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Awards Note

Academy Award winner, 1959: Best Picture ; Best Director ; Best Actor (Heston) ; Best Supporting Actor (Griffith) ; Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color ; Best Cinematography, Color ; Best Costume Design, Color ; Best Effects, Special Effects ; Best Film Editing ; Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture ; Best Sound. (1)
Academy Awards, 1959: Best Picture; Best Director (William Wyler); Best Actor (Charlton Heston); Best Actor in a supporting role (Hugh Griffith); Best Color Cinematography (Robert L. Surtees); Best Art Direction-Color (William A. Horning & Edward Carfagno); Set Decoration (Hugh Hunt); Music: Best Scoring of a dramatic or comedy picture (Miklos Rozsa); Film editing (Ralph E. Winters & John D, Dunning); Costume Design-Color (Elizabeth Haffenden); Special effects (A. Arnold Gillespie and Robert MacDonald), visual -- (Milo Lory), audible. (1)
Academy Awards, 1960: Best Picture; Best actor (Charlton Heston); Best supporting actor (Hugh Griffith); Best director (William Wyler); Best color art direction (William A. Horning, Edward Carfagno)/set decoration (Hugh Hunt); Best color cinematography (Robert L. Surtees); Best color costume design (Elizabeth Haffenden); Best film editing (Ralph E. Winters, John D. Dunning); Best scoring of a dramatic or comedy picture (Miklos Rozsa); Best sound (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Franklin E. Milton, Sound Director); Best special effects (visual by A. Arnold Gillespie, Robert MacDonald; audible by Milo Lory) (1)
National Film Registry selection, 2004 (1)