Academy Award 1959 (april 6, 1959)

the academy award is the most prestigious and oldest film award, awarded since 1929 by the academy of motion picture arts and sciences (ampas), an honorary professional organization made up of people who have worked in the world of cinema.

Edition number 31 of the event; awards assigned:

Migliore film

for the movie gigi
Assigned to
Arthur Freed

nominations for the movie :

auntie mame
Assigned to
Jack L.warner

The Defiant Ones
Assigned to
Stanley Kramer

cat on a hot tin roof
Assigned to
Lawrence Weingarten

separate tables
Assigned to
Harold Hecht

Best Foreign Language Film

for the movie mon oncle

nominations for the movie :

poster del film Big Deal on Madonna Street

Big Deal on Madonna Street
Assigned to
Franco Cristaldi

arms and the man

la venganza

cesta duga godinu dana

Best director

for the movie gigi
Assigned to
Vincente Minnelli

nominations for the movie :

i want to live!
Assigned to
Robert Wise

The Defiant Ones
Assigned to
Stanley Kramer

cat on a hot tin roof

the inn of the sixth happiness
Assigned to
Mark Robson

Best original screenplay

for the movie The Defiant Ones
Assigned to
Harold Jacob Smith, Nathan E.douglas

nominations for the movie :

The Sheepman
Assigned to
James Edward Grant, William Bowers

teacher's pet
Assigned to
Fay Kanin, Michael Kanin

The Goddess
Assigned to
Paddy Chayefsky

houseboat
Assigned to
Jack Rose, Melville Shavelson

Best non-original screenplay

for the movie gigi
Assigned to
Alan Jay Lerner

nominations for the movie :

i want to live!
Assigned to
Don M.mankiewicz, Nelson Gidding

cat on a hot tin roof
Assigned to
James Poe

separate tables
Assigned to
John Gay, Terence Rattigan

the horsès mouth
Assigned to
Alec Guinness

best actor

for the movie separate tables
Assigned to
David Niven

nominations for the movie :

The Defiant Ones
Assigned to
Sidney Poitier, Tony Curtis

cat on a hot tin roof
Assigned to
Paul Newman

the old man and the sea
Assigned to
Spencer Tracy

best actress

for the movie i want to live!
Assigned to
Susan Hayward

nominations for the movie :

auntie mame
Assigned to
Rosalind Russell

cat on a hot tin roof
Assigned to
Elizabeth Taylor

separate tables
Assigned to
Deborah Kerr

Some Came Running
Assigned to
Shirley MacLaine

best supporting actor

for the movie the big country
Assigned to
Burl Ives

nominations for the movie :

The Defiant Ones
Assigned to
Theodore Bikel

Some Came Running
Assigned to
Arthur Kennedy

teacher's pet
Assigned to
Gig Young

The Brothers Karamazov
Assigned to
Lee J. Cobb

best supporting actress

for the movie separate tables
Assigned to
Wendy Hiller

nominations for the movie :

auntie mame
Assigned to
Peggy Cass

The Defiant Ones
Assigned to
Cara Williams

Some Came Running
Assigned to
Martha Hyer

Brothers

best color photography

for the movie gigi
Assigned to
Joseph Ruttenberg

nominations for the movie :

auntie mame
Assigned to
Harry Stradling sr.

cat on a hot tin roof
Assigned to
William H. Daniels

the old man and the sea
Assigned to
James Wong howe

south pacific
Assigned to
Leon Shamroy

best black and white photography

for the movie The Defiant Ones
Assigned to
Sam Leavitt

nominations for the movie :

i want to live!
Assigned to
Lionel Lindon

separate tables
Assigned to
Charles B.lang

the young lions
Assigned to
Joseph Mcdonald

desire under the elms
Assigned to
Daniel L.fapp

best score for comedy or musical film

for the movie gigi
Assigned to
André Previn

nominations for the movie :

mardi gras
Assigned to
Lionel Newman

south pacific
Assigned to
Alfred Newman, Ken Darby

The Bolshoi Ballet
Assigned to
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Yuri Faier

Damn Yankees
Assigned to
Ray Heindorf

best score for drama

for the movie the old man and the sea
Assigned to
Dimitri Tiomkin

nominations for the movie :

separate tables
Assigned to
David Raksin

the young lions
Assigned to
Hugo Friedhofer

the big country
Assigned to
Jerome Moross

white wilderness
Assigned to
Oliver G.wallace

best editing

for the movie gigi
Assigned to
Adrienne Fazan

nominations for the movie :

i want to live!
Assigned to
William Hornbeck

auntie mame
Assigned to
William H. Ziegler

The Defiant Ones
Assigned to
Frederic Knudtson

Cowboy
Assigned to
Al Clark, William A. Lyon

best costumes

for the movie gigi
Assigned to
Cecil Beaton

nominations for the movie :

Some Came Running
Assigned to
Walter Plunkett

Bell, Book and Candle
Assigned to
Jean-Louis

a certain smile
Assigned to
Mary Wills, Charles Le maire

The Buccaneer
Assigned to
Edith Head, Ralph Jester, John Jensen

Best production design

for the movie gigi
Assigned to
Henry Grace, William A. Horning, F. Keogh gleason, E.Preston Ames

nominations for the movie :

vertigo
Assigned to
Sam Comer, Hal Pereira, Frank R. Mckelvy, Henry Bumstead

auntie mame
Assigned to
Malcolm C. Bert, George James Hopkins

Bell, Book and Candle
Assigned to
Cary Odell, Louis Diage

a certain smile
Assigned to
John Decuir, Paul S. Fox, Walter M. Scott, Lyle R. Wheeler

Best sound

for the movie south pacific
Assigned to
Fred Hynes

nominations for the movie :

i want to live!
Assigned to
Gordon E. Sawyer

vertigo
Assigned to
George Dutton

the young lions
Assigned to
Carl W.faulkner

poster del film A Time to Love and a Time to Die

A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Assigned to
Leslie I.carey

best special effects

for the movie tom thumb
Assigned to
Tom (tecnico) Howard

nominations for the movie :

torpedo run
Assigned to
A. Arnold Gillespie, Harold Humbrock

best song

for the movie gigi
Assigned to
Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner

nominations for the movie :

Some Came Running
Assigned to
Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen

houseboat
Assigned to
Ray Evans, Jay Livingston

a certain smile
Assigned to
Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster

marjorie morningstar
Assigned to
Paul Francis Webster, Sammy Fain

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Academy Award 1959 (april 6, 1959)

the academy award is the most prestigious and oldest film award, awarded since 1929 by the academy of motion picture arts and sciences (ampas), an honorary professional organization made up of people who have worked in the world of cinema.

Edition number 31 of the event; awards assigned: