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Academy Awards, USA: 1959

Oscar

Date:	6 April
Host:	Bob Hope (I); Jerry Lewis (I); David Niven (I); Laurence Olivier; Mort Sahl; Tony Randall (I)
Location:	RKO Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA

Best Picture


Winner:
	Gigi (1958) - Arthur Freed
Other Nominees:
	Auntie Mame (1958) - Jack L. Warner Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) - Lawrence Weingarten Defiant Ones, The (1958) - Stanley Kramer Separate Tables (1958) - Harold Hecht

Best Actor in a Leading Role


Winner:
	Separate Tables (1958) - David Niven (I)
Other Nominees:
	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) - Paul Newman (I) Defiant Ones, The (1958) - Tony Curtis (I) Defiant Ones, The (1958) - Sidney Poitier Old Man and the Sea, The (1958) - Spencer Tracy

Best Actress in a Leading Role


Winner:
	I Want to Live! (1958) - Susan Hayward (I)
Other Nominees:
	Auntie Mame (1958) - Rosalind Russell Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) - Elizabeth Taylor (I) Separate Tables (1958) - Deborah Kerr Some Came Running (1958) - Shirley MacLaine

Best Actor in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	Big Country, The (1958) - Burl Ives
Other Nominees:
	Brothers Karamazov, The (1958) - Lee J. Cobb Defiant Ones, The (1958) - Theodore Bikel Some Came Running (1958) - Arthur Kennedy (I) Teacher's Pet (1958) - Gig Young

Best Actress in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	Separate Tables (1958) - Wendy Hiller - Wendy Hiller was not present at the awards ceremony. Harold Hecht, the film's producer, accepted on her behalf.
Other Nominees:
	Auntie Mame (1958) - Peggy Cass Defiant Ones, The (1958) - Cara Williams Lonelyhearts (1958) - Maureen Stapleton Some Came Running (1958) - Martha Hyer

Best Director


Winner:
	Gigi (1958) - Vincente Minnelli
Other Nominees:
	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) - Richard Brooks (I) Defiant Ones, The (1958) - Stanley Kramer I Want to Live! (1958) - Robert Wise (I) Inn of the Sixth Happiness, The (1958) - Mark Robson (I)

Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen


Winner:
	Defiant Ones, The (1958) - Nedrick Young; Harold Jacob Smith - 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.
Other Nominees:
	Goddess, The (1958) - Paddy Chayefsky Houseboat (1958) - Melville Shavelson; Jack Rose (I) Sheepman, The (1958) - William Bowers (I) (screenplay); James Edward Grant (screenplay/story) Teacher's Pet (1958) - Fay Kanin; Michael Kanin

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium


Winner:
	Gigi (1958) - Alan Jay Lerner
Other Nominees:
	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) - Richard Brooks (I); James Poe (I) Horse's Mouth, The (1958) - Alec Guinness I Want to Live! (1958) - Nelson Gidding; Don Mankiewicz Separate Tables (1958) - Terence Rattigan; John Gay (II)

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White


Winner:
	Defiant Ones, The (1958) - Sam Leavitt
Other Nominees:
	Desire Under the Elms (1958) - Daniel L. Fapp I Want to Live! (1958) - Lionel Lindon Separate Tables (1958) - Charles Lang (I) Young Lions, The (1958) - Joseph MacDonald (I)

Best Cinematography, Color


Winner:
	Gigi (1958) - Joseph Ruttenberg
Other Nominees:
	Auntie Mame (1958) - Harry Stradling Sr. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) - William H. Daniels Old Man and the Sea, The (1958) - James Wong Howe (I) South Pacific (1958) - Leon Shamroy

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White or Color


Winner:
	Gigi (1958) - William A. Horning; E. Preston Ames; Henry Grace; F. Keogh Gleason
Other Nominees:
	Auntie Mame (1958) - Malcolm C. Bert; George James Hopkins Bell Book and Candle (1958) - Cary Odell; Louis Diage Certain Smile, A (1958) - Lyle R. Wheeler; John DeCuir; Walter M. Scott; Paul S. Fox Vertigo (1958) - Hal Pereira; Henry Bumstead; Sam Comer; Frank R. McKelvy

Best Costume Design, Black-and-White or Color


Winner:
	Gigi (1958) - Cecil Beaton
Other Nominees:
	Bell Book and Candle (1958) - Jean Louis (I) Buccaneer, The (1958) - Ralph Jester (I); Edith Head; John Jensen (I) Certain Smile, A (1958) - Charles Le Maire; Mary Wills (I) Some Came Running (1958) - Walter Plunkett

