27th Academy Awards
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- DirectorElia KazanStarsMarlon BrandoKarl MaldenLee J. CobbAn ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.Winner - Best Motion Picture
Winner - Best Director for Elia Kazan
Winner - Best Actor for Marlon Brando
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Lee J. Cobb
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Karl Malden
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Rod Steiger
Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Eva Marie Saint
Winner - Best Screenplay for Budd Schulberg
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Leonard Bernstein
Winner - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Winner - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Boris Kaufman
Winner - Best Film Editing for Gene Milford - DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsHumphrey BogartJosé FerrerVan JohnsonWhen a U.S. Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardises the ship, the first officer is urged to consider relieving him of command.Nominated - Best Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Actor for Humphrey Bogart
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Tom Tully
Nominated - Best Story and Screenplay for Stanley Roberts
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Max Steiner
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for John P. Livadary
Nominated - Best Film Editing for William A. Lyon and Henry Batista - DirectorGeorge SeatonStarsBing CrosbyGrace KellyWilliam HoldenA director hires an alcoholic has-been and strikes up a stormy relationship with the actor's wife, who he believes is the cause of all the man's problems.Nominated - Best Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Director for George Seaton
Nominated - Best Actor for Bing Crosby
Winner - Best Actress for Grace Kelly
Winner - Best Story and Screenplay for George Seaton
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for John F. Warren - DirectorStanley DonenStarsJane PowellHoward KeelJeff RichardsWhen a backwoodsman in 1850s Oregon brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.Nominated - Best Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Story and Screenplay for Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich and Dorothy Kingsley
Winner - Best Musical Score for Adolph Deutsch and Saul Chaplin
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for George Folsey
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Ralph E. Winters - DirectorJean NegulescoStarsClifton WebbDorothy McGuireJean PetersThree American women working in Rome, Italy share a spacious apartment and the desire to find love and marriage. Each one experiences a few bumps in her journey to romance.Nominated - Best Motion Picture
Winner - Best Original Song for "Three Coins in the Fountain"
Winner - Best Cinematography, Color for Milton Krasner - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartGrace KellyWendell CoreyA wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window and, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend, becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.Nominated - Best Director for Alfred Hitchcock
Nominated - Best Story and Screenplay for John Michael Hayes
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Loren L. Ryder
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for Robert Burks - DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsJohn WayneClaire TrevorLaraine DayWhen a commercial airliner develops engine problems on a trans-Pacific flight and the pilot loses his nerve, it is up to the washed-up co-pilot Dan Roman to bring the plane in safely.Nominated - Best Director for William A. Wellman
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Jan Sterling
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Claire Trevor
Winner - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Dimitri Tiomkin
Nominated - Best Original Song for "The High and the Mighty"
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Ralph Dawson - DirectorBilly WilderStarsHumphrey BogartAudrey HepburnWilliam HoldenA playboy becomes interested in the daughter of his family's chauffeur, but it's his more serious brother who would be the better man for her.Nominated - Best Director for Billy Wilder
Nominated - Best Actress for Audrey Hepburn
Nominated - Best Story and Screenplay for Billy Wilder, Samuel A. Taylor and Ernest Lehman
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Charles Lang Jr.
