1955

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Win indicated by an asterisk (*)

1955 (28th)

ACTOR

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Ernest Borgnine — Marty {”Marty Pilletti”}
 

James Cagney — Love Me or Leave Me {”Martin Snyder”}
 

James Dean — East of Eden {”Cal Trask”}
 

Frank Sinatra — The Man with the Golden Arm {”Frankie”}
 

Spencer Tracy — Bad Day at Black Rock {”John J. Macreedy”}

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

 

Arthur Kennedy — Trial {”Barney Castle”}
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Jack Lemmon — Mister Roberts {”Ensign Pulver”}
 

Joe Mantell — Marty {”Angie”}
 

Sal Mineo — Rebel without a Cause {”Plato”}
 

Arthur O’Connell — Picnic {”Howard Bevans”}

ACTRESS

 

Susan Hayward — I’ll Cry Tomorrow {”Lillian Roth”}
 

Katharine Hepburn — Summertime {”Jane Hudson”}
 

Jennifer Jones — Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing {”Han Suyin”}
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Anna Magnani — The Rose Tattoo {”Serafina Della Rose”}
 

Eleanor Parker — Interrupted Melody {”Marjorie Lawrence”}

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

 

Betsy Blair — Marty {”Clara Snyder”}
 

Peggy Lee — Pete Kelly’s Blues {”Rose Hopkins”}
 

Marisa Pavan — The Rose Tattoo {”Rosa Della Rose”}
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Jo Van Fleet — East of Eden {”Kate”}
 

Natalie Wood — Rebel without a Cause {”Judy”}

ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White)

 

Blackboard Jungle — Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Henry Grace
 

I’ll Cry Tomorrow — Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm Brown; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Hugh B. Hunt
 

The Man with the Golden Arm — Art Direction: Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Darrell Silvera
 

Marty — Art Direction: Edward S. Haworth, Walter Simonds; Set Decoration: Robert Priestley
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The Rose Tattoo — Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Arthur Krams

ART DIRECTION (Color)

 

Daddy Long Legs — Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox
 

Guys and Dolls — Art Direction: Oliver Smith, Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Howard Bristol
 

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing — Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, George W. Davis; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Jack Stubbs
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Picnic — Art Direction: William Flannery, Jo Mielziner; Set Decoration: Robert Priestley
 

To Catch a Thief — Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Joseph McMillan Johnson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Arthur Krams

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White)

 

Blackboard Jungle — Russell Harlan
 

I’ll Cry Tomorrow — Arthur E. Arling
 

Marty — Joseph LaShelle
 

Queen Bee — Charles Lang
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The Rose Tattoo — James Wong Howe

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color)

 

Guys and Dolls — Harry Stradling
 

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing — Leon Shamroy
 

A Man Called Peter — Harold Lipstein
 

Oklahoma! — Robert Surtees
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To Catch a Thief — Robert Burks

COSTUME DESIGN (Black-and-White)

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I’ll Cry Tomorrow — Helen Rose
 

The Pickwick Papers — Beatrice Dawson
 

Queen Bee — Jean Louis
 

The Rose Tattoo — Edith Head
 

Ugetsu — Tadaoto Kainoscho

COSTUME DESIGN (Color)

 

Guys and Dolls — Irene Sharaff
 

Interrupted Melody — Helen Rose
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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing — Charles LeMaire
 

To Catch a Thief — Edith Head
 

The Virgin Queen — Charles LeMaire, Mary Wills

DIRECTING

 

Bad Day at Black Rock — John Sturges
 

East of Eden — Elia Kazan
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Marty — Delbert Mann
 

Picnic — Joshua Logan
 

Summertime — David Lean

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

 

Heartbreak Ridge — Rene Risacher, Producer
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Helen Keller in Her Story — Nancy Hamilton, Producer

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

 

The Battle of Gettysburg — Dore Schary, Producer
 

The Face of Lincoln — Wilbur T. Blume, Producer
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Men against the Arctic — Walt Disney, Producer

FILM EDITING

 

Blackboard Jungle — Ferris Webster
 

The Bridges at Toko-Ri — Alma Macrorie
 

Oklahoma! — Gene Ruggiero, George Boemler
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Picnic — Charles Nelson, William A. Lyon
 

The Rose Tattoo — Warren Low

MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

 

Battle Cry — Max Steiner
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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing — Alfred Newman
 

The Man with the Golden Arm — Elmer Bernstein
 

Picnic — George Duning
 

The Rose Tattoo — Alex North

MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

 

Daddy Long Legs — Alfred Newman
 

Guys and Dolls — Jay Blackton, Cyril J. Mockridge
 

It’s Always Fair Weather — Andre Previn
 

Love Me or Leave Me — Percy Faith, George Stoll
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Oklahoma! — Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton, Adolph Deutsch

