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The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards.
Events
- June 4 - The Three Stooges release their 190th and last short film, Sappy Bull Fighters.
- September 18 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries his second wife, Barbara Blakely.
- September 30 - The film of Mise Éire, made by George Morrison for Gael Linn, is premiered to close the Cork Film Festival, the first feature-length Irish language film.
- November 18 - William Wyler's film Ben-Hur premieres at Loews Theater in New York City.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. and May Britt start dating.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
Awards
| Category/Organization | 17th Golden Globe Awards March 10, 1960 | 12th BAFTA Awards March 26, 1960 | 32nd Academy Awards April 4, 1960 | |
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| Musical or Comedy | Drama | |||
| Best Film | Some Like It Hot | Ben-Hur | Room at the Top | Ben-Hur |
| Best Director | William Wyler Ben-Hur | - | William Wyler Ben-Hur | |
| Best Actor | Jack Lemmon Some Like It Hot | Anthony Franciosa Career | Sidney Poitier The Defiant Ones | Charlton Heston Ben-Hur |
| Best Actress | Marilyn Monroe Some Like It Hot | Elizabeth Taylor Suddenly, Last Summer | Simone Signoret Room at the Top | Simone Signoret Room at the Top |
| Best Supporting Actor | Stephen Boyd Ben-Hur | - | Hugh Griffith Ben-Hur | |
| Best Supporting Actress | Susan Kohner Imitation of Life | - | Shelley Winters The Diary of Anne Frank | |
| Best Screenplay, Adapted | Room at the Top Neil Paterson | Orders to Kill Paul Dehn | Room at the Top Neil Paterson | |
| Best Screenplay, Original | Pillow 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
Notable films released in 1959
U.S.A. unless stated
#
- 4D Man, starring Robert Lansing and Lee Meriwether
- The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock, starring Lou Costello and Dorothy Provine
- The 39 Steps, starring Kenneth More - (Britain)
- The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups), directed by François Truffaut, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud - (France)
A
- The Adventures of Buratino (Priklyucheniya Buratino) - (USSR)
- Al Capone, starring Rod Steiger
- Alias Jesse James, starring Bob Hope
- The Alligator People, starring Beverly Garland
- Anari, starring Raj Kapoor - (India)
- Anatomy of a Murder, directed by Otto Preminger, starring James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Eve Arden, Arthur O'Connell, Kathryn Grant, George C. Scott
- The Angry Hills, starring Robert Mitchum and Gia Scala
- The Angry Red Planet (aka Invasion of Mars), starring Gerald Mohr
- Apur Sansar, directed by Satyajit Ray (India)
- Argument About Basia (Awantura o Basię) - (Poland)
B
- Bad Girls Don't Cry (La notte brava), starring Rosanna Schiaffino - (Italy)
- Ballad of a Soldier (Ballada o soldate), directed by Grigory Chukhray - (U.S.S.R.)
- The Bat, starring Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead
- Battle Beyond the Sun (Nebo zovet) - (U.S.S.R.)
- Battle in Outer Space, directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
- The Battle of the Sexes, starring Peter Sellers - (Britain)
- The Beat Generation, starring Steve Cochran and Mamie Van Doren
- Ben-Hur, directed by William Wyler, starring Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins - winner of 11 Academy Awards and 4 Golden Globes
- The Best of Everything, starring Hope Lange, Diane Baker, Suzy Parker, Stephen Boyd, Joan Crawford
- The Big Circus, starring Victor Mature, Rhonda Fleming, Red Buttons, Gilbert Roland, Kathryn Grant
- The Big Fisherman, starring Howard Keel
- The Big Operator, starring Mickey Rooney, Steve Cochran, Mamie Van Doren
- The Birth of Japan (Nippon Tanjō), starring Toshiro Mifune - (Japan)
- Black Orpheus, directed by Marcel Camus - winner of Palme d'Or, Golden Globe, Oscar and Bafta - (Brazil/France/Italy)
- Blessings of the Land (Biyaya ng lupa), starring Rosa Rosal - (Philippines)
- Breakout, starring Hazel Court
- The Bridge (Die Brücke), directed by Bernhard Wicki - (West Germany)
- A Bucket of Blood, directed by Roger Corman
