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.
31st Academy Awards
People lining the street under the marquee of the Pantages Theater at the 31st Academy Awards.
Gigi set a new record for biggest Oscars sweep, winning all nine of its nominations, which would later be tied by The Last Emperor in 1987 and broken, in 2003, when The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won all 11 of its nominations. Finally, Gigi was the last film until The Last Emperor to win Best Picture without any acting nominations.[1]
The show's producer, Jerry Wald, started cutting numbers from the show to make sure it ran on time, but cut too much material, and the ceremony ended 20 minutes early, leaving Jerry Lewis to attempt to fill in the time, which he did with a performance of "There's No Business Like Show Business" from all 90 of the participating stars;[3] Lewis did impromptu conducting of the number, but some of the stars began to talk among themselves, while others left or bumped into each other in confusion. Eventually, NBC cut to a re-run of a sports show.[3]
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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 31st Academy AwardsPeople lining the street under the marquee of the Pantages Theater at the 31st Academy Awards DateApril 6 1959SitePantages Theatre Hollywood California USAHosted byJerry Lewis Mort Sahl Tony Randall Bob Hope David Niven and Laurence OlivierProduced byJerry WaldDirected byAlan HandleyHighlightsBest PictureGigiMost awardsGigi 9 Most nominationsThe Defiant Ones and Gigi 9 TV in the United StatesNetworkNBC 30th Academy Awards 32nd Gigi set a new record for biggest Oscars sweep winning all nine of its nominations which would later be tied by The Last Emperor in 1987 and broken in 2003 when The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King won all 11 of its nominations Finally Gigi was the last film until The Last Emperor to win Best Picture without any acting nominations 1 The ceremony was hosted by an ensemble of actors Jerry Lewis Mort Sahl Tony Randall Bob Hope David Niven and Laurence Olivier Niven won Best Actor that night making him the only host in Oscar history to have won an award while hosting 2 The show s producer Jerry Wald started cutting numbers from the show to make sure it ran on time but cut too much material and the ceremony ended 20 minutes early leaving Jerry Lewis to attempt to fill in the time which he did with a performance of There s No Business Like Show Business from all 90 of the participating stars 3 Lewis did impromptu conducting of the number but some of the stars began to talk among themselves while others left or bumped into each other in confusion Eventually NBC cut to a re run of a sports show 3 Contents 1 Awards 1 1 Academy Honorary Award 1 2 Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award 2 Presenters and performers 2 1 Presenters 2 2 Performers 3 Multiple nominations and awards 4 See also 5 ReferencesAwards edit nbsp Vincente Minnelli Best Director winner nbsp David Niven Best Actor winner nbsp Susan Hayward Best Actress winner nbsp Burl Ives Best Supporting Actor winner nbsp Wendy Hiller Best Supporting Actress winner nbsp Walt Disney Best Live Action Short Film winner nbsp Andre Previn Best Scoring of a Musical Picture winner nbsp Cecil Beaton Best Costume Design winner Nominations announced on February 23 1959 Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface 4 Best Motion Picture Best DirectorGigi Arthur Freed producer Auntie Mame Jack L Warner producer Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Lawrence Weingarten producer The Defiant Ones Stanley Kramer producer Separate Tables Harold Hecht producer Vincente Minnelli Gigi Richard Brooks Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Stanley Kramer The Defiant Ones Robert Wise I Want to Live Mark Robson The Inn of the Sixth HappinessBest Actor Best ActressDavid Niven Separate Tables as Major David Angus Pollock Tony Curtis The Defiant Ones as John Joker Jackson Paul Newman Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Brick