Merman won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy . Alfred Newman won the Oscar for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture , and Irene Sharaff was nominated for her costume design . Lang was nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures by the Directors Guild of America and the Grand Prize at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival , and Sheekman 's screenplay was nominated Best Written American Musical by the Writers Guild of America
1953 Cannes Film Festival
1953 Cannes Film Festival
Call Me Madam (film)