1959 Milstead Movie Awards
BEST PICTURE
ANATOMY OF A MURDER
Columbia; Otto Preminger
BALLAD OF A SOLDIER
Kingsley International; Grigori Chukrai
BEN-HUR
MGM; Sam Zimbalist
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
20th Century Fox; George Stevens
THE 400 BLOWS
Zenith International; Georges Charlot
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
20th Century Fox; Charles Brackett
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
MGM; Alfred Hitchcock
RIO BRAVO
Warner Bros; Howard Hawks
ROOM AT THE TOP
Romulus; John Woolf & James Woolf
SOME LIKE IT HOT
United Artists; Billy Wilder
Also Considered:
BLACK ORPHEUS (Sacha Gordine); COMPULSION (Richard D.
Zanuck); HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR (Anatole Dauman & Samy Halfon); IMITATION OF LIFE (Ross Hunter); THE NUN'S STORY (Henry Blanke); ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (Robert Wise); ON THE BEACH (Stanley
Kramer); PILLOW TALK (Ross Hunter & Martin Melcher); PORGY & BESS (Samuel Goldwyn); SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER (Sam Spiegel)
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Richard Burton as "Jimmy Porter" - LOOK BACK IN
ANGER
Tony Curtis as "Joe / Josephine" - SOME LIKE IT
HOT
Laurence Harvey as “Joe Lampton” - ROOM AT THE
TOP
Charlton Heston as "Judah Ben-Hur" - BEN-HUR
Rock Hudson as "Brad Allen" - PILLOW TALK
Jean-Pierre Léaud as "Antoine Doinel" - THE 400
BLOWS
Jack Lemmon as "Jerry / Daphne" - SOME LIKE IT
HOT
Paul Muni as "Dr. Sam Abelman" - THE LAST ANGRY
MAN
Rod Steiger as "Al Capone" - AL CAPONE
James Stewart as "Paul Biegler" - ANATOMY OF A
MURDER
Also Considered:
Harry Belafonte (ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW); Peter Cushing
(THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES); Peter Finch (THE NUN'S STORY); Anthony Franciosa (CAREER); Cary Grant (NORTH BY NORTHWEST); Vladimir Ivashev (BALLAD OF A SOLDIER); Fredric March (MIDDLE OF
THE NIGHT); Sidney Poitier (PORGY & BESS); Peter Sellers (I'M ALL RIGHT, JACK); John Wayne (RIO BRAVO)
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Dorothy Dandridge as "Bess" - PORGY &
BESS
Doris Day as "Jan Morrow" - PILLOW TALK
Audrey Hepburn as "Sister Luke" - THE NUN'S
STORY
Katherine Hepburn as "Mrs. Violet Venable" - SUDDENLY LAST
SUMMER
Marilyn Monroe as "Sugar Kane Kowalczyk" - SOME LIKE IT
HOT
Millie Perkins as "Anne Frank" - THE DIARY OF ANNE
FRANK
Emmanuelle Riva as "Elle" - HIROSHIMA, MON
AMOUR
Simone Signoret as "Alice Aisgill" - ROOM AT THE
TOP
Elizabeth Taylor as "Catherine Holly" - SUDDENLY LAST
SUMMER
Mary Ure as "Alison Porter" - LOOK BACK IN
ANGER
Also Considered:
Arlene Dahl (JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH); Ava
Gardner (ON THE BEACH); Lelia Goldoni (SHADOWS); Shirley MacLaine (ASK ANY GIRL); Dorothy McGuire (A SUMMER PLACE); Hayley Mills (TIGER BAY); Janet Munro (DARBY O'GILL & THE LITTLE
PEOPLE); Eva Marie Saint (NORTH BY NORTHWEST); Sylvia Sims (NO TREES IN THE STREET); Lana Turner (IMITATION OF LIFE)
BEST DIRECTOR
Grigori Chukrai - BALLAD OF A SOLDIER
Jack Clayton - ROOM AT THE TOP
Howard Hawks - RIO BRAVO
Alfred Hitchcock - NORTH BY NORTHWEST
Otto Preminger - ANATOMY OF A MURDER
George Stevens - THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
François Truffaut - THE 400 BLOWS
Billy Wilder - SOME LIKE IT
HOT
