1955 Milstead Movie Awards
BEST PICTURE
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK
MGM; Dore Schary
BLACKBOARD JUNGLE
MGM; Pandro S. Berman
LES DIABOLIQUES
Filmsonor; Henri-Georges Clouzet
EAST OF EDEN
Warner Bros; Elia Kazan
THE LADYKILLERS
Ealing; Michael Balcon
LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING
20th Century Fox; Buddy Adler
MARTY
United Artists; Harold Hecht
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
United Artists; Paul Gregory
PICNIC
Columbia; Fred Kohlmar
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
Warner Bros; David Weisbart
Also Considered:
GUYS & DOLLS (Samuel Goldwyn); THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN
ARM (Otto Preminger); MISTER ROBERTS (Leland Hayward); THE PHENIX CITY STORY (Samuel Bischoff & David Diamond); RIFIFI (René Bezard, Henri Bérard & Pierre Cabaud); THE ROSE TATTOO
(Hal B. Wallis); THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH (Charles K. Feldman & Billy Wilder); SUMMERTIME (Ilya Lopert); TO CATCH A THIEF (Alfred Hitchcock); THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (Alfred
Hitchcock)
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Ernest Borgnine as "Marty Piletti" - MARTY
James Cagney as "Martin Snyder" - LOVE ME OR LEAVE
ME
James Dean as "Cal Trask" - EAST OF EDEN
James Dean as "Jim Stark" - REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
Robert Mitchum as "Rev. Harry Powell" - THE NIGHT OF THE
HUNTER
Laurence Olivier as "Richard III" - RICHARD
III
Frank Sinatra as "Frankie Machine" - THE MAN WITH THE
GOLDEN ARM
James Stewart as "Will Lockhart" - THE MAN FROM
LARAMIE
Richard Todd as "Peter Marshall" - A MAN CALLED
PETER
Spencer Tracy as "John J. Macreedy" - BAD DAY AT BLACK
ROCK
Also Considered:
Steve Allen (THE BENNY GOODMAN STORY); Marlon Brando (GUYS
& DOLLS); Richard Conte (THE BIG COMBO); Tom Ewell (THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH); Henry Fonda (MISTER ROBERTS); Glenn Ford (BLACKBOARD JUNGLE); Alec Guinness (THE LADYKILLERS); William Holden
(PICNIC); Danny Kaye (THE COURT JESTER); Frank Sinatra (GUYS & DOLLS)
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Vera Clouzot as "Christina Delassalle" - LES
DIABOLIQUES
Doris Day as "Ruth Etting" - LOVE ME OR LEAVE
ME
Susan Hayward as "Lillian Roth" - I'LL CRY
TOMORROW
Katherine Hepburn as "Jane Hudson" -
SUMMERTIME
Jennifer Jones as "Dr. Han Suyin" - LOVE IS A MANY
SPLENDORED THING
Vivian Leigh as "Hester Collyer" - THE DEEP BLUE
SEA
Anna Magnani as "Serafina Delle Rose" - THE ROSE TATTOO
Marilyn Monroe as "The Girl" - THE SEVEN YEAR
ITCH
Simone Signoret as "Nicole Horner" - LES
DIABOLIQUES
Jane Wyman as "Cary Scott" - ALL THAT HEAVEN
ALLOWS
Also Considered:
Eva Dahlbeck (SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT); Bette Davis (THE
VIRGIN QUEEN); Julie Harris (I AM A CAMERA); Kathleen Harrison (ALL FOR MARY); Margaret Lockwood (CAST A DARK SHADOW); Shirley MacLaine (THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY); Melina Mercouri (STELLA); Kim
Novak (PICNIC); Eleanor Parker (INTERRUPTED MELODY); Jean Simmons (GUYS & DOLLS)
BEST DIRECTOR
Richard Brooks - BLACKBOARD JUNGLE
Henri-Georges Clouzet - LES DIABOLIQUES
Elia Kazan - EAST OF EDEN
Charles Laughton - THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
Joshua Logan - PICNIC
Alexander Mackendrick - THE LADYKILLERS
Delbert Mann - MARTY
Nicholas Ray - REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
Alain Resnais - NIGHT & FOG
John Sturges - BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK
Also Considered:
Jules Dassin (RIFIFI); Alfred Hitchcock (TO CATCH A
