The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards.
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The top ten 1959 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic rentals |
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1 | Ben-Hur | MGM | $36,000,000[1] |
2 | The Shaggy Dog | Buena Vista | $9,600,000[2] |
3 | Operation Petticoat | Universal | $9,321,555[3] |
4 | Some Like It Hot | United Artists | $8,127,835[3] |
5 | Pillow Talk | Universal | $7,669,713[3] |
6 | Imitation of Life | $6,417,807[3] | |
7 | Suddenly, Last Summer | Columbia | $6,375,000[3] |
8 | Rio Bravo The Nun's Story |
Warner Bros. | $5,750,000[3] |
9 | North by Northwest | MGM | $5,740,000[4] |
10 | Anatomy of a Murder | Columbia | $5,500,000[1] |
Category/Organization | 17th Golden Globe Awards March 10, 1960 |
12th BAFTA Awards March 26, 1960 |
32nd Academy Awards April 4, 1960 | |
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Comedy or Musical | Drama | |||
Best Film | Some Like It Hot (Comedy) Porgy and Bess (Musical) |
Ben-Hur | Room at the Top | Ben-Hur |
Best Director | William Wyler Ben-Hur |
- | William Wyler Ben-Hur | |
Best Actor | Jack Lemmon Some Like It Hot |
Anthony Franciosa Career |
Sidney Poitier The Defiant Ones |
Charlton Heston Ben-Hur |
Best Actress | Marilyn Monroe Some Like It Hot |
Elizabeth Taylor Suddenly, Last Summer |
Simone Signoret Room at the Top |
Simone Signoret Room at the Top |
Best Supporting Actor | Stephen Boyd Ben-Hur |
- | Hugh Griffith Ben-Hur | |
Best Supporting Actress | Susan Kohner Imitation of Life |
- | Shelley Winters The Diary of Anne Frank | |
Best Screenplay, Adapted | Room at the Top Neil Paterson |
Orders to Kill Paul Dehn |
Room at the Top Neil Paterson | |
Best Screenplay, Original | Pillow Talk Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene, Stanley Shapiro, and Maurice Richlin |
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
United States unless stated
United States unless stated