31st Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1959)
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- Date of Ceremony: Monday, April 6, 1959
- For films released in: 1958
Here is a complete list of nominations for the 31st Annual Academy Awards.
And the nominees are:
Best Motion Picture
- Auntie Mame
Warner Bros. - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Lawrence Weingarten [Producer] - The Defiant Ones
Stanley Kramer [Producer] - Gigi
Arthur Freed [Producer] - Separate Tables
Harold Hecht [Producer]
Best Directing
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Richard Brooks - The Defiant Ones
Stanley Kramer - Gigi
Vincente Minnelli - I Want to Live!
Robert Wise - The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Mark Robson
Best Actor
- 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 - Separate Tables
David Niven
Best Actress
- Auntie Mame
Rosalind Russell - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Elizabeth Taylor - I Want to Live!
Susan Hayward - Separate Tables
Deborah Kerr - Some Came Running
Shirley MacLaine
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- The Big Country
Burl Ives - The Brothers Karamazov
Lee J. Cobb - The Defiant Ones
Theodore Bikel - Some Came Running
Arthur Kennedy - Teacher's Pet
Gig Young
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Auntie Mame
Peggy Cass - The Defiant Ones
Cara Williams - Lonelyhearts
Maureen Stapleton - Separate Tables
Wendy Hiller - Some Came Running
Martha Hyer
Best Foreign Language Film
- Arms and the Man
- La Venganza
- My Uncle
- The Road a Year Long
- The Usual Unidentified Thieves
Best Art Direction
- Auntie Mame
Malcolm Bert [Art Direction] and George James Hopkins [Set Decoration] - Bell, Book and Candle
Cary Odell [Art Direction] and Louis Diage [Set Decoration] - A Certain Smile
Lyle R. Wheeler [Art Direction], John DeCuir [Art Direction], Walter M. Scott [Set Decoration] and Paul S. Fox [Set Decoration] - Gigi
William A. Horning [Art Direction], Preston Ames [Art Direction], Henry Grace [Set Decoration] and Keogh Gleason [Set Decoration] - Vertigo
Hal Pereira [Art Direction], Henry Bumstead [Art Direction], Sam Comer [Set Decoration] and Frank R. McKelvy [Set Decoration]
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 B. Lang Jr. - The Young Lions
Joe MacDonald
Best Cinematography (Color)
- Auntie Mame
Harry Stradling Sr. - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
William Daniels - Gigi
Joseph Ruttenberg - The Old Man and the Sea
James Wong Howe - South Pacific
Leon Shamroy
Best Costume Design
- Bell, Book and Candle
Jean Louis - The Buccaneer
Ralph Jester, Edith Head and John Jensen - A Certain Smile
Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills - Gigi
Cecil Beaton - Some Came Running
Walter Plunkett
Best Documentary (Feature)
- Antarctic Crossing
James Carr - The Hidden World
Robert Snyder - Psychiatric Nursing
Nathan Zucker - White Wilderness
Ben Sharpsteen
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
- Ama Girls
Ben Sharpsteen - Employees Only
Kenneth G. Brown - Journey into Spring
Ian Ferguson - The Living Stone
Tom Daly - Overture
Thorold Dickinson
Best Film Editing
- Auntie Mame
William Ziegler - Cowboy
William A. Lyon and Al Clark - The Defiant Ones
Frederic Knudtson - Gigi
Adrienne Fazan - I Want to Live!
William Hornbeck
Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)
- The Big Country
Jerome Moross - The Old Man and the Sea
Dimitri Tiomkin - Separate Tables
David Raksin - White Wilderness
Oliver Wallace - The Young Lions
Hugo Friedhofer
Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)
- The Bolshoi Ballet
G. Rozhdestvensky and Yuri Faier - Damn Yankees
Ray Heindorf - Gigi
Andre Previn - Mardi Gras
Lionel Newman - South Pacific
Alfred Newman and Ken Darby
Best Music (Song)
- A Certain Smile "A Certain Smile"
Sammy Fain [Music by] and Paul Francis Webster [Lyrics by] - Gigi "Gigi"
Frederick Loewe [Music by] and Alan Jay Lerner [Lyrics by] - Houseboat "Almost in Your Arms (Love Song from 'Houseboat')"
Jay Livingston [Music and Lyrics by] and Ray Evans [Music and Lyrics by] - Marjorie Morningstar "A Very Precious Love"
Sammy Fain [Music by] and Paul Francis Webster [Lyrics by] - Some Came Running "To Love and Be Loved"
James Van Heusen [Music by] and Sammy Cahn [Lyrics by]
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)
- Knighty Knight Bugs
John W. Burton - Paul Bunyan
Walt Disney - Sidney's Family Tree
William M. Weiss
Best Short Subject (Live Action)
- Grand Canyon
Walt Disney - Journey into Spring
Ian Ferguson - The Kiss
John Patrick Hayes - Snows of Aorangi
New Zealand Screen Board - T Is for Tumbleweed
James A. Lebenthal
Best Sound
- I Want to Live!
Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department and Gordon E. Sawyer [Sound Director] - South Pacific
Todd-AO Sound Department and Fred Hynes [Sound Director] - A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Universal-International Studio Sound Department and Leslie I. Carey [Sound Director] - Vertigo
Paramount Studio Sound Department and George Dutton [Sound Director] - The Young Lions
20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department and Carl W. Faulkner [Sound Director]
Best Special Effects
- tom thumb
Tom Howard [Visual Effects by] - Torpedo Run
A. Arnold Gillespie [Visual Effects by] and Harold Humbrock [Audible Effects by]
Best Writing (Screenplay - based on material from another medium)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Richard Brooks and James Poe - Gigi
Alan Jay Lerner - The Horse's Mouth
Alec Guinness - I Want to Live!
Nelson Gidding and Don Mankiewicz - Separate Tables
Terence Rattigan and John Gay
Best Writing (Story and Screenplay - written directly for the screen)
- The Defiant Ones
Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith - The Goddess
Paddy Chayefsky - Houseboat
Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose - The Sheepman
James Edward Grant [Story and Screenplay by] and William Bowers [Screenplay by] - Teacher's Pet
Faye Kanin and Michael Kanin