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The 1956 Retro Hollmann Awards!

Here they are, the nominations for the 1956 Retro Hollmann Awards. The order of categories was determined by random draw, which means the five nominees for Best Picture are somewhere in the middle.

Best Sound

The Eddy Duchin Story
George Cooper, sound
John Livadary, sound recording

Forbidden Planet
Bebe Barron / Louis Barron, electronic tonalities
Wesley C. Miller, recording supervisor
James Brock, sound
Kurt Hernfeld / Kendrick Kinney / John Lipow, sound editors

Moby Dick
Jon W. Mitchell, sound recordist
Alex Pront / Len Shilton, sound

Seven Samurai
Masanao Uehara, sound recordist
Ichirô Minawa, sound effects editor

The Ten Commandments
Louis H. Mesenkop, sound recording supervisor
Howard Beals, sound editor / supervising sound editor
George Dutton, sound effects designer
Charles Grenzbach / Hugo Grenzbach / Don Johnson / Gene Merritt / Harry D. Mills / Loren L. Ryrder, re-recording mixers


Best Costume Design


Alexander the Great
David Ffolkes


Invitation to the Dance
Rolf Gerard / Elizabeth Haffenden


The King and I
Irene Sharaff

Seven Samurai
Kôhei Ezaki / Mieko Yamaguchi


The Ten Commandments
Arnold Friberg / Edith Head / Dorothy Jeakins / John Jensen / Ralph Jester


The remaining nominees after the jump....


Best Actor


Rock Hudson as Jordan "Bick" Benedict, Jr.
Giant


Danny Kaye as Hubert Hawkins
The Court Jester


Takashi Shimura as Kambei Shimada
Seven Samurai


Eli Wallach as Silva Vacarro
Baby Doll


John Wayne as Ethan Edwards
The Searchers



Best Supporting Actress


Yvonne De Carlo as Sephora
The Ten Commandments


Nina Foch as Bithiah
The Ten Commandments


Helen Hayes as Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna
Anastasia


Mercedes McCambridge as Luz Benedict
Giant


Mildred Natwick as Griselda
The Court Jester


Best Picture


Alexander the Great
Robert Rossen, producer


Baby Doll
Elia Kazan, producer


Giant
Henry Ginsberg / George Stevens, producers


Seven Samurai
Sôjirô Motoki, producer


The Ten Commandments
Cecil B. de Mille, producer


Best Ensemble


The Catered Affair


The Court Jester


The Killing


The Ladykillers


Seven Samurai


Best Score


Anastasia
Alfred Newman


Giant
Dimitri Tiomkin


Godzilla, King of the Monsters
Akira Ifukube


Seven Samurai
Fumio Hayasaka


The Ten Commandments
Elmer Bernstein


Best Director


Henri-Georges Clouzot
Diabolique


Cecil B. de Mille
The Ten Commandments


Elia Kazan
Baby Doll


Akira Kurosawa
Seven Samurai


George Stevens
Giant


Best Actress


Carroll Baker as Baby Doll Meighan
Baby Doll


Anne Baxter as Nefretiri
The Ten Commandments


Bette Davis as Aggie Hurley
The Catered Affair


Katharine Hepburn as Lizzie Curry
The Rainmaker


Elizabeth Taylor as Leslie Lynnton Benedict
Giant


Best Visual Effects


Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Ray Harryhausen, special photographic and animation effects
Russ Kelley, special effects


Forbidden Planet
Max Fabian, special photographic effects
Bob Abrams, animation effects
A. Arnold Gillespie / Joshua Meador / Warren Newcombe / Irving G. Ries / Doug Hubbard, special effects
Robert Kinoshita, robot builder


Godzilla, King of the Monsters
Kyuichirô Kishida / Hiroshi Mukoyama / Eiji Tsuburaya / Akira Watanabe, special photographic effects


Moby Dick
Robert Clarke / Charles E. Parker, whale model
Jim Hole, special effects supervisor


