Best Film
Ace in the Hole / The Big Carnival – Dir.: Billy Wilder; Scr.: Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels & Walter Newman
The African Queen – Dir.: John Huston; Scr.: James Agee
Bellissima – Dir.: Luchino Visconti; Scr.: Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Francesco Rosi, Luchino Visconti & Cesare Zavattini
The Blue Veil – Dir.: Curtis Bernhardt; Scr.: Norman Corwin
The Company She Keeps – Dir.: John Cromwell; Scr.: Ketti Frings
The Day the Earth Stood Still – Dir.: Robert Wise; Scr.: Edmund H. North
Detective Story – Dir.: William Wyler; Scr.: Philip Yordan & Robert Wyler
Diary of a Country Priest / Le Journal d’un curé de campagne – dir. & Scr.: Robert Bresson
Edward and Caroline / Édouard et Caroline – Dir.: Jacques Becker; Scr.: Jacques Becker & Annette Wademant
The Man in the White Suit – Dir.: Alexander Mackendrick; Scr.: Roger Macdougall, John Dighton & Alexander Mackendrick
Miracle in Milan / Miracolo a Milano – Dir.: Vittorio De Sica; Scr.: Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica, Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Mario Chiari & Adolfo Franci
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman – dir. & Scr.: Albert E. Lewin
People Will Talk – dir. & Scr.: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
A Place in the Sun – Dir.: George Stevens; Scr.: Michael Wilson & Harry Brown
The Red Inn / L’Auberge rouge – Dir.: Claude Autant-Lara; Scr.: Jean Aurenche & Pierre Bost
The River – Dir.: Jean Renoir; Scr.: Rumer Godden & Jean Renoir
Show Boat – Dir.: George Sidney; Scr.: John Lee Mahin
Susana – Dir.: Luis Buñuel; Scr.: Luis Buñuel & Jaime Salvador
A Streetcar Named Desire – Dir.: Elia Kazan; Scr.: Tennessee Williams
Best Actress
Jeanne Crain – People Will Talk
Ava Gardner – Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Kathryn Grayson – Show Boat
Jane Greer – The Company She Keeps
Katharine Hepburn – The African Queen
Deborah Kerr – Thunder in the East
Vivien Leigh – A Streetcar Named Desire
Anna Magnani – Bellissima
Elizabeth Taylor – A Place in the Sun
Jane Wyman – The Blue Veil
Best Actor
Richard Basehart – Fourteen Hours
Humphrey Bogart – The African Queen
Marlon Brando – A Streetcar Named Desire
Montgomery Clift – A Place in the Sun
Cary Grant – People Will Talk
Alec Guinness – The Man in the White Suit
Howard Keel – Show Boat
Fredric March – Death of a Salesman
Michael Rennie – The Day the Earth Stood Still
Robert Walker – Strangers on a Train
Best Supporting Actress
Brunella Bovo – Miracle in Milan
Ava Gardner – Show Boat
Lee Grant – Detective Story
Joan Greenwood – The Man in the White Suit
Kim Hunter – A Streetcar Named Desire
Elina Labourdette – Edward and Caroline
Eleanor Parker – Detective Story
Françoise Rosay – The Red Inn
Jan Sterling – Ace in the Hole
Betty Stockfeld – Edward and Caroline
Best Supporting Actor
Charles Boyer – Thunder in the East
Julien Carette – The Red Inn
Finlay Currie – People Will Talk
Leo Genn – Quo Vadis
Kevin McCarthy – Death of a Salesman
Robert Morley – The African Queen
Cecil Parker – The Man in the White Suit
Ernest Thesiger – The Man in the White Suit
Peter Ustinov – Quo Vadis
Best Cinematography
Robert Burks, Strangers on a Train
Jack Cardiff, The African Queen
Roger Corbeau, Diary of a Country Priest
Alfred Gilks & John Alton, An American in Paris
Claude Renoir, The River
Charles Rosher, Show Boat
Joseph Ruttenberg, The Great Caruso
Harry Stradling, A Streetcar Named Desire
Robert Surtees & William V. Skall, Quo Vadis
Leo Tover, The Day the Earth Stood Still
Best Original Score
Alessandro Cicognini, Miracle in Milan
Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, Diary of a Country Priest
Raúl Lavista, Susana
Alex North, A Streetcar Named Desire