Thursday, February 3, 2011

1958

Best Picture

Vertigo
-Touch of Evil
-Cat on the Hot Tin Roof
-The Long Hot Summer
-Mon Oncle

Best Director

"You shouldn't keep souvenirs of a killing. You shouldn't have been that sentimental."
Alfred Hitchcock for Vertigo
-Orson Welles for Touch of Evil
-Jacques Tati for Mon Oncle
-Richard Brooks for Cat on the Hot Tin Roof
-Martin Ritt for The Long Hot Summer

Best Actor

"People like doing what they used to do, after they've stopped being able to do it."
Paul Newman as Brick Pollitt in Cat on the Hot Tin Roof
-James Stewart as Det. John "Scottie" Ferguson in Vertigo
-Charlton Heston as Ramon "Mike" Vargas in Touch of Evil
-Spencer Tracy as The Old Man in The Old Man & the Sea
-Tony Curtis as John "Joker" Jackson in The Defiant Ones

Best Actress

"If I let you change me, will that do it? If I do what you tell me, will you love me?"
Kim Novak as Madeline Elster/Judy Barton in Vertigo
-Elizabeth Taylor as Maggie "The Cat" Pollitt in Cat on the Hot Tin Roof
-Susan Hayward as Barbara Graham in I Want to Live!
-Joanne Woodward as Clara Varner in The Long Hot Summer
-Jeanne Moreau as Florence Carala in Elevator to the Gallows

Best Supporting Actor

"I've suddenly noticed you don't call me Big Daddy anymore. If you needed a big daddy, why didn't you come to me? If you needed someone to lean on, why Skipper? Why not me? I'm your father! Why didn't you come to your kinfolk, the people that love you?"
Burl Ives as Big Daddy Pollitt in Cat on the Hot Tin Roof
-Orson Welles as Capt. Hank Quinlan in Touch of Evil
-Sidney Poitier as Noah Cullen in The Defiant Ones
-Montgomery Clift as Noah Ackerman in The Young Lions
-Burl Ives as Rufus Hannassey in Big Country

Best Supporting Actress

"Look, will you quit worryin', they ain't gonna catch him."
Cara Williams as Billy's Mother in The Defiant Ones
-Lee Remick as Eula Varner in The Long Hot Summer
-Janet Leigh as Susie Vargas in Touch of Evil
-Madeline Sherwood as Mae Flynn Pollitt in Cat on the Hot Tin Roof
-Maureen Stapleton as Fay Doyle in Lonelyhearts

Best Screenplay

"A policeman's job is only easy in a police state."
Touch Of Evil
-Cat on the Hot Tin Roof
-The Long Hot Summer
-Vertigo
-Elevator at the Gallows
-The Defiant Ones

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