Winner
| - Somebody Up There Likes Me — Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm F. Brown, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason
- Great Expectations — John Bryan, Wilfred Shingleton
- The Song of Bernadette — James Basevi, William Darling, Thomas Little
- Pride and Prejudice — Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse
- Julius Caesar — Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt
- The Bad and the Beautiful — Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason
- Anna and the King of Siam — Lyle Wheeler, William Darling, Thomas Little, Frank E. Hughes
- A Streetcar Named Desire — Richard Day, George James Hopkins
- America America — Gene Callahan
- Hamlet — Roger K. Furse, Carmen Dillon
- On the Waterfront — Richard Day
- The Hustler — Harry Horner, Gene Callahan
- How Green Was My Valley — Richard Day, Nathan Juran, Thomas Little
- Zorba the Greek — Vassilis Fotopoulos
- Sunset Blvd. — Hans Dreier, John Meehan, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
- To Kill a Mockingbird — Alexander Golitzen, Henry Bumstead, Oliver Emert
- The Apartment — Alexander Trauner, Edward G. Boyle
- Blood on the Sun — Wiard Ihnen, A. Roland Fields
- Ship of Fools — Robert Clatworthy, Joseph Kish
- The Diary of Anne Frank — Lyle Wheeler, George W. Davis, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss
- Gaslight — Cedric Gibbons, William Ferrari, Edwin B. Willis, Paul Huldschinsky
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — Richard Sylbert, George James Hopkins
- This Above All — Richard Day, Joseph Wright, Thomas Little
- The Heiress — Harry Horner, John Meehan, Emile Kuri
- The Rose Tattoo — Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Sam Comer, Arthur Krams
|
nominee
| - Blackboard Jungle — Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell, Edwin B. Willis, Henry Grace
- Is Paris Burning? — Willy Holt, Marc Frederix, Pierre Guffroy
- Visit to a Small Planet — Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler, Sam Comer, Arthur Krams
- The Proud and Profane — Hal Pereira, A. Earl Hedrick, Sam Comer, Frank R. McKelvy
- The Foxes of Harrow — Lyle Wheeler, Maurice Ransford, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox
- The Talk of the Town — Lionel Banks, Rudolph Sternad, Fay Babcock
- Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte — William Glasgow, Raphael Bretton
- The North Star — Perry Ferguson, Howard Bristol
- Fourteen Hours — Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Thomas Little, Fred J. Rode
- Carrie — Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Emile Kuri
- The Americanization of Emily — George W. Davis, Hans Peters, Elliot Scott, Henry Grace, Robert R. Benton
- The Adventures of Mark Twain — John J. Hughes, Fred MacLean
- The Keys of the Kingdom — James Basevi, William Darling, Thomas Little, Frank E. Hughes
- The Flame of New Orleans — Martin Obzina, Jack Otterson, Russell A. Gausman
- The Razor's Edge — Richard Day, Nathan Juran, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox
- Love With the Proper Stranger — Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Sam Comer, Grace Gregory
- Psycho — Joseph Hurley, Robert Clatworthy, George Milo
- My Cousin Rachel — Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir, Walter M. Scott
- The Solid Gold Cadillac — Ross Bellah, William R. Kiernan, Louis Diage
- Martin Luther — Fritz Maurischat, Paul Markwitz
- The Longest Day — Ted Haworth, Leon Barsacq, Vincent Korda, Gabriel Bechir
- The Man with the Golden Arm — Joseph C. Wright. Darrell Silvera
- The Last Angry Man — Carl Anderson, William Kiernan
- Too Young to Kiss — Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore
- Suddenly, Last Summer — Oliver Messel, William Kellner, Scot Slimon
- Love Letters — Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
- Hud — Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Sam Comer, Robert Benton
- Twilight of Honor — George W. Davis, Paul Groesse, Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt
- Arise, My Love — Hans Dreier, Robert Usher
- Arizona — Lionel Banks, Robert Peterson
- Come to the Stable — Lyle Wheeler, Joseph C. Wright, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox
- Casanova Brown — Perry Ferguson, Julia Heron
- The Son of Monte Carlo — John DuCasse Schulze, Edward G. Boyle
- Five Graves to Cairo — Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegte, Bertram Granger
- Federico Fellini's 8½ — Piero Gherardi
- Foreign Correspondent — Alexander Golitzen
- The Spoilers — Jack Otterson, John B. Goodman, Russell A. Gausman, Edward R. Robinson
- The President's Lady — Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Paul S. Fox
- Days of Wine and Roses — Joseph Wright, George James Hopkins
- The Picture of Dorian Gray — Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt, John Bonar
- King Rat — Robert Emmet Smith, Frank Tuttle
- La Dolce Vita — Piero Gherardi
- La Ronde — D'Eaubonne
- Le Plaisir — Max Ophuls
- My Son, My Son! — John DuCasse Schulze
- Our Town — Lewis J. Rachmil
- Rashomon — Matsuyama, H. Motsumoto
- Rebecca — Lyle Wheeler
- Roman Holiday — Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler
- Sergeant York — John Hughes, Fred MacLean
- Silver Queen — Ralph Berger, Emile Kuri
- Sons and Lovers — Tom Morahan, Lionel Couch
- Sundown — Alexander Golitzen, Richard Irvine
- The Magnificent Ambersons — Albert S. D'Agostino, Darrell Silvera, Al Fields
- Mission to Moscow — Carl Weyl, George J. Hopkins
- The Boys from Syracuse — John Otterson
- The Dark Command — John Victor Mackay
- The Magnificent Seven — Takashi Matsuyama
- The Night of the Iguana — Stephen Grimes
- The Sea Hawk — Anton Grot
- The Westener — James Basevi
- The Absent Minded Professor — Carroll Clark, Emile Kuri, Hal Gausman
- Random Harvest — Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell, Edwin B. Willis, Jack Moore
- Experiment Perilous — Albert S. D'Agostino, Jack Okey, Darrell Silvera, Claude Carpenter
- The Red Danube — Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt
- All About Eve — Lyle Wheeler, George W. Davis, Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott
- The Shanghai Gesture — Boris Leven, Boris Leven
- Hold Back the Dawn — Hans Dreier, Robert Usher, Sam Comer
- George Washington Slept Here — Max Parker, Mark-Lee Kirk, Casey Roberts
|