1956 awards

Academy Award for Best Picture

Winner MartyHarold Hecht, United Artists

Academy Award for Best Director

Winner MartyDelbert Mann

Academy Award for Best Actor

Winner MartyErnest Borgnine

Academy Award for Best Actress

Winner The Rose TattooAnna Magnani

Golden Globe Awards

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Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama

Winner The Rose TattooAnna Magnani

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Winner The King and IDeborah Kerr

Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award

Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress

BAFTA Award for Best Film

Winner Bad Day at Black Rock Winner Carmen Jones

Winner The Colditz Story

Winner The Dam Busters Winner East of Eden Winner The Ladykillers Winner Marty

Winner The Night My Number Came Up

Winner The Prisoner

Winner Seven Samurai Winner Simba Winner La Strada Winner Summertime Winner Richard III

Best British Film

Winner The Colditz Story

Winner The Dam Busters Winner The Ladykillers

Winner The Night My Number Came Up

Winner The Prisoner

Winner Simba

BAFTA Award for Best Documentary

Winner Generator 4

Winner The Silent World

Winner Under the Same Sky

Best Foreign Actor

Winner East of EdenJames Dean Winner Mister RobertsJack Lemmon Winner Not as a StrangerFrank Sinatra Winner Seven SamuraiToshirō Mifune Winner Seven SamuraiTakashi Shimura

Palme d'Or

Winner The Silent WorldJacques-Yves Cousteau, Louis Malle

Jury Special Prize

Best Director

Winner OthelloSergei Yutkevich

Best Acting Award

Winner I'll Cry TomorrowSusan Hayward

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

Winner La Traversée de ParisBourvil

Volpi Cup for Best Actress

Winner GervaiseMaria Schell

Special mentions

Main competition

Winner 赤線地帯Kenji Mizoguchi

Winner The Captain from KöpenickHeinz Rühmann

Winner The AwakeningAnna Magnani

Winner Empire in the SunMario Craveri

Winner Torero!Carlos Velo

Winner The Immortal GarrisonEduard Tisse

Winner Main StreetBetsy Blair Winner The Burmese HarpKon Ichikawa Winner Main StreetJuan Antonio Bardem

Golden Bear

Winner Invitation to the DanceGene Kelly

Silver Bear for Best Director

Winner Autumn Leaves

Silver Bear for Best Actress

Winner DonatellaElsa Martinelli

Silver Bear for Best Actor

Winner TrapezeBurt Lancaster

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series

Winner Producers' Showcase

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series

Best Audience Participation Series (Quiz, Panel, Etc.)

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Winner The Road of Life

Ariel Award for Best Direction

Winner Fernando Ayala

Winner The Road of Life

Ariel Award for Best Picture

Winner Robinson Crusoe Winner The Road of Life

Ariel Award for Best Actress

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film

Winner MartyDelbert Mann

Television

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Musical

Winner Love Me or Leave MeDaniel Fuchs, Isobel Lennart

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Drama

Winner MartyPaddy Chayefsky

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy

Winner Mister RobertsFrank S. Nugent, Joshua Logan

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Musical

Winner The King and IErnest Lehman, Oscar Hammerstein II

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Drama

Winner Friendly PersuasionMichael Wilson, Jessamyn West

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy

Winner Around the World in 80 DaysJames Poe, John Farrow, S.J. Perelman, Jules Verne

Anthology Drama, 30 Minutes in Length