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Academy Awards, USA: 1960

Oscar

Date:	4 April
Host:	Bob Hope (I)
Location:	RKO Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA

Best Picture


Winner:
	Ben-Hur (1959) - Sam Zimbalist - Postumously. Sam Zimbalist died during filming. Mrs. Zimbalist accepted the award on his behalf.
Other Nominees:
	Anatomy of a Murder (1959) - Otto Preminger Diary of Anne Frank, The (1959) - George Stevens (I) Nun's Story, The (1959) - Henry Blanke Room at the Top (1959) - John Woolf (I); James Woolf (I)

Best Actor in a Leading Role


Winner:
	Ben-Hur (1959) - Charlton Heston
Other Nominees:
	Anatomy of a Murder (1959) - James Stewart (I) Last Angry Man, The (1959) - Paul Muni (I) Room at the Top (1959) - Laurence Harvey (I) Some Like It Hot (1959) - Jack Lemmon (I)

Best Actress in a Leading Role


Winner:
	Room at the Top (1959) - Simone Signoret
Other Nominees:
	Nun's Story, The (1959) - Audrey Hepburn Pillow Talk (1959) - Doris Day (I) Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) - Katharine Hepburn Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) - Elizabeth Taylor (I)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	Ben-Hur (1959) - Hugh Griffith (I)
Other Nominees:
	Anatomy of a Murder (1959) - Arthur O'Connell Anatomy of a Murder (1959) - George C. Scott Diary of Anne Frank, The (1959) - Ed Wynn Young Philadelphians, The (1959) - Robert Vaughn (I)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	Diary of Anne Frank, The (1959) - Shelley Winters
Other Nominees:
	Imitation of Life (1959) - Susan Kohner Imitation of Life (1959) - Juanita Moore Pillow Talk (1959) - Thelma Ritter Room at the Top (1959) - Hermione Baddeley

Best Director


Winner:
	Ben-Hur (1959) - William Wyler
Other Nominees:
	Diary of Anne Frank, The (1959) - George Stevens (I) Nun's Story, The (1959) - Fred Zinnemann Room at the Top (1959) - Jack Clayton (I) Some Like It Hot (1959) - Billy Wilder

Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen


Winner:
	Pillow Talk (1959) - Russell Rouse (story); Clarence Greene (story); Stanley Shapiro (screenplay); Maurice Richlin (screenplay)
Other Nominees:
	North by Northwest (1959) - Ernest Lehman Operation Petticoat (1959) - Paul King (I) (story); Joseph Stone (I) (story); Stanley Shapiro (screenplay); Maurice Richlin (screenplay) Quatre cents coups, Les (1959) - Fran�ois Truffaut; Marcel Moussy Smultronstället (1957) - Ingmar Bergman

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium


Winner:
	Room at the Top (1959) - Neil Paterson (I)
Other Nominees:
	Anatomy of a Murder (1959) - Wendell Mayes Ben-Hur (1959) - Karl Tunberg Nun's Story, The (1959) - Robert Anderson (VII) Some Like It Hot (1959) - Billy Wilder; I.A.L. Diamond

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White


Winner:
	Diary of Anne Frank, The (1959) - William C. Mellor
Other Nominees:
	Anatomy of a Murder (1959) - Sam Leavitt Career (1959) - Joseph LaShelle Some Like It Hot (1959) - Charles Lang (I) Young Philadelphians, The (1959) - Harry Stradling Sr.

Best Cinematography, Color


Winner:
	Ben-Hur (1959) - Robert Surtees
Other Nominees:
	Big Fisherman, The (1959) - Lee Garmes Five Pennies, The (1959) - Daniel L. Fapp Nun's Story, The (1959) - Franz Planer Porgy and Bess (1959) - Leon Shamroy

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color


Winner:
	Ben-Hur (1959) - William A. Horning; Edward C. Carfagno; Hugh Hunt (I) - In case of Horning the Oscar win was posthumously.
Other Nominees:
	Big Fisherman, The (1959) - John DeCuir; Julia Heron Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) - Lyle R. Wheeler; Franz Bachelin; Herman A. Blumenthal; Walter M. Scott; Joseph Kish North by Northwest (1959) - William A. Horning; Robert F. Boyle; Merrill Pye; Henry Grace; Frank R. McKelvy Pillow Talk (1959) - Richard H. Riedel; Russell A. Gausman; Ruby R. Levitt

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White


Winner:
	Diary of Anne Frank, The (1959) - Lyle R. Wheeler; George W. Davis; Walter M. Scott; Stuart A. Reiss
Other Nominees:
	Career (1959) - Hal Pereira; Walter H. Tyler; Sam Comer; Arthur Krams Last Angry Man, The (1959) - Carl Anderson (I); William Kiernan Some Like It Hot (1959) - Ted Haworth; Edward G. Boyle Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) - Oliver Messel; William Kellner; Scott Slimon

Best Costume Design, Color


Winner:
	Ben-Hur (1959) - Elizabeth Haffenden
Other Nominees:
	Best of Everything, The (1959) - Adele Palmer Big Fisherman, The (1959) - Reni� Five Pennies, The (1959) - Edith Head Porgy and Bess (1959) - Irene Sharaff

Best Costume Design, Black-and-White


Winner:
	Some Like It Hot (1959) - Orry-Kelly
Other Nominees:
	Career (1959) - Edith Head Diary of Anne Frank, The (1959) - Charles Le Maire; Mary Wills (I) Gazebo, The (1959) - Helen Rose (I) Young Philadelphians, The (1959) - Howard Shoup (I)

