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Best Picture
 ANATOMY OF A MURDER - Preminger, Columbia. Produced by Otto Preminger
 BEN-HUR (Won 11 Awards; tied for most Awards) - MGM. Produced by Sam Zimbalist
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK - 20th Century-Fox. Produced by George Stevens
THE NUN'S STORY - Warner Bros. Produced by Henry Blanke
ROOM AT THE TOP - Romulus, Continental (British). Produced by John Woolf & James Woolf
Actor
Laurence Harvey in ROOM AT THE TOP
Charlton Heston in BEN-HUR
Jack Lemmon in SOME LIKE IT HOT
Paul Muni in THE LAST ANGRY MAN
James Stewart in ANATOMY OF A MURDER
Actress
Doris Day in PILLOW TALK
Audrey Hepburn in THE NUN'S STORY
Katharine Hepburn in SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER
Simone Signoret in ROOM AT THE TOP
Elizabeth Taylor in SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER
Supporting Actor
Hugh Griffith in BEN-HUR
Arthur O'Connell in ANATOMY OF A MURDER
George C. Scott in ANATOMY OF A MURDER
Robert Vaughn in THE YOUNG PHILADELPHIANS
Ed Wynn in THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
Supporting Actress
Hermione Baddeley in ROOM AT THE TOP
Susan Kohner in IMITATION OF LIFE
Juanita Moore in IMITATION OF LIFE
Thelma Ritter in PILLOW TALK
Shelley Winters in THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
Director
Jack Clayton for ROOM AT THE TOP
George Stevens for THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
Billy Wilder for SOME LIKE IT HOT
William Wyler for BEN-HUR
Fred Zinnemann for THE NUN'S STORY
Writing: Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen
François Truffaut & Marcel Moussy - THE FOUR HUNDRED BLOWS
Ernest Lehman - NORTH BY NORTHWEST
Paul King, Joseph Stone, Stanley Shapiro & Maurice Richlin - OPERATION PETTICOAT
Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene, Stanley Shapiro & Maurice Richlin - PILLOW TALK
Ingmar Bergman - WILD STRAWBERRIES
Writing: Screenplay - Based on Material from Another Nedium
Wendell Mayes - ANATOMY OF A MURDER
Karl Tunberg - BEN-HUR
Robert Anderson - THE NUN'S STORY
Neil Paterson - ROOM AT THE TOP
Billy Wilder & I. A. L. Diamond - SOME LIKE IT HOT
Foreign Language Film
ORPHEU NEGRO (BLACK ORPHEUS, France)
DIE BRÜCKE (THE BRIDGE, West Germany)
LA GRANDE GUERRA (THE GREAT WAR, Italy)
PAU (PAW, Denmark)
DORP AAN DE RIVIER (THE VILLAGE ON THE RIVER, Netherlands)
Art Direction/Set Decoration (Color)
Rules changed back to two Awards; Black & White and Color.
William A. Horning & Edward C. Carfagno - Art Direction, Hugh Hunt - Set Decoration BEN-HUR
John De Cuir - Art Direction, Julia Heron - Set Decoration THE BIG FISHERMAN
Lyle Wheeler, Franz Bachelin & Herman A. Blumenthal - Art Direction,
Walter M. Scott & Joseph Kish - Set Decoration JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
William A. Horning, Robert Boyle & Merrill Pye - Art Direction, Henry Grace & Frank McKelvy - Set Decoration NORTH BY NORTHWEST
Richard H. Riedel - Art Direction, Russell A. Gausman & Ruby R. Levitt - Set Decoration PILLOW TALK
Art Direction/Set Decoration (Black & White)
Rules changed back to two Awards; Black & White and Color.
Hal Pereira & Walter H. Tyler- Art Direction, Sam Comer &
Arthur Krams - Set Decoration CAREER
Lyle Wheeler & George W. Davis - Art Direction, Walter M. Scott
& Stuart A. Reiss - Set Decoration THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
Carl Anderson - Art Direction, William R. Kiernan - Set Decoration THE LAST ANGRY MAN
Ted Haworth - Art Direction, Edward G. Boyle - Set Decoration SOME LIKE IT HOT
Oliver Messel & William Kellner - Art Direction, Scott Slimon - Set Decoration SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER
Cinematography (Color)
Robert L. Surtees - BEN-HUR
Leo Garmes - THE BIG FISHERMAN
Daniel L. Fapp - THE FIVE PENNIES
Franz Planer - THE NUN'S STORY
Leon Shamroy - PORGY AND BESS
Cinematography (Black & White)
Sam Leavitt - ANATOMY OF A MURDER
Joseph La Shelle - CAREER
William C. Mellor - THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
Charles B. Lang - SOME LIKE IT HOT
Harry Stradling - THE YOUNG PHILADELPHIANS
Costume Design (Color)
Rules changed back to two Awards for Costume Design: One for Black & White and one for Color.
