28th Academy Awards

{{Infobox film awards

| number = 28

| award = Academy Awards

| date = March 21, 1956

| site = RKO Pantages Theatre,
Hollywood, California,
NBC Century Theatre
New York City, New York

| host = Jerry Lewis (Los Angeles),
Claudette Colbert (New York) and
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (New York)

| producer = Robert Emmett Dolan

| director = George Seaton

| best_picture = Marty

| most_wins = Marty (4)

| most_nominations = Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Marty, and The Rose Tattoo (8)

| network = NBC

| duration =

| last = 27th

| next = 29th

}}

The 28th Academy Awards were held on March 21, 1956, to honor the films of 1955, at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, California. In this year, Jerry Lewis became the host, replacing Bob Hope.

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At just 90 minutes, Marty became the shortest film to win Best Picture, as well as the second to have also won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival (after The Lost Weekend in 1945). All of the various winners, with the exception of Anna Magnani, collected their Oscars.

Grace Kelly, soon to be Princess of Monaco, attended the ceremony as a presenter on her way toward retirement from acting. She was chided by Louella Parsons for failing to acknowledge Lewis' tribute to her from the film business. Parsons wrote, "it seems she might have taken a moment to thank him, give him a little kiss or something before leaving the stage so abruptly."

This was the final year in which the Best Foreign Language Film was a Special/Honorary award. Beginning with the 29th Academy Awards, it became a competitive category.

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Winners and nominees

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| caption1 = Delbert Mann, Best Director winner

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| caption2 = Ernest Borgnine; Best Actor winner

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| caption3 = Anna Magnani; Best Actress winner

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| caption6 = Paddy Chayefsky; Best Screenplay winner

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| caption7 = Sonya Levien, Best Story and Screenplay co-winner

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| caption8 = Walt Disney; Best Documentary Short Subject winner

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| caption12 = James Wong Howe; Best Cinematography, Black-and-White winner

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| caption13 = Helen Rose, Best Costume Design, Black-and-White winner

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= Awards =

Nominees were announced on February 18, 1956. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1956 |title=The 28th Academy Awards (1956) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-08-20 |publisher=Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706094007/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/28th-winners.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live }}

