 
|
Best Picture
 AUNTIE MAME - Warner Bros. Jack L. Warner, studio head
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF - Avon, MGM. Produced by Lawrence Weingarten
THE DEFIANT ONES - Kramer, UA. Produced by Stanley Kramer
 GIGI (Won 9 Awards. Swept every nominated category) - Freed, MGM. Produced by Arthur Freed
SEPARATE TABLES - Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, UA. Produced by Harold Hecht
Actor
Tony Curtis in THE DEFIANT ONES
Paul Newman in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
David Niven in SEPARATE TABLES
Sidney Poitier in THE DEFIANT ONES
Spencer Tracy in THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
Actress
Susan Hayward in I WANT TO LIVE!
Deborah Kerr in SEPARATE TABLES
Shirley MacLaine in SOME CAME RUNNING
Rosalind Russell in AUNTIE MAME
Elizabeth Taylor in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Supporting Actor
Theodore Bikel in THE DEFIANT ONES
Lee J. Cobb in THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
Burl Ives in THE BIG COUNTRY
Arthur Kennedy in SOME CAME RUNNING
Gig Young in TEACHER'S PET
Supporting Actress
Peggy Cass in AUNTIE MAME
Wendy Hiller in SEPARATE TABLES
Martha Hyer in SOME CAME RUNNING
Maureen Stapleton in LONELYHEARTS
Cara Williams in THE DEFIANT ONES
Director
Richard Brooks for CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Stanley Kramer for THE DEFIANT ONES
Vincente Minnelli for GIGI
Mark Robson for THE INN OF THE SIXTH HAPPINESS
Robert Wise for I WANT TO LIVE!
Writing: Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen
Nedrick Young & Harold Jacob Smith - THE DEFIANT ONES Film originally credited "Nathan E. Douglas," a pseudonym used by Young.
Paddy Chayefsky - THE GODDESS
Melville Shavelson & Jack Rose - HOUSEBOAT
James Edward Grant & William Bowers - THE SHEEPMAN
Fay Kanin & Michael Kanin - TEACHER'S PET
Writing: Screenplay - Based on Material from Another Medium
Richard Brooks & James Poe - CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Alan Jay Lerner - GIGI
Sir Alec Guinness - THE HORSE'S MOUTH
Nelson Gidding & Don Mankiewicz - I WANT TO LIVE!
Sir Terence Rattigan & John Gay - SEPARATE TABLES
Foreign Language Film
HELDEN (ARMS AND THE MAN, West Germany)
LA VENGANZA (Spain)
MON ONCLE (MY UNCLE, France)
CESTA DUGA GODINU DANA (THE ROAD A YEAR LONG, Yugoslavia)
I SOLITI IGNOTI (THE USUAL UNIDENTIFIED THIEVES, a.k.a. BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET, Italy)
Art Direction/Set Decoration (Black & White or Color)
Malcolm Bert - Art Direction, George James Hopkins - Set Decoration AUNTIE MAME
Cary Odell - Art Direction, Louis Diage - Set Decoration BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE
Lyle Wheeler & John De Cuir - Art Direction, Walter M. Scott
& Paul S. Fox - Set Decoration A CERTAIN SMILE
William A. Horning & Preston Ames - Art Direction, Henry Grace
& Keogh Gleason - Set Decoration GIGI
Hal Pereira & Henry Bumstead - Art Direction, Sam Comer & Frank McKelvy - Set Decoration VERTIGO
Cinematography (Color)
Rules changed back this year to two Awards for Cinematography: one for black & white and one for color.
Harry Stradling - AUNTIE MAME
William H. Daniels - CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Joseph Ruttenberg - GIGI
James Wong Howe - THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
Leon Shamroy - SOUTH PACIFIC
Cinematography (Black & White)
Rules changed back this year to two Awards for Cinematography: one for black & white and one for color.
Sam Leavitt - THE DEFIANT ONES
Daniel L. Fapp - DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS
Lionel Lindon - I WANT TO LIVE!
