Year, Category, Nominee, Additional Info, Won an Oscar?
1956 (29th), Actor - Leading Role, Yul Brynner, The King and I {'The King'}, YES
1956 (29th), Actor - Leading Role, James Dean, Giant {'Jett Rink'}, NO
1956 (29th), Actor - Leading Role, Kirk Douglas, Lust for Life {'Vincent Van Gogh'}, NO
1956 (29th), Actor - Leading Role, Rock Hudson, Giant {'Bick Benedict'}, NO
1956 (29th), Actor - Leading Role, Sir Laurence Olivier, Richard III {'Richard III'}, NO
1956 (29th), Actor - Supporting Role, Don Murray, Bus Stop {'Bo'}, NO
1956 (29th), Actor - Supporting Role, Anthony Perkins, Friendly Persuasion {'Josh Birdwell'}, NO
1956 (29th), Actor - Supporting Role, Anthony Quinn, Lust for Life {'Paul Gauguin'}, YES
1956 (29th), Actor - Supporting Role, Mickey Rooney, The Bold and the Brave {'Dooley'}, NO
1956 (29th), Actor - Supporting Role, Robert Stack, Written on the Wind {'Kyle Hadley'}, NO
1956 (29th), Actress - Leading Role, Carroll Baker, Baby Doll {'Baby Doll'}, NO
1956 (29th), Actress - Leading Role, Ingrid Bergman, Anastasia {'The Woman'}, YES
1956 (29th), Actress - Leading Role, Katharine Hepburn, The Rainmaker {'Lizzie Curry'}, NO
1956 (29th), Actress - Leading Role, Nancy Kelly, The Bad Seed {'Christine Penmark'}, NO
1956 (29th), Actress - Leading Role, Deborah Kerr, The King and I {'Anna'}, NO
1956 (29th), Actress - Supporting Role, Mildred Dunnock, Baby Doll {'Aunt Rose Comfort'}, NO
1956 (29th), Actress - Supporting Role, Eileen Heckart, The Bad Seed {'Mrs. Daigle'}, NO
1956 (29th), Actress - Supporting Role, Mercedes McCambridge, Giant {'Luz Benedict'}, NO
1956 (29th), Actress - Supporting Role, Patty McCormack, The Bad Seed {'Rhoda Penmark'}, NO
1956 (29th), Actress - Supporting Role, Dorothy Malone, Written on the Wind {'Marylee Hadley'}, YES
1956 (29th), Art Direction, The Magnificent Seven, Takashi Matsuyama, NO
1956 (29th), Art Direction, The Proud and Profane, "Art Direction: Hal Pereira, A. Earl Hedrick; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer, Frank R. McKelvy", NO
1956 (29th), Art Direction, The Solid Gold Cadillac, "Art Direction: Ross Bellah; Set Decoration: William R. Kiernan, Louis Diage", NO
1956 (29th), Art Direction, Somebody Up There Likes Me, "Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm F. Brown; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason", YES
1956 (29th), Art Direction, Teenage Rebel, "Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler, Jack Martin Smith; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss", NO
1956 (29th), Art Direction, Around the World in 80 Days, "Art Direction: James W. Sullivan, Ken Adam; Set Decoration: Ross J. Dowd", NO
1956 (29th), Art Direction, Giant, Art Direction: Boris Leven; Set Decoration: Ralph S. Hurst, NO
1956 (29th), Art Direction, The King and I, "Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler, John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox", YES
1956 (29th), Art Direction, Lust for Life, "Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason", NO
1956 (29th), Art Direction, The Ten Commandments, "Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Walter H. Tyler, Albert Nozaki; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer", NO
1956 (29th), Cinematography, Baby Doll, Boris Kaufman, NO
1956 (29th), Cinematography, The Bad Seed, Hal Rosson, NO
1956 (29th), Cinematography, The Harder They Fall, Burnett Guffey, NO
1956 (29th), Cinematography, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Joseph Ruttenberg, YES
1956 (29th), Cinematography, Stagecoach to Fury, Walter Strenge, NO
1956 (29th), Cinematography, Around the World in 80 Days, Lionel Lindon, YES
1956 (29th), Cinematography, The Eddy Duchin Story, Harry Stradling, NO
1956 (29th), Cinematography, The King and I, Leon Shamroy, NO
1956 (29th), Cinematography, The Ten Commandments, Loyal Griggs, NO
1956 (29th), Cinematography, War and Peace, Jack Cardiff, NO
1956 (29th), Costume Design, The Magnificent Seven, Kohei Ezaki, NO
1956 (29th), Costume Design, The Power and the Prize, Helen Rose, NO
1956 (29th), Costume Design, The Proud and Profane, Edith Head, NO
1956 (29th), Costume Design, The Solid Gold Cadillac, Jean Louis, YES
1956 (29th), Costume Design, Teenage Rebel, "Charles LeMaire, Mary Wills", NO
1956 (29th), Costume Design, Around the World in 80 Days, Miles White, NO