Pollitt Sidney Poitier The Defiant Ones as Noah Cullen Spencer Tracy The Old Man and the Sea as The Old Man Susan Hayward I Want to Live as Barbara Graham Deborah Kerr Separate Tables as Sibyl Railton Bell Shirley MacLaine Some Came Running as Ginny Moorehead Rosalind Russell Auntie Mame as Mame Dennis Elizabeth Taylor Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Margaret Maggie the Cat PollittBest Supporting Actor Best Supporting ActressBurl Ives The Big Country as Rufus Hannassey Theodore Bikel The Defiant Ones as Sheriff Max Muller Lee J Cobb The Brothers Karamazov as Fyodor Karamazov Arthur Kennedy Some Came Running as Frank Hirsh Gig Young Teacher s Pet as Dr Hugo Pine Wendy Hiller Separate Tables as Pat Cooper Peggy Cass Auntie Mame as Agnes Gooch Martha Hyer Some Came Running as Gwen French Maureen Stapleton Lonelyhearts as Fay Doyle Cara Williams The Defiant Ones as Billy s motherBest Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another MediumThe Defiant Ones Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith The Goddess Paddy Chayefsky Houseboat Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose The Sheepman William Bowers and James Edward Grant Teacher s Pet Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin Gigi Alan Jay Lerner from the novella by Colette Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Richard Brooks and James Poe from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams The Horse s Mouth Alec Guinness from The Horse s Mouth by Joyce Cary I Want to Live Don Mankiewicz and Nelson Gidding from writings by Ed Montgomery and Barbara Graham Separate Tables John Gay and Terence Rattigan from Separate Tables by Terence RattiganBest Foreign Language Film Best Documentary FeatureMy Uncle France Arms and the Man West Germany Big Deal on Madonna Street Italy The Road a Year Long Yugoslavia La venganza Spain White Wilderness Ben Sharpsteen Antarctic Crossing The Hidden World Psychiatric NursingBest Documentary Short Subject Best Live Action Short SubjectAma Girls Ben Sharpsteen Employees Only Journey into Spring The Living Stone Overture Grand Canyon Walt Disney Journey into Spring Ian Ferguson The Kiss John Hayes Snows of Aorangi New Zealand Screen Board T Is for Tumbleweed James A LebenthalBest Short Subject Cartoons Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy PictureKnighty Knight Bugs John W Burton Paul Bunyan Walt Disney Sidney s Family Tree William M Weiss The Old Man and the Sea Dimitri Tiomkin The Big Country Jerome Moross Separate Tables David Raksin White Wilderness Oliver Wallace The Young Lions Hugo FriedhoferBest Scoring of a Musical Picture Best SongGigi Andre Previn The Bolshoi Ballet Yuri Faier and G Rozhdestvensky Damn Yankees Ray Heindorf Mardi Gras Lionel Newman South Pacific Alfred Newman and Ken Darby Gigi from Gigi Music by Frederick Loewe Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner Almost In Your Arms Love Song from Houseboat from Houseboat Music and Lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans A Certain Smile from A Certain Smile Music by Sammy Fain Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster To Love and Be Loved from Some Came Running Music by Jimmy Van Heusen Lyrics by Sammy Cahn A Very Precious Love from Marjorie Morningstar Music by Sammy Fain Lyrics by Paul Francis WebsterBest Sound Best Art DirectionSouth Pacific Fred Hynes I Want to Live Gordon E Sawyer A Time to Love and a Time to Die Leslie I Carey Vertigo George Dutton The Young Lions Carlton W Faulkner Gigi Art Direction William A Horning posthumous award and E Preston Ames Set Decoration Henry Grace and F Keogh Gleason Auntie Mame Art Direction Malcolm Bert Set Decoration George James Hopkins Bell Book and Candle Art Direction Cary Odell Set Decoration Louis Diage A Certain Smile Art Direction Lyle R Wheeler and John DeCuir Set Decoration Walter M Scott and Paul S Fox Vertigo Art Direction Hal Pereira and Henry Bumstead Set Decoration Samuel M Comer and Frank R McKelvyBest Costume Design Best Cinematography Black and WhiteGigi Cecil Beaton Bell Book and