Winner

Frank Sinatra

Pal Joey

Nominated

Maurice Chevalier

Love in the Afternoon

Glenn Ford

Don't Go Near the Water

David Niven

My Man Godfrey

Tony Randall

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

Winner

Alec Guinness

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Nominated

Anthony Franciosa

A Hatful of Rain

Henry Fonda

12 Angry Men

Charles Laughton

Witness for the Prosecution

Marlon Brando

Sayonara

Winner

Taina Elg

Les Girls

Nominated

Jean Simmons

This Could Be the Night

Audrey Hepburn

Love in the Afternoon

Cyd Charisse

Silk Stockings

Winner

Joanne Woodward

The Three Faces of Eve

Nominated

Eva Marie Saint

A Hatful of Rain

Marlene Dietrich

Witness for the Prosecution

Anna Magnani

Wild Is the Wind

Deborah Kerr

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

Winner

David Lean

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Nominated

Billy Wilder

Witness for the Prosecution

Sidney Lumet

12 Angry Men

Fred Zinnemann

A Hatful of Rain

Joshua Logan

Sayonara

Winner

Les Girls

Nominated

Silk Stockings

Pal Joey

Love in the Afternoon

Don't Go Near the Water

Winner

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Nominated

Sayonara

12 Angry Men

Witness for the Prosecution

Wild Is the Wind

Winner

Red Buttons

Sayonara

Nominated

Lee J. Cobb

12 Angry Men

Sessue Hayakawa

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Nigel Patrick

Raintree County

Ed Wynn

The Great Man

Winner

Elsa Lanchester

Witness for the Prosecution

Nominated

Heather Sears

The Story of Esther Costello

Mildred Dunnock

Peyton Place

Miyoshi Umeki

Sayonara

Hope Lange

Peyton Place