1956 (29th), Costume Design, Giant, "Moss Mabry, Marjorie Best", NO
1956 (29th), Costume Design, The King and I, Irene Sharaff, YES
1956 (29th), Costume Design, The Ten Commandments, "Edith Head, Ralph Jester, John Jensen, Dorothy Jeakins, Arnold Friberg", NO
1956 (29th), Costume Design, War and Peace, Marie De Matteis, NO
1956 (29th), Directing, Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Anderson, NO
1956 (29th), Directing, Friendly Persuasion, William Wyler, NO
1956 (29th), Directing, Giant, George Stevens, YES
1956 (29th), Directing, The King and I, Walter Lang, NO
1956 (29th), Directing, War and Peace, King Vidor, NO
1956 (29th), Documentary (Feature), The Naked Eye, "Louis Clyde Stoumen, Producer", NO
1956 (29th), Documentary (Feature), The Silent World, "Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Producer", YES
1956 (29th), Documentary (Feature), Where Mountains Float, The Government Film Committee of Denmark, NO
1956 (29th), Documentary (Short Subject), A City Decides, "Charles Guggenheim & Associates, Inc.", NO
1956 (29th), Documentary (Short Subject), The Dark Wave, "John Healy, Producer", NO
1956 (29th), Documentary (Short Subject), The House without a Name, "Valentine Davies, Producer", NO
1956 (29th), Documentary (Short Subject), Man in Space, "Ward Kimball, Producer", NO
1956 (29th), Documentary (Short Subject), The True Story of the Civil War, "Louis Clyde Stoumen, Producer", YES
1956 (29th), Film Editing, Around the World in 80 Days, "Gene Ruggiero, Paul Weatherwax", YES
1956 (29th), Film Editing, The Brave One, Merrill G. White, NO
1956 (29th), Film Editing, Giant, "William Hornbeck, Philip W. Anderson, Fred Bohanan", NO
1956 (29th), Film Editing, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Albert Akst, NO
1956 (29th), Film Editing, The Ten Commandments, Anne Bauchens, NO
1956 (29th), Foreign Language Film, The Captain of Kopenick, "Federal Republic of Germany - West; Gyula Trebitsch and Walter Koppel, Producers", NO
1956 (29th), Foreign Language Film, Gervaise, "France; Annie Dorfmann, Producer", NO
1956 (29th), Foreign Language Film, Harp of Burma, "Japan; Masayuki Takagi, Producer", NO
1956 (29th), Foreign Language Film, La Strada, "Italy; Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti, Producers", YES
1956 (29th), Foreign Language Film, Qivitoq, "Denmark; O. Dalsgaard-Olsen, Producer", NO
1956 (29th), Music (Scoring), Anastasia, Alfred Newman, NO
1956 (29th), Music (Scoring), Around the World in 80 Days, Victor Young, YES
1956 (29th), Music (Scoring), Between Heaven and Hell, Hugo Friedhofer, NO
1956 (29th), Music (Scoring), Giant, Dimitri Tiomkin, NO
1956 (29th), Music (Scoring), The Rainmaker, Alex North, NO
1956 (29th), Music (Scoring), The Best Things in Life Are Free, Lionel Newman, NO
1956 (29th), Music (Scoring), The Eddy Duchin Story, "Morris Stoloff, George Duning", NO
1956 (29th), Music (Scoring), High Society, "Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin", NO
1956 (29th), Music (Scoring), The King and I, "Alfred Newman, Ken Darby", YES
1956 (29th), Music (Scoring), Meet Me in Las Vegas, "George Stoll, Johnny Green", NO
1956 (29th), Music (Song), Friendly Persuasion, Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster, NO
1956 (29th), Music (Song), Julie, Music by Leith Stevens; Lyrics by Tom Adair, NO
1956 (29th), Music (Song), High Society, Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter, NO
1956 (29th), Music (Song), The Man Who Knew Too Much, Music and Lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, YES
1956 (29th), Music (Song), Written on the Wind, Music by Victor Young; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn, NO
1956 (29th), Best Picture, Around the World in 80 Days, "Michael Todd, Producer", YES
1956 (29th), Best Picture, Friendly Persuasion, "William Wyler, Producer", NO
1956 (29th), Best Picture, Giant, "George Stevens and Henry Ginsberg, Producers", NO
1956 (29th), Best Picture, The King and I, "Charles Brackett, Producer", NO
1956 (29th), Best Picture, The Ten Commandments, "Cecil B. DeMille, Producer", NO
1956 (29th), Short Film (Animated), Gerald McBoing-Boing on Planet Moo, "Stephen Bosustow, Producer", NO
1956 (29th), Short Film (Animated), The Jaywalker, "Stephen Bosustow, Producer", NO
1956 (29th), Short Film (Animated), Mister Magoo's Puddle Jumper, "Stephen Bosustow, Producer", YES
