Film Data For 1959

The Film Daily's Top Ten Pictures
1) Anatomy of a Murder- 230 votes
2) The Diary of Anne Frank- 180
3) The Nun's Story- 167
4) Pillow Talk- 151
5) North by Northwest- 150
6) Room at the Top (1958)- 145
7) Some Like it Hot- 129
8) Compulsion- 121
9) I Want to Live! (1958)- 106
10) Some Came Running (1958)- 93                                          

The Honor Roll

11) The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)- 90
12) A Hole in the Head- 71
13) The FBI Story- 63
14) Bell, Book, and Candle (1958)- 57
      The Big Fisherman- 57
16) Middle of the Night- 53
17) Imitation of Life- 39
18) The Shaggy Dog- 36
19) Ben-Hur- 32
20) But Not For Me- 31
      The Sound and the Fury- 31

22) Career- 30
      The Hanging Tree- 30
      Rio Bravo- 30
25) This Earth is Mine- 28
26) Darby O'Gill and the Little People- 27
27) The Devil's Disciple- 26
28) Sapphire- 25
29) It Started With a Kiss- 24
30) Third Man on the Mountain- 23
31) The Horse Soldiers- 21
32) Sleeping Beauty- 20
33) Ask Any Girl- 19
34) The Big Circus- 17
35) Al Capone- 16
36) Gidget- 14
      The Roof- 14
38) The Perfect Furlough- 13
39) The Last Angry Man- 11
40) On the Beach- 10

No vote counts given for the following categories, but I believe The Film Daily lists them in order of preference:

Best Performances By Male Stars
1) James Stewart in Anatomy of a Murder
2) Fredric March in Middle of the Night
3) Frank Sinatra in Some Came Running (1958)
4) Laurence Harvey in Room at the Top (1958)
5) Rock Hudson in Pillow Talk

Best Performances By Female Stars
1) Audrey Hepburn in The Nun's Story
2) Rosalind Russell in Auntie Mame (1958)
3) Shirley MacLaine in Some Came Running (1958)
4) Susan Hayward in I Want to Live! (1958)
5) Ingrid Bergman in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)

Best Male Supporting Performances
1) Joseph N. Welch in Anatomy of a Murder
2) Tony Randall in Pillow Talk
3) George C. Scott in Anatomy of a Murder
4) Joseph Schildkraut in The Diary of Anne Frank
5) Arthur O'Connell in Anatomy of a Murder

Best Female Supporting Performances (only four ladies were mentioned)
1) Peggy Cass in Auntie Mame (1958)
2) Thelma Ritter in Pillow Talk
3) Susan Kohner in Imitation of Life
4) Shelley Winters in The Diary of Anne Frank

The Best Performances By Male Juveniles
1) Eddie Hodges in A Hole in the Head
2) Tommy Kirk in The Shaggy Dog
3) James MacArthur in Third Man on the Mountain
4) Ricky Nelson in Rio Bravo
5) Tim Considine in The Shaggy Dog

The Best Performances By Female Juveniles
1) Sandra Dee in Imitation of Life
2) Millie Perkins in The Diary of Anne Frank
3) Janet Munro in Darby O'Gill and the Little People
4) Carol Lynley in Blue Demin
5) Susan Kohner in Imitation of Life

"Finds of the Year"
1) Millie Perkins in The Diary of Anne Frank
2) Joseph N. Welch in Anatomy of a Murder
3) Bradford Dillman in Compulsion
4) Susan Kohner in Imitation of Life
5) Diane Baker in The Best of Everything

The Year's Outstanding Directors
1) Otto Preminger for Anatomy of a Murder
2) George Stevens for The Diary of Anne Frank
3) Fred Zinnemann for The Nun's Story
4) Alfred Hitchcock for North by Northwest
5) Billy Wilder for Some Like it Hot

The Best Screenplays of the Year
1) Wendell Mayes for Anatomy of a Murder
2) Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett for The Diary of Anne Frank
3) Neil Paterson for Room at the Top (1958)
4) Richard Murphy for Compulsion
5) Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin for Pillow Talk

The Year's Best Photographed Pictures
1) Franz Planer for The Nun's Story
2) Harry Stradling for Auntie Mame
3) Robert Burks for North By Northwest
4) William Meller for The Diary of Anne Frank
5) Harry Waxman for Third Man on the Mountain


The National Board of Review (Voting results announced in December, 1959)
The Top Ten Pictures (in order of preference)
The Nun's Story
Ben-Hur
Anatomy of a Murder
The Diary of Anne Frank

Middle of the Night

The Man Who Understood Women
Some Like it Hot
Suddenly, Last Summer
On the Beach
North by Northwest

Best Director
Fred Zinnemann for The Nun's Story

Best Actor
Victor Seastrom in Wild Strawberries (1957)

Best Actress
Simone Signoret in Room at the Top (1958)

Best Supporting Actor
Hugh Griffith in Ben-Hur

Best Supporting Actress
Dame Edith Evans in The Nun's Story

Best Foreign Film (in order of preference)
Wild Strawberries (1957- Sweden)
Room at the Top (1958- U.K.)
Aparajito (1956- India)
The Roof (1956- Italy)
Look Back in Anger (U.K.)

Special Citations
Ingmar Bergman
Andrew Marton and Yakima Canut for their direction of the chariot race in Ben-Hur.