class=wikitable
style="background:#F9EFAA; width:50%" \| Best Motion Picture ! style="background:#F9EFAA; width:50%" \| Best Directing
valign="top" \| Marty – Harold Hecht for United Artists{{double dagger}} Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Buddy Adler for 20th Century Fox Mister Roberts – Leland Hayward for Warner Bros. Picnic – Fred Kohlmar for Columbia Pictures The Rose Tattoo – Hal B. Wallis for Paramount Pictures \| valign="top" \| Delbert Mann – Marty{{double dagger}} John Sturges – Bad Day at Black Rock Elia Kazan – East of Eden Joshua Logan – Picnic David Lean – Summertime
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Actor ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Actress
valign="top" \| *Ernest Borgnine – Marty* as Marty Piletti*{{double dagger}} James Cagney – Love Me or Leave Me* as Martin Snyder James Dean (posthumous nomination) – East of Eden as Caleb Trask Frank Sinatra – The Man with the Golden Arm as Frankie "Dealer" Machine Spencer Tracy – Bad Day at Black Rock as John J. Macreedy \| valign="top" \| *Anna Magnani – The Rose Tattoo* as Serafina Delle Rose*{{double dagger}} Susan Hayward – I'll Cry Tomorrow* as Lillian Roth Katharine Hepburn – Summertime as Jane Hudson Jennifer Jones – Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing as Dr. Han Suyin Eleanor Parker – Interrupted Melody as Marjorie Lawrence
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Actor in a Supporting Role ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Actress in a Supporting Role
valign="top" \| *Jack Lemmon – Mister Roberts* as Ensign Frank Thurlowe Pulver*{{double dagger}} Arthur Kennedy – Trial* as Bernard Castle Joe Mantell – Marty as Angie Sal Mineo – Rebel Without a Cause as John "Plato" Crawford Arthur O'Connell – Picnic as Howard Bevans \| valign="top" \| *Jo Van Fleet – East of Eden* as Cathy Ames/Kate Trask*{{double dagger}} Betsy Blair – Marty* as Clara Peggy Lee – Pete Kelly's Blues as Rose Hopkins Marisa Pavan – The Rose Tattoo as Rosa Delle Rose Natalie Wood – Rebel Without a Cause as Judy
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Writing (Screenplay) ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Writing (Story and Screenplay)
valign="top" \| Marty – Paddy Chayefsky from Marty by Paddy Chayefsky{{double dagger}} Bad Day at Black Rock – Millard Kaufman from "Bad Time at Honda" by Howard Breslin Blackboard Jungle – Richard Brooks from Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter East of Eden – Paul Osborn from East of Eden by John Steinbeck Love Me or Leave Me – Daniel Fuchs and Isobel Lennart \| valign="top" \| Interrupted Melody – William Ludwig and Sonya Levien{{double dagger}} The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell – Milton Sperling and Emmet Lavery It's Always Fair Weather – Betty Comden and Adolph Green Mr. Hulot's Holiday – Jacques Tati and Henri Marquet The Seven Little Foys – Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Writing (Motion Picture Story) ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Documentary (Feature)
valign="top" \| Love Me or Leave Me – Daniel Fuchs{{double dagger}} The Private War of Major Benson – Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher Rebel Without a Cause – Nicholas Ray The Sheep Has Five Legs – Jean Marsan, Henri Troyat, Jacques Perret, Henri Verneuil, and Raoul Ploquin Strategic Air Command – Beirne Lay Jr. \| valign="top" \| Helen Keller in Her Story – Nancy Hamilton{{double dagger}} Heartbreak Ridge – René Risacher
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Documentary (Short Subject) ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Short Subject (One-Reel)
valign="top" \| *Men Against the Arctic* – Walt Disney{{double dagger}} The Battle of Gettysburg – Dore Schary The Face of Lincoln – Wilbur T. Blume \| valign="top" \| Survival City – Edmund Reek{{double dagger}} 3rd Ave. El – Carson Davidson Gadgets Galore – Robert Youngson Three Kisses – Justin Herman
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Short Subject (Two-Reel) ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Short Subject (Cartoon)
valign="top" \| The Face of Lincoln – Wilbur T. Blume{{double dagger}} 24 Hour Alert – Cedric Francis The Battle of Gettysburg – Dore Schary On the Twelfth Day – George K. Arthur Switzerland – Walt Disney \| valign="top" \| Speedy Gonzales – Edward Selzer{{double dagger}} Good Will to Men – Fred Quimby, William Hanna, and Joseph Barbera The Legend of Rockabye Point – Walter Lantz No Hunting – Walt Disney
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)
valign="top" \| Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Alfred Newman{{double dagger}} Battle Cry – Max Steiner The Man with the Golden Arm – Elmer Bernstein Picnic – George Duning The Rose Tattoo – Alex North \| valign="top" \| Oklahoma! – Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton and Adolph Deutsch{{double dagger}} Daddy Long Legs – Alfred Newman Guys and Dolls – Jay Blackton and Cyril J. Mockridge It's Always Fair Weather – André Previn Love Me or Leave Me – Percy Faith and Georgie Stoll
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Music (Song) ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Sound Recording
valign="top" \| *"Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" from Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing* – Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster*{{double dagger}} "I'll Never Stop Loving You" from Love Me or Leave Me* – Music by Nicholas Brodszky; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn "Something's Gotta Give" from Daddy Long Legs – Music and Lyrics by Johnny Mercer "The Tender Trap" from The Tender Trap – Music by Jimmy Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn "Unchained Melody" from Unchained – Music by Alex North; Lyrics by Hy Zaret \| valign="top" \| Oklahoma! – Fred Hynes{{double dagger}} Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Carlton W. Faulkner Love Me or Leave Me – Wesley C. Miller Mister Roberts – William A. Mueller Not as a Stranger – Watson Jones
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Art Direction (Black-and-White) ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Art Direction (Color)
valign="top" \| The Rose Tattoo – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Tambi Larsen; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Arthur Krams{{double dagger}} Blackboard Jungle – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Randall Duell; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Henry Grace I'll Cry Tomorrow – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Malcolm Brown; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt The Man with the Golden Arm – Art Direction: Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Darrell Silvera Marty – Art Direction: Ted Haworth and Walter M. Simonds; Set Decoration: Robert Priestley \| valign="top" \| Picnic – Art Direction: William Flannery and Jo Mielziner; Set Decoration: Robert Priestley{{double dagger}} Daddy Long Legs – Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler and John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott and Paul S. Fox Guys and Dolls – Art Direction: Oliver Smith and Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Howard Bristol Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler and George Davis; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott and Jack Stubbs To Catch a Thief – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Joseph McMillan Johnson; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Arthur Krams
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Cinematography (Black-and-White) ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Cinematography (Color)
valign="top" \| The Rose Tattoo – James Wong Howe{{double dagger}} Blackboard Jungle – Russell Harlan I'll Cry Tomorrow – Arthur Arling Marty – Joseph LaShelle Queen Bee – Charles Lang \| valign="top" \| To Catch a Thief – Robert Burks{{double dagger}} Guys and Dolls – Harry Stradling Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Leon Shamroy A Man Called Peter – Harold Lipstein Oklahoma! – Robert Surtees
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Costume Design (Black-and-White) ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Costume Design (Color)
valign="top" \| I'll Cry Tomorrow – Helen Rose{{double dagger}} The Pickwick Papers – Beatrice Dawson Queen Bee – Jean Louis The Rose Tattoo – Edith Head Ugetsu – Tadaoto Kainosho \| valign="top" \| Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Charles LeMaire{{double dagger}} Guys and Dolls – Irene Sharaff Interrupted Melody – Helen Rose To Catch a Thief – Edith Head The Virgin Queen – Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Film Editing ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Special Effects
valign="top" \| Picnic – Charles Nelson and William Lyon{{double dagger}} Blackboard Jungle – Ferris Webster The Bridges at Toko-Ri – Alma Macrorie Oklahoma! – Gene Ruggiero and George Boemler The Rose Tattoo – Warren Low \| valign="top" \| *The Bridges at Toko-Ri{{double dagger}} The Dam Busters* The Rains of Ranchipur

