Oscar Nominations and Winners (1959)

Best Picture

• Anatomy of a Murder
• Ben-Hur
• The Diary of Anne Frank
• The Nun's Story
• Room at the Top

Best Director

• Jack Clayton (Room at the Top)
• George Stevens (The Diary of Anne Frank)
• Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot)
• William Wyler (Ben-Hur)
• Fred Zinnemann (The Nun's Story)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Laurence Harvey (Room at the Top)
• Charlton Heston (Ben-Hur)
• Jack Lemmon (Some Like It Hot)
• Paul Muni (The Last Angry Man)
• James Stewart (Anatomy of a Murder)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Hugh Griffith (Ben-Hur)
• Arthur O'Connell (Anatomy of a Murder)
• George C. Scott (Anatomy of a Murder)
• Robert Vaughn (The Young Philadelphians)
• Ed Wynn (The Diary of Anne Frank)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Doris Day (Pillow Talk)
• Audrey Hepburn (The Nun's Story)
• Katharine Hepburn (Suddenly, Last Summer)
• Simone Signoret (Room at the Top)
• Elizabeth Taylor (Suddenly, Last Summer)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Hermione Baddeley (Room at the Top)
• Susan Kohner (Imitation of Life)
• Juanita Moore (Imitation of Life)
• Thelma Ritter (Pillow Talk)
• Shelley Winters (The Diary of Anne Frank)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Anatomy of a Murder (Wendell Mayes)
• Ben-Hur (Karl Tunberg)
• The Nun's Story (Robert Anderson)
• Room at the Top (Neil Paterson)
• Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond)

Best Original Story and Screenplay

• The 400 Blows (Fran�ois Truffaut and Marcel Moussy)
• North by Northwest (Ernest Lehman)
• Pillow Talk (Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene, Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin)
• Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Black Orpheus (France)
• The Bridge (Federal Republic of Germany�West)
• The Great War (Italy)
• Paw (Denmark)
• The Village on the River (Netherlands)

Art Direction (Black and White)

• Career
• The Diary of Anne Frank
• The Last Angry Man
• Some Like It Hot
• Suddenly, Last Summer

Art Direction (Color)

• Ben-Hur
• The Big Fisherman
• Journey to the Center of the Earth
• North by Northwest
• Pillow Talk

Cinematography (Black and White)

• Anatomy of a Murder
• Career
• The Diary of Anne Frank
• Some Like It Hot
• The Young Philadelphians

Cinematography (Color)

• Ben-Hur
• The Big Fisherman
• The Five Pennies
• The Nun's Story
• Porgy and Bess

Costume Design (Black and White)

• Career
• The Diary of Anne Frank
• The Gazebo
• Some Like It Hot
• The Young Philadelphians

Costume Design (Color)

• Ben-Hur
• The Best of Everything
• The Big Fisherman
• The Five Pennies
• Porgy and Bess

Documentary Feature

• The Race for Space
• Serengeti Shall Not Die

Documentary Short Subject

• Donald in Mathmagic Land
• From Generation to Generation
• Glass

Film Editing

• Anatomy of a Murder
• Ben-Hur
• North by Northwest
• The Nun's Story
• On the Beach

Original Score for Drama or Comedy

• Ben-Hur (Miklos Rozsa)
• The Nun's Story (Franz Waxman)
• On the Beach (Ernest Gold)
• Pillow Talk (Frank DeVol)

Original Score for Musical

• The Five Pennies (Leith Stevens)
• Li'l Abner (Nelson Riddle and Joseph J. Lilley)
• Porgy and Bess (Andr� Previn and Ken Darby)
• Say One for Me (Lionel Newman)
• Sleeping Beauty (George Bruns)

Original Song

• "The Best of Everything" (The Best of Everything) Music by Alfred Newman. Lyrics by Sammy Cahn.
• "The Five Pennies" (The Five Pennies) Music and Lyrics by Sylvia Fine.
• "The Hanging Tree" (The Hanging Tree) Music by Jerry Livingston. Lyrics by Mack David.
• "High Hopes" (A Hole in the Head) Music by James Van Heusen. Lyrics by Sammy Cahn.
• "Strange Are the Ways of Love" (The Young Land) Music by Dimitri Tiomkin. Lyrics by Ned Washington.

Animated Short Film (Cartoons)

• Mexicali Shmoes (Speedy Gonzales Series)
• Moonbird
• Noah's Ark
• The Violinist

Live Action Short Film

• Between the Tides
• The Golden Fish
• Mysteries of the Deep
• The Running, Jumping and Standing-Still Film
• Skyscraper

Sound

• Ben-Hur
• Journey to the Center of the Earth
• Libel!
• The Nun's Story
• Porgy and Bess

Visual Effects

• Ben-Hur
• Journey to the Center of the Earth