Academy Awards 1959
Overview of all award-winning films
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The 1959 Academy Awards took place on April 6, 1959 at the RKO Pantages Theater in Los Angeles . It was the 31st Annual Academy Awards . In the year of the award, films from the previous year are always awarded, in this case the films from 1958.
| Movie | N | A. |
|---|---|---|
| Escape in chains | 9 | 2 |
| Gigi | 9 | 9 |
| Separate from table and bed | 7th | 2 |
| The cat on the hot tin roof | 6th | 0 |
| The great aunt | 6th | 0 |
| Let me live | 6th | 1 |
| Damn them all | 5 | 0 |
| the old Man and the Sea | 3 | 1 |
| The young lions | 3 | 0 |
| A certain smile | 3 | 0 |
| South Pacific | 3 | 1 |
| Houseboat | 2 | 0 |
| Journey Into Spring | 2 | 0 |
| My bride is psychic | 2 | 0 |
| Reporter of love | 2 | 0 |
| Vertigo - From the realm of the dead | 2 | 0 |
| White wilderness | 2 | 1 |
| Broad land | 2 | 1 |
Moderation
Bob Hope , Jerry Lewis , David Niven , Laurence Olivier , Mort Sahl and Tony Randall hosted the Academy Awards.
Winners and nominations
The musical film Gigi also won awards in all nine categories in which it was nominated. This makes it one of the most successful films at an Academy Awards.
Best movie
presented by Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant
- The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Lawrence Weingarten
- The great aunt (Auntie Mame) - Jack L. Warner
- Escape In Chains (The Defiant Ones) - Stanley Kramer
- Separate from table and bed (separate tables) - Harold Hecht
Best director
presented by Gary Cooper and Millie Perkins
- Richard Brooks - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
- Stanley Kramer - Escape In Chains (The Defiant Ones)
- Mark Robson - The Inn of the sixth happiness (The Inn of the Sixth Happiness)
- Robert Wise - Let Me Live (I Want to Live!)
Best Actor
presented by Irene Dunne and John Wayne
David Niven - Separate from table and bed (Separate Tables)
- Tony Curtis - Escape In Chains (The Defiant Ones)
- Paul Newman - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
- Sidney Poitier - Escape In Chains (The Defiant Ones)
- Spencer Tracy - The Old Man and the Sea (The Old Man and the Sea)
Best main actress
presented by James Cagney and Kim Novak
Susan Hayward - Let Me Live (I Want to Live!)
- Deborah Kerr - Separate from table and bed (Separate Tables)
- Shirley MacLaine - Damn They All (Some Came Running)
- Rosalind Russell - The Great Aunt (Auntie Mame)
- Elizabeth Taylor - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
Best supporting actor
presented by Bette Davis and Anthony Quinn
Burl Ives - The Big Country (The Big Country)
- Theodore Bikel - Escape In Chains (The Defiant Ones)
- Lee J. Cobb - The Brothers Karamazov (The Brothers Karamazov)
- Arthur Kennedy - Damn They All (Some Came Running)
- Gig Young - Reporter of Love (Teacher's Pet)
The best supporting actress
presented by Red Buttons and Shelley Winters
Wendy Hiller - Separate from table and bed (Separate Tables)
- Peggy Cass - The Great Aunt (Auntie Mame)
- Martha Hyer - Damn They All (Some Came Running)
- Maureen Stapleton - Life is a Lie (Lonelyhearts)
- Cara Williams - Escape In Chains (The Defiant Ones)
Best original script
presented by Dirk Bogarde , Van Heflin and Elizabeth Taylor
Harold Jacob Smith , Nedrick Young - Escape In Chains (The Defiant Ones)
- William Bowers , James Edward Grant - The Sheepman (The Sheepman)
- Paddy Chayefsky - The Goddess (The Goddess)
- Fay Kanin , Michael Kanin - Reporters of Love (Teacher's Pet)
- Jack Rose , Melville Shavelson - Houseboat (Houseboat)
Best adapted script
presented by Dirk Bogarde , Van Heflin and Elizabeth Taylor
- Richard Brooks , James Poe - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
- John Gay , Terence Rattigan - Separate from table and bed (Separate Tables)
- Nelson Gidding , Don Mankiewicz - Let Me Live (I Want to Live!)
- Alec Guinness - The Horse's Mouth (The Horse's Mouth)
Best camera (black and white film)
presented by Doris Day and Rock Hudson
Sam Leavitt - Escape In Chains (The Defiant Ones)
- Daniel L. Fapp - Desire Under the Elms (Desire Under the Elms)
- Charles Lang - Separate from table and bed (separate tables)
- Lionel Lindon - Let Me Live (I Want to Live!)