William Wyler - BEN-HUR
Fred Zinnemann - THE NUN'S STORY
Also Considered:
Marcel Camus (BLACK ORPHEUS); Basil Dearden (SAPPHIRE);
Richard Fleischer (COMPULSION); Stanley Kramer (ON THE BEACH); Alain Resnais (HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR); Tony Richardson (LOOK BACK IN ANGER); Douglas Sirk (IMITATION OF LIFE); J. Lee Thompson
(NORTHWEST FRONTIER); Bernhard Wicki (THE BRIDGE); Robert Wise (ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW)
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Fred Astaire as "Julian Osborne" - ON THE
BEACH
Stephen Boyd as "Messala" - BEN-HUR
Joe E. Brown as "Osgood Fielding III" - SOME LIKE IT
HOT
Ben Gazzara as "Lt. Frederick Manion" - ANATOMY OF A
MURDER
Dean Martin as "Dude Borachòn" - RIO BRAVO
Tony Randall as "Jonathan Forbes" - PILLOW
TALK
Joseph Schildkraut as "Otto Frank" - THE DIARY OF ANNE
FRANK
George C. Scott as "Gen. Claude Dancer" - ANATOMY OF A
MURDER
Robert Vaughn as "Chester A. Gwynn" - THE YOUNG
PHILADELPHIANS
Ed Wynn as "Albert Dussell" - THE DIARY OF ANNE
FRANK
Also Considered:
Luther Adler (THE LAST ANGRY MAN); Ed Begley (ODDS AGAINST
TOMORROW); Horst Buchholz (TIGER BAY); Hugh Griffith (BEN-HUR); James Mason (NORTH BY NORTHWEST); Arthur O'Connell (ANATOMY OF A MURDER); Laurence Olivier (THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE); George Raft
(SOME LIKE IT HOT); Dean Stockwell (COMPULSION); Joseph N. Welch (ANATOMY OF A MURDER)
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Hermione Baddeley as "Elspeth" - ROOM AT THE
TOP
Pearl Bailey as "Maria" - PORGY & BESS
Claire Bloom as "Helena Charles" - LOOK BACK IN
ANGER
Edith Evans as "Rev. Mother Emmanuel" - THE NUN'S
STORY
Susan Kohner as "Sarah Jane" - IMITATION OF
LIFE
Juanita Moore as "Annie Johnson" - IMITATION OF
LIFE
Lee Remick as "Laura Manion" - ANATOMY OF A
MURDER
Thelma Ritter as "Alma" - PILLOW TALK
Heather Sears as "Susan Brown" - ROOM AT THE
TOP
Shelley Winters as "Mrs. Petronella Van Daan" - THE DIARY
OF ANNE FRANK
Also Considered:
Eve Arden (ANATOMY OF A MURDER); Peggy Ashcroft (THE NUN'S
STORY); Bette Davis (JOHN PAUL JONES); Angie Dickenson (RIO BRAVO); Edith Evans (LOOK BACK IN ANGER); Estelle Hemsley (TAKE A GIANT STEP); Carolyn Jones (CAREER); Yvonne Mitchell (SAPPHIRE);
Lili Palmer (BUT NOT FOR ME); Zhanna Prokhorenko (BALLAD OF A SOLDIER)
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
ANATOMY OF A MURDER
BEN-HUR
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
IMITATION OF LIFE
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
THE NUN'S STORY
PILLOW TALK
ROOM AT THE TOP
SOME LIKE IT HOT
SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
Also Considered:
BALLAD OF A SOLDIER; THE 400 BLOWS; THE LAST ANGRY MAN; LOOK BACK IN ANGER; ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW; ON THE BEACH; PORGY & BESS; RIO BRAVO; SHADOWS; TIGER BAY
BEST SCREENPLAY - ADAPTATION
ANATOMY OF A MURDER
Wendell Mayes
BEN-HUR
Karl Tunberg
COMPULSION
Richard Murphy
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich
I'M ALL RIGHT, JACK
Frank Harvey, John Boulting & Alan Hackney
LOOK BACK IN ANGER
Nigel Kneale
THE NUN'S STORY
Robert Anderson
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW
John O. Killens (Abraham Polonsky) & Nelson
Gidding
ROOM AT THE TOP
Neil Paterson
SOME LIKE IT
HOT
Billy Wilder & I.A.L.
