The 32nd Academy Awards (1959): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS

AWARDS

  • 12
  • 8
  • 8
  • 7
  • 6
  • 6
  • 5
  • 4
  • 4
  • 3
  • 3
  • 3
  • 3
  • 3
  • 3
  • Ben-Hur
  • The Diary of Anne Frank
  • The Nun's Story
  • Anatomy of a Murder
  • Room at the Top
  • Some Like It Hot
  • Pillow Talk
  • The Five Pennies
  • Porgy and Bess
  • The Big Fisherman
  • Career
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth
  • North by Northwest
  • Suddenly, Last Summer
  • The Young Philadelphians
  • 11
  • 3
  • 2
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • Ben-Hur
  • The Diary of Anne Frank
  • Room at the Top
  • Black Orpheus
  • Glass
  • The Golden Fish
  • A Hole in the Head
  • Moonbird
  • Pillow Talk
  • Porgy and Bess
  • Serengeti Shall Not Die
  • Some Like It Hot
  • NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND
  • Best Picture winner
  • Best Picture nominee
  • Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

PICTURE (Best Motion Picture)

  • Anatomy of a Murder - Otto Preminger
  • Ben-Hur - Sam Zimbalist
  • The Diary of Anne Frank - George Stevens
  • The Nun's Story - Henry Blanke
  • Room at the Top - John Woolf, James Woolf

DIRECTING

  • Ben-Hur - William Wyler
  • The Diary of Anne Frank - George Stevens
  • The Nun's Story - Fred Zinnemann
  • Room at the Top - Jack Clayton
  • Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder

ACTOR

  • Laurence Harvey - Room at the Top
  • Charlton Heston - Ben-Hur
  • Jack Lemmon - Some Like It Hot
  • Paul Muni - The Last Angry Man
  • James Stewart - Anatomy of a Murder

ACTRESS

  • Doris Day - Pillow Talk
  • Audrey Hepburn - The Nun's Story
  • Katharine Hepburn - Suddenly, Last Summer
  • Simone Signoret - Room at the Top
  • Elizabeth Taylor - Suddenly, Last Summer

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Actor in a Supporting Role)

  • Hugh Griffith - Ben-Hur
  • Arthur O'Connell - Anatomy of a Murder
  • George C. Scott - Anatomy of a Murder
  • Robert Vaughn - The Young Philadelphians
  • Ed Wynn - The Diary of Anne Frank

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Actress in a Supporting Role)

  • Hermione Baddeley - Room at the Top
  • Susan Kohner - Imitation of Life
  • Juanita Moore - Imitation of Life
  • Thelma Ritter - Pillow Talk
  • Shelley Winters - The Diary of Anne Frank

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (Screenplay--based on material from another medium)

  • Anatomy of a Murder - Wendell Mayes
  • Ben-Hur - Karl Tunberg
  • The Nun's Story - Robert Anderson
  • Room at the Top - Neil Paterson
  • Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond

STORY AND SCREENPLAY (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen)

  • The 400 Blows - Francois Truffaut, Marcel Moussy
  • North by Northwest - Ernest Lehman
  • Operation Petticoat - Story by Paul King, Joseph Stone; Screenplay by Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin
  • Pillow Talk - Story by Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene; Screenplay by Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin
  • Wild Strawberries - Ingmar Bergman

SONG

  • "The Best of Everything" - The Best of Everything - Music by Alfred Newman; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
  • "The Five Pennies" - The Five Pennies - Music, Lyrics by Sylvia Fine
  • "The Hanging Tree" - The Hanging Tree - Music by Jerry Livingston; Lyrics by Mack David
  • "High Hopes" - A Hole in the Head - Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
  • "Strange Are the Ways of Love" - The Young Land - Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Ned Washington

MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

  • Ben-Hur - Miklos Rozsa
  • The Diary of Anne Frank - Alfred Newman
  • The Nun's Story - Franz Waxman
  • On the Beach - Ernest Gold
  • Pillow Talk - Frank DeVol

SCORING OF A MUSICAL PICTURE

  • The Five Pennies - Leith Stevens
  • Li'l Abner - Nelson Riddle, Joseph J. Lilley
  • Porgy and Bess - Andre Previn, Ken Darby
  • Say One for Me - Lionel Newman
  • Sleeping Beauty - George Bruns

FILM EDITING

  • Anatomy of a Murder - Louis R. Loeffler
  • Ben-Hur - Ralph E. Winters, John D. Dunning
  • North by Northwest - George Tomasini
  • The Nun's Story - Walter Thompson
  • On the Beach - Frederic Knudtson

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White)

  • Anatomy of a Murder - Sam Leavitt
  • Career - Joseph LaShelle
  • The Diary of Anne Frank - William C. Mellor
  • Some Like It Hot - Charles Lang Jr.
  • The Young Philadelphians - Harry Stradling Sr.

