1957 Oscars: Winners and Nominees

58 films were recognised at the 1957 Academy Awards, across 27 categories. 18 of them took home at least one award.

The biggest winner of the year was The King and I, with 5 awards, ahead of Around the World in 80 Days with 5. The categories below run from Art Direction (Black-and-White), Costume Design (Black-and-White) and Actor to the smaller prizes, and in every one the winner is listed first, followed by the other nominees.

Each title links to the film's full award history at all four awards, and the links at the bottom step to the previous and next ceremony.

Last updated August 12, 2026

Art Direction (Black-and-White)

Somebody Up There Likes Me(1956)
Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm F. Brown; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason
Winner
Seven Samurai (The Magnificent Seven)(1954)
Takashi Matsuyama
Seven Samurai (The Magnificent Seven)(1954)
The Magnificent Seven
Teenage Rebel(1956)
Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler, Jack Martin Smith; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss
The Proud and Profane(1956)
Art Direction: Hal Pereira, A. Earl Hedrick; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer, Frank R. McKelvy
The Solid Gold Cadillac(1956)
Art Direction: Ross Bellah; Set Decoration: William R. Kiernan, Louis Diage

Costume Design (Black-and-White)

The Solid Gold Cadillac(1956)
Jean Louis
Winner
Seven Samurai (The Magnificent Seven)(1954)
Kohei Ezaki
Seven Samurai (The Magnificent Seven)(1954)
The Magnificent Seven
Teenage Rebel(1956)
Charles LeMaire, Mary Wills
The Power and the Prize(1956)
Helen Rose
The Proud and Profane(1956)
Edith Head

Actor

The King and I(1956)
Yul Brynner
Winner
Giant(1956)
James Dean
Giant(1956)
Rock Hudson
Lust for Life(1956)
Kirk Douglas
Richard III(1955)
Sir Laurence Olivier

Actor in a Supporting Role

Lust for Life(1956)
Anthony Quinn
Winner
Bus Stop(1956)
Don Murray
Friendly Persuasion(1956)
Anthony Perkins
The Bold and the Brave(1956)
Mickey Rooney
Written on the Wind(1956)
Robert Stack

Actress

Anastasia(1956)
Ingrid Bergman
Winner
Baby Doll(1956)
Carroll Baker
The Bad Seed(1956)
Nancy Kelly
The King and I(1956)
Deborah Kerr
The Rainmaker(1956)
Katharine Hepburn

Actress in a Supporting Role

Written on the Wind(1956)
Dorothy Malone
Winner
Baby Doll(1956)
Mildred Dunnock
Giant(1956)
Mercedes McCambridge
The Bad Seed(1956)
Eileen Heckart
The Bad Seed(1956)
Patty McCormack

Art Direction (Color)

The King and I(1956)
Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler, John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox
Winner
Around the World in 80 Days(1956)
Art Direction: James W. Sullivan, Ken Adam; Set Decoration: Ross J. Dowd
Giant(1956)
Art Direction: Boris Leven; Set Decoration: Ralph S. Hurst
Lust for Life(1956)
Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason
The Ten Commandments(1956)
Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Walter H. Tyler, Albert Nozaki; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer

Best Picture

Around the World in 80 Days(1956)
Michael Todd, Producer
Winner
Friendly Persuasion(1956)
William Wyler, Producer
Giant(1956)
George Stevens and Henry Ginsberg, Producers
The King and I(1956)
Charles Brackett, Producer
The Ten Commandments(1956)
Cecil B. DeMille, Producer

Cinematography (Black-and-White)

Somebody Up There Likes Me(1956)
Joseph Ruttenberg
Winner
Baby Doll(1956)
Boris Kaufman
Stagecoach To Fury(1956)
Walter Strenge
The Bad Seed(1956)
Hal Rosson
The Harder They Fall(1956)
Burnett Guffey

Cinematography (Color)

Around the World in 80 Days(1956)
Lionel Lindon
Winner
The Eddy Duchin Story(1956)
Harry Stradling
The King and I(1956)
Leon Shamroy
The Ten Commandments(1956)
Loyal Griggs
War and Peace(1956)
Jack Cardiff

Costume Design (Color)

The King and I(1956)
Irene Sharaff
Winner
Around the World in 80 Days(1956)
Miles White
Giant(1956)
Moss Mabry, Marjorie Best
The Ten Commandments(1956)
Edith Head, Ralph Jester, John Jensen, Dorothy Jeakins, Arnold Friberg
War and Peace(1956)
Marie De Matteis

Directing

Giant(1956)
George Stevens
Winner
Around the World in 80 Days(1956)
Michael Anderson
Friendly Persuasion(1956)
William Wyler
The King and I(1956)
Walter Lang
War and Peace(1956)
King Vidor

Documentary (Short Subject)

The True Story of the Civil War(1956)
Louis Clyde Stoumen, Producer
Winner
A City Decides(1956)
Charles Guggenheim & Associates, Inc.
Man in Space(1955)
Ward Kimball, Producer
The Dark Wave(1956)
John Healy, Producer
The House Without a Name(1956)
Valentine Davies, Producer

Film Editing

Around the World in 80 Days(1956)
Gene Ruggiero, Paul Weatherwax
Winner
Giant(1956)
William Hornbeck, Philip W. Anderson, Fred Bohanan
Somebody Up There Likes Me(1956)
Albert Akst
The Brave One(1956)
Merrill G. White
The Ten Commandments(1956)
Anne Bauchens

International Feature Film

La Strada(1954)
Italy; Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti, Producers
Winner
Gervaise(1956)
France; Annie Dorfmann, Producer
Qivitoq(1956)
Denmark; O. Dalsgaard-Olsen, Producer
The Burmese Harp (Harp of Burma)(1956)
Japan; Masayuki Takagi, Producer
The Captain from Kopenick(1956)
Federal Republic of Germany - West; Gyula Trebitsch and Walter Koppel, Producers

Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

Around the World in 80 Days(1956)
Victor Young
Winner
Anastasia(1956)
Alfred Newman
Between Heaven and Hell(1956)
Hugo Friedhofer
Giant(1956)
Dimitri Tiomkin
The Rainmaker(1956)
Alex North

Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

The King and I(1956)
Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
Winner
High Society(1956)
Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin
Meet Me in Las Vegas(1956)
George Stoll, Johnny Green
The Best Things in Life Are Free(1956)
Lionel Newman
The Eddy Duchin Story(1956)
Morris Stoloff, George Duning

Music (Song)

The Man Who Knew Too Much(1956)
Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera) in "The Man Who Knew Too Much" Music and Lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
Winner
Friendly Persuasion(1956)
Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love) in "Friendly Persuasion" Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
High Society(1956)
True Love in "High Society" Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Julie(1956)
Julie in "Julie" Music by Leith Stevens; Lyrics by Tom Adair
Written on the Wind(1956)
Written On The Wind in "Written on the Wind" Music by Victor Young; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn

Sound Recording

The King and I(1956)
20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Carl Faulkner, Sound Director
Winner
Friendly Persuasion(1956)
Westrex Sound Services, Inc., Gordon R. Glennan, Sound Director; and Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon Sawyer, Sound Director
The Brave One(1956)
King Bros. Productions, Inc., Sound Department, John Myers, Sound Director
The Eddy Duchin Story(1956)
Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary, Sound Director
The Ten Commandments(1956)
Paramount Studio Sound Department, Loren L. Ryder, Sound Director