30th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1958)
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- Date of Ceremony: Wednesday, March 26, 1958
- For films released in: 1957
Once again, there was a change made in the nominated names due to the Hollywood blacklist of industry members suspected of being Communist sympathizers.
The Best Writing (Screenplay – based on material from another medium) nomination (and eventual winner) for The Bridge on the River Kwai originally listed just Pierre Boulle. Boulle, who spoke very little English, was the French author of the book the movie was based on. The screenplay was actually written by blacklisted writers Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman. The Academy’s Board of Governors, voted on December 11, 1984, to award posthumous Oscars to Wilson and Foreman and updated their nominations records to reflect their names.
And the nominees are:
Best Motion Picture
- 12 Angry Men
Henry Fonda and Reginald Rose - The Bridge on the River Kwai
Sam Spiegel - Peyton Place
Jerry Wald - Sayonara
William Goetz [Producer] - Witness for the Prosecution
Arthur Hornblow Jr.
Best Directing
- 12 Angry Men
Sidney Lumet - The Bridge on the River Kwai
David Lean - Peyton Place
Mark Robson - Sayonara
Joshua Logan - Witness for the Prosecution
Billy Wilder
Best Actor
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
Alec Guinness - A Hatful of Rain
Anthony Franciosa - Sayonara
Marlon Brando - Wild Is the Wind
Anthony Quinn - Witness for the Prosecution
Charles Laughton
Best Actress
- Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Deborah Kerr - Peyton Place
Lana Turner - Raintree County
Elizabeth Taylor - The Three Faces of Eve
Joanne Woodward - Wild Is the Wind
Anna Magnani
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
Sessue Hayakawa - A Farewell to Arms
Vittorio De Sica - Peyton Place
Arthur Kennedy - Peyton Place
Russ Tamblyn - Sayonara
Red Buttons
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- The Bachelor Party
Carolyn Jones - Peyton Place
Hope Lange - Peyton Place
Diane Varsi - Sayonara
Miyoshi Umeki - Witness for the Prosecution
Elsa Lanchester
Best Foreign Language Film
- The Devil Came at Night
- Gates of Paris
- Mother India
- The Nights of Cabiria
- Nine Lives
Best Art Direction
- Funny Face
Hal Pereira [Art Direction], George W. Davis [Art Direction], Sam Comer [Set Decoration] and Ray Moyer [Set Decoration] - Les Girls
William A. Horning [Art Direction], Gene Allen [Art Direction], Edwin B. Willis [Set Decoration] and Richard Pefferle [Set Decoration] - Pal Joey
Walter Holscher [Art Direction], William Kiernan [Set Decoration] and Louis Diage [Set Decoration] - Raintree County
William A. Horning [Art Direction], Urie McCleary [Art Direction], Edwin B. Willis [Set Decoration] and Hugh Hunt [Set Decoration] - Sayonara
Ted Haworth [Art Direction] and Robert Priestley [Set Decoration]
Best Cinematography
- An Affair to Remember
Milton Krasner - The Bridge on the River Kwai
Jack Hildyard - Funny Face
Ray June - Peyton Place
William Mellor - Sayonara
Ellsworth Fredricks
Best Costume Design
- An Affair to Remember
Charles LeMaire - Funny Face
Edith Head and Hubert de Givenchy - Les Girls
Orry-Kelly - Pal Joey
Jean Louis - Raintree County
Walter Plunkett
Best Documentary (Feature)
- Albert Schweitzer
Jerome Hill - On the Bowery
Lionel Rogosin - Torero!
Manuel Barbachano Ponce
Best Film Editing
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
Peter Taylor - Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Warren Low - Pal Joey
Viola Lawrence and Jerome Thomas - Sayonara
Arthur P. Schmidt and Philip W. Anderson - Witness for the Prosecution
Daniel Mandell
Best Music (Scoring)
- An Affair to Remember
Hugo Friedhofer - Boy on a Dolphin
Hugo Friedhofer - The Bridge on the River Kwai
Malcolm Arnold - Perri
Paul Smith - Raintree County
Johnny Green
Best Music (Song)
- An Affair to Remember "An Affair to Remember"
Harry Warren [Music by], Harold Adamson [Lyrics by] and Leo McCarey [Lyrics by] - April Love "April Love"
Sammy Fain [Music by] and Paul Francis Webster [Lyrics by] - The Joker Is Wild "All The Way"
James Van Heusen [Music by] and Sammy Cahn [Lyrics by] - Tammy and the Bachelor "Tammy"
Ray Evans [Music and Lyrics by] and Jay Livingston [Music and Lyrics by] - Wild Is the Wind "Wild Is the Wind"
Dimitri Tiomkin [Music by] and Ned Washington [Lyrics by]
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)
- Birds Anonymous
Edward Selzer - One Droopy Knight
William Hanna and Joseph Barbera - Tabasco Road
Edward Selzer - Trees and Jamaica Daddy
Stephen Bosustow - The Truth about Mother Goose
Walt Disney
Best Short Subject (Live Action)
- A Chairy Tale
Norman McLaren - City of Gold
Tom Daly - Foothold on Antarctica
James Carr - Portugal
Ben Sharpsteen - The Wetback Hound
Larry Lansburgh
Best Sound Recording
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Paramount Studio Sound Department and George Dutton [Sound Director] - Les Girls
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department and Wesley C. Miller [Sound Director] - Pal Joey
Columbia Studio Sound Department and John P. Livadary [Sound Director] - Sayonara
Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department and George Groves [Sound Director] - Witness for the Prosecution
Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department and Gordon E. Sawyer [Sound Director]
Best Special Effects
- The Enemy Below
Walter Rossi [Audible Effects by] - The Spirit of St. Louis
Louis Lichtenfield [Visual Effects by]
Best Writing (Screenplay - based on material from another medium)
- 12 Angry Men
Reginald Rose - The Bridge on the River Kwai
Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman and Pierre Boulle - Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
John Lee Mahin and John Huston - Peyton Place
John Michael Hayes - Sayonara
Paul Osborn
Best Writing (Story and Screenplay - written directly for the screen)
- Designing Woman
George Wells - Funny Face
Leonard Gershe - Man of a Thousand Faces
Ralph Wheelwright [Story by], R. Wright Campbell [Screenplay by], Ivan Goff [Screenplay by] and Ben Roberts [Screenplay by] - The Tin Star
Barry Slater [Story by], Joel Kane [Story by] and Dudley Nichols [Screenplay by] - Vitelloni
Federico Fellini [Story and Screenplay by], Ennio Flaiano [Story and Screenplay by] and Tullio Pinelli [Story by]