Best Motion Picture

• The Bridge on the River Kwai, Sam Spiegel, producer
• Peyton Place, Jerry Wald, producer
• Sayonara, William Goetz, producer
• 12 Angry Men, Henry Fonda and Reginald Rose, producers
• Witness for the Prosecution, Arthur Hornblow, Jr., producer

Best Actor

• Marlon Brando, Sayonara
• Anthony Franciosa, A Hatful of Rain
• Alec Guinness, The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Charles Laughton, Witness for the Prosecution
• Anthony Quinn, Wild Is the Wind

Best Actress

• Deborah Kerr, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
• Anna Magnani, Wild Is the Wind
• Elizabeth Taylor, Raintree County
• Lana Turner, Peyton Place
• Joanne Woodward, The Three Faces of Eve

Actor in a Supporting Role

• Red Buttons, Sayonara
• Vittorio de Sica, A Farewell to Arms
• Sessue Hayakawa, The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Arthur Kennedy, Peyton Place
• Russ Tamblyn, Peyton Place

Actress in a Supporting Role

• Carolyn Jones, The Bachelor Party
• Elsa Lanchester, Witness for the Prosecution
• Hope Lange, Peyton Place
• Miyoshi Umeki, Sayonara
• Diane Varsi, Peyton Place

Directing

• David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Joshua Logan, Sayonara
• Sidney Lumet, 12 Angry Men
• Mark Robson, Peyton Place
• Billy Wilder, Witness for the Prosecution

Writing

• Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium
  • Pierre Boulle, Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman, The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • John Michael Hayes, Peyton Place
  • John Lee Mahin and John Huston, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
  • Paul Osborn, Sayonara
  • Reginald Rose, 12 Angry Men
• Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
  • Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli, story; Federico Fellini and Ennio Flaiano, screenplay, I Vitelloni
  • Leonard Gershe, Funny Face
  • Barney Slater and Joel Kane, story; Dudley Nichols, screenplay, The Tin Star
  • George Wells, Designing Woman
  • Ralph Wheelright, story; R. Wright Campbell, Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, screenplay, Man of a Thousand Faces

Cinematography

• Ellsworth Fredericks, Sayonara
• Jack Hildyard, The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Ray June, Funny Face
• Milton Krasner, An Affair to Remember
• William Mellor, Peyton Place

Art Direction

• Ted Haworth, art direction; Robert Priestley, set decoration, Sayonara
• Walter Holscher, art direction; William Kiernan and Louis Diage, set decoration, Pal Joey
• William A. Horning and Gene Allen, art direction; Edwin B. Willis and Richard Pefferle, set decoration, Les Girls
• William A. Horning and Urie McCleary, art direction; Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt, set decoration, Raintree County
• Hal Pereira and George W. Davis, art direction; Sam Comer and Ray Moyer, set decoration, Funny Face

Sound Recording

• Columbia Studio Sound Dept., Pal Joey
• MGM Studio Sound Dept., Les Girls
• Paramount Studio Sound Dept., Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
• Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept., Witness for the Prosecution
• Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept., Sayonara

Music

• Song
  • "An Affair to Remember", An Affair to Remember, Harry Warren, music; Harold Adamson and Leo McCarey, lyrics
  • "All the Way", The Joker Is Wild, James Van Heusen, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics
  • "April Love", April Love, Sammy Fain, music; Paul Francis Webster, lyrics
  • "Tammy", Tammy and the Bachelor, Ray Evans and Jay Livingston, music and lyrics
  • "Wild Is the Wind", Wild Is the Wind, Dimitri Tiomkin, music; Ned Washington, lyrics
• Score
  • Malcolm Arnold, The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Hugo Friedhofer, An Affair to Remember
  • Hugo Friedhofer, Boy on a Dolphin
  • Johnny Green, Raintree County
  • Paul Smith, Perri

Film Editing

• Viola Lawrence and Jerome Thoms, Pal Joey
• Warren Low, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
• Daniel Mandell, Witness for the Prosecution
• Arthur P. Schmidt and Philip W. Anderson, Sayonara
• Peter Taylor, The Bridge on the River Kwai

Costume Design

• Edith Head and Hubert de Givenchy, Funny Face
• Charles LeMaire, An Affair to Remember
• Jean Louis, Pal Joey
• Orry-Kelly, Les Girls
• Walter Plunkett, Raintree County

Special Effects

• Louis Lichtenfield, visual, The Spirit of St. Louis
• Walter Rossi, audible, The Enemy Below

Short Subjects

• Cartoon
  • Birds Anonymous (Tweety and Sylvester Series) (Edward Selzer, producer; Warner Bros.)
  • One Droopy Knight (Droopy Series) (William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, producers; MGM)
  • Tabasco Road (Speedy Gonzales Series) (Edward Selzer, producer; Warner Bros.)
  • Trees and Jamaica Daddy (Ham and Hattie Series) (United Productions of America; Columbia)
  • The Truth About Mother Goose (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista)
• Live Action Subjects
  • A Chairy Tale (National Film Board of Canada; Kingsley International)
  • City of Gold (National Film Board of Canada; Kingsley International)
  • Foothold on Antarctica (World Wide Pictures; Lester A. Shoenfeld Films)
  • Portugal (People and Places Series) (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista)
  • The Wetback Hound (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista)

Documentary

• Short Subject
  • (No award given this year)
• Feature
  • Albert Schweitzer (Hill and Anderson Production; Louis de Rochemont Associates)
  • On the Bowery (Lionel Rogosin Productions; Film Representations, Inc.)
  • Torero! (Producciones Barbachano Ponce; Columbia)

Foreign Language Film

• The Devil Came at Night, Federal Republic of Germany,West
• Gates of Paris, France
• Mother India, India
• The Nights of Cabiria, Italy
• Nine Lives, Norway

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Samuel Goldwyn

Honorary Awards

• To Charles Brackett for outstanding service to the academy
• To B. B. Kahane for distinguished service to the motion picture industry
• To Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson, motion picture pioneer, for his contributions to the development of motion pictures as entertainment
• To the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers for their contributions to the advancement of the motion picture industry

Facts:

• Winners Announced: March 26, 1958
• Held at: RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, California
• Hosts: Bob Hope, Rosalind Russell, David Niven,James Stewart, Jack Lemmon, Donald Duck (voice of Clarence Nash, via animation)
• Eligibility Year: 1957