1958 Oscars 30th Academy Awards |
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1958 Oscar Nominees and Winners |
| Best Motion Picture: The Bridge on the River Kwai – Sam Spiegel, producer (WINNER) 12 Angry Men – Henry Fonda and Reginald Rose, producers Peyton Place – Jerry Wald, producer Sayonara – William Goetz, producer Witness for the Prosecution – Arthur Hornblow Jr., producer |
| Best Director: David Lean – The Bridge on the River Kwai (WINNER) Sidney Lumet – 12 Angry Men Mark Robson – Peyton Place Joshua Logan – Sayonara Billy Wilder – Witness for the Prosecution |
| Best Actor: Alec Guinness – The Bridge on the River Kwai as Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson (WINNER) Marlon Brando – Sayonara as Major Lloyd “Ace” Gruver Anthony Franciosa – A Hatful of Rain as Polo Pope Charles Laughton – Witness for the Prosecution as Sir Wilfrid Robarts Q.C. Anthony Quinn – Wild Is the Wind as Gino |
| Best Actress: Joanne Woodward – The Three Faces of Eve as Eve White/Eve Black/Jane (WINNER) Deborah Kerr – Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison as Sister Angela Anna Magnani – Wild Is the Wind as Gioia Elizabeth Taylor – Raintree County as Susanna Drake Lana Turner – Peyton Place as Constance MacKenzie |
| Best Supporting Actor: Red Buttons – Sayonara as Airman Joe Kelly (WINNER) Vittorio De Sica – A Farewell to Arms as Major Alessandro Rinaldi Sessue Hayakawa – The Bridge on the River Kwai as Colonel Saito Arthur Kennedy – Peyton Place as Lucas Cross Russ Tamblyn – Peyton Place as Norman Page |
| Best Supporting Actress: Miyoshi Umeki – Sayonara as Katsumi Kelly (WINNER) Carolyn Jones – The Bachelor Party as The Girl Elsa Lanchester – Witness for the Prosecution as Miss Plimsoll Hope Lange – Peyton Place as Selena Cross Diane Varsi – Peyton Place as Allison MacKenzie |
| Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen: Designing Woman – George Wells (WINNER) Funny Face – Leonard Gershe I Vitelloni – Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano Man of a Thousand Faces – Ralph Wheelwright, R. Wright Campbell, Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts The Tin Star – Barney Slater, Joel Kane and Dudley Nichols |
| Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: The Bridge on the River Kwai – Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman and Pierre Boulle based on the novel by Pierre Boulle (WINNER) 12 Angry Men – Reginald Rose based on his teleplay Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison – John Lee Mahin and John Huston from the novel by Charles Shaw Peyton Place – John Michael Hayes based on the novel by Grace Metalious Sayonara – Paul Osborn based on the novel by James Michener |
| Best Foreign Language Film: Nights of Cabiria (Italy) (WINNER) The Devil Strikes at Night (Germany) Gates of Paris (France) Mother India (India) Nine Lives (Norway) |
| Best Documentary Feature: Albert Schweitzer (WINNER) On the Bowery Torero! |
| Best Live Action Short Subject: The Wetback Hound (WINNER) A Chairy Tale City of Gold Foothold on Antarctica Portugal |
| Best Short Subject – Cartoons: Birds Anonymous (WINNER) One Droopy Knight Tabasco Road Trees and Jamaica Daddy The Truth About Mother Goose |
| Best Scoring: The Bridge on the River Kwai – Malcolm Arnold (WINNER) An Affair to Remember – Hugo Friedhofer Boy on a Dolphin – Hugo Friedhofer Perri – Paul J. Smith Raintree County – Johnny Green |
| Best Song: “All the Way” from The Joker Is Wild – Music by Jimmy Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn (WINNER) “An Affair to Remember” from An Affair to Remember – Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Leo McCarey and Harold Adamson “April Love” from April Love – Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster “Tammy” from Tammy and the Bachelor – Music and Lyrics by Ray Evans and Johnny Livingston “Wild Is the Wind” from Wild Is the Wind – Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Ned Washington |
| Best Sound Recording: Sayonara – George Groves (WINNER) Gunfight at the O.K. Corral – George Dutton Les Girls – Wesley C. Miller Pal Joey – John P. Livadary Witness for the Prosecution – Gordon E. Sawyer |
| Best Costume Design: Les Girls – Orry-Kelly (WINNER) An Affair to Remember – Charles LeMaire Funny Face – Edith Head and Hubert de Givenchy Pal Joey – Jean Louis Raintree County – Walter Plunkett |
| Best Art Direction: Sayonara – Art Direction: Ted Haworth; Set Decoration: Robert Priestley (WINNER) Funny Face – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and George W. Davis; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Ray Moyer Les Girls – Art Direction: William A. Horning and Gene Allen; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Richard Pefferle Pal Joey – Art Direction: Walter Holscher; Set Decoration: William Kiernan and Louis Diage Raintree County – Art Direction: William A. Horning and Urie McCleary; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt |
| Best Cinematography: The Bridge on the River Kwai – Jack Hildyard (WINNER) An Affair to Remember – Milton Krasner Funny Face – Ray June Peyton Place – William C. Mellor Sayonara – Ellsworth Fredericks |
| Best Film Editing: The Bridge on the River Kwai – Peter Taylor (WINNER) Gunfight at the O.K. Corral – Warren Low Pal Joey – Viola Lawrence and Jerome Thoms Sayonara – Arthur P. Schmidt and Philip W. Anderson Witness for the Prosecution – Daniel Mandell |
| Best Special Effects: The Enemy Below – Walter Rossi (WINNER) The Spirit of St. Louis – Louis Lichtenfield |
| Academy Honorary Awards: Charles Brackett “for outstanding service to the Academy.” B. B. Kahane “for distinguished service to the motion picture industry.” Gilbert M. “Broncho Billy” Anderson “motion picture pioneer, for his contributions to the development of motion pictures as entertainment.” |
| Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award: Samuel Goldwyn |
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