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The 31st Academy Awards | 1959. RKO Pantages Theatre. Monday, April 6, 1959. Honoring movies released in 1958.
The 31st Academy Awards ceremony was held on April 6, 1959, to honor the best films of 1958. The night was dominated by Gigi, which won nine Oscars, breaking the previous record of eight set by Gone with the Wind and tied by From Here to Eternity and On the Waterfront.
South Pacific Wins Sound: 1959 Oscars. The Todd-AO Sound Department and Fred Hynes, Sound Director win the Oscar for Sound for South Pacific at the 31st Academy Awards. Charlton Heston and Jane...
List of Academy Awards for Songs. The first awards were given in 1927, the same year as the first sound film, The Jazz Singer. No musical awards for songs were included until 1934.
Feb 5, 2014 · 32nd Academy Awards (1959): Nominees and Winners – Cinema Sight by Wesley Lovell. BEST MOTION PICTURE. Anatomy of a Murder – Otto Preminger. Ben-Hur – Sam Zimbalist. The Diary of Anne Frank – George Stevens. The Nun’s Story – Henry Blanke. Room at the Top – John Woolf, James Woolf. DIRECTING. Ben-Hur – William Wyler.
The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film.
The original Broadway production, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel, opened in 1959 [1] and won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, out of nine nominations. The first London production opened at the Palace Theatre in 1961. The show has enjoyed numerous productions and revivals since then.