- But Not for Me, directed by Walter Lang, starring Clark Gable, Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb
C
- The Captain's Table, starring John Gregson and Peggy Cummins - (Britain)
- Career, starring Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Anthony Franciosa
- Carlton-Browne of the F.O., starring Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas, John Le Mesurier - (Britain)
- Carry On Nurse, starring Shirley Eaton and Kenneth Connor - (Britain)
- Carry On Teacher, starring Kenneth Connor and Leslie Phillips - (Britain)
- The Chasers (Jakten) - (Norway)
- Come Dance with Me, starring Brigitte Bardot - (France/Italy)
- Compulsion, starring Orson Welles, Bradford Dillman, Dean Stockwell, Diane Varsi, E. G. Marshall
- Court Martial (Kriegsgericht) - (West Germany)
- Les Cousins, directed by Claude Chabrol - (France)
- The Crimson Kimono, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring James Shigeta
- La Cucaracha (aka The Soldiers of Pancho Villa), starring María Félix and Dolores del Río - (Mexico)
D
- Danger Within, starring Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Richard Attenborough - (Britain)
- Darby O'Gill and the Little People, starring Sean Connery
- Date With Death, starring Gerald Mohr
- Day of the Outlaw, starring Robert Ryan, Tina Louise, Burl Ives
- The Death Ship (Das Totenschiff), starring Horst Buchholz - (West Germany)
- Destiny of a Man (Sudba cheloveka), directed by Sergei Bondarchuk - (U.S.S.R.)
- The Devil's Disciple, starring Laurence Olivier, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas - (U.S./Britain)
- The Diary of Anne Frank, directed by George Stevens, starring Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, Richard Beymer, Diane Baker, Ed Wynn
- Dil Deke Dekho, starring Shammi Kapoor - (India)
- Donald in Mathmagic Land (short subject)
- Don't Give Up The Ship, starring Jerry Lewis
- Dust on the Brain (Støv på hjernen) - (Norway)
E-F
- Expresso Bongo, starring Laurence Harvey and Cliff Richard - (Britain)
- The FBI Story, starring James Stewart
- Face of a Fugitive, starring Fred MacMurray
- The Facts of Murder (Un maledetto imbroglio), directed by and starring Pietro Germi with Claudia Cardinale - (Italy)
- La fièvre monte à El Pao (Fever Mounts at El Pao), directed by Luis Buñuel - (France/Mexico)
- Fires on the Plain (Nobi), directed by Kon Ichikawa - (Japan)
- The Five Pennies, starring Danny Kaye
- Floating Weeds (Ukikusa), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)
- Follow a Star, starring Norman Wisdom, Ron Moody, Hattie Jacques - (Britain)
- The Fugitive Kind, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward
G
- The Gazebo, starring Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner
- Il Generale della Rovere, directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)
- Gidget, starring Sandra Dee
- Girls Town, starring Mamie Van Doren
- Good Morning (Ohayō), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)
- La grande guerra (The Great War), directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Alberto Sordi and Vittorio Gassman - (Italy)
- The Gunfight at Dodge City, starring Joel McCrea
H
- The Hanging Tree, directed by Delmer Daves, starring Gary Cooper, Karl Malden, George C. Scott
- The Hangman, starring Robert Taylor and Tina Louise
- Hannibal, starring Victor Mature and Rita Gam
- Happy Anniversary, starring David Niven and Mitzi Gaynor
- The Heart of a Man, starring Frankie Vaughan and Anne Heywood - (Britain)
- Hiroshima Mon Amour, directed by Alain Resnais - (France/Japan)
- A Hole in the Head, starring Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Carolyn Jones, Eddie Hodges
- Holiday for Lovers, starring Jane Wyman, Clifton Webb, Jill St. John
- A Home for Tanya (Otchiy dom) - (USSR)
- Honeymoon (Luna de miel), directed by Michael Powell - (Britain/Spain)
- The Horse Soldiers, starring John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers
- The Hound of the Baskervilles, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee - (Britain)
- House on Haunted Hill, starring Vincent Price
I
- Il Vedovo, directed by Dino Risi - (Italy)
