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* Best Motion Picture - Sam Spiegel, Producer * Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman, Pierre Boulle Actor in a Supporting Role - Sessue Hayakawa
The 30th Academy Awards ceremony was held on March 26, 1958, to honor the best films of 1957. Two violent deaths surrounded the Oscars during this ceremony. A plane crash took the life of producer Mike Todd, ending the then-latest marriage of Elizabeth Taylor, at that time a contender for the film Raintree County.
31st Academy Awards (1958): Nominees and Winners – Cinema Sight by Wesley Lovell. BEST MOTION PICTURE. Auntie Mame – Warner Bros. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Lawrence Weingarten. The Defiant Ones – Stanley Kramer. Gigi – Arthur Freed. Separate Tables – Harold Hecht. DIRECTING. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Richard Brooks. The Defiant Ones – Stanley Kramer.
Winners Charts: "Best Picture" Oscar®, "Best Director" Oscar®, "Best Actor" Oscar®, "Best Supporting Actor" Oscar®, "Best Actress" Oscar®, "Best Supporting Actress" Oscar®, "Best Screenplay/Writer" Oscar®. 1958. The winner is listed first, in CAPITAL letters. Filmsite's Greatest Films of 1958.
The 31st Academy Awards ceremony was held on April 6, 1959, to honor the best films of 1958. The night was dominated by Gigi, which won nine Oscars, breaking the previous record of eight set by Gone with the Wind and tied by From Here to Eternity and On the Waterfront .
Best Motion PictureBest DirectorGigi – Arthur Freed, producer ‡ Auntie ...Vincente Minnelli – Gigi ‡ Richard Brooks ...David Niven – Separate Tables as Major ...Susan Hayward – I Want to Live! as ...Burl Ives – The Big Country as Rufus ...Wendy Hiller – Separate Tables as Pat ...The Defiant Ones – Nedrick Young and ...Gigi – Alan Jay Lerner from the novella ...Beginning in 1957, the nominations and winners were voted upon only by Academy members. (In previous years, other individuals in the motion picture community had had varying levels of voting privileges.) The number of competitive categories, which had swelled to 30 in the previous year, was downsized to 24.
