31st Academy Awards
The Academy Awards 1959 took place on 6 April 1959 RKO Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles. It was the 31st Annual Academy Awards. In the year of award films of the past year are always excellent, in this case, the films of the year 1958.
- 3.1 Honorary Oscar
- 3.2 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
- 3.3 Scientific and Engineering Award
- 3.4 Technical Achievement Award
Presentation
Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Mort Sahl and Tony Randall as facilitators led by the Oscar ceremony.
Winners and nominations
The musical film Gigi was also excellent in all nine categories in which it was nominated. This makes it one of the most successful films at the Oscars.
Best Picture
Gigi - Arthur Freed
Direction
Vincente Minnelli - Gigi
Lead
David Niven - Separate Tables bed ( Separate Tables )
Leading lady
Susan Hayward - Let me live (I Want to Live! )
Supporting Actor
Burl Ives - The Big Country ( The Big Country )
Supporting Actress
Wendy Hiller - Separate Tables bed ( Separate Tables )
Design
Gigi - William A. Horning, E. Preston Ames, Henry Grace, F. Keogh Gleason
Camera (black & white )
The Defiant Ones ( The Defiant Ones ) - Sam Leavitt
Camera ( color film )
Gigi - Joseph Ruttenberg
Costume Design
Gigi - Cecil Beaton
Documentary (Short Film )
Ama Girls - Ben Sharpsteen
Documentary ( long form )
White Wilderness ( " White Wilderness " ) - Ben Sharpsteen
Section
Gigi - Adrienne Fazan
Foreign Language Film
My Uncle ( Mon Oncle ) - France
Music ( Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)
The Old Man and the Sea ( The Old Man and the Sea ) - Dimitri Tiomkin
Music ( Scoring of a Musical Picture)
Gigi - Andre Previn
Music ( Original Song )
Short Film ( Cartoons )
Knighty Knight Bugs - John W. Burton
Short Film ( Live Action )
Grand Canyon - Walt Disney
Sound
South Pacific - Fred Hynes ( Todd - AO SSD)
Special effects
Tom Thumb ( tom thumb ) - Tom Howard
Adapted Screenplay
Gigi - Alan Jay Lerner
Original Screenplay
The Defiant Ones ( The Defiant Ones ) - Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith