Oscars of the cinema 1959

the 32eme ceremony of the Oscars took place Monday April 4th 1960 with 19:30 with RKO Pantages Theater with Hollywood.

The big winner of the evening was without question Ben-Hur which exceeded the record of Gigi , the year passed, by obtaining eleven Oscars. Record which will be equalized only in 1997 by Titanic of James Cameron.

Ceremony

Master of ceremony: Bob Hope
President: Valentine Davies
Producing: Arthur Freed
Musical director: Andre Prévin
Directing of the evening: Vincente Minnelli, John Houseman, Joe Parker
Dialogists: Richard Breen, Hall Kanter, Jack Pink, Melville Shavelson
Producing - Realizer of the televised retransmission (on the NBC): Alan Handley

Nominations

The prizes winner are surlignés in fat.

Better film

Ben-Hur of William Wyler
Autopsy of a murder ( Anatomy off has Murder ) Otto Preminger
the newspaper of Anne Frank ( The Diary off Anne Frank ) of George Stevens
With the risk to lose ( The Nun' S Story ) of Fred Zinnemann
Ways of the upper town ( Room At the Top ) of Jack Clayton (G.B.)

Better realizer

William Wyler for Ben-Hur
Jack Clayton for the ways of the upper town
George Stevens for the newspaper of Anne Frank
Billy Wilder for Some like it hot ( Some Like It Hot )
Fred Zinnemann for With the risk to lose

Better actor

Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur
Laurence Harvey in the ways of the upper town
Jack Lemmon in Some like it hot
Paul Muni in Anger with the Juste ( The Last Angry Man ) of Daniel Mann
James Stewart in Autopsie of a murder

Better actress

Simone Signoret in ways of the upper town
Dory Day in Pillow talks ( Pillow Talk ) of Michael Gordon
Audrey Hepburn in With the risk to lose
Katharine Hepburn in Suddenly last summer ( Suddenly Last Summer ) of Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly last summer

Male best supporting role

Hugh Griffith in Ben-Hur
Arthur O' Connell in Autopsy of a murder
George C. Scott in Autopsy of a murder
Robert Vaughn in This world with share ( The Young Philadelphians ) of Vincent Sherman
ED Wynn in the newspaper of Anne Frank

Female best supporting role

Shelley Winters in the newspaper of Anne Frank
Hermione Baddeley in ways of the upper town
Susan Kohner in Mirage of the life ( Imitation off Life ) of Douglas Sirk
Juanita Moore in Mirage of the life
Thelma Ritter in Pillow talks

Better original screenplay

Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene (history), Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin (scenario) for Pillow talks
François Truffaut and Marcel Moussy for the 400 blows of François Truffaut (France)
Ernest Lehman for Death with the cases ( North by Northwest ) of Alfred Hitchcock
Paul King and Joseph Stone (history), Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin (scenario) for Operation underskirts ( Operation Petticoat ) of Blake Edwards
Ingmar Bergman for wild strawberries ( Smultronstället ) of Ingmar Bergman (Sweden)

Better adaptation

Neil Patterson for ways of the upper town
Wendell Mayes for Autopsy of a murder
Karl Tunberg for Ben Hur
Robert Anderson for With the risk to lose
Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond for Some like it hot

Better foreign film

Orfeu Negro of Marcel Camus (France)
the bridge ( Die Brücke ) of Bernhard Wicki (Germany)
the Great War ( the large one watched for ) Mario Monicelli (Italy)
Paw, a boy between two worlds ( Paw ) of Astrid Henneing-Jensen (Denmark)
the village at the edge of the river ( Dorp aan of Rivier ) of Fons Rademakers (Holland)

Better photography

In black and white

William C. Mellor for the newspaper of Anne Frank
Sam Leavitt for Autopsie of a murder
Joseph LaShelle for Career of Joseph Anthony
Charles Lang for Some like it hot
Harry Stradling Sr. for This world with share

