Academy Awards 1957

Best Picture

WINNER
Around the World in Eighty Days: Michael Todd

NOMINEES
Friendly Persuasion: William Wyler
Giant: George Stevens, Henry Ginsberg
The King and I: Charles Brackett
The Ten Commandments: Cecil B. DeMille

Best Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER
The King and I: Yul Brynner

NOMINEES
Giant: James Dean
This was James Dean's second consecutive posthumous nomination.
Lust for Life: Kirk Douglas
Giant: Rock Hudson
Richard III: Laurence Olivier

Best Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER
Anastasia: Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman was not present at the awards ceremony.
Cary Grant accepted on her behalf.

NOMINEES
Baby Doll: Carroll Baker
The Rainmaker: Katharine Hepburn
The Bad Seed: Nancy Kelly
The King and I: Deborah Kerr

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER
Lust for Life: Anthony Quinn

NOMINEES
Bus Stop: Don Murray
Friendly Persuasion: Anthony Perkins
The Bold and the Brave: Mickey Rooney
Written on the Wind: Robert Stack

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER
Written on the Wind: Dorothy Malone

NOMINEES
Baby Doll: Mildred Dunnock
The Bad Seed: Eileen Heckart
Giant: Mercedes McCambridge
The Bad Seed: Patty McCormack

Best Director

WINNER
Giant: George Stevens

NOMINEES
Around the World in Eighty Days: Michael Anderson
The King and I: Walter Lang
War and Peace: King Vidor
Friendly Persuasion: William Wyler

Best Writing, Best Screenplay - Original

WINNER
The Red Balloon: Albert Lamorisse

NOMINEES
The Bold and the Brave: Robert Lewin
Julie: Andrew L. Stone
La Strada: Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli
The Ladykillers: William Rose

Best Writing, Motion Picture Story

WINNER
The Brave One: Dalton Trumbo
Because he was not permitted to work due to the Hollywood blacklist, Trumbo wrote the story - and was nominated - under the pseudonym Robert Rich, who had nothing to do with the film industry and is a nephew of the King Brothers, producers of the film. Although there were rumors at the time that this was the case, the film's producer repeatedly denied the suggestion. It was not acknowledged until several years later that Trumbo had been the writer. He finally received his award on May 2, 1975, presented by then Academy president Walter Mirisch, shortly before his death - although the official screen credit was not changed until many years afterward.

NOMINEES
The Eddy Duchin Story: Leo Katcher
High Society: Edward Bernds, Elwood Ullman
The screenwriters graciously and voluntarily declined the nomination. The Academy had inadvertently confused their quickly-made Bowery Boys series entry called High Society with the similarly titled Cole Porter musical High Society, which came out the following year and would have been eligible for adapted screenplay only. The nomination was officially revoked for both films and is listed for the purpose of information only.
Les orgueilleux: Jean-Paul Sartre
Umberto D.: Cesare Zavattini

Best Writing, Best Screenplay - Adapted

WINNER
Around the World in Eighty Days: James Poe, John Farrow, S.J. Perelman

NOMINEES
Baby Doll: Tennessee Williams
Giant: Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat
Lust for Life: Norman Corwin
Friendly Persuasion: Michael Wilson
Due to being blacklisted Michael Wilson did not receive a screen credit, which under special Academy by-law made him ineligible personally although the writing achievement itself could be eligible. In early 1957 AMPAS instructed Price Waterhouse & Co. not to list any nomination declared ineligible under the by-law and thus this nomination was not included on the final voting ballot. The by-law was laster declared unworkable in January 1959. In December 2002 the Academy reinstated Mr. Wilson's nomination.

Best Cinematography, Color

WINNER
Around the World in Eighty Days: Lionel Lindon

NOMINEES
The Eddy Duchin Story: Harry Stradling Sr.
The King and I: Leon Shamroy
The Ten Commandments: Loyal Griggs
War and Peace: Jack Cardiff

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

WINNER
Somebody Up There Likes Me: Joseph Ruttenberg

NOMINEES
Baby Doll: Boris Kaufman
The Bad Seed: Harold Rosson
The Harder They Fall: Burnett Guffey
Stagecoach to Fury: Walter Strenge

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White

WINNER
Somebody Up There Likes Me: Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm Brown, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason

NOMINEES
The Proud and Profane: Hal Pereira, A. Earl Hedrick, Sam Comer, Frank R. McKelvy
Seven Samurai: Takashi Matsuyama
The Solid Gold Cadillac: Ross Bellah, William Kiernan, Louis Diage
Teenage Rebel: Lyle R. Wheeler, Jack Martin Smith, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color

WINNER
The King and I: Lyle R. Wheeler, John DeCuir, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox

NOMINEES
Around the World in Eighty Days: James W. Sullivan, Ken Adam, Ross Dowd
Giant: Boris Leven, Ralph S. Hurst
Lust for Life: Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, E. Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason
The Ten Commandments: Hal Pereira, Walter H. Tyler, Albert Nozaki, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer

Best Costume Design, Black-and-White

WINNER
The Solid Gold Cadillac: Jean Louis

NOMINEES
The Power and the Prize: Helen Rose
The Proud and Profane: Edith Head
Seven Samurai: Kôhei Ezaki
Teenage Rebel: Charles Le Maire, Mary Wills

