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Best Motion Picture - Buddy Adler, Producer Sound Recording - 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Carl W. Faulkner, Sound Director Love Me or Leave Me
The 28th Academy Awards were held on March 21, 1956 to honor the films of 1955, at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, California. In this year, Jerry Lewis became the host, replacing Bob Hope. [1]
29th Academy Awards (1956): Nominees and Winners – Cinema Sight by Wesley Lovell. BEST MOTION PICTURE. Around the World in 80 Days – Michael Todd. Friendly Persuasion – William Wyler. Giant – George Stevens, Henry Ginsberg. The King and I – Charles Brackett. The Ten Commandments – Cecil B. DeMille. DIRECTING.
The 28th Annual Academy Awards ceremony took place on March 21st, 1956. Broadcast again on NBC, Jerry Lewis handled the hosting duties at the RKO Pantages in Hollywood, while Claudette Colbert and Joseph L. Mankiewicz handled the hosting from the Century Theatre in New York.
All of the major awards winners were gigantic - Mike Todd's Around the World in 80 Days, The King and I, Anastasia, Giant, De Mille's The Ten Commandments - the highest grossing film of the year, King Vidor's War and Peace, and Wyler's Friendly Persuasion.
Browse Oscars 1956 movies. Marty, The Rose Tattoo, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing were the most nominated movies of 1956
1956 Academy Awards. Updated September 9, 2022 | Infoplease Staff. The 1956 Academy Awards were presented March 27, 1957 at the RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, Calif and the NBC Century Theatre, New York, N.Y. Best Motion Picture.