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color)

  • Ben-Hur - Robert L. Surtees
  • The Big Fisherman - Lee Garmes
  • The Five Pennies - Daniel L. Fapp
  • The Nun's Story - Franz Planer
  • Porgy and Bess - Leon Shamroy

ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White)

  • Career - Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Arthur Krams
  • The Diary of Anne Frank - Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler, George W. Davis; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss
  • The Last Angry Man - Art Direction: Carl Anderson; Set Decoration: William Kiernan
  • Some Like It Hot - Art Direction: Ted Haworth; Set Decoration: Edward G. Boyle
  • Suddenly, Last Summer - Art Direction: Oliver Messel, William Kellner; Set Decoration: Scot Slimon

ART DIRECTION (Color)

  • Ben-Hur - Art Direction: William A. Horning, Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Hugh Hunt
  • The Big Fisherman - Art Direction: John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Julia Heron
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth - Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler, Franz Bachelin, Herman A. Blumenthal; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Joseph Kish
  • North by Northwest - Art Direction: William A. Horning, Robert Boyle, Merrill Pye; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Frank McKelvy
  • Pillow Talk - Art Direction: Richard H. Riedel; Set Decoration: Russell A. Gausman, Ruby R. Levitt

COSTUME DESIGN (Black-and-White)

  • Career - Edith Head
  • The Diary of Anne Frank - Charles LeMaire, Mary Wills
  • The Gazebo - Helen Rose
  • Some Like It Hot - Orry-Kelly
  • The Young Philadelphians - Howard Shoup

COSTUME DESIGN (Color)

  • Ben-Hur - Elizabeth Haffenden
  • The Best of Everything - Adele Palmer
  • The Big Fisherman - Renie
  • The Five Pennies - Edith Head
  • Porgy and Bess - Irene Sharaff

SOUND

  • Ben-Hur - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Franklin E. Milton (Sound Director)
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth - 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Carl Faulkner (Sound Director)
  • Libel! - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer London Studio Sound Department, A. W. Watkins (Sound Director)
  • The Nun's Story - Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, George R. Groves (Sound Director)
  • Porgy and Bess - Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer (Sound Director); Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes (Sound Director)

SPECIAL EFFECTS

  • Ben-Hur - Visual Effects by A. Arnold Gillespie, Robert MacDonald; Audible Effects by Milo Lory
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth - Visual Effects by L. B. Abbott, James B. Gordon; Audible Effects by Carl Faulkner

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

  • Black Orpheus - France
  • The Bridge - West Germany
  • The Great War - Italy
  • Paw - Denmark
  • The Village on the River - The Netherlands

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

  • The Race for Space - David L. Wolper
  • Serengeti Shall Not Die - Bernhard Grzimek

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

  • Donald in Mathmagic Land - Walt Disney
  • From Generation to Generation - Edward F. Cullen
  • Glass - Bert Haanstra

SHORT SUBJECT (Cartoon)

  • Mexicali Shmoes - John W. Burton
  • Moonbird - John Hubley
  • Noah's Ark - Walt Disney
  • The Violinist - Ernest Pintoff

SHORT SUBJECT (Live Action)

  • Between the Tides - Ian Ferguson
  • The Golden Fish - Jacques-Yves Cousteau
  • Mysteries of the Deep - Walt Disney
  • The Running, Jumping and Standing-Still Film - Peter Sellers
  • Skyscraper - Shirley Clarke, Willard Van Dyke, Irving Jacoby

HONORARY AWARDS

  • To Buster Keaton for his unique talents which brought immortal comedies to the screen.
  • To Lee De Forest for his pioneering inventions which brought sound to the motion picture.

JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD

  • Bob Hope

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE II (Plaque)

  • To ROBERT P. GUTTERMAN of General Kinetics, Inc., and LIPSNER-SMITH CORP. for the design and development of the CF-2 Ultra-sonic Film Cleaner. [Laboratory]
  • To WADSWORTH E. POHL, JACK ALFORD, HENRY IMUS, JOSEPH SCHMIT, PAUL FASSNACHT, AL LOFQUIST and TECHNICOLOR CORP., for the development and practical application of equipment for wet printing. [Laboratory]
  • To WADSWORTH E. POHL, WILLIAM EVANS, WERNER HOPF, S.E. HOWSE, THOMAS P. DIXON, STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE and TECHNICOLOR CORP., for the design and development of the Technicolor Electronic Printing Timer. [Laboratory]
  • To DR. HOWARD S. COLEMAN, DR. A. FRANCIS TURNER, HAROLD H. SCHROEDER, JAMES R. BENFORD and HAROLD E. ROSENBERGER of the Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. for the design and development of the Balcold Projection Mirror. [Projection]
  • To DOUGLAS G. SHEARER of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., and ROBERT E. GOTTSCHALK and JOHN R. MOORE of Panavision, Inc., for the development of a system of producing and exhibiting wide-film motion pictures known as Camera 65. [Systems]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE III (Certificate)

  • To UB IWERKS of Walt Disney Prods. for the design of an improved optical printer for special effects and matte shots. [Laboratory]
  • To E.L. STONES, GLEN ROBINSON, WINFIELD HUBBARD and LUTHER NEWMAN of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Construction Department for the design of a multiple cable remote controlled winch. [Stage Operations]