The 16th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1958 films, were held on March 5, 1959.
Winners and nominees
Film
Best Film - Drama The Defiant Ones Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Home Before Dark I Want to Live! Separate Tables
Best Film - Comedy Auntie Mame Bell, Book and Candle Indiscreet Me and the Colonel The Perfect Furlough
Best Film - Musical Gigi Damn Yankees Tom Thumb
Best Actor - Drama David Niven – Separate Tables Tony Curtis – The Defiant Ones Robert Donat – The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (posthumous nomination) Sidney Poitier – The Defiant Ones Spencer Tracy – The Old Man and the Sea
Best Actress - Drama Susan Hayward – I Want to Live! Ingrid Bergman – The Inn of the Sixth Happiness Deborah Kerr – Separate Tables Shirley MacLaine – Some Came Running Jean Simmons – Home Before Dark
Best Actor - Comedy or Musical Danny Kaye – Me and the Colonel Maurice Chevalier – Gigi Clark Gable – Teacher's Pet Cary Grant – Indiscreet Louis Jourdan – Gigi
Best Actress - Comedy or Musical Rosalind Russell – Auntie Mame Ingrid Bergman – Indiscreet Leslie Caron – Gigi Doris Day – The Tunnel of Love Mitzi Gaynor – South Pacific
Best Supporting Actor Burl Ives – The Big Country Harry Guardino – Houseboat David Ladd – The Proud Rebel Gig Young – Teacher's Pet Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. – Home Before Dark
Best Supporting Actress Hermione Gingold – Gigi Peggy Cass – Auntie Mame Wendy Hiller – Separate Tables Maureen Stapleton – Lonelyhearts Cara Williams – The Defiant Ones
Best Director Vincente Minnelli – Gigi Richard Brooks – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Stanley Kramer – The Defiant Ones Delbert Mann – Separate Tables Robert Wise – I Want to Live!
Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film Das Mädchen Rosemarie (West Germany) L'Eau vive (France) The Road a Year Long (Yugoslavia)
Best English-Language Foreign Film A Night to Remember
Best Film - Promoting International Understanding The Inn of the Sixth Happiness The Defiant Ones Me and the Colonel A Time to Love and a Time to Die The Young Lions
Samuel Goldwyn International Film Award Do Aankhen Barah Haath
Henrietta Award (World Film Favorite) Rock Hudson Deborah Kerr
Television
Best TV Show The Ann Sothern Show Letter to Loretta The Red Skelton Show Toast of the Town Tonight!
Most Promising Newcomer - Male Bradford Dillman John Gavin Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. David Ladd Ricky Nelson Ray Stricklyn
Most Promising Newcomer - Female Linda Cristal Susan Kohner Tina Louise Joanna Barnes Carol Lynley France Nuyen
Achievement in Television Red Skelton
Special Award David Ladd (For best juvenile actor) Shirley MacLaine (For most versatile actress)
Cecil B. DeMille Award Maurice Chevalier
References IMdb 1959 Golden Globe Awards