Winner

Ernest Borgnine

Marty

Nominated

James Dean

East of Eden

Spencer Tracy

Bad Day at Black Rock

James Cagney

Love Me or Leave Me

Frank Sinatra

The Man with the Golden Arm

Winner

Jack Lemmon

Mister Roberts

Nominated

Arthur O'Connell

Picnic

Joe Mantell

Marty

Sal Mineo

Rebel Without a Cause

Arthur Kennedy

Trial

Winner

Anna Magnani

The Rose Tattoo

Nominated

Susan Hayward

I'll Cry Tomorrow

Eleanor Parker

Interrupted Melody

Katharine Hepburn

Summertime

Jennifer Jones

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Winner

Jo Van Fleet

East of Eden

Nominated

Betsy Blair

Marty

Natalie Wood

Rebel Without a Cause

Peggy Lee

Pete Kelly's Blues

Marisa Pavan

The Rose Tattoo

Winner

The Rose Tattoo

Hal Pereira

Tambi Larsen

Sam Comer

Arthur Krams

Nominated

Marty

Ted Haworth

Walter M. Simonds

Robert Priestley

Blackboard Jungle

Cedric Gibbons

Randall Duell

Edwin B. Willis

Henry Grace

The Man with the Golden Arm

Joseph C. Wright

Darrell Silvera

I'll Cry Tomorrow

Cedric Gibbons

Malcolm Brown

Edwin B. Willis

Hugh Hunt

Winner

Picnic

William Flannery

Jo Mielziner

Robert Priestley

Nominated

To Catch a Thief

Hal Pereira

J. McMillan Johnson

Sam Comer

Arthur Krams

Daddy Long Legs

Lyle R. Wheeler

John DeCuir

Walter M. Scott

Paul S. Fox

Guys and Dolls

Oliver Smith

Joseph C. Wright

Howard Bristol

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Lyle R. Wheeler

George W. Davis

Walter M. Scott

Jack Stubbs

Winner

The Rose Tattoo

James Wong Howe

Nominated

I'll Cry Tomorrow

Arthur E. Arling

Marty

Joseph LaShelle

Blackboard Jungle

Russell Harlan

Queen Bee

Charles Lang

Winner

To Catch a Thief

Robert Burks

Nominated

Guys and Dolls

Harry Stradling Sr.

A Man Called Peter

Harold Lipstein

Oklahoma!

Robert Surtees

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Leon Shamroy

Winner

I'll Cry Tomorrow

Helen Rose

Nominated

Queen Bee

Jean Louis

The Pickwick Papers

Beatrice Dawson

Ugetsu

Tadaoto Kainoshô

The Rose Tattoo

Edith Head

Winner

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Charles Le Maire

Nominated

To Catch a Thief

Edith Head

The Virgin Queen

Charles Le Maire

Mary Wills

Interrupted Melody

Helen Rose

Guys and Dolls

Irene Sharaff

Winner

Delbert Mann

Marty

Nominated

David Lean

Summertime

Joshua Logan

Picnic

John Sturges

Bad Day at Black Rock

Elia Kazan

East of Eden

Winner

The Unconquered

Nancy Hamilton

Nominated

Crèvecoeur

René Risacher

Winner

Men Against the Arctic

Walt Disney

Nominated

The Battle of Gettysburg

Dore Schary

The Face of Lincoln

Winner

The Bridges at Toko-Ri

Nominated

The Rains of Ranchipur

The Dam Busters

Winner

Picnic

Charles Nelson

William A. Lyon

Nominated

Oklahoma!

Gene Ruggiero

George Boemler

The Bridges at Toko-Ri

Alma Macrorie

Blackboard Jungle

Ferris Webster

The Rose Tattoo

Warren Low

Winner

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Sammy Fain

Paul Francis Webster

Nominated

Daddy Long Legs

Johnny Mercer

Love Me or Leave Me

Nicholas Brodszky

Sammy Cahn

The Tender Trap

Jimmy Van Heusen

Sammy Cahn

Unchained

Alex North

Hy Zaret

Winner

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Alfred Newman

Nominated

Battle Cry

Max Steiner

The Rose Tattoo

Alex North

The Man with the Golden Arm

Elmer Bernstein

Picnic

George Duning

Winner

Oklahoma!

Robert Russell Bennett

Jay Blackton

Adolph Deutsch

Nominated

Love Me or Leave Me

Percy Faith

George Stoll

It's Always Fair Weather

André Previn

Daddy Long Legs

Alfred Newman

Guys and Dolls

Jay Blackton

Cyril J. Mockridge

Winner

Marty

Harold Hecht

Nominated

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Buddy Adler

Mister Roberts

Leland Hayward

Picnic

Fred Kohlmar

The Rose Tattoo

Hal B. Wallis

Winner

Speedy Gonzales

Edward Selzer

Nominated

No Hunting

Walt Disney

Good Will to Men

Fred Quimby

William Hanna

Joseph Barbera

The Legend of Rockabye Point

Walter Lantz

Winner

Survival City

Edmund Reek

Nominated

3rd Ave. El

Carson Davidson

Gadgets Galore

Robert Youngson

Three Kisses

Justin Herman

Winner

The Face of Lincoln

Nominated

24 Hour Alert

Cedric Francis

The Battle of Gettysburg

Dore Schary

On the Twelfth Day...

George K. Arthur

Switzerland

Walt Disney

Winner

Oklahoma!

Fred Hynes

Nominated

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Carlton W. Faulkner

Love Me or Leave Me

Wesley C. Miller

Not as a Stranger

Watson Jones

Mister Roberts

William A. Mueller

Winner

Love Me or Leave Me

Daniel Fuchs

Nominated

Strategic Air Command

Beirne Lay Jr.

The Sheep Has Five Legs

Jean Marsan

Henri Troyat

Jacques Perret

Henri Verneuil

Raoul Ploquin

Rebel Without a Cause

Nicholas Ray

The Private War of Major Benson

Joe Connelly

Bob Mosher

Winner

Marty

Paddy Chayefsky

Nominated

Blackboard Jungle

Richard Brooks

East of Eden

Paul Osborn

Love Me or Leave Me

Daniel Fuchs

Isobel Lennart

Bad Day at Black Rock

Millard Kaufman

Winner

Interrupted Melody

William Ludwig

Sonya Levien

Nominated

It's Always Fair Weather

Betty Comden

Adolph Green

Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

Jacques Tati

Henri Marquet

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

Milton Sperling

Emmet Lavery

The Seven Little Foys

Melville Shavelson

Jack Rose