Diamond
Also Considered:
BLACK ORPHEUS (Marcel Camus & Jacques Viot); DARBY
O'GILL & THE LITTLE PEOPLE (Lawrence Edward Watkin); THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE (John Dighton & Roland Kibbee); THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (Peter Bryan); IMITATION OF LIFE (Eleanor
Griffin & Allan Scott); JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (Walter Reisch & Charles Brackett); THE MOUSE THAT ROARED (Roger MacDougall & Stanley Mann); ON THE BEACH (John Paxton);
SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER (Tennessee Williams & Gore Vidal); THE 39 STEPS (Frank Harvey)
BEST SCREENPLAY - ORIGINAL
BALLAD OF A SOLDIER
Grigori Chukrai & Valentin Yoshov
THE 400 BLOWS
François Truffaut
HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR
Marguerite Duras
THE HORSE SOLDIERS
John Lee Mahin & Martin Rackin
NORTH BY
NORTHWEST
Ernest
Lehman
OPERATION PETTICOAT
Stanley Shapiro & Maurice Richlin
PILLOW TALK
Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse & Clarence
Greene
RIO BRAVO
Jules Furthman & Leigh Brackett
SHADOWS
John Cassavetes
TIGER BAY
John Hawkesworth & Shelley Smith
Also Considered:
AL CAPONE (Marvin Wald & Harry
Greenberg); THE
FIVE PENNIES (Melville Shavelson & Jack Rose); A HOLE IN THE HEAD (Arnold Schulman); LES COUSINS (Claude
Chabrol); NO
TREES IN THE STREET (Ted Willis); NORTHWEST FRONTIER (Robin Estridge); PICKPOCKET (Robert Bresson); RIDE LONESOME (Burt Kennedy); SAPPHIRE (Janet Green); YESTERDAY'S ENEMY (Peter R.
Newman)
BEST ANIMATED FILM
MEXICALI SHMOES
John W. Burton
MOONBIRD
John Hubley
SLEEPING
BEAUTY
Walt
Disney
Also Considered:
APES OF WRATH (John W. Burton); A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
(Erna Kminkova & Jaroslav Mozis); THE VIOLINIST (Ernest Pintoff)
BEST ART DIRECTION - SET DECORATION
BEN-HUR
William A. Horning &
Edward Carfango; Hugh Hunt
THE BIG FISHERMAN
John de Cuir; Julia Heron
CAREER
Hal Pereira & Walter Tyler; Sam Comer & Arthur
Krams
DARBY O'GILL & THE LITTLE PEOPLE
Carroll Clark; Emile Kuri & Fred MacLean
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
Lyle Wheeler & George W. Davis; Walter M. Scott &
Stuart A. Reiss
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
Lyle Wheeler, Franz Bachelin & Herman A. Blumenthal;
Walter M. Scott & Joseph Kish
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
William A. Horning, Robert Boyle & Merrill Pye; Henry
Grace & Frank McKelvy
PILLOW TALK
Richard H. Riedel; Hal Gausman & Ruby Levitt
SOME LIKE IT HOT
Ted Haworth; Edward G. Boyle
SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
Oliver Messel & William Kellner; Scott
Slimon
Also Considered:
BLACK ORPHEUS (Pierre Guffroy); THE GAZEBO (George W.