THIEF); Alfred Hitchcock (THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY); Phil Karlson (THE PHENIX CITY STORY); David Lean (SUMMERTIME); Joseph H. Lewis (THE BIG COMBO); Joseph L. Mankiewicz (GUYS & DOLLS);
Laurence Olivier (RICHARD III); Otto Preminger (THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM); Billy Wilder (THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH)
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Edward Andrews as "Rhett Tanner" - THE PHENIX CITY
STORY
Jack Lemmon as "Ens. Frank Pulver" - MISTER
ROBERTS
Joe Mantell as "Angie" - MARTY
Raymond Massey as "Adam Trask" - EAST OF
EDEN
Paul Meurisse as "Michel Delassalle" - LES
DIABOLIQUES
Sal Mineo as "John 'Plato' Crawford" - REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
Vic Morrow as "Artie West" - BLACKBOARD
JUNGLE
Sidney Poitier as "Gregory W. Miller" - BLACKBOARD
JUNGLE
Robert Ryan as "Reno Smith" - BAD DAY AT BLACK
ROCK
Rod Steiger as "Stanley Shriner Hoff" - THE BIG
KNIFE
Also Considered:
Jim Backus (REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE); Fred Clark (DADDY LONG
LEGS); Stubby Kaye (GUYS & DOLLS); Arthur Kennedy (TRIAL); Herbert Lom (THE LADYKILLERS); Arthur O'Connell (PICNIC); Basil Rathbone (THE COURT JESTER); Rod Steiger (THE COURT MARTIAL OF
BILLY MITCHELL); Cornel Wilde (THE BIG COMBO); John Williams (TO CATCH A THIEF)
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Betsy Blair as "Clara" - MARTY
Ella Fitzgerald as "Maggie Jackson" - PETE KELLY'S
BLUES
Lillian Gish as "Victoria Inch" - THE COBWEB
Katie Johnson as "Mrs. Wilberforce" - THE
LADYKILLERS
Esther Minciotti as "Mrs. Piletti" - MARTY
Marisa Pavan as "Rosa Delle Rose" - THE ROSE
TATTOO
Susan Strasberg as "Millie Owens" - PICNIC
Jo Van Fleet as "Kate Trask" - EAST OF EDEN
Shelley Winters as "Willa Harper" - THE NIGHT OF THE
HUNTER
Natalie Wood as "Judy" - REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
Also Considered:
Vivien Blaine (GUYS & DOLLS); Betty Field (PICNIC);
Berta Gersten (THE BENNY GOODMAN STORY); Lillian Gish (THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER); Jessie Royce Landis (TO CATCH A THIEF); Mildred Natwick (THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY); Eleanor Parker (THE MAN WITH
THE GOLDEN ARM); Marjorie Rambeau (A MAN CALLED PETER); Rosalind Russell (PICNIC); Jean Wallace (THE BIG COMBO)
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
BLACKBOARD JUNGLE
EAST OF EDEN
GUYS & DOLLS
THE LADYKILLERS
MARTY
MISTER ROBERTS
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
PICNIC
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
THE ROSE TATTOO
Also Considered:
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK; THE BIG COMBO; LES DIABOLIQUES; LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING; THE PHENIX CITY STORY; RICHARD III; RIFIFI; THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH; SUMMERTIME; THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY
BEST SCREENPLAY - ADAPTATION
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK
Millard Kaufman
BLACKBOARD JUNGLE
Richard Brooks
THE DEEP BLUE SEA
Terrence Rattigan
LES DIABOLIQUES
Henri-Georges Clouzet & Jerome Geronimi
EAST OF EDEN
Paul Osborn
MARTY
Paddy Chayefsky
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
James Agee
PICNIC
Daniel Taradash
THE ROSE TATTOO
Tennessee Williams & Hal Kanter
THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH
Billy Wilder & George Axelrod
Also Considered:
THE DAM BUSTERS (R.C. Sheriff); THE DESPERATE HOURS
(Joseph Hayes); GUYS & DOLLS (Joseph L. Mankiewicz); LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING (John Patrick); THE
MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM (Walter Newman & Lewis Meltzer); MISTER ROBERTS (Frank Nugent & Joshua Logan); RIFIFI (Jules Dassin); SUMMERTIME (David Lean & H.E. Bates); TO CATCH A
THIEF (John Michael Hayes); THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (John Michael Hayes)
BEST SCREENPLAY - ORIGINAL
THE BIG COMBO
Philip Yordan
THE COCKLESHELL HEROES
Bryan Forbes & Richard Maibaum
THE COURT JESTER
Norman Panama & Melvin Frank
THE COURT MARTIAL OF BILLY MITCHELL
Milton Sperling & Emmett Lavery
INTERRUPTED MELODY
William Ludwig & Sonya Levien
THE LADYKILLERS
William Rose
LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME
Daniel Fuchs & Isobel Lennart
THE PHENIX CITY STORY
Daniel Mainwaring & Crane Wilbur
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
Stewart Stern & Nicholas Ray
SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT
Ingmar Bergman
Also Considered:
ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (Peg Fenwick); THE BENNY GOODMAN
STORY (Valentine Davies); IL BIDONE (Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano & Tullio Pinelli); ILLEGAL (W.R. Burnett & James R. Webb); IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER (Betty Comden & Adolph
Green); KILLER'S KISS (Stanley Kubrick & Howard Sackler); THE MAN FROM LARAMIE (Philip Yordan & Frank Burt); THE PRIVATE WAR OF MAJOR BENSON (William Roberts, Richard Alan Simmons,
Bob Mosher & Joe Connolly); THE SEVEN LITTLE FOYS (Melville Shavelson & Jack Rose); STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND (Valentine Davies & Bernie Lay, Jr.)
BEST ANIMATED FILM
HYDE & HARE
Edward Selzer
LADY & THE TRAMP
Walt Disney
SPEEDY GONZALEZ
Edward Selzer
Also Considered:
BLINKETY BLANK (Norman McLaren); GOOD WILL TO MEN (William
Hanna & Joseph Barbera); THE LEGEND OF ROCK-A-BYE POINT (Walter Lantz)
BEST ART DIRECTION - SET DECORATION
THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI
Hal Pereira & Henry Bumstead; Grace Gregory & Sam
Comer
DADDY LONG LEGS
Lyle Wheeler & John de Cuir; Walter M. Scott & Paul S.
Fox
GUYS & DOLLS
Oliver Smith & Joseph C. Wright; Howard
Bristol
I'LL CRY TOMORROW
Cedric Gibbons & Malcolm Brown; Edwin B. Willis & Hugh
Hunt
LAND OF THE PHARAOHS
Alexander Trauner
LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING
Lyle Wheeler & George W. Davis; Walter M. Scott & Jack
Stubbs
PICNIC
William Flannery & Jo Mielziner; Robert
Priestley
RICHARD III
Roger Furse & Carmen Dillon
THE ROSE TATTOO
Hal Pereira & Tambi Larsen; Sam Comer & Arthur
Krams
TO CATCH A THIEF
Hal Pereira & Joseph MacMillan Johnson; Sam Comer & Arthur Krams
Also Considered:
BLACKBOARD JUNGLE (Cedric Gibbons & Randall Duell;
Edwin B. Willis & Henry Grace); EAST OF EDEN (James Basevi & Malcolm Bert; George James Hopkins & William
Wallace); LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME (Cedric Gibbons & Urie McCleary; Jack D. Moore & Edwin B. Willis); THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM (Joseph C. Wright; Darrell
Silvera); MARTY (Edward S. Hayworth & Walter Simonds; Robert
Priestley); THE
NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Hilyard Brown; Alfred Spencer); REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (Malcolm Bert; William Wallace); THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH (Lyle Wheeler & George W. Davis; Stuart A. Reiss &
Walter M. Scott); SUMMERTIME (Vincent Korda); THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (Hal Pereira & John B. Goodman;
Sam Comer & Emile Kuri)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK
William C. Mellor
BLACKBOARD JUNGLE
Russell Harlan
MARTY
Joseph LaSchelle
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
Stanley Cortez
OKLAHOMA!
