Best Film - Drama

The Defiant Ones

• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Home Before Dark
• I Want to Live!
• Separate Tables

Best Film - Comedy

Auntie Mame

• Bell, Book and Candle
• Indiscreet
• Me and the Colonel
• The Perfect Furlough

Best Film - Musical

Gigi

• Damn Yankees
• South Pacific
• Tom Thumb

Best Actor - Drama

David Niven – Separate Tables

• Tony Curtis – The Defiant Ones
• Robert Donat – The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (posthumous nomination)
• Sidney Poitier – The Defiant Ones
• Spencer Tracy – The Old Man and the Sea

Best Actress - Drama

Susan Hayward – I Want to Live!

• Ingrid Bergman – The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
• Deborah Kerr – Separate Tables
• Shirley MacLaine – Some Came Running
• Jean Simmons – Home Before Dark

Best Actor - Comedy or Musical

Danny Kaye – Me and the Colonel

• Maurice Chevalier – Gigi
• Clark Gable – Teacher's Pet
• Cary Grant – Indiscreet
• Louis Jourdan – Gigi

Best Actress - Comedy or Musical

Rosalind Russell – Auntie Mame

• Ingrid Bergman – Indiscreet
• Leslie Caron – Gigi
• Doris Day – The Tunnel of Love
• Mitzi Gaynor – South Pacific

Best Supporting Actor

Burl Ives – The Big Country

• Harry Guardino – Houseboat
• David Ladd – The Proud Rebel
• Gig Young – Teacher's Pet
• Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. – Home Before Dark

Best Supporting Actress

Hermione Gingold – Gigi

• Peggy Cass – Auntie Mame
• Wendy Hiller – Separate Tables
• Maureen Stapleton – Lonelyhearts
• Cara Williams – The Defiant Ones

Best Director

Vincente Minnelli – Gigi

• Richard Brooks – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Stanley Kramer – The Defiant Ones
• Delbert Mann – Separate Tables
• Robert Wise – I Want to Live!

Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film

Das Mädchen Rosemarie (West Germany)
L'Eau vive (France)
The Road a Year Long (Yugoslavia)

Best English-Language Foreign Film

A Night to Remember

Best Film - Promoting International Understanding

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

• The Defiant Ones
• Me and the Colonel
• A Time to Love and a Time to Die
• The Young Lions

Samuel Goldwyn International Film Award

Do Aankhen Barah Haath

Henrietta Award (World Film Favorite)

Rock Hudson
Deborah Kerr

Best TV Show

The Ann Sothern Show
Letter to Loretta
The Red Skelton Show
Toast of the Town
Tonight!

Achievement in Television

Red Skelton