- Joseph MacDonald - The Young Lions (The Young Lions)
Best camera (color film)
presented by Doris Day and Rock Hudson
- William H. Daniels - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
- Leon Shamroy - South Pacific
- Harry Stradling Sr. - The Great Aunt (Auntie Mame)
- James Wong Howe - The Old Man and the Sea (The Old Man and the Sea)
Best production design
presented by Eddie Albert and Vincent Price
E. Preston Ames , F. Keogh Gleason , Henry Grace , William A. Horning - Gigi
- Malcolm C. Bert , George James Hopkins - The Great Aunt (Auntie Mame)
- Henry Bumstead , Sam Comer , Frank R. McKelvy , Hal Pereira - Vertigo - From the Realm of the Dead (Vertigo)
- John DeCuir , Paul S. Fox , Walter M. Scott , Lyle R. Wheeler - A certain smile (A Certain Smile)
- Louis Diage , Cary Odell - My Bride is Psychic (Bell Book and Candle)
Best costume design
presented by Wendell Corey and Ernie Kovacs
- Edith Head , John Jensen , Ralph Jester - King of the Buccaneer (The Buccaneer)
- Charles Le Maire , Mary Wills - A certain smile (A Certain Smile)
- Jean Louis - My Bride is Psychic (Bell Book and Candle)
- Walter Plunkett - Damn They All (Some Came Running)
Best Score (Drama)
presented by June Allyson and Dick Powell
Dimitri Tiomkin - The Old Man and the Sea (The Old Man and the Sea)
- Hugo Friedhofer - The Young Lions (The Young Lions)
- Jerome Moross - The Big Country (The Big Country)
- David Raksin - Separate from table and bed (Separate Tables)
- Oliver Wallace - White Wilderness (White Wilderness)
Best Score (Musical)
presented by June Allyson and Dick Powell
- Ken Darby , Alfred Newman - South Pacific
- Yuri Faier , Gennadi Nikolajewitsch Roshdestvensky - Bolshoi Ballet (The Bolshoi Ballet)
- Ray Heindorf - Damn Yankees
- Lionel Newman - Blue Nights (Mardi Gras)
Best movie song
presented by Sophia Loren and Dean Martin
" Gigi " from Gigi - Alan Jay Lerner , Frederick Loewe
- " A Certain Smile " from A certain smile (A Certain Smile) - Sammy Fain , Paul Francis Webster
- " A Very Precious Love " from The Love of Marjorie Morningstar (Marjorie Morningstar) - Sammy Fain , Paul Francis Webster
- " Almost in Your Arms " from Houseboat (Houseboat) - Ray Evans , Jay Livingston
- " To Love and Be Loved " from Damn They Are All (Some Came Running) - Sammy Cahn , Jimmy Van Heusen
Best cut
presented by Steve Forrest and Jean Simmons
- Al Clark , William A. Lyon - Cowboy
- William Hornbeck - Let Me Live (I Want to Live!)
- Frederic Knudtson - Escape In Chains (The Defiant Ones)
- William H. Ziegler - The Great Aunt (Auntie Mame)
Best sound mix
presented by Charlton Heston and Jane Wyman
- Leslie I. Carey - Time to Live and Time to Die (A Time to Love and a Time to Die)
- George Dutton - Vertigo - From the Realm of the Dead (Vertigo)
- Carlton W. Faulkner - The Young Lions (The Young Lions)
- Gordon Sawyer - Let Me Live (I Want to Live!)
Best visual effects
presented by Shirley MacLaine and Peter Ustinov
Tom Howard - The Little Thumble (Tom Thumb)
- A. Arnold Gillespie , Harold Humbrock - Torpedo go! (Torpedo Run)
Best foreign language film
presented by Cyd Charisse and Robert Stack
My uncle (Mon oncle) , France - Jacques Tati
- Revenge (La venganza) , Spain - Juan Antonio Bardem
- Thieves have a hard time (I Soliti ignoti) , Italy - Mario Monicelli
- Helden , Germany - Franz Peter Wirth
- Road of Passion (Cesta duga godinu dana) , Yugoslavia - Giuseppe De Santis
Best Documentary (Short Film)
presented by Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood
- Employees Only - Kenneth G. Brown
- Journey Into Spring - Ian Ferguson
- Overture / Overture - Thorold Dickinson
- The Living Stone - Tom Daly
Best Documentary (Long Form)
presented by Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood
White Wilderness (White Wilderness) - Ben Sharpsteen
- Across the Antarctic (Antarctic Crossing) - James Carr
- Psychiatric Nursing - Nathan Zucker
- The Hidden World - Robert Snyder
Best Short Film (Cartoon)
presented by Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh
Knighty Knight Bugs - John W. Burton
Best Short Film (Live Action)
presented by Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh
- Journey Into Spring - Ian Ferguson
- Snows of Aorangi - New Zealand Screen Board
- T Is for Tumbleweed - James A. Lebenthal
- The Kiss - John Patrick Hayes
Prizes of honor
Honorary Oscar
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Scientific and Engineering Award
Technical Achievement Award
Web links
- Oscars 1959 in theInternet Movie Database(English)