Robert Surtees
PICNIC
James Wong Howe
RICHARD III
Otto Heller
THE ROSE TATTOO
James Wong Howe
SUMMERTIME
Jack Hildyard
TO CATCH A THIEF
Robert Burks
Also Considered:
THE BIG COMBO (John Alton); BLACKBOARD JUNGLE (Russell
Harlan); LES DIABOLIQUES (Armand Thirard); EAST OF EDEN (Ted McCord); GUYS & DOLLS (Harry Stradling); I'LL CRY TOMORROW (Arthur E. Arling); LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING (Leon Shamroy);
MISTER ROBERTS (Winton C. Hoch); SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT (Gunnar Fischer); THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (Robert Burks)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
GUYS & DOLLS
Irene Sharaff
I'LL CRY TOMORROW
Helen Rose
LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING
Charles LeMaire
QUEEN BEE
Jean Louis
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
Moss Mabry
RICHARD III
H. Nathan & L. Nathan
THE ROSE TATTOO
Edith Head
THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH
Travilla & Charles LeMaire
TO CATCH A THIEF
Edith Head
THE VIRGIN QUEEN
Charles LeMaire & Mary Wills
Also Considered:
ARTISTS & MODELS (Edith Head); THE COURT JESTER (Edith
Head & Yvonne Wood); EAST OF EDEN (Anna Hill Johnstone); INTERRUPTED MELODY (Helen Rose); THE LADYKILLERS (Anthony Mendleson); LOLA MONTES (Georges Annenkov); LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME (Helen
Rose); OKLAHOMA! (Orry-Kelly); PICNIC (Jean Louis); THE PRODIGAL (Herschel McCoy)
BEST FILM EDITING
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK
Newell P. Kimlin
THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI
Alma Macrorie
LES DIABOLIQUES
Madeleine Gug
THE LADYKILLERS
Jack Harris
OKLAHOMA!
Gene Ruggerio & George Boemler
PICNIC
Charles Nelson & William Lyon
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
William Ziegler
RIFIFI
Roger Dwyre
THE ROSE TATTOO
Warren Low
TO CATCH A THIEF
George Tomasini
Also Considered:
BLACKBOARD JUNGLE (Ferris Webster); THE DAM BUSTERS
(Richard Best); THE DESPERATE HOURS (Robert Swink); EAST OF EDEN (Owen Marks); LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING (William Reynolds); THE MAN FROM LARAMIE (William Lyon); MISTER ROBERTS (Jack
Murray); NEW YORK CONFIDENTIAL (Grant Whytock); NIGHT & FOG (Alain Resnais); THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Robert Golden)
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
IL BIDONE
Italy; Federico Fellini
THE CRIMINAL LIFE OF ARCHIBALDO DE LA CRUZ
Mexico; Luis Bunuel
LES DIABOLIQUES
France; Henri-Georges Clouzet
HILL 24 DOESN'T ANSWER
Israel; Thorald Dickenson
LOLA MONTES
France; Max Ophuls
NIGHT & FOG
France; Alain Resnais
ORDET
Denmark; Carl Theodor Dreyer
PATHER PANCHALI
India; Satyajit Ray
RIFIFI
France; Jules Dassin
SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT
Sweden; Ingmar Bergman
Also Considered;
DEVDAS (India; Bimal Roy); DREAMS (Sweden; Ingmar
Bergman); FLOATING CLOUDS (Japan; Mikio Naruse); FRENCH CAN-CAN (France; Jean Renoir); A GENERATION (Poland; Andrzej Wajda); I LIVE IN FEAR (Japan; Akira Kurosawa); THE LAST TEN DAYS (West
Germany; G.W. Pabst); THE MAD MASTERS (France; Jean Rouch); THE SHEEP HAS FIVE LEGS (France; Henri Verneuil); STELLA (Greece; Michael Cacoyannis)
BEST MAKEUP
LES DIABOLIQUES
Anatole Paris
THE LADYKILLERS
Alex Garfath
RICHARD III
Tony Sforzini
Also Considered:
GUYS & DOLLS (Ben Lane); SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT (Carl M.
