Academy Awards 1958

Best Picture

WINNER
The Bridge on the River Kwai: Sam Spiegel

NOMINEES
Peyton Place: Jerry Wald
Sayonara: William Goetz
12 Angry Men: Henry Fonda, Reginald Rose
Witness for the Prosecution: Arthur Hornblow Jr.

Best Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER
The Bridge on the River Kwai: Alec Guinness
Alec Guinness was not present at the awards ceremony. Jean Simmons accepted the award on his behalf.

NOMINEES
Sayonara: Marlon Brando
A Hatful of Rain: Anthony Franciosa
Witness for the Prosecution: Charles Laughton
Wild Is the Wind: Anthony Quinn

Best Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER
The Three Faces of Eve: Joanne Woodward

NOMINEES
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison: Deborah Kerr
Wild Is the Wind: Anna Magnani
Raintree County: Elizabeth Taylor
Peyton Place: Lana Turner

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER
Sayonara: Red Buttons

NOMINEES
A Farewell to Arms: Vittorio De Sica
The Bridge on the River Kwai: Sessue Hayakawa
Peyton Place: Arthur Kennedy
Peyton Place: Russ Tamblyn

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER
Sayonara: Miyoshi Umeki

NOMINEES
The Bachelor Party: Carolyn Jones
Witness for the Prosecution: Elsa Lanchester
Peyton Place: Hope Lange
Peyton Place: Diane Varsi

Best Director

WINNER
The Bridge on the River Kwai: David Lean

NOMINEES
Sayonara: Joshua Logan
12 Angry Men: Sidney Lumet
Peyton Place: Mark Robson
Witness for the Prosecution: Billy Wilder

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

WINNER
Designing Woman: George Wells

NOMINEES
Funny Face: Leonard Gershe
Man of a Thousand Faces: Ralph Wheelwright (story), R. Wright Campbell (screenplay), Ivan Goff (screenplay), Ben Roberts (screenplay)
The Tin Star: Barney Slater (story), Joel Kane (story), Dudley Nichols (screenplay)
I Vitelloni: Federico Fellini (screenplay/story), Ennio Flaiano (screenplay/story), Tullio Pinelli (story)

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

WINNER
The Bridge on the River Kwai: Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson
Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson were blacklisted at the time and received no screen credit. They were posthumously awarded Oscars in 1984.
Pierre Boulle was not present at the awards ceremony. Kim Novak accepted the award on his behalf.

NOMINEES
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison: John Lee Mahin, John Huston
Peyton Place: John Michael Hayes
Sayonara: Paul Osborn
12 Angry Men: Reginald Rose

Best Cinematography

WINNER
The Bridge on the River Kwai: Jack Hildyard

NOMINEES
An Affair to Remember: Milton R. Krasner
Funny Face: Ray June
Peyton Place: William C. Mellor
Sayonara: Ellsworth Fredericks

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

WINNER
Sayonara: Ted Haworth, Robert Priestley

NOMINEES
Funny Face: Hal Pereira, George W. Davis, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
Les Girls: William A. Horning, Gene Allen, Edwin B. Willis, Richard Pefferle
Pal Joey: Walter Holscher, William Kiernan, Louis Diage
Raintree County: William A. Horning, Urie McCleary, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt

Best Costume Design

WINNER
Les Girls: Orry-Kelly

NOMINEES
An Affair to Remember: Charles Le Maire
Funny Face: Edith Head, Hubert de Givenchy
Pal Joey: Jean Louis
Raintree County: Walter Plunkett

Best Sound, Recording

WINNER
Sayonara: George Groves (Warner Bros. SSD)

NOMINEES
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral: George Dutton (Paramount SSD)
Les Girls: Wesley C. Miller (M-G-M SSD)
Pal Joey: John P. Livadary (Columbia SSD)
Witness for the Prosecution: Gordon Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn SSD)

Best Film Editing

WINNER
The Bridge on the River Kwai: Peter Taylor

NOMINEES
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral: Warren Low
Pal Joey: Viola Lawrence, Jerome Thoms
Sayonara: Arthur P. Schmidt, Philip W. Anderson
Witness for the Prosecution: Daniel Mandell

Best Effects, Special Effects

WINNER
The Enemy Below: Walter Rossi

NOMINEE
The Spirit of St. Louis: Louis Lichtenfield

Best Music, Original Song

WINNER
The Joker Is Wild: Jimmy Van Heusen (music), Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
For the song "All the Way"

NOMINEES
An Affair to Remember: Harry Warren (music), Harold Adamson (lyrics), Leo McCarey (lyrics)
For the song "An Affair to Remember"
April Love: Sammy Fain (music), Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
For the song "April Love"
Tammy and the Bachelor: Ray Evans, Jay Livingston
For the song "Tammy"
Wild Is the Wind: Dimitri Tiomkin (music), Ned Washington (lyrics)
For the song "Wild Is the Wind"

Best Music, Scoring

WINNER
The Bridge on the River Kwai: Malcolm Arnold

NOMINEES
An Affair to Remember: Hugo Friedhofer
Boy on a Dolphin: Hugo Friedhofer
Perri: Paul J. Smith
Raintree County: Johnny Green

Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects

WINNER
The Wetback Hound: Larry Lansburgh
NOMINEES
A Chairy Tale: Norman McLaren
City of Gold: Tom Daly
Foothold on Antarctica: James Carr
Portugal: Ben Sharpsteen

Best Short Subject, Cartoons

WINNER
Birds Anonymous: Edward Selzer

NOMINEES
One Droopy Knight: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
Tabasco Road: Edward Selzer
Trees and Jamaica Daddy: Stephen Bosustow
The Truth About Mother Goose: Walt Disney

Best Documentary, Features

WINNER
Albert Schweitzer: Jerome Hill

NOMINEES
On the Bowery: Lionel Rogosin
Torero: Manuel Barbachano Ponce

Best Foreign Language Film

WINNER
Nights of Cabiria
Italy.

NOMINEES
The Devil Strikes at Night
Germany.
The Gates of Paris
France.
Mother India
India.
Nine Lives
Norway.

Honorary Award

WINNERS
Charles Brackett
For outstanding service to the Academy.
B.B. Kahane
For distinguished service to the motion picture industry.
Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson
Motion picture pioneer, for his contributions to the development of motion pictures as entertainment.
(Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers)
For their contributions to the advancement of the motion picture industry.

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

WINNER
Samuel Goldwyn

Academy Award of Merit

WINNERS
(Todd-AO Corp., Westrex Corp.)
For developing a method of producing and exhibiting wide-film motion pictures known as the Todd-AO System.
(Motion Picture Research Council)
For the design and development of a high efficiency projection screen for drive-in theatres.

Scientific and Engineering Award

WINNERS
(Societe d'Optique et de Mecanique de Haute Precision)
For the development of a high speed variafocal photographic lens.
Harlan L. Baumbach, Lorand Wargo, Howard M. Little (Unicorn Engineering Corp.)
For the development of an automatic printer light selector.

Technical Achievement Award

WINNER
Charles E. Sutter, William B. Smith (Paramount Pictures Corp., General Cable Corp.)
For the engineering and application to studio use of aluminum lightweight electrical cable and connectors.

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