31ST ACADEMY AWARDS
April 6, 1959
Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Hosted by Jerry Lewis, Mort Sahl, Tony Randall, Bob Hope, David Niven, and Laurence Olivier
MOTION PICTURE
| “Auntie Mame” |
| “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” |
| “The Defiant Ones” |
| “Gigi” |
| “Separate Tables” |
DIRECTOR
| Richard Brooks – “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” |
| Stanley Kramer – “The Defiant Ones” |
| Vincente Minnelli – “Gigi” |
| Mark Robson – “The Inn of the Sixth Happiness” |
| Robert Wise – “I Want to Live!” |
ACTOR
| Tony Curtis – “The Defiant Ones” |
| Paul Newman – “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” |
| David Niven – “Separate Tables” |
| Sidney Poitier – “The Defiant Ones” |
| Spencer Tracy – “The Old Man and the Sea” |
ACTRESS
| Susan Hayward – “I Want to Live!” |
| Deborah Kerr – “Separate Tables” |
| Shirley MacLaine – “Some Came Running” |
| Rosalind Russell – “Auntie Mame” |
| Elizabeth Taylor – “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” |
SUPPORTING ACTOR
| Theodore Bikel – “The Defiant Ones” |
| Lee J. Cobb – “The Brothers Karamazov” |
| Burl Ives – “The Big Country” |
| Arthur Kennedy – “Some Came Running” |
| Gig Young – “Teacher’s Pet” |
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
| Peggy Cass – “Auntie Mame” |
| Wendy Hiller – “Separate Tables” |
| Martha Hyer – “Some Came Running” |
| Maureen Stapleton – “Lonelyhearts” |
| Cara Williams – “The Defiant Ones” |
ART DIRECTION
“Auntie Mame”
Art Direction: Malcolm Bert; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins |
“Bell, Book and Candle”
Art Direction: Cary Odell; Set Decoration: Louis Diage |
“A Certain Smile”
Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler and John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott and Paul S. Fox |
“Gigi”
Art Direction: William A. Horning and E. Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Henry Grace and F. Keogh Gleason |
“Vertigo”
Art Direction: Hal Pereira and Henry Bumstead; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Frank R. McKelvy |
CINEMATOGRAPHY
(BLACK & WHITE)
| “The Defiant Ones” – Sam Leavitt |
| “Desire Under the Elms” – Daniel L. Fapp |
| “I Want to Live!” – Lionel Lindon |
| “Separate Tables” – Charles Lang |
| “The Young Lions” – Joseph MacDonald |
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 |
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 |
DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
| “Antarctic Crossing” |
| “The Hidden World” |
| “Psychiatric Nursing” |
| “White Wilderness” – Ben Sharpsteen |
DOCUMENTARY
(SHORT SUBJECT)
| “Ama Girls” – Ben Sharpsteen |
| “Employees Only” |
| “Journey into Spring” |
| “The Living Stone” |
| “Overture” |
FILM EDITING
| “Auntie Mame” – William Ziegler |
| “Cowboy” – William Lyon and Al Clark |
| “The Defiant Ones” – Frederic Knudtson |
| “Gigi” – Adrienne Fazan |
| “I Want to Live!” – William Hornbeck |
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURE
| “Arms and the Man” (Germany) |
| “Big Deal on Madonna Street” (Italy) |
| “La venganza” (Spain) |
| “My Uncle” (France) |
| “The Road a Year Long” (Yugoslavia) |
SHORT SUBJECT (CARTOON)
| “Knighty Knight Bugs” – John W. Burton |
| “Paul Bunyan” – Walt Disney |
| “Sidney’s Family Tree” – William M. Weiss |
SHORT SUBJECT (LIVE ACTION)
| “Grand Canyon” – Walt Disney |
| “Journey into Spring” – Ian Ferguson |
| “The Kiss” – John Hayes |
| “Snows of Aorangi” – New Zealand Screen Board |
| “T Is for Tumbleweed” – James A. Lebenthal |
Scoring 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 |
Scoring of a Musical Picture
| “The Bolshoi Ballet” – Yuri Faier and G. Rozhdestvensky |
| “Damn Yankees!” – Ray Heindorf |
| “Gigi” – André Previn |
| “Mardi Gras” – Lionel Newman |
| “South Pacific” – Alfred Newman and Ken Darby |
SONG
“A Certain Smile” from “A Certain Smile”
Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster |
“Gigi” from “Gigi”
Music by Frederick Loewe; Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner |
“Almost In Your Arms (Love Song from Houseboat)” from “Houseboat”
Music and Lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans |
“A Very Precious Love” from “Marjorie Morningstar”
Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster |
“To Love and Be Loved” from “Some Came Running”
Music by Jimmy Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn |
SOUND
| “I Want to Live!” – Gordon E. Sawyer |
| “South Pacific” – Fred Hynes |
| “A Time to Love and a Time to Die” – Leslie I. Carey |
| “Vertigo” – George Dutton |
| “The Young Lions” – Carlton W. Faulkner |
SPECIAL EFFECTS
| “tom thumb” – Tom Howard |
| “Torpedo Run” – Visual Effects: A. Arnold Gillespie; Audible Effects: Harold Humbrock |
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
| “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!” – Don Mankiewicz and Nelson Gidding |
| “Separate Tables” – John Gay and Terence Rattigan |
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
| “The Defiant Ones” – Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith |
| “The Goddess” – Paddy Chayefsky |
| “Houseboat” – Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose |
| “The Sheepman” – William Bowers and James Edward Grant |
| “Teacher’s Pet” – Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin |
Academy Honorary Award
Maurice Chevalier
“for his contributions to the world of entertainment for more than half a century” |
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
- “Auntie Mame”
- “Bell, Book and Candle”
- “The Big Country”
- “The Bolshoi Ballet”
- “The Brothers Karamazov”
- “The Buccaneer”
- “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”
- “A Certain Smile”
- “Cowboy”
- “Damn Yankees!”
- “The Defiant Ones”
- “Desire Under the Elms”
- “Gigi”
- “The Goddess”
- “The Horse’s Mouth”
- “Houseboat”
- “The Inn of the Sixth Happiness”
- “I Want to Live!”
- “Lonelyhearts”
- “Mardi Gras”
- “Marjorie Morningstar”
- “The Old Man and the Sea”
- “Separate Tables”
- “The Sheepman”
- “Some Came Running”
- “South Pacific”
- “Teacher’s Pet”
- “A Time to Love and a Time to Die”
- “tom thumb”
- “Torpedo Run”
- “Vertigo”
- “White Wilderness”
- “The Young Lions”
DOCUMENTARY
- “Antarctic Crossing”
- “The Hidden World”
- “Psychiatric Nursing”
- “White Wilderness”
INTERNATIONAL
- “Arms and the Man”
- “Big Deal on Madonna Street”
- “La venganza”
- “My Uncle”
- “The Road a Year Long”
SHORT FILMS
- “Ama Girls”
- “Employees Only”
- “Grand Canyon”
- “Journey into Spring”
- “The Kiss”
- “Knighty Knight Bugs”
- “The Living Stone”
- “Overture”
- “Paul Bunyan”
- “Sidney’s Family Tree”
- “Snows of Aorangi”
- “T Is for Tumbleweed”
