Academy Awards

annual awards for cinematic achievements

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1959 edition

Academy Award for Best Production Design

E. Preston Ames

F. Keogh Gleason

Henry Grace

William A. Horning

For the film: Gigi

Also nominated: Auntie Mame · Bell, Book and Candle · Cary Odell · Frank R. McKelvy · George James Hopkins · Hal Pereira · Henry Bumstead · John DeCuir · Louis Diage · Lyle R. Wheeler · Malcolm C. Bert · Paul S. Fox · Samuel M. Comer · Um Certo Sorriso · Vertigo · Walter M. Scott
Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

John W. Burton

For the film: Knighty Knight Bugs

Also nominated: Paul Bunyan · Sidney’s Family Tree · Walt Disney · William M. Weiss
Academy Award for Best Costume Design

Cecil Beaton

For the film: Gigi

Also nominated: Bell, Book and Candle · Charles Lemaire · Edith Head · Jean Louis · John Jensen · Mary Wills · Ralph Jester · Some Came Running · The Buccaneer · Um Certo Sorriso · Walter Plunkett
Academy Award for Best Director

Vincente Minnelli

For the film: Gigi

Also nominated: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof · I Want to Live! · Mark Robson · Richard Brooks · Robert Wise · Stanley Kramer · The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)

Ama Girls

Ben Sharpsteen

Also nominated: Employees Only · Ian Ferguson · Kenneth G. Brown · Overture · The Living Stone · Thorold Dickinson · Tom Daly
Academy Award for Best Film Editing

Adrienne Fazan

For the film: Gigi

Also nominated: Al Clark · Auntie Mame · Cowboy · Frederic Knudtson · I Want to Live! · The Defiant Ones · William Hornbeck · William H. Ziegler · William Lyon
Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film

Walt Disney

For the film: Grand Canyon

Also nominated: Ian Ferguson · Jim Lebenthal · John Hayes · Journey Into Spring · Snows of Aorangi · The Kiss · T Is for Tumbleweed
Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

André Previn

For the film: Gigi

Also nominated: Alfred Newman · Damn Yankees · Gennady Rozhdestvensky · Ken Darby · Lionel Newman · Mardi Gras · Ray Heindorf · South Pacific · The Bolshoi Ballet · Yuri Fayer
Academy Award for Best Picture

Arthur Freed

For the film: Gigi

Also nominated: Auntie Mame · Cat on a Hot Tin Roof · Harold Hecht · Lawrence Weingarten · Separate Tables · Stanley Kramer · The Defiant Ones
Academy Award for Best Sound

Fred Hynes

For the film: South Pacific

Also nominated: A Time to Love and a Time to Die · Carlton W. Faulkner · George Dutton · Gordon E. Sawyer · I Want to Live! · Leslie I. Carey · The Young Lions · Vertigo
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Burl Ives

For the film: The Big Country

Also nominated: Arthur Kennedy · Gig Young · Lee J. Cobb · The Brothers Karamazov · Some Came Running · Teacher's Pet · The Defiant Ones · Theodore Bikel