1958 (31st Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1958 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). 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 winners from that year.

Best Motion Picture

Gigi, Arthur Freed Productions, Inc.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Arthur Freed, Producer.

Best Actor

David Niven in Separate Tables, Clifton Productions, Inc.; United Artists.

Best Actress

Susan Hayward in I Want to Live!, Figaro, Inc.; United Artists.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Burl Ives in The Big Country, Anthony-Worldwide Productions; United Artists.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Wendy Hiller in Separate Tables, Clifton Productions, Inc.; United Artists.

Directing

Gigi, Arthur Freed Productions, Inc.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Vincente Minnelli.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

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.

Cinematography

(Black-and-White)

The Defiant Ones, Stanley Kramer Productions; United Artists. Sam Leavitt.

(Color)

Gigi, Arthur Freed Productions, Inc.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Joseph Ruttenberg.

Costume Design

Gigi, Arthur Freed Productions, Inc.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Cecil Beaton.

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.

Film Editing

Gigi, Arthur Freed Productions, Inc.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Adrienne Fazan.

Foreign Language Film

My Uncle, Spectra-Gray-Alter Films in association with Films del Centaure. (France, Italy)

Music

(Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

The Old Man and the Sea, Leland Hayward; Warner Bros. Dimitri Tiomkin.

(Scoring of a Musical Picture)

Gigi, Arthur Freed Productions, Inc.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Andre Previn.

(Song)

Gigi from Gigi, Arthur Freed Productions, Inc.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Music by Frederick Loewe; lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

Knighty Knight Bugs, Warner Bros. [Bugs Bunny Series] John W. Burton, Producer.

(Live Action)

Grand Canyon, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. Walt Disney, Producer.

Sound

South Pacific, South Pacific Enterprises, Inc.; Magna Theatre Corporation. Todd-AO Sound Department, Fred Hynes, Sound Director.

Special Effects

Tom Thumb, George Pal Productions; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (UK, USA) Visual effects by Tom Howard.

Writing

(Screenplay—based on material from another medium)

Gigi, Arthur Freed Productions, Inc.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Alan Jay Lerner.

(Story and Screenplay—written directly for the screen)

The Defiant Ones, Stanley Kramer Productions; United Artists. Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith.

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

Jack L. Warner

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.