29th Annual Academy Awards Results and Commentary (1957)

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• Date of Ceremony: Wednesday, March 27, 1957
• For films released in: 1956
• Host(s): Jerry Lewis (video) and Celeste Holm (video)

• Nominations List

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Jerry Lewis hosted from Hollywood and Celeste Holm did the same chore in New York when the 29th Academy Awards were handed out on Wednesday, March 27, 1957.

Around the World in 80 Days took home five Oscars® including Best Picture as did The King and I whose awards haul included a Best Actor for Yul Brynner.

Ingrid Bergman won Best Actress for Anastasia, her first Hollywood film in six years and there was a mystery in the Writing (Motion Picture Story) category. Who was the winner for The Brave One, Robert Rich?

The mystery would be solved years later when it was revealed that the writer was Dalton Trumbo, who was on the Hollywood blacklist after the investigations by the House Un-American Activities Committee and unable to work under his own name. Trumbo finally got the Oscar, and his name in the records changed, in 1975.

Results

Best Motion Picture

• Around the World in 80 Days
  Michael Todd

Best Directing

• Giant
  George Stevens

Best Actor

• The King and I
  Yul Brynner

Best Actress

• Anastasia
  Ingrid Bergman
• The Rainmaker
  Katharine Hepburn

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Lust for Life
  Anthony Quinn

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Written on the Wind
  Dorothy Malone

Best Foreign Language Film

• La Strada
  Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

• 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]

Best Art Direction (Color)

• The King and I
  Lyle R. Wheeler [Art Direction], John DeCuir [Art Direction], Walter M. Scott [Set Decoration] and Paul S. Fox [Set Decoration]

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Somebody Up There Likes Me
  Joseph Ruttenberg

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Around the World in 80 Days
  Lionel Lindon

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• The Solid Gold Cadillac
  Jean Louis

Best Costume Design (Color)

• The King and I
  Irene Sharaff

Best Documentary (Feature)

• The Silent World
  Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

• The True Story of the Civil War
  Louis Clyde Stoumen

Best Film Editing

• Around the World in 80 Days
  Gene Ruggiero and Paul Weatherwax

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

• Around the World in 80 Days
  Victor Young

Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

• The King and I
  Alfred Newman and Ken Darby

Best Music (Song)

• 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]

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• Crashing the Water Barrier
  Konstantin Kalser

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• The Bespoke Overcoat
  Romulus Films

Best Sound Recording

• The King and I
  20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department and Carl W. Faulkner [Sound Director]

Best Special Effects

• The Ten Commandments
  John Fulton

Best Writing (Screenplay - Adapted)

• Around the World in 80 Days
  James Poe, John Farrow and S.J. Perelman

Best Writing (Screenplay - Original)

• The Red Balloon
  Albert Lamorisse

Best Writing (Motion Picture Story)

• The Brave One
  Dalton Trumbo

Honorary Award

• Eddie Cantor
  Note: …for distinguished service to the film industry.

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

• Buddy Adler

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Y. Frank Freeman

Scientific or Technical Award (Class III)

• Richard H. Ranger [of Rangertone, Inc.]
  Note: …for the development of a synchronous recording and reproducing system for quarter-inch magnetic tape.
• Ted Hirsch [of Consolidated Film Industries], Carl Hauge [of Consolidated Film Industries] and Edward Reichard [of Consolidated Film Industries]
  Note: …for an automatic scene counter for laboratory projection rooms.
• Technical Departments of Paramount Pictures Corp.
  Note: …for the engineering and development of the Paramount light-weight horizontal-movement VistaVision camera.
• Roy C. Stewart and Sons [of Stewart-Trans Lux Corp.], Dr. C.R. Daily [of Stewart-Trans Lux Corp.] and Transparency Department of Paramount Pictures Corp. [of Stewart-Trans Lux Corp.]
  Note: …for the engineering and development of the HiTrans and Para-HiTrans rear projection screens.
• Construction Department of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio
  Note: …for a new hand-portable fog machine.
• Daniel J. Bloomberg, John Pond, William Wade and Engineering and Camera Departments of Republic Studio
  Note: …for the Naturama adaptation to the Mitchell camera.