Winners

• Best Picture, Drama: Around the World in Eighty Days
  Around the World in Eighty Days (1956 film)
  Around the World in 80 Days is a 1956 adventure film produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists. It was directed by Michael Anderson. It was produced by Michael Todd, with Kevin McClory and William Cameron Menzies as associate producers. The screenplay was written by James...
  
  
• Best Picture, Comedy or Musical: The King and I
  The King and I (1956 film)
  The King and I is a 1956 musical film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F. Zanuck. The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is based on the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II musical The King and I, based in turn on the book Anna and the King...
  
  
• Best Actor, Drama: Kirk Douglas
  Kirk Douglas
  Kirk Douglas is an American stage and film actor, film producer and author. His popular films include Out of the Past , Champion , Ace in the Hole , The Bad and the Beautiful , Lust for Life , Paths of Glory , Gunfight at the O.K...
  
  , Lust for Life
  Lust for Life (film)
  Lust for Life is a MGM biographical film about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, based on the 1934 novel by Irving Stone and adapted by Norman Corwin.It was directed by Vincente Minnelli and produced by John Houseman...
  
  
• Best Actor, Comedy or Musical: Cantinflas
  Cantinflas
  Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes , was a Mexican comic film actor, producer, and screenwriter known professionally as Cantinflas. He often portrayed impoverished campesinos or a peasant of pelado origin...
  
  , Around the World in Eighty Days
  Around the World in Eighty Days (1956 film)
  Around the World in 80 Days is a 1956 adventure film produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists. It was directed by Michael Anderson. It was produced by Michael Todd, with Kevin McClory and William Cameron Menzies as associate producers. The screenplay was written by James...
  
  
• Best Actress, Drama: Ingrid Bergman
  Ingrid Bergman
  Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute...
  
  , Anastasia
  Anastasia (1956 film)
  Anastasia is a 1956 American historical drama film directed by Anatole Litvak for 20th Century Fox. The film stars Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, and Helen Hayes. Supporting players include Akim Tamiroff, Martita Hunt, and, in a small role, Natalie Schafer...
  
  
• Best Actress, Comedy or Musical: Deborah Kerr
  Deborah Kerr
  Deborah Kerr, CBE was a Scottish film and television actress from Glasgow. She won the Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago performance as Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy, a role which she originated on Broadway, a Golden Globe Award for the motion picture The King and I, and was a three-time...
  
  , The King and I
  The King and I (1956 film)
  The King and I is a 1956 musical film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F. Zanuck. The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is based on the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II musical The King and I, based in turn on the book Anna and the King...
  
  
• Best Director: Elia Kazan
  Elia Kazan
  Elia Kazan was an American director and actor, described by the New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history". Born in Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, to Greek parents originally from Kayseri in Anatolia, the family emigrated...
  
  , Baby Doll
  Baby Doll
  Baby Doll is a 1956 black comedy /drama film directed by Elia Kazan. It was produced by Kazan and Tennessee Williams, and adapted by Williams from his own one-act play 27 Wagons Full of Cotton...
  
  
• Best Foreign Language Film: Before Sundown
  Before Sundown
  Before Sundown is a 1956 German drama film directed by Gottfried Reinhardt. At the 6th Berlin International Film Festival it won the Golden Bear .-Cast:* Hans Albers - Generaldirektor Mathias Clausen* Annemarie Düringer - Inken Peters...
  
  (West Germany); The Girl in Black
  The Girl in Black
  A Girl in Black is a 1956 Greek dramatic film by Cypriot director Michael Cacoyannis starring Dimitris Horn and Ellie Lambeti. The film takes place on the Greek island of Hydra, where two Athenian visitors become entangled in local feuds after one of them falls in love with a local girl.It was one...
  
  (Greece); Richard III
  Richard III (1955 film)
  Richard III is a 1955 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's historical play of the same name, also incorporating elements from his Henry VI, Part 3. It was directed and produced by Sir Laurence Olivier, who also played the lead role. The cast includes many noted Shakespearean actors,...
  
  (United Kingdom); Roses on the Arm (Japan); War and Peace
  War and Peace (1956 film)
  War and Peace is the first English-language film version of the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. It is an American/Italian version, directed by King Vidor and produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti. The music score was by Nino Rota and the cinematography by Jack Cardiff...
  
  (Italy); The White Reindeer
  The White Reindeer
  The White Reindeer is a 1952 Finnish horror drama film directed by Erik Blomberg. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  (Finland)

Nominees

• 14th Golden Globe Awards nominees