Best of 1958
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1. Vertigo (1958)
PG | 128 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore
Votes: 427,231 | Gross: $3.20M
BEST PICTURE
Vertigo
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi-toride no san-akunin)
The Defiant Ones
I Want to Live!
Ice Cold in Alex
Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud)
Room at the Top
Separate Tables
Cairo Station (Bab el hadid)
2. Vertigo (1958)
PG | 128 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore
Votes: 427,231 | Gross: $3.20M
BEST DIRECTOR
Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo
Richard Brooks - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Akira Kurosawa - The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi-toride no san-akunin)
Stanley Kramer - The Defiant Ones
Youssef Chahine - Cairo Station (Bab el hadid)
Robert Wise - I Want to Live!
Jack Clayton - Room at the Top
3. Vertigo (1958)
PG | 128 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore
Votes: 427,231 | Gross: $3.20M
BEST ACTOR
James Stewart - Vertigo
Paul Newman - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Laurence Harvey - Room at the Top
Tony Curtis - The Defiant Ones
Sidney Poitier - The Defiant Ones
John Mills - Ice Cold in Alex
Toshirô Mifune - The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi-toride no san-akunin)
4. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminal father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson
Votes: 53,447 | Gross: $17.57M
BEST ACTRESS
Elizabeth Taylor - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Susan Hayward - I Want to Live!
Deborah Kerr - Separate Tables
Jeanne Moreau - Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud)
Simone Signoret - Room at the Top
Leslie Caron - Gigi
Sylvia Syms - Ice Cold in Alex
5. The Big Country (1958)
Passed | 166 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A New England sea captain in the 1880s arrives at his fiancée's sprawling Texas ranch, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston
Votes: 21,141
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Burl Ives - The Big Country
Burl Ives - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Orson Welles - Touch of Evil
Theodore Bikel - The Defiant Ones
David Niven - Separate Tables
Anthony Quayle - Ice Cold in Alex
Donald Wolfit - Room at the Top
6. Room at the Top (1958)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance
An ambitious young accountant plots to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter despite falling in love with a married older woman.
Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit
Votes: 7,333
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Hermione Baddeley - Room at the Top
Misa Uehara - The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi-toride no san-akunin)
Wendy Hiller - Separate Tables
Cara Williams - The Defiant Ones
Judith Anderson - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Kim Novak - Vertigo
Janet Leigh - Touch of Evil
7. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminal father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson
Votes: 53,447 | Gross: $17.57M
BEST CASTING
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Room at the Top
Separate Tables
The Defiant Ones
Vertigo
The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi-toride no san-akunin)
Ice Cold in Alex
8. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Not Rated | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
Votes: 42,276
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi-toride no san-akunin)
The Defiant Ones
Cairo Station (Bab el hadid)
9. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminal father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson
Votes: 53,447 | Gross: $17.57M
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Vertigo
Room at the Top
Separate Tables
Touch of Evil
Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud)
I Want to Live!
10. Vertigo (1958)
PG | 128 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore
Votes: 427,231 | Gross: $3.20M
BEST TITLES/CREDITS DESIGN
Vertigo
Gigi
I Want to Live!
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
South Pacific
Touch of Evil
11. I Want to Live! (1958)
Approved | 120 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A prostitute, sentenced to death for murder, pleads her innocence.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent, Theodore Bikel
Votes: 7,369
BEST EDITING
I Want to Live!
The Defiant Ones
Vertigo
Ice Cold in Alex
The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi-toride no san-akunin)
Gigi
12. Touch of Evil (1958)
PG-13 | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 109,845 | Gross: $2.24M
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Touch of Evil
Ashes and Diamonds (Popiól i diament)
Vertigo
I Want to Live!
Room at the Top
The Defiant Ones
The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi-toride no san-akunin)
13. Gigi (1958)
G | 115 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long.
Directors: Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters | Stars: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold
Votes: 24,513
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Gigi
A Night to Remember
Vertigo
The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi-toride no san-akunin)
Separate Tables
South Pacific
14. Gigi (1958)
G | 115 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long.
Directors: Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters | Stars: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold
Votes: 24,513
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Gigi
A Night to Remember
Vertigo
The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi-toride no san-akunin)
South Pacific
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
15. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Not Rated | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
Votes: 42,276
BEST MAKE-UP & HAIR
The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi-toride no san-akunin)
Gigi
Vertigo
Ice Cold in Alex
A Night to Remember
South Pacific
16. A Night to Remember (1958)
Not Rated | 123 min | Drama, History
On her maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Honor Blackman
Votes: 17,172
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
A Night to Remember
South Pacific
Ice Cold in Alex
Vertigo
17. Gigi (1958)
G | 115 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long.
Directors: Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters | Stars: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold
Votes: 24,513
BEST SCORE
Gigi
Vertigo
The Big Country
Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud)
The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi-toride no san-akunin)
Cairo Station (Bab el hadid)
18. South Pacific (1958)
Approved | 157 min | Musical, Romance, War
On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission.
Director: Joshua Logan | Stars: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Ray Walston
Votes: 9,819
BEST SOUNDTRACK/ADAPTED SCORE
South Pacific
19. Gigi (1958)
G | 115 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long.
Directors: Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters | Stars: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold
Votes: 24,513
BEST SONG
Gigi - "Gigi"
Gigi - "The Night They Invented Champagne"
Separate Tables - "Separate Tables"
20. Gigi (1958)
G | 115 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long.
Directors: Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters | Stars: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold
Votes: 24,513
BEST DANCE CHOREOGRAPHY
Gigi
South Pacific
21. South Pacific (1958)
Approved | 157 min | Musical, Romance, War
On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission.
Director: Joshua Logan | Stars: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Ray Walston
Votes: 9,819
BEST SOUND
South Pacific
Vertigo
I Want to Live!
The Defiant Ones
Ice Cold in Alex
The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi-toride no san-akunin)
22. Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
Approved | 130 min | Adventure, Drama, War
During World War II in North Africa, a medical field unit must cross the desert in their ambulance in order to reach the British lines in Alexandria.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: John Mills, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Harry Andrews
Votes: 6,627
BEST SOUND EDITING
Ice Cold in Alex
A Night to Remember
South Pacific
The Big Country
The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi-toride no san-akunin)
Vertigo
23. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Not Rated | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
Votes: 42,276
BEST STUNTS
The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi-toride no san-akunin)
A Night to Remember
The Big Country
Ice Cold in Alex
The Defiant Ones
Vertigo
24. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Not Rated | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
Votes: 42,276
BEST FOREIGN FILM
The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi-toride no san-akunin)
Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud)
Cairo Station (Bab el hadid)
Ashes and Diamonds (Popiól i diament)
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