Oscars 1959: What would YOUR ballot look like?

[Anonymous Joined: Jan 1st, 1970 Topics: 98 Posts: 12704 View Predictions]

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Imagine you have a friend who is an Oscar voter, but he/she doesn’t care for many of the films this year, so they let you have their ballot! What would your choices be?

Mine would be:

Best Picture

Anatomy of a Murder

Best Director

Billy Wilder “Some Like It Hot”

Best Actress

Simone Signoret “Room at the Top”

Best Actor

Jack Lemmon “Some Like It Hot”

Best Supporting Actress

(I have only seen Hermione Baddeley’s 2 minute and 32 second Academy Award nominated performance, and therefor I obviously abstain.)

Best Supporting Actor

George C. Scott “Anatomy of a Murder”

Best Writing, Story and Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen

“North by Northwest” by Ernest Lehman

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

“Some Like It Hot” Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

“Some Like It Hot” Charles Lang Jr.

Best Cinematography, Color

“Ben-Hur” Robert Surtees

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White

“Some Like It Hot” Art Direction: Ted Haworth & Set Decoration: Edward G. Boyle

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color

“Ben-Hur” Art Direction: William A. Horning and Edward Carfagno & Set Decoration: Hugh Hunt

Best Costume Design, Black-and-White

“Some Like It Hot” Orry-Kelly

Best Costume Design, Color

“Ben-Hur” Elizabeth Haffenden

Best Sound Recording

“Ben-Hur” Franklin Milton, MGM Studio Sound Department

Best Film Editing

“North by Northwest” George Tomasini

Best Effects, Special Effects

“Ben-Hur” A. Arnold Gillespie, Robert MacDonald and Milo Lory

Best Dramatic or Comedy Score

“Ben-Hur” Miklos Rozsa

Best Original Song, Musical Score, Animated Short, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short, and Foreign Language Film

I abstain, since I have not seen any of the nominees

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[Anonymous Joined: Jan 1st, 1970 Topics: 98 Posts: 12704 View Predictions]

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So, please feel free to cast your imaginary ballot for what YOU thought was the best of ’59! 😀

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[MaccaParticipant Joined: Dec 22nd, 2015 Topics: 9 Posts: 5330 View Predictions]

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Best Picture: Ben-Hur
Best Actor: Jack Lemmon (Some Like It Hot)
Best Actress: Doris Day (Pillow Talk)
Best Supporting Actor: Hugh Griffith (Ben-Hur)
Best Supporting Actress: Thelma Ritter (Pillow Talk)
Best Director: William Wyler (Ben-Hur)
Best Original Screenplay: Pillow Talk
Best Adapted Screenplay: Some Like It Hot
Best Cinematography (B&W): Some Like It Hot
Best Cinematography (C): Ben-Hur
Best Art Direction (B&W): Some Like It Hot
Best Art Direction (C): Ben-Hur
Best Costume Design (B&W): Some Like It Hot
Best Costume Design (C): Ben-Hur
Best Editing: Ben-Hur
Best Sound: Ben-Hur
Best Visual Effects: Ben-Hur
Best Original Song: High Hopes (A Hole in the Head)
Best Dramatic/Comedy Score: On the Beach
Best Musical Score: Porgy and Bess
Best Foreign Film: The Bridge

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[AwardsConnectKeymaster Joined: Jan 16th, 2016 Topics: 17 Posts: 3653 View Predictions]

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Picture – Room at the Top
Director – Billy Wilder, Some Like It Hot
Lead Actor – Laurence Harvey, Room at the Top
Lead Actress – Elizabeth Taylor, Suddenly, Last Summer
Supporting Actor – Arthur O’Connell, Anatomy of a Murder
Supporting Actress – Juanita Moore, Imitation of Life (one of the all-time great nominees in this category)
Original Screenplay – North by Northwest
Adapted Screenplay – Some Like It Hot

OSCAR FLASHBACK: 20 Years of Streep (2009) – Julie & Julia

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[Anonymous Joined: Jan 1st, 1970 Topics: 22 Posts: 3096 View Predictions]

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A big fat sweep for Some Like It Hot. And those who disagree can go fuck themselves.

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[Anonymous Joined: Jan 1st, 1970 Topics: 98 Posts: 12704 View Predictions]

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Anonymous wrote:

A big fat sweep for Some Like It Hot. And those who disagree can go fuck themselves.

Exactly the same me as me LOL! I don’t know if you could tell from Anatomy of a Murder’s only other award being for George C. Scott, but if Some Like It Hot had been a Best Picture nominee, I would have given it the win there too. Same with Marilyn Monroe giving the BEST performance of her career.

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[Anonymous Joined: Jan 1st, 1970 Topics: 6 Posts: 1016 View Predictions]

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BEST PICTURE
Ben-Hur

BEST DIRECTOR
William Wyler, Ben-Hur

BEST ACTOR
Jack Lemmon, Some Like It Hot

BEST ACTRESS
Simone Signoret, Room at the Top

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Hugh Griffith, Ben-Hur

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Juanita Moore, Imitation of Life

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
North by Northwest

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Anatomy of a Murder

BEST FILM EDITING
North by Northwest

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (B&W)
Anatomy of a Murder

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (COLOR)
Ben-Hur
(Still haunted by North by Northwest snub in Cinematography)

BEST DRAMATIC/COMEDY SCORE
Ben-Hur

BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Porgy and Bess

BEST SOUND
Ben-Hur

BEST ART DIRECTION (B&W)
The Diary of Anne Frank

BEST ART DIRECTION (COLOR)
North by Northwest

BEST COSTUME DESIGN (B&W)
Some Like It Hot

BEST COSTUME DESIGN (COLOR)
The Five Pennies

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Ben-Hur

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Black Orpheus

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