16th Golden Globe Awards
# 16th Golden Globe Awards

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
* South Pacific
* 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

