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

All nominated films "Academy Awards, USA" in 1959

Site Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, California, USA

Date 6 April 1959

Oscar / Best Motion Picture of the Year

6.6

Gigi

Arthur Freed

Winner

All nominees

7.5

The Defiant Ones

Stanley Kramer

7.9

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Lawrence Weingarten

7.3

Separate Tables

Harold Hecht

Auntie Mame Auntie Mame

Jack L. Warner

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

Sidney Poitier

The Defiant Ones Sidney Poitier became the first African-American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Tony Curtis

The Defiant Ones

Spencer Tracy

The Old Man and the Sea

Paul Newman

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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

Shirley MacLaine

Some Came Running

Rosalind Russell

Auntie Mame

Deborah Kerr

Separate Tables

Oscar / Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Burl Ives

The Big Country

Winner

All nominees

Arthur Kennedy

Some Came Running

Gig Young

Teacher's Pet

Lee J. Cobb

The Brothers Karamazov

Theodore Bikel

The Defiant Ones

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

Martha Hyer

Some Came Running

Maureen Stapleton

Lonelyhearts

Oscar / Best Achievement in Directing

Vincente Minnelli

Gigi

Winner

All nominees

Stanley Kramer

The Defiant Ones

Robert Wise

I Want to Live!

Richard Brooks

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Mark Robson

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

Oscar / Best Achievement in Cinematography

6.6

Gigi

Joseph Ruttenberg

Winner

7.5

The Defiant Ones

Sam Leavitt

Winner

All nominees

7.1

The Young Lions

Joseph MacDonald

Auntie Mame Auntie Mame

Harry Stradling Sr.

6.8

The Old Man and the Sea

James Wong Howe

South Pacific South Pacific

Leon Shamroy

6.5

Desire Under the Elms

Daniel L. Fapp

7.3

Separate Tables

Charles Lang

7.9

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

William H. Daniels

I Want to Live! I Want to Live!

Lionel Lindon

Oscar / Best Achievement in Costume Design

6.6

Gigi

Cecil Beaton

Winner

All nominees

A Certain Smile A Certain Smile

Charles Le Maire, Mary Wills

The Buccaneer The Buccaneer

Edith Head, John Jensen, Ralph Jester

6.8

Bell Book and Candle

Jean Louis

7.3

Some Came Running

Walter Plunkett

A Certain Smile A Certain Smile

Charles Le Maire, Mary Wills

Oscar / Best Achievement in Film Editing

6.6

Gigi

Adrienne Fazan

Winner

All nominees

Cowboy Cowboy

Al Clark, William A. Lyon

7.5

The Defiant Ones

Frederic Knudtson

Auntie Mame Auntie Mame

William H. Ziegler

I Want to Live! I Want to Live!

William Hornbeck

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

Mardi Gras Mardi Gras

Lionel Newman

7.3

Separate Tables

David Raksin

7.9

The Big Country

Jerome Moross

7.1

The Young Lions

Hugo Friedhofer

South Pacific South Pacific

Alfred Newman, Ken Darby

White Wilderness White Wilderness

Oliver Wallace

The Bolshoi Ballet The Bolshoi Ballet

Yuri Faier, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Damn Yankees Damn Yankees

Ray Heindorf

The Bolshoi Ballet The Bolshoi Ballet

Yuri Faier, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

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

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"

6.7

Houseboat

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

7.3

Some Came Running

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

7.3

Some Came Running

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

6.7

Houseboat

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

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

6.6

Gigi

Winner

All nominees

Auntie Mame Auntie Mame

Malcolm C. Bert, George James Hopkins

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

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

Torpedo Run Torpedo Run

A. Arnold Gillespie, Harold Humbrock

Oscar / Best Adapted Screenplay

6.6

Gigi

Alan Jay Lerner

Winner

All nominees

7.3

Separate Tables

John Gay, Terence Rattigan

7.9

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Richard Brooks, James Poe

7.2

The Horse's Mouth

Alec Guinness

I Want to Live! I Want to Live!

Nelson Gidding, Don Mankiewicz

Oscar / Best Animated Short Film

Knighty Knight Bugs Knighty Knight Bugs

John W. Burton

Winner

All nominees

Paul Bunyan Paul Bunyan

Walt Disney

Sidney's Family Tree Sidney's Family Tree

William M. Weiss

Oscar / Best Documentary Feature

White Wilderness White Wilderness

Ben Sharpsteen James Algar accepting this award.

Winner

All nominees

The Hidden World The Hidden World

Robert Snyder

Psychiatric Nursing Psychiatric Nursing

Nathan Zucker

Antarctic Crossing Antarctic Crossing

James Carr

Oscar / Best Documentary Short Film

Ama Girls Ama Girls

Ben Sharpsteen James Algar accepting this award.

Winner

All nominees

Employees Only Employees Only

Kenneth G. Brown

Oeuverture Oeuverture

Thorold Dickinson

The Living Stone The Living Stone

Tom Daly

Journey Into Spring Journey Into Spring

Ian Ferguson

Oscar / Best International Feature Film

7.7

Mon Oncle Mon oncle

France

Winner

All nominees

The Year Long Road La strada lunga un anno

Yugoslavia

Big Deal on Madonna Street I soliti ignoti

Italy

6.9

La venganza

Spain

Arms and the Man Helden

Germany

Oscar / Best Live Action Short Film

Grand Canyon Grand Canyon

Walt Disney James Algar accepting this award.

Winner

All nominees

Journey Into Spring Journey Into Spring

Ian Ferguson

The Kiss The Kiss

John Hayes

T Is for Tumbleweed T Is for Tumbleweed

James A. Lebenthal

Snows of Aorangi Snows of Aorangi

Oscar / Best Original Screenplay

7.5

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

7.5

The Defiant Ones

Winner

All nominees

6.7

Houseboat

Jack Rose, Melville Shavelson

The Goddess The Goddess

Paddy Chayefsky

6.7

Houseboat