1959 Oscar Shouldabeens

[Reza]

Although Mason made my list, I gave the award to Joe E. Brown. I can never ever forget my first viewing of Some Like It Hot - the scenes where the camera keeps cutting between Curtis trying to seduce Marilyn, and Brown and Lemmon doing the tango. Brown is so innocent and hilarious at the same time.

Dorothy McGuire is simply heartbreaking in A Summer Place and walks off with the film. A sharp contrast to the main plot dealing with all the silliness between Sandra and Troy! And yes she is also exquisite in This Earth is Mine - but then she was always an incredibly classy lady. I still froth at the mouth when I recall how the stupid Academy did not include her in their memoriam tribute.

[Big Magilla]

Reza, I like your idea of giving the supporting awards to James Mason and Dorothy McGuire.

I believe Mike Kelly was the first to award James Mason his 1959 award, but the choice of Dorothy McGuire is unique and quite wonderful. I actually thought she gave the year's most under-rated performance in 1959's now forgotten This Earth Is Mine, but I'll support her victory for A Summer Place as any opportunity to honor this exquisite actress should be taken advantage of.

Too bad Douglas Sirk, instead of Henry King, wasn't the director of This Earth Is Mine. We might be talking about a classic instead of a forgotten glossy tearjerker.



Edited By Big Magilla on 1100842995

[Reza]

1959
Best Picture
Hiroshima, Mon Amour
North By Northwest
Les quatre cents coups
Room at the Top
*Some Like It Hot

Best Actor
Tony Curtis, Some Like It Hot
Cary Grant, North By Northwest
Jean-Pierre Leaud, Les quatre cents coups
*Jack Lemmon, Some Like It Hot
James Stewart, Anatomy of a Murder

Best Actress
Eleonora Rossi Drago, Estate Violenta
Audrey Hepburn, The Nun's Story
Hayley Mills, Tiger Bay
Marilyn Monroe, Some Like It Hot
*Simone Signoret, Room at the Top

Best Supporting Actor
Stephen Boyd, Ben-Hur
*Joe E. Brown, Some Like It Hot
Ben Gazzara, Anatomy of a Murder
James Mason, North By Northwest
George C. Scott, Anatomy of a Murder

Best Supporting Actress
Hermione Baddelley, Room at the Top
Jessie Royce Landis, North By Northwest
*Dorothy McGuire, This Earth Is Mine
Juanita Moore, Imitation of Life
Lee Remick, Anatomy of a Murder

Best Director
Jack Clayton, Room at the Top
Alfred Hitchcock, North By Northwest
Alain Resnais, Hiroshima, Mon Amour
François Truffaut, Les quatre cents coups
*Billy Wilder, Some Like It Hot

[Big Magilla]

1959

Best Picture
Anatomy of a Murder
Ben-Hur
North by Northwest
The Nun’s Story
*Some Like It Hot

Best Actor
Cary Grant, North by Northwest
Charlton Heston, Ben-Hur
Jack Lemmon, Some Like It Hot
Victor Sjostrom, Wild Strawberries
*James Stewart, Anatomy of a Murder

Best Actress
*Audrey Hepburn, The Nun’s Story
Katharine Hepburn, Suddenly, Last Summer
Hayley Mills, Tiger Bay
Simone Signoret, Room at the Top
Elizabeth Taylor, Suddenly, Last Summer

Best Supporting Actor
Stephen Boyd, Ben-Hur
Joe E. Brown, Some Like It Hot
*James Mason, North by Northwest
Joseph Schildkraut, The Diary of Anne Frank
Joseph N. Welch, Anatomy of a Murder

Best Supporting Actress
Edith Evans, The Nun's Story
Susan Kohner, Imitation of Life
*Dorothy McGuire, A Summer Place
Juanita Moore, Imitation of Life
Shelley Winters, The Diary of Anne Frank

Best Director
Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest
Otto Preminger, Anatomy of a Murder
*Billy Wilder, Some Like It Hot
William Wyler, Ben-Hur
Fred Zinnemann, The Nun’s Story