Academy Awards 1959 Nominations

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Best Motion Picture	Best Director
Best Actor	Best Actress
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen	Best Screenplay based on material from another medium
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short	Best Live Action Short Subject
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)	Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture	Best Song
Best Sound	Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography (Color)	Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Best Costume Design	Best Film Editing
Best Special Effects

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Best Motion Picture

• Auntie Mame
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Gigi
• Separate Tables
• The Defiant Ones

Best Director

• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks)
• Gigi (Vincente Minnelli)
• I Want to Live! (Robert Wise)
• The Defiant Ones (Stanley Kramer)
• The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (Mark Robson)

Best Actor

• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Paul Newman)
• Separate Tables (David Niven)
• The Defiant Ones (Tony Curtis)
• The Defiant Ones (Sidney Poitier)
• The Old Man and the Sea (Spencer Tracy)

Best Actress

• Auntie Mame (Rosalind Russell)
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Elizabeth Taylor)
• I Want to Live! (Susan Hayward)
• Separate Tables (Deborah Kerr)
• Some Came Running (Shirley MacLaine)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Some Came Running (Arthur Kennedy)
• Teacher's Pet (Gig Young)
• The Big Country (Burl Ives)
• The Brothers Karamazov (Lee J. Cobb)
• The Defiant Ones (Theodore Bikel)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Auntie Mame (Peggy Cass)
• Lonelyhearts (Maureen Stapleton)
• Separate Tables (Wendy Hiller)
• Some Came Running (Martha Hyer)
• The Defiant Ones (Cara Williams)

Best Story and Screenplay written directly for the screen

• Houseboat
• Teacher's Pet
• The Defiant Ones
• The Goddess
• The Sheepman

Best Screenplay based on material from another medium

• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Gigi
• I Want to Live!
• Separate Tables
• The Horse's Mouth

Best Foreign Language Film

• Arms and the Man (Germany)
• Big Deal on Madonna Street (Italy)
• La venganza (Spain)
• Mon oncle (France)
• The Year Long Road (Yugoslavia)

Best Documentary Feature

• Antarctic Crossing
• Psychiatric Nursing
• The Hidden World
• White Wilderness

Best Documentary Short

• Ama Girls
• Employees Only
• Journey Into Spring
• Oeuverture
• The Living Stone

Best Live Action Short Subject

• Grand Canyon
• Journey Into Spring
• Snows of Aorangi
• T Is for Tumbleweed
• The Kiss

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• Knighty Knight Bugs
• Paul Bunyan
• Sidney's Family Tree

Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

• Separate Tables
• The Big Country
• The Old Man and the Sea
• The Young Lions
• White Wilderness

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Damn Yankees
• Gigi
• Mardi Gras
• South Pacific
• The Bolshoi Ballet

Best Song

• A Certain Smile ("A Certain Smile")
• Gigi ("Gigi")
• Houseboat ("Almost in Your Arms (Love Song from Houseboat)")
• Marjorie Morningstar ("A Very Precious Love")
• Some Came Running ("To Love and Be Loved")

Best Sound

• A Time to Love and a Time to Die
• I Want to Live!
• South Pacific
• The Young Lions
• Vertigo

Best Art Direction

• A Certain Smile
• Auntie Mame
• Bell Book and Candle
• Gigi
• Vertigo

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Auntie Mame
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Gigi
• South Pacific
• The Old Man and the Sea

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Desire Under the Elms
• I Want to Live!
• Separate Tables
• The Defiant Ones
• The Young Lions

Best Costume Design

• A Certain Smile
• Bell Book and Candle
• Gigi
• Some Came Running
• The Buccaneer

Best Film Editing

• Auntie Mame
• Cowboy
• Gigi
• I Want to Live!
• The Defiant Ones

Best Special Effects

• Tom Thumb
• Torpedo Run