It Hot)
nominees: Tony Curtis (Some Like It Hot); Alec Guinness (Our Man In Havana); Rock Hudson (Pillow Talk); Peter Sellers (The Mouse That Roared and I'm All Right Jack)

ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Simone Signoret (Room At The Top)
nominees: Audrey Hepburn (The Nun's Story); Katharine Hepburn (Suddenly Last Summer); Eva Marie Saint (North By Northwest); Lana Turner (Imitation Of Life)

ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Marilyn Monroe (Some Like It Hot)
nominees: Dorothy Dandridge (Porgy And Bess); Doris Day (Pillow Talk)

DIRECTOR (Drama)
winner: Howard Hawks (Rio Bravo)
nominees: John Cassavetes (Shadows); Alfred Hitchcock (North By Northwest); Masaki Kobayashi (Ningen no jôken a.k.a. The Human Condition); Otto Preminger (Anatomy of a Murder); Douglas Sirk (Imitation of Life); François Truffaut (Les quatre cents coups a.k.a. The 400 Blows); William Wyler (Ben-Hur)

DIRECTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot)
nominees: Marcel Camus (Orfeu Negro a.k.a. Black Orpheus); Michael Gordon (Pillow Talk); Yasujirô Ozu (Ohayô a.k.a. Good Morning); Carol Reed (Our Man In Havana)

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Drama)
winner: Walter Brennan (Rio Bravo)
nominees: Ben Gazzarra (Anatomy of a Murder); Hugh Griffith (Ben-Hur); Martin Landau (North By Northwest); James Mason (North By Northwest); Arthur O'Connell (Anatomy of a Murder); George C. Scott (Anatomy of a Murder); Orson Welles (Compulsion)

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Joe E. Brown (Some Like It Hot)
nominees: Tony Randall (Pillow Talk); Edward G. Robinson (A Hole in the Head)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Juanita Moore (Imitation Of Life)
nominees: Eve Arden (Anatomy of a Murder); Angie Dickinson (Rio Bravo); Susan Kohner (Imitation of Life); Jessie Royce Landis (North By Northwest); Lee Remick (Anatomy of a Murder); Shelley Winters (The Diary of Anne Frank)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Carolyn Jones (A Hole in the Head)
nominees: Maureen O'Hara (Our Man in Havana); Thelma Ritter (A Hole in the Head and Pillow Talk)

SCREENPLAY
winner: Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, from the story by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan (Some Like It Hot)
nominees: Karl Tunberg, from the novel by Lew Wallace (Ben-Hur); Ernest Lehman (North By Northwest); Graham Greene, from his novel (Our Man In Havana); François Truffaut (scenario and adaptation), Marcel Moussy (dialogue and adaptation) (Les quatre cents coups a.k.a. The 400 Blows); Jules Furthman and Leigh Brackett, from the short story by B.H. McCampbell (Rio Bravo)

SPECIAL AWARDS
Saul Bass (Career Achievement Award); Jazz on a Summer's Day (Documentary); William A. Horning and Edward Carfagno; Hugh Hunt (Ben-Hur) (Art Direction-Set Decoration); Franklin E. Milton (Ben-Hur) (Sound); Ralph E. Winters and John D. Dunning (Ben-Hur) (Film Editing); Elizabeth Haffenden (Ben-Hur) (Costumes); A. Arnold Gillespie, Robert MacDonald and Milo Lory (Ben-Hur) (Special Effects)


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