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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 Separate Tables (1958) - Harold Hecht The Defiant Ones (1958) - Stanley Kramer

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) The Defiant Ones (1958) - Tony Curtis (I) The Defiant Ones (1958) - Sidney Poitier The Old Man and the Sea (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:
	The Big Country (1958) - Burl Ives
Other Nominees:
	Some Came Running (1958) - Arthur Kennedy (I) Teacher's Pet (1958) - Gig Young The Brothers Karamazov (1958) - Lee J. Cobb The Defiant Ones (1958) - Theodore Bikel

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 Lonelyhearts (1958) - Maureen Stapleton Some Came Running (1958) - Martha Hyer The Defiant Ones (1958) - Cara Williams

Best Director


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

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


Winner:
	The Defiant Ones (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:
	Houseboat (1958) - Melville Shavelson; Jack Rose (I) Teacher's Pet (1958) - Fay Kanin; Michael Kanin The Goddess (1958) - Paddy Chayefsky The Sheepman (1958) - William Bowers (I) (screenplay); James Edward Grant (screenplay/story)

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) I Want to Live! (1958) - Nelson Gidding; Don Mankiewicz Separate Tables (1958) - Terence Rattigan; John Gay (II) The Horse's Mouth (1958) - Alec Guinness

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 South Pacific (1958) - Leon Shamroy The Old Man and the Sea (1958) - James Wong Howe (I)

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White


Winner:
	The Defiant Ones (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) The Young Lions (1958) - Joseph MacDonald (I)

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:
	A Certain Smile (1958) - Lyle R. Wheeler; John DeCuir; Walter M. Scott; Paul S. Fox Auntie Mame (1958) - Malcolm C. Bert; George James Hopkins Bell Book and Candle (1958) - Cary Odell; Louis Diage 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:
	A Certain Smile (1958) - Charles Le Maire; Mary Wills (I) Bell Book and Candle (1958) - Jean Louis (I) Some Came Running (1958) - Walter Plunkett The Buccaneer (1958) - Ralph Jester (I); Edith Head; John Jensen (I)

Best Sound


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

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:
	A Certain Smile (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 Musical Picture


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

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture


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

Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects


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

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 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) Oeuverture (1958) - Thorold Dickinson The Living Stone (1958) - Tom Daly (I)

Best Documentary, Features


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

Best Foreign Language Film


Winner:
	Mon oncle (1958) - France
Other Nominees:
	Helden (1958) - Germany I soliti ignoti (1958) - Italy La strada lunga un anno (1958) - Yugoslavia La venganza (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.