The Complete Oscar Quest: 31st Academy Awards (1958)
1958
Best Picture
- Auntie Mame
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- The Defiant Ones
- Gigi
- Separate Tables
Best Director
- Richard Brooks, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Stanley Kramer, The Defiant Ones
- Vincente Minnelli, Gigi
- Mark Robson, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
- Robet Wise, I Want to Live!
Best Actor
- Tony Curtis, The Defiant Ones
- Paul Newman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- David Niven, Separate Tables
- Sidney Poitier, The Defiant Ones
- Spencer Tracy, The Old Man and the Sea
Best Actress
- Susan Hayward, I Want to Live!
- Deborah Kerr, Separate Tables
- Shirley MacLaine, Some Came Running
- Rosalind Russell, Auntie Mame
- Elizabeth Taylor, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Best Supporting Actor
- Theodore Bikel, The Defiant Ones
- Lee J. Cobb, The Brothers Karamazov
- Burl Ives, The Big Country
- Arthur Kennedy, Some Came Running
- Gig Young, Teacher’s Pet
Best Supporting Actress
- Peggy Cass, Auntie Mame
- Wendy Hiller, Separate Tables
- Martha Hyer, Some Came Running
- Maureen Stapleton, Lonelyhearts
- Cara Williams, The Defiant Ones
Best Original Screenplay
- The Defiant Ones
- The Goddess
- Houseboat
- The Sheepmen
- Teacher’s Pet
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Gigi
- The Horse’s Mouth
- I Want to Live!
- Separate Tables
Best Editing
- Auntie Mame
- Cowboy
- The Defiant Ones
- Gigi
- I Want to Live!
Best Cinematography, Black and White
- The Defiant Ones
- Desire Under the Elms
- I Want to Live!
- Separate Tables
- The Young Lions
Best Cinematography, Color
- Auntie Mame
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Gigi
- South Pacific
- The Old Man and the Sea
Best Dramatic or Comedy Score
- The Big Country
- The Old Man and the Sea
- Separate Tables
- White Wilderness
- The Young Lions
Best Musical Score
- The Bolshoi Ballet
- Damn Yankees!
- Gigi
- Mardi Gras
- South Pacific
Best Original Song
- “Almost in Your Arms (Love Song from Houseboat),” from Houseboat
- “A Certain Smile,” from A Certain Smile
- “Gigi,” from Gigi
- To Love and Be Loved,” from Some Came Running
- “A Very Precious Love,” from Marjorie Morningstar
Best Art Direction
- Auntie Mame
- A Certain Smile
- Bell Book and Candle
- Gigi
- Vertigo
Best Costume Design
- Bell Book and Candle
- The Buccaneer
- A Certain Smile
- Gigi
- Some Came Running
Best Visual Effects
- Tom Thumb
- Torpedo Run
Best Sound Recording
- I Want to Live!
- A Time to Love and a Time to Die
- South Pacific
- Vertigo
- The Young Lions
Best Foreign Language Film
- Arms and the Man
- Big Deal on Madonna Street
- Mon Oncle
- The Road a Year Long
- La venganza
Best Documentary
- Antarctic Crossing
- The Hidden World
- Psychiatric Nursing
- White Wilderness
Best Documentary Short
- Ama Girls
- Employees Only
- Journey Into Spring
- The Living Stone
- Overture
Best Live-Action Short
- Grand Canyon
- Journey Into Spring
- The Kiss
- Snows of Aorangi
- T Is for Tumbleweed
Best Animated Short
- Knighty Knight Bus
- Paul Bunyan
- Sidney’s Family Tree
Total List of Films Nominated:
- Auntie Mame
- Bell Book and Candle
- The Big Country
- The Bolshoi Ballet
- The Brothers Karamazov
- The Buccaneer
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- A Certain Smile
- Cowboy19
- Damn Yankees!
- The Defiant Ones
- Desire Under the Elms
- Gigi
- The Goddess
- The Horse’s Mouth
- Houseboat
- I Want to Live!
- The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
- Lonelyhearts
- Mardi Gras
- Marjorie Morningstar
- The Old Man and the Sea
- Separate Tables
- The Sheepman
- Some Came Running
- South Pacific
- Teacher’s Pet
- A Time to Love and a Time to Die
- Tom Thumb
- Torpedo Run
- Vertigo
- White Wilderness
- The Young Lions
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