The 28th Academy Awards (1955): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS		AWARDS
8 8 8 6 6 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3	Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing Marty The Rose Tattoo Love Me or Leave Me Picnic Blackboard Jungle East of Eden Guys and Dolls I'll Cry Tomorrow Oklahoma! Bad Day at Black Rock Daddy Long Legs Interrupted Melody The Man with the Golden Arm Mister Roberts Rebel without a Cause To Catch a Thief	5 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1	Marty Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing The Rose Tattoo Oklahoma! Picnic The Bridges at Toko-Ri East of Eden The Face of Lincoln Helen Keller in Her Story I'll Cry Tomorrow Interrupted Melody Love Me or Leave Me Men against the Arctic Mister Roberts Speedy Gonzales Survival City To Catch a Thief
NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND Best Picture winner Best Picture nominee Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

PICTURE (Best Motion Picture)

• Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - Buddy Adler
• Marty - Harold Hecht
• Mister Roberts - Leland Hayward
• Picnic - Fred Kohlmar
• The Rose Tattoo - Hal B. Wallis

DIRECTING

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

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

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

SUPPORTING ACTOR (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

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Actress in a Supporting Role)

• 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

SCREENPLAY

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

STORY AND SCREENPLAY

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

MOTION PICTURE STORY

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

SONG

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

MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

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

SCORING OF A MUSICAL PICTURE

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

FILM EDITING

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

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White)

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

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color)

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

ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White)

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

ART DIRECTION (Color)

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

COSTUME DESIGN (Black-and-White)

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

COSTUME DESIGN (Color)

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

SOUND RECORDING

• Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Carl W. Faulkner (Sound Director)
• Love Me or Leave Me - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Wesley C. Miller (Sound Director)
• Mister Roberts - Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, William A. Mueller (Sound Director)
• Not As a Stranger - Radio Corporation of America Sound Department, Watson Jones (Sound Director)
• Oklahoma! - Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes (Sound Director)

SPECIAL EFFECTS

• The Bridges at Toko-Ri - Paramount Studio
• The Dam Busters - Associated British Picture Corporation, Ltd.
• The Rains of Ranchipur - 20th Century-Fox Studio

HONORARY FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM AWARD

• To Samurai, The Legend of Musashi - Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1955.

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

• Heartbreak Ridge - Rene Risacher
• Helen Keller in Her Story - Nancy Hamilton

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

• The Battle of Gettysburg - Dore Schary
• The Face of Lincoln - Wilbur T. Blume
• Men against the Arctic - Walt Disney

SHORT SUBJECT (Cartoon)

• Good Will to Men - Fred Quimby, William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
• The Legend of Rock-a-bye Point - Walter Lantz
• No Hunting - Walt Disney
• Speedy Gonzales - Edward Selzer

SHORT SUBJECT (One-Reel)

• Gadgets Galore - Robert Youngson
• Survival City - Edmund Reek
• 3rd Ave. El - Carson Davidson
• Three Kisses - Justin Herman

SHORT SUBJECT (Two-Reel)

• The Battle of Gettysburg - Dore Schary
• The Face of Lincoln - Wilbur T. Blume
• On the Twelfth Day... - George K. Arthur
• Switzerland - Walt Disney
• 24-Hour Alert - Cedric Francis

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE I (Academy Award of Merit)

• To the NATIONAL CARBON CO. for the development and production of a high efficiency yellow flame carbon for motion picture color photography. [Lighting]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE II (Plaque)

• To the EASTMAN KODAK CO. for Eastman Tri-X Panchromatic Negative Film. [Film]
• To FARCIOT EDOUART, HAL CORL and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO TRANSPARENCY DEPARTMENT for the engineering and development of a double-frame, triple-head background projector. [Special Photographic]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE III (Certificate)

• To STEVE KRILANOVICH for an improved camera dolly incorporating multi-directional steering. [Camera Cranes]
• To 20TH CENTURY-FOX STUDIO and the BAUSCH & LOMB CO. for the new combination lenses for CinemaScope Photography. [Lenses and Filters]
• To DAVE ANDERSON of 20th Century-Fox Studio for an improved spotlight capable of maintaining a fixed circle of light at constant intensity over varied distances. [Lighting]
• To LOREN L. RYDER, CHARLES WEST, HENRY FRACKER and the PARAMOUNT STUDIOS for a projection film index to establish proper framing for various aspect ratios. [Projection]
• To WALTER JOLLEY, MAURICE LARSON and R.H. SPIES of 20th Century-Fox Studio for a spraying process which creates simulated metallic surfaces. [Props]
• To FARCIOT EDOUART, HAL CORL and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO TRANSPARENCY DEPARTMENT for an improved dual stereopticon background projector. [Special Photographic]