- I'm All Right Jack, directed by the Boulting Brothers, starring Peter Sellers and Ian Carmichael - (Britain)
- Imitation of Life, directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, Juanita Moore
- The Immoral Mr. Teas, directed by Russ Meyer
- It Happened to Jane, starring Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs
- It Started with a Kiss, starring Debbie Reynolds and Glenn Ford
J
- The Jazz Singer, a television film starring Jerry Lewis
- Jet Over the Atlantic, starring Guy Madison and Virginia Mayo
- Jet Storm, starring Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Diane Cilento, Mai Zetterling - (Britain)
- John Paul Jones, starring Robert Stack
- The Journey, starring Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr
- Journey to the Center of the Earth, starring James Mason and Pat Boone
K-L
- Kaagaz Ke Phool (Paper Flowers), directed by and starring Guru Dutt - (India)
- Kapò, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, starring Susan Strasberg - (Italy/France/Yugoslavia)
- Killers of Kilimanjaro, starring Robert Taylor, Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey
- The Last Angry Man, starring Paul Muni
- Last Train from Gun Hill, starring Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman
- The Law (La Legge), starring Gina Lollobrigida and Yves Montand - (Italy)
- El Lazarillo de Tormes, winner of Golden Bear - (Spain)
- Le Signe du Lion, directed by Éric Rohmer - (France)
- The Legend of Tom Dooley, starring Michael Landon
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses, directed by Roger Vadim, starring Jeanne Moreau - (France)
- Letter Never Sent (Neotpravlennoye pismo) - (USSR)
- Libel, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Dirk Bogarde and Olivia de Havilland - (Britain)
- Li'l Abner, directed by Melvin Frank, starring Peter Palmer, Leslie Parrish, Stella Stevens, Julie Newmar, Stubby Kaye
- Look Back in Anger, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Richard Burton and Claire Bloom - (Britain)
M
- Magic Boy (Shōnen Sarutobi Sasuke) - Japanese animated film
- Make Mine a Million, directed by Lance Comfort and starring Arthur Askey and Sid James - (Britain)
- The Man in the Net, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Alan Ladd and Carolyn Jones
- The Man Who Could Cheat Death, starring Anton Diffring and Hazel Court
- Marked for Murder, starring Keith Andes and Hazel Court
- The Master and His Servants (Herren og hans tjenere) - (Norway)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (Sen noci svatojánské), an animated puppet film by Jiří Trnka - (Czechoslovakia)
- The Miracle, starring Carroll Baker and Roger Moore
- Mise Éire - (Ireland)
- The Mouse That Roared, starring Peter Sellers and Jean Seberg - (Britain)
- The Mummy, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee - (Britain)
- My Second Brother, directed by Shōhei Imamura - (Japan)
N
- Nazarín, directed by Luis Buñuel - (Mexico)
- Never So Few, starring Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen
- Night Train (Pociąg) - (Poland)
- The Nightingale's Prayer (Doaa al-Karawan) - (Egypt)
- No Name on the Bullet, starring Audie Murphy
- North by Northwest, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
- North West Frontier, aka Flame Over India, starring Kenneth More and Lauren Bacall - (Britain)
- The Nun's Story, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Audrey Hepburn
O
- Odd Obsession (Kagi), directed by Kon Ichikawa - (Japan)
- Odds Against Tomorrow, starring Harry Belafonte and Robert Ryan
- On the Beach, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins
- Operation Petticoat, starring Cary Grant and Tony Curtis
- Our Man in Havana, directed by Carol Reed, starring Alec Guinness, Maureen O'Hara, Noël Coward, Ernie Kovacs - (Britain)
- The Overcoat (Shinel) - (USSR)
P
- Paigham, directed by S. S. Vasan, starring Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Raaj Kumar, B. Saroja Devi - (India)
- Pickpocket, directed by Robert Bresson - (France)
- Pillow Talk, starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson
- El Pisito (The Little Apartment), directed bt Marco Ferreri - (Spain)
- Plan 9 from Outer Space, directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr., starring Tor Johnson, Vampira, Bela Lugosi
