Date: April 6, 1959
Best Picture
Best Actor in a Leading Role
- David Niven for Separate Tables
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Susan Hayward for I Want to Live!
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Burl Ives for The Big Country
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Wendy Hiller for Separate Tables
Best Director
- Vincente Minnelli for Gigi
Best Original Screenplay
- Nedrick Young & Harold Jacob Smith for The Defiant Ones
- Nedrick Young was blacklisted at the time, so his Oscar went to his pseudonym Nathan E. Douglas. In 1993 AMPAS restored his credit upon the request of his widow and the recommendation of the Academy’s writers branch.
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Alan Jay Lerner for Gigi
Best Cinematography, Colour
- Joseph Ruttenberg for Gigi
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
- Sam Leavitt for The Defiant Ones
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White or Colour
- William A. Horning, E. Preston Ames, Henry Grace, F. Keogh Gleason for Gigi
Best Costume Design
- Cecil Beaton for Gigi
Best Sound
- Fred Hynes for South Pacific
Best Film Editing
- Adrienne Fazan for Gigi
Best Special Effects
- Tom Howard for tom thumb
Best Original Song
- Frederick Loewe & Alan Jay Lerner for “Gigi” from Gigi
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
- André Previn for Gigi
Best Music, Scoring of Dramatic or Comedy Picture
- Dimitri Tiomkin for The Old Man and the Sea
Best Short Subject, Live-Action Subjects
- Walt Disney for Grand Canyon
Best Short Subject, Cartoons
- John W. Burton for Knighty Knight Bugs
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
- Ben Sharpsteen for Ama Girls
Best Documentary, Features
- Ben Sharpsteen for White Wilderness
Best Foreign Language Film
- Mon Oncle (France)
Honorary Award
- Maurice Chevalier