Davis & Paul Groesse; Henry Grace & Robert Priestley); IMITATION OF LIFE (Alexander Golitzen & Richard H. Riedel; Russell A. Gausman & Julia Heron); JOHN PAUL
JONES (Franz Bachelin; Dario Simoni); THE LAST ANGRY MAN (Carl Anderson; William Kiernan); THE NUN'S STORY (Alexander Trauner; Maurice Barnathan); ON THE BEACH (Rudolph Sternad); OPERATION
PETTICOAT (Alexander Golitzen & Robert E. Smith); PORGY & BESS (Oliver Smith & Joseph C. Wright); RIO BRAVO (Leo K. Kuter; Ralph S. Hurst)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
BALLAD OF A SOLDIER
Vladimir Nikolayev & Era Savaleva
BEN-HUR
Robert L.
Surtees
BLACK ORPHEUS
Jean Bourgoin
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
William C. Mellor
THE 400 BLOWS
Henri Decae
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
Robert Burks
NORTHWEST FRONTIER
Geoffrey Unsworth
ON THE BEACH
Giuseppe Rotunno & Daniel L. Fapp
PORK CHOP HILL
Sam Leavitt
SOME LIKE IT HOT
Charles Lang, Jr.
Also Considered:
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (Sam Leavitt); THE BIG FISHERMAN (Lee
Garmes); THE FIVE PENNIES (Daniel L. Fapp); HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR (Sacha Vierny & Takahashi Michio); THE NUN'S STORY (Franz Planer); PORGY & BESS (Leon Shamroy); ROOM AT THE TOP
(Freddie Francis); SOLOMON & SHEBA (Freddie Young); THE WILD & THE INNOCENT (Harold Lipstein); THE YOUNG PHILADELPHIANS (Harry Stradling)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
BEN-HUR
Elizabeth
Haffenden
THE BEST OF EVERYTHING
Adele Palmer
THE BIG FISHERMAN
Renie
CAREER
Edith Head
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
Charles LeMaire & Mary Wills
THE FIVE PENNIES
Edith Head
THE GAZEBO
Helen Rose
PORGY & BESS
Irene Sharaff
SOME LIKE IT HOT
Orry-Kelly
THE YOUNG PHILADELPHIANS
Howard Shoup
Also Considered:
BLACK ORPHEUS (credit unknown); COMPULSION (Charles
LeMaire); DARBY O'GILL & THE LITTLE PEOPLE (Chuck Keehne & Gertrude Casey); IMITATION OF LIFE (Bill Thomas); JOHN PAUL JONES (Phyllis Dalton); JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
(David Ffolkes); THE NUN'S STORY (Marjorie Best); PILLOW TALK (Bill Thomas); RIO BRAVO (Marjorie Best); SOLOMON & SHEBA (Ralph Jester)
BEST FILM EDITING
ANATOMY OF A MURDER
Louis R. Loeffler
BEN-HUR
Ralph E. Winters & George
Duning
COMPULSION
William Reynolds
THE 400 BLOWS
Marie-Joseph Yayotte
JAZZ ON A SUMMERS DAY
Aran Avakian
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
Stuart Gilmore & Jack W. Holmes
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
George Tomasini
THE NUN'S STORY
Walter Thompson
ON THE BEACH
Frederic Knudtson
SOME LIKE IT HOT
Arthur Schmidt
Also Considered:
BALLAD OF A SOLDIER (Mariya Timofeeva); THE DIARY OF ANNE
FRANK (Robert Swink, William Mace & David Bretherton); HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR (Jasmine Chasney, Henri Colpi & Anne Sarraute); PICKPOCKET (Raymond Lamy); PORGY & BESS (Daniel
Mandell); PORK CHOP HILL (George Boemler); RIO BRAVO (Folmar Blangsted); ROOM AT THE TOP (Ralph Kemplen); SHADOWS (John Cassavetes & Maurice McEndree); WHEN COMEDY WAS KING (Robert
Youngson)
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
BALLAD OF A SOLDIER
USSR; Grigori Chukrai
BLACK ORPHEUS
Brazil; Marcel Camus
THE BRIDGE
West Germany; Bernhard Wicki