Elizabeth Haffenden - BEN-HUR
Adele Palmer - THE BEST OF EVERYTHING
Renie - THE BIG FISHERMAN
Edith Head - THE FIVE PENNIES
Irene Sharaff - PORGY AND BESS
Costume Design (Black & White)
Rules changed back to two Awards for Costume Design: One for Black & White and one for Color.
Edith Head - CAREER
Charles LeMaire & Mary Wills THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
Helen Rose - THE GAZEBO
Orry-Kelly - SOME LIKE IT HOT
Howard Shoup - THE YOUNG PHILADELPHIANS
Documentary (Features)
David L. Wolper - Producer THE RACE FOR SPACE
Bernhard Grzimek - Producer SERENGETI SHALL NOT DIE
Documentary (Shorts)
Walt Disney - Producer DONALD IN MATHMAGIC LAND
Edward F. Cullen - Producer FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION
Bert Haanstra - Producer GLASS
Film Editing
Louis R. Loeffler - ANATOMY OF A MURDER
Ralph E. Winters & John D. Dunning - BEN-HUR
George Tomasini - NORTH BY NORTHWEST
Walter Thompson - THE NUN'S STORY
Frederic Knudtson - ON THE BEACH
Music: Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Miklos Rozsa - BEN-HUR
Alfred Newman - THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
Franz Waxman - THE NUN'S STORY
Ernest Gold - ON THE BEACH
Frank De Vol - PILLOW TALK
Music: Scoring of a Musical Picture
Leith Stevens - THE FIVE PENNIES
Nelson Riddle & Joseph J. Lilley - LI'L ABNER
Andre Previn & Ken Darby - PORGY AND BESS
Lionel Newman - SAY ONE FOR ME
George Bruns - SLEEPING BEAUTY
Music: Song
Alfred Newman - Music, Sammy Cahn - Lyrics THE BEST OF EVERYTHING "The Best of Everything"
Sylvia Fine - Music & Lyrics THE FIVE PENNIES "The Five Pennies"
Jerry Livingston - Music, Mack David - Lyrics THE HANGING TREE "The Hanging Tree"
Jimmy Van Heusen - Music, Sammy Cahn - Lyrics A HOLE IN THE HEAD "High Hopes" 
Dimitri Tiomkin - Music, Ned Washington - Lyrics THE YOUNG LAND "Strange Are the Ways of Love"
Short Subjects (Cartoons)
John W. Burton - Producer MEXICALI SHMOES
John Hubley - Producer MOONBIRD
Walt Disney - Producer NOAH'S ARK
Ernest Pintoff - Producer THE VIOLINIST
Short Subjects (Live Action Subjects)
Ian Ferguson - Producer BETWEEN THE TIDES
Jacques-Yves Cousteau - Producer THE GOLDEN FISH
Walt Disney - Producer MYSTERIES OF THE DEEP
Peter Sellers - Producer THE RUNNING, JUMPING AND STANDING STILL FILM
Shirley Clarke, Willard Van Dyke & Irving Jacoby - Producers SKYSCRAPER
Sound
Franklin E. Milton (MGM Studio Sound Department) BEN-HUR
Carl Faulkner (20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department) JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
A. W. Watkins (MGM), London Sound Department LIBEL!
George R. Groves (Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department) THE NUN'S STORY
Gordon E. Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department) & Fred Hynes (Todd-AO Sound Department) PORGY AND BESS
Special Effects
A. Arnold Gillespie & Robert A. MacDonald - Special Effects (Visual), Milo Lory - Special Effects (Audible) BEN-HUR
L.B. Abbott & James B. Gordon - Special Effects (Visual), Carl Faulkner - Special Effects (Audible) JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
Scientific Or Technical
Class I (Statuette):
No award given for 1959.
Class II (Plaque):
 Douglas Shearer (MGM Inc.), Robert E. Gottschalk & John R. Moore (Panavision Inc.) - For the development of a system of producing and exhibiting wide-film motion pictures known as Camera 65.
Wadsworth E. Pohl, William Evans, Werner Hopf, S.E. Howse, Thomas P. Dixon (Stanford Research Institute) & Technicolor Corporation - For the design and development of the Technicolor electronic printing timer.
Wadsworth E. Pohl, Jack Alford, Henry Imus, Joseph Schmit, Paul Fassnacht & Al Lofquist (Technicolor Corporation) - For the development and practical application of equipment for wet printing.
Dr. Howard S. Coleman, Dr. A Francis Turner, Harold H. Schroeder,
James R. Benford & Harold E. Rosenberger (Bausch & Lomb Optical Company) - For the design and development of the Balcold projection mirror.
Robert P. Gutterman (General Kinetics Inc.) & Lipsner-Smith Corporation - For the design and development of the CF-2 Ultra-sonic Film Cleaner.
Class III (Citation):
 Ub Iwerks (Walt Disney Productions) - For the design of an improved optical printer for special effects and matte shots.
E.L. Stones, Glen Robinson, Winfield Hubbard & Luther Newman (MGM Studio Construction Department) - For the design of a multiple cable remote controlled winch.
