Awards & Winners

1958 Academy Awards

Check winners and nominations of 1958 Academy Awards. Check awards winners of 31st Academy Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

31st Academy Awards

Academy Award for Best Short Film (Live Action)

Walt Disney

Honored for : Grand Canyon

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Nominee Nominated Work
Walt Disney Grand Canyon
John Hayes The Kiss
Ian Ferguson Journey into Spring
James A. Lebenthal T Is for Tumbleweed
National Film Unit Snows of Aorangi
Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Wendy Hiller

Honored for : Separate Tables
(Role: Pat Cooper)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Cara Williams The Defiant Ones
Role: The Woman
Maureen Stapleton Lonelyhearts
Role: Fay Doyle
Martha Hyer Some Came Running
Role: Gwen French
Peggy Cass Auntie Mame
Role: Agnes Gooch
Wendy Hiller Separate Tables
Role: Pat Cooper
Academy Award for Best Production Design

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Nominee Nominated Work
Hal Pereira Vertigo
Henry Bumstead Vertigo
Samuel M. Comer Vertigo
Frank R. McKelvy Vertigo
Louis Diage Bell, Book and Candle
Cary Odell Bell, Book and Candle
Malcolm C. Bert Auntie Mame
George James Hopkins Auntie Mame
E. Preston Ames Gigi
F. Keogh Gleason Gigi
William A. Horning Gigi
Henry Grace Gigi
John DeCuir A Certain Smile
Walter M. Scott A Certain Smile
Paul S. Fox A Certain Smile
Lyle R. Wheeler A Certain Smile
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

Ben Sharpsteen

Honored for : White Wilderness

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Nominee Nominated Work
Nathan Zucker Psychiatric Nursing
James Carr Antarctic Crossing
Robert Snyder The Hidden World
Ben Sharpsteen White Wilderness
Academy Award for Best Picture

Arthur Freed

Honored for : Gigi

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Nominee Nominated Work
Harold Hecht Separate Tables
Stanley Kramer The Defiant Ones
Lawrence Weingarten Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Warner Bros. Entertainment Auntie Mame
Arthur Freed Gigi
Academy Award for Best Actress

Susan Hayward

Honored for : I Want to Live!
(Role: Barbara Graham)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Shirley MacLaine Some Came Running
Role: Ginny Moorhead
Elizabeth Taylor Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Role: Maggie Pollitt
Rosalind Russell Auntie Mame
Role: Auntie Mame Dennis
Deborah Kerr Separate Tables
Role: Sibyl Railton-Bell
Susan Hayward I Want to Live!
Role: Barbara Graham
Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Burl Ives

Honored for : The Big Country
(Role: Rufus Hannassey)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Arthur Kennedy Some Came Running
Role: Frank Hirsh
Lee J. Cobb The Brothers Karamazov
Role: Fyodor Karamazov
Burl Ives The Big Country
Role: Rufus Hannassey
Theodore Bikel The Defiant Ones
Role: Sheriff Max Muller
Gig Young Teacher's Pet
Role: Dr. Hugo Pine
Academy Award for Best Director

Vincente Minnelli

Honored for : Gigi

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Nominee Nominated Work
Stanley Kramer The Defiant Ones
Richard Brooks Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Vincente Minnelli Gigi
Robert Wise I Want to Live!
Mark Robson The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated)

John W. Burton

Honored for : Knighty Knight Bugs

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Nominee Nominated Work
Walt Disney Paul Bunyan
William M. Weiss Sidney's Family Tree
John W. Burton Knighty Knight Bugs
Academy Award for Best Actor

David Niven

Honored for : Separate Tables
(Role: Major Pollock)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Tony Curtis The Defiant Ones
Role: John 'Joker' Jackson
Paul Newman Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Role: Brick Pollitt
Sidney Poitier The Defiant Ones
Role: Noah Cullen
Spencer Tracy The Old Man and the Sea
Role: The Old Man
David Niven Separate Tables
Role: Major Pollock
Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing

Fred Hynes

Honored for : South Pacific
(Todd-AO Sound Department)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Leslie I. Carey A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Universal-International Studio Sound Department
Carlton W. Faulkner The Young Lions
20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department
Fred Hynes South Pacific
Todd-AO Sound Department
George Dutton Vertigo
Paramount Studio Sound Department
Gordon E. Sawyer I Want to Live!
Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Jacques Tati

Honored for : Mon Oncle
(Country: France, in French)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Mario Monicelli Big Deal on Madonna Street
Country: Italy, in Italian
Giuseppe De Santis The Road a Year Long
Country: Yugoslavia, in Italian
Juan Antonio Bardem Vengeance
Country: Spain, in Spanish
Franz Peter Wirth Arms and the Man
Country: West Germany, in German
Jacques Tati Mon Oncle
Country: France, in French
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith

