29th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1957)

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• Date of Ceremony: Wednesday, March 27, 1957
• For films released in: 1956

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Below is a complete list of nominations for the 29th Annual Academy Awards.

One of the nominations was a case of mistaken identity. Edward Bernds and Elwood Ullman were nominated in the Best Writing (Motion Picture Story) category for their work on High Society. Bernds and Ullman asked to have their names taken off the final ballot because they felt that voters had meant to nominate the work of the writers of the Crosby-Sinatra musical and not their Bowery Boys comedy. Funnily enough, the musical was based on The Philadelphia Story and so would only have been eligible in the adapted screenplay category.

The nominations for Writing (Motion Picture Story) also included Robert Rich for The Brave One, the eventual winner. Except there wasn’t a writer named Robert Rich. It was an alias for Dalton Trumbo, who was on the Hollywood blacklist because of investigations by the House Un-American Activities Committee and unable to work under his own name. The Oscar® was eventually given to Trumbo, and the name changed in the records, on May 2, 1975, and was presented by then Academy president Walter Mirisch.

The Writing (Screenplay Adapted) category included a nomination for Friendly Persuasion but no name credited to it. Michael Wilson had written the screenplay, but the film’s distributor, Allied Artists, removed his name from the screen credits because of a 1952 agreement between the unions and production companies that allowed them to do this if the worker had been accused of Communist affiliations by Congress and failed to clear their name. In order to get around this, the Academy revised its rules to allow the accomplishment to be recognized but not the person who accomplished it. This nomination was not included on the final ballot. The rule change was deemed unworkable in 1959 and almost fifty years later, on December 10, 2002, the Academy’s Board of Governors voted to reinstate Mr. Wilson’s nomination.

And the nominees are:

Best Motion Picture

• Around the World in 80 Days
  Michael Todd
• Friendly Persuasion
  William Wyler
• Giant
  George Stevens [Producer] and Henry Ginsberg [Producer]
• The King and I
  Charles Brackett [Producer]
• The Ten Commandments
  Cecil B. DeMille [Producer]

Best Directing

• Around the World in 80 Days
  Michael Anderson
• Friendly Persuasion
  William Wyler
• Giant
  George Stevens
• The King and I
  Walter Lang
• War and Peace
  King Vidor

Best Actor

• Giant
  James Dean
• Giant
  Rock Hudson
• The King and I
  Yul Brynner
• Lust for Life
  Kirk Douglas
• Richard III
  Laurence Olivier

Best Actress

• Anastasia
  Ingrid Bergman
• Baby Doll
  Carroll Baker
• The Bad Seed
  Nancy Kelly
• The King and I
  Deborah Kerr
• The Rainmaker
  Katharine Hepburn

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• The Bold and the Brave
  Mickey Rooney
• Bus Stop
  Don Murray
• Friendly Persuasion
  Anthony Perkins
• Lust for Life
  Anthony Quinn
• Written on the Wind
  Robert Stack

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Baby Doll
  Mildred Dunnock
• The Bad Seed
  Eileen Heckart
• The Bad Seed
  Patty McCormack
• Giant
  Mercedes McCambridge
• Written on the Wind
  Dorothy Malone

Best Foreign Language Film

• The Captain of Kopenick
  Gyula Trebitsch and Walter Koppel
• Gervaise
  Annie Dorfmann
• Harp of Burma
  Masayuki Takagi
• La Strada
  Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti
• Qivitoq
  O. Dalsgaard-Olsen

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

• The Magnificent Seven
  Takashi Matsuyama
• The Proud and the Profane
  Hal Pereira [Art Direction], A. Earl Hedrick [Art Direction], Samuel M. Comer [Set Decoration] and Frank R. McKelvy [Set Decoration]
• The Solid Gold Cadillac
  Ross Bellah [Art Direction], William R. Kiernan [Set Decoration] and Louis Diage [Set Decoration]
• Somebody Up There Likes Me
  Cedric Gibbons [Art Direction], Malcolm F. Brown [Art Direction], Edwin B. Willis [Set Decoration] and F. Keogh Gleason [Set Decoration]
• Teenage Rebel
  Lyle R. Wheeler [Art Direction], Jack Martin Smith [Art Direction], Walter M. Scott [Set Decoration] and Stuart A. Reiss [Set Decoration]

Best Art Direction (Color)

• Around the World in 80 Days
  James W. Sullivan [Art Direction], Ken Adam [Art Direction] and Ross J. Dowd [Set Decoration]
• Giant
  Boris Leven [Art Direction] and Ralph S. Hurst [Set Decoration]
• The King and I
  Lyle R. Wheeler [Art Direction], John DeCuir [Art Direction], Walter M. Scott [Set Decoration] and Paul S. Fox [Set Decoration]
• Lust for Life
  Cedric Gibbons [Art Direction], Hans Peters [Art Direction], Preston Ames [Art Direction], Edwin B. Willis [Set Decoration] and F. Keogh Gleason [Set Decoration]
• The Ten Commandments
  Hal Pereira [Art Direction], Walter H. Tyler [Art Direction], Albert Nozaki [Art Direction], Samuel M. Comer [Set Decoration] and Ray Moyer [Set Decoration]