The New York Film Critics (Winners announced on December 28, 1959. Awards presented on January 23, 1960. Voting count source: The Hollywood Reporter, December 29, 1959)

Best Picture
Ben-Hur (10 votes on ballot V)

Runner-up: Room at the Top (1958- 5 votes)

Ballot I: Ben-Hur (5 votes), On the Beach (3 votes), Anatomy of a Murder (2 votes), Career (1 vote), The Diary of Anne Frank (1 votes), The Last Angry Man (1 vote), Room at the Top (1 vote), Suddenly, Last Summer (1 vote).
 
Ballot II addition: The Nun's Story (1 vote)

Best Actor
James Stewart in Anatomy of a Murder (10 votes on ballot V)

Runner-up: Paul Muni in The Last Angry Man (5 votes)

Ballot I: Paul Muni (5 votes), Charlton Heston (4 votes for Ben-Hur), James Stewart (3 votes), Laurence Harvey (1 vote for Room at the Top), Jack Lemmon (1 vote for Some Like it Hot), Joseph N. Welch (1 vote for Anatomy of a Murder).

Ballot II additions: Richard Burton for Look Back in Anger (1 vote), Orson Welles for Compulsion (1 vote). 

Best Actress
Audrey Hepburn in The Nun's Story (8 votes on ballot VI)

Runner-up: Simone Signoret for Room at the Top (7 votes)

Ballot I: Audrey Hepburn (6 votes), Simone Signoret (5 votes), Elizabeth Taylor (2 votes for Suddenly, Last Summer), Millie Perkins (1 vote for The Diary of Anne Frank), Lee Remick (1 vote for Anatomy of a Murder).

Best Director
Fred Zinnemann for The Nun's Story (8 votes on ballot VI)

Runner-up: Jack Clayton for Room at the Top (5 votes)
                     Basil Dearden for Sapphire (1 vote)
                     William Wyler for Ben-Hur (1 vote)

Ballot I: Fred Zinnemann (3 votes), William Wyler (3 votes), Jack Clayton (2 votes), Basil Dearden (1 vote)

Best Screenplay
Wendell Mayes for Anatomy of a Murder (10 votes on ballot III)

Runner-up: Karl Tunberg for Ben-Hur (3 votes on ballot III- 2 critics abstained from voting)

Ballot I: Wendall Mayes (4 votes), Tunberg (3 votes), James Lee (1 vote for Career), Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett (1 vote for The Diary of Anne Frank), (1 vote for Look Back in Anger), Neil Paterson (1 vote for Room at the Top), Janet Green (1 vote for Sapphire)

Best Foreign Film
The 400 Blows (France)

Runner-up: Black Orpheus (3 votes on ballot III)

Ballot I: The 400 Blows (7 votes), Black Orpheus (5 votes), Aparajito (2 votes), Wild Strawberries (1 vote)

Note/rant: I've always found the above voting process odd, as films and performances gain or lose rank after the first ballot, even though the films and performances that were voted for on the first ballot are the same. It's hard to take the critics' votes seriously when they claim one film is the best, then switch their choice in order to gain the number of votes needed for consensus, suddenly adding and/or dropping a film or performance on later ballots, leading one to wonder what film each critic honestly thought was the best. I think James Stewart is a solid choice for this year (although I'm in the Lemmon camp), but I bet Paul Muni wouldn't be happy to know he won based on the first go-round. It's similar to today's environment, when a film or performance gets early Oscar buzz, then loses value over time and/or is discredited due to controversy concerning a crew or cast member or is suddenly just considered passe, often resulting in the film or performance not even getting nominated, even though the quality of the film and its participants' work therein is unchanged and still should have the same merit. I think the first ballot should truly reflect what each critic believes is the best, and the award should be granted based on these results, just as the Academy Awards are decided after members vote once. 

The Golden Globes (Nominations were announced on February 2, 1960. Awards were presented on March 10, 1960. Source: Movie Awards by Tom O'Neil, 2001)

Winners listed in bold.

Best Drama
Anatomy of a Murder
Ben-Hur
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Nun's Story
On the Beach

Best Comedy
But Not for Me
Operation Petticoat
Pillow Talk
Some Like it Hot
Who Was That Lady?

Best Musical
The Five Pennies
Li'l Abner
Porgy and Bess
A Private Affair
Say One for Me

Best Motion Picture Promoting International Understanding
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Nun's Story
Odds Against Tomorrow
On the Beach
Take a Giant Step

Best Director
Stanley Kramer for On the Beach
Otto Preminger for Anatomy of a Murder
George Stevens for The Diary of Anne Frank
William Wyler for Ben-Hur
Fred Zinnemann for The Nun's Story

Best Actor, Drama
Richard Burton in Look Back in Anger
Anthony Franciosa in Career
Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur
Fredric March in Middle of the Night
Joseph Schildkraut in The Diary of Anne Frank

Best Actress, Drama
Audrey Hepburn in The Nun's Story
Katharine Hepburn in Suddenly, Last Summer
Lee Remick in Anatomy of a Murder
Simone Signoret in Room at the Top (1958)
Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly, Last Summer

Best Actor, Comedy or Musical
Clark Gable in But Not for Me
Cary Grant in Operation Petticoat
Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot
Dean Martin in Who Was That Lady?
Sidney Poitier in Porgy and Bess

Best Actress, Comedy or Musical
Dorothy Dandridge in Porgy and Bess
Doris Day in Pillow Talk
Shirley MacLaine in Ask Any Girl
Marilyn Monroe in Some Like it Hot
Lilli Palmer in But Not for Me

Best Supporting Actor
Fred Astaire in On the Beach
Stephen Boyd in Ben-Hur
Tony Randall in Pillow Talk
Robert Vaughn in The Young Philadelphians
Joseph N. Welch in Anatomy of a Murder

