1959 Oscar Shouldabeens

[Greg]

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[Cinemanolis]

BEST PICTURE
The 400 Blows
Ben-Hur
The Diary of Anne Frank
Some Like It Hot
Wild Strawberries

BEST DIRECTOR
Billy Wilder - Some Like It Hot
Alfred Hitchcock - North by Northwest
Francoise Truffaut – The 400 Blows
William Wyler – Ben-Hur
Ingmar Bergman – Wild Strawberries

BEST ACTOR
Tony Curtis - Some Like It Hot
Anthony Franciosa – Career
Jack Lemmon – Some Like It Hot
Jean Pierre Leaud – The 400 Blows
Victor Sjostrom – Wild Strawberries

BEST ACTRESS
Audrey Hepburn – The Nun’s Story
Anna Magnani – The Fugitive Kind
Marilyn Monroe - Some Like It Hot
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
Arthur O’Connell – Anatomy of a Murder
Jason Robards – The Journey
Orson Welles - Compulsion

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Billie Burke – The Young Philadelphians
Dorothy Maguire – A Summer Place
Thelma Ritter – Pillow Talk
Shelley Winters - The Diary of Anne Frank
Joanne Woodward – The Fugitive Kind

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Journey
The 400 Blows
Pillow Talk
North by Northwest
Wild Strawberries

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Some Like It Hot
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Mouse that Roared
Room at the Top
The Young Philadelphians
Tiger Bay

[Kellens101]

How can I fix that?

[Kellens101]

Lol yes!!! I also accidentally put Some Pike it Hot on one of them.

[Greg]

Best Supporting Actress: Juanita Moore in Some Like it Hot

Did you mean Imitation Of Life?

[Kellens101]

Best Picture: Some Like it Hot
Best Director: Billy Wilder for Some Like it Hot
Best Actor: Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot
Best Actress: Simone Signoret in Room at the Top
Best Supporting Actor: Joe E. Brown in Some Like it Hot
Best Supporting Actress: Juanita Moore in Imitation of Life
Best Original Screenplay: North by Northwest
Best Adapted Screenplay: Some Like it Hot
Best Score: North by Northwest
Best Art Direction: Ben-Hur
Best Costume Design: Ben-Hur
Best Editing: North by Northwest
Best Cinematography: Ben-Hur
Best Makeup: Ben-Hur
Best Sound: Ben-Hur
Best Foreign Film: Wild Strawberries

[Big Magilla]

My toughest years for narrowing film and director to 5 nominees: 1933, 1939, 1951; for acting, 1945, 1960, 1964.

[ksrymy]

Excluding the default of 1939, 1945, 1955, 1960, 1975, and 1999 are good options. I think I'd put 1959 above them all.

[Greg]

The more and more I see films from this year, the more and more I could thoroughly call this one of the three best years in cinema history.

What would you consider to be the other two years?

[ksrymy]

The more and more I see films from this year, the more and more I could thoroughly call this one of the three best years in cinema history.

[ksrymy]

BEST PICTURE
01. Hiroshima mon amour (dir. Alain Resnais)
02. Black Orpheus (dir. Marcel Camus)
03. Some Like It Hot (dir. Billy Wilder)
04. North by Northwest (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
05. Fires on the Plain (dir. Kon Ichikawa)
06. Pickpocket (dir. Robert Bresson)
07. Imitation of Life (dir. Douglas Sirk)
08. The 400 Blows (dir. François Truffaut)
09. Rio Bravo (dir. Howard Hawks)
10. Violent Summer (dir. Valerio Zurlini)

BEST DIRECTOR
01. Alain Resnais, Hiroshima mon amour
02. Marcel Camus, Black Orpheus
03. Billy Wilder, Some Like It Hot
04. Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest
05. Kon Ichikawa, Fires on the Plain

BEST ACTOR
01. Jack Lemmon, Some Like It Hot
02. Vittorio De Sica, Il Generale della Rovere
03. Eiji Okada, Hiroshima mon amour
04. Eiji Funakoshi, Fires on the Plain
05. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Violent Summer

BEST ACTRESS
01. Simone Signoret, Room at the Top
02. Eleonora Rossi Drago, Violent Summer
03. Emmanuelle Riva, Hiroshima mon amour
04. Katharine Hepburn, Suddenly, Last Summer
05. Hayley Mills, Tiger Bay

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
01. George C. Scott, Anatomy of a Murder
02. Robert Vaughn, The Young Philadelphians
03. Burl Ives, Day of the Outlaw
04. Joe E. Brown, Some Like It Hot
05. Stephen Boyd, Ben-Hur

