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* Music (Scoring) - Malcolm Arnold * Best Motion Picture - Sam Spiegel, Producer * Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman, Pierre Boulle
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Auntie Mame – Warner Bros. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Lawrence Weingarten The Defiant Ones – Stanley Kramer Gigi – Arthur Freed Separate Tables– Harold Hecht
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Richard Brooks The Defiant Ones – Stanley Kramer Gigi – Vincente Minnelli I Want to Live! – Robert Wise The Inn of the Sixth Happiness– Mark Robson
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
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
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
Peggy Cass – Auntie Mame Wendy Hiller – Separate Tables Martha Hyer – Some Came Running Maureen Stapleton – Lonelyhearts Cara Williams – The Defiant Ones
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Richard Brooks, James Poe Gigi – Alan Jay Lerner The Horse’s Mouth – Alec Guinness I Want to Live! – Nelson Gidding, Don Mankiewicz Separate Tables– Terence Rattigan, John Gay
“Almost In Your Arms (Love Song From ‘Houseboat’)” – Houseboat – Music, Lyrics by Jay Livingston, Ray Evans “A Certain Smile” – A Certain Smile – Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster “Gigi” – Gigi – Music by Frederick Loewe; Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner “To Love And Be Loved” – Some Came Running – Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sa...
Auntie Mame – William Ziegler Cowboy – William A. Lyon, Al Clark The Defiant Ones – Frederic Knudtson Gigi – Adrienne Fazan I Want to Live!– William Hornbeck
The Defiant Ones – Sam Leavitt Desire under the Elms – Daniel L. Fapp I Want to Live! – Lionel Lindon Separate Tables – Charles Lang, Jr. The Young Lions– Joe MacDonald
The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.
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.
Best Motion PictureBest DirectorThe Bridge on the River Kwai – Sam ...David Lean – The Bridge on the River Kwai ...Alec Guinness – The Bridge on the River ...Joanne Woodward – The Three Faces of Eve ...Red Buttons – Sayonara as Airman Joe ...Miyoshi Umeki – Sayonara as Katsumi Kelly ...Designing Woman – George Wells ‡ Funny ...The Bridge on the River Kwai – Michael ...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 ...Nominations and Winners. Listed below are the Academy Award nominations and winners for the year 1958. The symbol appears next to the winner in each category. Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song.
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[Minnelli directed the only other Freed musical to win the Best Picture Oscar, An American In Paris (1951), but he lost the Best Director award to George Stevens for A Place in the Sun (1951).]