FIRES ON THE PLAIN
Japan; Kon Ichikawa
THE 400
BLOWS
France; François
Truffaut
GENERAL DELLA ROVERE
Italy; Roberto Rossellini
THE GREAT WAR
Italy; Mario Monicelli
HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR
France/Japan; Alain Resnais
NAZARIN
Mexico; Luis Bunuel
THE WORLD OF APU
India; Satyajit Ray
Also Considered:
LES COUSINS (France; Claude Chabrol); GOOD MORNING (Japan; Yasujiro Ozu); THE KEY (Japan; Kon Ichikawa); THE KINGDOM & THE BEAUTY (Singapore; Li Han Hsiang); THE NIGHTINGALE'S PRAYER
(United Arab Republic; Henry Barakat); PAPER FLOWERS (India; Guru Dutt); PAW (Denmark; Astrid Henning-Jensen); PICKPOCKET (France; Robert Bresson); TRAIN WITHOUT A TIMETABLE (Yugoslavia;
Veljko Bulajic); THE VILLAGE ON THE RIVER (The Netherlands; Fons Rademakers)
BEST MAKEUP
BEN-HUR
Charles E. Parker
THE MOUSE THAT ROARED
Stuart Freeborn
SOME LIKE IT HOT
Emile La Vigne
Also Considered:
DARBY O'GILL & THE LITTLE PEOPLE (Pat McNalley); JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF
THE EARTH (Ben Nye); THE NUN'S STORY (Alberto de Rossi & Grazia de Rossi)
BEST ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE
ANATOMY OF A MURDER
Duke Ellington
BEN-HUR
Miklos Rozsa
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
Alfred Newman
HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR
Georges Delerue & Giovanni Fusco
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
Bernard Herrmann
NORTH BY
NORTHWEST
Bernard
Herrmann
ON THE BEACH
Ernest Gold
RIO BRAVO
Dimitri Tiomkin
A SUMMER PLACE
Max Steiner
SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER
Malcolm Arnold & Buxton Orr
Also Considered:
AL CAPONE (David Raksin); CITY OF FEAR (Jerry Goldsmith);
COMPULSION (Lionel Newman); THE 400 BLOWS (Jean Constantin); NORTHWEST FRONTIER (Mischa Spoliansky); THE NUN’S STORY (Franz Waxman); THE RACE FOR SPACE (Elmer Bernstein); SAPPHIRE (Philip
Green); WARLOCK (Leigh Harline); THE YOUNG LAND (Dimitri Tiomkin)
BEST ORIGINAL MUSICAL OR COMEDY SCORE
DARBY O'GILL & THE LITTLE PEOPLE
Oliver Wallace
THE FIVE PENNIES
Leith Stevens
GIDGET
George Duning & Morris Stoloff
LI'L ABNER
Nelson Riddle
OPERATION PETTICOAT
David Rose
PILLOW TALK
Frank de Vol
PORGY & BESS
Andre Previn & Ken Darby
SAY ONE FOR ME
Lionel Newman
SLEEPING BEAUTY
George Bruns
SOME LIKE IT HOT
Adolph Deutsch
Also Considered:
ASK ANY GIRL (Jeff Alexander); BUT NOT FOR ME (Leith
Stevens); CARRY ON NURSE (Bruce Montgomery); EXPRESSO BONGO (David Heneker & Monty Norman); A HOLE IN THE HEAD (Nelson Riddle); I'M ALL RIGHT, JACK (Ken Hare); THE MOUSE THAT ROARED
(Edwin Astley); NEVER STEAL ANYTHING SMALL (Allie Wrubel); A PRIVATE'S AFFAIR (Cyril Mockridge); THE SHAGGY DOG (Paul J. Smith)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"The Best Of Everything" - THE BEST OF
EVERYTHING
Alfred Newman & Sammy Cahn
"The Five Pennies" - THE FIVE PENNIES
Sylvia Fine
"The Hanging Tree" - THE HANGING TREE
Jerry Livingston & Mack David
"High Hopes" - A
HOLE IN THE HEAD
James Van Heusen & Sammy
Cahn
"Imitation Of Life" - IMITATION OF LIFE
Sammy Fain & Paul Francis Webster
"Once Upon A Dream" - SLEEPING BEAUTY
Sammy Fain & Jack Lawrence
"Pillow Talk" - PILLOW TALK
Buddy Pepper & Inez James
"Rio Bravo" - RIO BRAVO
Dimitri Tiomkin & Paul Francis Webster
"Why?" - IDLE ON PARADE