Best Supporting Actress
Dame Edith Evans in The Nun's Story
Estelle Hamsley in Take a Giant Step
Susan Kohner in Imitation of Life
Juanita Moore in Imitation of Life
Shelley Winters in The Diary of Anne Frank

Best Foreign-Language Films
Aren't We Wonderful (1958- Germany)
Black Orpheus (France)
The Bridge (Germany)
Odd Obsession (Japan)
Wild Strawberries (1957- Sweden)

Best Original Score
Ernest Gold for On the Beach

World Film Favorites
Doris Day
Rock Hudson

Most Promising Newcomer- Male
Barry Coe
Troy Donahue
George Hamilton
James Shigeta
Michael Callan

Most Promising Newcomer- Female
Angie Dickinson
Janet Munro
Stella Stevens
Tuesday Weld
Diane Baker
Yvette Mimieux
Cindy Robbins

Samuel Goldwyn International Award
Room at the Top (1958)

Special Merit Award
The Nun's Story

Special Journalistic Merit Award
Hedda Hopper
Louella H. Parsons

Cecil B. DeMille Award
Bing Crosby

Special Achievement Award
Ramon Novarro
Francis X. Bushman
Andrew Marton for directing the chariot race in Ben-Hur

The 1959 British Academy Awards (Sources: The BAFTA online site and Cobbett Steinberg's Film Facts)

Best Film From Any Source and Best British Film
Anatomy of a Murder (U.S.)
Ashes and Diamonds (Popiól i Diament) (Poland)
Ben Hur (U.S.- won for Best Film)
The Big Country (U.S.- 1958)
Compulsion (U.S.)
The Face (Ansiktet) (Sweden)
Gigi (U.S.- 1958)
Look Back in Anger (Great Britain)
Maigret Sets a Trap (Maigret tend un piège) (France)
North West Frontier (G.B.)
The Nun's Story (U.S.)
Sapphire (G.B.- won for Best British Film)
Some Like it Hot (U.S.)
Tiger Bay (G.B.)
Yesterday's Enemy (G.B.)

Best British Actor
Stanley Baker in Yesterday's Enemy
Richard Burton in Look Back in Anger
Peter Finch in The Nun's Story
Laurence Harvey in Expresso Bongo
Gordon Jackson in Yesterday's Enemy
Laurence Olivier in The Devil's Disciple
Peter Sellers in I'm All Right, Jack

Best British Actress
Peggy Ashcroft in The Nun's Story
Audrey Hepburn in The Nun's Story
Wendy Hiller in Separate Tables
Yvonne Mitchell in Sapphire
Sylvia Sims in No Trees in the Street
Kay Walsh in The Horse's Mouth (1958)

Best Foreign Actor
Zbigniew Cybulski in Ashes and Diamonds (Popiól i Diament)
Jean Desailly in Maigret Sets a Trap (Maigret tend un piège)
Jean Gabin in Maigret Sets a Trap (Maigret tend un piège)
Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot
Takashi Shimura in Living (Ikiru)
James Stewart in Anatomy of a Murder

Best Foreign Actress
Ava Gardner in On the Beach
Susan Hayward in I Want to Live! (1958)
Ella Lambetti in Matter of Dignity
Shirley MacLaine in Ask Any Girl
Rosalind Russell in Auntie Mame (1958)                                

Most Promising Newcomer to Film

Gerry Dugan in The Siege of Pinchgut
Liz Fraser in I'm All Right, Jack
Hayley Mills in Tiger Bay
Joseph N. Welch in Anatomy of a Murder

Best British Screenplay
Ben Barzman and Millard Lampbell for Blind Date
Wolf Mankowitz for Expresso Bongo
Alec Guinness for The Horse's Mouth
Frank Harvey, John Boulting and Alan Hackney for I'm All Right, Jack
Nigel Kneale for Look Back in Anger
Robin Estridge for North West Frontier
Ted Willis for No Trees in the Street
Janet Green for Sapphire
John Hawksworth and Shelley Smith for Tiger Bay

Best Animated Film
Beep Peep
Dom
Short and Suite
The Violinist

Best Specialised Film
Coupe des alpes: The Story of the 1958 Alpine RallyHazard
High Speed Flight Pts. I/II & III
This is the BBC
Tribute to Fangio

United Nations Award
The Nun's Story
On the Beach

The Academy Awards (Nominations were announced on February 22, 1960. Awards were presented April 4, 1960. Source: Inside Oscar by Mason Wiley & Damien Bona, 1986). (Winners listed in bold).

Best Picture
Anatomy of a Murder, Preminger, Columbia. Produced by Otto Preminger.
Ben-Hur, MGM. Produced by Sam Zimbalist.
The Diary of Anne Frank, 20th Century-Fox. Produced by George Stevens.
The Nun's Story, Warner Bros. Produced by Henry Blanke.
Room at the Top (1958), Romulus, Continental (British). Produced by John and James Woolf.

Best Director
Jack Clayton for Room at the Top (1958)(Romulus, Continental- British).
George Stevens for The Diary of Anne Frank (20th Century-Fox).
Billy Wilder for Some Like it Hot (Ashton-Mirisch, UA).
William Wyler for Ben-Hur (MGM).
Fred Zinnemann for The Nun's Story (Warner Bros.).

Best Actor
Laurence Harvey in Room at the Top (1958)(Romulus, Continental)(British).
Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur (MGM).
Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot (Ashton-Mirisch, UA).
Paul Muni in The Last Angry Man (Kohlmar, Columbia).
James Stewart in Anatomy of a Murder (Preminger, Columbia).

