28th Academy Awards (1956)

Best Picture

Marty
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Mister Roberts
Picnic
The Rose Tattoo

Best Director

Marty - Delbert Mann
East of Eden - Elia Kazan
Summertime - David Lean
Picnic - Joshua Logan
Bad Day at Black Rock - John Sturges

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Marty - Ernest Borgnine
Love Me or Leave Me - James Cagney
East of Eden - James Dean
The Man with the Golden Arm - Frank Sinatra
Bad Day at Black Rock - Spencer Tracy

Best Actress in a Leading Role

The Rose Tattoo - Anna Magnani
I'll Cry Tomorrow - Susan Hayward
Summertime - Katharine Hepburn
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - Jennifer Jones
Interrupted Melody - Eleanor Parker

Best Supporting Actor

Mister Roberts - Jack Lemmon
Trial - Arthur Kennedy
Marty - Joe Mantell
Rebel Without a Cause - Sal Mineo
Picnic - Arthur O'Connell

Best Supporting Actress

East of Eden - Jo Van Fleet
Marty - Betsy Blair
Pete Kelly's Blues - Peggy Lee
The Rose Tattoo - Marisa Pavan
Rebel Without a Cause - Natalie Wood

Best Documentary Feature

Helen Keller in Her Story - Nancy Hamilton
Heartbreak Ridge

Best Documentary Short Subject

Men Against the Arctic - Walt Disney
The Battle of Gettysburg - Dore Schary
The Face of Lincoln

Best Film Editing

Picnic - Charles Nelson, William A. Lyon
The Rose Tattoo - Warren Low
The Bridges at Toko-Ri - Alma Macrorie
Oklahoma! - Gene Ruggiero, George Boemler
Blackboard Jungle - Ferris Webster

Best Cinematography, Color

To Catch a Thief - Robert Burks
A Man Called Peter - Harold Lipstein
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - Leon Shamroy
Guys and Dolls - Harry Stradling
Oklahoma! - Robert Surtees

Best Cinematography, Black & White

The Rose Tattoo - James Wong Howe
I'll Cry Tomorrow - Arthur E. Arling
Blackboard Jungle - Russell Harlan
Queen Bee - Charles Lang
Marty - Joseph LaShelle

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color

Picnic - William Flannery, Jo Mielziner, Robert Priestley
To Catch a Thief - Hal Pereira, Joseph McMillan Johnson, Sam Comer, Arthur Krams
Guys and Dolls - Oliver Smith, Joseph C. Wright, Howard Bristol
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - Lyle Wheeler, George W. Davis, Walter M. Scott, Jack Stubbs
Daddy Long Legs - Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black & White

The Rose Tattoo - Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Sam Comer, Arthur Krams
I'll Cry Tomorrow - Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm Brown, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh B. Hunt
Blackboard Jungle - Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell, Edwin B. Willis, Henry Grace
Marty - Edward S. Haworth, Walter Simonds, Robert Priestley
The Man with the Golden Arm - Joseph C. Wright, Darrell Silvera

Best Costume Design, Color

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - Charles LeMaire
To Catch a Thief - Edith Head
The Virgin Queen - Charles LeMaire, Mary Wills
Interrupted Melody - Helen Rose
Guys and Dolls - Irene Sharaff

Best Costume Design, Black & White

I'll Cry Tomorrow - Helen Rose
The Pickwick Papers - Beatrice Dawson
The Rose Tattoo - Edith Head
Ugetsu - Tadaoto Kainosho
Queen Bee - Jean Louis

Best Short Subject - One-reel

Survival City - Edmund Reek
Gadgets Galore - Robert Youngson
3rd Ave. El - Carson Davidson
Three Kisses - Justin Herman

Best Short Subject - Two-reel

The Face of Lincoln
The Battle of Gettysburg - Dore Schary
On The Twelfth Day…
Switzerland - Walt Disney
24-Hour Alert - Cedric Francis

Best Short Subject - Cartoon

Speedy Gonzales
Good Will to Men - Frederick Quimby, William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
The Legend of Rock-a-Bye Point - Walter Lantz
No Hunting - Walt Disney

Best Music - Song

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster for "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing"
Love Me or Leave Me - Nicholas Brodszky, Sammy Cahn for "I'll Never Stop Loving You"
Daddy Long Legs - Johnny Mercer for "Something's Gotta Give"
The Tender Trap - James Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn for "The Tender Trap"
Unchained - Alex North, Hy Zaret for "Unchained Melody"

Best Music - Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - Alfred Newman
The Man with the Golden Arm - Elmer Bernstein
Picnic - George Duning
The Rose Tattoo - Alex North
Battle Cry - Max Steiner

Best Music - Scoring of a Musical Picture

Oklahoma! - Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton, Adolph Deutsch
Guys and Dolls - Jay Blackton, Cyril J. Mockridge
Love Me or Leave Me - Percy Faith, George Stoll
Daddy Long Legs - Alfred Newman
It's Always Fair Weather - Andre Previn

Best Writing, Motion Picture Story

Love Me or Leave Me - Daniel Fuchs
The Private War of Major Benson - Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher
Strategic Air Command - Beirne Lay, Jr.
The Sheep Has Five Legs - Jean Marsan, Henri Troyat, Jacques Perret, Henri Verneuil, Raoul Ploquin
Rebel Without a Cause - Nicholas Ray

Best Sound, Recording

Oklahoma!
Love Me or Leave Me
Not as a Stranger
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Mister Roberts

Best Effects, Special Effects

The Bridges at Toko-Ri
The Dam Busters
The Rains of Ranchipur

Best Writing, Screenplay

Marty - Paddy Chayefsky
Blackboard Jungle - Richard Brooks
Love Me or Leave Me - Daniel Fuchs and Isobel Lennart
Bad Day at Black Rock - Millard Kaufman
East of Eden - Paul Osborn

Best Writing, Story and Screenplay

Interrupted Melody - William Ludwig, Sonya Levien
It's Always Fair Weather - Betty Comden, Adolph Green
The Seven Little Foys - Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell - Milton Sperling, Emmet Lavery
Mr. Hulot's Holiday - Jacques Tati, Henri Marquet