- Production Design (Black and White)Beaten by Richard Sylbert: George James Hopkins for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Production DesignBeaten by Cecil Beaton: George James Hopkins and Gene Allen for My Fair Lady
- Production Design (Black and White)Beaten by Gene Callahan for America America
- Production DesignBeaten by John Box and John Stoll: Dario Simoni for Lawrence of Arabia
- Production DesignBeaten by Alexander Golitzen, Eric Orbom ( Posthumous Award ); : Russell A. Gausman and Julia Heron for Spartacus
- Production DesignBeaten by Ted Haworth: Robert Priestley for Sayonara
- Production Design (Black and White)Beaten by Arthur Krams, Hal Pereira and Tambi Larsen: Samuel M. Comer for The Rose Tattoo
- Production Design (Black and White)Shared with Cedric Gibbons and Edward Carfagno: Edwin B. Willis
- Production Design (Black and White)Beaten by Hans Dreier, John Meehan: Samuel M. Comer and Ray Moyer for Sunset Boulevard
- Production Design (Black and White)Beaten by Wiard IhnenInterior Decoration: A. Roland Fields for Blood on the Sun
- Production Design (Black and White)Beaten by James Basevi, Thomas Little and William S. Darling for The Song of Bernadette
