Golden Globe Awards 1959

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The 16th Golden Globe Awards ceremony took place on March 5, 1959 .

Award winners and nominations

Movie	N	S.
Statistics (films with more than one nomination are listed) N = nomination; S = victory
Gigi	6th	3
Escape in chains	5	1
Separate from table and bed	5	1
The great aunt	4th	3
The hostel for the 6th happiness	3	1
Jakobowsky and the Colonel	3	1
Let me live	3	1
Before the night falls	3	0
Indiscreet	3	0
South Pacific	3	0
Vacation pass to Paris	2	1
Time to live and time to die	2	1
The cat on the hot tin roof	2	0
The proud rebel	2	0
Reporter of love	2	0

Best film - drama

Escape in Chains (The Defiant Ones) - Director: Stanley Kramer

Before Night Falls (Home Before Dark) - Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) - Director: Richard Brooks
Separate from table and bed (Separate Tables) - Director: Delbert Mann
Let me live (I Want To Live!) - Director: Robert Wise

Best film - musical

Gigi - Director: Vincente Minnelli

Little Thumbling (Tom Thumb) - Director: George Pal
Damn Yankees - Director: George Abbott , Stanley Donen
South Pacific - Director: Joshua Logan

Best Film - Comedy

The great aunt (Auntie Mame) - Director: Morton DaCosta

Indiskret (Indiscreet) - Director: Stanley Donen
Jakobowsky und der Oberst (Me and the Colonel) - Director: Peter Glenville
My Bride Is Psychic (Bell, Book and Candle) - Directed by Richard Quine
Vacation Ticket to Paris (The Perfect Furlough) - Director: Blake Edwards

Best film to promote international understanding

The Inn of the sixth happiness (The Inn of the Sixth Happiness) - Director: Mark Robson

Escape in Chains (The Defiant Ones) - Director: Stanley Kramer
Jakobowsky und der Oberst (Me and the Colonel) - Director: Peter Glenville
Time to Live and Time to Die (A Time to Love and a Time to Die) - Director: Douglas Sirk
The Young Lions (The Young Lions) - Director: Edward Dmytryk

Best director

Vincente Minnelli - Gigi

Richard Brooks - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
Stanley Kramer - Escape In Chains (The Defiant Ones)
Delbert Mann - Separate from table and bed (separate tables)
Robert Wise - Let Me Live (I Want To Live!)

Best Actor - Drama

David Niven - Separate from table and bed (Separate Tables)

Tony Curtis - Escape In Chains (The Defiant Ones)
Robert Donat - The Inn of the sixth happiness (The Inn of the Sixth Happiness)
Sidney Poitier - Escape In Chains (The Defiant Ones)
Spencer Tracy - The Old Man and the Sea (The Old Man and the Sea)

Best Actress - Drama

Susan Hayward - Let Me Live (I Want To Live!)

Ingrid Bergman - The Inn of the sixth happiness (The Inn of the Sixth Happiness)
Deborah Kerr - Separate from table and bed (Separate Tables)
Shirley MacLaine - Damn They All (Some Came Running)
Jean Simmons - Before Night Falls (Home Before Dark)

Best Actor - Musical / Comedy

Danny Kaye - Jakobowsky and the Colonel (Me and the Colonel)

Maurice Chevalier - Gigi
Clark Gable - Reporter of Love (Teacher's Pet)
Cary Grant - Indiscreet (Indiscreet)
Louis Jourdan - Gigi

Best Actress - Musical / Comedy

Rosalind Russell - The Great Aunt (Auntie Mame)

Ingrid Bergman - Indiscreet (Indiscreet)
Leslie Caron - Gigi
Doris Day - Babies to Order (The Tunnel of Love)
Mitzi Gaynor - South Pacific

Best supporting actor

Burl Ives - The Big Country (The Big Country)

Harry Guardino - Houseboat (Houseboat)
David Ladd - The proud rebel (The Proud Rebel)
Gig Young - Reporter of Love (Teacher's Pet)
Efrem Zimbalist Jr. - Before Night Falls (Home Before Dark)

The best supporting actress

Hermione Gingold - Gigi

Peggy Cass - The Great Aunt (Auntie Mame)
Wendy Hiller - Separate from table and bed (Separate Tables)
Maureen Stapleton - Life is a Lie (Lonelyhearts)
Cara Williams - Escape In Chains (The Defiant Ones)

Best young actor

Bradford Dillman - Hell, Where's Your Terror (In Love and War)
John Gavin - A Time to Love and a Time to Die (A Time to Love and a Time to Die)
Efrem Zimbalist Jr. - Your life was a scandal (Too Much, Too Soon)

David Ladd - The proud rebel (The Proud Rebel)
Ricky Nelson - Rio Bravo
Ray Stricklyn - A Man in His Prime (10 North Frederick)

Best Young Actress

Linda Cristal - leave pass to Paris (The Perfect Furlough)
Susan Kohner - Jazz Ecstasy (The Gene Krupa Story)
Tina Louise - God's Little Acre (God's Little Acre)

Joanna Barnes - The Great Aunt (Auntie Mame)
Carol Lynley - The heart of an Indian (The Light in the Forest)
France Nuyen - South Pacific

Best foreign language film

Das Mädchen Rosemarie , Germany - Director: Rolf Thiele
Street of Passion (La strada lunga un anno) , Yugoslavia - Director: Giuseppe De Santis
When the tide comes (L'eau vive) , France - Director: François Villiers

Best English-Language Foreign Film

The Last Night of the Titanic (A Night to Remember) , UK - Director: Roy Ward Baker

Best young actor

David Ladd - The proud rebel (The Proud Rebel)

Best TV Show

Ann Sothern - The Ann Sothern Show
Loretta Young - Letter to Loretta
Red Skelton - The Red Skelton Show
Ed Sullivan - Toast of the Town
Paul Coates - The Tonight Show

Special Achievement Award

Shirley MacLaine for Most Eclectic Actress,
William Orr for Services to Television

Cecil B. DeMille Award

Maurice Chevalier

Henrietta Award (world star male)

Rock Hudson

Henrietta Award (world star female)

Deborah Kerr

Samuel Goldwyn Award

Two eyes - twelve hands (Do Aankhen Barah Haath) - Director: V. Shantaram

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