![]() ![]() A Certain Smile – Art Direction: Lyle R.Bell, Book and Candle – Art Direction: Cary Odell Set Decoration: Louis Diage.Auntie Mame – Art Direction: Malcolm Bert Set Decoration: George James Hopkins.Preston Ames Set Decoration: Henry Grace and F. A Time to Love and a Time to Die – Leslie I." 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." A Certain Smile" from A Certain Smile – Music by Sammy Fain Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster."Almost In Your Arms (Love Song from Houseboat)" from Houseboat – Music and Lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans." Gigi" from Gigi – Music by Frederick Loewe Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner‡.South Pacific – Alfred Newman and Ken Darby.The Bolshoi Ballet – Yuri Faier and G.The Old Man and the Sea – Dimitri Tiomkin‡.Lebenthalīest Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Snows of Aorangi – New Zealand Screen Board.Separate Tables – John Gay and Terence Rattigan from Separate Tables by Terence Rattigan.I Want to Live! – Don Mankiewicz and Nelson Gidding from writings by Ed Montgomery and Barbara Graham.The Horse's Mouth – Alec Guinness from The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary.Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Richard Brooks and James Poe from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams.Gigi – Alan Jay Lerner from the novella by Colette‡.Teacher's Pet – Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin.The Sheepman – William Bowers and James Edward Grant.Houseboat – Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose.The Defiant Ones – Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith‡.Cara Williams – The Defiant Ones as Billy's motherīest Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screenīest Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.Maureen Stapleton – Lonelyhearts as Fay Doyle.Martha Hyer – Some Came Running as Gwen French.Peggy Cass – Auntie Mame as Agnes Gooch.Wendy Hiller – Separate Tables as Pat Cooper‡.Arthur Kennedy – Some Came Running as Frank Hirsh.Cobb – The Brothers Karamazov as Fyodor Karamazov Theodore Bikel – The Defiant Ones as Sheriff Max Muller.Burl Ives – The Big Country as Rufus Hannassey‡.Elizabeth Taylor – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Margaret "Maggie the Cat" Pollitt.Rosalind Russell – Auntie Mame as Mame Dennis.Shirley MacLaine – Some Came Running as Ginny Moorehead.Deborah Kerr – Separate Tables as Sibyl Railton-Bell.Susan Hayward – I Want to Live! as Barbara Graham‡.Spencer Tracy – The Old Man and the Sea as The Old Man.Sidney Poitier – The Defiant Ones as Noah Cullen.Paul Newman – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Brick Pollitt.Tony Curtis – The Defiant Ones as John "Joker" Jackson.David Niven – Separate Tables as Major David Angus Pollock‡.Mark Robson – The Inn of the Sixth Happiness.Separate Tables – Harold Hecht, producer.The Defiant Ones – Stanley Kramer, producer.Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Lawrence Weingarten, producer.Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface. Nominations announced on February 23, 1959. Eventually, NBC cut to a re-run of a sports show. ![]() The show's producer, Jerry Wald, started cutting numbers from the show to make sure it ran on time, but cut too much material, and the ceremony ended 20 minutes early, leaving Jerry Lewis to attempt to fill in the time. Niven won Best Actor that night, making him the only host in Oscar history to have win an award while hosting. The ceremony was hosted by an ensemble of actors: Jerry Lewis, Mort Sahl, Tony Randall, Bob Hope, David Niven, and Laurence Olivier. ![]() Finally, Gigi was the last film until The Last Emperor to win Best Picture without any acting nominations. Gigi set a new record for biggest Oscars sweep, winning all nine of its nominations, which would later be tied by The Last Emperor in 1987 and broken, in 2003, when The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won all 11 of its nominations. The night was dominated by Gigi, which won nine Oscars, breaking the previous record of eight set by Gone with the Wind and tied by From Here to Eternity and On the Waterfront. The 31st Academy Awards ceremony was held on April 6, 1959, to honor the best films of 1958. ![]()
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