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29th Academy Awards
Date	27 March 1957
Site	RKO Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA, NBC Century Theatre, New York, USA
Host	Jerry Lewis; Celeste Holm
Producer	Valentine Davies
Director	Bill Bennington; Max Miller
	Highlights
Best Picture	Around the World in Eighty Days
	TV in the United States
Network	NBC

During the 29th Academy Awards, the regular competitive category of Best Foreign Language Film was introduced, instead of only being recognized as a Special Achievement Award or as a Best Picture nominee (as in 1938). The first winner in this new category was Federico Fellini's La strada with Anthony Quinn and a second nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Its win would help spur an interest in foreign-language films. Another Fellini film, Nights of Cabiria would win the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in the following year.

This was also the first year that all of the five Best Picture nominees were in color.

All of the major awards winners were large-scale epics - Mike Todd's Around the World in Eighty Days, The King and I, Anastasia, Giant, Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (the highest grossing film of the year), King Vidor's War and Peace, and William Wyler's Friendly Persuasion. And the trend toward blockbusters and colorful spectaculars was established for years to come, with The Bridge on the River Kwai, Gigi, and Ben-Hur being subsequent Best Picture champions.

The Best Original Story category had two interesting quirks this year. First, the Oscar for Best Original Story went to Robert Rich (also known as Dalton Trumbo) for The Brave One. Trumbo was blacklisted at the time so he could not get screen credit under his own name. Second, Edward Bernds and Elwood Ullman withdrew their names from consideration in this category for their work on High Society. The nomination was apparently intended for the musical starring Grace Kelly, but Bernds and Ullman had instead worked on a Bowery Boys movie of the same title. Indeed, this nomination was a double mistake. High Society was based on the play and movie The Philadelphia Story and probably would not have qualified as an original story anyway.

It was here that James Dean became the only actor to receive a second posthumous - and consecutive - nomination for acting.

Director John Ford's classic western The Searchers, widely seen as one of the best American films of all time, failed to receive a single nomination.

[edit] Winners & Nominees

[edit] Breakdown

(Awards won/nominations)

- Around the World in Eighty Days - 5/8
- Giant - 1/10
- The King and I - 5/9
- The Ten Commandments - 1/7
- Lust for Life - 1/4
- Le Ballon rouge - 1/1
- Friendly Persuasion - 0/6
- Anastasia - 1/2
- The Solid Gold Cadillac - 1/2
- La Strada - 1/2
- The Brave One - 1/3
- Somebody Up There Likes Me - 2/3
- The Man Who Knew Too Much - 1/1

Contents

[edit] Winners & Nominees

[edit] Best Picture

[edit] Best Director

[edit] Best Actor

[edit] Best Actress

[edit] Best Supporting Actor

[edit] Best Supporting Actress

[edit] Best Original Screenplay

[edit] Best Adapted Screenplay

[edit] Best Writing, Motion Picture Story

[edit] Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

[edit] Best Cinematography, Color

[edit] Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color

[edit] Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White

[edit] Best Costume Design, Color

[edit] Best Costume Design, Black-and-White

[edit] Best Sound, Recording

[edit] Best Film Editing

[edit] Best Effects, Special Effects

[edit] Best Original Song

[edit] Best Original Score, Comedy or Dramatic Picture

[edit] Best Original Score, Musical Picture

[edit] Best Foreign Language Film

[edit] Honorary Award

[edit] Breakdown