Awards
Academy Awards:
- Best Picture: Around the World in Eighty Days - Todd, United Artists
- Best Director: George Stevens - Giant
- Best Actor: Yul Brynner - The King and I
- Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman - Anastasia
- Best Supporting Actor: Anthony Quinn - Lust for Life
- Best Supporting Actress: Dorothy Malone - Written on the Wind
- Best Foreign Language Film: La strada, directed by Federico Fellini, Italy
Golden Globe Awards:
- Drama:
- Best Picture: Around the World in Eighty Days
- Best Actor: Kirk Douglas - Lust for Life
- Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman - Anastasia
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: The King and I
- Best Actor: Cantinflas - Around the World in Eighty Days
- Best Actress: Deborah Kerr - The King and I
- Other
- Best Director: Elia Kazan - Baby Doll
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture: Earl Holliman - The Rainmaker
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture: Eileen Heckart - The Bad Seed
- Best Foreign Film: Before Sundown, West Germany
- Best Foreign Film: The Girl in Black, Greece
- Best Foreign Film: Richard III, United Kingdom
- Best Foreign Film: Roses on the Arm, Japan
- Best Foreign Film: War and Peace, Italy
- Best Foreign Film: The White Reindeer, Finland
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- The Silent World (Le monde du silence), directed by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle, France
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): Not awarded
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Invitation to the Dance, directed by Gene Kelly, United States
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