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style="background:#F9EFAA; width:50%" | Best Motion Picture

! style="background:#F9EFAA; width:50%" | Best Directing

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Marty – Harold Hecht for United Artists{{double dagger}}
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Buddy Adler for 20th Century Fox
Mister Roberts – Leland Hayward for Warner Bros.
Picnic – Fred Kohlmar for Columbia Pictures
The Rose Tattoo – Hal B. Wallis for Paramount Pictures

| valign="top" |

style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Actor

! style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Actress

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Ernest Borgnine – Marty as Marty Piletti{{double dagger}}
James Cagney – Love Me or Leave Me as Martin Snyder
James Dean (posthumous nomination) – East of Eden as Caleb Trask
Frank Sinatra – The Man with the Golden Arm as Frankie "Dealer" Machine
Spencer Tracy – Bad Day at Black Rock as John J. Macreedy

| valign="top" |

Anna Magnani – The Rose Tattoo as Serafina Delle Rose{{double dagger}}
Susan Hayward – I'll Cry Tomorrow as Lillian Roth
Katharine Hepburn – Summertime as Jane Hudson
Jennifer Jones – Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing as Dr. Han Suyin
Eleanor Parker – Interrupted Melody as Marjorie Lawrence

style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Actor in a Supporting Role

! style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Actress in a Supporting Role

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Jack Lemmon – Mister Roberts as Ensign Frank Thurlowe Pulver{{double dagger}}
Arthur Kennedy – Trial as Bernard Castle
Joe Mantell – Marty as Angie
Sal Mineo – Rebel Without a Cause as John "Plato" Crawford
Arthur O'Connell – Picnic as Howard Bevans

| valign="top" |

Jo Van Fleet – East of Eden as Cathy Ames/Kate Trask{{double dagger}}
Betsy Blair – Marty as Clara
Peggy Lee – Pete Kelly's Blues as Rose Hopkins
Marisa Pavan – The Rose Tattoo as Rosa Delle Rose
Natalie Wood – Rebel Without a Cause as Judy

style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Writing (Screenplay)