Best Sound


Winner:
	South Pacific (1958) - Fred Hynes (Todd-AO SSD)
Other Nominees:
	I Want to Live! (1958) - Gordon Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn SSD) Time to Love and a Time to Die, A (1958) - Leslie I. Carey (Universal-International SSD) Vertigo (1958) - George Dutton (I) (Paramount SSD) Young Lions, The (1958) - Carlton W. Faulkner (20th Century-Fox SSD)

Best Film Editing


Winner:
	Gigi (1958) - Adrienne Fazan
Other Nominees:
	Auntie Mame (1958) - William H. Ziegler Cowboy (1958) - William A. Lyon; Al Clark (I) Defiant Ones, The (1958) - Frederic Knudtson (I) I Want to Live! (1958) - William Hornbeck

Best Effects, Special Effects


Winner:
	tom thumb (1958) - Tom Howard (IV)
Other Nominees:
	Torpedo Run (1958) - A. Arnold Gillespie; Harold Humbrock

Best Music, Original Song


Winner:
	Gigi (1958) - Frederick Loewe (music); Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics) - For the song "Gigi"
Other Nominees:
	Certain Smile, A (1958) - Sammy Fain (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) - For the song "A Certain Smile" Houseboat (1958) - Jay Livingston; Ray Evans (I) - For the song "Almost in Your Arms (Love Song from Houseboat)" Marjorie Morningstar (1958) - Sammy Fain (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) - For the song "A Very Precious Love" Some Came Running (1958) - Jimmy Van Heusen (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics) - For the song "To Love and Be Loved"

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture


Winner:
	Old Man and the Sea, The (1958) - Dimitri Tiomkin
Other Nominees:
	Big Country, The (1958) - Jerome Moross Separate Tables (1958) - David Raksin White Wilderness (1958) - Oliver Wallace Young Lions, The (1958) - Hugo Friedhofer

Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture


Winner:
	Gigi (1958) - Andr� Previn
Other Nominees:
	Bolshoi Ballet, The (1957) - Yuri Faier; Gennadi Rozhdestvensky Damn Yankees! (1958) - Ray Heindorf Mardi Gras (1958) - Lionel Newman South Pacific (1958) - Alfred Newman; Ken Darby

Best Short Subject, Cartoons


Winner:
	Knighty Knight Bugs (1958) - John W. Burton
Other Nominees:
	Paul Bunyan (1958) - Walt Disney Sidney's Family Tree (1958) - William M. Weiss

Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects


Winner:
	Grand Canyon (1958) - Walt Disney
Other Nominees:
	Journey Into Spring (1958) - Ian Ferguson (I) Kiss, The (1958) - John Hayes (I) Snows of Aorangi (1958) - New Zealand Screen Board T Is for Tumbleweed (1958) - James A. Lebenthal

Best Documentary, Short Subjects


Winner:
	Ama Girls (1958) - Ben Sharpsteen
Other Nominees:
	Employees Only (1958) - Kenneth G. Brown (I) Journey Into Spring (1958) - Ian Ferguson (I) Living Stone, The (1958) - Tom Daly (I) Oeuverture (1958) - Thorold Dickinson

Best Documentary, Features


Winner:
	White Wilderness (1958) - Ben Sharpsteen
Other Nominees:
	Antarctic Crossing (1958) - James Carr (I) Hidden World, The (1958) - Robert Snyder (I) Psychiatric Nursing (1958) - Nathan Zucker

Best Foreign Language Film


Winner:
	Mon oncle (1958) - France
Other Nominees:
	Helden (1958) - Germany Soliti ignoti, I (1958) - Italy Strada lunga un anno, La (1958) - Yugoslavia Venganza, La (1958) - Spain

Honorary Award


Awarded to:
	Maurice Chevalier (I) - For his contributions to the world of entertainment for more than half a century.

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award


Awarded to:
	Jack L. Warner

Academy Award of Merit


Winner:
	- Not awarded.

Scientific and Engineering Award


Winners:
	Panavision, Inc. - For the design and development of the Auto Panatar anamorphic photographic lens for 35mm CinemaScope photography. Don W. Prideaux; Leroy G. Leighton; Lamp Division of General Electric Co. - For the development and production of an improved 10 kilowatt lamp for motion picture set lighting.

Technical Achievement Award


Winners:
	Willy Borberg (General Precision Laboratory, Inc.) - For the development of a high speed intermittent movement for 35mm motion picture theater projection equipment. Fred Ponedel (Warner Bros. Special Effects Dept.); George Brown (I) (Warner Bros. Special Effects Dept.); Conrad Boye (Warner Bros. Special Effects Dept.) - For the design and fabrication of a new rapid-fire marble gun.