Candle Jean Louis The Buccaneer Ralph Jester Edith Head and John Jensen A Certain Smile Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills Some Came Running Walter Plunkett The Defiant Ones Sam Leavitt Desire Under the Elms Daniel L Fapp I Want to Live Lionel Lindon Separate Tables Charles Lang The Young Lions Joseph MacDonaldBest Cinematography Color Best Film EditingGigi Joseph Ruttenberg Auntie Mame Harry Stradling Sr Cat on a Hot Tin Roof William Daniels The Old Man and the Sea James Wong Howe South Pacific Leon Shamroy Gigi Adrienne Fazan Auntie Mame William Ziegler Cowboy William Lyon and Al Clark The Defiant Ones Frederic Knudtson I Want to Live William HornbeckBest Special EffectsTom Thumb Tom Howard Torpedo Run Visual Effects A Arnold Gillespie Audible Effects Harold HumbrockAcademy Honorary Award edit Maurice Chevalier for his contributions to the world of entertainment for more than half a century Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award edit Jack L WarnerPresenters and performers editThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed September 2015 Learn how and when to remove this template message Presenters edit Buddy Adler Presenter Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award Eddie Albert and Vincent Price Presenters Art Direction Award June Allyson and Dick Powell Presenters Musical Scoring Awards Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant Presenters Best Motion Picture Dirk Bogarde Van Heflin and Elizabeth Taylor Presenters Writing Awards Red Buttons and Shelley Winters Presenters Best Supporting Actress James Cagney and Kim Novak Presenters Best Actress Cyd Charisse and Robert Stack Presenters Best Foreign Language Film Gary Cooper and Millie Perkins Presenters Best Director Wendell Corey and Ernie Kovacs Presenters Costume Design Award Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh Presenters Short Subjects Awards Bette Davis and Anthony Quinn Presenters Best Supporting Actor Doris Day and Rock Hudson Presenters Cinematography Awards Irene Dunne and John Wayne Presenters Best Actor Louis Jourdan 5 and Jean Simmons Presenters Best Film Editing Anthony Franciosa and Eva Marie Saint Presenters Music Awards Charlton Heston and Jane Wyman Presenters Best Sound Recording Sophia Loren and Dean Martin Presenters Best Original Song Shirley MacLaine and Peter Ustinov Presenters Best Visual Effects Rosalind Russell Presenter Honorary Award to Maurice Chevalier Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood Presenters Documentary Awards Performers edit Lionel Newman Conductor the Academy Awards orchestra Nick Adams Anna Maria Alberghetti James Darren Dean Jones Connie Stevens and Tuesday Weld Almost In Your Arms from Houseboat Joan Collins Angela Lansbury and Dana Wynter It s Great Not to Be Nominated Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster It s Alright With Us Eddie Fisher To Love and Be Loved from Some Came Running Rhonda Fleming and Howard Keel A Very Precious Love from Marjorie Morningstar Tony Martin Gigi from Gigi John Raitt A Certain Smile from A Certain Smile Multiple nominations and awards editThese films had multiple nominations 9 nominations The Defiant Ones Gigi 7 nominations Separate Tables 6 nominations Auntie Mame Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and I Want to Live 5 nominations Some Came Running 3 nominations A Certain Smile The Old Man and the Sea South Pacific and The Young Lions 2 nominations Bell Book and Candle The Big Country Houseboat Journey into Spring Teacher s Pet Vertigo and White Wilderness The following films received multiple awards 9 wins Gigi 2 wins The Defiant Ones and Separate TablesSee also edit1958 in film 1st Grammy Awards 10th Primetime Emmy Awards 11th Primetime Emmy Awards 12th British Academy Film Awards 13th Tony Awards 16th Golden Globe AwardsReferences edit Shaw Gabbi Parasite is the 12th movie in history to win Best Picture with no acting nominations here are the other 11 Insider Insider Inc Retrieved March 27 2023 James Franco 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