1959 Oscar Shouldabeens

[jowy_jillia]

Best Picture - Hiroshima Mon Amour
Best Director - Alain Resnais - Hiroshima mon Amour
Best Actor - Jack Lemmon - Some Like It Hot
Best Actress - Audrey Hepburn - The Nun's Story
Best Supporting Actor - Gunnar Björnstrand - Ansiktet
Best Supporting Actress - Edith Evans - The Nun's Story
Best Original Screenplay - Hiroshima mon Amour
Best Adapted Screenplay - Suddenly, Last Summer
Best Cinematography - Ben-Hur
Best Film Editing - Hiroshima mon Amour
Best Art Direction - Ben-Hur
Best Costume Design - Ben-Hur
Best Original Score - Ben-Hur
Best Scoring of a Musical - Sleeping Beauty
Best Sound - Ben-Hur

Subject to change.

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



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[Penelope]

I mentioned on my blog that I think Stephen Boyd was at his best in dark character parts: the Nazi spy in The Man Who Never Was and Messala in Ben-Hur. Playing the hero, such as Fall of the Roman Empire, he was incredibly dull.

[Reza]

The gay subtext was always there, though it wasn't talked about at the time.

Yes, you are right.

I recently enjoyed Boyd's performance in the extremely campy The Oscar (1966). What a great cast....all playing to the gallery. I had been searching for this film for the longest time and then it turned up on TCM.

The film even notched up two Oscar nods!



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[Big Magilla]

The gay subtext was always there, though it wasn't talked about at the time.

I don't know that Stephen Boyd ever attained cult status. He was, however, extremely popular in the late 50s and early 60s. Let's not forget that it was he who was originally slated to star opposite Liz Taylor in Cleopatra until her illness caused so many delays that he had to drop out. He personally blamed the box office failure of The Fall of the Roman Empire for his suddenly gone cold career.

I suspect, as I said below, that it was the quirks of the Oscar nominating rules at the time that kept him out of the running for supporting actor in Ben-Hur combined with the fact that Hugh Griffith was the more revered actor that lost him his only chance at an Oscar. I still think the Globes got it right, though. Griffith's finest hour on screen was in Tom Jones, not Ben-Hur.

[Reza]

Boyd was always a solid but dull leading man. He attained a fan following much later (probably after his death) when the gay undercurrents between the characters of Ben-Hur and Messala was ''discovered'' by modern critics.

[The Original BJ]

Griffith was also the main ''comic relief'' in the film and stood out amongst all that drama.

This is the reason why I -- seemingly alone on this board -- prefer Griffith, who at least adds a little energy to the film, to Boyd, who's solid in a solemn, vaguely dull sort of way.



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[Reza]

Griffith was also the main ''comic relief'' in the film and stood out amongst all that drama.

[Big Magilla]

It's possible that Stephen Boyd's name was submitted by MGM as a male lead in the film along with Charlton Heston and Jack Hawkins.

Hugh Griffith was a more prestigious name at the time as the star of Kitti Frings' Pulitzer prize winning play, Look Homeward Angel for which he and co-star Tony Perkins, leading lady Jo Van Fleet, director George Roy Hill and the play itself were all nominated for Tonys for the 1957-1958 season.

[HarryGoldfarb]

After receiving a GG nomination, wasn't Stephen Boyd the expected nominee from Ben-Hur in the supporting category? Where did Hugh Griffith nomination and eventual win come from? How was this perceived at the time?

[Bruce_Lavigne]

Best Picture
01. The 400 Blows (pr. François Truffaut)
02. Rio Bravo (pr. Howard Hawks)
03. Floating Weeds (pr. Masaichi Nagata)
04. Some Like it Hot (pr. Billy Wilder)
05. Anatomy of a Murder (pr. Otto Preminger)

Best Director
01. François Truffaut – The 400 Blows
02. Howard Hawks – Rio Bravo
03. Yasujiro Ozu – Floating Weeds
04. Billy Wilder – Some Like it Hot
05. Otto Preminger – Anatomy of a Murder

Best Leading Actor
01. Jack Lemmon – Some Like it Hot
02. Tony Curtis – Some Like it Hot
03. Victor Sjöström – Wild Strawberries
04. James Stewart – Anatomy of a Murder
05. Ganjiro Nakamura – Floating Weeds

Best Leading Actress
01. Marilyn Monroe – Some Like it Hot
02. Audrey Hepburn – The Nun's Story
03. Simone Signoret – Room at the Top
04. Elizabeth Taylor – Suddenly, Last Summer
05. Katharine Hepburn – Suddenly, Last Summer

