16th Annual Golden Globe Awards Nominations (1959)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Thursday, March 5, 1959
  • For films released in: 1958
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Here is the complete list of nominations for the 16th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Motion Picture - Drama

  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • The Defiant Ones
  • Home Before Dark
  • I Want to Live!
  • Separate Tables

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

  • The Defiant Ones
    Tony Curtis
  • The Defiant Ones
    Sidney Poitier
  • The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
    Robert Donat
    Note: Postumously.
  • The Old Man and the Sea
    Spencer Tracy
  • Separate Tables
    David Niven

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama

  • Home Before Dark
    Jean Simmons
  • I Want to Live!
    Susan Hayward
  • The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
    Ingrid Bergman
  • Separate Tables
    Deborah Kerr
  • Some Came Running
    Shirley MacLaine

Best Motion Picture - Comedy

  • Auntie Mame
  • Bell Book and Candle
  • Indiscreet
  • Me and the Colonel
  • The Perfect Furlough

Best Motion Picture - Musical

  • Damn Yankees
  • Gigi
  • South Pacific
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Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical/Comedy

  • Gigi
    Maurice Chevalier
  • Gigi
    Louis Jourdan
  • Indiscreet
    Cary Grant
  • Me and the Colonel
    Danny Kaye
  • Teacher's Pet
    Clark Gable

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical/Comedy

  • Auntie Mame
    Rosalind Russell
  • Gigi
    Leslie Caron
  • Indiscreet
    Ingrid Bergman
  • South Pacific
    Mitzi Gaynor
  • The Tunnel of Love
    Doris Day

Best Directing

  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    Richard Brooks
  • The Defiant Ones
    Stanley Kramer
  • Gigi
    Vincente Minnelli
  • I Want to Live!
    Robert Wise
  • Separate Tables
    Delbert Mann

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

  • The Big Country
    Burl Ives
  • Home Before Dark
    Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
  • Houseboat
    Harry Guardino
  • The Proud Rebel
    David Ladd
  • Teacher's Pet
    Gig Young

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

  • Auntie Mame
    Peggy Cass
  • The Defiant Ones
    Cara Williams
  • Gigi
    Hermione Gingold
  • Lonelyhearts
    Maureen Stapleton
  • Separate Tables
    Wendy Hiller

Best English-Language Foreign Film

  • A Night to Remember

Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film

  • Das Madchen Rosemarie
  • L'eau vive
  • The Year Long Road

Best Film Promoting International Understanding

  • The Defiant Ones
  • The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
  • Me and the Colonel
  • A Time to Love and a Time to Die
  • The Young Lions

Henrietta Award (World Film Favorites) - Male

  • Rock Hudson

Henrietta Award (World Film Favorites) - Female

  • Deborah Kerr

Most Promising Newcomer - Male

  • Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
  • Bradford Dillman
  • John Gavin
  • David Ladd
  • Ricky Nelson
  • Ray Stricklyn

Most Promising Newcomer - Female

  • Linda Cristal
  • Tina Louise
  • Susan Kohner
  • Joanna Barnes
  • Carol Lynley
  • France Nuyen

Best TV Show

  • William T. Orr [Producer]
  • The Ann Sothern Show
    Ann Sothern
  • Letter to Loretta
    Loretta Young
  • The Red Skelton Show
    Red Skelton
  • Toast of the Town
    Ed Sullivan
  • Tonight!
    Paul Coates

Special Award

  • Shirley MacLaine
    Note: For the most versatile actress.
  • The Proud Rebel
    David Ladd
    Note: For the best juvenile actor.

Samuel Goldwyn Award

  • Do Ankhen Barah Haath