Best Costume Design, Color

WINNER
The King and I: Irene Sharaff

NOMINEES
Around the World in Eighty Days: Miles White
Giant: Moss Mabry, Marjorie Best
The Ten Commandments: Edith Head, Ralph Jester, John Jensen, Dorothy Jeakins, Arnold Friberg
War and Peace: Maria De Matteis

Best Sound, Recording

WINNER
The King and I: Carlton W. Faulkner (20th Century-Fox SSD)

NOMINEES
The Brave One: Buddy Myers (RKO Radio)
The Eddy Duchin Story: John P. Livadary (Columbia SSD)
Friendly Persuasion: Gordon R. Glennan (Westrex Sound Services), Gordon Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn SSD)
The Ten Commandments: Loren L. Ryder (Paramount SSD)

Best Film Editing

WINNER
Around the World in Eighty Days: Gene Ruggiero, Paul Weatherwax

NOMINEES
The Brave One: Merrill G. White
Giant: William Hornbeck, Philip W. Anderson, Fred Bohanan
Somebody Up There Likes Me: Albert Akst
The Ten Commandments: Anne Bauchens

Best Effects, Special Effects

WINNER
The Ten Commandments: John P. Fulton

NOMINEE
Forbidden Planet: A. Arnold Gillespie, Irving G. Ries, Wesley C. Miller

Best Music, Original Song

WINNER
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Jay Livingston, Ray Evans
For the song "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)".

NOMINEES
Friendly Persuasion: Dimitri Tiomkin (music), Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
For the song "Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)".
Julie: Leith Stevens (music), Tom Adair (lyrics)
For the song "Julie".
High Society: Cole Porter
For the song "True Love".
Written on the Wind: Victor Young (music), Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
For the song "Written on the Wind".
Victor Young's nomination was posthumous.

Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture

WINNER
The King and I: Alfred Newman, Ken Darby

NOMINEES
The Best Things in Life Are Free: Lionel Newman
The Eddy Duchin Story: Morris Stoloff, George Duning
High Society: Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin
Meet Me in Las Vegas: George Stoll, Johnny Green

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

WINNER
Around the World in Eighty Days: Victor Young
Posthumously.

NOMINEES
Anastasia: Alfred Newman
Between Heaven and Hell: Hugo Friedhofer
Giant: Dimitri Tiomkin
The Rainmaker: Alex North

Best Short Subject, Two-reel

WINNER
The Bespoke Overcoat: George K. Arthur

NOMINEES
Cow Dog: Larry Lansburgh
The Dark Wave: John Healy
Samoa: Walt Disney

Best Short Subject, One-reel

WINNER
Crashing the Water Barrier: Konstantin Kalser

NOMINEES
I Never Forget a Face: Robert Youngson
Time Stood Still: Cedric Francis

Best Short Subject, Cartoons

WINNER
Magoo's Puddle Jumper: Stephen Bosustow

NOMINEES
Gerald McBoing! Boing! on Planet Moo: Stephen Bosustow
The Jaywalker: Stephen Bosustow

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

WINNER
The True Story of the Civil War: Louis Clyde Stoumen

NOMINEES
A City Decides: (Charles Guggenheim & Assocs.)
The Dark Wave: John Healy
The House Without a Name: Valentine Davies
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color: Ward Kimball
For episode "Man in Space (#1.20)".

Best Documentary, Features

WINNER
The Silent World: Jacques-Yves Cousteau

NOMINEES
The Naked Eye: Louis Clyde Stoumen
Hvor bjergene sejler: (Government Film Committee of Denmark)

Best Foreign Language Film

WINNER
La Strada: Dino De Laurentiis, Carlo Ponti
Italy.

NOMINEES
The Captain from Köpenick: Gyula Trebitsch, Walter Koppel
Germany.
Gervaise: Agnès Delahaie
France.
The Burmese Harp: Masayuki Takagi
Japan.
Qivitoq: O. Dalsgaard-Olsen
Denmark.

Honorary Award

WINNER
Eddie Cantor
For distinguished service to the film industry.

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

WINNER
Buddy Adler

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

WINNER
Y. Frank Freeman

Academy Award of Merit

WINNER

Not awarded.

Scientific and Engineering Award

WINNER

Not awarded.

Technical Achievement Award

WINNERS
Richard H. Ranger (Rangertone, Inc.)
For the development of a synchronous recording and reproducing system for quarter-inch magnetic tape.
Ted Hirsch (Consolidated Film Industries), Carl Hauge (Consolidated Film Industries), Edward Reichard (Consolidated Film Industries)
For an automatic scene counter for laboratory projection rooms.
(Technical Departments of Paramount Pictures Corp.)
For the engineering and development of the Paramount lightweight horizontal-movement VistaVision camera.
Roy C. Stewart, C.R. Daily (Sons of Stewart-Trans Lux Corp., Transparency Dept. of Paramount Pictures Corp.)
For the engineering and development of the HiTrans and Para-HiTrans rear projection screens.
(Construction Dept. of M-G-M Studio)
For a new hand-portable fog machine.
Daniel J. Bloomberg, John Pond, William Wade (Engineering and Camera Departments of Republic Studio)
For the Naturama adaptation to the Mitchell camera.

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