Jelaskan Hondo - Louis L'Amour dari Academy Award untuk Cerita Terbaik

Little Fugitive - Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin

1954: Broken Lance - Philip Yordan Bread, Love and Dreams (Italia: Pane, amore e fantasia) - Ettore Margadonna

Forbidden Games (Prancis: Jeux interdits) - François Boyer

Night People - Jed Harris, (Tom Reed)

There's No Business Like Show Business - Lamar Trotti (nominasi anumerta)

1955: Love Me or Leave Me - Daniel Fuchs The Private War of Major Benson - Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher

Rebel Without a Cause - Nicholas Ray

The Sheep Has Five Legs (Prancis: Le Mouton à cinq pattes) - Jean Marsan, Henri Troyat, Jacques Perret, Henri Verneuil, Raoul Ploquin

Strategic Air Command - Beirne Lay, Jr.

1956: The Brave One - Robert Rich (alias Dalton Trumbo)' The Eddy Duchin Story - Leo Katcher

High Society - Edward Bernds, Elwood Ullman

The Proud and the Beautiful (Prancis: Les Orgueilleux) - Jean-Paul Sartre

Umberto D.'' - Cesare Zavattini