Bob Marcucci & Peter de Angelis
"The Wishing Song" - DARBY O'GILL & THE LITTLE
PEOPLE
Oliver Wallace & Lawrence Edward Watkin
Also Considered:
"Holiday For Lovers" - HOLIDAY FOR LOVERS (James Van
Heusen & Sammy Cahn); "I Wonder" - SLEEPING BEAUTY (George Bruns, Winston Hibbler & Ted Sears); "Make Room For The Joy" - JUKE BOX RHYTHM (Burt Bacharach & Hal David); "My Rifle,
My Pony & Me" - RIO BRAVO (Dimitri Tiomkin & Paul Francis Webster); "A Paris Valentine" - THE MAN WHO UNDERSTOOD WOMEN (Robert Emmett Dolan & Paul Francis Webster); "Pretty Irish
Girl" - DARBY O'GILL & THE LITTLE PEOPLE (Oliver Wallace & Lawrence Edward Watkin); "The Shaggy Dog" - THE SHAGGY DOG (Paul Smith & Hazel George); "Sing A Smiling Song" - SLEEPING
BEAUTY (George Bruns & Tom Adair); "Sleeping Beauty" - SLEEPING BEAUTY (George Bruns & Tom Adair); "Strange Are The Ways Of Love" - THE YOUNG LAND (Dimitri Tiomkin & Ned
Washington)
BEST SOUND
ANATOMY OF A MURDER
Jack Solomon
BEN-HUR
Franklin E.
Milton
DARBY O'GILL & THE LITTLE PEOPLE
Robert O. Cook
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
Warren B. Delaplain & Bernard Freericks
LIBEL!
A.W. Watkins
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
Franklin E. Milton
THE NUN'S STORY
George R. Groves
PORGY & BESS
Fred Hynes
RIO BRAVO
Robert B. Lee
SOME LIKE IT HOT
Fred Lau
Also Considered:
BALLAD OF A SOLDIER (Venyamin Kirshenbaum); COMPULSION
(Eugene Grossman & Harry M. Leonard); THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (W.D. Flick & Harry M. Leonard); LI'L ABNER (Harold Lewis); NORTHWEST FRONTIER (Gordon K. McCallum); ON THE BEACH (Walter
Elliott); OPERATION PETTICOAT (Leslie I. Carey); SLEEPING BEAUTY (Robert O. Cook); THE WILD & THE INNOCENT (Leslie I. Carey); YESTERDAY'S ENEMY (John Cox)
BEST SOUND EFFECTS
BEN-HUR
Milo
Lory
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
Carlton W. Faulkener
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
Van Allen James
Also Considered:
HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (Bernard Schelling); NORTHWEST FRONTIER
(Don Sharpe & Roy Fry); YESTERDAY'S ENEMY (Roy Hyde)
BEST SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
BEN-HUR
A. Arnold Gillespie, Robert
R. Hoag & Robert MacDonald
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
L.B. Abbott, James B. Gordon & Emil Kosa,
Jr.
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
A. Arnold Gillespie & Lee le Blanc
Also Considered:
DARBY O'GILL & THE LITTLE PEOPLE (Peter Ellenshaw,
Eustace Lycett & Joshua Meador); THE MUMMY (Bill Warrington); THE 30 FOOT BRIDE OF CANDY ROCK (Irving Block, Louis DeWitt & Jack Rabin)
Most Wins:
7 - Ben-Hur
5 - Some Like it Hot
2 - Anatomy of a Murder; North by Northwest
1 - The 400 Blows; A Hole in the Head; The Mouse That Roared; On the Beach; Porgy & Bess; Sleeping Beauty
Most Nominations:
15 - Ben-Hur; Some Like It Hot
12 - The Diary of Anne Frank
11 - Anatomy of a Murder; North by Northwest
9 - Pillow Talk
8 - Room at the Top
7 - The 400 Blows; Journey to the Center of the Earth; The Nun’s Story; Rio Bravo
5 - Ballad of a Soldier; Porgy & Bess; Suddenly, Last Summer
WORST FILM
ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES (Gene Corman)
THE KILLER SHREWS (Ken Curtis)
THE MANSTER (George Breakston)
NIGHT OF THE GHOULS (Edward D. Wood, Jr.)
PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (Edward D. Wood, Jr.)
PRINCE OF SPACE (Walter Manley)
THE REBEL SET (Earle Lyon)
SANTA CLAUS (Guillermo Calderon Stell)
TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE (Tom Graeff)
THE WASP WOMAN (Roger Corman)
WORST ACTOR
James Best - THE KILLER SHREWS
Ken Clark - ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES
Kenne Duncan - NIGHT OF THE GHOULS
Peter Dyneley - THE MANSTER
David Love - TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE
Jose Elias Moreno - SANTA CLAUS
Gregg Palmer - THE REBEL SET
Tom Pittman - HIGH SCHOOL BIG SHOT
Don Sullivan - TEENAGE ZOMBIES
Tatsuo Umemiya - PRINCE OF
SPACE
WORST ACTRESS
Virginia Aldridge - HIGH SCHOOL BIG SHOT
Carroll Baker - THE MIRACLE
Susan Cabot - THE WASP WOMAN
Kathleen Crowley - THE REBEL SET
Ingrid Goude - THE KILLER SHREWS
Jane Hylton - THE MANSTER
Barbara Lord - THE BLOODY BROOD
Mamie Van Doren - GIRLS TOWN
Katherine Victor - TEENAGE ZOMBIES
Yvette Vickers - ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES
WORST DIRECTOR
George Breakston - THE MANSTER
Rene Cardona - SANTA CLAUS
Roger Corman - THE WASP WOMAN
Gene Fowler, Jr. - THE REBEL SET
Ray Kellogg - THE KILLER SHREWS
Bernard L. Kowalski - ATTACK OF THE GIANT
LEECHES
Joel M. Rapp - HIGH SCHOOL BIG SHOT
Eijiro Wakabayashi - PRINCE OF SPACE
Jerry Warren - THE INCREDIBLE PETRIFIED WORLD / TEENAGE
ZOMBIES
Edward D. Wood, Jr. - NIGHT OF THE GHOULS / PLAN 9 FROM
OUTER SPACE
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Armando Arriola - SANTA CLAUS
Malcolm Atterbury - HIGH SCHOOL BIG SHOT
John Breckinridge - PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE
Bryan Grant - TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE
Tor Johnson - NIGHT OF THE GHOULS / PLAN 9 FROM OUTER
SPACE
Dudley Manlove - PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE
Duke Moore - NIGHT OF THE GHOULS / PLAN 9 FROM OUTER
SPACE
Lyle Talbot - PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE
Jose Luis Aguirre Trotsky - SANTA CLAUS
Bruno VeSota - ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES
WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Valda Hansen - NIGHT OF THE GHOULS
Margaret Hayes - GIRLS TOWN
Joanna Lee - PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE
Mona McKinnon - PLAN 9 FROM OUTER
SPACE
Barboura Morris - THE WASP WOMAN
Brianne Murphy - TEENAGE ZOMBIES
Lupita Quezadas - SANTA CLAUS
Jan Shepherd - ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES
Vampira - PLAN 9 FROM OUTER
SPACE
Terri Zimmern - THE MANSTER
WORST SCREENPLAY
THE ALLIGATOR PEOPLE (Orville H. Hampton & Charles
O’Neal)
THE BLOODY BROOD (Anne Howard Bailey, Ben Kerner, Elwood Ullman
& Des Hardman)
HIGH SCHOOL BIG SHOT (Joel M. Rapp)
THE MANSTER (George Breakston)
NIGHT OF THE GHOULS (Edward D. Wood, Jr.)
PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (Edward D. Wood, Jr.)
PRINCE OF SPACE (Masaru Igami & Shin Morita)
THE REBEL SET (Louis Vittes & Bernard Gerard)
SANTA CLAUS (Rene Cardona & Adolfo Torres
Portillo)
TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE (Tom Graeff)
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