Color

Robert L. Surtees for Ben Hur
Lee Garmes for Simon the fisherman ( The Big Fisherman ) of Frank Borzage
Daniel L. Fapp for Millionaire of five pennies ( The Five Pennies ) of Melville Shavelson
Franz To plane for With the risk to lose
Leon Shamroy for Porgy and Bess of Otto Preminger

Better artistic director (decorations)

In black and white

Lyle R. Wheeler, George W. Davis, Walter Mr. Scott and Stuart A. Reiss for the newspaper of Anne Frank
Hall Pereira, Walter H. Tyler, Sam Comer and Arthur Krams for Career
Carl Anderson and William Kiernan for the anger of the Juste
Ted Haworth and Edward G. Boyle for Some like it hot
Oliver Messel, William Kellner and Scott Slimon for Soudain, last summer

Color

William has Homing , Edward Carfagno and Hugh Hunt for Ben Hur
John DeCuir and Julia Heron for Simon the fisherman
Lyle R. Wheeler, Franz Bachelin, Hermann A. Blumenthal, Walter Mr. Scott and Joseph Kish for Voyage in the center of the ground ( Journey to the Center off the Earth ) of Henry Levin
William A. Horning, Robert F. Boyle, Merrill Pye, Henry Grace and Frank R. McKelvy for death to the cases
Richard H. Riedel, Russell A. Gausman and Ruby R. Levitt for Pillow talks

Better costumes

In black and white

Orry-Kelly for Some like it hot
Edith Head for Career
Charles the Mayor and Mary Wills for the newspaper of Anne Frank
Helen Pink for a death recalcitrant ( The Gazebo ) of George Marshall
Howard Shoup for This world with share

Color

Elizabeth Haffenden for Ben Hur
Adele Palmer for Nothing is too beautiful ( Best off Everything ) of Jean Negulesco
Renié for Simon the fisherman
Edith Head for Millionnaire of five pennies
Irene Sharaff for Porgy and Bess

Better sound

Franklin E. Milton (M.G.M.) for Ben Hur
Carlton W. Faulkner (20th Century-Fox SSD) for Voyage in the center of the ground
A.W. Watkins (Subway-Goldwyn-Mayer London Sound Department) for the Night is my enemy ( Libel ) of Anthony Asquith
George Groves (Warner Bros. SSD) for With the risk to lose
Gordon Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn SSD) and Fred Hynes (Todd-AO SSD) for Porgy and Bess

Better original music

Film of fiction

Miklos Rozsa for Ben Hur
Alfred Newman for the newspaper of Anne Frank
Franz Waxman for With the risk to lose
Ernest Gold for the Last Shore ( One the Beach ) of Stanley Kramer
Frank De Vol for Pillow talks

Musical comedy

Andre Previn and Ken Darby for Porgy and Bess
Leith Stevens for Millionaire of five pennies
Nelson Riddle and Joseph J. Lilley for Li' L Abner of Melvin Frank
Lionel Newman for Do not judge a book by its cover ( Say One for Me ) of Frank Tashlin
George Brown for Sleeping Beauty ( Sleeping Beauty ) of Wolfgang Reitherman and Eric Larson

Better original song

James Van Heusen (music) and Sammy Cahn (song) for " High Hopes" in a hole in the head ( has Hole in the Head ) of Frank Capra
Alfred Newman (music) and Sammy Cahn (song) for " The Best off Everything" in Nothing is too beautiful
Sylvia Fine for " The Five Pennies" in Millionaire of five pennies
Jerry Livingston (music) and Mack David (song) for " The Hanging Tree" in the Hill of the brackets ( The Hanging Tree ) of Delmer Daves
Dimitri Tiomkin (music) and Ned Washington (song) for " Strange Are the Ways off Love" in The Young Land of Ted Tetzlaff

