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All nominated movies "Academy Awards, USA" in 1959

Site Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, California, USA
Date April 6, 1959
Oscar / Best Motion Picture of the Year
Gigi 6.6
Gigi
Arthur Freed
Winner
All nominees
Auntie Mame Auntie Mame
Jack L. Warner
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 7.9
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Lawrence Weingarten
The Defiant Ones 7.6
The Defiant Ones
Stanley Kramer
Separate Tables 7.4
Separate Tables
Harold Hecht
Oscar / Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
David Niven
Separate Tables Niven was a co-host of this year's Academy Awards ceremony. To date, he is the only actor to win an Oscar in the same year serving as a host.
Winner
All nominees
Paul Newman
Paul Newman
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy
The Old Man and the Sea
Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis
The Defiant Ones
Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier
The Defiant Ones Sidney Poitier became the first African-American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Oscar / Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Susan Hayward
I Want to Live!
Winner
All nominees
Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr
Separate Tables
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine
Some Came Running
Rosalind Russell
Auntie Mame
Oscar / Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Berl Ayvz
The Big Country
Winner
All nominees
Gig Young
Teacher's Pet
Theodore Bikel
The Defiant Ones
Arthur Kennedy
Some Came Running
Lee J. Cobb
Lee J. Cobb
The Brothers Karamazov
Oscar / Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Wendy Hiller
Separate Tables Wendy Hiller was not present at the awards ceremony. Harold Hecht, the film's producer, accepted on her behalf.
Winner
All nominees
Maureen Stapleton
Maureen Stapleton
Lonelyhearts
Martha Hyer
Some Came Running
Cara Williams
The Defiant Ones
Peggy Cass
Auntie Mame
Oscar / Best Achievement in Directing
Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli
Gigi
Winner
All nominees
Richard Brooks
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Robert Wise
I Want to Live!
Mark Robson
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Stanley Kramer
Stanley Kramer
The Defiant Ones
Oscar / Best Achievement in Cinematography
Gigi 6.6
Gigi
Joseph Ruttenberg
Winner
The Defiant Ones 7.6
The Defiant Ones
Sam Leavitt
Winner
All nominees
The Young Lions 7.1
The Young Lions
Joseph MacDonald
Separate Tables 7.4
Separate Tables
Charles Lang
I Want to Live! I Want to Live!
Lionel Lindon
South Pacific South Pacific
Leon Shamroy
The Old Man and the Sea 6.8
The Old Man and the Sea
James Wong Howe
Desire Under the Elms 6.5
Desire Under the Elms
Daniel L. Fapp
Auntie Mame Auntie Mame
Harry Stradling Sr.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 7.9
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
William H. Daniels
Oscar / Best Achievement in Costume Design
Gigi 6.6
Gigi
Cecil Beaton
Winner
All nominees
Bell Book and Candle 6.8
Bell Book and Candle
Jean Louis
A Certain Smile A Certain Smile
Charles Le Maire, Mary Wills
The Buccaneer The Buccaneer
Edith Head, John Jensen, Ralph Jester
Some Came Running 7.3
Some Came Running
Walter Plunkett
Oscar / Best Achievement in Film Editing
Gigi 6.6
Gigi
Adrienne Fazan
Winner
All nominees
The Defiant Ones 7.6
The Defiant Ones
Frederic Knudtson
I Want to Live! I Want to Live!
William Hornbeck
Cowboy Cowboy
Al Clark, William A. Lyon
Auntie Mame Auntie Mame
William H. Ziegler
Oscar / Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
Gigi 6.6
Gigi
André Previn
Winner
The Old Man and the Sea 6.8
The Old Man and the Sea
Dimitri Tiomkin
Winner
All nominees
South Pacific South Pacific
Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
The Bolshoi Ballet The Bolshoi Ballet
Yuri Faier, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
White Wilderness White Wilderness
Oliver Wallace
The Young Lions 7.1
The Young Lions
Hugo Friedhofer
Mardi Gras Mardi Gras
Lionel Newman
Damn Yankees Damn Yankees
Ray Heindorf
Separate Tables 7.4
Separate Tables
David Raksin
The Big Country 7.9
The Big Country
Jerome Moross
Oscar / Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
Gigi 6.6
Gigi
Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe For the song "Gigi"
Winner
All nominees
Some Came Running 7.3
Some Came Running
Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen For the song "To Love and Be Loved"
Marjorie Morningstar 6.2
Marjorie Morningstar
Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster For the song "A Very Precious Love"
A Certain Smile A Certain Smile
Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster For the song "A Certain Smile"
Houseboat 6.7
Houseboat
Ray Evans, Jay Livingston For the song "Almost in Your Arms (Love Song from Houseboat)"
Oscar / Best Achievement in Production Design
Gigi 6.6
Gigi
E. Preston Ames, F. Keogh Gleason, Henry Grace, William A. Horning William A. Horning's nomination and win was posthumously, as he died after completing his work on Gigi (1958) and in the midst of the production on Ben-Hur (1959) and North by Northwest (1959); the last two films would earn him Oscar nominations and a win (for Ben-Hur alone) the next year.
