1959

Best Picture

The 400 Blows
-Rio Bravo
-North By Northwest
-Anatomy of a Murder
-Some Like It Hot

Best Director

"He escaped a week ago, but they got him. Around here to escape is bad enough, but getting caught is worse."
Francois Truffaut for The 400 Blows
-Alfred Hitchcock for North By Northwest
-Howard Hawks for Rio Bravo
-William Wyler for Ben-Hur
-Billy Wilder for Some Like It Hot

Best Actor

"Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself "slightly" killed."
Cary Grant as Roger O. Thornhill in North By Northwest
-Jack Lemmon as Jerry/Daphne in Some Like It Hot
-James Stewart as Paul Biegler in Anatomy of a Murder
-Jean-Pierre Leaud as Antoine Doinel in The 400 Blows
-John Wayne as Sherrif John T. Chance in Rio Bravo

Best Actress

"It's not how long it takes, it's who's taking you."
Marilyn Monroe as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk in Some Like It Hot
-Lee Remick as Laura Manion in Anatomy of a Murder
-Elizabeth Taylor as Catherine Holly in Suddenly, Last Summer
-Simone Signoret as Alice Aisgill in Room at the Top
-Audrey Hepburn as Sister Luke in The Nun's Story

Best Supporting Actor

"Did you ever see a babe with two heads?"
Robert Vaughn as Chet Gwynn in The Young Philadelphians
-Dean Martin as Dude in Rio Bravo
-George C. Scott as Claude Dancer in Anatomy of a Murder
-Ben Gazzara as Lt. Frederick Manion in Anatomy of a Murder
-Arthur O'Connell as Parnell Emmett McCarthy in Anatomy of a Murder

Best Supporting Actress

"See how she destroys us with her tongue for a hatchet? You've got to cut this hideous story out of her brain."
Katherine Hepburn as Mrs. Violet Venable in Suddenly, Last Summer
-Thelma Ritter as Alma in Pillow Talk
-Eva Marie Saint as Eve Kendall in North by Northwest
-Shelley Winters as Mrs. Van Daan in The Diary of Anne Frank
-Claire Maurier as Gilberte Doinel in The 400 Blows

Best Screenplay

"Well, doesn't a woman instinctively know when a fella is on the make?"
Anatomy of a Murder
-Some Like It Hot
-Suddenly, Last Summer
-North by Northwest
-The 400 Blows
-Room at the Top