! style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Writing (Story and Screenplay)

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Marty – Paddy Chayefsky from Marty by Paddy Chayefsky{{double dagger}}
Bad Day at Black Rock – Millard Kaufman from "Bad Time at Honda" by Howard Breslin
Blackboard Jungle – Richard Brooks from Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter
East of Eden – Paul Osborn from East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Love Me or Leave Me – Daniel Fuchs and Isobel Lennart

| valign="top" |

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

style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Writing (Motion Picture Story)

! style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Documentary (Feature)

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

| valign="top" |

Helen Keller in Her Story – Nancy Hamilton{{double dagger}}
Heartbreak Ridge – René Risacher

style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Documentary (Short Subject)

! style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Short Subject (One-Reel)

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Men Against the Arctic – Walt Disney{{double dagger}}
The Battle of Gettysburg – Dore Schary
The Face of Lincoln – Wilbur T. Blume

| valign="top" |

Survival City – Edmund Reek{{double dagger}}
3rd Ave. El – Carson Davidson
Gadgets Galore – Robert Youngson
Three Kisses – Justin Herman

style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Short Subject (Two-Reel)

! style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

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The Face of Lincoln – Wilbur T. Blume{{double dagger}}
24 Hour Alert – Cedric Francis
The Battle of Gettysburg – Dore Schary
On the Twelfth Day – George K. Arthur
Switzerland – Walt Disney

| valign="top" |

Speedy Gonzales – Edward Selzer{{double dagger}}
Good Will to Men – Fred Quimby, William Hanna, and Joseph Barbera
The Legend of Rockabye Point – Walter Lantz
No Hunting – Walt Disney

style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

! style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

valign="top" |

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

| valign="top" |

Oklahoma! – Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton and Adolph Deutsch{{double dagger}}
Daddy Long Legs – Alfred Newman
Guys and Dolls – Jay Blackton and Cyril J. Mockridge
It's Always Fair Weather – André Previn
Love Me or Leave Me – Percy Faith and Georgie Stoll

style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Music (Song)

! style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Sound Recording

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"Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" from Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster{{double dagger}}
"I'll Never Stop Loving You" from Love Me or Leave Me – Music by Nicholas Brodszky; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
"Something's Gotta Give" from Daddy Long Legs – Music and Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
"The Tender Trap" from The Tender Trap – Music by Jimmy Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
"Unchained Melody" from Unchained – Music by Alex North; Lyrics by Hy Zaret

| valign="top" |

Oklahoma! – Fred Hynes{{double dagger}}
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Carlton W. Faulkner
Love Me or Leave Me – Wesley C. Miller
Mister Roberts – William A. Mueller
Not as a Stranger – Watson Jones

style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

! style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Art Direction (Color)

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The Rose Tattoo – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Tambi Larsen; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Arthur Krams{{double dagger}}
Blackboard Jungle – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Randall Duell; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Henry Grace
I'll Cry Tomorrow – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Malcolm Brown; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt
The Man with the Golden Arm – Art Direction: Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Darrell Silvera
Marty – Art Direction: Ted Haworth and Walter M. Simonds; Set Decoration: Robert Priestley

| valign="top" |

Picnic – Art Direction: William Flannery and Jo Mielziner; Set Decoration: Robert Priestley{{double dagger}}
Daddy Long Legs – Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler and John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott and Paul S. Fox
Guys and Dolls – Art Direction: Oliver Smith and Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Howard Bristol
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler and George Davis; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott and Jack Stubbs
To Catch a Thief – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Joseph McMillan Johnson; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Arthur Krams

style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

! style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Cinematography (Color)

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The Rose Tattoo – James Wong Howe{{double dagger}}
Blackboard Jungle – Russell Harlan
I'll Cry Tomorrow – Arthur Arling
Marty – Joseph LaShelle
Queen Bee – Charles Lang

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

style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

! style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Costume Design (Color)

