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1958
1960
Awards & Top Films
1959
Historical Award Archive
Before Rich Picks
— Award selections for 1959 were not recorded. The categories below show nominees and winners from other award organizations.
Won
Nominee
Top 10 Films of 1959
1
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Ben-Hur
No award data
2
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Some Like It Hot
No award data
3
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On The Beach
No award data
4
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The Bridge
No award data
5
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The Diary of Anne Frank
No award data
6
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Wir Wunderkinder
No award data
7
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Porgy and Bess
No award data
8
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A Private's Affair
No award data
9
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Imitation of Life
No award data
10
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Room At The Top
No award data
Film
Live-Action Feature
Ben-Hur
Producer:
Sam Zimbalist
Oscar
NBR
BAFTA
Gigi
Oscar
NBR
BAFTA
Sapphire
BAFTA
Anatomy of a Murder
Producer:
Otto Preminger
Oscar
NBR
BAFTA
The Nun's Story
Producer:
Henry Blanke
Oscar
NBR
BAFTA
Some Like It Hot
NBR
BAFTA
The Diary of Anne Frank
Producer:
George Stevens
Oscar
NBR
Ansiktet
BAFTA
Ashes and Diamonds
BAFTA
Compulsion
BAFTA
Look Back in Anger
BAFTA
Maigret tend un piège
BAFTA
Middle of the Night
NBR
North by Northwest
NBR
North West Frontier
BAFTA
On The Beach
NBR
Room At The Top
Producers:
John Woolf
and
James Woolf
Oscar
Suddenly, Last Summer
NBR
The Big Country
BAFTA
The Man Who Understood Women
NBR
Tiger Bay
BAFTA
Yesterday's Enemy
BAFTA
International Feature
Wild Strawberries
NBR
Directing & Editing
Directing
William Wyler
Ben-Hur
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Fred Zinnemann
The Nun's Story
Oscar
Globe
NBR
DGA
George Stevens
The Diary of Anne Frank
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Porgy
and
Bess
André Previn and Ken Darby
Oscar
The Diary of Anne Frank
Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler and George W. Davis; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott and Stuart A. Reiss
Oscar
Ben-Hur
Art Direction: William A. Horning (posthumous award) and Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Hugh Hunt
Oscar
Serengeti Shall Not Die
Bernhard Grzimek
Oscar
Glass
Bert Haanstra
Oscar
Ben-Hur
Elizabeth Haffenden
Oscar
On the Beach
Ernest Gold
Oscar
Ben-Hur
Franklin Milton
Oscar
Porgy
and
Bess
Gordon E. Sawyer and Fred Hynes
Oscar
The Golden Fish
Jacques Cousteau
Oscar
Moonbird
John Hubley
Oscar
Mexicali Shmoes
John W. Burton
Oscar
Ben-Hur
Miklós Rózsa
Oscar
"High Hopes" from A Hole in the Head
Music by Jimmy Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Oscar
Room at the Top
Neil Paterson based on the novel by John Braine
Oscar
Some Like It Hot
Orry-Kelly
Oscar
Ben-Hur
Ralph E. Winters and John D. Dunning
Oscar
Ben-Hur
Robert Surtees
Oscar
Anatomy of a Murder
Sam Leavitt
Oscar
Pillow Talk
Story by Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene; Screenplay by Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin
Oscar
The Diary of Anne Frank
William C. Mellor
Oscar
Otto Preminger
and
James Stewart
Anatomy of a Murder
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Susan Kohner
and
Douglas Sirk
Imitation of Life
Oscar
DGA
Billy Wilder
Some Like It Hot
Oscar
DGA
Frank Capra
A Hole in the Head
DGA
Libel
A. W. Watkins
Oscar
The Best of Everything
Adele Palmer
Oscar
The Diary of Anne Frank
Alfred Newman
Oscar
The Last Angry Man
Art Direction: Carl Anderson; Set Decoration: William Kiernan
Oscar
Career
Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Walter Tyler; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Arthur Krams
Oscar
The Big Fisherman
Art Direction: John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Julia Heron
Oscar
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler, Franz Bachelin and Herman A. Blumenthal; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott and Joseph Kish
Oscar
Suddenly
and
Last Summer
Art Direction: Oliver Messel and William Kellner; Set Decoration: Scott Slimon
Oscar
Pillow Talk
Art Direction: Richard H. Riedel (posthumous nomination); Set Decoration: Russell A. Gausman and Ruby R. Levitt
Oscar
Some Like It Hot
Art Direction: Ted Haworth; Set Decoration: Edward G. Boyle
Oscar
North by Northwest
Art Direction: William A. Horning (posthumous nomination), Robert F. Boyle, and Merrill Pye; Set Decoration: Henry Grace and Frank R. McKelvy
Oscar
Some Like It Hot
Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond based on a story by Robert Thoeren and M. Logan
Oscar
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Carlton W. Faulkner
Oscar
Some Like It Hot
Charles Lang
Oscar
The Diary of Anne Frank
Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills
Oscar
Richard Fleischer
Compulsion
DGA
The Five Pennies
Daniel L. Fapp
Oscar
The Race
David L. Wolper
Oscar
Career
Edith Head
Oscar
From Generation to Generation
Edward F. Cullen
Oscar
North by Northwest
Ernest Lehman
Oscar
The Violinist
Ernest Pintoff
Oscar
The 400 Blows
François Truffaut and Marcel Moussy
Oscar
Pillow Talk
Frank De Vol
Oscar
The Nun's Story
Franz Planer
Oscar
The Nun's Story
Franz Waxman
Oscar
On the Beach
Frederic Knudtson
Oscar
Sleeping Beauty
George Bruns
Oscar
The Nun's Story
George Groves
Oscar
North by Northwest
George Tomasini
Oscar
The Young Philadelphians
Harry Stradling, Sr.
