16th Golden Globes

The 16th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1958 films, were held on March 5, 1959.

Winners and nominees

Film

Best Film - Drama

The Defiant Ones

• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Home Before Dark
• I Want to Live!
• Separate Tables

Best Film - Comedy

Auntie Mame

• Bell, Book and Candle
• Indiscreet
• Me and the Colonel
• The Perfect Furlough

Best Film - Musical

Gigi

• Damn Yankees
• South Pacific
• Tom Thumb

Best Actor - Drama

David Niven – Separate Tables

• Tony Curtis – The Defiant Ones
• Robert Donat &ndash; The Inn of the Sixth Happiness <small>(posthumous nomination)</small>
• Sidney Poitier &ndash; The Defiant Ones
• Spencer Tracy &ndash; The Old Man and the Sea

Best Actress - Drama

Susan Hayward &ndash; I Want to Live!

• Ingrid Bergman &ndash; The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
• Deborah Kerr &ndash; Separate Tables
• Shirley MacLaine &ndash; Some Came Running
• Jean Simmons &ndash; Home Before Dark

Best Actor - Comedy or Musical

Danny Kaye &ndash; Me and the Colonel

• Maurice Chevalier &ndash; Gigi
• Clark Gable &ndash; Teacher's Pet
• Cary Grant &ndash; Indiscreet
• Louis Jourdan &ndash; Gigi

Best Actress - Comedy or Musical

Rosalind Russell &ndash; Auntie Mame

• Ingrid Bergman &ndash; Indiscreet
• Leslie Caron &ndash; Gigi
• Doris Day &ndash; The Tunnel of Love
• Mitzi Gaynor &ndash; South Pacific

Best Supporting Actor

Burl Ives &ndash; The Big Country

• Harry Guardino &ndash; Houseboat
• David Ladd &ndash; The Proud Rebel
• Gig Young &ndash; Teacher's Pet
• Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. &ndash; Home Before Dark

Best Supporting Actress

Hermione Gingold &ndash; Gigi

• Peggy Cass &ndash; Auntie Mame
• Wendy Hiller &ndash; Separate Tables
• Maureen Stapleton &ndash; Lonelyhearts
• Cara Williams &ndash; The Defiant Ones

Best Director

Vincente Minnelli &ndash; Gigi

• Richard Brooks &ndash; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Stanley Kramer &ndash; The Defiant Ones
• Delbert Mann &ndash; Separate Tables
• Robert Wise &ndash; I Want to Live!

Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film

Das Mädchen Rosemarie (West Germany)<br /> L'Eau vive (France)<br /> The Road a Year Long (Yugoslavia)

Best English-Language Foreign Film

A Night to Remember

Best Film - Promoting International Understanding

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

• The Defiant Ones
• Me and the Colonel
• A Time to Love and a Time to Die
• The Young Lions

Samuel Goldwyn International Film Award

Do Aankhen Barah Haath

Henrietta Award (World Film Favorite)

Rock Hudson<br /> Deborah Kerr

Television

Best TV Show

The Ann Sothern Show<br /> Letter to Loretta<br /> The Red Skelton Show<br /> Toast of the Town<br /> Tonight!

Most Promising Newcomer - Male

Bradford Dillman<br /> John Gavin<br /> Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

• David Ladd
• Ricky Nelson
• Ray Stricklyn

Most Promising Newcomer - Female

Linda Cristal<br /> Susan Kohner<br /> Tina Louise

• Joanna Barnes
• Carol Lynley
• France Nuyen

Achievement in Television

Red Skelton

Special Award

David Ladd (For best juvenile actor)<br /> Shirley MacLaine (For most versatile actress)

Cecil B. DeMille Award

Maurice Chevalier

References

• IMdb 1959 Golden Globe Awards