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I'll Cry Tomorrow – Helen Rose{{double dagger}}
The Pickwick Papers – Beatrice Dawson
Queen Bee – Jean Louis
The Rose Tattoo – Edith Head
Ugetsu – Tadaoto Kainosho

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

style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Film Editing

! style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Special Effects

valign="top" |

Picnic – Charles Nelson and William Lyon{{double dagger}}
Blackboard Jungle – Ferris Webster
The Bridges at Toko-Ri – Alma Macrorie
Oklahoma! – Gene Ruggiero and George Boemler
The Rose Tattoo – Warren Low

| valign="top" |

The Bridges at Toko-Ri{{double dagger}}
The Dam Busters
The Rains of Ranchipur

=Honorary Foreign Language Film Award=

To Samurai, The Legend of Musashi (Japan) - Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1955.

Presenters and performers

=Presenters=

Ernest Borgnine (Presenter: Best Story & Screenplay)
James Cagney (Presenter: Best Special Effects)
Cantinflas (Presenter: Cinematography Awards)
Maurice Chevalier (Presenter: Best Original Song)
Mel Ferrer and Claire Trevor (Presenter: Scientific and Technical Awards)
Susan Hayward (Presenter: Costume Design Awards)
Audrey Hepburn (Presenter: Best Motion Picture)
Jennifer Jones (Presenter: Best Director)
Grace Kelly (Presenter: Best Actor)
Peggy Lee and Jack Lemmon (Presenters: Art Direction Awards)
Marlon Brando (Presenter: Best Actress—reading from a film clip shot in Manila{{YouTube |6snlFNM6fZI |Anna Magnani winning Best Actress for "The Rose Tattoo"}})
Jerry Lewis (Presenter: Best Film Editing and Best Actress)
Anna Magnani (Presenter: Best Screenplay)
Sal Mineo (Presenter: Best Sound Recording)
Edmond O'Brien (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress)
Eleanor Parker (Presenter: Documentary Awards)
Marisa Pavan, Arthur O'Connell and Jo Van Fleet (Presenters: Short Subjects Awards)
Frank Sinatra and Jerry Lewis (Presenters: Best Music Score Awards)

=Performers=

André Previn – Conductor the Academy Awards orchestra
Harry Belafonte ("Unchained Melody" from Unchained)
Maurice Chevalier ("Something's Gotta Give" from Daddy Long Legs)
Eddie Fisher ("Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" from Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing)
Dean Martin ("(Love Is) The Tender Trap" from The Tender Trap)
Jane Powell ("I'll Never Stop Loving You" from Love Me or Leave Me)

Multiple nominations and awards

scope="col" style="width:55px;" \|Nominations ! scope="col" style="text-align:center;" \|Film
class="wikitable" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" \|+ Films with multiple nominations
rowspan="3" style="text-align:center" \| 8 \| Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Marty
The Rose Tattoo
rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" \| 6 \| Love Me or Leave Me
Picnic
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" \| 4 \| Blackboard Jungle
East of Eden
Guys and Dolls
I'll Cry Tomorrow
Oklahoma!
rowspan="7" style="text-align:center" \| 3 \| Bad Day at Black Rock
Daddy Long Legs
Interrupted Melody
The Man with the Golden Arm
Mister Roberts
Rebel Without a Cause
To Catch a Thief
rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" \|2 \| The Battle of Gettysburg
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
The Face of Lincoln
It's Always Fair Weather
Queen Bee
Summertime

class="wikitable" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" \|+ Films with multiple awards
scope="col" style="width:55px;" \|Awards ! scope="col" style="text-align:center;" \|Film
rowspan=1, style="text-align:center" \| 4 \| Marty
rowspan=2, style="text-align:center" \| 3 \| Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
The Rose Tattoo
rowspan=2, style="text-align:center" \| 2 \| Oklahoma!
Picnic

class="wikitable" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"

|+ Films with multiple awards

scope="col" style="width:55px;" |Awards

! scope="col" style="text-align:center;" |Film

rowspan=1, style="text-align:center" | 4

| Marty

rowspan=2, style="text-align:center" | 3

| Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

The Rose Tattoo

rowspan=2, style="text-align:center" | 2

| Oklahoma!

Picnic