1956 (29th), Short Film (Live Action), Crashing the Water Barrier, "Konstantin Kalser, Producer", YES
1956 (29th), Short Film (Live Action), I Never Forget a Face, "Robert Youngson, Producer", NO
1956 (29th), Short Film (Live Action), Time Stood Still, "Cedric Francis, Producer", NO
1956 (29th), Short Film (Live Action), The Bespoke Overcoat, Romulus Films, YES
1956 (29th), Short Film (Live Action), Cow Dog, "Larry Lansburgh, Producer", NO
1956 (29th), Short Film (Live Action), The Dark Wave, "John Healy, Producer", NO
1956 (29th), Short Film (Live Action), Samoa, "Walt Disney, Producer", NO
1956 (29th), Sound, The Brave One, "King Bros. Productions, Inc., Sound Department, John Myers, Sound Director", NO
1956 (29th), Sound, The Eddy Duchin Story, "Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary, Sound Director", NO
1956 (29th), Sound, Friendly Persuasion, "Westrex Sound Services, Inc., Gordon R. Glennan, Sound Director; and Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon Sawyer, Sound Director", NO
1956 (29th), Sound, The King and I, "20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Carl Faulkner, Sound Director", YES
1956 (29th), Sound, The Ten Commandments, "Paramount Studio Sound Department, Loren L. Ryder, Sound Director", NO
1956 (29th), Writing, The Brave One, Dalton Trumbo, YES
1956 (29th), Writing, The Eddy Duchin Story, Leo Katcher, NO
1956 (29th), Writing, High Society, "Edward Bernds, Elwood Ullman", NO
1956 (29th), Writing, The Proud and the Beautiful, Jean Paul Sartre, NO
1956 (29th), Writing, Umberto D., Cesare Zavattini, NO
1956 (29th), Writing, Around the World in 80 Days, "James Poe, John Farrow, S.J. Perelman", YES
1956 (29th), Writing, Baby Doll, Tennessee Williams, NO
1956 (29th), Writing, Friendly Persuasion, Michael Wilson, NO
1956 (29th), Writing, Giant, "Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat", NO
1956 (29th), Writing, Lust for Life, Norman Corwin, NO
1956 (29th), Writing, The Bold and the Brave, Robert Lewin, NO
1956 (29th), Writing, Julie, Andrew L. Stone, NO
1956 (29th), Writing, La Strada, "Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli", NO
1956 (29th), Writing, The Ladykillers, William Rose, NO
1956 (29th), Writing, The Red Balloon, Albert Lamorisse, YES
1956 (29th), Honorary Award, To Eddie Cantor for distinguished service to the film industry. YES
1956 (29th), Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, Y. Frank Freeman, YES
1956 (29th), Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, Buddy Adler, YES
1956 (29th), Scientific and Technical (Technical Achievement Award), "To RICHARD H. RANGER of Rangertone, Inc., for the development of a synchronous recording and reproducing system for quarter-inch magnetic tape. [Sound]", YES
1956 (29th), Scientific and Technical (Technical Achievement Award), "To TED HIRSCH, CARL HAUGE and EDWARD REICHARD of Consolidated Film Industries for an automatic scene counter for laboratory projection rooms. [Laboratory]", YES
1956 (29th), Scientific and Technical (Technical Achievement Award), To the TECHNICAL DEPARTMENTS OF PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORP. for the engineering and development of the Paramount light-weight horizontal-movement VistaVision camera. [Camera], YES
1956 (29th), Scientific and Technical (Technical Achievement Award), "To ROY C. STEWART AND SONS of Stewart-Trans Lux Corp., DR. C.R. DAILY and the TRANSPARENCY DEPARTMENT OF PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORP. for the engineering and development of the HiTrans and Para-HiTrans rear projection screens. [Special Photographic]", YES
1956 (29th), Scientific and Technical (Technical Achievement Award), To the CONSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT OF METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIO for a new hand-portable fog machine. [Stage Operations], YES
1956 (29th), Scientific and Technical (Technical Achievement Award), "To DANIEL J. BLOOMBERG, JOHN POND, WILLIAM WADE and the ENGINEERING AND CAMERA DEPARTMENTS OF REPUBLIC STUDIO for the Naturama adaptation to the Mitchell camera. [Photography]", YES
1956 (29th), Special Effects (archaic category), Forbidden Planet, "A. Arnold Gillespie, Irving Ries, Wesley C. Miller", NO
1956 (29th), Special Effects (archaic category), The Ten Commandments, John Fulton, YES