Better assembly

Ralph E. Winters and John D. Dunning for Ben Hur
Louis R. Loeffler for Autopsy of a murder
George Tomasini for death with the cases
Walter Thompson for With the risk to lose
Frederic Knudtson for the Last Shore

Better special effects

A. Arnold Gillespie, Robert MacDonald and Milo Lory for Ben Hur
L.B. Abbott, James B. Gordon and Carlton W. Faulkner for Voyage in the center of the ground

Better documentary feature-length film

Serengetti nicht sterben of Michael and Bernhard Grzimek (Germany)
The Race for Space of David L. Wolper (TV)

Better short-measuring

Documentary

Glass produced by Bert Haanstra (Holland)
Donald in Mathmagic Land produces by Walt Disney
From Generation to Generation produces by Edward F. Cullen

Fiction

Histoire of a red fish produces by Edmond Séchan (France)
Between the Tides produces by Ian Ferguson
Mysteries off the Deep produces by Walt Disney
The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film produces by Peter Sellers
Skyscraper produces by Shirley Clarke, Willard Van Dyke and Irving Jacoby

Animation

Moonbird produces by John Hubley
Mexicali Shmoes produces by John Burton
Noah' S Ark produces by Walt Disney
The Violinist produces by Ernest Pintoff

Special Oscars

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Bob Hope

Oscars of honor

Lee De Forest for its inventions pionnières in the wiring for sound of the cinema
Buster Keaton for her incomparable contribution with the cinematographic comedy.

Oscars of the scientific merit

Howard S. Coleman, A. Francis Turner, Harold H. Schroeder, James R. Benford and Harold E. Rosenberger (Bausch & Lomb Optical Co.) for the development of the mirror Balcold
Robert P. Gutterman and Lipsner-Smith Corp. For the development of cleaning of film CF-2 Ultra-Sonic Film Cleaner
Wadsworth E. Pohl, Alford Jack, Henry Imus, Joseph Schmit, Paul Faßnacht et al. Lofquist (Corp Technicolor.) for the development of an application of printer on film
Wadsworth E. Pohl, William Evans, Werner Hopf, S.E. Howse, Thomas P. Dixon and Stanford Research Institute (Corp Technicolor) for the development of an electronic printer with temporal control
Douglas Shearer (M-G-M, Inc.), Robert E. Gottschalk and Richard Moore (Panavision, Inc.) for the mse at the point of a system of production and film diffusion to the format Camera 65

Oscar of technical completion

Ub Iwerks (Walt Disney Productions) for the creation of an optical printer on film for the development of special effects and overprintings
E.L. Stones, Glen Robinson, Winfield Hubbard, Luther Newman (M-G-M Studio Dept Construction.) for the development of an electric cable remote-control

Feature-length films of fiction by Oscars

Eleven Oscars

Ben Hur

Three Oscars

the newspaper of Anne Frank

Two Oscars

ways of the upper town

A Oscar

Pillow talks
Orfeu Negro
Porgy and Bess
a hole in the head
Some like it hot

Feature-length films of fiction by nominations

Twelve nominations

Ben Hur

Eight nominations

the newspaper of Anne Frank
With the risk to lose

Seven nominations

Autopsy of a murder

Six nominations

the ways of the upper town
Some like it hot

Five nominations

Pillow talks

Four nominations

Millionaire of five pennies
Porgy and Bess

Three nominations

Suddenly last summer
This world with share
death with the cases
Career
Simon the fisherman
Voyage in the center of the ground

Two nominations

Mirage of the life
the Last Shore
Nothing is too beautiful
the anger of the Juste

A nomination

a death recalcitrant
the night is my enemy
Li' L Abner
Do not judge a book by its cover
Sleeping Beauty
a hole in the head
the hill of the brackets
The Young Land
the 400 blows
Opération Underskirts
the wild strawberries
Orfeu negro
the bridge
the Great War
Paw, a boy between two worlds
the village at the edge of the river

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