1956

Best Picture

Giant
-The Searchers
-The Bad Seed
-The Killing
-Baby Doll

Best Director

"My well came in big, so big, Bick and there's more down there and there's bigger wells. I'm rich, Bick. I'm a rich 'un. I'm a rich boy. Me, I'm gonna have more money than you ever *thought* you could have -- you and all the rest of you stinkin' sons of ... Benedicts!"
George Stevens for Giant
-John Ford for The Searchers
-Stanley Kubrick for The Killing
-Alfred Hitchcock for The Man Who Knew Too Much
-Elia Kazan for Baby Doll

Best Actor

"That'll be the day."
John Wayne as Ethan Edwards in The Searchers
-Kirk Douglas as Vincent Van Gogh in Lust For Life
-Paul Newman as Rocky Graziano in Somebody Up There Likes Me
-Rock Hudson as Bick Benedict in Giant
-Yul Brenner as The King of Siam in The King & I

Best Actress

"I'm sick and tired of me. I want to get out of me for awhile."
Katherine Hepburn as Lizzie Curry in The Rainmaker
-Carroll Baker as Baby Doll Meighan in Baby Doll
-Ingrid Bergman as Anna Koreff/Anastasia in Anastasia
-Nancy Kelly as Christine Penmark in The Bad Seed
-Elizabeth Taylor as Leslie Benedict in Giant

Best Supporting Actor

"Jus' gamble 'long. Just... keep what she give me."
James Dean as Jett Rink in Giant
-Anthony Quinn as Paul Gauguin in Lust For Life
-Anthony Perkins as Josh Birdwell in Friendly Persuasion
-Henry Jones as Leroy Jessup in The Bad Seed
-Eli Wallach as Silva Vacarro in Baby Doll

Best Supporting Actress

"You tell lies like that, you won't go to Heaven when you die!"
Patricia McCormack as Rhoda Penmark in The Bad Seed
-Mercedes McCambridge as Luz Benedict in Giant
-Isabelle Corey as Anne in Bob le Flambeur
-Pier Angeli as Norma in Somebody Up There likes Me
-Mildred Dunnock as Aunt Rose Comfort in Baby Doll

Best Screenplay

"By what you preach, none. But what that Comanche believes, ain't got no eyes, he can't enter the spirit-land. Has to wander forever between the winds.You get it, Reverend."
The Searchers
-The Wrong Man
-The Bad Seed
-Giant
-Baby Doll
-Bob le Flambeur