Winner
All nominees
Auntie Mame Auntie Mame
Malcolm C. Bert, George James Hopkins
Bell Book and Candle 6.8
Bell Book and Candle
Louis Diage, Cary Odell
Vertigo 7.7
Vertigo
Henry Bumstead, Sam Comer, Frank R. McKelvy, Hal Pereira
A Certain Smile A Certain Smile
John DeCuir, Paul S. Fox, Walter M. Scott, Lyle R. Wheeler
Oscar / Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Tom Thumb Tom Thumb
Tom Howard
Winner
All nominees
Torpedo Run Torpedo Run
A. Arnold Gillespie, Harold Humbrock
Oscar / Best Adapted Screenplay
Gigi 6.6
Gigi
Alan Jay Lerner
Winner
All nominees
I Want to Live! I Want to Live!
Nelson Gidding, Don Mankiewicz
Separate Tables 7.4
Separate Tables
John Gay, Terence Rattigan
The Horse's Mouth 7.2
The Horse's Mouth
Alec Guinness
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 7.9
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Richard Brooks, James Poe
Oscar / Best Animated Short Film
Knighty Knight Bugs Knighty Knight Bugs
John W. Burton
Winner
All nominees
Sidney's Family Tree Sidney's Family Tree
William M. Weiss
Paul Bunyan Paul Bunyan
Walt Disney
Oscar / Best Documentary Feature
White Wilderness White Wilderness
Ben Sharpsteen James Algar accepting this award.
Winner
All nominees
Psychiatric Nursing Psychiatric Nursing
Nathan Zucker
Antarctic Crossing Antarctic Crossing
James Carr
The Hidden World The Hidden World
Robert Snyder
Oscar / Best Documentary Short Film
Ama Girls Ama Girls
Ben Sharpsteen James Algar accepting this award.
Winner
All nominees
The Living Stone The Living Stone
Tom Daly
Oeuverture Oeuverture
Thorold Dickinson
Journey Into Spring Journey Into Spring
Ian Ferguson
Employees Only Employees Only
Kenneth G. Brown
Oscar / Best International Feature Film
Mon Oncle 7.8
Mon Oncle Mon oncle
France
Winner
All nominees
La venganza 6.9
La venganza
Spain
Big Deal on Madonna Street I soliti ignoti
Italy
Arms and the Man Helden
Germany
The Year Long Road La strada lunga un anno
Yugoslavia
Oscar / Best Live Action Short Film
Grand Canyon Grand Canyon
Walt Disney James Algar accepting this award.
Winner
All nominees
T Is for Tumbleweed T Is for Tumbleweed
James A. Lebenthal
Snows of Aorangi Snows of Aorangi
The Kiss The Kiss
John Hayes
Journey Into Spring Journey Into Spring
Ian Ferguson
Oscar / Best Original Screenplay
The Defiant Ones 7.6
The Defiant Ones
Harold Jacob Smith, Nedrick Young Nedrick Young had been blacklisted at the time and the Oscar went to his pseudonym 'Nathan E. Douglas'. In 1993 AMPAS restored Young's credit upon the request of his widow and recommendation of the Academy's writers branch.
Winner
All nominees
The Goddess The Goddess
Paddy Chayefsky
Houseboat 6.7
Houseboat
Jack Rose, Melvill Shevelson
The Sheepman 6.9
The Sheepman
William Bowers, James Edward Grant
Teacher's Pet Teacher's Pet
Fay Kanin, Michael Kanin
Oscar / Best Sound
South Pacific South Pacific
Fred Hynes
Winner
All nominees
The Young Lions 7.1
The Young Lions
Carlton W. Faulkner
Vertigo 7.7
Vertigo
George Dutton
I Want to Live! I Want to Live!
Gordon Sawyer
A Time to Love and a Time to Die A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Leslie I. Carey
Academy Award of Merit
Scientific and Engineering Award
Technical Achievement Award
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Jack L. Warner
Winner
Honorary Award
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