- Porgy and Bess, a musical directed by Otto Preminger, starring Dorothy Dandridge and Sidney Poitier, music by George and Ira Gershwin
- Pork Chop Hill, starring Gregory Peck
Q-R
- The Rest Is Silence (Der Rest ist Schweigen), starring Hardy Krüger - (West Germany)
- Ride Lonesome, starring Randolph Scott
- Rio Bravo, directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Walter Brennan, Angie Dickinson
- The Rookie, starring Julie Newmar, Tommy Noonan, Peter Marshall
- Room at the Top, directed by Jack Clayton, starring Simone Signoret and Laurence Harvey - (Britain)
- The Roots of Heaven, directed by John Huston, starring Errol Flynn, Trevor Howard, Juliette Gréco, Eddie Albert, Orson Welles
S
- Sampo (The Day the Earth Froze) - (U.S.S.R./Finland)
- Sapphire, directed by Basil Dearden - (Britain)
- Say One for Me, starring Bing Crosby, Debbie Reynolds, Robert Wagner
- The Scapegoat, starring Alec Guinness and Bette Davis - (Britain)
- Serious Charge, starring Anthony Quayle - (Britain)
- Shadows, directed by John Cassavetes
- The Shaggy Dog, starring Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk
- The Shakedown, starring Donald Pleasence and Hazel Court
- Shake Hands with the Devil, starring James Cagney - (U.S.A./Ireland)
- Sleeping Beauty (Walt Disney animation)
- Solomon and Sheba, starring Yul Brynner and Gina Lollobrigida
- Some Like It Hot, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Joe E. Brown, Pat O'Brien, George Raft
- SOS Pacific, starring Richard Attenborough - (Britain)
- The Sound and the Fury, starring Yul Brynner and Joanne Woodward
- Stars (Sterne) - (East Germany/Bulgaria)
- A Stranger in My Arms, starring Jeff Chandler, June Allyson, Mary Astor, Sandra Dee
- Suddenly, Last Summer, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Katharine Hepburn
- A Summer Place, starring Troy Donahue and Sandra Dee
T
- Tarzan's Greatest Adventure, directed by John Guillermin, starring Gordon Scott, Anthony Quayle, Sean Connery
- Telegrame - (Romania)
- Ten Seconds to Hell, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Jack Palance
- Terror Is a Man, starring Francis Lederer - (U.S./Philippines)
- That Kind of Woman, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Sophia Loren and Tab Hunter
- The Giant Behemoth, starring Gene Evans and André Morell
- There Will Be No Leave Today (Segodnya uvolneniya ne budet), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - (USSR)
- These Thousand Hills, starring Richard Egan, Don Murray, Lee Remick
- They Came to Cordura, starring Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin, Richard Conte, Dick York, Tab Hunter
- Third Man on the Mountain, starring Michael Rennie
- Tiger Bay, starring John Mills and Hayley Mills - (Britain)
- The Tingler, starring Vincent Price
- Tommy the Toreador, starring Tommy Steele - (Britain)
- Too Many Crooks, starring Terry-Thomas and George Cole - (Britain)
- Train Without a Timetable (Vlak bez voznog reda) - (Yugoslavia)
- The Trap, starring Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb, Earl Holliman, Tina Louise
U-V
- Up Periscope, starring James Garner and Edmond O'Brien
- Il vedovo (The Widower), directed by Dino Risi, starring Alberto Sordi - (Italy)
- La vida alrededor (Life Around Us) - (Spain)
- Violent Summer (Estate violenta), starring Jean-Louis Trintignant - (Italy/France)
W-X
- Warlock, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark, Anthony Quinn, Dorothy Malone, Dolores Michaels, DeForest Kelley
- The Wasp Woman, starring Susan Cabot
- We are Altogether Crazy (Vi er allesammen tossede) - (Denmark)
- Westbound, starring Randolph Scott and Virginia Mayo
- When the Woman Butts In (Kam čert nemůže) - (Czechoslovakia)
- The Wild and the Innocent, starring Audie Murphy, Joanne Dru, Sandra Dee
- Woman Obsessed, starring Susan Hayward
- The Wonderful Country, starring Robert Mitchum and Julie London
- The World, the Flesh and the Devil, starring Harry Belafonte and Inger Stevens
- The World of Apu (Apur Sansar), directed by Satyajit Ray - (India)
- The Wreck of the Mary Deare, starring Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston - (Britain/U.S.)
