31st Academy Awards (1959)
Highlights of 31st Academy Awards ceremony
The 31st Academy Awards honored the best films of 1958.
The award ceremony was held on 6th April 1959.
Gigi won the Best Picture award.
David Niven won the Best Actor award for his role in Separate Tables.
Susan Hayward won the Best Actess award for her role in I Want to Live!.
Vincente Minnelli won the Best Director award for Gigi.
- WINNER
Best Picture
Gigi
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Auntie Mame
Separate Tables
The Defiant Ones
Best Director
Gigi
- Vincente Minnelli
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Richard Brooks
I Want to Live!
- Robert Wise
The Defiant Ones
- Stanley Kramer
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
- Mark Robson
Best Original Screenplay
The Defiant Ones
- Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith
Houseboat
- Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose
Teacher's Pet
- Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin
The Goddess
- Paddy Chayefsky
The Sheepman
- William Bowers, James Edward Grant
Best Adapted Screenplay
Gigi
- Alan Jay Lerner
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Richard Brooks, James Poe
I Want to Live!
- Don Mankiewicz, Nelson Gidding
Separate Tables
- John Gay, Terence Rattigan
The Horse's Mouth
- Alec Guinness
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Separate Tables
- David Niven
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Paul Newman
The Defiant Ones
- Tony Curtis
The Defiant Ones
- Sidney Poitier
The Old Man and the Sea
- Spencer Tracy
Best Actress in a Leading Role
I Want to Live!
- Susan Hayward
Auntie Mame
- Rosalind Russell
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Elizabeth Taylor
Separate Tables
- Deborah Kerr
Some Came Running
- Shirley MacLaine
Best Supporting Actor
The Big Country
- Burl Ives
Some Came Running
- Arthur Kennedy
Teacher's Pet
- Gig Young
The Brothers Karamazov
- Lee J. Cobb
The Defiant Ones
- Theodore Bikel
Best Supporting Actress
Separate Tables
- Wendy Hiller
Auntie Mame
- Peggy Cass
Lonelyhearts
- Maureen Stapleton
Some Came Running
- Martha Hyer
The Defiant Ones
- Cara Williams
Best Art Direction
Gigi
A Certain Smile
Auntie Mame
Bell Book and Candle
Vertigo
Best Original Song
Gigi
- Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
for "Gigi"
A Certain Smile
for "A Certain Smile"
Houseboat
for "Almost In Your Arms"
Marjorie Morningstar
for "A Very Precious Love"
Some Came Running
for "To Love and Be Loved"
Best Sound Mixing
South Pacific
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
I Want to Live!
The Young Lions
Vertigo
Best Costume Design
Gigi
A Certain Smile
Bell Book and Candle
Some Came Running
The Buccaneer
Best Documentary Feature
White Wilderness
Best Documentary Short Subject
Ama Girls
Best Foreign Language Film
Mon oncle
Helden
I soliti ignoti
La strada lunga un anno
La venganza
Academy Honorary Award
Maurice Chevalier
Best Live Action Short Film
Grand Canyon
Best Film Editing
Gigi
Auntie Mame
Cowboy
I Want to Live!
The Defiant Ones
Best Cinematography, Color
Gigi
Auntie Mame
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
South Pacific
The Old Man and the Sea
Best Cinematography, Black & White
The Defiant Ones
Desire Under the Elms
I Want to Live!
Separate Tables
The Young Lions
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Jack L. Warner
Best Short Subject - Cartoon
Knighty Knight Bugs
Best Music - Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
The Old Man and the Sea
Separate Tables
The Big Country
The Young Lions
White Wilderness
Best Music - Scoring of a Musical Picture
Gigi
Damn Yankees!
Mardi Gras
South Pacific
The Bolshoi Ballet
Best Effects, Special Effects
Tom thumb
Torpedo Run