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16th Golden Globe Awards

1959 · 58 nominations · 16 winners · 10 categories

Best Motion Picture - Drama 5
The Defiant Ones poster

The Defiant Ones

Defiant Ones, The

Winner

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof poster

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Home Before Dark poster

Home Before Dark

Home Before Dark

I Want to Live! poster

I Want to Live!

I Want To Live!

Separate Tables poster

Separate Tables

Separate Tables

Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy 8
Auntie Mame poster

Auntie Mame

Auntie Mame

Winner

Gigi poster

Gigi

Gigi

Winner

Bell, Book and Candle poster

Bell, Book and Candle

Bell, Book and Candle

Damn Yankees poster

Damn Yankees

Damn Yankees

Indiscreet poster

Indiscreet

Indiscreet

Me and the Colonel poster

Me and the Colonel

Me and the Colonel

The Perfect Furlough poster

The Perfect Furlough

The Perfect Furlough

Tom Thumb poster

Tom Thumb

Tom Thumb

Best Director 5
Gigi poster

Gigi

Vincente Minnelli

Winner

Separate Tables poster

Separate Tables

Delbert Mann

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof poster

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Richard Brooks

I Want to Live! poster

I Want to Live!

Robert Wise

The Defiant Ones poster

The Defiant Ones

Stanley Kramer

Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama 4
Separate Tables poster

Separate Tables

David Niven

Winner

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness poster

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

Robert Donat

The Defiant Ones poster

The Defiant Ones

Sidney Poitier, Tony Curtis

The Old Man and the Sea poster

The Old Man and the Sea

Spencer Tracy

Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama 5
I Want to Live! poster

I Want to Live!

Susan Hayward

Winner

Separate Tables poster

Separate Tables

Deborah Kerr

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness poster

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

Ingrid Bergman

Home Before Dark poster

Home Before Dark

Jean Simmons

Some Came Running poster

Some Came Running

Shirley MacLaine

Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy 4
Me and the Colonel poster

Me and the Colonel

Danny Kaye

Winner

Indiscreet poster

Indiscreet

Cary Grant

Teacher's Pet poster

Teacher's Pet

Clark Gable

Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy 5
Auntie Mame poster

Auntie Mame

Rosalind Russell

Winner

Doris Day
Indiscreet poster

Indiscreet

Ingrid Bergman

South Pacific poster

South Pacific

Mitzi Gaynor

Best Supporting Actor 5
The Big Country poster

The Big Country

Burl Ives

Winner

The Proud Rebel

The Proud Rebel

David Ladd

Home Before Dark poster

Home Before Dark

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Teacher's Pet poster

Teacher's Pet

Gig Young

Houseboat poster

Houseboat

Harry Guardino

Best Supporting Actress 5
Gigi poster

Gigi

Hermione Gingold

Winner

The Defiant Ones poster

The Defiant Ones

Cara Williams

Lonelyhearts poster

Lonelyhearts

Maureen Stapleton

Auntie Mame poster

Auntie Mame

Peggy Cass

Separate Tables poster

Separate Tables

Wendy Hiller

Best Foreign Language Film 10
France, François Villiers
India, V. Shantaram
Italy, Yugoslavia, Giuseppe De Santis
Mark Robson

Mark Robson

Winner

United Kingdom, Roy Ward Baker
West Germany, Rolf Thiele
Douglas Sirk
Edward Dmytryk
Peter Glenville
Stanley Kramer