Academy Awards®
Awards for 1956


Picture
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
* Michael Todd - Producer, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
William Wyler - Producer, FRIENDLY PERSUASION
George Stevens - Producer, Henry Ginsberg - Producer, GIANT
Charles Brackett - Producer, THE KING AND I
Cecil B. De Mille - Producer, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

Actor
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
* Yul Brynner, THE KING AND I
James Dean, GIANT
Kirk Douglas, LUST FOR LIFE
Rock Hudson, GIANT
Lord Laurence Olivier, RICHARD III

Actress
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
Carroll Baker, BABY DOLL
* Ingrid Bergman, ANASTASIA
Katharine Hepburn, THE RAINMAKER
Nancy Kelly, THE BAD SEED
Deborah Kerr, THE KING AND I

Supporting Actor
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
Don Murray, BUS STOP
Anthony Perkins, FRIENDLY PERSUASION
* Anthony Quinn, LUST FOR LIFE
Mickey Rooney, THE BOLD AND THE BRAVE
Robert Stack, WRITTEN ON THE WIND

Supporting Actress
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
Mildred Dunnock, BABY DOLL
Eileen Heckart, THE BAD SEED
Mercedes McCambridge, GIANT
Patty McCormack, THE BAD SEED
* Dorothy Malone, WRITTEN ON THE WIND


Director
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
Michael Anderson, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Walter Lang, THE KING AND I
* George Stevens, GIANT
King Vidor, WAR AND PEACE
William Wyler, FRIENDLY PERSUASION

Writing - Motion Picture Story
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
* Dalton Trumbo, THE BRAVE ONE
Writer blacklisted and considered ineligible under Academy by-laws; used the pseudonym Robert Rich. Awarded in 1975.
Leo Katcher, THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY
Edward Bernds, Elwood Ullman, HIGH SOCIETY
Withdrawn from the final ballot due to being mistakenly nominated instead of the 1956 musical, HIGH SOCIETY.
Jean Paul Sartre, THE PROUD AND THE BEAUTIFUL
Cesare Zavattini, UMBERTO D.

Writing - Screenplay (Original)
(formerly Story and Screenplay)
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
Robert Lewin, THE BOLD AND THE BRAVE
Andrew L. Stone, JULIE
Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, LA STRADA
William Rose, THE LADYKILLERS
* Albert Lamorisse, THE RED BALLOON

Writing - Screenplay (Adapted)
(formerly Screenplay)
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
* James Poe, John V. Farrow, S.J. Perelman, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Tennessee Williams, BABY DOLL
Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat, GIANT
Norman Corwin, LUST FOR LIFE
Michael Wilson, FRIENDLY PERSUASION
Writer blacklisted and considered ineligible under Academy by-laws.

Foreign Film
Prior to 1956 an Honorary Award voted by Board of Governors.
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
THE CAPTAIN OF KOPENICK
(Federal Republic of Germany)
GERVAISE
(France)
THE BURMESE HARP
(Japan)
* LA STRADA
(Italy)
QIVITOQ
(Denmark)

Art Direction/Set Decoration - Color
Rules changed in 1955: Awards, not plaques, received for Set Decoration. Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
James W. Sullivan - Art Direction, Ken Adams - Art Direction, Ross J. Dowd - Set Decoration, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Boris Leven - Art Direction, Ralph S. Hurst - Set Decoration, GIANT
* Lyle Wheeler - Art Direction, John DeCuir - Art Direction, Walter M. Scott - Set Decoration, Paul S. Fox - Set Decoration, THE KING AND I
Cedric Gibbons - Art Direction, Hans Peters - Art Direction, Preston Ames - Art Direction, Edwin B. Willis - Set Decoration, Keogh Gleason - Set Decoration, LUST FOR LIFE
Hal Pereira - Art Direction, Walter H. Tyler - Art Direction, Albert Nozaki - Art Direction, Sam M. Comer - Set Decoration, Ray Moyer - Set Decoration, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

Art Direction/Set Decoration - Black & White
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
Takashi Matsuyama - Art Direction, THE SEVEN SAMURAI
Hal Pereira - Art Direction, A. Earl Hedrick - Art Direction, Sam M. Comer - Set Decoration, Frank R. McKelvy - Set Decoration, THE PROUD AND PROFANE
Ross Bellah - Art Direction, William R. Kiernan - Set Decoration, Louis Diage - Set Decoration, THE SOLID GOLD CADILLAC
* Cedric Gibbons - Art Direction, Malcolm Brown - Art Direction, Edwin B. Willis - Set Decoration, Keogh Gleason - Set Decoration, SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME
Lyle Wheeler - Art Direction, Jack Martin Smith - Art Direction, Walter M. Scott - Set Decoration, Stuart A. Reiss - Set Decoration, TEEN-AGE REBEL

Cinematography - Color
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
* Lionel Lindon, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Harry Stradling, Sr., THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY
Leon Shamroy, THE KING AND I
Loyal Griggs, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Jack Cardiff, WAR AND PEACE

Cinematography - Black & White
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
Boris Kaufman, BABY DOLL
Hal Rosson, THE BAD SEED
Burnett Guffey, THE HARDER THEY FALL
* Joseph Ruttenberg, SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME
Walter Strenge, STAGECOACH TO FURY

