BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE
North by Northwest – WINNER!
- Some Like It Hot
- Anatomy of a Murder
- Ben-Hur
- The Nun’s Story
- Rio Bravo
BEST NON-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE
Les quatre cents coups / The 400 Blows – WINNER
- Hiroshima mon amour
- Nazarin
- Ballada o soldate / Ballad of a Soldier
- Nobi / Fires on the Plain
- Orfeu Negro / Black Orpheus
BEST ACTOR
Jack Lemmon (Some Like It Hot) – WINNER!
- Jean-Pierre Léaud (The 400 Blows)
- Cary Grant (North by Northwest)
- James Stewart (Anatomy of a Murder)
- Francisco Rabal (Nazarin)
BEST ACTRESS
Audrey Hepburn (The Nun’s Story) – WINNER!
- Marilyn Monroe (Some Like It Hot)
- Simone Signoret (Room at the Top)
- Emmanuelle Riva (Hiroshima mon amour)
- Machiko Kyo (Floating Weeds)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
James Mason (North by Northwest) – WINNER!
- Stephen Boyd (Ben-Hur)
- Joe E. Brown (Some Like It Hot)
- George C. Scott (Anatomy of a Murder)
- Orson Welles (Compulsion)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Lee Remick (Anatomy of a Murder) – WINNER!
- Susan Kohner (Imitation of Life)
- Juanita Moore (Imitation of Life)
- Marga Lopez (Nazarin)
- Zhanna Prokhorenko (Ballad of a Soldier)
BEST DIRECTOR
Alfred Hitchcock (North by Northwest) – WINNER!
- François Truffaut (The 400 Blows)
- Otto Preminger (Anatomy of a Murder)
- Alain Resnais (Hiroshima mon amour)
- Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond) [from the screenplay "Fanfaren der Liebe" by Robert Thoeren & Michael Logan] – WINNER!
- Anatomy of a Murder (Wendell Mayes) [from the novel by John D. Voelker]
- Nazarin (Luis Buñuel, Julio Alejandro & Emilio Carballido) [from the novel by Benito Pérez Galdós]
- The Nun’s Story (Robert Anderson) [from the novel by Kathryn Hulme]
- Room at the Top (Neil Paterson) [from the novel by John Braine]
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Hiroshima mon amour (Marguerite Duras) – WINNER!
- The 400 Blows (François Truffaut & Marcel Moussy)
- North by Northwest (Ernest Lehman)
- Ballad of a Soldier (Grigori Chukhrai & Valentin Ezhov)
- La grande guerra / The Great War (Luciano Vincenzoni, Mario Monicelli, Agenore Incrocci & Furio Scarpelli)
BEST COLOR CINEMATOGRAPHY
Ben-Hur (Robert L. Surtees) – WINNER! (tied)
North by Northwest (Robert Burks) – WINNER! (tied)
- Black Orpheus (Jean Bourgoin)
- The Nun’s Story (Franz Planer)
- Imitation of Life (Russell Metty)
BEST BLACK-AND-WHITE CINEMATOGRAPHY
Ballad Of A Soldier (Vladimir Nikolayev, Era Saveleva) – WINNER!
- The 400 Blows (Henri Decaë)
- Hiroshima mon amour (Sacha Vierny, Takahashi Michio)
- Some Like It Hot (Charles Lang, Jr.)
- Nazarin (Gabriel Figueroa)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
North by Northwest (Bernard Herrmann) – WINNER!
- Anatomy of a Murder (Duke Ellington)
- Ben-Hur (Miklos Rozsa)
- The Nun’s Story (Franz Waxman)
- Hiroshima mon amour (Georges Delerue & Giovanni Fusco)
- The Diary of Anne Frank (Alfred Newman)
BEST ADAPTED/SONG/MUSICAL SCORE
Porgy and Bess (George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin – original songs; Andre Previn – music supervisor; Ken Darby – music associate) – WINNER!
- Some Like It Hot (Matty Malneck – song supervisor)
- Black Orpheus (Antonio Carlos Jobim & Luiz Bonfá – original and adapted songs and compositions)
- Sleeping Beauty (George Bruns – original songs, music adaptor; Tom Adair – original lyrics; other songs and adapted compositions by Pyotr Ilyich Tchikovsky, Sammy Fain, Jack Lawrence, et. al.)
