The 1958 Academy Awards were presented April 6, 1959 at the RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, Calif.
| Best Motion Picture | Auntie Mame (Warner Bros.) |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Lawrence Weingarten, producer (MGM) |
| The Defiant Ones, Stanley Kramer, producer (United Artists) |
| Gigi, Arthur Freed, producer (MGM) |
| Separate Tables, Harold Hecht, producer (United Artists) |
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| Best Actor | Tony Curtis, The Defiant Ones |
| Paul Newman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| David Niven, Separate Tables |
| Sidney Poitier, The Defiant Ones |
| Spencer Tracy, The Old Man and the Sea |
| Best Actress | Susan Hayward, I Want to Live! |
| Deborah Kerr, Separate Tables |
| Shirley MacLaine, Some Came Running |
| Rosalind Russell, Auntie Mame |
| Elizabeth Taylor, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| Actor in a Supporting Role | Theodore Bikel, The Defiant Ones |
| Lee J. Cobb, The Brothers Karamazov |
| Burl Ives, The Big Country |
| Arthur Kennedy, Some Came Running |
| Gig Young, Teacher's Pet |
| Actress in a Supporting Role | Peggy Cass, Auntie Mame |
| Wendy Hiller, Separate Tables |
| Martha Hyer, Some Came Running |
| Maureen Stapleton, Lonelyhearts |
| Cara Williams, The Defiant Ones |
| Directing | Richard Brooks, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| Stanley Kramer, The Defiant Ones |
| Vincente Minnelli, Gigi |
| Mark Robson, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness |
| Robert Wise, I Want to Live! |
| Writing | | Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium | Richard Brooks and James Poe, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | | Nelson Gidding and Don Mankiewicz, I Want to Live! | | Alec Guinness, The Horse's Mouth | | Alan Jay Lerner, Gigi | | Terence Rattigan and John Gay, Separate Tables | | Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Paddy Chayefsky, The Goddess | | James Edward Grant and William Bowers, The Sheepman | | Fay and Michael Kanin, Teacher's Pet | | Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose, Houseboat | | Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith, The Defiant Ones |
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| Cinematography | | Black-and-White | Daniel L. Fapp, Desire Under the Elms | | Charles Lang, Jr., Separate Tables | | Sam Leavitt, The Defiant Ones | | Lionel Lindon, I Want to Live! | | Joe MacDonald, The Young Lions | | Color | William Daniels, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | | James Wong Howe, The Old Man and the Sea | | Joseph Ruttenberg, Gigi | | Leon Shamroy, South Pacific | | Harry Stradling, Sr., Auntie Mame |
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| Art Direction | Malcolm Bert, art direction; George James Hopkins, set decoration, Auntie Mame |
| William A. Horning and Preston Ames, art direction; Henry Grace and Keogh Gleason, set decoration, Gigi |
| Cary Odell, art direction; Louis Diage, set decoration, Bell, Book and Candle |
| Hal Pereira and Henry Bumstead, art direction; Sam Comer and Frank McKelvy, set decoration, Vertigo |
| Lyle R. Wheeler and John DeCuir, art direction; Walter M. Scott and Paul S. Fox, set decoration, A Certain Smile |
| Sound | Paramount Studio Sound Dept., Vertigo |
| Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept., I Want to Live! |
| Todd-AO Sound Dept., South Pacific |
| Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Dept., The Young Lions |
| Universal-International Studio Sound Dept., A Time to Love and a Time to Die |
| Music | | Song | “Almost in Your Arms” (Love Song From Houseboat), Houseboat, Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, music and lyrics | | “A Certain Smile,” A Certain Smile, Sammy Fain, music; Paul Francis Webster, lyrics | | “Gigi,” Gigi, Frederick Loewe, music; Alan Jay Lerner, lyrics | | “To Love and Be Loved,” Some Came Running, James Van Heusen, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics | | “A Very Precious Love,” Marjorie Morningstar, Sammy Fain, music; Paul Francis Webster, lyrics | | Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | Hugo Friedhofer, The Young Lions | | Jerome Moross, The Big Country | | David Raksin, Separate Tables | | Dimitri Tiomkin, The Old Man and the Sea | | Oliver Wallace, White Wilderness | | Scoring of a Musical Picture | Yuri Faier and G. Rozhdestvensky, The Bolshoi Ballet | | Ray Heindorf, Damn Yankees | | Alfred Newman and Ken Darby, South Pacific | | Lionel Newman, Mardi Gras | | André Previn, Gigi |
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| Film Editing | Adrienne Fazan, Gigi |
| William Hornbeck, I Want to Live! |
| Frederick Knudtson, The Defiant Ones |
| William A. Lyon and Al Clark, Cowboy |
| William Ziegler, Auntie Mame |
| Costume Design | Black-and-White or Color |
| Cecil Beaton, Gigi |
| Ralph Jester, Edith Head and John Jensen, The Buccaneer |
| Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills, A Certain Smile |
| Jean Louis, Bell, Book and Candle |
| Walter Plunkett, Some Came Running |
| Special Effects | A. Arnold Gillespie, visual; Harold Humbrock, audible, Torpedo Run |
| Tom Howard, visual, tom thumb |
| Short Subjects | | Cartoon | Knighty Knight Bugs (Bugs Bunny Series) (John W. Burton, producer; Warner Bros.) | | Paul Bunyan (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista) | | Sidney's Family Tree (Silly Sidney Series) (Terrytoons; Twentieth Century-Fox) | | Live Action | Grand Canyon (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista) | | Journey Into Spring (British Transport Films; Lester A. Schoenfeld Films) | | The Kiss (Cohay Productions; Continental Distributing, Inc.) | | Snows of Aorangi (New Zealand Screen Board; George Brest and Associates) | | T Is for Tumbleweed (James A. Lebenthal Productions; Continental Distributing, Inc.) |
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| Documentary | | Short Subject | AMA Girls (People and Places Series) (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista) | | Employees Only (Kenneth G. Brown, producer; Hughes Aircraft Co.) | | Journey Into Spring (British Transport Films; Lester A. Schoenfeld Films) | | The Living Stone (Tom Daly, producer; National Film Board of Canada) | | Overture (United Nations Film Services; Kingsley International Pictures) | | Feature | Antarctic Crossing (World Wide Pictures; Lester A. Schoenfeld Films) | | The Hidden World (Robert Snyder, producer; Small World Co.) | | Psychiatric Nursing (Nathan Zucker, producer; Dynamic Films, Inc.) | | White Wilderness (True Life Adventure Series) (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista) |
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| Foreign Language Film | Arms and the Man, Federal Republic of Germany—West |
| La Venganza, Spain |
| My Uncle, France |
| The Road a Year Long, Yugoslavia |
| The Usual Unidentified Thieves, Italy |
| Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award | Jack L. Warner |
| Honorary Award | To Maurice Chevalier for his contributions to the world of entertainment over more than half a century |
