16th Annual Golden Globe Awards Results and Commentary (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 winners for the 16th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Results

Best Motion Picture - Drama

  • The Defiant Ones

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

  • Separate Tables
    David Niven

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama

  • I Want to Live!
    Susan Hayward

Best Motion Picture - Comedy

  • Auntie Mame

Best Motion Picture - Musical

  • Gigi

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

  • Me and the Colonel
    Danny Kaye

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

  • Auntie Mame
    Rosalind Russell

Best Directing

  • Gigi
    Vincente Minnelli

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

  • The Big Country
    Burl Ives

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

  • Gigi
    Hermione Gingold

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 Inn of the Sixth Happiness

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

Most Promising Newcomer - Female

  • Linda Cristal
  • Tina Louise
  • Susan Kohner

Best TV Show

  • William T. Orr [Producer]
  • Letter to Loretta
    Loretta Young
  • The Red Skelton Show
    Red Skelton
  • Toast of the Town
    Ed Sullivan

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

Cecil B. DeMille Award

  • Maurice Chevalier