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The 31st Academy Awards | 1959. RKO Pantages Theatre. Monday, April 6, 1959. Honoring movies released in 1958.
Feb 4, 2016 · South Pacific Wins Sound: 1959 Oscars. The Todd-AO Sound Department and Fred Hynes, Sound Director win the Oscar for Sound for South Pacific at the 31st Academy Awards. Charlton Heston and...
The 31st Academy Awards ceremony was held on April 6, 1959, to honor the best films of 1958. The night was dominated by Gigi, which won nine Oscars, breaking the previous record of eight set by Gone with the Wind and tied by From Here to Eternity and On the Waterfront.
Feb 5, 2014 · 32nd Academy Awards (1959): Nominees and Winners – Cinema Sight by Wesley Lovell. BEST MOTION PICTURE. Anatomy of a Murder – Otto Preminger. Ben-Hur – Sam Zimbalist. The Diary of Anne Frank – George Stevens. The Nun’s Story – Henry Blanke. Room at the Top – John Woolf, James Woolf. DIRECTING. Ben-Hur – William Wyler.
The original Broadway production, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel, opened in 1959 [1] and won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, out of nine nominations. The first London production opened at the Palace Theatre in 1961. The show has enjoyed numerous productions and revivals since then.
The 31st Academy Awards took place at the RKO Pantages Theatre on Monday, April 6, 1959 and were hosted by Jerry Lewis, Mort Sahl, Tony Randall, Bob Hope, David Niven and Laurence Olivier. Best Picture Gigi broke the previous record of most wins taking home nine Oscars out of nine nominations.
Jul 23, 2024 · Academy Award (1966) The Sound of Music, American musical film, released in 1965, that reigned for five years as the highest-grossing film in history. Its breathtaking photography and its many memorable songs, among them “My Favorite Things” and the title song, helped it to become an enduring classic.
