| Best Motion Picture | Best Director |
| Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins – West Side Story * Federico Fellini – La Dolce Vita* J. Lee Thompson – The Guns of Navarone* Robert Rossen – The Hustler* Stanley Kramer – Judgment at Nuremberg |
| Best Actor | Best Actress |
| Maximilian Schell – Judgment at Nuremberg as Hans Rolfe* Charles Boyer – Fanny as César* Paul Newman – The Hustler as Eddie Felson* Spencer Tracy – Judgment at Nuremberg as Dan Haywood* Stuart Whitman – The Mark as Jim Fuller | Sophia Loren – Two Women as Cesira* Audrey Hepburn – Breakfast at Tiffany's as Holly Golightly* Piper Laurie – The Hustler as Sarah Packard* Geraldine Page – Summer and Smoke as Alma Winemiller* Natalie Wood – Splendor in the Grass as Wilma Dean "Deanie" Loomis |
| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
| George Chakiris – West Side Story as Bernardo* Montgomery Clift – Judgment at Nuremberg as Rudolph Peterson* Peter Falk – Pocketful of Miracles as Joy Boy* Jackie Gleason – The Hustler as Minnesota Fats* George C. Scott – The Hustler as Bert Gordon | Rita Moreno – West Side Story as Anita* Fay Bainter – The Children's Hour as Mrs. Amelia Tilford* Judy Garland – Judgment at Nuremberg as Irene Hoffmann-Wallner* Lotte Lenya – The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone as Contessa* Una Merkel – Summer and Smoke as Mrs. Winemiller |
| Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
| Splendor in the Grass – William Inge* Ballad of a Soldier – Valentin Ezhov and Grigori Chukhrai* La Dolce Vita – Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano and Brunello Rondi* General Della Rovere – Sergio Amidei, Diego Fabbri and Indro Montanelli* Lover Come Back – Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning | Judgment at Nuremberg – Abby Mann* Breakfast at Tiffany's – George Axelrod* The Guns of Navarone – Carl Foreman* The Hustler – Robert Rossen and Sidney Carroll* West Side Story – Ernest Lehman |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Best Documentary Feature |
| Through a Glass Darkly * Harry and the Butler * Immortal Love * The Important Man * Plácido | Sky Above and Mud Beneath* The Grand Olympics |
| Best Documentary Short Subject | Best Live Action Short Subject |
| Project Hope* Breaking the Language Barrier* Cradle of Genius* Kahl* The Man in Gray | Seawards the Great Ships* The Face of Jesus* Play Ball!* Rooftops of New York* Very Nice, Very Nice |
| Best Short Subject - Cartoons | Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture |
| Surogat* Aquamania* Beep Prepared* Nelly's Folly* The Pied Piper of Guadalupe | Breakfast at Tiffany's – Henry Mancini* El Cid – Miklós Rózsa* Fanny – Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman* The Guns of Navarone – Dimitri Tiomkin* Summer and Smoke – Elmer Bernstein |
| Best Scoring of a Musical Picture | Best Song |
| West Side Story – Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal* Babes in Toyland – George Bruns* Flower Drum Song – Alfred Newman and Ken Darby* Khovanshchina – Dmitri Shostakovich* Paris Blues – Duke Ellington | "Moon River" from Breakfast at Tiffany's – Music by Henry Mancini; Lyric by Johnny Mercer* "Bachelor in Paradise" from Bachelor in Paradise – Music by Henry Mancini; Lyric by Mack David* "Love Theme from El Cid " from El Cid – Music by Miklós Rózsa; Lyric by Paul Francis Webster* "Pocketful of Miracles" from Pocketful of Miracles – Music by Jimmy Van Heusen; Lyric by Sammy Cahn* "Town Without Pity" from Town Without Pity – Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyric by Ned Washington |
| Best Sound | Best Art Direction, Black-and-White |
| West Side Story – Gordon E. Sawyer and Fred Hynes* The Children's Hour – Gordon E. Sawyer* Flower Drum Song – Waldon O. Watson* The Guns of Navarone – John Cox* The Parent Trap – Robert O. Cook | The Hustler – Art Direction: Harry Horner; Set Decoration: Gene Callahan * The Absent-Minded Professor – Art Direction: Carroll Clark; Set Decoration: Emile Kuri and Hal Gausman* The Children's Hour – Art Direction: Fernando Carrere; Set Decoration: Edward G. Boyle* La Dolce Vita – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Piero Gherardi* Judgment at Nuremberg – Art Direction: Rudolph Sternad; Set Decoration: George Milo |
| Best Art Direction, Color | Best Cinematography, Black-and-White |
| West Side Story – Art Direction: Boris Leven; Set Decoration: Victor A. Gangelin * Breakfast at Tiffany's – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Ray Moyer* El Cid – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Veniero Colasanti and John Moore* Flower Drum Song – Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen and Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Howard Bristol* Summer and Smoke – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Walter H. Tyler; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Arthur Krams | The Hustler – Eugen Schüfftan * The Absent-Minded Professor – Edward Colman* The Children's Hour – Franz Planer* Judgment at Nuremberg – Ernest Laszlo* One, Two, Three – Daniel L. Fapp |
| Best Cinematography, Color | Best Costume Design, Black-and-White |
| West Side Story – Daniel L. Fapp * Fanny – Jack Cardiff* Flower Drum Song – Russell Metty* A Majority of One – Harry Stradling* One-Eyed Jacks – Charles Lang | La Dolce Vita – Piero Gherardi * The Children's Hour – Dorothy Jeakins* Claudelle Inglish – Howard Shoup* Judgment at Nuremberg – Jean Louis* Yojimbo – Yoshirō Muraki |
| Best Costume Design, Color | Best Film Editing |
| West Side Story – Irene Sharaff * Babes in Toyland – Bill Thomas* Back Street – Jean Louis* Flower Drum Song – Irene Sharaff* Pocketful of Miracles – Edith Head and Walter Plunkett | West Side Story – Thomas Stanford * Fanny – William H. Reynolds* The Guns of Navarone – Alan Osbiston* Judgment at Nuremberg – Frederic Knudtson* The Parent Trap – Philip W. Anderson |
| Best Special Effects | - |
| The Guns of Navarone – Visual Effects by Bill Warrington; Audible Effects by Vivian C. Greenham * The Absent-Minded Professor – Visual Effects by Robert A. Mattey and Eustace Lycett | - |
