Academy Awards 1958 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 written directly for the screen	Best Screenplay based on material from another medium
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Documentary Feature
Best Live Action Short Subject	Best Short Subject (Cartoon)
Best Scoring	Best Song
Best Sound Recording	Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography	Best Costume Design
Best Film Editing	Best Special Effects

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Best Motion Picture

• 12 Angry Men
• Peyton Place
• Sayonara
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Witness for the Prosecution

Best Director

• 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
• Peyton Place (Mark Robson)
• Sayonara (Joshua Logan)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean)
• Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder)

Best Actor

• A Hatful of Rain (Anthony Franciosa)
• Sayonara (Marlon Brando)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (Alec Guinness)
• 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

• A Farewell to Arms (Vittorio De Sica)
• Peyton Place (Russ Tamblyn)
• Peyton Place (Arthur Kennedy)
• Sayonara (Red Buttons)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (Sessue Hayakawa)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Peyton Place (Diane Varsi)
• Peyton Place (Hope Lange)
• Sayonara (Miyoshi Umeki)
• The Bachelor Party (Carolyn Jones)
• Witness for the Prosecution (Elsa Lanchester)

Best Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen

• Designing Woman
• Funny Face
• I vitelloni
• Man of a Thousand Faces
• The Tin Star

Best Screenplay based on material from another medium

• 12 Angry Men
• Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
• Peyton Place
• Sayonara
• The Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Foreign Language Film

• Mother India (India)
• Nine Lives (Norway)
• The Devil Strikes at Night (Germany)
• The Gates of Paris (France)
• The Nights of Cabiria (Italy)

Best Documentary Feature

• Albert Schweitzer
• On the Bowery
• Torero

Best Live Action Short Subject

• A Chairy Tale
• City of Gold
• Foothold on Antarctica
• Portugal
• The Wetback Hound

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• Birds Anonymous
• One Droopy Knight
• Tabasco Road
• The Truth About Mother Goose
• Trees and Jamaica Daddy

Best Scoring

• An Affair to Remember
• Boy on a Dolphin
• Perri
• Raintree County
• The Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Song

• An Affair to Remember ("An Affair to Remember")
• April Love ("April Love")
• Tammy and the Bachelor ("Tammy")
• The Joker Is Wild ("All the Way")
• Wild Is the Wind ("Wild Is the Wind")

Best Sound Recording

• Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
• Les Girls
• Pal Joey
• Sayonara
• Witness for the Prosecution

Best Art Direction

• Funny Face
• Les Girls
• Pal Joey
• Raintree County
• Sayonara

Best Cinematography

• An Affair to Remember
• Funny Face
• Peyton Place
• Sayonara
• The Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Costume Design

• An Affair to Remember
• Funny Face
• Les Girls
• Pal Joey
• Raintree County

Best Film Editing

• Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
• Pal Joey
• Sayonara
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Witness for the Prosecution

Best Special Effects

• The Enemy Below
• The Spirit of St. Louis