Oscar Nominations and Winners (1956)

Best Picture

• Around the World in 80 Days
• Friendly Persuasion
• Giant
• The King and I
• The Ten Commandments

Best Director

• Michael Anderson (Around the World in 80 Days)
• Walter Lang (The King and I)
• George Stevens (Giant)
• King Vidor (War and Peace)
• William Wyler (Friendly Persuasion)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Yul Brynner (The King and I)
• James Dean (Giant)
• Kirk Douglas (Lust for Life)
• Rock Hudson (Giant)
• Sir Laurence Olivier (Richard III)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Don Murray (Bus Stop)
• Anthony Perkins (Friendly Persuasion)
• Anthony Quinn (Lust for Life)
• Mickey Rooney (The Bold and the Brave)
• Robert Stack (Written on the Wind)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Carroll Baker (Baby Doll)
• Ingrid Bergman (Anastasia)
• Katharine Hepburn (The Rainmaker)
• Nancy Kelly (The Bad Seed)
• Deborah Kerr (The King and I)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Mildred Dunnock (Baby Doll)
• Eileen Heckart (The Bad Seed)
• Mercedes McCambridge (Giant)
• Patty McCormack (The Bad Seed)
• Dorothy Malone (Written on the Wind)

Best Story

• The Eddy Duchin Story (Leo Katcher)
• The Brave One (Dalton Trumbo)
• The Proud and the Beautiful (Jean Paul Sartre)
• Umberto D. (Cesare Zavattini)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Around the World in 80 Days (James Poe, John Farrow and S.J. Perelman)
• Baby Doll (Tennessee Williams)
• Giant (Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat)
• Lust for Life (Norman Corwin)

Best Original Screenplay

• The Bold and the Brave (Robert Lewin)
• Julie (Andrew L. Stone)
• La Strada (Federico Fellini and Tullio Pinelli)
• The Lady Killers (William Rose)
• The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse)

Best Foreign Language Film

• The Captain of Kopenick (West Germany)
• Gervaise (France)
• Harp of Burma (Japan)
• Qivitoq (Denmark)
• La Strada (Italy)

Art Direction - Black and White

• The Magnificent Seven
• The Proud and the Profane
• The Solid Gold Cadillac
• Somebody Up There Likes Me
• Teenage Rebel

Art Direction - Color

• Lust for Life
• Giant
• The Ten Commandments
• Around the World in 80 Days
• The King and I

Cinematography - Black and White

• Baby Doll
• The Bad Seed
• The Harder They Fall
• Somebody Up There Likes Me
• Stagecoach to Fury

Cinematography - Color

• Around the World in 80 Days
• The Eddy Duchin Story
• The King and I
• The Ten Commandments
• War and Peace

Costume Design - Black and White

• The Magnificent Seven
• The Power and the Prize
• The Proud and the Profane
• The Solid Gold Cadillac
• Teenage Rebel

Costume Design - Color

• Around the World in 80 Days
• Giant
• The King and I
• The Ten Commandments
• War and Peace

Documentary Feature

• The Naked Eye
• The Silent World
• Where Mountains Float

Documentary Short Subject

• A City Decides
• The Dark Wave
• The House Without a Name
• Man in Space
• The True Story of the Civil War

Film Editing

• Around the World in 80 Days
• The Brave One
• Giant
• Somebody Up There Likes Me
• The Ten Commandments

Original Score For Drama or Comedy

• Anastasia (Alfred Newman)
• Around the World in 80 Days (Victor Young)
• Between Heaven and Hell (Hugo Friedhofer)
• Giant (Dimitri Tiomkin)
• The Rainmaker (Alex North)

Original Score For Musical

• The Best Things in Life Are Free (Lionel Newman)
• The Eddy Duchin Story (Morris Stoloff and George Duning)
• High Society (Johnny Green and Saul Chaplin)
• The King and I (Alfred Newman and Ken Darby)
• Meet Me in Las Vegas (George Stoll and Johnny Green)

Original Song

• Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)" (Friendly Persuasion) Music by Dimitri Tiomkin. Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.
• "Julie" (Julie) Music by Leith Stevens. Lyrics by Tom Adair.
• "True Love" (High Society) Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter.
• "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Ser�, Ser�)" (The Man Who Knew Too Much) Music and Lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.
• "Written on the Wind" (Written on the Wind) Music by Victor Young. Lyrics by Sammy Cahn.

Animated Short Film (Cartoons)

• Gerald McBoing-Boing on Planet Moo
• The Jay Walker
• Mister Magoo's Puddle Jumper

Live Action Short Film - One Reel

• Crashing the Water Barrier
• I Never Forget a Face
• Time Stood Still

Live Action Short Film - Two Reels

• The Bespoke Overcoat
• Cow Dog
• The Dark Wave
• Samoa

Sound

• The Brave One
• The Eddy Duchin Story
• Friendly Persuasion
• The King and I
• The Ten Commandments

Special Effects

• Forbidden Planet
• The Ten Commandments