16th Golden Globe Awards
The 16th ceremony of the Golden Globe Awards took place on 5 March 1959.
Award winners and nominees
Best Motion Picture - Drama
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Before the night falls
- Let me live
- Separated from bed and board
Best Picture - Musical
Gigi
- Damn Yankees
- South Pacific
- Tom Thumb
Best Motion Picture - Comedy
The great aunt
- My Bell Book and Candle
- Indiscreet
- Me and the Colonel
- Leave pass to Paris
Best Film for the promotion of international understanding
The Inn of the 6th Happiness - Mark Robson
- The Defiant Ones - Stanley Kramer
- Me and the Colonel - Peter Glenville
- Time to live and time to die - Douglas Sirk
- The Young Lions - Edward Dmytryk
Best English-language foreign film
The last night of Titanic - United Kingdom
Best Foreign Language Film
The Girl Rosemarie - Germany When the tide comes in - France The Year Long Road - Yugoslavia
Best Director
Vincente Minnelli - Gigi
- Richard Brooks - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Stanley Kramer - The Defiant Ones
- Delbert Mann - Separated from bed and board
- Robert Wise - Let me live
Best Actor - Drama
David Niven - Separate Tables bed
- Tony Curtis - The Defiant Ones
- Robert Donat - The Inn of the sixth happiness
- Sidney Poitier - The Defiant Ones
- Spencer Tracy - The Old Man and the Sea
Best Actress - Drama
Susan Hayward - Let me live
- Ingrid Bergman - The Inn of the sixth happiness
- Deborah Kerr - Separated from bed and board
- Shirley MacLaine - Damn they are all
- Jean Simmons - Before the night falls
Best Actor - Musical / Comedy
Danny Kaye - Me and the Colonel
- Maurice Chevalier - Gigi
- Clark Gable - 's Pet
- Cary Grant - Indiscreet
- Louis Jourdan - Gigi
Best Actress - Musical / Comedy
Rosalind Russell - The great aunt
- Ingrid Bergman - Indiscreet
- Leslie Caron - Gigi
- Doris Day - Babies to order
- Mitzi Gaynor - South Pacific
Best Newcomer of the Year
Bradford Dillman John Gavin Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
- David Ladd
- Ricky Nelson
- Ray Stricklyn
Best Newcomer of the Year
Linda Cristal Susan Kohner Tina Louise
- Joanna Barnes
- Carol Lynley
- France Nuyen
Best Young Actor
David Ladd - The Proud Rebel
Best TV show
Ann Sothern - The Ann Sothern Show Loretta Young Letter to Loretta Red Skelton Red Skelton Show The Ed Sullivan Toast of the Town Paul Coates The Tonight Show William Orr (producer)
Special Achievement Award
Shirley MacLaine - for the most versatile actress
Cecil B. DeMille Award
Maurice Chevalier
Henrietta Award (World Star Male )
Rock Hudson
Henrietta Award (World Star Female )
Deborah Kerr
Samuel Goldwyn Award
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