1959 in film

The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards.

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Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1959 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1959
RankTitleDistributorDomestic rentals
1 Ben-Hur MGM $36,000,000[1]
2 The Shaggy Dog Buena Vista $9,600,000[2]
3 Operation Petticoat Universal $9,321,555[3]
4 Some Like It Hot United Artists $8,127,835[3]
5 Pillow Talk Universal $7,669,713[3]
6 Imitation of Life $6,417,807[3]
7 Suddenly, Last Summer Columbia $6,375,000[3]
8 Rio Bravo
The Nun's Story
Warner Bros. $5,750,000[3]
9 North by Northwest MGM $5,740,000[4]
10 Anatomy of a Murder Columbia $5,500,000[1]

Events

Awards

Category/Organization17th Golden Globe Awards
March 10, 1960
12th BAFTA Awards
March 26, 1960
32nd Academy Awards
April 4, 1960
Comedy or MusicalDrama
Best FilmSome Like It Hot (Comedy)
Porgy and Bess (Musical)
Ben-HurRoom at the TopBen-Hur
Best DirectorWilliam Wyler
Ben-Hur
-William Wyler
Ben-Hur
Best ActorJack Lemmon
Some Like It Hot
Anthony Franciosa
Career
Sidney Poitier
The Defiant Ones
Charlton Heston
Ben-Hur
Best ActressMarilyn Monroe
Some Like It Hot
Elizabeth Taylor
Suddenly, Last Summer
Simone Signoret
Room at the Top
Simone Signoret
Room at the Top
Best Supporting ActorStephen Boyd
Ben-Hur
-Hugh Griffith
Ben-Hur
Best Supporting ActressSusan Kohner
Imitation of Life
-Shelley Winters
The Diary of Anne Frank
Best Screenplay, AdaptedRoom at the Top
Neil Paterson
Orders to Kill
Paul Dehn
Room at the Top
Neil Paterson
Best Screenplay, OriginalPillow Talk
Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene, Stanley Shapiro, and Maurice Richlin

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro), directed by Marcel Camus, France

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Il Generale della Rovere (General della Rovere), directed by Roberto Rossellini, Italy / France
La grande guerra (The Great War), directed by Mario Monicelli, Italy / France

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Les Cousins (The Cousins), directed by Claude Chabrol, France

1959 film releases

United States unless stated

January–March

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Notable films released in 1959

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  • Zorro, the Avenger, feature film released outside of the U.S., compiled from six episodes of the Disney Zorro, the Avenger TV series, starring Guy Williams and Charles Korvin

