Academy Awards 1956 Nominations

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Best Motion Picture	Best Director
Best Actor	Best Actress
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Story and Screenplay	Best Motion Picture Story
Best Screenplay	Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short	Best Live Action Short Subject (One-reel)
Best Live Action Short Subject (Two-reel)	Best Short Subject (Cartoon)
Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture	Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
Best Song	Best Sound Recording
Best Art Direction (Color)	Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)
Best Cinematography (Color)	Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Best Costume Design (Color)	Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)
Best Film Editing	Best Special Effects

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Best Motion Picture

• Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Marty
• Mister Roberts
• Picnic
• The Rose Tattoo

Best Director

• Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges)
• East of Eden (Elia Kazan)
• Marty (Delbert Mann)
• Picnic (Joshua Logan)
• Summertime (David Lean)

Best Actor

• Bad Day at Black Rock (Spencer Tracy)
• East of Eden (James Dean)
• Love Me or Leave Me (James Cagney)
• Marty (Ernest Borgnine)
• The Man with the Golden Arm (Frank Sinatra)

Best Actress

• I'll Cry Tomorrow (Susan Hayward)
• Interrupted Melody (Eleanor Parker)
• Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (Jennifer Jones)
• Summertime (Katharine Hepburn)
• The Rose Tattoo (Anna Magnani)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Marty (Joe Mantell)
• Mister Roberts (Jack Lemmon)
• Picnic (Arthur O'Connell)
• Rebel Without a Cause (Sal Mineo)
• Trial (Arthur Kennedy)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• East of Eden (Jo Van Fleet)
• Marty (Betsy Blair)
• Pete Kelly's Blues (Peggy Lee)
• Rebel Without a Cause (Natalie Wood)
• The Rose Tattoo (Marisa Pavan)

Best Story and Screenplay

• Interrupted Melody
• It's Always Fair Weather
• Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
• The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
• The Seven Little Foys

Best Motion Picture Story

• Love Me or Leave Me
• Rebel Without a Cause
• Strategic Air Command
• The Private War of Major Benson
• The Sheep Has Five Legs

Best Screenplay

• Bad Day at Black Rock
• Blackboard Jungle
• East of Eden
• Love Me or Leave Me
• Marty

Best Documentary Feature

• Crèvecoeur
• The Unconquered

Best Documentary Short

• Men Against the Arctic
• The Battle of Gettysburg
• The Face of Lincoln

Best Live Action Short Subject (One-reel)

• 3rd Ave. El
• Gadgets Galore
• Survival City
• Three Kisses

Best Live Action Short Subject (Two-reel)

• 24 Hour Alert
• On the Twelfth Day...
• Switzerland
• The Battle of Gettysburg
• The Face of Lincoln

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• Good Will to Men
• No Hunting
• Speedy Gonzales
• The Legend of Rockabye Point

Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

• Battle Cry
• Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Picnic
• The Man with the Golden Arm
• The Rose Tattoo

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Daddy Long Legs
• Guys and Dolls
• It's Always Fair Weather
• Love Me or Leave Me
• Oklahoma!

Best Song

• Daddy Long Legs ("Something's Gotta Give")
• Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing ("Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing")
• Love Me or Leave Me ("I'll Never Stop Loving You")
• The Tender Trap ("(Love Is) The Tender Trap")
• Unchained ("Unchained Melody")

Best Sound Recording

• Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Love Me or Leave Me
• Mister Roberts
• Not as a Stranger
• Oklahoma!

Best Art Direction (Color)

• Daddy Long Legs
• Guys and Dolls
• Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Picnic
• To Catch a Thief

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

• Blackboard Jungle
• I'll Cry Tomorrow
• Marty
• The Man with the Golden Arm
• The Rose Tattoo

Best Cinematography (Color)

• A Man Called Peter
• Guys and Dolls
• Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Oklahoma!
• To Catch a Thief

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Blackboard Jungle
• I'll Cry Tomorrow
• Marty
• Queen Bee
• The Rose Tattoo

Best Costume Design (Color)

• Guys and Dolls
• Interrupted Melody
• Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• The Virgin Queen
• To Catch a Thief

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• I'll Cry Tomorrow
• Queen Bee
• The Pickwick Papers
• The Rose Tattoo
• Ugetsu

Best Film Editing

• Blackboard Jungle
• Oklahoma!
• Picnic
• The Bridges at Toko-Ri
• The Rose Tattoo

Best Special Effects

• The Bridges at Toko-Ri
• The Dam Busters
• The Rains of Ranchipur