1955 (28th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1955 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Motion Picture

Marty, Hecht and Lancaster’s Steven Productions; United Artists. Harold Hecht, Producer.

Best Actor

Ernest Borgnine in Marty, Hecht and Lancaster’s Steven Productions; United Artists.

Best Actress

Anna Magnani in The Rose Tattoo, Hal Wallis Productions; Paramount.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Jack Lemmon in Mister Roberts, Orange Production; Warner Bros.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Jo Van Fleet in East of Eden, Warner Bros.

Directing

Marty, Hecht and Lancaster’s Steven Productions; United Artists. Delbert Mann.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

(Black-and-White)

The Rose Tattoo, Hal Wallis Productions; Paramount. Art direction by Hal Pereira and Tambi Larsen; set decoration by Sam Comer and Arthur Krams.

(Color)

Picnic, Columbia. Art direction by William Flannery and Jo Mielziner; set decoration by Robert Priestley.

Cinematography

(Black-and-White)

The Rose Tattoo, Hal Wallis Productions; Paramount. James Wong Howe.

(Color)

To Catch a Thief, Paramount. Robert Burks.

Costume Design

(Black-and-White)

I’ll Cry Tomorrow, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Helen Rose.

(Color)

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, 20th Century-Fox. Charles LeMaire.

Documentary

(Feature)

Helen Keller in Her Story, Nancy Hamilton Presentation. Nancy Hamilton, Producer.

(Short Subject)

Men Against the Arctic, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. [People and Places Series] Walt Disney, Producer.

Film Editing

Picnic, Columbia. Charles Nelson and William A. Lyon.

Music

(Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, 20th Century-Fox. Alfred Newman.

(Scoring of a Musical Picture)

Oklahoma!, Rodgers & Hammerstein Pictures, Inc.; Magna Theatre Corporation. Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton and Adolph Deutsch.

(Song)

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing from Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, 20th Century-Fox. Music by Sammy Fain; lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

Speedy Gonzales, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.; Warner Bros. [Merrie Melodies Series] Edward Selzer, Producer.

(One-reel)

Survival City, 20th Century-Fox. [Movietone CinemaScope Series] Edmund Reek, Producer.

(Two-reel)

The Face of Lincoln, University of Southern California Presentation; Cavalcade Pictures, Inc. Wilbur T. Blume, Producer.

Sound Recording

Oklahoma!, Rodgers & Hammerstein Pictures, Inc.; Magna Theatre Corporation. Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes, Sound Director.

Special Effects

The Bridges at Toko-Ri, Perlberg-Seaton Production; Paramount.

Writing

(Motion Picture Story)

Love Me or Leave Me, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Daniel Fuchs.

(Screenplay)

Marty, Hecht and Lancaster’s Steven Productions; United Artists. Paddy Chayefsky.

(Story and Screenplay)

Interrupted Melody, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. William Ludwig and Sonya Levien.

Honorary Award

(Foreign Language Film)

To Samurai, the Legend of Musashi. (Japan) Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1955. [ [Statuette]]

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class I)

To the National Carbon Co. for the development and production of a high efficiency yellow flame carbon for motion picture photography.

(Class II)

To the Eastman Kodak Co. for Eastman Tri-X Panchromatic Negative Film.

To Farciot Edouart, Hal Corl and the Paramount Studio Transparency Department for the engineering and development of a double-frame, triple-head background projector.

(Class III)

To 20th Century-Fox Studio and the Bausch & Lomb Co. for the new combination lenses for CinemaScope Photography.

To Walter Jolley, Maurice Larson, and R. H. Spies of 20th Century-Fox Studio for a spraying process which creates simulated metallic surfaces.

To Steve Krilanovich for an improved camera dolly incorporating multi-directional steering.

To Dave Anderson of 20th Century-Fox Studio for an improved spotlight capable of maintaining a fixed circle of light at constant intensity over varied distances.

To Loren L. Ryder, Charles West, Henry Fracker, and the Paramount Studios for a projection film index to establish proper framing for various aspect ratios.

To Farciot Edouart, Hal Corl and the Paramount Studio Transparency Department for an improved dual stereopticon background projector.