Oscar
The Gazebo
Helen Rose
Oscar
The Young Philadelphians
Howard Shoup
Oscar
Between the Tides
Ian Ferguson
Oscar
Wild Strawberries
Ingmar Bergman
Oscar
Porgy
and
Bess
Irene Sharaff
Oscar
Career
Joseph LaShelle
Oscar
Ben-Hur
Karl Tunberg based on the novel by Lew Wallace
Oscar
The Big Fisherman
Lee Garmes
Oscar
The Five Pennies
Leith Stevens
Oscar
Porgy
and
Bess
Leon Shamroy
Oscar
Say One
Lionel Newman
Oscar
Anatomy of a Murder
Louis R. Loeffler
Oscar
"The Five Pennies" from The Five Pennies
Music and Lyrics by Sylvia Fine
Oscar
"The Best of Everything" from The Best of Everything
Music by Alfred Newman; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Oscar
"Strange Are The Ways of Love" from The Young Land
Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Ned Washington
Oscar
"The Hanging Tree" from The Hanging Tree
Music by Jerry Livingston; Lyrics by Mack David
Oscar
Li'l Abner
Nelson Riddle and Joseph J. Lilley
Oscar
Alfred Hitchcock
North by Northwest
DGA
Stanley Kramer
On The Beach
Globe
The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
Peter Sellers
Oscar
Doris Day
Pillow Talk
Oscar
Leo McCarey
Rally Round the Flag, Boys!
DGA
The Big Fisherman
Renié
Oscar
Howard Hawks
Rio Bravo
DGA
The Nun's Story
Robert Anderson based on the novel by Kathryn Hulme
Oscar
Jack Clayton
Room At The Top
Oscar
Skyscraper
Shirley Clarke and Willard Van Dyke
Oscar
Operation Petticoat
Story by Paul King, Joseph J. Stone; Screenplay by Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin
Oscar
Katharine Hepburn
Suddenly, Last Summer
Oscar
John Ford
The Horse Soldiers
DGA
Paul Muni
The Last Angry Man
Oscar
Charles Barton
The Shaggy Dog
DGA
Robert Vaughn
The Young Philadelphians
Oscar
Donald in Mathmagic Land
Walt Disney
Oscar
The Nun's Story
Walter Thompson
Oscar
Anatomy of a Murder
Wendell Mayes based on the novel by Robert Traver
Oscar
Acting
Actor in a Leading Role
Anthony Franciosa
Career
Globe
Victor Sjöström
Wild Strawberries
NBR
Charlton Heston
Ben-Hur
Globe
Richard Burton
Look Back In Anger
Globe
Fredric March
Middle of the Night
Globe
Joseph Schildkraut
The Diary of Anne Frank
Globe
Actress in a Leading Role
Simone Signoret
Room At The Top
NBR
Actor in a Supporting Role
Hugh Griffith
Ben-Hur
NBR
Actress in a Supporting Role
Edith Evans
The Nun's Story
NBR
Writing
Screenplay (Original)
Stanley Shapiro
,
Maurice Richlin
,
Clarence Greene
, and
Russell Rouse
Pillow Talk
Oscar
WGA
Billy Wilder
and
I.A.L. Diamond
Some Like It Hot
WGA
Frances Goodrich
and
Albert Hackett
The Diary of Anne Frank
WGA
Jack Rose
and
Melville Shavelson
The Five Pennies
WGA
Ernest Lehman
North by Northwest
Oscar
WGA
Stanley Shapiro
,
Maurice Richlin
,
Paul King
, and
Joseph Stone
Operation Petticoat
Oscar
WGA
Arnold Schulman
A Hole in the Head
WGA
Winston Miller
A Private's Affair
WGA
Wendell Mayes
Anatomy of a Murder
WGA
Karl Tunberg
Ben-Hur
WGA
Richard Murphy
Compulsion
WGA
Melvin Frank
and
Norman Panama
Li'l Abner
WGA
Charles Lederer
Never Steal Anything Small
WGA
N. Richard Nash
Porgy and Bess
WGA
Robert O'Brien
Say One For Me
