Golden Globe Awards 1959
The 16th Golden Globe Awards ceremony took place on March 5, 1959 .
Award winners and nominations
Statistics (films with more than one nomination are listed) N = nomination; S = victory |
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Movie | N | S. |
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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
- 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
- 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
Henrietta Award (world star male)
Henrietta Award (world star female)
Samuel Goldwyn Award
Two eyes - twelve hands (Do Aankhen Barah Haath) - Director: V. Shantaram