28th Academy Awards

28th Academy Awards
Date	March 21, 1956
Site	RKO Pantages Theatre Hollywood, California NBC Century Theatre New York City, New York
Host	Jerry Lewis (Los Angeles) Claudette Colbert (New York) Joseph L. Mankiewicz (New York)
Producer	Robert Emmett Dolan
Director	George Seaton
Highlights
Best Picture	Marty
Most awards	Marty (4)
Most nominations	Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Marty and The Rose Tattoo (8)
TV in the United States
Network	NBC

The 28th Academy Awards were presented at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Marty, a simple and low-budget film usually uncharacteristic of Best Picture awardees, became the shortest film (as well as the second Palme d'Or winner) to win the top honor.

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Motion Picture	Best Director
Harold Hecht for United Artists - Marty Buddy Adler for 20th Century Fox - Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing Leland Hayward for Warner Bros. - Mister Roberts Fred Kohlmar for Columbia Pictures - Picnic Hal B. Wallis for Paramount Pictures - The Rose Tattoo	Delbert Mann – Marty Elia Kazan – East of Eden David Lean – Summertime Joshua Logan – Picnic John Sturges – Bad Day at Black Rock
Best Actor	Best Actress
Ernest Borgnine – Marty James Cagney – Love Me or Leave Me James Dean – East of Eden Frank Sinatra – The Man with the Golden Arm Spencer Tracy – Bad Day at Black Rock	Anna Magnani – The Rose Tattoo Susan Hayward – I'll Cry Tomorrow Katharine Hepburn – Summertime Jennifer Jones – Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing Eleanor Parker – Interrupted Melody
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Jack Lemmon – Mister Roberts Arthur Kennedy – Trial Joe Mantell – Marty Sal Mineo – Rebel Without a Cause Arthur O'Connell – Picnic	Jo Van Fleet – East of Eden Betsy Blair – Marty Peggy Lee – Pete Kelly's Blues Marisa Pavan – The Rose Tattoo Natalie Wood – Rebel Without a Cause
Writing (Screenplay)	Writing (Story and Screenplay)
Marty – Paddy Chayefsky Bad Day at Black Rock – Millard Kaufman Blackboard Jungle – Richard Brooks East of Eden – Paul Osborn Love Me or Leave Me – Daniel Fuchs and Isobel Lennart	Interrupted Melody – William Ludwig and Sonya Levien The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell – Milton Sperling and Emmet Lavery It's Always Fair Weather – Betty Comden and Adolph Green Mr. Hulot's Holiday – Jacques Tati and Henri Marquet The Seven Little Foys – Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose
Writing (Motion Picture Story)	Best Animated Short Film
Love Me or Leave Me – Daniel Fuchs The Private War of Major Benson – Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher Rebel Without a Cause – Nicholas Ray Strategic Air Command – Beirne Lay, Jr. The Sheep Has Five Legs – Jean Marsan, Henri Troyat, Jacques Perret, Henri Verneuil and Raoul Ploquin	Speedy Gonzales Good Will to Men The Legend of Rockabye Point No Hunting
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
Helen Keller in Her Story Heartbreak Ridge	Men Against the Arctic - Walt Disney The Battle of Gettysburg The Face of Lincoln
Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel	Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
Survival City – Edmund Reek 3rd Ave. El – Carson Davidson Gadgets Galore – Robert Youngson Three Kisses – Justin Herman	The Face of Lincoln The Battle of Gettysburg On The Twelfth Day Switzerland 24-Hour Alert
Best Dramatic or Comedy Score	Best Musical Score
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Alfred Newman Battle Cry – Max Steiner The Man with the Golden Arm – Elmer Bernstein Picnic – George Duning The Rose Tattoo – Alex North	Oklahoma! – Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton and Adolph Deutsch Daddy Long Legs – Alfred Newman Guys and Dolls – Jay Blackton and Cyril J. Mockridge It's Always Fair Weather – André Previn Love Me or Leave Me – Percy Faith and George Stoll
Best Original Song	Best Sound Recording
"Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" from Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Music by Sammy Fain; Lyric by Paul Francis Webster "I'll Never Stop Loving You" from Love Me or Leave Me – Music by Nicholas Brodszky; Lyric by Sammy Cahn "Something's Gotta Give" from Daddy Long Legs – Music and Lyric by Johnny Mercer "The Tender Trap" from The Tender Trap – Music by James Van Heusen; Lyric by Sammy Cahn "Unchained Melody" from Unchained – Music by Alex North; Lyric by Hy Zaret	Oklahoma! – Fred Hynes, Todd-AO Sound Department Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Carlton W. Faulkner, Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Department Love Me or Leave Me – Wesley C. Miller, MGM Studio Sound Department Mister Roberts – William A. Mueller, Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department Not as a Stranger – Watson Jones, RCA Sound Department
Best Art Direction, Black and White	Best Art Direction, Color
The Rose Tattoo – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Tambi Larsen; Set Decoration: Sam Comer and Arthur Krams Blackboard Jungle – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Randall Duell; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Henry Grace I'll Cry Tomorrow – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Malcolm Brown; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Hugh B. Hunt The Man with the Golden Arm – Art Direction: Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Darrell Silvera Marty – Art Direction: Edward S. Haworth and Walter Simonds; Set Decoration: Robert Priestley	Picnic – Art Direction: William Flannery and Jo Mielziner; Set Decoration: Robert Priestley Daddy Long Legs – Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler and John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott and Paul S. Fox Guys and Dolls – Art Direction: Oliver Smith and Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Howard Bristol Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler and George Davis; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott and Jack Stubbs To Catch a Thief – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Joseph McMillan Johnson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer and Arthur Krams
Best Cinematography, Black and White	Best Cinematography, Color
The Rose Tattoo – James Wong Howe Blackboard Jungle – Russell Harlan I'll Cry Tomorrow – Arthur E. Arling Marty – Joseph LaShelle Queen Bee – Charles Lang	To Catch a Thief – Robert Burks Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Leon Shamroy Guys and Dolls – Harry Stradling A Man Called Peter – Harold Lipstein Oklahoma! – Robert Surtees
Best Costume Design, Black and White	Best Costume Design, Color
I'll Cry Tomorrow – Helen Rose The Pickwick Papers – Beatrice Dawson Queen Bee – Jean Louis The Rose Tattoo – Edith Head Ugetsu – Tadaoto Kainosho	Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Charles LeMaire Interrupted Melody – Helen Rose Guys and Dolls – Irene Sharaff To Catch a Thief – Edith Head The Virgin Queen – Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
Picnic – Charles Nelson and William A. Lyon Blackboard Jungle – Ferris Webster The Bridges at Toko-Ri – Alma Macrorie Oklahoma! – Gene Ruggiero and George Boemler The Rose Tattoo – Warren Low	The Bridges at Toko-Ri The Dam Busters The Rains of Ranchipur

