1956 in film

Events

• November 15 – The film Love Me Tender starring Elvis Presley (his first film) opens.

Top grossing films

North America

1. Guys and Dolls
2. The King and I
3. Trapeze
4. tie High Society and I'll Cry Tomorrow
5. Picnic
6. War and Peace
7. The Eddy Duchin Story
8. Moby Dick – directed by John Huston, starring Gregory Peck
9. The Searchers with John Wayne
10. tie The Conqueror with John Wayne as Genghis Khan and Rebel without a Cause with James Dean

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Around the World in Eighty Days – Todd, United Artists
• Best Actor: Yul Brynner – The King and I
• Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman – Anastasia

Births

• January 3 – Mel Gibson, actor and director
• January 7 – David Caruso, actor
• January 21 – Geena Davis,actress.
• January 27 – Mimi Rogers, actress.
• February 11 – Kathleen Beller, actress.
• July 9 – Tom Hanks, actor

Deaths

• December 12 – Ewald André Dupont, German director
• December 16 – Nina Hamnett, artist

Other movies released

• Anastasia
• Around the World in Eighty Days
• Carousel
• Forbidden Planet
• Gervaise
• Giant
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• La Srada
• Love Me Tender
• Lust for Life
• The Man Who Knew Too Much
• The Man with the Golden Arm
• Night and Fog
• Pather Panchali
• Rock Around the Clock
• Seven Wonders of the World
• The Silent World
• Smiles of a Summer Night
• A Town Like Alice
• Unkown Soldier
• X the Unknown