- The Five Pennies (Sylvia Fine – original songs; Leith Stevens – conductor)
- Li’l Abner (Gene De Paul & Johnny Mercer – adapted songs; Nelson Riddle & Joseph J. Lilley – conductors)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“High Hopes” (A Hole in the Head), Jimmy Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn – WINNER! (tied)
“Once Upon a Dream” (Sleeping Beauty), Sammy Fain & Jack Lawrence – WINNER! (tied)
- “Waqt Ne Kiya Kya Haseen Sitam” (Kaagaz Ke Phool), S. D. Burman & Kaifi Azmi
- “Ek Do Teen Chaar Aur Paanch” (Kaagaz Ke Phool), S. D. Burman & Kaifi Azmi
- “The Best of Everything” (The Best of Everything), Alfred Newman & Sammy Cahn
- “Imitation of Life” (Imitation of Life), Sammy Fain & Paul Francis Webster
BEST SOUND
Ben-Hur – WINNER!
- North by Northwest
- The Nun’s Story
- Hiroshima mon amour
- Nazarin
BEST FILM EDITING
North by Northwest (George Tomasini) – WINNER!
- Ben-Hur (Ralph E. Winters & John D. Dunning)
- Hiroshima mon amour (Jasmine Chasney, Henri Colpi & Anne Sarraute)
- Pickpocket (Raymond Lamy)
- The 400 Blows (Marie-Josephe Yoyotte)
BEST COLOR ART DIRECTION
Ben-Hur (Vittorio Valentini – production designer; William Horning & Edward Larfagno – art directors; Hugh Hunt – set decorator) – WINNER!
- North by Northwest (Robert Boyle – production designer; William Horning & Merrill Pye – art directors; Henry Grace & Frank McKelvy – set decorators)
- The Tiger of Eschnapur & The Indian Tomb (Willy Schatz – production designer; Helmut Nentwig & Schatz – art directors)
- Floating Weeds (Tomoo Shimogawara – production designer & art director; Iwao Iwami – set designer)
- Imitation of Life (Alexander Golitzen & Richard Riedel – art directors; Russell Gausman & Julia Heron – set decorators)
- Journey to the Center of the Earth (Franz Bachelin, Herman Blumenthal & Lyle R. Wheeler – art directors; Joseph Kish & Walter M. Scott – set decorators)
- Pillow Talk (Richard Riedel – art director; Russell Gausman & Ruby Levitt – set decorators)
BEST BLACK-AND-WHITE ART DIRECTION
Some Like It Hot (Ted Haworth – art director; Edward G. Boyle – set decorator) – WINNER!
- Suddenly, Last Summer (Oliver Messell – production designer; William Kellner – art director; Scott Slimon & Francisco Prosper – set decorators)
- A Bucket of Blood (Dan Haller – art director)
- The Diary of Anne Frank (George W. Davis & Lyle R. Wheeler – art directors; Stuart Reiss & Walter M. Scott – set decorators)
- Kaagaz Ke Phool (M. R. Achrekar – art director; Baburao & L. G. Patil – assistants)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Ben-Hur (Elizabeth Haffenden) – WINNER!
- Some Like It Hot (Orry-Kelly)
- Imitation of Life (Bill Thomas & Jean Louis)
- Black Orpheus (Uncredited)
- Floating Weeds (Uncredited)
- The Mouse That Roared (Anthony Mendelson)
- Solomon and Sheba (Ralph Jester)
- The Tiger of Eschnapur & The Indian Tomb (Günter Brosda & Claudia Hahne-Herberg)
BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Ben-Hur – WINNER!
- Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Darby O’Gill and the Little People
- North by Northwest
- The Wreck of the Mary Deare
BEST SHORT FILM
Donald In Mathmagicland – WINNER!
- La merle / Blackbird
- Moonbird
- Bulanda and the Devil
- The Golden Fish
- The Lion and the Song
- Mexicali Schmoes
- Noah’s Ark
- When Angels Fall Down
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT
Ben-Hur for its stunt work – WINNER!