Lundh); THE VIRGIN QUEEN (Ben Nye & Perc Westmore)
BEST ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE
BATTLE CRY
Max Steiner
THE DAM BUSTERS
Leighton Lucas & Eric Coates
EAST OF EDEN
Leonard Rosenman
LAND OF THE PHARAOHS
Dimitri Tiomkin
LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING
Alfred Newman
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM
Elmer Bernstein
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
Leonard Bernstein
RICHARD III
William Walton
THE ROSE TATTOO
Alex North
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY
Bernard Herrmann
Also Considered:
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (Andre Previn); LES DIABOLIQUES
(Georges Van Parys); MARTY (Roy Webb); THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Walter Schumann); PICNIC (George Duning); THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT (James Bernard); RIFIFI (Georges Auric); SUMMERTIME (Sandro
Cicognini); THE TALL MEN (Victor Young); TO CATCH A THIEF (Lyn Murray)
BEST ORIGINAL MUSICAL OR COMEDY SCORE
THE COURT JESTER
Sylvia Fine
DADDY LONG LEGS
Alfred Newman
DAVY CROCKETT, KING OF THE WILD FRONTIER
George Bruns
GUYS & DOLLS
Jay Blackton & Cyril J. Mockridge
IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER
Andre Previn
LADY & THE TRAMP
Oliver Wallace
LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME
Percy Faith & George Stoll
OKLAHOMA!
Richard Rodgers, Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton &
Adolph Deutsch
THE SEVEN LITTLE FOYS
Joseph J. Lilley
THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH
Alfred Newman
Also Considered:
THE BENNY GOODMAN STORY (Joseph Gershenson); FRENCH
CAN-CAN (George van Parys); HIT THE DECK (Vincent Youmans); HOW TO BE VERY, VERY POPULAR (Cyril J. Mockridge); A KID FOR TWO FARTHINGS (Benjamin Frankel); THE LADYKILLERS (Tristram Cary);
MISTER ROBERTS (Franz Waxman); MY SISTER EILEEN (George Duning & Morris Stoloff); PETE KELLY'S BLUES (Ray Heindorf & David Buttolph); THE TENDER TRAP (Jeff Alexander)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Baby, You Knock Me Out" - IT'S ALWAYS FAIR
WEATHER
Andre Previn, Betty Comden & Adolph Green
"The Ballad Of Davy Crockett" - DAVY CROCKETT, KING
OF THE WILD FRONTIER
George Bruns & Tom Blackburn
"Bella Notte" - LADY & THE TRAMP
Sonny Burke & Peggy Lee
"I'll Never Stop Loving You" - LOVE ME OR LEAVE
ME
Nicholas Brodszky & Sammy Cahn
"Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing" - LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDORED THING
Sammy Fain & Paul Francis Webster
"(Love Is) The Tender Trap" - THE TENDER
TRAP
James Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn
"The Man From Laramie" - THE MAN FROM
LARAMIE
Ned Washington & Lester Lee
"Something's Gotta Give" - DADDY LONG
LEGS
Johnny Mercer
"Unchained Melody" - UNCHAINED
Alex North & Hy Zaret
"When You Pretend" - ARTISTS &
MODELS
Harry Warren & Jack Brooks
Also Considered:
"He's A Tramp" - LADY & THE TRAMP (Sonny Burke &
Peggy Lee); "I Like Myself" - IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER (Andre Previn, Betty Comden & Adolph Green); "I'll Take You Dreaming" - THE COURT JESTER (Sylvia Fine & Sammy Cahn); "La Chanson
