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Kinoafisha Film festivals Academy Awards, USA Events Academy Awards, USA 1959

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

6.6

Gigi

Arthur Freed

Winner

All nominees

7.9

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Lawrence Weingarten

7.4

Separate Tables

Harold Hecht

Auntie Mame Auntie Mame

Jack L. Warner

7.6

The Defiant Ones

Stanley Kramer

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

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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.

Spencer Tracy

The Old Man and the Sea

Oscar / Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Susan Hayward

I Want to Live!

Winner

All nominees

Elizabeth Taylor

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Deborah Kerr

Separate Tables

Rosalind Russell

Auntie Mame

Shirley MacLaine

Some Came Running

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

Lee J. Cobb

The Brothers Karamazov

Arthur Kennedy

Some Came Running

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

Cara Williams

The Defiant Ones

Peggy Cass

Auntie Mame

Maureen Stapleton

Lonelyhearts

Martha Hyer

Some Came Running

Oscar / Best Achievement in Directing

Vincente Minnelli

Gigi

Winner

All nominees

Stanley Kramer

The Defiant Ones

Mark Robson

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

Robert Wise

I Want to Live!

Richard Brooks

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Oscar / Best Achievement in Cinematography

6.6

Gigi

Joseph Ruttenberg

Winner

7.6

The Defiant Ones

Sam Leavitt

Winner

All nominees

6.5

Desire Under the Elms

Daniel L. Fapp

I Want to Live! I Want to Live!

Lionel Lindon

6.8

The Old Man and the Sea

James Wong Howe

7.4

Separate Tables

Charles Lang

7.1

The Young Lions

Joseph MacDonald

7.9

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

William H. Daniels

South Pacific South Pacific

Leon Shamroy

Auntie Mame Auntie Mame

Harry Stradling Sr.

Oscar / Best Achievement in Costume Design

6.6

Gigi

Cecil Beaton

Winner

All nominees

6.8

Bell Book and Candle

Jean Louis

The Buccaneer The Buccaneer

Edith Head, John Jensen, Ralph Jester

A Certain Smile A Certain Smile

Charles Le Maire, Mary Wills

7.3

Some Came Running

Walter Plunkett

Oscar / Best Achievement in Film Editing

6.6

Gigi

Adrienne Fazan

Winner

All nominees

Cowboy Cowboy

Al Clark, William A. Lyon

I Want to Live! I Want to Live!

William Hornbeck

7.6

The Defiant Ones

Frederic Knudtson

Auntie Mame Auntie Mame

William H. Ziegler

Oscar / Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

6.6

Gigi

André Previn

Winner

6.8

The Old Man and the Sea

Dimitri Tiomkin

Winner

All nominees

South Pacific South Pacific

Alfred Newman, Ken Darby

7.4

Separate Tables

David Raksin

7.9

The Big Country

Jerome Moross

White Wilderness White Wilderness

Oliver Wallace

Damn Yankees Damn Yankees

Ray Heindorf

7.1

The Young Lions

Hugo Friedhofer

The Bolshoi Ballet The Bolshoi Ballet

Yuri Faier, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Mardi Gras Mardi Gras

Lionel Newman

Oscar / Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

6.6

Gigi

Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe For the song "Gigi"

Winner

All nominees

7.3

Some Came Running

Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen For the song "To Love and Be Loved"

A Certain Smile A Certain Smile

Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster For the song "A Certain Smile"

6.7

Houseboat

Ray Evans, Jay Livingston For the song "Almost in Your Arms (Love Song from Houseboat)"

6.2

Marjorie Morningstar

Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster For the song "A Very Precious Love"

Oscar / Best Achievement in Production Design

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

A Certain Smile A Certain Smile

John DeCuir, Paul S. Fox, Walter M. Scott, Lyle R. Wheeler

7.7

Vertigo

Henry Bumstead, Sam Comer, Frank R. McKelvy, Hal Pereira

6.8

Bell Book and Candle

Louis Diage, Cary Odell

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

6.6

Gigi

Alan Jay Lerner

Winner

All nominees

7.9

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Richard Brooks, James Poe

7.4

Separate Tables

John Gay, Terence Rattigan

I Want to Live! I Want to Live!

Nelson Gidding, Don Mankiewicz

7.2

The Horse's Mouth

Alec Guinness

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

Journey Into Spring Journey Into Spring

Ian Ferguson

Employees Only Employees Only

Kenneth G. Brown

Oeuverture Oeuverture

Thorold Dickinson

The Living Stone The Living Stone

Tom Daly

Oscar / Best International Feature Film

7.8

Mon Oncle Mon oncle

France

Winner

All nominees

Arms and the Man Helden

Germany

Big Deal on Madonna Street I soliti ignoti

Italy

The Year Long Road La strada lunga un anno

Yugoslavia

6.9

La venganza

Spain

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

The Kiss The Kiss

John Hayes

Snows of Aorangi Snows of Aorangi

Journey Into Spring Journey Into Spring

Ian Ferguson

Oscar / Best Original Screenplay

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