Best Foreign Language Film

• Samurai, The Legend of Musashi (Japan)

Presenters and performers

Presenters

• Ernest Borgnine (Presenter: Best Story & Screenplay)
• James Cagney (Presenter: Best Visual Effects)
• Cantinflas (Presenter: Cinematography Awards)
• Maurice Chevalier (Presenter: Best Original Song)
• Mel Ferrer and Claire Trevor (Presenter: Scientific and Technical Awards)
• Susan Hayward (Presenter: Costume Design Awards)
• Audrey Hepburn (Presenter: Best Picture)
• Jennifer Jones (Presenter: Best Director)
• Grace Kelly (Presenter: Best Actor)
• Peggy Lee and Jack Lemmon (Presenters: Art Direction-Set Decoration Awards)
• Jerry Lewis (Presenter: Best Film Editing)
• Anna Magnani (Presenter: Best Screenplay)
• Sal Mineo (Presenter: Best Sound Recording)
• Edmond O'Brien (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress)
• Eleanor Parker (Presenter: Documentary Awards)
• Marisa Pavan and Jo Van Fleet (Presenters: Short Subjects Awards)
• Frank Sinatra and Jerry Lewis (Presenters: Best Dramatic or Comedy Score)

Performers

• Harry Belafonte ("Unchained Melody" from Unchained)
• Maurice Chevalier ("Something's Gotta Give" from Daddy Long Legs)
• Eddie Fisher ("Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" from Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing)
• Dean Martin ("(Love Is) The Tender Trap" from The Tender Trap)
• Jane Powell ("I'll Never Stop Loving You" from Love Me or Leave Me)

Multiple nominations and awards

These films had multiple nominations:

• 8 nominations: Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Marty, The Rose Tattoo
• 6 nominations: Love Me or Leave Me, Picnic
• 4 nominations: Blackboard Jungle, East of Eden, I'll Cry Tomorrow, Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma!
• 3 nominations: Bad Day at Black Rock, Daddy Long Legs, Interrupted Melody, The Man with the Golden Arm, Mister Roberts, Rebel Without a Cause, To Catch a Thief
• 2 nominations: The Battle of Gettysburg, The Bridges at Toko-Ri, The Face of Lincoln, It's Always Fair Weather, Queen Bee, Summertime

The following films received multiple awards.

• 4 wins: Marty
• 3 wins: Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, The Rose Tattoo
• 2 wins: Oklahoma!, Picnic

See also

• 13th Golden Globe Awards
• 1955 in film
• 7th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 8th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 9th British Academy Film Awards
• 10th Tony Awards