Le Rififi" - RIFIFI (Philippe Gerard & Jacques Larue); "The Last Frontier" - THE LAST FRONTIER (Lester Lee & Ned Washington); "A Little Love Can Go A Long Way" - AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'
(Sammy Fain & Paul Francis Webster); "Marty" - MARTY (Harry Warren & Paddy Chayefsky); "Rock Around The Clock" - BLACKBOARD JUNGLE (Max Freedman & James E. Myers); "The Siamese
Cat Song" - LADY & THE TRAMP (Sonny Burke & Peggy Lee); "Take My Love" - THE GLASS SLIPPER (Bronislau Kaper & Helen Deutsch)
BEST SOUND
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK
Wesley C. Miller
THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI
Hugo Grenzbach & Gene Garvin
GUYS & DOLLS
Fred Lau & Roger Heman
LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING
Carl Faulkner
LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME
Wesley C. Miller
THE MAN FROM LARAMIE
John Livardary
MISTER ROBERTS
William A. Mueller
OKLAHOMA!
Fred Hynes
RIFIFI
Charles Akerman & Jacques Lebreton
TO CATCH A THIEF
John Cope & Harold Lewis
Also Considered:
BLACKBOARD JUNGLE (Wesley C. Miller); THE DAM BUSTERS
(Harold V. King); LES DIABOLIQUES (William Robert Sivel); LADY & THE TRAMP (Robert O. Cook); THE LADYKILLERS (Steven Dalby); THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Stanford Naughton); NOT AS A STRANGER
(Watson Jones); THE RAINS OF RANCHIPUR (Harry M. Leonard); REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (Stanley Jones); TO HELL & BACK (Leslie I. Carey); THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (Winston Leverett & Harold
Lewis)
BEST SOUND EFFECTS
THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI
Howard Beals & Carl Mahakian
STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND
Dick Jensen
TO CATCH A THIEF
Howard Beals
Also Considered:
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (Ed Haight, Kurt Hernfeld & Harold
Humbrook); THE LADYKILLERS (Gordon Stone); THE RAINS OF RANCHIPUR (Ray Bomba)
BEST SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI
Paul K. Lerpae, Farciot Edouart & John P.
Fulton
THE DAM BUSTERS
George Blackwell & Gilbert Taylor
THE RAINS OF RANCHIPUR
Ray Kellogg
THIS ISLAND EARTH
Clifford Stine & David S. Horsley
TO CATCH A THIEF
John P. Fulton
Also Considered:
CONQUEST OF SPACE (John P. Fulton, Paul Lerpae & Irmin
Roberts); IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA (Ray Harryheusen); THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT (Les Bowie & Roy Field); STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND (John P. Fulton & Farciot Edouart); TARANTULA (David
S. Horsley & Clifford Stine)
Most Wins:
7 - Rebel Without a Cause
2 - The Dam Busters; Guys & Dolls
1 - Bad Day at Black Rock; The Bridges at Toko-Ri; Les Diaboliques; I'll Cry Tomorrow; Lady & The Tramp; The Ladykillers; Love is a Many-Splendored Thing; Marty; The Night of the Hunter; Richard III; To Catch a Thief
Most Nominations:
10 - Rebel Without A Cause
9 - Les Diaboliques; Marty; The Rose Tattoo
8 - Bad Day at Black Rock; East of Eden; Picnic
7 - Blackboard Jungle; The Ladykillers; Love is a Many-Splendored Thing; The Night of the Hunter; To Catch a Thief
6 - Richard III
5 - The Bridges at Toko-Ri; Guys & Dolls; Love Me or Leave Me
WORST FILM
THE
BEAST WITH A MILLION EYES (David Kramarsky)
BRIDE OF THE MONSTER (Edward D. Wood, Jr.)