Best Actress
Doris Day in Pillow Talk (Arwin, U-I).
Audrey Hepburn in The Nun's Story (Warner Bros.).
Katharine Hepburn in Suddenly, Last Summer (Horizon, Columbia).
Simone Signoret in Room at the Top (1958)(Romulus, Continental)(British).
Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly, Last Summer (Horizon, Columbia).

Best Supporting Actor
Hugh Griffith in Ben-Hur (MGM).
Arthur O'Connell in Anatomy of a Murder (Preminger, Columbia).
George C. Scott in Anatomy of a Murder (Preminger, Columbia).
Robert Vaughn in The Young Philadelphians (Warner Bros.).
Ed Wynn in The Diary of Anne Frank (20th Century-Fox).

Best Supporting Actress
Hermione Baddeley in Room at the Top (1958) (Romulus, Continental)(British).
Susan Kohner in Imitation of Life (U-I).
Juanita Moore in Imitation of Life (U-I).
Thelma Ritter in Pillow Talk (Arwin, U-I).
Shelley Winters in The Diary of Anne Frank (20th Century-Fox).

Best Adapted Screenplay
Anatomy of a Murder, Preminger, Columbia. Wendell Mayes.

Ben-Hur, MGM. Karl Tunberg.
The Nun's Story, Warner Bros. Robert Anderson.
Room at the Top (1958), Romulus, Continental (British). Neil Paterson.
Some Like it Hot, Ashton-Mirisch, UA. Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond.

Best Original Story and Screenplay
The 400 Blows, Zenith International (French). Francois Truffaut and Marcel Moussy.
North by Northwest, Hitchcock, MGM. Ernest Lehman.
Operation Petticoat, Granart, U-I. Paul King and Joseph Stone; Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin.
Pillow Talk, Arwin, U-I. Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene; Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin.
Wild Strawberries, Janus Films (Swedish). Ingmar Bergman.

Best Cinematography- Black-and-White
Anatomy of a Murder, Preminger, Columbia. Sam Leavitt.
Career, Wallis, Paramount. Joseph LaShelle.
The Diary of Anne Frank, 2oth Century-Fox. William C. Mellor.
Some Like it Hot, Ashton-Mirisch, UA. Charles Lang. Jr. 

The Young Philadelphians, Warner Bros. Harry Stradling, Sr.

Best Cinematography- Color
Ben-Hur, MGM. Robert L. Surtees.

The Big Fisherman, Rowland V. Lee, Buena Vista. Lee Garmes.
The Five Pennies, Dena, Paramount. Daniel L. Fapp.
The Nun's Story, Warner Bros. Franz Planer.
Porgy and Bess, Goldwyn, Columbia. Leon Shamroy.

Art Direction-Set Direction (Black-and-White)
Career, Wallis, Paramount. Hal Pereira and Walter Tyler; Sam Comer and Arthur Krams.
The Diary of Anne Frank, 20th Century-Fox. Lyle R. Wheeler and George W. Davis; Walter M. Scott and Stuart A. Reiss.
The Last Angry Man, Kohlmar, Columbia. Carl Anderson; William Kiernan.
Some Like it Hot, Ashton-Mirisch, UA. Ted Haworth; Edward G. Boyle.
Suddenly, Last Summer, Horizon, Columbia. Oliver Messel and William Kellner; Scot Slimon.

Art Direction-Set Direction (Color)
Ben-Hur, MGM. William A. Horning and Edward Carfagno; Hugh Hunt.
The Big Fisherman, Rowland V. Lee, Buena Vista. John DeCuir; Julia Heron.
Journey to the Center of the Earth, 20th Century-Fox. Lyle R. Wheeler, Franz Bachelin and Herman A. Blumenthal; Walter M. Scott and Joseph Kish.
North by Northwest, Hitchcock, MGM. William A. Horning, Robert Boyle and Merrill Pye; Henry Grace and Frank McKelvy.
Pillow Talk, Arwin, U-I. Richard H. Riedel; Russell A. Gausman and Ruby R. Levitt.

Sound
Ben-Hur, MGM. MGM Studio Sound Department; Franklin E. Milton, sound director.
Journey to the Center of the Earth, 20th Century-Fox. 20th Century-Fox Sound Department; Carl Faulkner, sound director.

Libel!, MGM (British). MGM London Sound Department; A.W. Watkins, sound director.
The Nun's Story, Warner Bros. Warner Brothers Studio Sound Department; George R. Groves, sound director.
Porgy and Bess, Goldwyn, Columbia. Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department; Gordon E. Sawyer, sound director; and Todd-AO Sound Department; Fred Hynes, sound director.

Best Song
"The Best of Everything" (The Best of Everything, Wald, 20th Century-Fox); Music by Alfred Newman. Lyrics by Sammy Cahn.
"The Five Pennies" (The Five Pennies, Dena, Paramount); Music and Lyrics by Sylvia Fine.
"The Hanging Tree" (The Hanging Tree, Baroda Warner Bros.); Music by Jerry Livingston. Lyrics by Mack David.
"High Hopes" (A Hole in the Head, Sincap, UA); Music by James Van Heusen. Lyrics by Sammy Cain.
"Strange are the Ways of Love" (The Young Land, C.V. Whitney, Columbia); Music by Dimitri Tiomkin. Lyrics by Ned Washington.

Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Ben-Hur, MGM. Miklos Rozsa.
The Diary of Anne Frank, 20th Century-Fox. Alfred Newman.
The Nun's Story, Warner Bros. Franz Waxman.
On the Beach, Kramer, UA. Ernest Gold.
Pillow Talk, Arwin, U-I. Frank DeVol.

                                  

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

The Five Pennies, Dena, Paramount. Leith Stevens.
Li'l Abner, Panama and Frank, Paramount. Nelson Riddle and Joseph J. Lilley.
Porgy and Bess, Goldwyn, Columbia. Andre Previn and Ken Darby.
Say One For Me, Crosby, 20th Century-Fox. Lionel Newman.
Sleeping Beauty, Disney, Buena Vista. George Burns.

Best Film Editing
Anatomy of a Murder, Preminger, Columbia. Louis R. Loeffler.
Ben-Hur, MGM. Ralph E. Winters and John D. Dunning.
North by Northwest, Hitchcock, MGM. George Tomasini.
The Nun's Story, Warner Bros. Walter Thompson.
On the Beach, Kramer, UA. Fredric Knudtson.

Costume Design (Black-and-White)
Career, Wallis, Paramount. Edith Head.
The Diary of Anne Frank, 20th Century-Fox. Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills.
The Gazebo, Avon, MGM. Helen Rose.
Some Like It Hot, Ashton-Mirisch, UA. Orry-Kelly.
The Young Philadelphians, Warner Bros. Howard Shoup.

Costume Design (Color)
Ben-Hur, MGM. Elizabeth Haffenden.
The Best of Everything, Wald, 20th Century-Fox. Adele Palmer.
The Big Fisherman, Rowland V. Lee, Buena Vista. Renie.
The Five Pennies, Dena, Paramount. Edith Head.
Porgy and Bess, Goldwyn, Columbia. Irene Sharaff.

Special Effects
Ben-Hur, MGM. Visual: A. Arnold Gillespie and Robert MacDonald. Audible: Milo Lory.
Journey to the Center of the Earth, Joseph M. Schenck Enterprises, Inc. and Cooga Mooga Films Prods., Inc., 20th Century-Fox. Visual: L.B. Abbott and James B. Gordon. Audible: Carl Faulkner.

Best Short Subject Cartoon
Mexicali Shmoes, Warner Bros. John W. Burton, producer.
Moonbird, Storyboard-Harrison. John Hubley, producer.
Noah's Ark, Disney, Buena Vista. Walt Disney, producer.
The Violinist, Pintoff  Prods., Kingsley International. Ernest Pintoff, producer.

Best Live Action Short Subject
Between the Tides, British Transport Films, Schoenfeld Films (British). Ian Ferguson, producer.
The Golden Fish, Les Requins Associes, Columbia. Jacques-Yves Cousteau, producer.
Mysteries of the Deep, Disney, Buena Vista. Walt Disney, producer.
The Running, Jumping and Standing-Still Film, Lion International, Kingsley-Union Films (British). Peter Sellers, producer.
Skyscraper, Burstyn Film Enterprises. Shirley Clarke, Willard Van Dyke and Irving Jacoby, producers.

Documentary Short Subject
Donald in Mathmagic Land, Disney, Buena Vista. Walt Disney, producer.
From Generation to Generation, Cullen Assocs., Maternity Center Assoc. Edward F. Cullen, producer.
Glass, Netherlands Government. George K. Arthur-Go Pictures (The Netherlands). Bert Haanstra, producer

Best Documentary Feature
The Race for Space, Wolper, Inc. David L. Wolper, producer.
Serengeti Shall Not Die, Okapia-Film Prod., Transocean Film (German). Bernhard Grzimek, producer.

Foreign Language Film
Black Orpheus (France).
The Bridge (German).
The Great War (Italy).
Paw (Denmark).
The Village on the River (1958- The Netherlands).

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Bob Hope.

Honorary Awards
Lee de Forest for his pioneering inventions which brought sound to the motion picture (statuette).

Buster Keaton for his unique talents which brought immortal comedies to the screen (statuette).

Scientific or Technical

Class I (Statuette)

None.

Class II (Plaque)

Douglas G. Shearer of MGM, Inc. and Robert E. Gottschalk and john R. Moore of Panavision, Inc., or the development of a system of producing and exhibiting widefilm motion pictures known as Camera 65.

Wadsworth E. Pohl, William Evans, Werner Hopf, S.E. Howse, Thomas P. Dixon, Stanford Research Institute and Technicolor Corp. for the design and development of the Techniocolor electronic printing timer.

Wadsworth E. Pohl, Jack Alford, Henry Imus, Joseph Schmit, Paul Fassnacht, Al Lofquist and Technicolor Corp. for the development and practical application of equipment for wet printing.

Dr. Howard S. Coleman, Dr. A. Francis Turner, Harold H. Schroeder, James R. Benford and Harold E. Rosenberger of the Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. for the design and development of the Balcod projection mirror.

Robert P. Gutterman of General Kinetics, Inc., and the Lipsner Smith Corp. for the design and development of the CF-2 Ultra-sonic Film Cleaner.

Class III (Citation)

Ub Iwerks of Walt Disney Prods. for the design of an improved optical printer for special effects and matte shots.

E.L. Stones, Glen Robinson, Winfield Hubbard and Luther Newman of the MGM Studio Construction Dept. for the design of a multiple-cable remote-controlled winch.

Directors Guild of America (Presented on February 6, 1960. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001).