Y-Z
- Yellowstone Kelly, starring Clint Walker and Edd Byrnes
- Yesterday's Enemy, directed by Val Guest, starring Stanley Baker - (Britain)
- The Young Philadelphians, starring Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Brian Keith, Alexis Smith, Robert Vaughn
- Zorro, the Avenger
Short film series
- Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
- Terrytoons (1930–1964)
- Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
- Bugs Bunny (1940–1962)
- Yosemite Sam (1945–1963)
- Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)
- The Three Stooges (1934–1959)
Births
- January 5 – Clancy Brown, American actor & voice actor
- January 17 - Momoe Yamaguchi, former Japanese actress & singer
- January 22 - Linda Blair, American actress
- February 2 - Laine Mägi, Estonian actress & dancer
- February 4 - Pamelyn Ferdin, American actress
- February 22 - Kyle MacLachlan, American actor
- March 5 - Darío Grandinetti, Argentinian actor
- March 6 - Tom Arnold, American actor & comedian
- March 7 - Donna Murphy, actress & singer
- March 8 - Aidan Quinn, Irish/American actor
- March 15 - Renny Harlin, Finnish director & producer
- March 18
- Irene Cara, American actress & singer
- Luc Besson, French director & producer
- March 22 - Matthew Modine, American actor
- March 23 - Catherine Keener, American actress
- April 15 - Emma Thompson, English actress
- April 17 - Sean Bean, English actor
- April 20 - Clint Howard, American actor
- June 11 - Hugh Laurie, English actor
- June 22 - Wayne Federman, American actor & comedian
- June 30 - Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor
- July 26 - Kevin Spacey, American actor
- August 10 - Rosanna Arquette, American actress
- August 14 - Marcia Gay Harden, American actress
- August 29 - Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
- September 23 - Jason Alexander, American actor
- October 21 - Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor
- November 14 - Paul McGann, British actor
- November 19 - Allison Janney, American actress
- November 28 - Judd Nelson, American actor
- December 13 - Johnny Whitaker, American actor
- December 29 - Patricia Clarkson, American actress
- December 31 - Val Kilmer, American actor
Deaths
- January 21 - Cecil B. DeMille, 77, American director and producer, The Ten Commandments, The Greatest Show on Earth
- February 1 - Madame Sul-Te-Wan, 85, American actress, King of the Zombies, In Old Chicago
- February 4 - Una O'Connor, 78, Irish actress, Witness for the Prosecution, The Adventures of Robin Hood
- February 5 - Gwili Andre, 51, Danish actress
- March 3 - Lou Costello, 52, American comedian and actor, half of Abbott and Costello comedy team, Africa Screams, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
- March 26 - Raymond Chandler, 70, American author and screenwriter, The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity
- March 27 - Grant Withers, 54, American actor, My Darling Clementine, Fort Apache
- April 12 - James Gleason, 76, American actor, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, The Bishop's Wife
- April 18 - Irving Cummings, 70, American director, Louisiana Purchase, The Dolly Sisters
- May 3 – Troy Sanders, 57, American score arranger and composer, White Christmas, Going My Way
- June 4 - Charles Vidor, 58, Hungarian director, Gilda, Love Me or Leave Me
- June 16 - George Reeves, 45, American actor, Gone with the Wind, So Proudly We Hail!
- June 18 - Ethel Barrymore, 79, American actress, Portrait of Jennie, The Spiral Staircase
- August 6 - Preston Sturges, 60, American writer, director, Sullivan's Travels, The Lady Eve
- September 6
- Edmund Gwenn, 81, British actor, Miracle on 34th Street, Mister 880
- Kay Kendall, 32, British actress, Genevieve, Les Girls
- September 11 - Paul Douglas, 52, American actor, A Letter to Three Wives, It Happens Every Spring
- October 7 - Mario Lanza, 38, American singer and actor, The Great Caruso, Winged Victory
- October 14 - Errol Flynn, 50, Australian actor, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood
- October 23 - Gerda Lundequist, 88, Swedish actress, Gosta Berlings Saga
- November 7 - Victor McLaglen, 72, British actor, The Quiet Man, Gunga Din
- November 20 – Sylvia Lopez, 26, French actress, Hercules Unchained, Son of the Red Corsair
- November 25 - Gérard Philipe, 36, French actor, Fan-Fan the Tulip, Beauties of the Night
- December 24 - Edmund Goulding, 68, American director, Grand Hotel, The Razor's Edge
Film debuts
- James Coburn - Ride Lonesome
- Mia Farrow - John Paul Jones
- Richard Harris - Shake Hands with the Devil
- Martin Landau - Pork Chop Hill
- Martin Scorsese - Vesuvius VI
- George C. Scott - The Hanging Tree
- Steven Spielberg - The Lost Guy
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