1959 awards

Academy Award for Best Picture

Winner GigiArthur Freed

Academy Award for Best Director

Winner GigiVincente Minnelli

Academy Award for Best Actor

Winner Separate TablesDavid Niven

Academy Award for Best Actress

Winner I Want to Live!Susan Hayward

Golden Globe Awards

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Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama

Winner Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Winner Home Before Dark Winner I Want to Live! Winner Separate Tables

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Winner Bell Book and Candle Winner Indiscreet Winner Me and the Colonel Winner The Perfect Furlough

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Winner Damn Yankees! Winner Tom Thumb

Tony Curtis

Winner The Defiant Ones

BAFTA Award for Best Film

Winner Aparajito Winner Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Winner The Cranes Are Flying Winner The Defiant Ones Winner Ice-Cold in Alex Winner Indiscreet Winner Nights of Cabiria Winner No Down Payment

Winner Orders to Kill

Winner Sea of Sand

Winner The Sheepman

Winner Wild Strawberries Winner The Young Lions

Best British Film

Winner Ice-Cold in Alex Winner Indiscreet

Winner Orders to Kill

Winner Sea of Sand

Best Foreign Actor

Winner Cat on a Hot Tin Roofpaul newman Winner The Defiant OnesTony Curtis Winner The Enemy BelowCurd Jürgens Winner The Inn of the Sixth HappinessCurd Jürgens Winner The Last HurrahSpencer Tracy

Winner The SheepmanGlenn Ford

Winner Wild StrawberriesVictor Sjöström Winner Witness for the ProsecutionCharles Laughton Winner The Young LionsMarlon Brando

Best British Actor

Winner Harry Black and the TigerI.S. Johar Winner Ice-Cold in AlexAnthony Quayle Winner Room at the TopLaurence Harvey Winner Room at the TopDonald Wolfit

Winner Sea of SandMichael Craig

Winner Tom ThumbTerry-Thomas

Palme d'Or

Winner Black OrpheusMarcel Camus

Prix spécial du Jury

Best Director

Winner The 400 BlowsFrançois Truffaut

Best Actress

Winner Room at the TopSimone Signoret

Golden Lion

Winner Golden Lion:

Winner General Della RovereRoberto Rossellini Winner The Great WarMario Monicelli

Special Jury Prize

Winner AnsiktetIngmar Bergman

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

Winner Anatomy of a MurderJames Stewart

Volpi Cup for Best Actress

Winner À double tourMadeleine Robinson

Golden Bear

Winner Les cousinsClaude Chabrol

Silver Bear for Best Director

Winner The Hidden FortressAkira Kurosawa

Silver Bear for Best Actress

Winner Ask Any GirlShirley MacLaine

Silver Bear for Best Actor

Winner The Magnificent TrampJean Gabin

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series

David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress

Winner Separate TablesDeborah Kerr

David di Donatello for Best Director

Winner La tempesta

David di Donatello for Best Actress

Winner Hell in the CityAnna Magnani

Targa d'Oro

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film

Winner GigiVincente Minnelli