Nominations 1959

Award ceremony for films of 1958

Actor in a Leading Role

Actor in a Supporting Role

Actress in a Leading Role

Actress in a Supporting Role

Best Picture

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

Cinematography

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

Cinematography (Black and White)

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

Costume Design

Gigi
Nominees
- Cecil Beaton
Bell Book and Candle
Nominees
- Jean Louis
The Buccaneer (1958)
Nominees
A Certain Smile
Nominees
- Charles LeMaire
- Mary Wills
Some Came Running
Nominees
- Walter Plunkett

Directing

Documentary (Feature Film)

White Wilderness
Nominees
- Ben Sharpsteen
Antarctic Crossing
Nominees
The Hidden World
Nominees
Psychiatric Nursing
Nominees

Documentary (Short Film)

Film Editing

Gigi
Nominees
- Adrienne Fazan
Auntie Mame
Nominees
- William Ziegler
Cowboy
Nominees
- Al Clark
- William Lyon
The Defiant Ones
Nominees
- Frederic Knudtson
I Want to Live!
Nominees
- William Hornbeck

International Feature Film

Music (Comedy or Drama Score)

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

Music (Musical Score)

Gigi
Nominees
- André Previn
The Bolshoi Ballet
Nominees
- G. Rozhdestvensky
- Yuri Faier
Damn Yankees!
Nominees
- Ray Heindorf
Mardi Gras (1958)
Nominees
- Lionel Newman
South Pacific
Nominees
- Alfred Newman
- Ken Darby

Music (Original Song)

A Certain Smile
A Certain Smile
- Paul Francis Webster
A Very Precious Love
Marjorie Morningstar
- Paul Francis Webster
Gigi
Gigi
- Alan Jay Lerner
Houseboat
Houseboat
- Jay Livingston
- Ray Evans
Some Came Running
Some Came Running
- Sammy Cahn

Production Design

Gigi
Nominees
Auntie Mame
Nominees
- Malcolm Bert: George James Hopkins
Bell Book and Candle
Nominees
- Cary Odell: Louis Diage
A Certain Smile
Nominees
Vertigo
Nominees

Short Film (Live Action)

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

Short Subject - Cartoons

Knighty Knight Bugs
Nominees
- John W. Burton
Paul Bunyan
Nominees
- Walt Disney
Sidney's Family Tree
Nominees
- William M. Weiss

Sound

South Pacific
Nominees
- Fred Hynes
I Want to Live!
Nominees
- Gordon E. Sawyer
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Nominees
- Leslie I. Carey
Vertigo
Nominees
- George Dutton
The Young Lions
Nominees
- Carlton W. Faulkner

Visual Effects

Tom Thumb
Nominees
- Tom Howard
Torpedo Run
Nominees
- Visual Effects: A. Arnold GillespieAudible Effects: Harold Humbrock

Writing (Adapted)

Gigi
Nominees
- Alan Jay Lerner From la By Colette
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Nominees
- James Poe From By Tennessee Williams
- Richard Brooks
The Horse's Mouth
Nominees
- Alec Guinness From By Joyce Cary
I Want to Live!
Nominees
Separate Tables
Nominees
- John Gay
- Terence Rattigan From By Terence Rattigan

Writing (Story and Screenplay)

The Defiant Ones
Nominees
- Harold Jacob Smith
- Nedrick Young
The Goddess
Nominees
- Paddy Chayefsky
Houseboat
Nominees
- Jack Rose
- Melville Shavelson
The Sheepman
Nominees
- James Edward Grant
- William Bowers
Teacher's Pet
Nominees
- Fay Kanin
- Michael Kanin

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