Honorary and Other Awards
Lee DeForest - For his pioneering inventions which brought sound to the motion picture. Winner presented a Statuette.
Buster Keaton - For his unique talents which brought immortal comedies to the screen. Winner presented a Statuette.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
No award given for 1959.
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Bob Hope
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FIRSTS
· Ben-Hur sets new record for most Academy Awards -- 11.
· Simone Signoret's Oscar® is the first for a Best Actress in a foreign-made film.
· Jack Clayton is nominated for directing his first feature film.
· Otto Preminger is the first to break the blacklist by hiring Dalton Trumbo to write the screenplay for Anatomy of a Murder under his real name.
· The Awards show is telecast on ABC for the first time.
· Three of the year's biggest hits, Some Like It Hot, Anatomy of a Murder, and Room at the Top are alternately banned in Atlanta, Chicago, and all of Kansas.
RULE CHANGES
Art Direction and Costume Design changed back to Color and Black & White categories.
ROLE REVERSALS
· William Wyler's first choice for Ben-Hur was Marlon Brando. His second was Rock Hudson.
· Stephen Boyd won the role of Messala only after Kirk Douglas took a pass. Douglas was extremely disappointed not to have been offered the lead.
· When Lana Turner stormed off the set of Anatomy of a Murder after a long-standing row with Otto Preminger, he replaced her with an unknown, Lee Remick.
SINS OF OMISSION
Picture: Some Like It Hot, North by Northwest, The 400 Blows
Director: Alfred Hitchcock - North by Northwest, François Truffaut - The 400 Blows
Actress: Marilyn Monroe - Some Like It Hot, Lee Remick - Anatomy of a Murder
Foreign Language Film: The 400 Blows (France), The World of Apu (India), Wild Strawberries (Sweden)
ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID...
Thelma Ritter threw her annual "Come Over and Watch Me Lose Again" party. Pillow Talk was her 5th failed shot at Best Supporting Actress.
UNMENTIONABLES
· Adored on screen, Marilyn Monroe was not so highly regarded by those who had to work with her. Tony Curtis said that kissing her "was like kissing Hitler."
· Things were no less stormy on the set of Suddenly, Last Summer. Director Joe Mankiewicz didn't get along well with Katharine Hepburn. "We will resume shooting, Miss Hepburn," Mankiewicz reportedly screamed one day, "when the Directors Guild card which I ordered for you arrives from Hollywood." Another report had Hepburn celebrating the conclusion of shooting by spitting in the director's face.
· Ben-Hur was released into theatres with a running time of three hours and thirty-two minutes.
· Ben-Hur director William Wyler had worked as an "extras director" on Cecil B. DeMille's 1926 silent production.
· Uncredited screenwriter Gore Vidal suggested an unspoken homosexual history between Stephen Boyd's Messala and Charlton Heston's Ben-Hur. Boyd liked the idea, as did Wyler, who warned him "not to tell Chuck Heston what it's about or he'd fall apart."
· A month before the ceremonies the Screen Actors Guild went on strike over the issue of actors receiving residuals on post-1948 movies being shown on TV.
· Doris Day announced the Best Song winner was "High Hopes" and lyricist Sammy Cahn said, "Thank," followed by composer Jimmy Van Heusen's "You." Day piped in, "Ha!"
· Gene Kelly came out to give the Music Scoring Awards and joked that because of the stike, "Marilyn Monroe showed up on the set and said: 'Where is everybody?'"
· The Best Story & Screenplay winners were the two writing teams who had worked on Pillow Talk without having met. One of the winners, Stanley Shapiro, still didn't get to meet his coauthors, and his partner, Maurice Richlin, read a hastily scribbled note from him that explained, "I am trapped downstairs in the gentlemen's lounge. It seems I rented a faulty tuxedo. I'd like to thank you upstairs for this great honor."
· The TV show was supposed to end with Robert Ryan and Wendell Corey interviewing the winners in the press tent outside the Pantages. But so many people had trampled the television cables in the tent over the course of the evening that the audio was kaput, and the segment consisted solely of Corey and Ryan saying "Good night."
· By the time the show was over, it had run twenty minutes over -- a flip side no-no of last year's disastrous twenty minute short-out.
· When a reporter asked Charlton Heston backstage which scene in Ben-Hur he enjoyed filming the most, the winner responded, "I didn't enjoy any of it. It was hard work."
· When reporters hustled Humanitarian Award winner Bob Hope into a lineup with Heston and William Wyler, Hope quipped, "I feel out of place with these other winners, like Zsa Zsa Gabor at a PTA meeting or Governor Faubus in Harlem."
· Best Song winners Cahn and Van Heusen were similarly awed and confessed, "We're glad Ben-Hur didn't have a title song."
· Supporting Actress winner Shelley Winters saw an omen in her statuette. She would later write, "I brought my Oscar® home and Tony took one look at it and I knew the marriage was over." The Franciosas divorced later that year.
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