1955 Alternate Oscars

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Best Picture of 1955

Bad Day At Black Rock

Les Diaboliques

Kiss Me Deadly

★ The Night Of The Hunter

One Froggy Evening

Pather Panchali

Rebel Without A Cause

Rififi

Smiles of a Summer Night

To Catch A Thief

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Best Actor of 1955

✔ Ernest Borgnine (Marty)

★ James Dean (East of Eden and Rebel Without A Cause)

Ralph Meeker (Kiss Me Deadly)

Robert Mitchum (The Night Of The Hunter)

Laurence Olivier (Richard III)

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Best Actress of 1955

★ Doris Day (Love Me Or Leave Me)

Katharine Hepburn (Summertime)

Katie Johnson (The Ladykillers)

✔ Anna Magnani (The Rose Tattoo)

Eleanor Parker (Interrupted Melody and The Man With The Golden Arm)

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Best Director of 1955

Robert Aldrich (Kiss Me Deadly)

Chuck Jones (One Froggy Evening)

Charles Laughton (The Night Of The Hunter)

Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without A Cause)

★ Satyajit Ray (Pather Panchali)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1955

✔ Jack Lemmon (Mister Roberts)

Raymond Massey (East of Eden)

Sal Mineo (Rebel Without A Cause)

Arthur O'Connell (Picnic)

★ Robert Ryan (Bad Day At Black Rock)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1955

Lillian Gish (The Night Of The Hunter)

Jesse Royce Landis (To Catch a Thief)

Rosalind Russell (Picnic)

✔ Jo Van Fleet (East of Eden)

★ Natalie Wood (Rebel Without A Cause)

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Special Award

One Froggy Evening (short subject-cartoon)

Chuck Jones (lifetime achievement)

James Agee, from the novel by Davis Grubb (The Night Of The Hunter) (adapted screenplay)

Stanley Cortez (The Night of the Hunter) (cinematography)

Lady and the Tramp (animated feature)

"Bella Notte" (Lady and the Tramp) music by Sonny Burke, lyrics by Peggy Lee (song)

The spaghetti scene (Lady and the Tramp) (best kiss)

"Si" and "Am" (Lady and the Tramp) (cats to make you a dog lover)

The Seven Year Itch (most iconic use of a subway grate)

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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.