30th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1958)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Wednesday, March 26, 1958
  • For films released in: 1957
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Once again, there was a change made in the nominated names due to the Hollywood blacklist of industry members suspected of being Communist sympathizers.

The Best Writing (Screenplay – based on material from another medium) nomination (and eventual winner) for The Bridge on the River Kwai originally listed just Pierre Boulle. Boulle, who spoke very little English, was the French author of the book the movie was based on. The screenplay was actually written by blacklisted writers Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman. The Academy’s Board of Governors, voted on December 11, 1984, to award posthumous Oscars to Wilson and Foreman and updated their nominations records to reflect their names.

And the nominees are:

Best Motion Picture

  • 12 Angry Men
    Henry Fonda and Reginald Rose
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
    Sam Spiegel
  • Peyton Place
    Jerry Wald
  • Sayonara
    William Goetz [Producer]
  • Witness for the Prosecution
    Arthur Hornblow Jr.

Best Directing

  • 12 Angry Men
    Sidney Lumet
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
    David Lean
  • Peyton Place
    Mark Robson
  • Sayonara
    Joshua Logan
  • Witness for the Prosecution
    Billy Wilder

Best Actor

  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
    Alec Guinness
  • A Hatful of Rain
    Anthony Franciosa
  • Sayonara
    Marlon Brando
  • Wild Is the Wind
    Anthony Quinn
  • Witness for the Prosecution
    Charles Laughton

Best Actress

  • Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
    Deborah Kerr
  • Peyton Place
    Lana Turner
  • Raintree County
    Elizabeth Taylor
  • The Three Faces of Eve
    Joanne Woodward
  • Wild Is the Wind
    Anna Magnani

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
    Sessue Hayakawa
  • A Farewell to Arms
    Vittorio De Sica
  • Peyton Place
    Arthur Kennedy
  • Peyton Place
    Russ Tamblyn
  • Sayonara
    Red Buttons

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

  • The Bachelor Party
    Carolyn Jones
  • Peyton Place
    Hope Lange
  • Peyton Place
    Diane Varsi
  • Sayonara
    Miyoshi Umeki
  • Witness for the Prosecution
    Elsa Lanchester

Best Foreign Language Film

  • The Devil Came at Night
  • Gates of Paris
  • Mother India
  • The Nights of Cabiria
  • Nine Lives

Best Art Direction

  • Funny Face
    Hal Pereira [Art Direction], George W. Davis [Art Direction], Sam Comer [Set Decoration] and Ray Moyer [Set Decoration]
  • Les Girls
    William A. Horning [Art Direction], Gene Allen [Art Direction], Edwin B. Willis [Set Decoration] and Richard Pefferle [Set Decoration]
  • Pal Joey
    Walter Holscher [Art Direction], William Kiernan [Set Decoration] and Louis Diage [Set Decoration]
  • Raintree County
    William A. Horning [Art Direction], Urie McCleary [Art Direction], Edwin B. Willis [Set Decoration] and Hugh Hunt [Set Decoration]
  • Sayonara
    Ted Haworth [Art Direction] and Robert Priestley [Set Decoration]

Best Cinematography

  • An Affair to Remember
    Milton Krasner
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
    Jack Hildyard
  • Funny Face
    Ray June
  • Peyton Place
    William Mellor
  • Sayonara
    Ellsworth Fredricks

Best Costume Design

  • An Affair to Remember
    Charles LeMaire
  • Funny Face
    Edith Head and Hubert de Givenchy
  • Les Girls
    Orry-Kelly
  • Pal Joey
    Jean Louis
  • Raintree County
    Walter Plunkett

Best Documentary (Feature)

  • Albert Schweitzer
    Jerome Hill
  • On the Bowery
    Lionel Rogosin
  • Torero!
    Manuel Barbachano Ponce

Best Film Editing

  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
    Peter Taylor
  • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
    Warren Low
  • Pal Joey
    Viola Lawrence and Jerome Thomas
  • Sayonara
    Arthur P. Schmidt and Philip W. Anderson
  • Witness for the Prosecution
    Daniel Mandell

Best Music (Scoring)

  • An Affair to Remember
    Hugo Friedhofer
  • Boy on a Dolphin
    Hugo Friedhofer
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
    Malcolm Arnold
  • Perri
    Paul Smith
  • Raintree County
    Johnny Green

Best Music (Song)

  • An Affair to Remember "An Affair to Remember"
    Harry Warren [Music by], Harold Adamson [Lyrics by] and Leo McCarey [Lyrics by]
  • April Love "April Love"
    Sammy Fain [Music by] and Paul Francis Webster [Lyrics by]
  • The Joker Is Wild "All The Way"
    James Van Heusen [Music by] and Sammy Cahn [Lyrics by]
  • Tammy and the Bachelor "Tammy"
    Ray Evans [Music and Lyrics by] and Jay Livingston [Music and Lyrics by]
  • Wild Is the Wind "Wild Is the Wind"
    Dimitri Tiomkin [Music by] and Ned Washington [Lyrics by]

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

  • Birds Anonymous
    Edward Selzer
  • One Droopy Knight
    William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
  • Tabasco Road
    Edward Selzer
  • Trees and Jamaica Daddy
    Stephen Bosustow
  • The Truth about Mother Goose
    Walt Disney

Best Short Subject (Live Action)

  • A Chairy Tale
    Norman McLaren
  • City of Gold
    Tom Daly
  • Foothold on Antarctica
    James Carr
  • Portugal
    Ben Sharpsteen
  • The Wetback Hound
    Larry Lansburgh

Best Sound Recording

  • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
    Paramount Studio Sound Department and George Dutton [Sound Director]
  • Les Girls
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department and Wesley C. Miller [Sound Director]
  • Pal Joey
    Columbia Studio Sound Department and John P. Livadary [Sound Director]
  • Sayonara
    Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department and George Groves [Sound Director]
  • Witness for the Prosecution
    Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department and Gordon E. Sawyer [Sound Director]

Best Special Effects

  • The Enemy Below
    Walter Rossi [Audible Effects by]
  • The Spirit of St. Louis
    Louis Lichtenfield [Visual Effects by]

Best Writing (Screenplay - based on material from another medium)

  • 12 Angry Men
    Reginald Rose
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
    Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman and Pierre Boulle
  • Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
    John Lee Mahin and John Huston
  • Peyton Place
    John Michael Hayes
  • Sayonara
    Paul Osborn

Best Writing (Story and Screenplay - written directly for the screen)

  • Designing Woman
    George Wells
  • Funny Face
    Leonard Gershe
  • Man of a Thousand Faces
    Ralph Wheelwright [Story by], R. Wright Campbell [Screenplay by], Ivan Goff [Screenplay by] and Ben Roberts [Screenplay by]
  • The Tin Star
    Barry Slater [Story by], Joel Kane [Story by] and Dudley Nichols [Screenplay by]
  • Vitelloni
    Federico Fellini [Story and Screenplay by], Ennio Flaiano [Story and Screenplay by] and Tullio Pinelli [Story by]
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