Short film series

Births

  • January 1 - Adrian Hall, English former actor and co-director
  • January 4 - Vanity, Canadian singer, songwriter, model and actress (died 2016)
  • January 5 – Clancy Brown, American actor and voice actor
  • January 12 - Ralf Moeller, German actor
  • January 13 - Alan Taylor, American director
  • January 17 – Momoe Yamaguchi, Japanese former actress and singer
  • January 22 – Linda Blair, American actress
  • January 23 - Robert Funaro, American actor
  • January 26 - Herbert Sigüenza, American actor, writer, visual artist and performer
  • January 27 - Glenn Taranto, American actor and writer
  • January 28 - Frank Darabont, American director, screenwriter and producer
  • January 30 - Alex Hyde-White, American actor
  • January 31
  • February 1 - Slink Johnson, American rapper, actor and comedian
  • February 2 – Laine Mägi, Estonian actress and dancer
  • February 4 – Pamelyn Ferdin, American actress
  • February 8 - Henry Czerny, Canadian actor
  • February 12 - Sigrid Thornton, Australian actress
  • February 16 - Hazelle Goodman, American actress
  • February 18 - Jayne Atkinson, British-American actress
  • February 22 – Kyle MacLachlan, American actor
  • March 3
  • March 5 – Darío Grandinetti, Argentinian actor
  • March 6 – Tom Arnold, American actor and comedian
  • March 7
  • March 8 – Aidan Quinn, Irish-American actor
  • March 9 – Rodney A. Grant, American actor
  • March 11 – Margus Oopkaup, Estonian actor and dramatist[9]
  • March 12 - Luenell, American comedian and actress
  • March 14
  • March 15 – Renny Harlin, Finnish director and producer
  • March 16
  • March 18
  • March 22 – Matthew Modine, American actor
  • March 23 – Catherine Keener, American actress
  • March 27 - Brian Tarantina, American character actor (died 2019)
  • April 1 - Ivan G'Vera, Czech actor
  • April 3 – David Hyde Pierce, American actor
  • April 4 - Phil Morris, American actor and voice actor
  • April 10 - Jochen Nickel, German actor
  • April 13 - Jodie Markell, American actress and director
  • April 15
  • April 17 – Sean Bean, English actor
  • April 20
  • April 23
    • Tim Blaney, American puppeteer and voice actor
    • Jonathan Sagall, Israeli actor
  • April 24 - Glenn Morshower, American character actor
  • April 27 - Neil Pearson, British actor
  • May 3 - Ben Elton, English comedian, actor and director
  • May 10 - Victoria Rowell, American actress
  • May 12 - Ving Rhames, American actor
  • May 15 - Chris Meledandri, American producer and founder and CEO of Illumination (company)
  • May 16 – Mare Winningham, American actress
  • May 19 - Jim Ward, American voice actor, radio personality and camera operator
  • May 20 - Bronson Pinchot, American actor
  • May 21
    • Nick Cassavetes, American actor, director and writer
    • Dana Kimmell, American former actress and model
  • May 26 - Kevin Gage, American character actor
  • May 29 – Rupert Everett, English actor
  • June 6
  • June 7 - Francis Magee, Irish actor
  • June 8 - Bernard White, American actor, screenwriter and director
  • June 11 – Hugh Laurie, English actor
  • June 16 - Willard E. Pugh, American actor
  • June 22 – Wayne Federman, American actor and comedian
  • June 23 - Duane Whitaker, American character actor
  • June 28 - Chris Doohan, Canadian actor
  • June 29 - Charlotte Attenborough, British actress
  • June 30 – Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor
  • July 2 - Jere Fields, American former actress
  • July 3
  • July 8
  • July 9 - Kevin Nash, American actor and retired professional wrestler
  • July 12 - Charlie Murphy, American actor, comedian and writer (died 2017)
  • July 16 - Bob Joles, American voice actor and musician
  • July 26 – Kevin Spacey, American actor
  • July 29 – Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor
  • August 2
    • Urbain Cancelier, French comedian and actor
    • Jim Doughan, American actor and writer
  • August 3 - John C. McGinley, American actor
  • August 10 – Rosanna Arquette, American actress
  • August 14 – Marcia Gay Harden, American actress
  • August 22 - Mark Williams, English actor, presenter and screenwriter
  • August 27 - Peter Mensah, Ghanaian-British actor
  • August 28 - Brian Thompson, American actor
  • August 29 – Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
  • September 3 - Merritt Butrick, American actor (died 1989)
  • September 10
    • Michael Earl, American puppeteer, actor, writer and singer (died 2015)
    • Jim Meskimen, American actor and comedian
    • Peter Nelson, American actor, producer and writer
  • September 11 - John Hawkes, American actor
  • September 14
    • Kirk Baltz, American actor
    • Haviland Morris, American actress
  • September 19
    • Mark Gustafson, American animator and director (died 2024)
    • Carolyn McCormick, American actress
  • September 23
  • September 24 - Steve Whitmire, American puppeteer
  • September 28 - Steve Hytner, American actor
  • October 2 - Kevin Eldon, English actor and comedian
  • October 3 – Greg Proops, American actor, stand-up comedian, voice artist and television host
  • October 7 - Dylan Baker, American character actor
  • October 10
  • October 17 - Norm Macdonald, Canadian stand-up comedian, writer and actor (died 2021)
  • October 21
  • October 22 - Marc Lawrence, American director, screenwriter and producer
  • October 23
    • Sam Raimi, American filmmaker and producer
    • Weird Al Yankovic, American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, satirist, actor, music video director, and author
  • October 26 - François Chau, American actor
  • October 31 - Michael DeLorenzo, American actor, director, writer, producer and musician
  • November 2 - Peter Mullan, Scottish actor and filmmaker
  • November 4 - Ken Kirzinger, Canadian actor and stuntman
  • November 8 - Don McManus, American character actor
  • November 10 - Mackenzie Phillips, American actress and singer
  • November 13 - Caroline Goodall, British actress and screenwriter
  • November 14 – Paul McGann, English actor
  • November 19 – Allison Janney, American actress
  • November 20 – Sean Young, American actress
  • November 28 – Judd Nelson, American actor
  • December 13 – Johnny Whitaker, American actor
  • December 14 - Debbie Lee Carrington, American actress and stuntwoman (died 2018)
  • December 24
  • December 29
  • December 30 - Tracey Ullman, British-American actress, comedian, singer, writer, producer and director
  • December 31

Deaths

Film debuts

Notes

  1. Fantasia had also used a multi-speaker stereophonic sound system, but it was primitive compared to the one used in Sleeping Beauty.

References

  1. Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
  2. "All-time top film grossers", Variety 8 January 1964 p 37.
  3. Cohn, Lawrence (October 15, 1990). "All-Time Film Rental Champs". Variety. p. M140-M196.
  4. The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  5. Plunderers of Painted Flats at the American Film Institute Catalog
  6. Krutnik, Frank (2000). Inventing Jerry Lewis. Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-1560983699.
  7. Eagan, Daniel (2010). America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry. New York: Continuum. p. 560. ISBN 978-0-8264-2977-3.
  8. "Al Capone (1959)". BFI. Archived from the original on December 29, 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  9. Maaleht. Endine näitleja Margus Oopkaup: toitu saan päevas osta kolme euro eest. 22 January 2015. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
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