17th Annual Golden Globe Awards Results and Commentary (1960)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Thursday, March 10, 1960
  • For films released in: 1959
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Here is the complete list of winners for the 17th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Results

Best Motion Picture - Drama

  • Ben-Hur

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

  • Career
    Anthony Franciosa

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama

  • Suddenly, Last Summer
    Elizabeth Taylor

Best Motion Picture - Comedy

  • Some Like It Hot

Best Motion Picture - Musical

  • Porgy and Bess

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical/Comedy

  • Some Like It Hot
    Jack Lemmon

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical/Comedy

  • Some Like It Hot
    Marilyn Monroe

Best Directing

  • Ben-Hur
    William Wyler

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

  • Ben-Hur
    Stephen Boyd

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

  • Imitation of Life
    Susan Kohner

Best Foreign Film

  • Die Brucke
  • Kagi
  • Orfeu Negro
  • Smultronstallet
  • Wir Wunderkinder

Best Film Promoting International Understanding

  • The Diary of Anne Frank

Best Original Score - Motion Picture

  • On the Beach
    Ernest Gold

Henrietta Award (World Film Favorites) - Male

  • Rock Hudson

Henrietta Award (World Film Favorites) - Female

  • Doris Day

Most Promising Newcomer - Male

  • James Shigeta
  • Barry Coe
  • Troy Donahue
  • George Hamilton

Most Promising Newcomer - Female

  • Tuesday Weld
  • Angie Dickinson
  • Janet Munro
  • Stella Stevens

Achievement in Television

  • Edward R. Murrow

Outstanding Merit

  • The Nun's Story

Special Award

  • Francis X. Bushman
    Note: For a famous silent film star.
  • Ramon Novarro
    Note: For a famous silent film star.
  • Ben-Hur
    Andrew Marton
    Note: For directing the chariot race in Ben-Hur.

Special Journalistic Merit Award

  • Hedda Hopper
  • Louella Parsons

Samuel Goldwyn Award

  • Room at the Top

Cecil B. DeMille Award

  • Bing Crosby