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| 27 March |
| Jerry Lewis (I); Celeste Holm (New York City) |
| RKO Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA
NBC Century Theatre, New York, USA |
| - The nomination ballot for this year's ceremony lists the producers for the best foreign language film category, making it the role year ever to list names for that category in the entire history of AMPAS.
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| | Winner: | | | - The Brave One (1956) - Dalton Trumbo
- Because he was not permitted to work due to the Hollywood blacklist, Trumbo wrote the story - and was nominated - under the pseudonym Robert Rich, who had nothing to do with the film industry and is a nephew of the King Brothers, producers of the film. Although there were rumors at the time that this was the case, the film's producer repeatedly denied the suggestion. It was not acknowledged until several years later that Trumbo had been the writer. He finally received his award on May 2, 1975, presented by then Academy president Walter Mirisch, shortly before his death - although the official screen credit was not changed until many years afterward.
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| Other Nominees: | | | High Society (1955) - Edward Bernds; Elwood Ullman
- The screenwriters graciously and voluntarily declined the nomination. The Academy had inadvertently confused their quickly-made Bowery Boys series entry called High Society with the similarly titled Cole Porter musical High Society (1956), which came out the following year and would have been eligible for adapted screenplay only. The nomination was officially revoked for both films and is listed for the purpose of information only.
Les orgueilleux (1953) - Jean-Paul Sartre
The Eddy Duchin Story (1956) - Leo Katcher
Umberto D. (1952) - Cesare Zavattini
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| | Awarded to: | | | - Eddie Cantor
- For distinguished service to the film industry.
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| | Winners: | | | - Construction Dept. of M-G-M Studio
- For a new hand-portable fog machine.
- Technical Departments of Paramount Pictures Corp.
- For the engineering and development of the Paramount lightweight horizontal-movement VistaVision camera.
- Daniel J. Bloomberg; John Pond; William Wade; Engineering and Camera Departments of Republic Studio
- For the Naturama adaptation to the Mitchell camera.
- Ted Hirsch (Consolidated Film Industries); Carl Hauge (Consolidated Film Industries); Edward Reichard (Consolidated Film Industries)
- For an automatic scene counter for laboratory projection rooms.
- Richard H. Ranger (Rangertone, Inc.)
- For the development of a synchronous recording and reproducing system for quarter-inch magnetic tape.
- Roy C. Stewart; C.R. Daily; Sons of Stewart-Trans Lux Corp.; Transparency Dept. of Paramount Pictures Corp.
- For the engineering and development of the HiTrans and Para-HiTrans rear projection screens.
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