28th Academy Awards

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The 28th Academy Awards were presented at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Marty, a simple and low-budget film usually uncharacteristic of Best Picture awardees, became the shortest film (as well as the second Palme d'Or winner) to win the top honor.

Nominees and Winners

The are listed by awards. The winner of each category is in bold.

Best Motion Picture

• Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (Twentieth Century-Fox)
• Marty (United Artists)
• Mister Roberts (Warner Bros.)
• Picnic (Columbia)
• The Rose Tattoo (Paramount)

Best Actor

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

Best Actress

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

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Actors Natalie Wood and Tab Hunter arrive to the 28th Academy Awards with gossip writer Louella Parsons in the background.

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

Best Directing

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

Best Writing

Motion Picture Story

• Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher for The Private War of Major Benson
• Daniel Fuchs for Love Me or Leave Me
• Beirne Lay, Jr. for Strategic Air Command
• Jean Marsan, Henri Troyat, Jacques Perret, Henri Verneuil and Raoul Ploquin for The Sheep Has Five Legs
• Nicholas Ray for Rebel Without a Cause

Screenplay

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

Story and Screenplay

• Betty Comden and Adolph Green, It's Always Fair Weather
• William Ludwig and Sonya Levien, Interrupted Melody
• Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose, The Seven Little Foys
• Milton Sperling and Emmet Lavery, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
• Jacques Tati and Henri Marquet, Mr. Hulot's Holiday

Cinematography

Black-and-White

• Arthur E. Arling, I'll Cry Tomorrow
• Russell Harlan, Blackboard Jungle
• James Wong Howe, The Rose Tattoo
• Charles Lang, Queen Bee
• Joseph LaShelle, Marty

Color

• Robert Burks, To Catch a Thief'
• Harold Lipstein, A Man Called Peter
• Leon Shamroy, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Harry Stradling, Guys and Dolls
• Robert Surtees, Oklahoma!

Art Direction

Black-and-White

• Cedric Gibbons and Malcolm Brown, art direction; Edwin B. Willis and Hugh B. Hunt, set decoration, I'll Cry Tomorrow
• Cedric Gibbons and Randall Duell, art direction; Edwin B. Willis and Henry Grace, set decoration, Blackboard Jungle
• Edward S. Haworth and Walter Simonds, art direction; Robert Priestley, set decoration, Marty
• Hal Pereira and Tambi Larsen, art direction; Sam Comer and Arthur Krams, set decoration, The Rose Tattoo
• Joseph C. Wright, art direction; Darrell Silvera, set decoration, The Man with the Golden Arm

Color

• William Flannery and Jo Mielziner, art direction; Robert Priestley, set decoration, Picnic
• Hal Pereira and Joseph McMillan Johnson, art direction; Sam Comer and Arthur Krams, set decoration, To Catch a Thief
• Oliver Smith and Joseph C. Wright, art direction; Howard Bristol, set decoration, Guys and Dolls
• Lyle Wheeler and George W. Davis, art direction; Walter M. Scott and Jack Stubbs, set decoration, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Lyle Wheeler and John DeCuir, art direction; Walter M. Scott and Paul S. Fox, set decoration, Daddy Long Legs

Sound Recording

• MGM Studio Sound Dept., Love Me or Leave Me
• RCA Sound Department, Not as a Stranger
• Todd-AO Sound Department, Oklahoma!
• Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Dept., Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept., Mister Roberts

Music

Song

• "I'll Never Stop Loving You", Love Me or Leave Me, Nicholas Brodszky, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics
• "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing", Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Sammy Fain, music; Paul Francis Webster, lyrics
• "Something's Gotta Give", Daddy Long Legs, Johnny Mercer, music and lyrics
• (Love Is) "The Tender Trap", The Tender Trap, James Van Heusen, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics
• "Unchained Melody", Unchained, Alex North, music; Hy Zaret, lyrics

Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

• Elmer Bernstein, The Man with the Golden Arm
• George Duning, Picnic
• Alfred Newman, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Alex North, The Rose Tattoo
• Max Steiner, Battle Cry

Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton and Adolph Deutsch, Oklahoma!
• Jay Blackton and Cyril J. Mockridge, Guys and Dolls
• Percy Faith and George Stoll, Love Me or Leave Me
• Alfred Newman, Daddy Long Legs
• André Previn, It's Always Fair Weather

Film Editing

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

Costume Design

Black-and-White

• Beatrice Dawson, The Pickwick Papers
• Edith Head, The Rose Tattoo
• Tadaoto Kainosho, Ugetsu
• Jean Louis, Queen Bee
• Helen Rose, I'll Cry Tomorrow

Color

• Edith Head, To Catch a Thief
• Charles LeMaire, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills, The Virgin Queen
• Helen Rose, Interrupted Melody
• Irene Sharaff, Guys and Dolls

Special Effects

• The Bridges at Toko-Ri (Paramount)
• The Dam Busters (Warner Bros.)
• The Rains of Ranchipur (Twentieth Century-Fox)

Short Subjects

Cartoon

• Good Will to Men (MGM Cartoon Series) (Frederick Quimby, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, producers; MGM)
• The Legend of Rock-a-Bye Point (Walter Lantz Productions; Universal-International)
• No Hunting (Donald Duck Series) (Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio)
• Speedy Gonzales (Merrie Melodies Series) (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.; Warner Bros.)

One-Reel

• Gadgets Galore (Warner Varieties Series) (Robert Youngson, producer; Warner Bros.)
• Survival City (Movietone CinemaScope Series) (Edmund Reek, producer; Twentieth Century-Fox)
• 3rd Ave. El (Carson Davidson Productions; Ardee Films)
• Three Kisses (Topper Special Series) (Justin Herman, producer; Paramount)

Two-Reel

• The Battle of Gettysburg (Dore Schary, producer; MGM)
• The Face of Lincoln (University of Southern California Presentation; Cavalcade Pictures, Inc.)
• On The Twelfth Day…(United Kingdom Series) (Go Pictures, Inc.; George Brest and Associates)
• Switzerland (People and Places Series) (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista)
• 24-Hour Alert (Cedric Francis, producer; Warner Bros.)

Documentary

Short Subject

• The Battle of Gettysburg (Dore Schary, producer; MGM)
• The Face of Lincoln (University of Southern California Presentation; Cavalcade Pictures, Inc.)
• Men Against the Arctic (People and Places Series) (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista)

Feature

• Heartbreak Ridge (Rene Risacher Production; Tudor Pictures)
• Helen Keller in Her Story (Nancy Hamilton, producer; Nancy Hamilton Presentation)

Special Awards

• To Samurai, The Legend of Musashi (Japan), best foreign language film first released in the United States during 1955