Best Supporting Actor
01. Laurence Olivier – The Devil's Disciple
02. Stephen Boyd – Ben-Hur
03. Orson Welles – Compulsion
04. George C. Scott – Anatomy of a Murder
05. Ben Gazzara – Anatomy of a Murder

Best Supporting Actress
01. Juanita Moore – Imitation of Life
02. Shelley Winters – The Diary of Anne Frank
03. Susan Kohner – Imitation of Life
04. Lee Remick – Anatomy of a Murder
05. Dorothy McGuire – A Summer Place

Best Adapted Screenplay
01. Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond)
02. Rio Bravo (Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman)
03. Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu, Kôgo Noda)
04. Anatomy of a Murder (Wendell Mayes)
05. Imitation of Life (Eleanore Griffin, Allan Scott)

Best Original Screenplay
01. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, Marcel Moussy)
02. Shadows (John Cassavetes)
03. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
04. Pillow Talk (Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene)
05. North by Northwest (Ernest Lehman)

Best Film Editing
01. Rio Bravo (Folmar Blangsted)
02. Some Like it Hot (Arthur P. Schmidt)
03. North by Northwest (George Tomasini)
04. Floating Weeds (Toyo Suzuki)
05. The 400 Blows (Marie-Josephe Yoyotte)

Best Cinematography
01. The 400 Blows (Henri Decaë)
02. Wild Strawberries (Gunnar Fischer)
03. The Diary of Anne Frank (William C. Mellor)
04. Floating Weeds (Kazuo Miyagawa)
05. Anatomy of a Murder (Sam Leavitt)

Best Original Score
01. Ben-Hur (Miklos Rozsa)
02. North by Northwest (Bernard Herrmann)
03. Anatomy of a Murder (Duke Ellington)
04. Journey to the Center of the Earth (Bernard Herrmann)
05. Rio Bravo (Dimitri Tiomkin)

[Penelope]

Speaking of subject to change, I altered my choices for this year.

[Penelope]

Best Picture:

1. Some Like It Hot
2. Ballad of a Soldier
3. Imitation of Life
4. The 400 Blows
5. North by Northwest

Best Director:

1. Grigori Chukhrai (Ballad of a Soldier)
2. Douglas Sirk (Imitation of Life)
3. Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot)
4. Francois Truffaut (The 400 Blows)
5. Alfred Hitchcock (North by Northwest)

Best Actor:

1. Jack Lemmon (Some Like It Hot)
2. Vladimir Ivashov (Ballad of a Soldier)
3. Tony Curtis (Some Like It Hot)
4. Jean-Pierre Léaud (The 400 Blows)
5. Rock Hudson (Pillow Talk)

Best Actress:

1. Simone Signoret (Room at the Top)
2. Marilyn Monroe (Some Like It Hot)
3. Hayley Mills (Tiger Bay)
4. Eleonora Rossi Drago (Violent Summer)
5. Katharine Hepburn (Suddenly, Last Summer)

Best Supporting Actor:

1. Stephen Boyd (Ben-Hur)
2. Dean Martin (Rio Bravo)
3. Joe E. Brown (Some Like It Hot)
4. Joseph N. Welch (Anatomy of a Murder)
5. Tony Randall (Pillow Talk)

Best Supporting Actress:

1. Susan Kohner (Imitation of Life)
2. Juanita Moore (Imitation of Life)
3. Shelley Winters (The Diary of Anne Frank)
4. Angie Dickinson (Rio Bravo)
5. Constance Ford (A Summer Place)



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[Aceisgreat]

BEST PICTURE
Anatomy of a Murder
*Ben-Hur
North By Northwest
Some Like It Hot
Suddenly, Last Summer

BEST DIRECTOR
Alfred Hitchcock, North By Northwest
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Suddenly, Last Summer
Otto Preminger, Anatomy of a Murder
Billy Wilder, Some Like It Hot
*William Wyler, Ben-Hur

BEST ACTOR
Tony Curtis, Some Like It Hot
Cary Grant, North By Northwest
*Charlton Heston, Ben-Hur
Jack Lemmon, Some Like It Hot
James Stewart, Anatomy of a Murder

BEST ACTRESS
Audrey Hepburn, The Nun's Story
Katharine Hepburn, Suddenly, Last Summer
Anna Magnani, The Fugitive Kind
*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
Jack Hawkins, Ben-Hur
James Mason, North By Northwest
George C. Scott, Anatomy of a Murder

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Eve Arden, Anatomy of a Murder
*Edith Evans, The Nun's Story
Jessie Royce Landis, North By Northwest
Mercedes McCambridge, Suddenly, Last Summer
Shelley Winters, The Diary of Anne Frank

