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The 31st Academy Awards | 1959. RKO Pantages Theatre. Monday, April 6, 1959. Honoring movies released in 1958.
The 31st Academy Awards ceremony was held on April 6, 1959, to honor the best films of 1958. The night was dominated by Gigi, which won nine Oscars, breaking the previous record of eight set by Gone with the Wind and tied by From Here to Eternity and On the Waterfront.
Best Motion PictureBest DirectorGigi – Arthur Freed, producer ‡ Auntie ...Vincente Minnelli – Gigi ‡ Richard Brooks ...David Niven – Separate Tables as Major ...Susan Hayward – I Want to Live! as ...Burl Ives – The Big Country as Rufus ...Wendy Hiller – Separate Tables as Pat ...The Defiant Ones – Nedrick Young and ...Gigi – Alan Jay Lerner from the novella ...Three films have won 11 Oscars. The first to achieve the record was Ben-Hur (USA 1959) which won from 12 nominations on 4 April 1960, followed by Titanic (USA 1997) from 14 nominations on 23 March 1998 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (NZ/USA 2003) which won all 11 of its nominations on 29 February 2004.
In a surprise upset (Scott had a much superior performance), Welshman Hugh Griffith (with his first of two career nominations - and his sole Oscar win) won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar as colorful horse-training Arab Sheik Ilderim in Ben-Hur - his first American-made film.
A total of 69 films received both the most Academy Awards and the most Academy Award nominations in their respective years of eligibility. Of these 69 films, 52 also received the Best Picture award. The first film to achieve this feat was: Cimarron ( 1930–1931 ).
"Ben-Hur" (1959), "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003), and "Titanic" (1997) each received 11 Oscars. The musical with the most Oscar wins was "West Side Story" (1961), with ten trophies.
Mar 14, 2023 · The 1959 film was the first to win 11 Oscars, for best picture, director, actor, supporting actor, cinematography (color), set decoration (color), costume design (color), film editing, score...
