Best Motion Picture

• Auntie Mame
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Lawrence Weingarten, producer
• The Defiant Ones, Stanley Kramer, producer
• Gigi, Arthur Freed, producer
• Separate Tables, Harold Hecht, producer

Best Actor

• Tony Curtis, The Defiant Ones
• Paul Newman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• David Niven, Separate Tables
• Sidney Poitier, The Defiant Ones
• Spencer Tracy, The Old Man and the Sea

Best Actress

• Susan Hayward, I Want to Live!
• Deborah Kerr, Separate Tables
• Shirley MacLaine, Some Came Running
• Rosalind Russell, Auntie Mame
• Elizabeth Taylor, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Actor in a Supporting Role

• Theodore Bikel, The Defiant Ones
• Lee J. Cobb, The Brothers Karamazov
• Burl Ives, The Big Country
• Arthur Kennedy, Some Came Running
• Gig Young, Teacher's Pet

Actress in a Supporting Role

• Peggy Cass, Auntie Mame
• Wendy Hiller, Separate Tables
• Martha Hyer, Some Came Running
• Maureen Stapleton, Lonelyhearts
• Cara Williams, The Defiant Ones

Directing

• Richard Brooks, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Stanley Kramer, The Defiant Ones
• Vincente Minnelli, Gigi
• Mark Robson, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
• Robert Wise, I Want to Live!

Writing

• Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium
  • Richard Brooks and James Poe, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • Nelson Gidding and Don Mankiewicz, I Want to Live!
  • Alec Guinness, The Horse's Mouth
  • Alan Jay Lerner, Gigi
  • Terence Rattigan and John Gay, Separate Tables
• Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
  • Paddy Chayefsky, The Goddess
  • James Edward Grant and William Bowers, The Sheepman
  • Fay and Michael Kanin, Teacher's Pet
  • Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose, Houseboat
  • Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith, The Defiant Ones

Cinematography

• Black-and-White
  • Daniel L. Fapp, Desire Under the Elms
  • Charles Lang, Jr., Separate Tables
  • Sam Leavitt, The Defiant Ones
  • Lionel Lindon, I Want to Live!
  • Joe MacDonald, The Young Lions
• Color
  • William Daniels, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • James Wong Howe, The Old Man and the Sea
  • Joseph Ruttenberg, Gigi
  • Leon Shamroy, South Pacific
  • Harry Stradling, Sr., Auntie Mame

Art Direction

• Malcolm Bert, art direction; George James Hopkins, set decoration, Auntie Mame
• William A. Horning and Preston Ames, art direction; Henry Grace and Keogh Gleason, set decoration, Gigi
• Cary Odell, art direction; Louis Diage, set decoration, Bell, Book and Candle
• Hal Pereira and Henry Bumstead, art direction; Sam Comer and Frank McKelvy, set decoration, Vertigo
• Lyle R. Wheeler and John DeCuir, art direction; Walter M. Scott and Paul S. Fox, set decoration, A Certain Smile

Sound

• Paramount Studio Sound Dept., Vertigo
• Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept., I Want to Live!
• Todd-AO Sound Dept., South Pacific
• Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Dept., The Young Lions
• Universal-International Studio Sound Dept., A Time to Love and a Time to Die

Music

• Song
  • "Almost in Your Arms" (Love Song From Houseboat), Houseboat, Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, music and lyrics
  • "A Certain Smile", A Certain Smile, Sammy Fain, music; Paul Francis Webster, lyrics
  • "Gigi", Gigi, Frederick Loewe, music; Alan Jay Lerner, lyrics
  • "To Love and Be Loved", Some Came Running, James Van Heusen, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics
  • "A Very Precious Love", Marjorie Morningstar, Sammy Fain, music; Paul Francis Webster, lyrics
• Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
  • Hugo Friedhofer, The Young Lions
  • Jerome Moross, The Big Country
  • David Raksin, Separate Tables
  • Dimitri Tiomkin, The Old Man and the Sea
  • Oliver Wallace, White Wilderness
• Scoring of a Musical Picture
  • Yuri Faier and G. Rozhdestvensky, The Bolshoi Ballet
  • Ray Heindorf, Damn Yankees
  • Alfred Newman and Ken Darby, South Pacific
  • Lionel Newman, Mardi Gras
  • André Previn, Gigi

Film Editing

• Adrienne Fazan, Gigi
• William Hornbeck, I Want to Live!
• Frederick Knudtson, The Defiant Ones
• William A. Lyon and Al Clark, Cowboy
• William Ziegler, Auntie Mame

Costume Design

• Black-and-White or Color
  • Cecil Beaton, Gigi
  • Ralph Jester, Edith Head and John Jensen, The Buccaneer
  • Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills, A Certain Smile
  • Jean Louis, Bell, Book and Candle
  • Walter Plunkett, Some Came Running

Special Effects

• A. Arnold Gillespie, visual; Harold Humbrock, audible, Torpedo Run
• Tom Howard, visual, tom thumb

Short Subjects

• Cartoon
  • Knighty Knight Bugs (Bugs Bunny Series) (John W. Burton, producer; Warner Bros.)
  • Paul Bunyan (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista)
  • Sidney's Family Tree (Silly Sidney Series) (Terrytoons; Twentieth Century-Fox)
• Live Action
  • Grand Canyon (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista)
  • Journey Into Spring (British Transport Films; Lester A. Schoenfeld Films)
  • The Kiss (Cohay Productions; Continental Distributing, Inc.)
  • Snows of Aorangi (New Zealand Screen Board; George Brest and Associates)
  • T Is for Tumbleweed (James A. Lebenthal Productions; Continental Distributing, Inc.)

Documentary

• Short Subject
  • AMA Girls (People and Places Series) (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista)
  • Employees Only (Kenneth G. Brown, producer; Hughes Aircraft Co.)
  • Journey Into Spring (British Transport Films; Lester A. Schoenfeld Films)
  • The Living Stone (Tom Daly, producer; National Film Board of Canada)
  • Overture (United Nations Film Services; Kingsley International Pictures)
• Feature
  • Antarctic Crossing (World Wide Pictures; Lester A. Schoenfeld Films)
  • The Hidden World (Robert Snyder, producer; Small World Co.)
  • Psychiatric Nursing (Nathan Zucker, producer; Dynamic Films, Inc.)
  • White Wilderness (True Life Adventure Series) (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista)

Foreign Language Film

• Arms and the Man, Federal Republic of Germany,West
• La Venganza, Spain
• My Uncle, France
• The Road a Year Long, Yugoslavia
• The Usual Unidentified Thieves, Italy

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

• Jack L. Warner

Honorary Award

• To Maurice Chevalier for his contributions to the world of entertainment over more than half a century

Facts:

• Winners Announced: April 6, 1959
• Held at: Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, California
• Host: Jerry Lewis, Mort Sahl, Tony Randall, Bob Hope, David Niven and Laurence Olivier
• Eligibility Year: 1958