Best Director
William Wyler for Ben-Hur

Other finalists:
Otto Preminger for Anatomy of a Murder
George Stevens for The Diary of Anne Frank
Biily Wilder for Some Like it Hot
Fred Zinnemann for The Nun's Story

Other directors mentioned:
Charles Barton for The Shaggy Dog
Frank Capra for A Hole in the Head
Richard Fleischer for Compulsion
Howard Hawks for Rio Bravo
Alfred Hitchcock for North by Northwest
Leo McCarey for Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)
Douglas Sirk for Imitation of Life
  

Screen Writers Guild of America (Awards were presented on May 6, 1960 at the Moulin Rouge restaurant in Los Angeles. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards). (Winners in bold print).

Best Written Drama

The Diary of Anne Frank, Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, based on the book Anne Frank, the Diary of a Young Girl and the play by Goodrich and Hackett

Anatomy of a Murder, Wendell Mayes, based on the novel by Robert Traver

Ben-Hur, Karl Tunberg, based on the novel Ben-Hur (A Tale of Christ) by General Lew Wallace

Compulsion, Richard Murphy, based on the novel by Meyer Levin

The Nun's Story, Robert Anderson, based on the book by Kathryn C. Hulme

Best Written Comedy

Some Like It Hot, Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond, suggested by a story by Robert Thoeren and M. Logan

A Hole in the Head, Arnold Schulman

North by Northwest, Ernest Lehman

Operation Petticoat, Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin, story by Paul King and Joseph Stone

Pillow Talk, Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin, story by Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene

Best Written Musical

The Five Pennies, Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose, story by Robert Smith, based on the life of Loring "Red" Nichols

Li'l Abner, Norman Panama, Melvin Frank, based on their musical play by Al Capp

Never Steal Anything Small, Charles Lederer, based on the play Devil's Hornpipe by Maxwell Anderson and Rouben Mamoulian

Porgy and Bess, N. Richard Nash, based on the folk opera by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and the play Porgy by DuBose Heyward and Dorothy Heyward

A Private's Affair, Winston Miller, based on a story by Ray Livingston Murphy

Say One for Me, Robert O'Brien

Laurel Award

Norman Krasna

Berlin Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).

Best Film:

The Cousins (Claude Chabrol, France)

Best Direction:

Akira Kurosawa, The Hidden Fortress (1958)

Best Actor:

Jean Gabin, Archimede le Chochard

 

Best Actress:

Shirley MacLaine, Ask Any Girl

Best Feature Documentary:

White Wilderness (1958- Walt Disney, USA)

Best Culture Film:

1) Praise the Sea (1958- Holland)

2) Hest pa ferie (Denmark)

    Radha and Krishna (India)

    Das Knalleidoskop (Germany)

Special Prize:

Haley Mills, Tiger Bay

International Critics Prize:

The Hidden Fortress (1958- Akira Kurosawa, Japan)

   

Cannes Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).

Best Film:

Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus, France)

Best Director:

Francois Truffaut, The 400 Blows

Best Actor:

(collective prize)

Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, Orson Welles, Compulsion

Best Actress:

Simone Signoret, Room at the Top (1958)

Special Jury Prize:

Stars (Burgaria)

Special Prize:

Luis Bunuel, Nazarin

International Critics Award:

Hiroshima Mon Amour and Araya (tied)

Catholic Film Office Award:

The 400 Blows

Film Writers Award:

Hiroshima Mon Amour

Venice Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).

Best Film, Lion of St. Mark:

Il Generale della Rovere (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)

Best Actor:

James Stewart, Anatomy of a Murder (USA)

Best Actress:

Madeline Robinson, Double Tour  (France)

Special Jury Prize:

Ingmar Bergman, The Magician (1958)

Catholic Film Office:

Il Generale della Rovere (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)

International Film Critics Prize:

Il Generale della Rovere (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)

The New York Times Ten Best List (in chronological order)
The Diary of Anne Frank

Room at the Top (1958)

The Nun's Story

Porgy and Bess

Anatomy of a Murder

A Hole in the Head

North by Northwest

Pillow Talk

Ben-Hur

On the Beach

Best Foreign Films:

The Devil Strikes at Night (1957- Germany)

Forbidden Fruit (1952- France)

Aparajito (1956- India)

The Roof (1956- Italy)

Wild Strawberries (1957- Sweden)

The Magician (1958- Sweden)

The Lovers (1958- France)

The 400 Blows (France)

The Cousins (France)

Black Orpheus (France/Brazil)

Time Magazine's Ten Best List (13 films in chronological order)

Some Like It Hot

The Diary of Anne Frank

Pork Chop Hill

Middle of the Night

Ben-Hur

Best Foreign Films:

The Mistress

Aparajito (1956)

Room at the Top (1958)

The Roof (1956)

Wild Strawberries (1957)

Black Orpheus

The 400 Blows

Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1958)

                                                  

The Golden Laurel Awards- 1960 (Mainly covers 1959 films. Published in Motion Picture Exhibitor magazine on September 28th, 1960. Source- IMDB)

In order of preference:

Top Drama
1) Anatomy of a Murder 
2) A Summer Place 
3) The Nun's Story 
4) On the Beach 
5) Compulsion 

Top Comedy
1) Pillow Talk 
2) Operation Petticoat 
3) Some Like it Hot 
4) Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
5) A Hole in the Head

Top Musical
1) Can-Can (1960)
2) The Five Pennies 
3) Porgy and Bess 
4) Li'l Abner 
5) The Gene Krupa Story 
 

Top Action Drama
1) North by Northwest 
2) Journey to the Center of the Earth 
3) The FBI Story 
4) Sink the Bismark! (1960)
5) The Big Circus 

