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The 31st Academy Awards | 1959. Honoring movies released in 1958, RKO Pantages Theatre ... Best Motion Picture - Warner Bros. B. Bell, Book and Candle.
32nd →. 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 . Gigi set a new record for biggest Oscars sweep, winning all nine ...
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 ...Ironically, the famed director Cecil B. DeMille, who had made 'Ben-Hur-like' films throughout his lifetime - without the same awards success as the 1959 winner, died the same year (on January 21, 1959). The awards for the Best Picture film covered the following categories: Best Picture, Best Actor (Charlton Heston), Best Supporting Actor (Hugh ...
The 31st Academy Awards | 1959. RKO Pantages Theatre. Monday, April 6, 1959. Honoring movies released in 1958. ... Best Motion Picture - Lawrence Weingarten, Producer.
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Best Picture: GigiGigi also won Academy Awards for Art Direction-Set Decoration (William A. Horning, Preston Ames, Henry Grace, and Keogh Gleason), Color Cinematography (Joseph Ruttenberg), Costume Design (Cecil Beaton), Directing (Vincente Minnelli), Film Editing (Adrienne Fazan), Music – Song (Gigi, Frederick Loewe, music, and Alan Jay Lerner, lyrics), Music – Scoring of a Musical ...
The 31st Academy Awards took place at the RKO Pantages Theatre on Monday, April 6, 1959 and were hosted by Jerry Lewis, Mort Sahl, Tony Randall, Bob Hope, David Niven and Laurence Olivier. Best Picture Gigi broke the previous record of most wins taking home nine Oscars out of nine nominations.
