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32th Academy Awards (1960) - Movies from 1959

Highlights

Best Picture: Ben-Hur
Best Director: William Wyler
Best Leading Actress: Simone Signoret
Best Leading Actor: Charlton Heston
Best Supporting Actor: Hugh Griffith
Best Supporting Actress: Shelley Winters
Best International Film: Black Orpheus
Best Original Screenplay: Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene, Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin

Best Adapted Screenplay: Neil Paterson
Best Film Editing: Ralph E. Winters, John D. Dunning
Best Cinematography, Color: Robert Surtees
Best Cinematography, Black & White: William C. Mellor
Best Score Drama or Comedy: Miklós Rózsa
Best Score Musical: Andre Previn, Ken Darby
Best Song: James Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn (High Hopes)
Best Art Direction, Color: William A. Horning, Edward C. Carfagno, Hugh Hunt
Best Art Direction, Black & White: Lyle R. Wheeler, George W. Davis, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss
Best Costume Design, Color: Elizabeth Haffenden
Best Costume Design, Black & White: Orry-Kelly
Best Sound Mixing: Franklin Milton
Best Effects, Special Effects: A. Arnold Gillespie, Robert MacDonald, Milo B. Lory
Best Short Film - Animated: Moonbird (S)
Best Documentary Feature: Serengeti Shall Not Die
Best Documentary, Short Subjects: Glass (S)
Best Short Film: The Golden Fish (S)
Honorary Award: Buster Keaton, Lee De Forest

Most awarded films

11
3
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

Most nominated films

12
8
8
7
6
6
5
4
4
3
3
3

Best Picture - 1960

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- Robert Surtees
  
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Ben-Hur
12 nominations 11 awards
- Lee Garmes
The Big Fisherman
- Daniel L. Fapp
The Five Pennies
- Franz Planer
The Nun's Story
- Leon Shamroy
Porgy and Bess

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- Miklós Rózsa
  
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Ben-Hur
12 nominations 11 awards
- Alfred Newman
The Diary of Anne Frank
- Franz Waxman
The Nun's Story
- Ernest Gold
On the Beach
- Frank De Vol
Pillow Talk

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- Andre Previn, Ken Darby
  
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Porgy and Bess
4 nominations 1 award
- Leith Stevens
The Five Pennies
- Nelson Riddle, Joseph J. Lilley
Li'l Abner
- Lionel Newman
Say One for Me
- George Bruns
Sleeping Beauty

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- James Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn (High Hopes)
  
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A Hole in the Head
- Alfred Newman, Sammy Cahn (The Best of Everything)
The Best of Everything
- Sylvia Fine (The Five Pennies)
The Five Pennies
- Jerry Livingston, Mack David (The Hanging Tree)
The Hanging Tree
- Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington (Strange Are the Ways of Love)
The Young Land

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- Orry-Kelly
  
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Some Like It Hot
6 nominations 1 award
- Edith Head
Career
- Charles Le Maire, Mary Wills
The Diary of Anne Frank
- Helen Rose
The Gazebo
- Howard Shoup
The Young Philadelphians

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Serengeti Shall Not Die
Winner
The Race for Space

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Glass (S)
Winner
Donald in Mathmagic Land

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The Golden Fish (S)
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- Buster Keaton, Lee De Forest
  
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