1956 (29th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1956 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Motion Picture

Around the World in 80 Days, The Michael Todd Co., Inc.; United Artists. Michael Todd, Producer.

Best Actor

Yul Brynner in The King and I, 20th Century-Fox.

Best Actress

Ingrid Bergman in Anastasia, 20th Century-Fox.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Anthony Quinn in Lust for Life, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Dorothy Malone in Written on the Wind, Universal-International.

Directing

Giant, Giant Production; Warner Bros. George Stevens.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

(Black-and-White)

Somebody up There Likes Me, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons and Malcolm F. Brown; set decoration by Edwin B. Willis and F. Keogh Gleason.

(Color)

The King and I, 20th Century-Fox. Art direction by Lyle R. Wheeler and John DeCuir; set decoration by Walter M. Scott and Paul S. Fox.

Cinematography

(Black-and-White)

Somebody up There Likes Me, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Joseph Ruttenberg.

(Color)

Around the World in 80 Days, The Michael Todd Co., Inc.; United Artists. Lionel Lindon.

Costume Design

(Black-and-White)

The Solid Gold Cadillac, Columbia. Jean Louis.

(Color)

The King and I, 20th Century-Fox. Irene Sharaff.

Documentary

(Feature)

The Silent World, Filmad-F.S.J.Y.C. Production; Columbia. (France, Italy) Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Producer.

(Short Subject)

The True Story of the Civil War, Camera Eye Pictures, Inc. Louis Clyde Stoumen, Producer.

Film Editing

Around the World in 80 Days, The Michael Todd Co., Inc.; United Artists. Gene Ruggiero and Paul Weatherwax.

Foreign Language Film

La Strada, Ponti-De Laurentiis Production; Trans-Lux Distributing Corporation. (Italy) Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti, Producers.

Music

(Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

Around the World in 80 Days, The Michael Todd Co., Inc.; United Artists. Victor Young.

(Scoring of a Musical Picture)

The King and I, 20th Century-Fox. Alfred Newman and Ken Darby.

(Song)

Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera) from The Man Who Knew Too Much, Filwite Productions, Inc.; Paramount. Music and lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

Mister Magoo’s Puddle Jumper, UPA (United Productions of America); Columbia. [Mister Magoo Series] Stephen Bosustow, Producer.

(One-reel)

Crashing the Water Barrier, Warner Bros. [The Sports Parade Series] Konstantin Kalser, Producer.

(Two-reel)

The Bespoke Overcoat, Romulus Films; George K. Arthur-Go Pictures, Inc. (UK) Romulus Films.

Sound Recording

The King and I, 20th Century-Fox. 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Carl Faulkner, Sound Director.

Special Effects

The Ten Commandments, Motion Picture Associates, Inc.; Paramount. John Fulton.

Writing

(Motion Picture Story)

The Brave One, King Brothers; RKO Radio. Dalton Trumbo.

(Screenplay—Adapted)

Around the World in 80 Days, The Michael Todd Co., Inc.; United Artists. James Poe, John Farrow and S. J. Perelman.

(Screenplay—Original)

The Red Balloon, Films Montsouris; Lopert Films. (France) Albert Lamorisse.

Honorary Award

To Eddie Cantor for distinguished service to the film industry. [ [Statuette]]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Y. Frank Freeman

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Buddy Adler

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class III)

To Richard H. Ranger of Rangertone, Inc., for the development of a synchronous recording and reproducing system for quarter-inch magnetic tape.

To Ted Hirsch, Carl Hauge and Edward Reichard of Consolidated Film Industries for an automatic scene counter for laboratory projection rooms.

To the Technical Departments of Paramount Pictures Corp. for the engineering and development of the Paramount light-weight horizontal-movement VistVision camera.

To Roy C. Stewart and Sons of Stewart-Trans Lux Corp., Dr. C. R. Daily and the Transparency Department of Paramount Pictures Corp. for the engineering and development of the HiTrans and Para-HiTrans rear projection screens.

To the Construction Department of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio for a new hand-portable fog machine.

To Daniel J. Bloomberg, John Pond, William Wade, the Republic Studio Engineering Department and the Republic Studio Camera Department for the Naturama adaptation to the Mitchell camera.