31st Academy Awards
Held in 1959 · 18 categories
Best Picture
- Winner Gigi
- Nominee Auntie Mame
- Nominee Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Nominee Separate Tables
- Nominee The Defiant Ones
Best Actor
- Winner Separate Tables · David Niven
- Nominee Cat on a Hot Tin Roof · Paul Newman
- Nominee The Defiant Ones · Sidney Poitier
- Nominee The Defiant Ones · Tony Curtis
- Nominee The Old Man and the Sea · Spencer Tracy
Best Actress
- Winner I Want to Live! · Susan Hayward
- Nominee Auntie Mame · Rosalind Russell
- Nominee Cat on a Hot Tin Roof · Elizabeth Taylor
- Nominee Separate Tables · Deborah Kerr
- Nominee Some Came Running · Shirley MacLaine
Best Supporting Actor
- Winner The Big Country · Burl Ives
- Nominee Some Came Running · Arthur Kennedy
- Nominee Teacher's Pet · Gig Young
- Nominee The Brothers Karamazov · Lee J. Cobb
- Nominee The Defiant Ones · Theodore Bikel
Best Supporting Actress
- Winner Separate Tables · Wendy Hiller
- Nominee Auntie Mame · Peggy Cass
- Nominee Lonelyhearts · Maureen Stapleton
- Nominee Some Came Running · Martha Hyer
- Nominee The Defiant Ones · Cara Williams
Best Director
- Winner Gigi · Vincente Minnelli
- Nominee Cat on a Hot Tin Roof · Richard Brooks
- Nominee I Want to Live! · Robert Wise
- Nominee The Defiant Ones · Stanley Kramer
- Nominee The Inn of the Sixth Happiness · Mark Robson
Best Original Screenplay
- Winner The Defiant Ones · Harold Jacob Smith, Nedrick Young
- Nominee Houseboat · Jack Rose, Melville Shavelson
- Nominee Teacher's Pet · Fay Kanin, Michael Kanin
- Nominee The Goddess · Paddy Chayefsky
- Nominee The Sheepman · James Edward Grant, William Bowers
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Winner Gigi · Alan Jay Lerner
- Nominee Cat on a Hot Tin Roof · James Poe, Richard Brooks
- Nominee I Want to Live! · Don Mankiewicz, Nelson Gidding
- Nominee Separate Tables · John Gay, Terence Rattigan
- Nominee The Horse's Mouth · Alec Guinness
Best International Feature Film
- Winner Mon Oncle
- Nominee Arms and the Man
- Nominee Big Deal on Madonna Street
- Nominee The Road a Year Long
- Nominee Vengeance
Best Documentary Feature
- Winner White Wilderness · Ben Sharpsteen
- Nominee Antarctic Crossing · James Carr
- Nominee Psychiatric Nursing · Nathan Zucker
- Nominee The Hidden World · Robert Snyder
Best Original Score
- Winner Gigi · André Previn
- Winner The Old Man and the Sea · Dimitri Tiomkin
- Nominee Damn Yankees! · Ray Heindorf
- Nominee Mardi Gras · Lionel Newman
- Nominee Separate Tables · David Raksin
- Nominee South Pacific · Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
- Nominee The Big Country · Jerome Moross
- Nominee The Bolshoi Ballet · G. Rozhdestvensky, Yuri Faier
- Nominee The Young Lions · Hugo Friedhofer
- Nominee White Wilderness · Oliver Wallace
Best Original Song
- Winner Gigi from Gigi · Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
- Nominee A Certain Smile from A Certain Smile · Paul Francis Webster, Sammy Fain
- Nominee A Very Precious Love from Marjorie Morningstar · Paul Francis Webster, Sammy Fain
- Nominee Almost In Your Arms (Love Song from Houseboat) from Houseboat · Jay Livingston, Ray Evans
- Nominee Almost in Your Arms · Jay Livingston, Ray Evans
- Nominee To Love and Be Loved from Some Came Running · Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn
Best Cinematography
- Winner Gigi · Joseph Ruttenberg
- Winner The Defiant Ones · Sam Leavitt
- Nominee Auntie Mame · Harry Stradling
- Nominee Cat on a Hot Tin Roof · William H. Daniels
- Nominee Desire Under the Elms · Daniel L. Fapp
- Nominee I Want to Live! · Lionel Lindon
- Nominee Separate Tables · Charles Lang
- Nominee South Pacific · Leon Shamroy
- Nominee The Old Man and the Sea · James Wong Howe
- Nominee The Young Lions · Joseph MacDonald
Best Film Editing
- Winner Gigi · Adrienne Fazan
- Nominee Auntie Mame · William H. Ziegler
- Nominee Cowboy · Al Clark, William Lyon
- Nominee I Want to Live! · William Hornbeck
- Nominee The Defiant Ones · Frederic Knudtson
Best Production Design
- Winner Gigi · E. Preston Ames, F. Keogh Gleason, Henry Grace, William A. Horning
- Nominee A Certain Smile · John DeCuir, Sr., Lyle R. Wheeler, Paul S. Fox, Walter M. Scott
- Nominee Auntie Mame · George Hopkins, Malcolm C. Bert
- Nominee Bell, Book and Candle · Cary Odell, Louis Diage
- Nominee Vertigo · Frank R. McKelvy, Hal Pereira, Henry Bumstead, Samuel M. Comer
Best Costume Design
- Winner Gigi · Cecil Beaton
- Nominee A Certain Smile · Charles LeMaire, Mary Wills
- Nominee Bell, Book and Candle · Jean Louis
- Nominee Some Came Running · Walter Plunkett
- Nominee The Buccaneer · Edith Head, John Jensen, Ralph Jester
Best Sound
- Winner South Pacific · Fred Hynes
- Nominee A Time to Love and a Time to Die · Leslie I. Carey
- Nominee I Want to Live! · Gordon E. Sawyer
- Nominee The Young Lions · Carlton W. Faulkner
- Nominee Vertigo · George Dutton
Best Visual Effects
- Winner Tom Thumb · Tom Howard
- Nominee Torpedo Run · A. Arnold Gillespie, Harold Humbrock