The Ten Commandments
John P. Fulton, special photographic effects
Gladys Hallberg / Ann Lord, visual effects animation supervisors
Tim Baar / Harry Barndollar / Romaine Birkmeyer / Ivyl Burks / Charles Davies / Doug Hubbard / Milton Olsen / Chester Pate / Bob Springfield / Lee Vasque / Barney Wolff, special effects


Best Production Design


Carousel
Jack Martin Smith / Lyle R. Wheeler, art direction
Chester Bayhi / Walter M. Scott, set decoration


Forbidden Planet
Cedric Gibbons / Arthur Lonergan, art direction
Hugh Hunt / Edwin B. Willis, set decoration
A. Arnold Gillespie / Robert Kinoshita, robot design


Invitation to the Dance
Randall Duell / Cedric Gibbons / Alfred Junge, art direction


Seven Samurai
Takashi Matsuyama, production design
Sô Matsuyama, art direction


The Ten Commandments
Albert Nozaki / Hal Pereira / Walter H. Tyler, art direction
Sam Comer / Ray Moyer, set decoration


Best Film Editing

Baby Doll
Gene Milford

Giant
William Hornbeck / Robert Lawrence

Moby Dick
Russell Lloyd

Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa

The Ten Commandments
Anne Blauchens


Best Cinematography


Baby Doll
Boris Kaufman


Diabolique
Armand Thirard


Giant
William C. Mellor


Seven Samurai
Asakazu Nakai


The Ten Commandments
Loyal Griggs


Best Original Screenplay

Alexander the Great
Robert Rossen

The Court Jester
Norman Panama & Melvin Frank

The Ladykillers
William Rose

Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa & Shinobu Hashimoto & Hideo Oguni

Stagecoach to Fury
Eric Norden
story by Earle Lyon / Eric Norden


Best Original Song

The Girl Can't Help It - "The Girl Can't Help It"
music and lyrics by Bobby Troup

High Society - "Little One"
music and lyrics by Cole Porter

High Society - "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"
music and lyrics by Cole Porter

The Searchers - "The Searchers (Ride Away)"
music and lyrics by Stan Jones

Somebody Up There Likes Me - "Somebody Up There Likes Me"
music by Bronislau Kaper
lyrics by Sammy Cahn


Best Supporting Actor


Patrick Adiarte as Prince Chulalongkorn
The King and I


Yul Brynner as Rameses
The Ten Commandments


Fredric March as Philip of Macedonia
Alexander the Great


Toshirô Mifune as Kikuchiyo
Seven Samurai


Seiji Miyaguchi as Kyuzo
Seven Samurai



Best Makeup and Hairstyling


The Creature Walks Among Us
Bud Westmore, makeup supervisor
Joan St. Oegger, hair stylist


Giant
Gordon Bau, makeup supervisor
Pat Westmore, hairdresser


Richard III
Tony Sforzini, makeup artist
Gladys Atkinson, hair stylist


Seven Samurai
Junjirô Yamada, makeup artist
Midori Nakajô, hair stylist


The Ten Commandments
Frank Delmar / Wally Westmore, makeup supervisor
Nellie Manley, hair stylist


Best Adapted Screenplay

Baby Doll
Tennessee Williams
from his one-act plays "27 Wagons Full of Cotton" and "The Long Stay Cut Short"


Giant
Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat
from the novel by Edna Ferber


Nightfall
Stirling Silliphant
from the novel by David Goodis


The Searchers
Frank S. Nugent
from the novel by Alan Le May


The Ten Commandments
Æneas MacKenzie & Jesse L. Lasky Jr. & Jack Gariss & Fredric M. Frank
from various sources, including The Holy Scriptures


The Ten Commandments leads with an astounding 15 nominations, tying The Exorcist as the most-nominated film in Hollmann Awards history! Check back May 1st and May 2nd to see how it all shakes out.

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