31st Academy Awards

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface

Best Motion Picture	Best Director
*Gigi* Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Auntie Mame Separate Tables The Defiant Ones	Vincente Minnelli – Gigi Richard Brooks – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Robert Wise – I Want to Live! Stanley Kramer – The Defiant Ones Mark Robson – The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Best Actor	Best Actress
David Niven – Separate Tables Paul Newman – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Tony Curtis – The Defiant Ones Sidney Poitier – The Defiant Ones Spencer Tracy – The Old Man and the Sea	Susan Hayward – I Want to Live! Rosalind Russell – Auntie Mame Elizabeth Taylor – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Deborah Kerr – Separate Tables Shirley MacLaine – Some Came Running
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Burl Ives – The Big Country Arthur Kennedy – Some Came Running Gig Young – Teacher's Pet Lee J. Cobb – The Brothers Karamazov Theodore Bikel – The Defiant Ones	Wendy Hiller – Separate Tables Peggy Cass – Auntie Mame Maureen Stapleton – Lonelyhearts Martha Hyer – Some Came Running Cara Williams – The Defiant Ones
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
The Defiant Ones – Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith Houseboat – Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose Teacher's Pet – Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin The Goddess – Paddy Chayefsky The Sheepman – William Bowers and James Edward Grant	Gigi – Alan Jay Lerner Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Richard Brooks and James Poe I Want to Live! – Don Mankiewicz and Nelson Gidding Separate Tables – John Gay and Terence Rattigan The Horse's Mouth – Alec Guinness
Best Foreign Language Film
My Uncle (France) Arms and the Man (Germany) Big Deal on Madonna Street (Italy) The Road a Year Long (Yugoslavia) La venganza (Spain)
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
*White Wilderness* – Ben Sharpsteen Antarctic Crossing The Hidden World Psychiatric Nursing	*Ama Girls* – Ben Sharpsteen Employees Only Journey Into Spring The Living Stone Overture
Best Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
*Grand Canyon* – Walt Disney Journey Into Spring The Kiss Snows of Aorangi T Is for Tumbleweed	*Knighty Knight Bugs* – John W. Burton Paul Bunyan Sidney's Family Tree
Best Dramatic or Comedy Score	Best Musical Score
The Old Man and the Sea – Dimitri Tiomkin Separate Tables – David Raksin The Big Country – Jerome Moross The Young Lions – Hugo Friedhofer White Wilderness – Oliver Wallace	Gigi – André Previn Damn Yankees! – Ray Heindorf Mardi Gras – Lionel Newman South Pacific – Alfred Newman and Ken Darby The Bolshoi Ballet – Yuri Faier and G. Rozhdestvensky
Best Original Song	Best Sound Recording
*"Gigi" from Gigi* – Music by Alan Jay Lerner; Lyric by Frederick Loewe** "A Certain Smile" from A Certain Smile – Music by Sammy Fain; Lyric by Paul Francis Webster "Almost In Your Arms (Love Song from Houseboat)" from Houseboat – Music and Lyric by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans "A Very Precious Love" from Marjorie Morningstar – Music by Sammy Fain; Lyric by Paul Francis Webster "To Love and Be Loved" from Some Came Running – Music by James Van Heusen; Lyric by Sammy Cahn	South Pacific – Fred Hynes, Todd-AO Sound Department A Time to Love and a Time to Die – Leslie I. Carey, Universal-International Studio Sound Department I Want to Live! – Gordon E. Sawyer, Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department The Young Lions – Carlton W. Faulkner, Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Department Vertigo – George Dutton, Paramount Studio Sound Department
Best Art Direction	Best Costume Design
Gigi – Art Direction: William A. Horning and Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Henry Grace and Keogh Gleason A Certain Smile – Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler and John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott and Paul S. Fox Auntie Mame – Art Direction: Malcolm Bert; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins Bell Book and Candle – Art Direction: Cary Odell; Set Decoration: Louis Diage Vertigo – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Henry Bumstead; Set Decoration: Sam Comer and Frank McKelvy	Gigi – Cecil Beaton A Certain Smile – Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills Bell Book and Candle – Jean Louis Some Came Running – Walter Plunkett The Buccaneer – Ralph Jester, Edith Head and John Jensen
Best Cinematography, Black and White	Best Cinematography, Color
The Defiant Ones – Sam Leavitt Desire Under the Elms – Daniel L. Fapp I Want to Live! – Lionel Lindon Separate Tables – Charles Lang, Jr. The Young Lions – Joseph MacDonald	Gigi – Joseph Ruttenberg Auntie Mame – Harry Stradling, Sr. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – William Daniels South Pacific – Leon Shamroy The Old Man and the Sea – James Wong Howe
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
Gigi – Adrienne Fazan Auntie Mame – William Ziegler Cowboy – William A. Lyon and Al Clark I Want to Live! – William Hornbeck The Defiant Ones – Frederick Knudtson	tom thumb – Tom Howard Torpedo Run – A. Arnold Gillespie and Harold Humbrock