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Baby Doll
  Boris Kaufman
• The Bad Seed
  Hal Rosson
• The Harder They Fall
  Burnett Guffey
• Somebody Up There Likes Me
  Joseph Ruttenberg
• Stagecoach to Fury
  Walter Strenge

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Around the World in 80 Days
  Lionel Lindon
• The Eddy Duchin Story
  Harry Stradling Sr.
• The King and I
  Leon Shamroy
• The Ten Commandments
  Loyal Griggs
• War and Peace
  Jack Cardiff

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• The Magnificent Seven
  Kohei Ezaki
• The Power and the Prize
  Helen Rose
• The Proud and the Profane
  Edith Head
• The Solid Gold Cadillac
  Jean Louis
• Teenage Rebel
  Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills

Best Costume Design (Color)

• Around the World in 80 Days
  Miles White
• Giant
  Moss Mabry and Marjorie Best
• The King and I
  Irene Sharaff
• The Ten Commandments
  Edith Head, Ralph Jester, John Jensen, Dorothy Jeakins and Arnold Friberg
• War and Peace
  Marie De Matteis

Best Documentary (Feature)

• The Naked Eye
  Louis Clyde Stoumen
• The Silent World
  Jacques-Yves Cousteau
• Where Mountains Float
  The Government Film Committee of Denmark

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

• A City Decides
  Charles Guggenheim & Associates, Inc.
• The Dark Wave
  John Healy
• The House without a Name
  Valentine Davies
• Man in Space
  Ward Kimball
• The True Story of the Civil War
  Louis Clyde Stoumen

Best Film Editing

• Around the World in 80 Days
  Gene Ruggiero and Paul Weatherwax
• The Brave One
  Merrill G. White
• Giant
  William Hornbeck, Philip W. Anderson and Fred Bohanan
• Somebody Up There Likes Me
  Albert Akst
• The Ten Commandments
  Anne Bauchens

Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

• Anastasia
  Alfred Newman
• Around the World in 80 Days
  Victor Young
• Between Heaven and Hell
  Hugo Friedhofer
• Giant
  Dimitri Tiomkin
• The Rainmaker
  Alex North

Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

• The Best Things in Life Are Free
  Lionel Newman
• The Eddy Duchin Story
  Morris Stoloff and George Duning
• High Society
  Johnny Green and Saul Chaplin
• The King and I
  Alfred Newman and Ken Darby
• Meet Me in Las Vegas
  George Stoll and Johnny Green

Best Music (Song)

• Friendly Persuasion "Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)"
  Dimitri Tiomkin [Music by] and Paul Francis Webster [Lyrics by]
• High Society "True Love"
  Cole Porter [Music and Lyrics by]
• Julie "Julie"
  Leith Stevens [Music by] and Tom Adair [Lyrics by]
• The Man Who Knew Too Much "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)"
  Jay Livingston [Music and Lyrics by] and Ray Evans [Music and Lyrics by]
• Written on the Wind "Written on the Wind"
  Victor Young [Music by] and Sammy Cahn [Lyrics by]

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• Gerald McBoing-Boing on Planet Moo
  Stephen Bosustow
• The Jaywalker
  Stephen Bosustow
• Mister Magoo's Puddle Jumper
  Stephen Bosustow

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• Crashing the Water Barrier
  Konstantin Kalser
• I Never Forget a Face
  Robert Youngson
• Time Stood Still
  Cedric Francis

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• The Bespoke Overcoat
  Romulus Films
• Cow Dog
  Larry Lansburgh
• The Dark Wave
  John Healy
• Samoa
  Walt Disney

Best Sound Recording

• The Brave One
  King Bros. Productions, Inc., Sound Department and John Myers [Sound Director]
• The Eddy Duchin Story
  Columbia Studio Sound Department and John Livadary [Sound Director]
• Friendly Persuasion
  Westrex Sound Services, Inc., Gordon R. Glennan [Sound Director], Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department and Gordon Sawyer [Sound Director]
• The King and I
  20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department and Carl W. Faulkner [Sound Director]
• The Ten Commandments
  Paramount Studio Sound Department and Loren L. Ryder [Sound Director]

Best Special Effects

• Forbidden Planet
  A. Arnold Gillespie, Irving Ries and Wesley C. Miller
• The Ten Commandments
  John Fulton

Best Writing (Screenplay - Adapted)

• Around the World in 80 Days
  James Poe, John Farrow and S.J. Perelman
• Baby Doll
  Tennessee Williams
• Friendly Persuasion
  Michael Wilson
• Giant
  Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat
• Lust for Life
  Norman Corwin

Best Writing (Screenplay - Original)

• The Bold and the Brave
  Robert Lewin
• Julie
  Andrew L. Stone
• La Strada
  Federico Fellini and Tullio Pinelli
• The Ladykillers
  William Rose
• The Red Balloon
  Albert Lamorisse

Best Writing (Motion Picture Story)

• The Brave One
  Dalton Trumbo
• The Eddy Duchin Story
  Leo Katcher
• High Society
  Edward Bernds and Elwood Ullman
• The Proud and the Beautiful
  Jean Paul Sartre
• Umberto D.
  Cesare Zavattini