Costume Design - Color
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
Miles White, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Moss Mabry, Marjorie Best, GIANT
* Irene Sharaff, THE KING AND I
Edith Head, Ralph Jester, John Jensen, Dorothy Jeakins, Arnold Friberg, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Marie De Matteis, WAR AND PEACE

Costume Design - Black & White
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
Kohei Ezaki, THE SEVEN SAMURAI
Helen Rose, THE POWER AND THE PRIZE
Edith Head, THE PROUD AND PROFANE
* Jean Louis, THE SOLID GOLD CADILLAC
Charles LeMaire, Mary Wills, TEEN-AGE REBEL

Documentary Feature
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
Louis Clyde Stoumen - Producer, THE NAKED EYE
* Jacques-Yves Cousteau - Producer, THE SILENT WORLD
The Government Film Committee of Denmark, WHERE MOUNTAINS FLOAT

Documentary Short Subject
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
Charles Guggenheim & Assoc., A CITY DECIDES
John Healy - Producer, THE DARK WAVE
Valentine Davies - Producer, THE HOUSE WITHOUT A NAME
Ward Kimball - Producer, MAN IN SPACE
* Louis Clyde Stoumen - Producer, THE TRUE STORY OF THE CIVIL WAR

Film Editing
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
* Gene Ruggiero, Paul Weatherwax, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Merrill G. White, THE BRAVE ONE
William Hornbeck, Philip W. Anderson, Fred Bohanan, GIANT
Albert Akst, SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME
Anne Bauchens, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

Music - Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
Alfred Newman, ANASTASIA
* Victor Young, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Hugo Friedhofer, BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL
Dimitri Tiomkin, GIANT
Alex North, THE RAINMAKER

Music - Scoring of a Musical Picture
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
Lionel Newman, THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE
Morris Stoloff, George Duning, THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY
Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin, HIGH SOCIETY
* Alfred Newman, Ken Darby, THE KING AND I
George Stoll, Johnny Green, MEET ME IN LAS VEGAS

Song
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
Dimitri Tiomkin - Music, Paul Francis Webster - Lyrics, FRIENDLY PERSUASION
"Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)"
Cole Porter - Music & Lyrics, HIGH SOCIETY
"True Love"
Leith Stevens - Music, Tom Adair - Lyrics, JULIE
"Julie"
* Jay Livingston - Music & Lyrics, Ray Evans - Music & Lyrics, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
"Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)"
Victor Young - Music, Sammy Cahn - Lyrics, WRITTEN ON THE WIND
"Written on the Wind"

Animated Short
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
Stephen Bosustow - Producer, GERALD MCBOING-BOING ON PLANET MOO
Stephen Bosustow - Producer, THE JAYWALKER
* Stephen Bosustow - Producer, MISTER MAGOO'S PUDDLE JUMPER

Short Subjects - One-Reel
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
* Konstantin Kalser - Producer, CRASHING THE WATER BARRIER
Robert Youngson - Producer, I NEVER FORGET A FACE
Cedric Francis - Producer, TIME STOOD STILL

Short Subjects - Two-Reel
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
* George K. Arthur - Producer, THE BESPOKE OVERCOAT
Larry Lansburgh - Producer, COW DOG
John Healy - Producer, THE DARK WAVE
Walt Disney - Producer, SAMOA

Sound Recording
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
John Myers - Sound Director, THE BRAVE ONE
John Livadary (Columbia Studio Sound Department), THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY
Gordon R. Glennan (Westrex Sound Services Inc.), Gordon Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department), FRIENDLY PERSUASION
* Carl Faulkner (20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department), THE KING AND I
Loren L. Ryder (Paramount Studio Sound Department), THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

Special Effects
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
A. Arnold Gillespie, Irving Ries, Wesley C. Miller, FORBIDDEN PLANET
* John Fulton, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

Class I (Statuette)
No award given for 1956.
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.

Class II (Plaque)
No award given for 1956.
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.

Class III (Citation)
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
* Richard Ranger (Rangertone Inc.)
For the development of a synchronous recording and reproducing system for quarter-inch magnetic tape.
* Ted Hirsch (Consolidated Film Industries)
Carl Hauge (Consolidated Film Industries)
Edward Reichard (Consolidated Film Industries)
For an automatic scene counter for laboratory projection rooms.
* Technical Departments of Paramount Pictures Corporation, For the engineering and development of the Paramount lightweight horizontal-movement camera.
* Roy C. Stewart (Sons of Stewart-Trans Lux Corp.)
Dr. C R. Daily, Transparency Department of Paramount Pictures Corporation, For the engineering and development of the HiTrans and Para-HiTrans rear projection screen.
* The Construction Department of MGM Studio, For a new hand-portable fog machine.
* Daniel J. Bloomberg, John Pond, William Wade, Engineering and Camera Departmetns of Republic Studio, For the Naturama adaptation to the Mitchell camera.

Honorary and Other Awards
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
* Eddie Cantor, For distinguished service to the film industry. Winner presented a Statuette.

The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
* Buddy Adler,
The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
This award was instituted in 1956.
Rules changed in 1956: No one may be nominated for an Oscar if he has admitted Communist Party membership and has not renounced that membership, if he has refused to testify before a Congressional Committee or if he has refused to respond to a subpoena from such committee.
* Y. Frank Freeman,