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
01. Juanita Moore, Imitation of Life
02. Zhanna Prokhorenko, Ballad of a Soldier
03. Lee Remick, Anatomy of a Murder
04. Dorothy McGuire, A Summer Place
05. Machiko Kyô, Floating Weeds

BEST SCREENPLAY
01. Hiroshima mon amour (Marguerite Duras)
02. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond, based on the film "Fanfare d'amour" by Michael Logan)
03. Fires on the Plain (Shohei Ooka, Natto Wada)
04. North by Northwest (Ernest Lehman)
05. Violent Summer (Valerio Zurlini, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Giorgio Prosperi)

BEST FILM EDITING
01. Hiroshima mon amour (Jasmine Chasney, Henri Colpi, Anne Sarraute)
02. Pickpocket (Raymond Lamy)
03. Fires on the Plain (Tatsuji Nakashizu)
04. North by Northwest (George Tomasini)
05. The 400 Blows (Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
01. Hiroshima mon amour (Michio Takahashi, Sacha Vierny)
02. Black Orpheus (Jean Bourgoin)
03. Ballad of a Soldier (Vladimir Nikolayev, Era Savelyeva)
04. Fires on the Plain (Setsuo Kobayashi)
05. North by Northwest (Robert Burks)

BEST ART DIRECTION
01. Ben-Hur (Edward C. Carfagno, William A. Horning, Hugh Hunt)
02. Suddenly, Last Summer (William Kellner, Scott Slimon, Francisco Prósper)
03. Kaagaz Ke Phool (M. R. Achrekar)
04. Darby O'Gill and the Little People (Carroll Clark, Emile Kuri, Fred M. MacLean)
05. The Mummy (Bernard Robinson)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
01. Black Orpheus (uncredited)
02. Ben-Hur (Jack Martell)
03. Floating Weeds (uncredited)
04. Some Like It Hot (Orry-Kelly)
05. The Mouse That Roared (Anthony Mendleson)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
01. North by Northwest (Bernard Herrmann)
02. Anatomy of a Murder (Duke Ellington)
03. Black Orpheus (Luiz Bonfá, Antonio Carlos Jobim)
04. Hiroshima mon amour (Georges Delerue, Giovanni Fusco)
05. Ben-Hur (Miklós Rózsa)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
01. Kaagaz Ke Phool ("Waqt Ne Kiya Kya Haseen Sitam," music by Sachin Dev Burman, lyrics by Kaifi Azmi, performed by Geeta Dutt)
02. The Best of Everything ("The Best of Everything," music by Alfred Newman, lyrics by Sammy Cahn, performed by Johnny Mathis)
03. A Summer Place ("Molly and Johnny Theme," music by Max Steiner)
04. Sleeping Beauty ("Once Upon a Dream," music by Sammy Fain, lyrics by Jack Lawrence, performed by Mary Costa)
05. The Hanging Tree ("The Hanging Tree," music by Jerry Livingston, lyrics by Mack David, performed by Marty Robbins)

BEST SOUND
01. Ben-Hur (Sash Fisher, Franklin Milton, William Steinkamp)
02. Black Orpheus (Amaury Leenhardt, Raymond Pierre Lemoigne)
03. North by Northwest (Franklin Milton)
04. Journey to the Center of the Earth (Warren B. Delaplain, Bernard Freericks)
05. Fires on the Plain (Ken'ichi Nishii)

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
01. Black Orpheus (uncredited)
02. Kaagaz Ke Phool (P. Baburao, Dada Paranjpe)
03. The Mummy (Roy Ashton, Henry Montsash)
04. Ben-Hur (Garbiella Borzelli, Charles E. Parker)
05. Some Like It Hot (Agnes Flanagan, Emile LaVigne, Alice Monte, Allan Snyder)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
01. The Wreck of the Mary Deare (A. Arnold Gillespie, Lee LeBlanc, Doug Hubbard)
02. Journey to the Center of the Earth (Johnny Borgese, L.B. Abbott, James B. Gordon, Emil Kosa Jr.)
03. Ben-Hur (A. Arnold Gillespie, Robert R. Hoag, Lee LeBlanc, Doug Hubbard)
04. Darby O'Gill and the Little People (Peter Ellenshaw, Eustace Lycett, Joshua Meador)
05. North by Northwest (A. Arnold Gillespie, Lee LeBlanc, Doug Hubbard)

FINAL TALLY
8 nominations: Hiroshima mon amour (5 wins), North by Northwest (1 win)
7 nominations: Ben-Hur (2 wins), Black Orpheus (2 wins), Fires on the Plain, Some Like It Hot (1 win)
4 nominations: Violent Summer
3 nominations: Anatomy of a Murder, Kaagaz Ke Phool (1 win)
2 nominations: Ballad of a Soldier, Darby O'Gill and the Little People, Floating Weeds, The 400 Blows, Imitation of Life (1 win), The Mummy, Pickpocket; Suddenly, Last Summer; A Summer Place
1 nomination: The Best of Everything, Day of the Outlaw, Il Generale della Rovere, The Hanging Tree, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Mouse That Roared, Rio Bravo, Room at the Top, Sleeping Beauty, Tiger Bay, The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1 win), The Young Philadelphians

[dws1982]

Still a good bit unseen, but I'm ready to declare 1959 one of the all-time great movie years. Eight of these would be in my all-time top 200.

