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1959 Academy Awards — 113 nominations across 25 categories.
Best Picture
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White)
- ★ The Diary of Anne Frank IMDB — Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler, George W. Davis; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss
- Career IMDB — Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Arthur Krams
- The Last Angry Man IMDB — Art Direction: Carl Anderson; Set Decoration: William Kiernan
- Some Like It Hot IMDB — Art Direction: Ted Haworth; Set Decoration: Edward G. Boyle
- Suddenly, Last Summer IMDB — Art Direction: Oliver Messel, William Kellner; Set Decoration: Scot Slimon
ART DIRECTION (Color)
- ★ Ben-Hur IMDB — Art Direction: William A. Horning, Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Hugh Hunt
- The Big Fisherman IMDB — Art Direction: John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Julia Heron
- Journey to the Center of the Earth IMDB — Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler, Franz Bachelin, Herman A. Blumenthal; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Joseph Kish
- North by Northwest IMDB — Art Direction: William A. Horning, Robert Boyle, Merrill Pye; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Frank McKelvy
- Pillow Talk IMDB — Art Direction: Richard H. Riedel; Set Decoration: Russell A. Gausman, Ruby R. Levitt
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White)
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color)
COSTUME DESIGN (Black-and-White)
COSTUME DESIGN (Color)
DIRECTING
DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)
FILM EDITING
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
MUSIC (Original Score)
MUSIC (Original Song Score or Adaptation Score)
MUSIC (Original Song)
- ★ A Hole in the Head IMDB — Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
- The Best of Everything IMDB — Music by Alfred Newman; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
- The Five Pennies IMDB — Music and Lyrics by Sylvia Fine
- The Hanging Tree IMDB — Music by Jerry Livingston; Lyrics by Mack David
- The Young Land IMDB — Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; Lyrics by Ned Washington
SHORT FILM (Animated)
SHORT FILM (Live Action)
- ★ The Golden Fish IMDB — Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Producer
- Between the Tides IMDB — Ian Ferguson, Producer
- Mysteries of the Deep IMDB — Walt Disney, Producer
- The Running, Jumping and Standing-Still Film IMDB — Peter Sellers, Producer
- Skyscraper IMDB — Shirley Clarke, Willard Van Dyke and Irving Jacoby, Producers
SOUND MIXING
- ★ Ben-Hur IMDB — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Franklin E. Milton, Sound Director
- Journey to the Center of the Earth IMDB — 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Carl Faulkner, Sound Director
- Libel! IMDB — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer London Studio Sound Department, A. W. Watkins, Sound Director
- The Nun's Story IMDB — Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, George R. Groves, Sound Director
- Porgy and Bess IMDB — Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer, Sound Director; and Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes, Sound Director
VISUAL EFFECTS
WRITING (Adapted Screenplay)
WRITING (Original Screenplay)
- ★ Pillow Talk IMDB — Story by Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene; Screenplay by Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin
- The 400 Blows IMDB — Francois Truffaut, Marcel Moussy
- North by Northwest IMDB — Ernest Lehman
- Operation Petticoat IMDB — Story by Paul King, Joseph Stone; Screenplay by Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin
- Wild Strawberries IMDB — Ingmar Bergman