Best Picture Winner
Gigi
Best Picture
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
A young Parisian girl is groomed as a courtesan but longs for true love rather than a life of luxury.
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All Categories (26)
Best Motion Picture
Gigi— Arthur Freed, Producer
Winner
Auntie Mame— Warner Bros.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof— Lawrence Weingarten, Producer
Separate Tables— Harold Hecht, Producer
The Defiant Ones— Stanley Kramer, Producer
Actor
Paul Newman— Cat on a Hot Tin Roof {"Brick Pollitt"}
Sidney Poitier— The Defiant Ones {"Noah Cullen"}
Spencer Tracy— The Old Man and the Sea {"The Old Man"}
Tony Curtis— The Defiant Ones {"John 'Joker' Jackson"}
Actor In A Supporting Role
Arthur Kennedy— Some Came Running {"Frank Hirsh"}
Gig Young— Teacher's Pet {"Dr. Hugo Pine"}
Lee J. Cobb— The Brothers Karamazov {"Fyodor Karamazov"}
Theodore Bikel— The Defiant Ones {"Sheriff Max Muller"}
Actress
Deborah Kerr— Separate Tables {"Sibyl Railton-Bell"}
Elizabeth Taylor— Cat on a Hot Tin Roof {"Maggie Pollitt"}
Rosalind Russell— Auntie Mame {"Auntie Mame Dennis"}
Shirley MacLaine— Some Came Running {"Ginny Moorhead"}
Actress In A Supporting Role
Cara Williams— The Defiant Ones {"The Woman"}
Martha Hyer— Some Came Running {"Gwen French"}
Maureen Stapleton— Lonelyhearts {"Fay Doyle"}
Peggy Cass— Auntie Mame {"Agnes Gooch"}
Directing
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof— Richard Brooks
I Want to Live!— Robert Wise
The Defiant Ones— Stanley Kramer
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness— Mark Robson
Writing (Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
Gigi— Alan Jay Lerner
Winner
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof— Richard Brooks, James Poe
I Want to Live!— Nelson Gidding, Don Mankiewicz
Separate Tables— Terence Rattigan, John Gay
The Horse's Mouth— Alec Guinness
Writing (Story And Screenplay--Written Directly For The Screen)
The Defiant Ones— Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith
Winner
Upon request of his widow and upon recommendation of the Writers Branch Executive Committee, the Board of Governors voted on June 22, 1993, to restore the name of Nedrick Young to the nominations and award presented to Nathan E. Douglas (Mr. Young's pseudonym during the blacklisting period).
Houseboat— Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose
Teacher's Pet— Fay Kanin, Michael Kanin
The Goddess— Paddy Chayefsky
The Sheepman— Story by James Edward Grant; Screenplay by William Bowers, James Edward Grant
Cinematography (Black-And-White)
The Defiant Ones— Sam Leavitt
Winner
Desire under the Elms— Daniel L. Fapp
I Want to Live!— Lionel Lindon
Separate Tables— Charles Lang, Jr.
The Young Lions— Joe MacDonald
Cinematography (Color)
Gigi— Joseph Ruttenberg
Winner
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
Music (Music Score Of A Dramatic Or Comedy Picture)
The Old Man and the Sea— Dimitri Tiomkin
Winner
Separate Tables— David Raksin
The Big Country— Jerome Moross
The Young Lions— Hugo Friedhofer
White Wilderness— Oliver Wallace
Music (Scoring Of A Musical Picture)
Gigi— Andre Previn
Winner
Damn Yankees— Ray Heindorf
Mardi Gras— Lionel Newman
South Pacific— Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
The Bolshoi Ballet— Yuri Faier, G. Rozhdestvensky
Art Direction
Gigi— Art Direction: William A. Horning, Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Keogh Gleason
Winner
A Certain Smile— Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler, John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, 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, Henry Bumstead; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Frank McKelvy
Special Effects
tom thumb— Visual Effects by Tom Howard
Winner
Torpedo Run— Visual Effects by A. Arnold Gillespie; Audible Effects by Harold Humbrock
Film Editing
Gigi— Adrienne Fazan
Winner
Auntie Mame— William Ziegler
Cowboy— William A. Lyon, Al Clark
I Want to Live!— William Hornbeck
The Defiant Ones— Frederic Knudtson
Sound
South Pacific— Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes, Sound Director
Winner
A Time to Love and a Time to Die— Universal-International Studio Sound Department, Leslie I. Carey, Sound Director
I Want to Live!— Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer, Sound Director
The Young Lions— 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Carl Faulkner, Sound Director
Vertigo— Paramount Studio Sound Department, George Dutton, Sound Director
Costume Design
Gigi— Cecil Beaton
Winner
A Certain Smile— Charles LeMaire, Mary Wills
Bell, Book and Candle— Jean Louis
Some Came Running— Walter Plunkett
The Buccaneer— Ralph Jester, Edith Head, John Jensen
Documentary (Feature)
White Wilderness— Ben Sharpsteen, Producer
Winner
Antarctic Crossing— James Carr, Producer
Psychiatric Nursing— Nathan Zucker, Producer
The Hidden World— Robert Snyder, Producer
Documentary (Short Subject)
Ama Girls— Ben Sharpsteen, Producer
Winner
Employees Only— Kenneth G. Brown, Producer
Journey into Spring— Ian Ferguson, Producer
Overture— Thorold Dickinson, Producer
The Living Stone— Tom Daly, Producer
Foreign Language Film
My Uncle— France
Winner
Arms and the Man— West Germany
La Venganza— Spain
The Road a Year Long— Yugoslavia
The Usual Unidentified Thieves— Italy
Honorary Award
To Maurice Chevalier for his contributions to the world of entertainment for more than half a century.
Winner
IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD
Jack L. Warner
Scientific Or Technical Award (Class II)
To DON W. PRIDEAUX, LEROY G. LEIGHTON and the LAMP DIVISION OF GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. for the development and production of an improved 10 kilowatt lamp for motion picture set lighting. [Lighting]
Winner
To PANAVISION, INC., for the design and development of the Auto Panatar anamorphic photographic lens for 35mm CinemaScope photography. [Lenses and Filters]
Scientific Or Technical Award (Class III)
To WILLY BORBERG of the General Precision Laboratory, Inc., for the development of a high speed intermittent movement for 35mm motion picture theatre projection equipment. [Projection]
Winner
To FRED PONEDEL, GEORGE BROWN and CONRAD BOYE of the Warner Bros. Special Effects Department for the design and fabrication of a new rapid fire marble gun. [Stage Operations]
Music (Song)
"Gigi" from Gigi— Music by Frederick Loewe; Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Winner
"A Certain Smile" from A Certain Smile— Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
"A Very Precious Love" from Marjorie Morningstar— Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
"Almost In Your Arms (Love Song From 'Houseboat')" from Houseboat— Music and Lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
"To Love And Be Loved" from Some Came Running— Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Short Subject (Cartoon)
Knighty Knight Bugs— John W. Burton, Producer
Winner
Paul Bunyan— Walt Disney, Producer
Sidney's Family Tree— William M. Weiss, Producer
Short Subject (Live Action)
Grand Canyon— Walt Disney, Producer
Winner
Journey into Spring— Ian Ferguson, Producer
Snows of Aorangi— New Zealand Screen Board
T Is for Tumbleweed— James A. Lebenthal, Producer
The Kiss— John Patrick Hayes, Producer