Oscar Nominated Movies from 1956

A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.

The pacifist attitude of a Quaker family is tested as a result of the American Civil War.

Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.

A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam's children.

Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.

The life of brilliant but tortured artist Vincent van Gogh.

A tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.

An opportunistic businessman tries to pass off a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and she is so convincing that even the biggest skeptics believe her.

An immature, naive teenage bride holds her anxious husband at bay while flirting with an amorous Sicilian farmer.

During the Depression, a con-man promises rain to a desperate drought-ridden Kansas town and marriage to a local desperate spinster.

Rhoda Penmark seems like your average, sweet eight-year-old girl. After her rival at school dies in mysterious circumstances at the school picnic, her mother starts to suspect that Rhoda was responsible.

A naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana.

An assortment of American types come together in the Italian campaign of 1944.

Alcoholic playboy Kyle Hadley marries the woman secretly loved by his poor but hard-working best friend, who in turn is pursued by Kyle's sister.

Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia, including his disastrous 1812 invasion, serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.

A terrified wife tries to escape from her insanely jealous husband who is bent on killing her.

A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

A young boy named Leonardo adopts a bull after saving it during a storm, but their friendship is soon threatened by the legal owners of the animal who claim ownership of it and ship it off to the bullring to face a legendary bullfighter.

The life story of the famous pianist and band leader of the 1930s and 1940s.

Marshal Cass Silver has to deal with his old nemesis, a corrupt gambler, and his hired guns come to town as well as recurring bouts of blindness.

An elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome.

Boxer Rocky Graziano's biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947.

An ex-sportswriter is hired by a shady fight promoter to promote his latest find, an unknown but easily exploitable rising star from Argentina.

A cavalry officer organizes fellow passangers against Mexican outlaws, while at a stagecoach stop. A character study of each passenger is provided, via flashback.