Charles B. Lang - SEPARATE TABLES
Joseph P. MacDonald - THE YOUNG LIONS
Costume Design (Black & White or Color)
Jean Louis - BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE
Ralph Jester, Edith Head & John Jensen - THE BUCCANEER
Charles LeMaire & Mary Wills - A CERTAIN SMILE
Sir Cecil Beaton - GIGI
Walter Plunkett - SOME CAME RUNNING
Documentary (Features)
James Carr - Producer ANTARCTIC CROSSING
Robert Snyder - Producer THE HIDDEN WORLD
Nathan Zucker - Producer PSYCHIATRIC NURSING
Ben Sharpsteen - Producer WHITE WILDERNESS
Documentary (Shorts)
Ben Sharpsteen - Producer AMA GIRLS
Kenneth G. Brown - Producer EMPLOYEES ONLY
Ian Ferguson - Producer JOURNEY INTO SPRING
Tom Daly - Producer THE LIVING STONE
Thorold Dickinson - Producer OVERTURE
Film Editing
William Ziegler - AUNTIE MAME
William A. Lyon & Al Clark - COWBOY
Frederic Knudtson - THE DEFIANT ONES
Adrienne Fazan - GIGI
William Hornbeck - I WANT TO LIVE!
Music: Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Rules changed this year to two Awards: One Award for Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, and one Award for Scoring of a Musical Picture.
Jerome Moross - THE BIG COUNTRY
Dimitri Tiomkin - THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
David Raksin - SEPARATE TABLES
Oliver Wallace - WHITE WILDERNESS
Hugo Friedhofer - THE YOUNG LIONS
Music: Scoring of a Musical Picture
Rules changed this year to two Awards: One Award for Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, and one Award for Scoring of a Musical Picture.
Yuri Faier & Gennady Rozhdestvensky - THE BOLSHOI BALLET
Ray Heindorf - DAMN YANKEES
Andre Previn - GIGI
Lionel Newman - MARDI GRAS
Alfred Newman & Ken Darby - SOUTH PACIFIC
Music: Song
Sammy Fain - Music, Paul Francis Webster - Lyrics MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR "A Very Precious Love"
Jimmy Van Heusen - Music, Sammy Cahn - Lyrics SOME CAME RUNNING "To Love and Be Loved"
Frederick Loewe - Music, Alan Jay Lerner - Lyrics GIGI "Gigi" 
Sammy Fain - Music, Paul Francis Webster - Lyrics A CERTAIN SMILE "A Certain Smile"
Jay Livingston & Ray Evans - Music & Lyrics HOUSEBOAT "Almost in Your Arms (Love Song from Houseboat)"
Short Subjects (Cartoons)
John W. Burton - Producer KNIGHTY KNIGHT BUGS
Walt Disney - Producer PAUL BUNYAN
William M. Weiss - Producer SIDNEY'S FAMILY TREE
Short Subjects (Live Action Subjects)
Walt Disney - Producer GRAND CANYON
Ian Ferguson - Producer JOURNEY INTO SPRING
John Patrick Hayes - Producer THE KISS
SNOWS OF AORANGI
James A. Lebenthal - Producer T IS FOR TUMBLEWEED
Sound
Gordon Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department) I WANT TO LIVE!
Fred Hynes (Todd-AO Sound Department) SOUTH PACIFIC
Leslie I. Carey (Universal-International Studio Sound Department) A TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO DIE
George Dutton (Paramount Studio Sound Department) VERTIGO
Carl Faulkner (20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department) THE YOUNG LIONS
Special Effects
Tom Howard - Special Effects (Visual) tom thumb
A. Arnold Gillespie - Special Effects (Visual), Harold Humbrock - Special Effects (Audible) TORPEDO RUN
Scientific Or Technical
Class I (Statuette):
No award given for 1958.
Class II (Plaque):
 Don W. Prideaux & Leroy G. Leighton (Lamp Division of General
Electric Company) - For the development and production of an improved 10 kilowatt lamp for motion picture set lighting.
Panavision, Inc. - For the design and development of the Auto Panatar anamorphic photographic lens for 35mm CinemaScope photography.
Class III (Citation):
 Willy Borberg (General Precision Laboratory) - For the development of a high speed intermittent movement for 35mm motion picture theatre projection equipment.
Fred Ponedel, George Brown & Conrad Boye (Warner Bros. Special Effects Department) - For the design and fabrication of a new rapid fire marble gun.
Honorary and Other Awards
Maurice Chevalier - For his contributions to the world of entertainment for more than half a century. Winner presented a Statuette.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Jack L. Warner
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
No award given for 1958.
|
|
|
FIRSTS
· Sidney Poitier's nomination for The Defiant Ones was the first for a black actor.
