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]