1958 in Film - Awards

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Gigi – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Best Director: Vincente Minnelli – Gigi

Best Actor: David Niven – Separate Tables

Best Actress: Susan Hayward – I Want to Live!

Best Supporting Actor: Burl Ives – The Big Country

Best Supporting Actress: Wendy Hiller – Separate Tables

Best Foreign Language Film: Mon Oncle (My Uncle), directed by Jacques Tati, France

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: The Defiant Ones

Best Actor: David Niven – Separate Tables

Best Actress: Susan Hayward – I Want to Live!

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: Gigi

Best Actor: Danny Kaye – Me and the Colonel

Best Actress: Rosalind Russell – Auntie Mame

Other

Best Director: Vincente Minnelli – Gigi

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

The Cranes Are Flying (Летят журавли, Letyat zhuravli), directed by Mikheil Kalatozishvili, Soviet Union

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

The Rickshaw Man (Muhomatsu no issho), directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, Japan

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället), directed by Ingmar Bergman, Sweden