Winner - Best Costume Design, Black and White for Edith Head - DirectorGeorge CukorStarsJudy GarlandJames MasonJack CarsonA film star helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.Nominated - Best Actor for James Mason
Nominated - Best Actress for Judy Garland
Nominated - Best Musical Score for Ray Haindorf
Nominated - Best Original Song for "The Man That Got Away"
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Color
Nominated - Best Costume Design, Color for Jean Louis, Mary Ann Nyberg and Irene Sharaff - DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsDan O'HerlihyJaime FernándezFelipe de AlbaThe classic story of Robinson Crusoe, a man who is dragged to a desert island after a shipwreck.Nominated - Best Actor for Dan O'Herlihy
- DirectorOtto PremingerStarsHarry BelafonteDorothy DandridgePearl BaileyContemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast.Nominated - Best Actress for Dorothy Dandridge
Nominated - Best Musical Score for Herschel Burke Gilbert - DirectorDouglas SirkStarsJane WymanRock HudsonAgnes MooreheadA rich playboy whose recklessness inadvertently causes the death of a prominent doctor tries to make amends to his widow, and falls for her in the process.Nominated - Best Actress for Jane Wyman
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsHumphrey BogartAva GardnerEdmond O'BrienThis is the life of a Hollywood movie star named Maria, as told by writer/director Harry Dawes, from being discovered in Madrid, Spain, until her funeral in Italy.Winner - Best Supporting Actor for Edmond O'Brien
Nominated - Best Screenplay for Joseph L. Mankiewicz - DirectorRobert WiseStarsWilliam HoldenBarbara StanwyckJune AllysonWhen the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice presidents vie to see who will replace him.Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Nina Foch
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for George Folsey
Nominated - Best Costume Design, Black and White for Helen Rose - DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsSpencer TracyRobert WagnerJean PetersThe saga of the Devereaux rancher family, set in 1880's Arizona.Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Katy Jurado
Winner - Best Story for Philip Yordan - DirectorHenry CorneliusStarsDinah SheridanJohn GregsonKay KendallTwo British couples pit their vintage automobiles against each other in an exciting cross-country race.Nominated - Best Screenplay for William Rose
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Larry Adler - DirectorAnthony MannStarsJames StewartJune AllysonHarry MorganBiography of bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944.Nominated - Best Screenplay for Valentine Davies and Oscar Brodney
Nominated - Best Musical Score for Joseph Gershenson and Henry Mancini
Winner - Best Sound Recording for Leslie I. Carey - DirectorMelvin FrankNorman PanamaStarsDanny KayeMai ZetterlingTorin ThatcherDiscovering that a ventriloquist is travelling to Zurich, a spy ring hides secret plans in his dummies' heads. When a second spy ring learns of the plans, they descend upon the ventriloquist, causing city-wide pandemonium.Nominated - Best Screenplay for Norman Panama and Melvin Frank
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsVittorio De SicaGina LollobrigidaMarisa MerliniWhen a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".Nominated - Best Story for Ettore Maria Margadonna
- DirectorRené ClémentStarsGeorges PoujoulyBrigitte FosseyAmédéeA young French girl orphaned in a German air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death.Nominated - Best Story for Francois Boyer
- DirectorNunnally JohnsonStarsGregory PeckBroderick CrawfordAnita BjörkDuring the Cold War, an American soldier is abducted in West Berlin, sparking a recovery effort led by Colonel Steve Van Dyke.Nominated - Best Story for Jed Harris and Tom Reed
- DirectorWalter LangStarsEthel MermanMarilyn MonroeDonald O'ConnorMolly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.Nominated - Best Story for Lamar Trotti
Nominated - Best Musical Score for Alfred Newman and Lionel Newman
Nominated - Best Costume Design, Color for Charles LeMaire, Travilla and Miles White - DirectorPete BurnessStarsJim BackusHenny BackusJerry HausnerMr. Magoo sets off to go to the movies but goes to an airport by mistake and gets on a plane thinking it to be a theater. Little does Magoo know the man he is sitting next to is actually a thief and when a detective appears on the plane to track the thief down, Magoo thinks it's all part of the movie. After doing some wing walking, Magoo reenters the plane and exposes the thief to the detective. When the plane lands, Magoo remarks that they should have shown a cartoon particularly one with that "delightful near sighted fellow".Winner - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorTex AveryStarsTex AveryDaws ButlerDal McKennonAfter a traffic accident, a man is treated with dog plasma while his dog is treated with human plasma.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorJack KinneyStarsBob HamlinBill LeeDal McKennonA stubbornly officious station master's stand-off with a miserly customer over the shipping rate for transporting guinea pigs gets completely out of hand.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film