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
Spencer Tracy
The Old Man and the Sea
Tony Curtis
The Defiant Ones
Sidney Poitier
The Defiant Ones Sidney Poitier became the first African-American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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 MameAuntie Mame
Malcolm C. Bert, George James Hopkins
7.7
Vertigo
Henry Bumstead, Sam Comer, Frank R. McKelvy, Hal Pereira
A Certain SmileA Certain Smile
John DeCuir, Paul S. Fox, Walter M. Scott, Lyle R. Wheeler
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.