30th Academy Awards - Awards

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface

Best Motion Picture Best Director
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
    • Sayonara
    • Peyton Place
    • Witness for the Prosecution
    • 12 Angry Men
  • David Lean – The Bridge on the River Kwai
    • Sidney Lumet – 12 Angry Men
    • Billy Wilder – Witness for the Prosecution
    • Joshua Logan – Sayonara
    • Mark Robson – Peyton Place
Best Actor Best Actress
  • Alec Guinness – The Bridge on the River Kwai
    • Marlon Brando – Sayonara
    • Anthony Quinn – Wild Is the Wind
    • Anthony Franciosa – A Hatful of Rain
    • Charles Laughton – Witness for the Prosecution
  • Joanne Woodward – The Three Faces of Eve
    • Deborah Kerr – Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
    • Lana Turner – Peyton Place
    • Anna Magnani – Wild Is the Wind
    • Elizabeth Taylor – Raintree County
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
  • Red Buttons – Sayonara
    • Sessue Hayakawa – The Bridge on the River Kwai
    • Russ Tamblyn – Peyton Place
    • Vittorio De Sica – A Farewell to Arms
    • Arthur Kennedy – Peyton Place
  • Miyoshi Umeki – Sayonara
    • Hope Lange – Peyton Place
    • Carolyn Jones – The Bachelor Party
    • Diane Varsi – Peyton Place
    • Elsa Lanchester – Witness for the Prosecution
Best Original Screenplay Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Designing Woman – George Wells
    • I vitelloni – Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano
    • Funny Face – Leonard Gershe
    • Man of a Thousand Faces – Ralph Wheelwright, R. Wright Campbell, Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts
    • The Tin Star – Barney Slater, Joel Kane and Dudley Nichols
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai – Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman and Pierre Boulle
    • 12 Angry Men – Reginald Rose
    • Peyton Place – John Michael Hayes
    • Sayonara – Paul Osborn
    • Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison – John Lee Mahin and John Huston
Best Foreign Language Film Best Documentary Feature
  • Nights of Cabiria (Italy)
    • Mother India (India)
    • The Devil Came at Night (Germany)
    • Nine Lives (Norway)
    • The Gates of Paris (France)
  • Albert Schweitzer
    • On the Bowery
    • Torero!
Best Live Action Short Best Animated Short
  • The Wetback Hound
    • A Chairy Tale
    • City of Gold
    • Foothold on Antarctica
    • Portugal
  • Birds Anonymous
    • One Droopy Knight
    • Tabasco Road
    • Trees and Jamaica Daddy
    • The Truth About Mother Goose
Best Original Score Best Original Song
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai – Malcolm Arnold
    • An Affair to Remember – Hugo Friedhofer
    • Boy on a Dolphin – Hugo Friedhofer
    • Perri – Paul J. Smith
    • Raintree County – Johnny Green
  • "All the Way" from The Joker Is Wild – Music by Jimmy Van Heusen; Lyric by Sammy Cahn
    • "An Affair to Remember" from An Affair to Remember – Music by Harry Warren; Lyric by Leo McCarey and Harold Adamson
    • "April Love" from April Love – Music by Sammy Fain; Lyric by Paul Francis Webster
    • "Wild Is the Wind" from Wild Is the Wind – Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyric by Ned Washington
    • "Tammy" from Tammy and the Bachelor – Music and Lyric by Ray Evans and Johnny Livingston
Best Sound Recording Best Costume Design
  • Sayonara – George Groves, Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department
    • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral – George Dutton, Paramount Studio Sound Department
    • Les Girls – Wesley C. Miller, MGM Studio Sound Department
    • Witness for the Prosecution – Gordon E. Sawyer, Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department
    • Pal Joey – John P. Livadary, Columbia Studio Sound Department
  • Les Girls – Orry-Kelly
    • An Affair to Remember – Charles LeMaire
    • Funny Face – Edith Head and Hubert de Givenchy
    • Pal Joey – Jean Louis
    • Raintree County – Walter Plunkett
Best Art Direction Best Cinematography
  • Sayonara – Art Direction: Ted Haworth; Set Decoration: Robert Priestley
    • Funny Face – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and George W. Davis; Set Decoration: Sam Comer and Ray Moyer
    • Raintree County – Art Direction: William A. Horning and Urie McCleary; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt
    • Les Girls – Art Direction: William A. Horning and Gene Allen; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Richard Pefferle
    • Pal Joey – Art Direction: Walter Holscher; Set Decoration: William Kiernan and Louis Diage
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai – Jack Hildyard
    • Peyton Place – William C. Mellor
    • Funny Face – Ray June
    • An Affair to Remember – Milton Krasner
    • Sayonara – Ellsworth Fredericks
Best Film Editing Best Visual Effects
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai – Peter Taylor
    • Sayonara – Arthur P. Schmidt and Philip W. Anderson
    • Pal Joey – Viola Lawrence and Jerome Thoms
    • Witness for the Prosecution – Daniel Mandell
    • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral – Warren Low
  • The Enemy Below – Walter Rossi
    • The Spirit of St. Louis – Louis Lichtenfield

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