31st Academy Awards
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- DirectorsVincente MinnelliCharles WaltersStarsLeslie CaronMaurice ChevalierLouis JourdanWeary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long.Winner - Best Motion Picture of the Year
Winner - Best Director for Vincente Minnelli
Winner - Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay for Alan Jay Lerner
Winner - Best Musical Score for André Previn
Winner - Best Original Song for "Gigi"
Winner - Best Art Direction – Set Decoration
Winner - Best Costume Design for Cecil Beaton
Winner - Best Cinematography, Color for Joseph Ruttenberg
Winner - Best Film Editing for Adrienne Fazan - DirectorRichard BrooksStarsElizabeth TaylorPaul NewmanBurl IvesBrick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminally ill father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.Nominated - Best Motion Picture of the Year
Nominated - Best Director for Richard Brooks
Nominated - Best Actor for Paul Newman
Nominated - Best Actress for Elizabeth Taylor
Nominated - Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay for Richard Brooks and James Poe
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for William Daniels - DirectorMorton DaCostaStarsRosalind RussellForrest TuckerCoral BrowneAn orphan goes to live with his free-spirited aunt. Conflict ensues when the executor of his father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle.Nominated - Best Motion Picture of the Year
Nominated - Best Actress for Rosalind Russell
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Peggy Cass
Nominated - Best Art Direction – Set Decoration
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for Harry Stradling, Sr.
Nominated - Best Film Editing for William Ziegler - DirectorDelbert MannStarsRita HayworthDeborah KerrDavid NivenThe stories of several people are told as they stay at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth which features dining at "Separate Tables."Nominated - Best Motion Picture of the Year
Winner - Best Actor for David Niven
Nominated - Best Actress for Deborah Kerr
Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Wendy Hiller
Nominated - Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay for John Gay and Terence Rattigan
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for David Raksin
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Charles Lang, Jr. - DirectorStanley KramerStarsTony CurtisSidney PoitierCara WilliamsTwo chained-together escaped convicts, one white and one black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.Nominated - Best Motion Picture of the Year
Nominated - Best Director for Stanley Kramer
Nominated - Best Actor for Tony Curtis
Nominated - Best Actor for Sidney Poitier
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Theodore Bikel
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Cara Williams
Winner - Best Writing, Original Screenplay for Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith
Winner - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Sam Leavitt
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Frederick Knudtson - DirectorRobert WiseStarsSusan HaywardSimon OaklandVirginia VincentA prostitute sentenced to death for murder pleads her innocence.Nominated - Best Director for Robert Wise
Winner - Best Actress for Susan Hayward
Nominated - Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay for Don Mankiewicz and Nelson Gidding
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Gordon E. Sawyer
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Lionel Lindon
Nominated - Best Film Editing for William Hornbeck - DirectorMark RobsonStarsIngrid BergmanRobert DonatCurd JürgensA tenacious British woman becomes a missionary and runs an inn for travelling merchants in China during the Japanese invasion and the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War.Nominated - Best Director for Mark Robson
- DirectorsJohn SturgesFred ZinnemannStarsSpencer TracyFelipe PazosHarry BellaverAn old Cuban fisherman's dry spell is broken when he hooks a gigantic fish that drags him out to sea.Nominated - Best Actor for Spencer Tracy
Winner - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Dimitri Tiomkin
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for James Wong Howe - DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsFrank SinatraDean MartinShirley MacLaineA veteran returns home to deal with family secrets and small-town scandals.Nominated - Best Actress for Shirley MacLaine
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Arthur Kennedy
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Martha Hyer
Nominated - Best Original Song for "To Love and Be Loved"
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Walter Plunkett - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGregory PeckJean SimmonsCarroll BakerA New England sea captain in the 1880s arrives at his fiancée's sprawling Texas ranch, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land.Winner - Best Supporting Actor for Burl Ives
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Jerome Moross - DirectorRichard BrooksStarsYul BrynnerMaria SchellClaire BloomDrama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Lee J. Cobb
- DirectorGeorge SeatonStarsClark GableDoris DayGig YoungA hard-nosed newspaper editor poses as a night school student in order to woo a journalism teacher who cannot stand him.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Gig Young
Nominated - Best Writing, Original Screenplay for Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin - DirectorVincent J. DonehueStarsMontgomery CliftMyrna LoyRobert RyanEager for a job, journalist Adam White accepts the lowly position of columnist for the advice-giving section of the Chronicle but he often clashes with his cynical editor, Shrike.Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Maureen Stapleton
- DirectorMelville ShavelsonStarsCary GrantSophia LorenMartha HyerA widower, his three young children, and an Italian nanny get to know each other better when circumstances have them living together aboard a badly neglected houseboat.Nominated - Best Writing, Original Screenplay for Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Almost In Your Arms (Love Song from Houseboat)" - DirectorJohn CromwellStarsKim StanleyLloyd BridgesSteven HillA woman adored by the people around her ultimately struggles to be happy with herself.Nominated - Best Writing, Original Screenplay for Paddy Chayefsky
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsGlenn FordShirley MacLaineLeslie NielsenA brash stranger and his sheep arrive in a small town, but not soon after, the townspeople decide they've seen enough of him.Nominated - Best Writing, Original Screenplay for William Bowers and James Edward Grant
- DirectorRonald NeameStarsAlec GuinnessKay WalshRenee HoustonAn ill-behaved, lovably scruffy painter, Gulley Jimson, searches for a perfect canvas, determined to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision.Nominated - Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay for Alec Guiness
- DirectorJacques TatiStarsJacques TatiJean-Pierre ZolaAdrienne ServantieMonsieur Hulot visits the technology-driven world of his sister, brother-in-law, and nephew, but he can't quite fit into the surroundings.Winner - Best Foreign Language Film (France)
- DirectorFranz Peter WirthStarsO.W. FischerLiselotte PulverEllen SchwiersIn 1865, Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as a mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group is attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he learns that he's got the wrong ammunition for his cannon and should flee. His flight leads him right into the bedroom of his enemy's fiancée.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Germany)
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsVittorio GassmanMarcello MastroianniRenato SalvatoriA motley quintet of inept small-time thieves attempt the burglary of a local pawnshop in this Italian farce.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Italy)
- DirectorGiuseppe De SantisStarsSilvana PampaniniEleonora Rossi DragoMassimo GirottiThe plot is set in an underdeveloped and remote area of a fictitious country, where the locals try to build an asphalt road in spite of careless attitude of the Government. The story follows the adventures in their self-reliant mission that lasts a whole year.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Yugoslavia)
- DirectorJuan Antonio BardemStarsCarmen SevillaRaf ValloneJorge MistralIn rural Spain, sister of an ex con convinces him to take revenge against the local who tipped off the authorities about the man's whereabouts, which led to his subsequent arrest. Unfortunately, she soon falls in love with the snitch.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Spain)
- DirectorJames AlgarStarsWinston HiblerVolmer SørensenThe wildlife of the Arctic is explored in this true-life adventure.Winner - Best Documentary Feature
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Oliver Wallace - DirectorGeorge LoweAn Oscar-nominated account of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1958 recording the first crossing of Antarctica from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
