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Past Winners

1956 Oscar Winners

Best Picture
  • Around the World in Eighty Days
  • Friendly Persuasion  
  • Giant
  • The King and I
  • The Ten Commandments
Best Actor in a Leading Role
  • Yul Brynner, The King and I
  • James Dean, Giant 
  • Rock Hudson, Giant
  • Kirk Douglas, Lust for Life
  • Laurence Olivier, Richard III
Best Actress in a Leading Role
  • Ingrid Bergman, Anastasia
  • Carroll Baker, Baby Doll
  • Nancy Kelly, The Bad Seed
  • Deborah Kerr, The King and I
  • Katharine Hepburn, The Rainmaker
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
  • Anthony Quinn, Lust for Life
  • Mickey Rooney, The Bold and the Brave
  • Don Murray, Bus Stop
  • Anthony Perkins, Friendly Persuasion
  • Robert Stack, Written on the Wind  
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
  • Dorothy Malone, Written on the Wind
  • Mildred Dunnock, Baby Doll
  • Eileen Heckart, The Bad Seed
  • Patty McCormack, The Bad Seed
  • Mercedes McCambridge, Giant 
Best Director
  • George Stevens, Giant 
  • Michael Anderson, Around the World in Eighty Days
  • William Wyler, Friendly Persuasion
  • Walter Lang, The King and I
  • King Vidor, War and Peace 

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