MUSIC (Song)

 

“I’ll Never Stop Loving You” from Love Me or Leave Me — Music by Nicholas Brodszky; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
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“Love Is a Many-Spendored Thing” from Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing — Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
 

“Something’s Gotta Give” from Daddy Long Legs — Music and Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
 

“(Love Is) The Tender Trap” from The Tender Trap — Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
 

“Unchained Melody” from Unchained — Music by Alex North; Lyrics by Hy Zaret

BEST MOTION PICTURE

 

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing — Buddy Adler, Producer
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Marty — Harold Hecht, Producer
 

Mister Roberts — Leland Hayward, Producer
 

Picnic — Fred Kohlmar, Producer
 

The Rose Tattoo — Hal B. Wallis, Producer

SHORT SUBJECT (Cartoon)

 

Good Will to Men — Fred Quimby, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, Producers
 

The Legend of Rock-a-bye Point — Walter Lantz, Producer
 

No Hunting — Walt Disney, Producer
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Speedy Gonzales — Edward Selzer, Producer

SHORT SUBJECT (One-reel)

 

Gadgets Galore — Robert Youngson, Producer
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Survival City — Edmund Reek, Producer
 

3rd Ave. El — Carson Davidson, Producer
 

Three Kisses — Justin Herman, Producer

SHORT SUBJECT (Two-reel)

 

The Battle of Gettysburg — Dore Schary, Producer
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The Face of Lincoln — Wilbur T. Blume, Producer
 

On the Twelfth Day… — George K. Arthur, Producer
 

Switzerland — Walt Disney, Producer
 

24-Hour Alert — Cedric Francis, Producer

SOUND RECORDING

 

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing — 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Carl W. Faulkner, Sound Director
 

Love Me or Leave Me — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Wesley C. Miller, Sound Director
 

Mister Roberts — Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, William A. Mueller, Sound Director
 

Not As a Stranger — Radio Corporation of America Sound Department, Watson Jones, Sound Director
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Oklahoma! — Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes, Sound Director

SPECIAL EFFECTS

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The Bridges at Toko-Ri — Paramount Studio
 

The Dam Busters — Associated British Picture Corporation, Ltd.
 

The Rains of Ranchipur — 20th Century-Fox Studio

WRITING (Motion Picture Story)

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Love Me or Leave Me — Daniel Fuchs
 

The Private War of Major Benson — Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher
 

Rebel without a Cause — Nicholas Ray
 

The Sheep Has Five Legs — Jean Marsan, Henry Troyat, Jacques Perret, Henri Verneuil, Raoul Ploquin
 

Strategic Air Command — Beirne Lay, Jr.

WRITING (Screenplay)

 

Bad Day at Black Rock — Millard Kaufman
 

Blackboard Jungle — Richard Brooks
 

East of Eden — Paul Osborn
 

Love Me or Leave Me — Daniel Fuchs, Isobel Lennart
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Marty — Paddy Chayefsky

WRITING (Story and Screenplay)

 

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell — Milton Sperling, Emmet Lavery
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Interrupted Melody — William Ludwig, Sonya Levien
 

It’s Always Fair Weather — Betty Comden, Adolph Green
 

Mr. Hulot’s Holiday — Jacques Tati, Henri Marquet
 

The Seven Little Foys — Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose

HONORARY FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM AWARD

* To ‘Samurai, The Legend of Musashi,’ - Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1955.

SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class I)

* To the NATIONAL CARBON CO. for the development and production of a high efficiency yellow flame carbon for motion picture color photography. [Lighting]

SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class II)

* To the EASTMAN KODAK CO. for Eastman Tri-X Panchromatic Negative Film. [Film]
* To FARCIOT EDOUART, HAL CORL and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO TRANSPARENCY DEPARTMENT for the engineering and development of a double-frame, triple-head background projector. [Special Photographic]

SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class III)

* To 20TH CENTURY-FOX STUDIO and the BAUSCH & LOMB CO. for the new combination lenses for CinemaScope Photography. [Lenses and Filters]
* To WALTER JOLLEY, MAURICE LARSON and R.H. SPIES of 20th Century-Fox Studio for a spraying process which creates simulated metallic surfaces. [Props]
* To STEVE KRILANOVICH for an improved camera dolly incorporating multi-directional steering. [Camera Cranes]
* To DAVE ANDERSON of 20th Century-Fox Studio for an improved spotlight capable of maintaining a fixed circle of light at constant intensity over varied distances. [Lighting]
* To LOREN L. RYDER, CHARLES WEST, HENRY FRACKER and the PARAMOUNT STUDIOS for a projection film index to establish proper framing for various aspect ratios. [Projection]
* To FARCIOT EDOUART, HAL CORL and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO TRANSPARENCY DEPARTMENT for an improved dual stereopticon background projector. [Special Photographic]