1958 (31st Annual Awards)
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. Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the nominations and winners from that year.
Best Motion Picture
Auntie Mame, Warner Bros.Best Actor
Best Actress
Actor in a Supporting Role
Actress in a Supporting Role
Directing
Art Direction-Set Decoration
Bell, Book and Candle, Phoenix Productions, Inc.; Columbia. Art direction by Cary Odell; set decoration by Louis Diage.A Certain Smile, 20th Century-Fox. Art direction by Lyle R. Wheeler and John DeCuir; set decoration by Walter M. Scott and Paul S. Fox.Gigi, Arthur Freed Productions, Inc.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Art direction by William A. Horning and Preston Ames; set decoration by Henry Grace and Keogh Gleason.Vertigo, Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, Inc.; Paramount. Art direction by Hal Pereira and Henry Bumstead; set decoration by Sam Comer and Frank McKelvy.Cinematography
(Black-and-White)
(Color)
Costume Design
Documentary
(Feature)
White Wilderness, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. [True Life Adventure Series] Ben Sharpsteen, Producer.(Short Subject)
Ama Girls, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. [People and Places Series] Ben Sharpsteen, Producer.Journey into Spring, British Transport Films; Lester A. Schoenfeld Films. (UK) Ian Ferguson, Producer.Overture, United Nations Film Services; Kingsley International Pictures. (Canada) Thorold Dickinson, Producer.Film Editing
Foreign Language Film
Arms and the Man, H. R. Sokal-P. Goldbaum Production, Bavaria Filmkunst A.G. (West Germany)La Venganza, Guion Producciones Cinematograficas. (Spain, Italy)My Uncle, Spectra-Gray-Alter Films in association with Films del Centaure. (France, Italy)The Road a Year Long, Jadran Film Production. (Italy, Yugoslavia)The Usual Unidentified Thieves, Lux-Vides-Cinecitta. (Italy)Music
(Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)
White Wilderness, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. [True Life Adventure Series] Oliver Wallace.(Scoring of a Musical Picture)
The Bolshoi Ballet, Rank Organization Presentation-Harmony Film; Rank Film Distributors of America, Inc. (UK) Yuri Faier and G. Rozhdestvensky.South Pacific, South Pacific Enterprises, Inc.; Magna Theatre Corporation. Alfred Newman and Ken Darby.(Song)
Almost in Your Arms (Love Song from Houseboat) from Houseboat, Paramount and Scribe; Paramount. Music and lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.A Certain Smile from A Certain Smile, 20th Century-Fox. Music by Sammy Fain; lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.Gigi from Gigi, Arthur Freed Productions, Inc.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Music by Frederick Loewe; lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner.To Love and Be Loved from Some Came Running, Sol C. Siegel Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Music by James Van Heusen; lyrics by Sammy Cahn.A Very Precious Love from Marjorie Morningstar, Beachwold Pictures; Warner Bros. Music by Sammy Fain; lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.Short Subjects
(Cartoons)
Sidney’s Family Tree, Terrytoons; 20th Century-Fox. [Silly Sidney Series] William M. Weiss, Producer.(Live Action)
Journey into Spring, British Transport Films; Lester A. Schoenfeld Films. (UK) Ian Ferguson, Producer.Snows of Aorangi, New Zealand Screen Board (New Zealand National Film Unit); George Brest and Associates. (New Zealand)T Is for Tumbleweed, James A. Lebenthal Productions; Continental Distributing, Inc. James A. Lebenthal, Producer.Sound
I Want to Live!, Figaro, Inc.; United Artists. Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer, Sound Director.South Pacific, South Pacific Enterprises, Inc.; Magna Theatre Corporation. Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes, Sound Director.A Time to Love and a Time to Die, Universal-International. (USA, West Germany) Universal-International Studio Sound Department, Leslie I. Carey, Sound Director.Vertigo, Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, Inc.; Paramount. Paramount Studio Sound Department, George Dutton, Sound Director.The Young Lions, 20th Century-Fox. 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Carl Faulkner, Sound Director.Special Effects
Torpedo Run, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Visual effects by A. Arnold Gillespie; audible effects by Harold Humbrock.Writing
(Screenplay—based on material from another medium)
(Story and Screenplay—written directly for the screen)
The Defiant Ones, Stanley Kramer Productions; United Artists. Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith. [NOTE: Upon request from his widow and upon recommendation of the Writers Branch Executive Committee, the Board of Governors voted to restore the name of Nedrick Young to the nomination and award presented to Nathan E. Douglas (Mr. Young’s pseudonym during the blacklisting period).]The Sheepman, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Story by James Edward Grant; screenplay by William Bowers and James Edward Grant.Honorary Award
To Maurice Chevalier for his contributions to the world of entertainment for more than half a century. [ [Statuette]]Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Scientific or Technical Award
(Class II)
To Don W. Prideaux, Leroy G. Leighton and the Lamp Division of General Electric Co. for the development and production of an improved 10 kilowatt lamp for motion picture set lighting.To Panavision, Inc. for the design and development of the Auto Panatar anamorphic photographic lens for 35mm CinemaScope photography.(Class III)
To Willy Borberg of the General Precision Laboratory, Inc., for the development of a high speed intermittent movement for 35mm motion picture theatre projection equipment.To Fred Ponedel, George Brown and Conrad Boye of the Warner Bros. Special Effects Department for the design and fabrication of a new rapid fire marble gun.