Top General Entertainment
The Shaggy Dog 

Special Award
Ben Hur 

Top Director (no films listed)
1) Vincente Minnelli
2) Fred Zinnemann
3) Delmer Daves
4) Richard Brooks
5) Michael Gordon
6) Edward Dmytryk
7) George Sidney
8) John Sturges
9) Mark Robson
10) Michael Curtiz

Top Producer/Director (no films listed)
1) Alfred Hitchcock
2) William Wyler
3) Billy Wilder
4) Mervyn LeRoy
5) Stanley Kramer
6) Otto Preminger
7) George Stevens
8) John Huston
9) Leo McCarey
10) Dick Powell

Top Producer
1) Buddy Alder
2) Walt Disney
3) Jerry Wald
4) Hal B. Wallis
5) Arthur Freed
6) Sam Spiegel
7) Joe Pasternak
8) Ross Hunter
9) Charles Brackett
10) William Perlberg

Top Male Dramatic Performance
1) James Stewart in Anatomy of a Murder 
2) Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur 
3) Stephen Boyd in Ben-Hur 
4) Robert Mitchum in Home from the Hill (1960)
5) Dean Martin in Career 

Top Female Dramatic Performance
1) Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly, Last Summer 
2) Audrey Hepburn in The Nun's Story 
3) Simone Signoret in Room at the Top (1958)
4) Dorothy McGuire in A Summer Place 
5) Katharine Hepburn in Suddenly, Last Summer 

Top Male Comedy Performance
1) Cary Grant in Operation Petticoat 
2) Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot 
3) Rock Hudson in Pillow Talk 
4) Tony Curtis in Who Was That Lady? (1960)
5) Glenn Ford in It Started With a Kiss 

Top Female Comedy Performance
1) Doris Day in Pillow Talk 
2) Marilyn Monroe in Some Like it Hot
3) Debbie Reynolds in It Started With a Kiss 
4) Janet Leigh in Who Was That Lady? (1960)
5) Sandra Dee in Gidget 

Top Male Musical Performance
1) Frank Sinatra in Can-Can (1960)
2) Danny Kaye in The Five Pennies 
3) Bing Crosby in Say One for Me 
4) Sammy Davis, Jr. in Porgy and Bess 
5) Maurice Chevalier in Can-Can (1960)

Top Female Musical Performance
1) Shirley MacLaine in Can-Can (1960)
2) Pearl Bailey in Porgy and Bess 
3) Debbie Reynolds in Say One for Me 
4) Dorothy Dandridge in Porgy and Bess 
5) Juliet Prowse in Can-Can (1960)

Top Action Performance
1) Gary Cooper in They Came to Cordura 
2) Robert Stack in The Last Voyage (1960)
3) Richard Widmark in Warlock 
4) Anthony Quinn in The Last Train From Gun Hill 
5) Richard Conte in They Came to Cordura 

Top Male Supporting Performances
1) Arthur O'Connell in Anatomy of a Murder 
2) Arthur Kennedy in A Summer Place 
3) Hugh Griffith in Ben-Hur 
4) Robert Vaughn in The Young Philadelphians 
5) Luther Alder in The Last Angry Man 

Top Female Supporting Performance
1) Shelley Winters in The Diary of Anne Frank
2) Thelma Ritter in Pillow Talk 
3) Janis Paige in Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
4) Spring Byington in Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
5) Eve Arden in Anatomy of a Murder 

Top Score
1) Max Steiner for A Summer Place 
2) Alfred Newman for The Diary of Anne Frank 
3) Franz Waxman for The Nun's Story 
4) Buxton Orr and Malcom Arnold for Suddenly, Last Summer 
5) Bronislau Kaper for Home From the Hill (1960)

Top Male Star
1) Rock Hudson
2) Cary Grant
3) Frank Sinatra
4) James Stewart
5) John Wayne
6) Tony Curtis
7) William Holden
8) Jerry Lewis
9) Dean Martin
10) Jack Lemmon
11) Kirk Douglas
12) Bing Crosby
13) Gregory Peck
14) Richard Widmark
15) Robert Mitchum

Top Female Star
1) Doris Day
2) Elizabeth Taylor
3) Debbie Reynolds
4) Shirley MacLaine
5) Audrey Hepburn
6) Marilyn Monroe
7) Susan Hayward
8) Kim Novak
9) Natalie Wood
10) Ingrid Bergman
11) Deborah Kerr
12) Dorothy McGuire
13) Lana Turner
14) Sandra Dee
15) Eleanor Parker

Top New Male Personality
1) George Peppard
2) George Hamilton
3) Troy Donahue
4) Laurence Harvey
5) Robert Vaughn
6) Steve McQueen
7) Ray Danton
8) Steve Reeves
9) David Ladd
10) Warren Berlinger

Top New Female Personality
1) Jane Fonda
2) Luana Patten
3) Joan O'Brien
4) Tuesday Weld
5) Carol Lynley
6) Haya Harareet
7) Cynthia Chenault
8) Joan Blackman
9) Leslie Parrish
10) Donna Anderson

The Top Ten Box-Office Stars of 1959 (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors. Source- The Motion Picture Herald)
1) Rock Hudson
2) Cary Grant
3) James Stewart
4) Doris Day
5) Debbie Reynolds
6) Glenn Ford
7) Frank Sinatra
8) John Wayne
9) Jerry Lewis
10) Susan Hayward

The Next Fifteen:
11) Elizabeth Taylor
12) William Holden
13) Gary Cooper
14) Paul Newman
15) Dean Martin
16) Sandra Dee
17) Brigitte Bardot
18) Tony Curtis
19) Shirley MacLaine
20) Marilyn Monroe
21) Marlon Brando
22) Pat Boone
23) Ingrid Bergman
24) Yul Brynner
25) Kirk Douglas

The Stars of Tomorrow (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors).

