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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.
Best Motion PictureBest DirectorGigi – Arthur Freed, producer ‡ Auntie ...Vincente Minnelli – Gigi ‡ Richard Brooks ...David Niven – Separate Tables as Major ...Susan Hayward – I Want to Live! as ...Burl Ives – The Big Country as Rufus ...Wendy Hiller – Separate Tables as Pat ...The Defiant Ones – Nedrick Young and ...Gigi – Alan Jay Lerner from the novella ...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...
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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.
DateSongFilmComposers2022Naatu NaatuRRRM.M. Keeravani, Chandrabose2021No Time To DieNo Time To DieBillie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell2020Fight For YouJudas and the Black MessiahH.E.R., D’Mile, Tiara Thomas2019(I’m Gonna) Love Me AgainRocketmanElton John, Bernie Taupin- Best Motion Picture
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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
Ben-Hur – William Wyler The Diary of Anne Frank – George Stevens The Nun’s Story – Fred Zinnemann Room at the Top – Jack Clayton Some Like It Hot– Billy Wilder
Laurence Harvey – Room at the Top Charlton Heston – Ben-Hur Jack Lemmon – Some Like It Hot Paul Muni – The Last Angry Man James Stewart – Anatomy of a Murder
Doris Day – Pillow Talk Audrey Hepburn – The Nun’s Story Katharine Hepburn – Suddenly, Last Summer Simone Signoret – Room at the Top Elizabeth Taylor – Suddenly, Last Summer
Hugh Griffith – Ben-Hur Arthur O’Connell – Anatomy of a Murder George C. Scott – Anatomy of a Murder Robert Vaughn – The Young Philadelphians Ed Wynn – The Diary of Anne Frank
Hermione Baddeley – Room at the Top Susan Kohner – Imitation of Life Juanita Moore – Imitation of Life Thelma Ritter – Pillow Talk Shelley Winters – The Diary of Anne Frank
Anatomy of a Murder – Wendell Mayes Ben-Hur – Karl Tunberg The Nun’s Story – Robert Anderson Room at the Top – Neil Paterson Some Like It Hot– Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
“The Best Of Everything” – The Best of Everything – Music by Alfred Newman; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn “The Five Pennies” – The Five Pennies – Music, Lyrics by Sylvia Fine “The Hanging Tree” – The Hanging Tree – Music by Jerry Livingston; Lyrics by Mack David “High Hopes” – A Hole in the Head – Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn “Strange Are...
Anatomy of a Murder – Louis R. Loeffler Ben-Hur – Ralph E. Winters, John D. Dunning North by Northwest – George Tomasini The Nun’s Story – Walter Thompson On the Beach– Frederic Knudtson
Anatomy of a Murder – Sam Leavitt Career – Joseph LaShelle The Diary of Anne Frank – William C. Mellor Some Like It Hot – Charles Lang, Jr. The Young Philadelphians– Harry Stradling, Sr.
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.
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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.