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All awards28th Academy Awards (1956) - Movies from 1955
Main awards
Best Director: Delbert Mann
Best Leading Actor: Ernest Borgnine
Best Leading Actress: Anna Magnani
Best Supporting Actor: Jack Lemmon
Best Screenplay: Paddy Chayefsky
Most awarded movies
Marty (4)
Oklahoma! (2)
Picnic (2)
Most nominated movies
Marty (8)
Picnic (6)
Oklahoma! (4)
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Best Picture Year 1956
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Best Picture
Winner
 
Marty
(8 Nominations4 Awards)
Delbert Mann
Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti
Nominees
Best Director
Winner
 
Delbert Mann
Marty
(8 Nominations4 Awards)
Delbert Mann
Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti
Nominees
Best Leading Actor
Winner
 
Ernest Borgnine
Marty
(8 Nominations4 Awards)
Delbert Mann
Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti
Nominees
Best Leading Actress
Winner
 
Anna Magnani
Daniel Mann
Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan
Nominees
Best Supporting Actor
Winner
 
Jack Lemmon
John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy
Henry Fonda, James Cagney, Jack Lemmon
Nominees
  • Joe Mantell
     Marty
    Delbert Mann
    Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti, Joe Mantell
    (8 Nominations4 Awards)
  • Arthur O'Connell
     Picnic
    Joshua Logan
    William Holden, Kim Novak, Rosalind Russell, Susan Strasberg
    (6 Nominations2 Awards)
  • Sal Mineo
     Rebel Without a Cause
    Nicholas Ray
    James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus
    (3 Nominations )
  • Arthur Kennedy
     Trial
    Mark Robson
    Glenn Ford, Dorothy McGuire, Arthur Kennedy, John Hodiak
Best Supporting Actress
Winner
 
Jo Van Fleet
Elia Kazan
James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie Harris
Nominees
Best Screenplay
Winner
 
Paddy Chayefsky
Marty
(8 Nominations4 Awards)
Delbert Mann
Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti
Nominees
Best Story
Winner
 
Daniel Fuchs
Charles Vidor
Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell
Nominees
Best Story and Screenplay
Winner
 
William Ludwig, Sonya Levien
Curtis Bernhardt
Glenn Ford, Eleanor Parker, Roger Moore
Nominees
Best Film Editing
Winner
 
Charles Nelson, William A. Lyon
Picnic
(6 Nominations2 Awards)
Joshua Logan
William Holden, Kim Novak, Rosalind Russell
Nominees
Best Cinematography, Color
Winner
 
Robert Burks
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Brigitte Auber
Nominees
Best Cinematography, Black & White
Winner
 
James Wong Howe
Daniel Mann
Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan
Nominees
Best Score Drama or Comedy
Winner
 
Alfred Newman
Henry King
Jennifer Jones, William Holden, Isobel Elsom
Nominees
Best Score Musical
Winner
 
Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton, Adolph Deutsch
Oklahoma!
(4 Nominations2 Awards)
Fred Zinnemann
Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Charlotte Greenwood
Nominees
Best Song
Winner
 
Sammy Fain,Paul Francis Webster ("Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing")
Henry King
Jennifer Jones, William Holden, Isobel Elsom
Nominees
  • Johnny Mercer ("Something's Gotta Give")
     Daddy Long Legs
    Jean Negulesco
    Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Thelma Ritter, Fred Clark
    (3 Nominations )
  • Nicholas Brodszky, Sammy Cahn ("I'll Never Stop Loving You")
     Love Me or Leave Me
    Charles Vidor
    Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Keith
    (6 Nominations1 Award)
  • Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn "(Love Is) The Tender Trap"
     The Tender Trap
    Charles Walters
    Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, Celeste Holm, David Wayne
  • Alex North, Hy Zaret ("Unchained Melody")
     Unchained
    Hall Bartlett
    Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch, Barbara Hale, Chester Morris, Todd Duncan
Best Art Direction, Color
Winner
 
William Flannery, Jo Mielziner, Robert Priestley
Picnic
(6 Nominations2 Awards)
Joshua Logan
William Holden, Kim Novak, Rosalind Russell
Nominees
  • Lyle R. Wheeler; John DeCuir; Walter M. Scott; Paul S. Fox
     Daddy Long Legs
    Jean Negulesco
    Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Thelma Ritter, Fred Clark
    (3 Nominations )
  • Oliver Smith, Joseph C. Wright, Howard Bristol
     Guys and Dolls
    Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine
    (4 Nominations )
  • Lyle R. Wheeler; George W. Davis; Walter M. Scott; Jack Stubbs
     Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
    Henry King
    Jennifer Jones, William Holden, Isobel Elsom, Richard Loo
    (8 Nominations3 Awards)
  • Hal Pereira; J. McMillan Johnson; Sam Comer; Arthur Krams
     To Catch a Thief
    Alfred Hitchcock
    Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Brigitte Auber, Jessie Royce Landis
    (3 Nominations1 Award)
Best Art Direction, Black & White
Winner
 
Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Sam Comer, Arthur Krams
Daniel Mann
Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan
Nominees
  • Cedric Gibbons; Randall Duell; Edwin B. Willis; Henry Grace
     The Blackboard Jungle
    Richard Brooks
    Glenn Ford, Sidney Poitier, Anne Francis, Vic Morrow
    (4 Nominations )
  • Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm Brown, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt
     I'll Cry Tomorrow
    Daniel Mann
    Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Eddie Albert, Jo Van Fleet
    (4 Nominations1 Award)
  • Joseph C. Wright, Darrell Silvera
     The Man With the Golden Arm
    Otto Preminger
    Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold Stang
    (3 Nominations )
  • Ted Haworth, Walter M. Simonds, Robert Priestley
     Marty
    Delbert Mann
    Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti, Joe Mantell
    (8 Nominations4 Awards)
Best Costume Design, Color
Winner
 
Charles Le Maire
Henry King
Jennifer Jones, William Holden, Isobel Elsom
Nominees
Best Costume Design, Black & White
Winner
 
Helen Rose
Daniel Mann
Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Eddie Albert
Nominees
Best Sound Mixing
Winner
 
Fred Hynes
Oklahoma!
(4 Nominations2 Awards)
Fred Zinnemann
Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Charlotte Greenwood
Nominees
Best Effects, Special Effects
Winner
 
Mark Robson
William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March
Nominees
Best Short Film - Animated
Winner
 
Friz Freleng
Animation
Nominees
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
 
Nancy Hamilton
Documentary
Nominees

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