Academy Award for Best Director 1959
31st Academy Awards · held April 6, 1959 · 5 nominees
- Winner Vincente Minnelli · Gigi
- Nominee Richard Brooks · Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Nominee Robert Wise · I Want to Live!
- Nominee Stanley Kramer · The Defiant Ones
- Nominee Mark Robson · The Inn of the Sixth Happiness