[Precious Doll]

Best Film

1. Hiroshima Mon Amour
2. Imitation of Life
3. Good Morning
4. Pickpocket
5. The Key

Best Director

1. Alain Resnais, Hiroshima Mon Amour
2. Douglas Sirk, Imitation of Life
3. Yasujiro Ozu, Good Morning
4. Kon Ichikawa, The Key
5. Robert Bresson, Pickpocket

Best Actor

1. Eiji Okada, Hiroshima Mon Amour
2. Jack Lemmon, Some Like it Hot
3. James Stewart, Anatomy of a Murder
4. Stanley Baker, Yesterday’s Enemy
5. Laurence Harvey, Room at the Top

Best Actress

1. Emmanuelle Riva, Hiroshima Mon Amour
2. Simone Signoret, Room at the Top
3. Lana Turner, Imitation of Life
4. Mamie Van Doren, Girl’s Town
5. Marilyn Monroe, Some Like it Hot

Best Supporting Actor

1. George C. Scott, Anatomy of a Murder
2. Ben Gazzara, Anatomy of a Murder
3. Arthur O’Connell, Anatomy of a Murder
4. Joe E. Brown, Some Like it Hot
5. Sami Davis Jr, Porgy and Bess

Best Supporting Actress

1. Lee Remick, Anatomy of a Murder
2. Susan Kohner, Imitation of Life
3. Juanita Moore, Imitation of Life
4. Hermione Baddeley, A Room at the Top
5. Constance Ford, A Summer Place

Best Screenplay

1. Hiroshima Mon Amour
2. Pickpocket
3. Ballad of a Soldier
4. The 400 Blows
5. Girls Town

Best Screenplay Adaptation

1. Imitation of Life
2. The Key
3. Anatomy of a Murder
4. Some Like It Hot
5. Room at the Top

Best Cinematography

1. Imitation of Life
2. A Summer Place
3. Hiroshima Mon Amour
4. Good Morning
5. Porgy and Bess

Best Editing

1. Hiroshima Mon Amour
2. Imitation of Life
3. Some Like It Hot
4. The 400 Blows
5. Anatomy of a Murder

Best Sound

1. Hiroshima Mon Amour
2. Some Like It Hot
3. Pickpocket
4. Porgy and Bess
5. Compulsion

Best Art Direction

1. Imitation of Life
2. Porgy and Bess
3. Some Like It Hot
4. The Key
5. Compulsion

Best Costume Design

1. Imitation of Life
2. Some Like It Hot
3. Porgy and Bess
4. A Summer Place
5. Black Orpheus

Best Music

1. Hiroshima Mon Amour
2. Imitation of Life
3. A Summer Place
4. Some Like It Hot
5. Black Orpheus

[MCAR]

Picture:
Anatomy Of A Murder
The 400 Blows
North By Northwest
*Some Like It Hot*
Wild Strawberries

Actor:
Tony Curtis – Some Like It Hot
Cary Grant – North By Northwest
*Jack Lemmon – Some Like It Hot*
Victor Sjostrom – Wild Strawberries
James Stewart – Anatomy Of A Murder

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

Supporting Actor:
Stephen Boyd – Ben-Hur
Joe E. Brown – Some Like It Hot
George C. Scott – Anatomy Of A Murder
Anton Walbrook – Lola Montes
Orson Welles - Compulsion

Supporting Actress:
*Karuna Bannerjee – The Unvanquished*
Susan Kohner – Imitation Of Life
Machiko Kyo – Street Of Shame
Marilyn Monroe – Some Like It Hot
Lee Remick – Anatomy Of A Murder

Director:
Ingmar Bergman –Wild Strawberries
Alfred Hitchcock – North By Northwest
Max Ophuls - Lola Montes
Francois Truffaut – The 400 Blows
*Billy Wilder – Some Like It Hot*

Original Screenplay:
Ingmar Bergman – Wild Strawberries
John Cassavettes - Shadows
Claude Chabrol & Paul Gegauff – The Cousins
Ernest Lehman – North By Northwest
Marcel Moussy & Francois Truffaut – The 400 Blows

Adapted Screenplay:
*I.A.L. Diamond & Billy Wilder – Some Like It Hot*
Wendell Mayes – Anatomy Of A Murder
Neil Patterson – Room At The Top
Erdman Penner & Charles Perrault – Sleeping Beauty
Satyajit Ray - The Unvanquished

Foreign Film:
The 400 Blows (France)
Lola Montes (France)
No Greater Love (Japan)
The Unvanquished (India)
Wild Strawberries (Sweden)