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28th Academy Awards

Held in 1956 · 17 categories

Best Picture

Best Actor

Winner Marty · Ernest Borgnine
Nominee Bad Day at Black Rock · Spencer Tracy
Nominee East of Eden · James Dean
Nominee Love Me or Leave Me · James Cagney
Nominee The Man with the Golden Arm · Frank Sinatra

Best Actress

Winner The Rose Tattoo · Anna Magnani
Nominee I'll Cry Tomorrow · Susan Hayward
Nominee Interrupted Melody · Eleanor Parker
Nominee Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing · Jennifer Jones
Nominee Summertime · Katharine Hepburn

Best Supporting Actor

Winner Mister Roberts · Jack Lemmon
Nominee Marty · Joe Mantell
Nominee Picnic · Arthur O'Connell
Nominee Rebel Without a Cause · Sal Mineo
Nominee Trial · Arthur Kennedy

Best Supporting Actress

Winner East of Eden · Jo Van Fleet
Nominee Marty · Betsy Blair
Nominee Pete Kelly's Blues · Peggy Lee
Nominee Rebel Without a Cause · Natalie Wood
Nominee The Rose Tattoo · Marisa Pavan

Best Director

Winner Marty · Delbert Mann
Nominee Bad Day at Black Rock · John Sturges
Nominee East of Eden · Elia Kazan
Nominee Picnic · Joshua Logan
Nominee Summertime · David Lean

Best Original Screenplay

Winner Interrupted Melody · Sonya Levien, William Ludwig
Nominee It's Always Fair Weather · Adolph Green, Betty Comden
Nominee Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot · Henri Marquet, Jacques Tati
Nominee The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell · Emmet Lavery, Milton Sperling
Nominee The Seven Little Foys · Jack Rose, Melville Shavelson

Best Adapted Screenplay

Winner Marty · Paddy Chayefsky
Nominee Bad Day at Black Rock · Millard Kaufman
Nominee Blackboard Jungle · Richard Brooks
Nominee East of Eden · Paul Osborn
Nominee Love Me or Leave Me · Daniel Fuchs, Isobel Lennart

Best Documentary Feature

Winner Helen Keller in Her Story · Nancy Hamilton
Nominee Crèvecoeur · René Risacher

Best Original Score

Winner Oklahoma! · Adolph Deutsch, Jay Blackton, Robert Russell Bennett
Nominee Battle Cry · Max Steiner
Nominee Daddy Long Legs · Alfred Newman
Nominee Guys and Dolls · Cyril J. Mockridge, Jay Blackton
Nominee It's Always Fair Weather · André Previn
Nominee Love Me or Leave Me · Georgie Stoll, Percy Faith
Nominee Picnic · George Duning
Nominee The Man with the Golden Arm · Elmer Bernstein
Nominee The Rose Tattoo · Alex North

Best Original Song

Winner Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing from Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing · Paul Francis Webster, Sammy Fain
Nominee (Love Is) The Tender Trap from The Tender Trap · Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn
Nominee I'll Never Stop Loving You from Love Me or Leave Me · Nicholas Brodzsky, Sammy Cahn
Nominee Something's Gotta Give from Daddy Long Legs · Johnny Mercer
Nominee Unchained Melody from Unchained · Alex North, Hy Zaret

Best Cinematography

Winner The Rose Tattoo · James Wong Howe
Winner To Catch a Thief · Robert Burks
Nominee A Man Called Peter · Harold Lipstein
Nominee Blackboard Jungle · Russell Harlan
Nominee Guys and Dolls · Harry Stradling
Nominee I'll Cry Tomorrow · Arthur Arling
Nominee Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing · Leon Shamroy
Nominee Marty · Joseph LaShelle
Nominee Oklahoma! · Robert L. Surtees
Nominee Queen Bee · Charles Lang

Best Film Editing

Winner Picnic · Charles Nelson, William Lyon
Nominee Blackboard Jungle · Ferris Webster
Nominee Oklahoma! · Gene Ruggiero, George Boemler
Nominee The Bridges at Toko-Ri · Alma Macrorie
Nominee The Rose Tattoo · Warren Low

Best Production Design

Winner Picnic · Jo Mielziner, Robert Priestley, William Flannery
Nominee Guys and Dolls · Howard Bristol, Joseph C. Wright, Oliver Smith
Nominee I'll Cry Tomorrow · Cedric Gibbons, Edwin B. Willis, Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt, Malcolm Brown, Randall Duell
Nominee Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing · George Davis, Jack Stubbs, John DeCuir, Sr., Lyle R. Wheeler, Paul S. Fox, Walter M. Scott
Nominee Marty · Robert Priestley, Ted Haworth, Walter M. Simonds
Nominee The Man with the Golden Arm · Darrell Silvera, Joseph C. Wright
Nominee To Catch a Thief · Arthur Krams, Hal Pereira, Joseph McMillan Johnson, Samuel M. Comer, Tambi Larsen

Best Costume Design

Nominee Guys and Dolls · Irene Sharaff
Nominee Interrupted Melody · Helen Rose
Nominee Queen Bee · Jean Louis
Nominee The Pickwick Papers · Beatrice Dawson
Nominee The Virgin Queen · Charles LeMaire, Mary Wills
Nominee To Catch a Thief · Edith Head
Nominee Ugetsu · Tadaoto Kainosho

Best Sound

Winner Oklahoma! · Fred Hynes
Nominee Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing · Carlton W. Faulkner
Nominee Love Me or Leave Me · Wesley C. Miller
Nominee Mister Roberts · William A. Mueller
Nominee Not as a Stranger · Watson Jones

Best Visual Effects