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1958 Academy Awards

The 1958 Academy Awards were presented April 6, 1959 at the RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, Calif.

Best Motion Picture

Auntie Mame (Warner Bros.)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Lawrence Weingarten, producer (MGM)

The Defiant Ones, Stanley Kramer, producer (United Artists)

Gigi, Arthur Freed, producer (MGM)

Separate Tables, Harold Hecht, producer (United Artists)

Gigi

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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)