Den 28. Oscar-utdelingen

Den 28. Oscar-utdelingen fant sted 21. mars 1956. Seremonien ble holdt i RKO Pantages Theatre i Hollywood, California. Årets vert var skuespilleren Jerry Lewis, som tre seremonier senere var vert sammen med Bob Hope, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Tony Randall og Mort Sahl. Det ble senere holdt en identisk seremoni i Century Theatre i New York, der Joseph Mankiewicz og Claudette Colbert var verter.

Vinnere og nominasjoner

Oscar-vinnerne er markert med uthevet skrift.

Beste film

• Marty
• Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Mister Roberts
• Picnic
• The Rose Tattoo

Beste skuespiller i hovedrolle

• Ernest Borgnine – Marty
• James Cagney – Love Me or Leave Me
• James Dean – East of Eden
• Frank Sinatra – The Man with the Golden Arm
• Spencer Tracy – Bad Day at Black Rock

Beste skuespillerinne i hovedrolle

• Susan Hayward – I'll Cry Tomorrow
• Katharine Hepburn – Summertime
• Jennifer Jones – Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Anna Magnani – The Rose Tattoo
• Eleanor Parker – Interrupted Melody

Beste skuespiller i birolle

• Arthur Kennedy – Trial
• Jack Lemmon – Mister Roberts
• Joe Mantell – Marty
• Sal Mineo – Rebel without a Cause
• Arthur O'Connell – Picnic

Beste skuespillerinne i birolle

• Betsy Blair – Marty
• Peggy Lee – Pete Kelly's Blues
• Marisa Pavan – The Rose Tattoo
• Jo Van Fleet – East of Eden
• Natalie Wood – Rebel without a Cause

Beste regi

• Marty – Delbert Mann
• East of Eden – Elia Kazan
• Summertime – David Lean
• Picnic – Joshua Logan
• Bad Day at Black Rock – John Sturges

Beste historie

• Joe Connelly og Bob Mosher – The Private War of Major Benson
• Daniel Fuchs – Love Me or Leave Me
• Beirne Lay, Jr. – Strategic Air Command
• Jean Marsan, Henry Troyat, Jacques Perret, Henri Verneuil og Raoul Ploquin – The Sheep Has Five Legs
• Nicholas Ray – Rebel Without a Cause

Beste tilrettelagte manus

• Richard Brooks – Blackboard Jungle
• Paddy Chayefsky – Marty
• Daniel Fuchs og Isobel Lennart – Love Me or Leave Me
• Millard Kaufman – Bad Day at Black Rock
• Paul Osborn – East of Eden

Beste originalmanus

• Betty Comden og Adolph Green – It's Always Fair Weather
• William Ludwig og Sonya Levien – Interrupted Melody
• Melville Shavelson og Jack Rose – The Seven Little Foys
• Milton Sperling og Emmet Lavery – The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
• Jacques Tati og Henri Marquet – Mr. Hulot's Holiday

Beste kinematografi

Svart-hvitt

• Arthur E. Arling – I'll Cry Tomorrow
• Russell Harlan – Blackboard Jungle
• James Wong Howe – The Rose Tattoo
• Charles Lang – Queen Bee
• Joseph LaShelle – Marty

Farger

• Robert Burks – To Catch a Thief
• Harold Lipstein – A Man Called Peter
• Leon Shamroy – Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Harry Stradling – Guys and Dolls
• Robert Surtees – Oklahoma!

Beste kunstregi

Svart-hvitt

• Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm Brown, Edwin B. Willis og Hugh B. Hunt – I'll Cry Tomorrow
• Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell, Edwin B. Willis og Henry Grace – Blackboard Jungle
• Edward S. Haworth, Walter Simonds og Robert Priestley – Marty
• Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Sam Comer og Arthur Krams – The Rose Tattoo
• Joseph C. Wright og Darrell Silvera – The Man with the Golden Arm

Farger

• William Flannery, Jo Mielziner og Robert Priestley – Picnic
• Hal Pereira, Joseph McMillan Johnson, Sam Comer og Arthur Krams – To Catch a Thief
• Oliver Smith, Joseph C. Wright og Howard Bristol – Guys and Dolls
• Lyle Wheeler, George W. Davis, Walter M. Scott og Jack Stubbs – Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir, Walter M. Scott og Paul S. Fox – Daddy Long Legs

Lyd

• MGM Studio Sound Dept. – Love Me or Leave Me
• RCA Sound Department – Not as a Stranger
• Todd-AO Sound Department – Oklahoma!
• Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Dept. – Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept. – Mister Roberts

Beste sang

• “I'll Never Stop Loving You,” Love Me or Leave Me, Nicholas Brodszky, musikk; Sammy Cahn, tekst
• “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing,” Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Sammy Fain, musikk; Paul Francis Webster, tekst
• “Something's Gotta Give,” Daddy Long Legs, Johnny Mercer, musikk og tekst
• (Love Is) “The Tender Trap,” The Tender Trap, James Van Heusen, musikk; Sammy Cahn, tekst
• “Unchained Melody,” Unchained, Alex North, musikk; Hy Zaret, tekst

Beste filmmusikk (drama/komedie)

• Elmer Bernstein – The Man with the Golden Arm
• George Duning – Picnic
• Alfred Newman – Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Alex North – The Rose Tattoo
• Max Steiner – Battle Cry

Beste filmmusikk (musikal)

• Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton og Adolph Deutsch – Oklahoma!
• Jay Blackton og Cyril J. Mockridge – Guys and Dolls
• Percy Faith og George Stoll – Love Me or Leave Me
• Alfred Newman – Daddy Long Legs
• André Previn – It's Always Fair Weather

Beste kostymedesign

Svart-hvitt

• Beatrice Dawson – The Pickwick Papers
• Edith Head – The Rose Tattoo
• Tadaoto Kainosho – Ugetsu
• Jean Louis – Queen Bee
• Helen Rose – I'll Cry Tomorrow

Farger

• Edith Head – To Catch a Thief
• Charles LeMaire – Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• Charles LeMaire og Mary Wills – The Virgin Queen
• Helen Rose – Interrupted Melody
• Irene Sharaff – Guys and Dolls

Beste visuelle effekter

• The Bridges at Toko-Ri
• The Dam Busters
• The Rains of Ranchipur

Beste kortfilm

Animert

• Good Will to Men
• The Legend of Rock-a-Bye Point
• No Hunting
• Speedy Gonzales

På en rull

• Gadgets Galore
• Survival City
• 3rd Ave. El
• Three Kisses

På to ruller

• The Battle of Gettysburg
• The Face of Lincoln
• On The Twelfth Day
• Switzerland
• 24-Hour Alert

Beste dokumentar

Kortfilm

• The Battle of Gettysburg
• The Face of Lincoln
• Men Against the Arctic

Æresoscar

• Samurai, The Legend of Musashi (Japan), beste fremmedspråklige film, som først ble lansert i USA, i løpet av 1955