CREATURE
WITH THE ATOM BRAIN (Sam Katzman)
CULT
OF THE COBRA (Howard Pine)
DAY
THE WORLD ENDED (Roger Corman)
KING
DINOSAUR (Bert I. Gordon)
THE
PHANTOM FROM 10,000 LEAGUES (Dan Milner & Jack Milner)
REVENGE OF THE CREATURE (William Alland)
SCHNEEWITTCHEN UND DIE SIEBEN ZWERGE (SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN
DWARFS) (Herbert Schonger)
TEEN-AGE CRIME WAVE (Sam Katzman)
WORST MALE PERFORMANCE
Paul Birch - THE BEAST WITH A MILLION EYES
William Bryant - KING DINOSAUR
Tommy Cook - TEEN-AGE CRIME WAVE
Richard Denning - CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN / DAY THE WORLD
ENDED
Tor Johnson - BRIDE OF THE MONSTER
Liberace - SINCERELY YOURS
Bela Lugosi - BRIDE OF THE MONSTER
Tony McCoy - BRIDE OF THE MONSTER
Kent Taylor - THE PHANTOM FROM 10,000 LEAGUES
Michael Whalen - THE PHANTOM FROM 10,000 LEAGUES
WORST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Elke
Arendt - SCHNEEWITTCHEN UND DIE SIEBEN ZWERGE (SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS)
Wanda
Curtis - KING DINOSAUR
Danielle Darrieux - LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER
Olivia de Havilland - THAT LADY
Cathy Downs - THE PHANTOM FROM 10,000
LEAGUES
Faith Domergue - CULT OF THE COBRA
Sue England - TEEN-AGE CRIME WAVE
Loretta King - BRIDE OF THE MONSTER
Molly
McCart - TEEN-AGE CRIME WAVE
Lori
Nelson - DAY THE WORLD ENDED
WORST DIRECTOR
Franklin Adreon - PANTHER GIRL OF THE KONGO
Lewis Allen - A BULLET FOR JOEY
Edward L. Cahn - CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN
Bert I. Gordon - KING DINOSAUR
Howard Hawks - LAND OF THE PHARAOHS
Erich Kobler - SCHNEEWITTCHEN UND DIE SIEBEN ZWERGE (SNOW WHITE & THE
SEVEN DWARFS)
David Kramarsky - THE BEAST WITH A MILLION EYES
Dan Milner - THE PHANTOM FROM 10,000 LEAGUES
Fred F. Sears - TEEN-AGE CRIME WAVE
Edward D. Wood, Jr. - BRIDE OF THE MONSTER
WORST SCREENPLAY
THE
BEAST WITH A MILLION EYES (Tom Filer)
BRIDE OF THE MONSTER (Edward D. Wood, Jr.)
CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN (Curt Siodmak)
CULT
OF THE COBRA (Jerry Davis & Cecil Maiden)
DAY
THE WORLD ENDED (Lou Rusoff)
KING
DINOSAUR (Bert I. Gordon)
PANTHER GIRL OF THE KONGO (Ronald Davidson)
THE
PHANTOM FROM 10,000 LEAGUES (Lou Rusoff)
REVENGE OF THE CREATURE (William Alland & Martin
Berkeley)
TEEN-AGE CRIME WAVE (Ray Buffum & Harry Essex)
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