31st Academy Awards Ceremony
(1959)
Drama / Family / News
April 6, 1959 at Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, California
Hosted by Jerry Lewis, Mort Sahl, Tony Randall, Bob Hope, David Niven and Laurence Olivier
BEST PICTURE
Gigi
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Auntie Mame
Separate Tables
The Defiant Ones
BEST DIRECTOR
Vincente Minnelli – Gigi
Richard Brooks – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Robert Wise – I Want to Live!
Stanley Kramer – The Defiant Ones
Mark Robson – The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
BEST ACTOR
David Niven – Separate Tables
Paul Newman – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tony Curtis – The Defiant Ones
Sidney Poitier – The Defiant Ones
Spencer Tracy – The Old Man and the Sea
BEST ACTRESS
Susan Hayward – I Want to Live!
Rosalind Russell – Auntie Mame
Elizabeth Taylor – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Deborah Kerr – Separate Tables
Shirley MacLaine – Some Came Running
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Burl Ives – The Big Country
Arthur Kennedy – Some Came Running
Gig Young – Teacher's Pet
Lee J. Cobb – The Brothers Karamazov
Theodore Bikel – The Defiant Ones
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Wendy Hiller – Separate Tables
Peggy Cass – Auntie Mame
Maureen Stapleton – Lonelyhearts
Martha Hyer – Some Came Running
Cara Williams – The Defiant Ones
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Defiant Ones – Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith
Houseboat – Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose
Teacher's Pet – Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin
The Goddess – Paddy Chayefsky
The Sheepman – William Bowers and James Edward Grant
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Gigi – Alan Jay Lerner
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Richard Brooks and James Poe
I Want to Live! – Don Mankiewicz and Nelson Gidding
Separate Tables – John Gay and Terence Rattigan
The Horse's Mouth – Alec Guinness
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
White Wilderness – Ben Sharpsteen
Antarctic Crossing
The Hidden World
Psychiatric Nursing
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Ama Girls – Ben Sharpsteen
Employees Only
Journey Into Spring
The Living Stone
Overture
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
Grand Canyon – Walt Disney
Journey Into Spring
The Kiss
Snows of Aorangi
T Is for Tumbleweed
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Knighty Knight Bugs – John W. Burton
Paul Bunyan
Sidney's Family Tree
BEST DRAMATIC OR COMEDY SCORE
The Old Man and the Sea – Dimitri Tiomkin
Separate Tables – David Raksin
The Big Country – Jerome Moross
The Young Lions – Hugo Friedhofer
White Wilderness – Oliver Wallace
BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Gigi – André Previn
Damn Yankees! – Ray Heindorf
Mardi Gras – Lionel Newman
South Pacific – Alfred Newman and Ken Darby
The Bolshoi Ballet – Yuri Faier and G. Rozhdestvensky
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
" Gigi " from Gigi – Music by Alan Jay Lerner; Lyric by Frederick Loewe
"A Certain Smile" from A Certain Smile – Music by Sammy Fain; Lyric by Paul Francis Webster
"Almost In Your Arms" (Love Song from Houseboat ) from Houseboat – Music and Lyric by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
"A Very Precious Love" from Marjorie Morningstar – Music by Sammy Fain; Lyric by Paul Francis Webster
"To Love and Be Loved" from Some Came Running – Music by James Van Heusen; Lyric by Sammy Cahn
BEST SOUND RECORDING
South Pacific – Fred Hynes, Todd-AO Sound Department
A Time to Love and a Time to Die – Leslie I. Carey, Universal-International Studio Sound Department
I Want to Live! – Gordon E. Sawyer, Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department
The Young Lions – Carlton W. Faulkner, Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Department
Vertigo – George Dutton, Paramount Studio Sound Department
BEST ART DIRECTION
Gigi – Art Direction: William A. Horning and Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Henry Grace and Keogh Gleason
A Certain Smile – Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler and John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott and Paul S. Fox
Auntie Mame – Art Direction: Malcolm Bert; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
Bell Book and Candle – Art Direction: Cary Odell; Set Decoration: Louis Diage
Vertigo – Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Henry Bumstead; Set Decoration: Sam Comer and Frank McKelvy
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Gigi – Cecil Beaton
A Certain Smile – Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills
Bell Book and Candle – Jean Louis
Some Came Running – Walter Plunkett
The Buccaneer – Ralph Jester, Edith Head and John Jensen
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BLACK AND WHITE
The Defiant Ones – Sam Leavitt
Desire Under the Elms – Daniel L. Fapp
I Want to Live! – Lionel Lindon
Separate Tables – Charles Lang, Jr.
The Young Lions – Joseph MacDonald
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, COLOR
Gigi – Joseph Ruttenberg
Auntie Mame – Harry Stradling, Sr.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – William Daniels
South Pacific – Leon Shamroy
The Old Man and the Sea – James Wong Howe
BEST FILM EDITING
Gigi – Adrienne Fazan
Auntie Mame – William Ziegler
Cowboy – William A. Lyon and Al Clark
I Want to Live! – William Hornbeck
The Defiant Ones – Frederick Knudtson
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Tom thumb – Tom Howard
Torpedo Run – A. Arnold Gillespie and Harold Humbrock
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
My Uncle (France)
Arms and the Man (Germany)
Big Deal on Madonna Street (Italy)
The Road a Year Long (Yugoslavia)
La venganza (Spain)
ACADEMY HONORARY AWARD
Maurice Chevalier
IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD
Jack L. Warner
PRESENTERS
Buddy Adler (Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award)
Eddie Albert and Vincent Price (Art Direction and Set Decoration Awards)
June Allyson and Dick Powell (Musical Scoring Awards)
Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant (Best Picture)
Dirk Bogarde, Van Heflin, and Elizabeth Taylor (Writing Awards)
Red Buttons and Shelley Winters (Best Supporting Actress)
James Cagney and Kim Novak (Best Actress)
Cyd Charisse and Robert Stack (Best Foreign Language Film)
Gary Cooper and Millie Perkins (Best Director)
Wendell Corey and Ernie Kovacs (Costume Design Awards)
Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh (Short Subjects Awards)
Bette Davis and Anthony Quinn (Best Supporting Actor)
Doris Day and Rock Hudson (Cinematography Awards)
Irene Dunne and John Wayne (Best Actor)
Anthony Franciosa and Eva Marie Saint (Music Awards)
Charlton Heston and Jane Wyman (Best Sound Recording)
Louis Jourdan and Jean Simmons (Best Film Editing)
Sophia Loren and Dean Martin (Best Original Song)
Shirley MacLaine and Peter Ustinov (Best Visual Effects)
Rosalind Russell (Honorary Award to Maurice Chevalier)
Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood (Documentary Awards)
PERFORMERS
Nick Adams, Anna Maria Alberghetti, James Darren, Dean Jones, Connie Stevens, and Tuesday Weld ("Almost In Your Arms" from Houseboat )
Joan Collins, Angela Lansbury, and Dana Wynter ("It's Great Not to Be Nominated")
Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster ("It's Alright With Us")
Eddie Fisher ("To Love and Be Loved" from Some Came Running )
Rhonda Fleming and Howard Keel ("A Very Precious Love" from Marjorie Morningstar)
Tony Martin (" Gigi " from Gigi )
John Raitt ("A Certain Smile" from A Certain Smile)
