Winner

Frank Sinatra

Pal Joey

Nominated

Maurice Chevalier

Love in the Afternoon

Glenn Ford

Don't Go Near the Water

Tony Randall

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

David Niven

My Man Godfrey

Winner

Alec Guinness

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Nominated

Henry Fonda

12 Angry Men

Anthony Franciosa

A Hatful of Rain

Charles Laughton

Witness for the Prosecution

Marlon Brando

Sayonara

Winner

Kay Kendall

Les Girls

Nominated

Jean Simmons

This Could Be the Night

Audrey Hepburn

Love in the Afternoon

Cyd Charisse

Silk Stockings

Winner

Joanne Woodward

The Three Faces of Eve

Nominated

Eva Marie Saint

A Hatful of Rain

Deborah Kerr

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

Anna Magnani

Wild Is the Wind

Marlene Dietrich

Witness for the Prosecution

Winner

David Lean

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Nominated

Billy Wilder

Witness for the Prosecution

Fred Zinnemann

A Hatful of Rain

Joshua Logan

Sayonara

Sidney Lumet

12 Angry Men

Winner

Les Girls

Nominated

Pal Joey

Silk Stockings

Love in the Afternoon

Don't Go Near the Water

Winner

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Nominated

Sayonara

Wild Is the Wind

12 Angry Men

Witness for the Prosecution

Winner

Red Buttons

Sayonara

Nominated

Ed Wynn

The Great Man

Sessue Hayakawa

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Nigel Patrick

Raintree County

Lee J. Cobb

12 Angry Men

Winner

Elsa Lanchester

Witness for the Prosecution

Nominated

Hope Lange

Peyton Place

Miyoshi Umeki

Sayonara

Mildred Dunnock

Peyton Place

Heather Sears

The Story of Esther Costello