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Writing (Motion Picture Story) - Jean Marsan, Henry Troyat, Jacques Perret, Henri Verneuil, Raoul Ploquin Speedy Gonzales 1 WIN , 1 NOMINATION
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. Around the World in 80 Days – Michael Anderson. Friendly Persuasion – William Wyler. Giant – George Stevens.
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.
Oscars® Ceremonies. 1956. The 28th Academy Awards Memorable Moments. Best Picture: Marty. Marty also won Academy Awards for Best Actor (Ernest Borgnine), Directing (Delbert Mann), and Writing – Screenplay (Paddy Chayefsky). James Dean was the first actor posthumously nominated for an Academy Award.
The Academy Award for Best Story was an Academy Award given from the beginning of the Academy Awards until 1956. This award can be a source of confusion for modern audiences, given its co-existence with the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo, under the pseudonym of Robert Rich, won the Best Writing: Original Story Award (his second and last nomination and sole Oscar win) for The Brave One.
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.
