Best Picture & Directing
Best Picture
Winner
The Apartment
Billy Wilder, producer
The Alamo
Elmer Gantry
Sons and Lovers
The Sundowners
Best Director
Winner
Billy Wilder
The Apartment
Jack Cardiff— Sons and Lovers
Jules Dassin— Never on Sunday
Alfred Hitchcock— Psycho
Fred Zinnemann— The Sundowners
Acting
Best Actor
Winner
Burt Lancaster
Elmer Gantry
Trevor Howard— Sons and Lovers
Jack Lemmon— The Apartment
Laurence Olivier— The Entertainer
Spencer Tracy— Inherit the Wind
Best Actress
Winner
Elizabeth Taylor
Butterfield 8
Greer Garson— Sunrise at Campobello
Deborah Kerr— The Sundowners
Shirley MacLaine— The Apartment
Melina Mercouri— Never on Sunday
Best Supporting Actor
Winner
Peter Ustinov
Spartacus
Peter Falk— Murder Inc.
Jack Kruschen— The Apartment
Sal Mineo— Exodus
Best Supporting Actress
Winner
Shirley Jones
Elmer Gantry
Glynis Johns— The Sundowners
Janet Leigh— Psycho
Mary Ure— Sons and Lovers
Writing
Best Story and Screenplay
Winner
Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond
The Apartment
Richard Gregson, Michael Craig, Bryan Forbes— The Angry Silence
Norman Panama, Melvin Frank— The Facts of Life
Marguerite Duras— Hiroshima, Mon Amour
Jules Dassin— Never on Sunday
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner
Richard Brooks
Elmer Gantry
Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith— Inherit the Wind
Gavin Lambert, T.E.B. Clarke— Sons and Lovers
Isobel Lennart— The Sundowners
James Kennaway— Tunes of Glory
Music
Best Score (Drama/Comedy)
Winner
Ernest Gold
Exodus
Andre Previn— Elmer Gantry
Elmer Bernstein— The Magnificent Seven
Alex North— Spartacus
Best Score (Musical)
Winner
Morris Stoloff, Harry Sukman
Song Without End
Nelson Riddle— Can-Can
Lionel Newman, Earle H. Hagen— Let's Make Love
Johnny Green— Pepe
Best Original Song
Winner
"Never on Sunday" — Manos Hadjidakis
Never on Sunday
“The Green Leaves of Summer”— The Alamo
“The Facts of Life”— The Facts of Life
“The Second Time Around”— High Time
“Faraway Part of Town”— Pepe
Technical
Best Cinematography (B&W)
Winner
Freddie Francis
Sons and Lovers
Joseph LaShelle— The Apartment
Charles B. Lang Jr.— The Facts of Life
Ernest Laszlo— Inherit the Wind
John L. Russell— Psycho
Best Cinematography (Color)
Winner
Russell Metty
Spartacus
William H. Clothier— The Alamo
Joseph Ruttenberg, Charles Harten— Butterfield 8
Sam Leavitt— Exodus
Joe MacDonald— Pepe
Best Film Editing
Winner
Daniel Mandell
The Apartment
Stuart Gilmore— The Alamo
Frederic Knudtson— Inherit the Wind
Viola Lawrence, Al Clark— Pepe
Robert Lawrence— Spartacus
Art Direction & Costume
Best Art Direction (B&W)
Winner
Alexander Trauner, Edward G. Boyle
The Apartment
Joseph McMillan Johnson, Kenneth A. Reid, Ross Dowd— The Facts of Life
Joseph Hurley, Robert Clatworthy, George Milo— Psycho
Tom Morahan, Lionel Couch— Sons and Lovers
Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler, Sam Comer, Arthur Krams— Visit to a Small Planet
Best Art Direction (Color)
Winner
Alexander Golitzen, Eric Orbom, Russell A. Gausman, Julia Heron
Spartacus
George W. Davis, Addison Hehr, Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt, Otto Siegel— Cimarron
Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Sam Comer, Arrigo Breschi— It Started in Naples
Ted Haworth, William Kiernan— Pepe
Edward Carrere, George James Hopkins— Sunrise at Campobello
Best Costume Design (B&W)
Winner
Edith Head
The Facts of Life
Deni Vachlioti— Never on Sunday
Howard Shoup— The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Bill Thomas— Seven Thieves
Marik Vos— The Virgin Spring
Best Costume Design (Color)
Winner
Valles, Bill Thomas
Spartacus
Irene Sharaff— Can-Can
Irene— Midnight Lace
Edith Head— Pepe
Marjorie Best— Sunrise at Campobello
Sound & Visual Effects
Best Sound Recording
Winner
Gordon E. Sawyer, Fred Hynes
The Alamo
Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept. (Gordon E. Sawyer)— The Apartment
MGM Studio Sound Dept. (Franklin E. Milton)— Cimarron
Columbia Studio Sound Dept. (Charles Rice)— Pepe
Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept. (George R. Groves)— Sunrise at Campobello
Best Visual Effects
Winner
Gene Warren, Tim Baar
The Time Machine
Documentary & Short Films
Best Animated Short
Winner
Munro
Gene Deitch — a boy drafted into the army
Warner Bros.— High Note
Warner Bros.— Mouse and Garden
František Vystrčil— A Place in the Sun
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
The Horse with the Flying Tail
Walt Disney Prods.
Robert D. Fraser— Rebel in Paradise
International Film
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner
The Virgin Spring
Sweden — Ingmar Bergman
Kapo
La Vérité
Macario
The Ninth Circle