WGA
François Truffaut
and
Marcel Moussy
The 400 Blows
Oscar
Robert Anderson
The Nun's Story
WGA
Ingmar Bergman
Wild Strawberries
Oscar
Screenplay (Adapted)
Billy Wilder
and
I.A.L. Diamond
Some Like It Hot
WGA
Frances Goodrich
and
Albert Hackett
The Diary of Anne Frank
WGA
Jack Rose
and
Melville Shavelson
The Five Pennies
WGA
Arnold Schulman
A Hole in the Head
WGA
Winston Miller
A Private's Affair
WGA
Wendell Mayes
Anatomy of a Murder
WGA
Karl Tunberg
Ben-Hur
WGA
Richard Murphy
Compulsion
WGA
Melvin Frank
and
Norman Panama
Li'l Abner
WGA
Charles Lederer
Never Steal Anything Small
WGA
Ernest Lehman
North by Northwest
WGA
Stanley Shapiro
and
Maurice Richlin
Operation Petticoat
WGA
Stanley Shapiro
and
Maurice Richlin
Pillow Talk
WGA
N. Richard Nash
Porgy and Bess
WGA
Robert O'Brien
Say One For Me
WGA
Robert Anderson
The Nun's Story
WGA
Visual
Effects
Visual Effects by A. Arnold Gillespie
,
Audible Effects by Milo B. Lory
, and
Robert MacDonald
Ben-Hur
Oscar
11th Primetime Emmy Awards
11th Primetime Emmy Awards
Oscar
12th Primetime Emmy Awards
12th Primetime Emmy Awards
Oscar
13th British Academy Film Awards
13th British Academy Film Awards
Oscar
14th Tony Awards
14th Tony Awards
Oscar
17th Golden Globe Awards
17th Golden Globe Awards
Oscar
2nd Grammy Awards
2nd Grammy Awards
Oscar
André Previn, conductor the Academy Awards orchestra
André Previn, conductor the Academy Awards orchestra
Oscar
Arlene Dahl and Fernando Lamas
Arlene Dahl and Fernando Lamas
Oscar
B. B. Kahane (Presenter: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award)
B. B. Kahane (Presenter: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award)
Oscar
Barbara Rush
Barbara Rush
Oscar
Bob Hope
Bob Hope
Oscar
Doris Day
Doris Day
Oscar
Edmond O'Brien
Edmond O'Brien
Oscar
Edward Curtiss
Edward Curtiss
Oscar
Eric Johnston
Eric Johnston
Oscar
Frankie Laine
Frankie Laine
Oscar
Frankie Vaughan ("The Best of Everything" from The Best of Everything)
Frankie Vaughan ("The Best of Everything" from The Best of Everything)
Oscar
Gary Cooper
Gary Cooper
Oscar
Gene Kelly
Gene Kelly
Oscar
Gogi Grant ("Strange Are the Ways of Love" from The Young Land)
Gogi Grant ("Strange Are the Ways of Love" from The Young Land)
Oscar
Haya Harareet
Haya Harareet
Oscar
Hope Lange and Carl Reiner
Hope Lange and Carl Reiner
Oscar
John Wayne
John Wayne
Oscar
Joni James
Joni James
Oscar
Visual Effects by L. B. Abbott
,
James B. Gordon
, and
Audible Effects by Carl Faulkner
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Oscar
Mitzi Gaynor
Mitzi Gaynor
Oscar
Olivia de Havilland
Olivia de Havilland
Oscar
Richard Conte and Angie Dickinson
Richard Conte and Angie Dickinson
Oscar
Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood
Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood
Oscar
Rock Hudson
Rock Hudson
Oscar
Sammy Davis Jr.
Sammy Davis Jr.
Oscar
Susan Hayward
Susan Hayward
Oscar
Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh
Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh
Oscar
Sound & Music
Original Score
Ernest Gold
On The Beach
Globe