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
Joe E. Brown as "Osgood Fielding III" - SOME LIKE IT
HOT
Hugh Griffith as "Sheik Ilderim" - BEN-HUR
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); Stephen Boyd (BEN-HUR); Horst Buchholz (TIGER BAY); 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 (the entire cast)
BEN-HUR (the entire cast)
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (the entire cast)
IMITATION OF LIFE (the entire cast)
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (the entire cast)
THE NUN'S STORY (the entire cast)
PILLOW TALK (the entire cast)
ROOM AT THE TOP (the entire cast)
SOME LIKE IT HOT (the entire cast)
SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER (the entire cast)
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)
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (William C. Mellor)
THE 400 BLOWS (Henri Decae)
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Robert Burks)
NORTHWEST FRONTIER (Geoffrey Unsworth)
THE NUN'S STORY (Franz Planer)
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); BLACK ORPHEUS (Jean Bourgoin); THE FIVE PENNIES (Daniel L. Fapp); HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR (Sacha Vierny & Takahashi Michio); 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
AL CAPONE (David Raksin)
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (Duke Ellington)
BEN-HUR (Miklos Rozsa)
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (Alfred Newman)
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (Bernard
Herrmann)
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Bernard Herrmann)
THE NUN'S STORY (Franz Waxman)
ON THE BEACH (Ernest Gold)
RIO BRAVO (Dimitri Tiomkin)
A
SUMMER PLACE (Max Steiner)
Also Considered:
CITY OF FEAR (Jerry Goldsmith); COMPULSION (Lionel
Newman); THE 400 BLOWS (Jean Constantin); HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR (Georges Delerue & Giovanni Fusco); NORTHWEST FRONTIER (Mischa Spoliansky); THE RACE FOR SPACE (Elmer Bernstein); SAPPHIRE
(Philip Green); SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER (Malcolm Arnold & Buxton Orr); 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; SOME LIKE IT HOT
2 - NORTH BY NORTHWEST
1 - ANATOMY OF A MURDER; THE 400 BLOWS; A HOLE IN THE HEAD; 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 - THE NUN'S STORY; PILLOW TALK
8 - ROOM AT THE TOP
7 - THE 400 BLOWS; JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH; RIO BRAVO
5 - BALLAD OF A SOLDIER; PORGY & BESS
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 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)
THE WASP WOMAN (Leo Gordon & Kinta Zertuche)
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