1956 Academy Awards – Music (Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) Winner and Nominees

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Alfred Newman

A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China’s Communist revolution.

Battle Cry

Max Steiner

Picnic

George Duning

The Man with the Golden Arm

Elmer Bernstein

The Rose Tattoo

Alex North