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1956 (29th Annual Awards)
Nomination Statistics by Film

Listed below are statistics for the films nominated for Academy Awards in 1956. In the chart, the term “Top Six” refers to the number of nominations or wins in the top six award categories (Best Picture, Best Actor and Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Actress, and Directing). TheWinner marker symbol appears next to those films that ultimately won at least one award. Click on the name of a film in the list to display more information about that film. Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the nomination statistics for that year.

  Nominations  Wins
Film Title Top Six Total Top Six Total
Winner markerAnastasia
 1 2 1 1
Winner markerAround the World in 80 Days
 2 8 1 5
Baby Doll
 2 4 0 0
The Bad Seed
 3 4 0 0
Winner markerThe Bespoke Overcoat
 0 1 0 1
The Best Things in Life Are Free
 0 1 0 0
Between Heaven and Hell
 0 1 0 0
The Bold and the Brave
 1 2 0 0
Winner markerThe Brave One
 0 3 0 1
Bus Stop
 1 1 0 0
The Captain of Kopenick
 0 1 0 0
A City Decides
 0 1 0 0
Cow Dog
 0 1 0 0
Winner markerCrashing the Water Barrier
 0 1 0 1
The Dark Wave
 0 2 0 0
The Eddy Duchin Story
 0 4 0 0
Forbidden Planet
 0 1 0 0
Friendly Persuasion
 3 6 0 0
Gerald McBoing-Boing on Planet Moo
 0 1 0 0
Gervaise
 0 1 0 0
Winner markerGiant
 5 10 1 1
The Harder They Fall
 0 1 0 0
Harp of Burma
 0 1 0 0
High Society
 0 1 0 0
High Society
 0 2 0 0
The House Without a Name
 0 1 0 0
I Never Forget a Face
 0 1 0 0
The Jay Walker
 0 1 0 0
Julie
 0 2 0 0
Winner markerThe King and I
 4 9 1 5
Winner markerLa Strada
 0 2 0 1
The Ladykillers
 0 1 0 0
Winner markerLust for Life
 2 4 1 1
The Magnificent Seven
 0 2 0 0
Man in Space
 0 1 0 0
Winner markerThe Man Who Knew Too Much
 0 1 0 1
Meet Me in Las Vegas
 0 1 0 0
Winner markerMister Magoo’s Puddle Jumper
 0 1 0 1
The Naked Eye
 0 1 0 0
The Power and the Prize
 0 1 0 0
The Proud and the Beautiful
 0 1 0 0
The Proud and Profane
 0 2 0 0
Qivitoq
 0 1 0 0
The Rainmaker
 1 2 0 0
Winner markerThe Red Balloon
 0 1 0 1
Richard III
 1 1 0 0
Samoa
 0 1 0 0
Winner markerThe Silent World
 0 1 0 1
Winner markerThe Solid Gold Cadillac
 0 2 0 1
Winner markerSomebody up There Likes Me
 0 3 0 2
Stagecoach to Fury
 0 1 0 0
Teenage Rebel
 0 2 0 0
Winner markerThe Ten Commandments
 1 7 0 1
Time Stood Still
 0 1 0 0
Winner markerThe True Story of the Civil War
 0 1 0 1
Umberto D.
 0 1 0 0
War and Peace
 1 3 0 0
Where Mountains Float
 0 1 0 0
Winner markerWritten on the Wind
 2 3 1 1
Winning Films: 18 30 125 6 27
Total Films: 59