Honored for : The Defiant Ones
(Upon request of his widow and upon recommendation of the Writers Branch Executive Committee, the Board of Governors voted on June 22, 1993, to restore the name of Nedrick Young to the nominations and award presented to Nathan E. Douglas (Mr. Young's pseudonym during the blacklisting period).)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Michael Kanin Teacher's Pet
Fay Kanin Teacher's Pet
William Bowers The Sheepman
James Edward Grant The Sheepman
Jack Rose Houseboat
Melville Shavelson Houseboat
Paddy Chayefsky The Goddess
Harold Jacob Smith The Defiant Ones
Nedrick Young The Defiant Ones
Academy Award for Best Costume Design

Cecil Beaton

Honored for : Gigi

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Nominee Nominated Work
Jean Louis Bell, Book and Candle
Walter Plunkett Some Came Running
Ralph Jester The Buccaneer
John Jensen The Buccaneer
Edith Head The Buccaneer
Cecil Beaton Gigi
Mary Wills A Certain Smile
Charles LeMaire A Certain Smile
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject

Ben Sharpsteen

Honored for : Ama Girls

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Nominee Nominated Work
Ian Ferguson Journey into Spring
Ben Sharpsteen Ama Girls
Kenneth G. Brown Employees Only
Tom Daly The Living Stone
Thorold Dickinson Overture
Academy Award for Best Film Editing

Adrienne Fazan

Honored for : Gigi

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Nominee Nominated Work
William H. Ziegler Auntie Mame
William Lyon Cowboy
Al Clark Cowboy
Adrienne Fazan Gigi
Frederic Knudtson The Defiant Ones
William Hornbeck I Want to Live!
Academy Award for Best Original Song

Alan Jay Lerner, Frederic Loewe

Honored for : Gigi
(Gigi)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Frederic Loewe Gigi
Gigi
Alan Jay Lerner Gigi
Gigi
Jay Livingston Almost in Your Arms (Love Song from Houseboat)
Houseboat
Ray Evans Almost in Your Arms (Love Song from Houseboat)
Houseboat
Sammy Fain A Certain Smile
A Certain Smile
Paul Francis Webster A Certain Smile
A Certain Smile
Jimmy Van Heusen To Love and Be Loved
Some Came Running
Sammy Cahn To Love and Be Loved
Some Came Running
Sammy Fain A Very Precious Love
Marjorie Morningstar
Paul Francis Webster A Very Precious Love
Marjorie Morningstar
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

Tom Howard

Honored for : Tom Thumb

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Nominee Nominated Work
Harold Humbrock Torpedo Run
A. Arnold Gillespie Torpedo Run
Tom Howard Tom Thumb
Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

Sam Leavitt

Honored for : The Defiant Ones

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Nominee Nominated Work
Sam Leavitt The Defiant Ones
Daniel L. Fapp Desire Under the Elms
Lionel Lindon I Want to Live!
Charles Lang Separate Tables
Joseph MacDonald The Young Lions
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score

Dimitri Tiomkin

Honored for : The Old Man and the Sea

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Nominee Nominated Work
Dimitri Tiomkin The Old Man and the Sea
Jerome Moross The Big Country
David Raksin Separate Tables
Oliver Wallace White Wilderness
Hugo Friedhofer The Young Lions
Academy Award for Best Original Musical

André Previn

Honored for : Gigi

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Nominee Nominated Work
André Previn Gigi
Yuri Fayer The Bolshoi Ballet
Gennady Rozhdestvensky The Bolshoi Ballet
Ray Heindorf Damn Yankees
Lionel Newman Mardi Gras
Alfred Newman South Pacific
Ken Darby South Pacific
Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay

Alan Jay Lerner

Honored for : Gigi

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Nominee Nominated Work
Alan Jay Lerner Gigi
Nelson Gidding I Want to Live!
Don Mankiewicz I Want to Live!
John Gay Separate Tables
Terence Rattigan Separate Tables
Richard Brooks Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
James Poe Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Alec Guinness The Horse's Mouth
Academy Award for Best Cinematography

Joseph Ruttenberg

Honored for : Gigi

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Nominee Nominated Work
Harry Stradling Auntie Mame
William H. Daniels Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Joseph Ruttenberg Gigi
Leon Shamroy South Pacific
James Wong Howe The Old Man and the Sea
Academy Honorary Award

Maurice Chevalier

(for his contributions to the world of entertainment for more than half a century)
Academy Award for Best Technical Achievement

Willy Borberg

(for the development of a high speed intermittent movement for 35mm motion picture theatre projection equipment)
Academy Award for Best Technical Achievement

George Brown, Fred Ponedel, Conrad Boye

(for the design and fabrication of a new rapid fire marble gun)
Academy Scientific and Technical Award (Scientific and Engineering award)

Don W. Prideaux, Leroy G. Leighton, General Electric Lamp Division

(For the development and production of an improved 10 kilowatt lamp for motion picture set lighting.)
Academy Scientific and Technical Award (Scientific and Engineering award)

Panavision

(For the design and development of the Auto Panatar anamorphic photographic lens for 35mm CinemaScope photography.)