1959 Oscars 31st Academy Awards |
Major Wins:
Directing & Screenplay:
Additional Info:
Trivia:
|
1959 Oscar Nominees and Winners |
| Best Motion Picture: Gigi – Arthur Freed, producer (WINNER) Auntie Mame – Jack L. Warner, producer Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Lawrence Weingarten, producer The Defiant Ones – Stanley Kramer, producer Separate Tables – Harold Hecht, producer |
| Best Director: Vincente Minnelli – Gigi (WINNER) Richard Brooks – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Stanley Kramer – The Defiant Ones Robert Wise – I Want to Live! Mark Robson – The Inn of the Sixth Happiness |
| Best Actor: David Niven – Separate Tables as Major David Angus Pollock (WINNER) Tony Curtis – The Defiant Ones as John “Joker” Jackson Paul Newman – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Brick Pollitt Sidney Poitier – The Defiant Ones as Noah Cullen Spencer Tracy – The Old Man and the Sea as The Old Man |
| Best Actress: Susan Hayward – I Want to Live! as Barbara Graham (WINNER) Deborah Kerr – Separate Tables as Sibyl Railton-Bell Shirley MacLaine – Some Came Running as Ginny Moorehead Rosalind Russell – Auntie Mame as Mame Dennis Elizabeth Taylor – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Margaret “Maggie the Cat” Pollitt |
| Best Supporting Actor: Burl Ives – The Big Country as Rufus Hannassey (WINNER) Theodore Bikel – The Defiant Ones as Sheriff Max Muller Lee J. Cobb – The Brothers Karamazov as Fyodor Karamazov Arthur Kennedy – Some Came Running as Frank Hirsh Gig Young – Teacher’s Pet as Dr. Hugo Pine |
| Best Supporting Actress: Wendy Hiller – Separate Tables as Pat Cooper (WINNER) Peggy Cass – Auntie Mame as Agnes Gooch Martha Hyer – Some Came Running as Gwen French Maureen Stapleton – Lonelyhearts as Fay Doyle Cara Williams – The Defiant Ones as Billy’s mother |
| Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen: The Defiant Ones – Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith (WINNER) The Goddess – Paddy Chayefsky Houseboat – Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose The Sheepman – William Bowers and James Edward Grant Teacher’s Pet – Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin |
| Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: Gigi – Alan Jay Lerner from Gigi by Colette (WINNER) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Richard Brooks and James Poe from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams The Horse’s Mouth – Alec Guinness from The Horse’s Mouth by Joyce Cary I Want to Live! – Don Mankiewicz and Nelson Gidding from writings by Ed Montgomery and Barbara Graham Separate Tables – John Gay and Terence Rattigan from Separate Tables by Terence Rattigan |
| Best Foreign Language Film: My Uncle (France) (WINNER) Arms and the Man (Germany) Big Deal on Madonna Street (Italy) The Road a Year Long (Yugoslavia) La venganza (Spain) |
| Best Documentary Feature: White Wilderness – Ben Sharpsteen (WINNER) Antarctic Crossing The Hidden World Psychiatric Nursing |
| Best Documentary Short Subject: Ama Girls – Ben Sharpsteen (WINNER) Employees Only Journey into Spring The Living Stone Overture |
| Best Live Action Short Subject: Grand Canyon – Walt Disney (WINNER) Journey into Spring – Ian Ferguson The Kiss – John Hayes Snows of Aorangi – New Zealand Screen Board T Is for Tumbleweed – James A. Lebenthal |
| Best Short Subject – Cartoons: Knighty Knight Bugs – John W. Burton (WINNER) Paul Bunyan – Walt Disney Sidney’s Family Tree – William M. Weiss |
| Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture: The Old Man and the Sea – Dimitri Tiomkin (WINNER) The Big Country – Jerome Moross Separate Tables – David Raksin White Wilderness – Oliver Wallace The Young Lions – Hugo Friedhofer |
| Best Scoring of a Musical Picture: Gigi – André Previn (WINNER) The Bolshoi Ballet – Yuri Faier and G. Rozhdestvensky Damn Yankees! – Ray Heindorf Mardi Gras – Lionel Newman South Pacific – Alfred Newman and Ken Darby |
| Best Song: “Gigi” from Gigi – Music by Frederick Loewe; Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner (WINNER) “Almost In Your Arms (Love Song from Houseboat)” from Houseboat – Music and Lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans “A Certain Smile” from A Certain Smile – Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster “To Love and Be Loved” from Some Came Running – Music by Jimmy Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn “A Very Precious Love” from Marjorie Morningstar – Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster |
| Best Sound: South Pacific – Fred Hynes (WINNER) I Want to Live! – Gordon E. Sawyer A Time to Love and a Time to Die – Leslie I. Carey Vertigo – George Dutton The Young Lions – Carlton W. Faulkner |
| Best Art Direction: Gigi – Art Direction: William A. Horning (posthumous award) and E. Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Henry Grace and F. Keogh Gleason (WINNER) Auntie Mame – Art Direction: Malcolm Bert; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins Bell, Book and Candle – Art Direction: Cary Odell; Set Decoration: Louis Diage A Certain Smile – Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler and John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott and Paul S. Fox Vertigo – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Henry Bumstead; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Frank R. McKelvy |
| Best Costume Design: Gigi – Cecil Beaton (WINNER) Bell, Book and Candle – Jean Louis The Buccaneer – Ralph Jester, Edith Head and John Jensen A Certain Smile – Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills Some Came Running – Walter Plunkett |
| Best Cinematography, Black-and-White: The Defiant Ones – Sam Leavitt (WINNER) Desire Under the Elms – Daniel L. Fapp I Want to Live! – Lionel Lindon Separate Tables – Charles Lang The Young Lions – Joseph MacDonald |
| Best Cinematography, Color: Gigi – Joseph Ruttenberg (WINNER) Auntie Mame – Harry Stradling, Sr. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – William Daniels The Old Man and the Sea – James Wong Howe South Pacific – Leon Shamroy |
| Best Film Editing: Gigi – Adrienne Fazan (WINNER) Auntie Mame – William Ziegler Cowboy – William Lyon and Al Clark The Defiant Ones – Frederic Knudtson I Want to Live! – William Hornbeck |
| Best Special Effects: tom thumb – Tom Howard (WINNER) Torpedo Run – Visual Effects: A. Arnold Gillespie; Audible Effects: Harold Humbrock |
| Academy Honorary Award: Maurice Chevalier “for his contributions to the world of entertainment for more than half a century.” |
| Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award: Jack L. Warner |
| Oscar® and Academy Awards® and Oscar® design mark are the trademarks and service marks and the Oscar© statuette the copyrighted property, of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Pop Culture Madness is neither endorsed by nor affiliated with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. |