Best Sound


Winner:
	Ben-Hur (1959) - Franklin Milton (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer SSD)
Other Nominees:
	Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) - Carlton W. Faulkner (20th Century-Fox SSD) Libel (1959) - A.W. Watkins (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer London Sound Department) Nun's Story, The (1959) - George Groves (I) (Warner Bros. SSD) Porgy and Bess (1959) - Gordon Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn SSD); Fred Hynes (Todd-AO SSD)

Best Film Editing


Winner:
	Ben-Hur (1959) - Ralph E. Winters; John D. Dunning
Other Nominees:
	Anatomy of a Murder (1959) - Louis R. Loeffler North by Northwest (1959) - George Tomasini Nun's Story, The (1959) - Walter Thompson (I) On the Beach (1959) - Frederic Knudtson (I)

Best Effects, Special Effects


Winner:
	Ben-Hur (1959) - A. Arnold Gillespie (visual); Robert MacDonald (III) (visual); Milo B. Lory (audible)
Other Nominees:
	Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) - L.B. Abbott (visual); James B. Gordon (II) (visual); Carlton W. Faulkner (audible)

Best Music, Original Song


Winner:
	Hole in the Head, A (1959) - Jimmy Van Heusen (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics) - For the song "High Hopes"
Other Nominees:
	Best of Everything, The (1959) - Alfred Newman (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics) - For the song "The Best of Everything" Five Pennies, The (1959) - Sylvia Fine - For the song "The Five Pennies" Hanging Tree, The (1959) - Jerry Livingston (music); Mack David (lyrics) - For the song "The Hanging Tree" Young Land, The (1959) - Dimitri Tiomkin (music); Ned Washington (lyrics) - For the song "Strange Are the Ways of Love"

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture


Winner:
	Ben-Hur (1959) - Mikl�s R�zsa
Other Nominees:
	Diary of Anne Frank, The (1959) - Alfred Newman Nun's Story, The (1959) - Franz Waxman On the Beach (1959) - Ernest Gold Pillow Talk (1959) - Frank De Vol

Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture


Winner:
	Porgy and Bess (1959) - Andr� Previn; Ken Darby
Other Nominees:
	Five Pennies, The (1959) - Leith Stevens Li'l Abner (1959) - Nelson Riddle; Joseph J. Lilley Say One for Me (1959) - Lionel Newman Sleeping Beauty (1959) - George Bruns

Best Short Subject, Cartoons


Winner:
	Moonbird (1959) - John Hubley
Other Nominees:
	Mexicali Shmoes (1959) - John Burton (II) Noah's Ark (1959) - Walt Disney Violinist, The (1959) - Ernest Pintoff

Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects


Winner:
	Histoire d'un poisson rouge (1959) - Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Other Nominees:
	Between the Tides (1959) - Ian Ferguson (I) Mysteries of the Deep (1959) - Walt Disney Running Jumping & Standing Still Film, The (1960) - Peter Sellers Skyscraper (1960) - Shirley Clarke (I); Willard Van Dyke; Irving Jacoby

Best Documentary, Short Subjects


Winner:
	Glas (1958) - Bert Haanstra
Other Nominees:
	Donald in Mathmagic Land (1959) - Walt Disney From Generation to Generation (1959) - Edward F. Cullen (I)

Best Documentary, Features


Winner:
	Serengeti darf nicht sterben (1959) - Bernhard Grzimek
Other Nominees:
	Race for Space, The (1959) (TV) - David L. Wolper

Best Foreign Language Film


Winner:
	Orfeu Negro (1959) - France
Other Nominees:
	Brücke, Die (1959) - Germany Dorp aan de rivier (1958) - Netherlands Grande guerra, La (1959) - Italy Paw (1959) - Denmark

Honorary Award


Awarded to:
	Lee De Forest - For his pioneering inventions which brought sound to the motion picture. Buster Keaton - For his unique talents which brought immortal comedies to the screen.

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award


Awarded to:
	Bob Hope (I)

Academy Award of Merit

Date:	4 April
Location:	Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA (Governors' Ball)


Winner:
	- Not awarded.

Scientific and Engineering Award


Winners:
	Howard S. Coleman (Bausch & Lomb Optical Co.); A. Francis Turner (Bausch & Lomb Optical Co.); Harold H. Schroeder (Bausch & Lomb Optical Co.); James R. Benford (Bausch & Lomb Optical Co.); Harold E. Rosenberger (Bausch & Lomb Optical Co.) - For the design and development of the Balcold projection mirror. Robert P. Gutterman (General Kinetics, Inc.); Lipsner-Smith Corp. - For the design and development of the CF-2 Ultra-sonic Film Cleaner. Wadsworth E. Pohl; Jack Alford; Henry Imus; Joseph Schmit; Paul Fa�nacht (II); Al Lofquist; Technicolor Corp. - For the development and practical application of equipment for wet printing. Wadsworth E. Pohl; William Evans (V); Werner Hopf; S.E. Howse; Thomas P. Dixon; Stanford Research Institute; Technicolor Corp. - For the design and development of the Technicolor electronic printing timer. Douglas Shearer (M-G-M, Inc.); Robert E. Gottschalk (Panavision, Inc.); Richard Moore (IV) (Panavision, Inc.) - For the development of a system of producing and exhibiting wide film motion pictures known as Camera 65.

Technical Achievement Award


Winners:
	Ub Iwerks (Walt Disney Productions) - For the design of an improved optical printer for special effects and matte shots. E.L. Stones (M-G-M Studio Construction Dept.); Glen Robinson (I) (M-G-M Studio Construction Dept.); Winfield Hubbard (M-G-M Studio Construction Dept.); Luther Newman (M-G-M Studio Construction Dept.) - For the design of a multiple-cable, remote-controlled winch.