Best Film:
1- Violent Summer (Valerio Zurlini)
2- Day of the Outlaw (Andre de Toth)
3- Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
4- Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
5- Ballad of a Soldier (Grigori Chukhrai)
6- The Human Condition I and II (Masaki Kobayashi)
7- Room at the Top (Jack Clayton)
8- Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa)
9- Sapphire (Basil Dearden)
10- The Crimson Kimono (Sam Fuller)

Best Director:
1- Valerio Zurlini, Violent Summer
2- Andre de Toth, Day of the Outlaw
3- Howard Hawks, Rio Bravo
4- Douglas Sirk, Imitation of Life
5- Masaki Kobayashi, The Human Condition I and II

Best Actor:
1- Robert Ryan, Day of the Outlaw
2- Dean Martin, Rio Bravo
3- Jean-Louis Trintignant, Violent Summer
4- Tatsua Nakadi, The Human Condition I and II
5- James Stewart, Anatomy of a Murder (but not The FBI Story)

Best Actress:
1- Eleonora Rossi Drago, Violent Summer
2- Simone Signoret, Room at the Top
3- Emanuelle Riva, Hiroshima Mon Amour
4- Audrey Hepburn, The Nun’s Story
5- Lana Turner, Imitation of Life

Best Supporting Actor:
1- Burl Ives, Day of the Outlaw
2- Orson Welles, Compulsion
3- George C. Scott, Anatomy of a Murder
4- Bernard Miles, Sapphire
5- Ben Gazzara, Anatomy of a Murder

Best Supporting Actress:
1- Juanita Moore, Imitation of Life
2- Dorothy Maguire, A Summer Place
3- Anna Lee, The Crimson Kimono
4- Gusti Huber, The Diary of Anne Frank
5- Olga Lindo, Sapphire

Best Original Screenplay:
1- Violent Summer
2- Day of the Outlaw
3- Kapo
4- Sapphire
5- The Crimson Kimono

Best Adapted Screenplay:
1- Room at the Top
2- Anatomy of a Murder
3- Il Generale della Rovere
4- Rio Bravo
5- Fires on the Plain

Best Black & White Cinematography:
1- Violent Summer
2- Day of the Outlaw
3- Ballad of a Soldier
4- The Crimson Kimono
5- Fires on the Plain

Best Color Cinematography:
1- Rio Bravo
2- Imitation of Life
3- Ben Hur
4- Sapphire
5- Last Train from Gun Hill

Best Editing:
1- Rio Bravo
2- Violent Summer
3- Ben Hur
4- Fires on the Plain
5- Day of the Outlaw

Best Score:
1- Ben Hur
2- The Nun’s Story
3- Rio Bravo
4- Anatomy of a Murder
5- A Summer Place

Best Costume Design:
1- Imitation of Life
2- Ben Hur
3- Sapphire
4- Floating Weeds
5- Room At the Top

Best Art Direction:
1- Ben Hur
2- Imitation of Life
3- Rio Bravo
4- Day of the Outlaw
5- Floating Weeds

Best Makeup:
1- Floating Weeds
2- The Diary of Anne Frank
3- Kapo

Best Visual Effects:
1- Ben Hur
2- Journey to the Center of the Earth



Edited By dws1982 on 1299381929

[Mister Tee]

Tee, have heart, the guy is only 15 years old and English is his second language. This is a pretty impressive list by anyone's standards.

I wasn't intending it as disparaging; merely pointing out the things he was missing more or less topped my own list.

When I was 15, I think the only film he cites I'd even seen was The Nun's Story. Of course, those were pre-home video days, so stuff was alot less accessible.

[Big Magilla]

Tee, have heart, the guy is only 15 years old and English is his second language. This is a pretty impressive list by anyone's standards.

[Mister Tee]

Still need to see Anatomy of a Murder, Wild Strawberries and North by Northwest to be completely satisfied

Those are some pretty big omissions -- three of my absolute favorites on the year, along with Some Like It Hot.

Once Upon a Dream is a song I remember fondly from Sleeping Beauty -- it is, however, ineligible by virtue of being cribbed from Tchaikowsky.