Best Picture & Directing
Best Picture
Winner
Gigi
Arthur Freed, producer
Auntie Mame
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Defiant Ones
Separate Tables
Best Director
Winner
Vincente Minnelli
Gigi
Richard Brooks— Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Stanley Kramer— The Defiant Ones
Mark Robson— The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Robert Wise— I Want to Live!
Acting
Best Actor
Winner
David Niven
Separate Tables
Tony Curtis— The Defiant Ones
Paul Newman— Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Sidney Poitier— The Defiant Ones
Spencer Tracy— The Old Man and the Sea
Best Actress
Winner
Susan Hayward
I Want to Live!
Deborah Kerr— Separate Tables
Shirley MacLaine— Some Came Running
Rosalind Russell— Auntie Mame
Elizabeth Taylor— Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Best Supporting Actor
Winner
Burl Ives
The Big Country
Theodore Bikel— The Defiant Ones
Lee J. Cobb— The Brothers Karamazov
Arthur Kennedy— Some Came Running
Best Supporting Actress
Winner
Wendy Hiller
Separate Tables
Peggy Cass— Auntie Mame
Martha Hyer— Some Came Running
Cara Williams— The Defiant Ones
Writing
Best Story and Screenplay
Winner
Nedrick Young (as Nathan E. Douglas), Harold Jacob Smith
The Defiant Ones
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner
Alan Jay Lerner
Gigi
Music
Best Score (Drama/Comedy)
Winner
Dimitri Tiomkin
The Old Man and the Sea
Best Score (Musical)
Winner
Andre Previn
Gigi
Best Original Song
Winner
"Gigi" — Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner
Gigi
Technical
Best Cinematography (B&W)
Winner
Sam Leavitt
The Defiant Ones
Best Cinematography (Color)
Winner
Joseph Ruttenberg
Gigi
Best Film Editing
Winner
Adrienne Fazan
Gigi
Art Direction & Costume
Best Art Direction (B&W)
Winner
William A. Horning, Urie McCleary, Henry Grace, Jack D. Moore
Gigi
Best Art Direction (Color)
Winner
William A. Horning, Preston Ames
Gigi
Best Costume Design (B&W)
Winner
Cecil Beaton
Gigi
Best Costume Design (Color)
Winner
Cecil Beaton
Gigi — Cecil Beaton swept both costume awards
Sound & Visual Effects
Best Sound Recording
Winner
Fred Hynes (Todd-AO Sound Dept.)
South Pacific
Best Visual Effects
Winner
Tom Howard
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Documentary & Short Films
Best Animated Short
Winner
Knighty Knight Bugs
Warner Bros. — Bugs Bunny in medieval times
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
White Wilderness
Walt Disney Prods.
International Film
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner
Mon Oncle
France — Jacques Tati