· Gigi broke the record for the most Oscars® for a single film: 9.
· Although Vincente Minnelli had nearly 40 films to his credit, Gigi was his first and only win.
· Maureen Stapleton was nominated for her screen debut.
RULE CHANGES
· Anti-Communist clause dropped.
· Cinematography again divided into separate Color and Black & White Awards; Musical Scoring again divided into musical and non-musical films.
SINS OF OMISSION
Picture: Vertigo, Touch of Evil, Some Came Running, The Last Hurrah
Director: Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo
Actor: James Stewart - Vertigo
Actress: Kim Novak - Vertigo
Supporting Actor: Maurice Chevalier - Gigi
Supporting Actress: Hermione Gingold - Gigi
Song: "Hard-Headed Woman," "I Remember It Well," "Teacher's Pet," "Thank Heaven for Little Girls"
Foreign Language Film: Ansiktet (The Magician) - Sweden
UNMENTIONABLES
· The year's biggest scandal was the Elizabeth Taylor - Eddie Fisher - Debbie Reynolds triangle. Taylor went from grieving widow to The Woman You Love to Hate.
· Deborah Kerr's affair with writer Paul Viertel and subsequent divorce from longtime husband Tony Bartley cost her the custody of her two children.
· Clifton Webb claimed to have been so shaken up by Susan Hayward's performance in I Want to Live! as a woman who walks bravely into the gas chamber that he sent producer Walter Wanger the bill for a fifth of Scotch.
· MGM treated Gigi like a Broadway show and opened it in a legitimate theater on the Great White Way. It ran for six months at the Royale Theatre, then moved to a regular movie theater for close to a year.
· Nominee Cara Williams made news due to her impending divorce from John Drew Barrymore: "We'll never reconcile because the three of us would never be happy together -- John, myself and his psychiatrist."
· Awards show producer Jerry Wald's fashion dictate this year? "There will be no cleavage on this year's Oscar® Awards show... If you need any help, a wardrobe mistress backstage is equipped with enough lace to make a mummy."
· Ingrid Bergman triumphantly returned to Hollywood just before the ceremony. The Awards show was her first public appearance in Tinseltown since she left the US in 1949 to be with Roberto Rossellini.
· Producer Harold Hecht accepted Wendy Hiller's Supporting Actress Award: "It's a great honor to accept this great honor for a great actress."
· Jayne Mansfield and Inger Stevens were two of the women who modeled for the Costume Awards. Mansfield, who was wearing one of Cecil Beaton's creations for Gigi, stood by him at the podium as he accepted his Award.
· Foreign Language Film winner Jacques Tati criticized the Academy for not fully appreciating America's own film comedians in their heyday. In his acceptance speech, he stated "If Hollywood had not done so many funny pictures, I would not be here tonight." Referring to his winning film Mon oncle he concluded, "For all those great comedians, I am not the uncle, but the nephew. I respect Hollywood."
· Anthony Franciosa, Robert Wagner and Rock Hudson were supposed to come out and sing a response to the "little girls" who'd sung "We're glad you're not young anymore" to Maurice Chevalier. Producer Wald axed the number at the last minute.
· Best Director Vincente Minnelli accepted his Award by calling it "just about the proudest moment of my life." This sentiment was slightly undercut by the fact that he was simultaneously scratching his eye with his middle finger.
· As Best Actress Susan Hayward returned to the stage to take another bow, her producer Walter Wanger said to a friend, "Thank heavens, now we all can relax. Susie got what she's been chasing for twenty years."
· To close the show, Mitzi Gaynor strolled out and burst into "There's No Business Like Show Business." As she charged into the second chorus, a part of the stage behind her rose from below with all the winners and presenters standing side by side and singing along. After two more choruses, Wald signaled to Jerry Lewis. There were 20 minutes of airtime left! Keep on singing! Lewis yelled, "Another twenty times!" As the orchestra kept playing, a few people decided that they might as well start dancing. The two lines dissolved into dancing couples. Dean Martin waltzed by the podium and grabbed himself a statuette. Watching the spectacle on TV at home, Spencer Tracy said, "My God, have we fallen to this?" After extended ad-libs from Lewis, some of the dancing celebrities thought it best to disappear from the stage and many members of the audience were well on their way out of the theater. As Lewis picked up a trumpet and began hitting flat notes, NBC turned its cameras off and filled out the rest of the time slot with a short film about pistols.
|