1) Sandra Dee

2) Ricky Nelson

3) James Garner

4) Curt Jurgens

5) Lee Remick

6) John Saxon

7) Sidney Poitier

8) Ernie Kovacs

9) Kathryn Grant

10) Carolyn Jones

Britain's Top British Box-Office Stars of 1959 (according to the Motion Picture Herald's poll of Britain's film exhibitors- only six stars listed)
1) Kenneth More
2) Sir Alec Guinness
3) Norman Wisdom
4) Stanley Baker
5) Dirk Bogarde
6) Peter Sellers

Great Britain's Top Box-Office Films of 1959 (according to the Motion Picture Herald- listed in order of precedence)
1) Carry On Nurse
2) The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
3) Room at the Top (1958)
4) I'm All Right, Jack
5) Rio Bravo
6) The 39 Steps
7) The Square Peg
8) tom thumb (1958)
9) The Big Country (1958)
10) Operation Bullshire
11) The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958)
12) The Reluctant Debutante (1958)

                                                                           

The Top Box-Office Hits of 1959 (According to Variety- lists U.S. and Canadian rental fees up to the end of the calendar year. Late 1958 releases that primarily earned revenue in 1959 are included. Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg. Includes actual and estimated domestic rentals to theaters in U.S. and Canada, not box-office takes, which would be higher. If the final first-run rental take for films gaining $4,000,000 or more in rentals varies from the total originally listed, I'm showing that figure after the original total. Final first-run rentals data comes from Variety's January 9, 1963 "All-Time Top Film Grosses" list (only films taking $4,000,000 or more in rentals were mentioned on the "All-Time" list; unfortunately, I have no data for films with a final gross under $4,000,000 that may have ended up with a higher take than shown below). Occasionally a film will end up on the "All-Time" list with a lower rental box-office take than when the film originally appeared on the yearly list of top box-office films. This is due to the estimated rentals, which were sometimes revised to a lower amount for the All-Time list).

1) Auntie Mame (1958) $8,800,000 (Final rentals of $9,000,000)

2) The Shaggy Dog $7,800,000 (Final rentals of $9,600,000)

3) Some Like It Hot $7,000,000 (Final rentals of $7,775,000)

4) Imitation of Life $6,200,000 (Final rentals of $6,500,000)

5) The Nun's Story $6,00,000 (Final rentals of $6,300,000)

6) Anatomy of a Murder $5,250,000 (Final rentals of $5,500,000)

    North by Northwest $5,250,000 (Final rentals of $6,000,000)

8) Rio Bravo $5,200,000 

9) Sleeping Beauty $4,300,000 (Final rentals of $5,300,000)

10) Some Came Running (1958) $4,200,000 (Final rentals of $4,300,000)

11) A Hole in the Head $4,000,000

     Hercules $4,000,000 (Final rentals of $4,700,000)

13) The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) $3,600,000 (Final rentals of $4,400,000)

14) The Horse Soldiers $3,300,000 (Final rentals of $4,000,000)

15) Don't Give Up the Ship $3,200,000

16) 7 Voyages of Sinbad $3,100,000

17) The Buccaneer (1958) $3,000,000

      The Geisha Boy (1958) $3,000,000

      I Want to Live! (1958) $3,000,000

20) Separate Tables (1958) $2,700,000

      The Big Circus $2,700,000

Note: Pillow Talk is not on the 1959 or 1960 list, but shows on the 1963 All-Time list with rentals of $7,500,000.

Harvard Lampoon's Movie Worst Awards (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).

Ten Worst:

The Best of Everything

The Miracle

Career

Never So Few

Solomon and Sheba

The Tempest

A Summer Place

They Came to Cordura

Say One for Me

Hercules

One Too Many 

Worst Actor:

Sal Mineo, Tonka

Worst Actress:

Lana Turner, Imitation of Life

Worst Supporting Actress:

Sandra Dee, A Summer Place

Worst Supporting Actor:

Dick Nixon, The Best of Benson

The Bratwurst Award:

(to the worst child actor of the year, presented by the Delicatessen Owners' Assn.)

Eddie Hodges, A Hole in the Head

 

The Ghandi Grant:

(for the year's most attractive ribs)

May Britt, The Blue Angel

The Wish-It-Were-True Award:

Bing Crosby as a celibate priest in Say One for Me

The Miss Nomer Award:

The Best of Everything

The Not-Worth-It Award:

The Five Pennies

The "Any Connection?" Prize:

(presented annually to those films which would best appear as double features)

The Girl with an Itch and The Tingler

Happy is the Bride and Middle of the Night

The Nun's Story and Ask Any Girl

Arson for Hire and Some Like It Hot

Libel and Say One for Me

Thirty-Foot Bride of Candy Rock and Cast a Long Shadow

Room 43 and Grand Canyon Suite

The "It Was Funny the First Time' Award:

The Man Who Died Twice

The Eva Marie Saint Award:

(to the movie title most conducive to uninhibited speechmaking)

Say One for Me

The Varsi Vase:

(awarded to the most dramatic walkout in the field of entertainment)

Jack Parr

The Luce Laurel:

Shirley MacLaine for gracing, if not monopolizing, the pages of Life magazine