16th Golden Globe Awards

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

16th Golden Globe Awards: Honoring the Best of 1958 Films

The 16th Golden Globe Awards, celebrating the finest in cinema for films released in 1958, took place on March 5, 1959.

Winners and Nominees

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 – The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (posthumous nomination)
  • Sidney Poitier – The Defiant Ones
  • Spencer Tracy – The Old Man and the Sea

Best Actress – Drama

  • Susan Hayward – I Want to Live!
  • Ingrid Bergman – The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
  • Deborah Kerr – Separate Tables
  • Shirley MacLaine – Some Came Running
  • Jean Simmons – Home Before Dark

Best Actor – Comedy or Musical

  • Danny Kaye – Me and the Colonel
  • Maurice Chevalier – Gigi
  • Clark Gable – Teacher’s Pet
  • Cary Grant – Indiscreet
  • Louis Jourdan – Gigi

Best Actress – Comedy or Musical

  • Rosalind Russell – Auntie Mame
  • Ingrid Bergman – Indiscreet
  • Leslie Caron – Gigi
  • Doris Day – The Tunnel of Love
  • Mitzi Gaynor – South Pacific

Best Supporting Actor

  • Burl Ives – The Big Country
  • Harry Guardino – Houseboat
  • David Ladd – The Proud Rebel
  • Gig Young – Teacher’s Pet
  • Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. – Home Before Dark

Best Supporting Actress

  • Hermione Gingold – Gigi
  • Peggy Cass – Auntie Mame
  • Wendy Hiller – Separate Tables
  • Maureen Stapleton – Lonelyhearts
  • cara Williams – The Defiant Ones

Best Director

  • Vincente Minnelli – Gigi
  • Richard Brooks – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • Stanley Kramer – The Defiant Ones
  • Delbert Mann – Separate Tables
  • Robert Wise – I Want to Live!

Best Foreign-Language Film

  • Das Mädchen Rosemarie (West Germany)
  • L’Eau vive (France)
  • 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
  • Deborah Kerr

Television Categories

Best TV Show

  • The Ann Sothern Show
  • Letter to Loretta
  • The Red Skelton Show
  • Toast of the Town
  • Tonight!

Most Promising Newcomer – Male

  • Bradford Dillman
  • John Gavin
  • Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
  • David Ladd
  • Ricky Nelson
  • Ray Stricklyn

Most Promising Newcomer – Female

  • Linda Cristal
  • Susan Kohner
  • Tina Louise
  • Joanna Barnes
  • Carol Lynley
  • France Nuyen

Achievement in Television

  • Red Skelton

Special Award

  • David Ladd (For best juvenile actor)
  • Shirley MacLaine (For most versatile actress)

Cecil B. DeMille Award

  • Maurice Chevalier

For more information, visit IMdb for the 1959 Golden Globe Awards.