16th Golden Globe Awards

The 16th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1958 films, were held on March 5, 1959.

Winners and nominees

Film

Best Actor - Drama

David Niven – Separate Tables

• Tony Curtis – The Defiant Ones
• Robert Donat – The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
• Sidney Poitier – The Defiant Ones
• Spencer Tracy – The Old Man and the Sea

Best Actor - Musical or Comedy

Danny Kaye – Me and the Colonel

• Maurice Chevalier – Gigi
• Clark Gable – Teacher's Pet
• Cary Grant – Indiscreet
• Louis Jourdan – Gigi

Best Actress - Drama

Susan Hayward – I Want to Live!

• Ingrid Bergman – The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
• Deborah Kerr – Separate Tables
• Shirley MacLaine – Some Came Running
• Jean Simmons – Home Before Dark

Best Actress - Musical or Comedy

Rosalind Russell – Auntie Mame

• Ingrid Bergman – Indiscreet
• Leslie Caron – Gigi
• Doris Day – The Tunnel of Love
• Mitzi Gaynor – South Pacific

Best Director

Vincente Minnelli – Gigi

• Richard Brooks – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Stanley Kramer – The Defiant Ones
• Delbert Mann – Separate Tables
• Robert Wise – I Want to Live!

Best Film - Drama

The Defiant Ones

• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Home Before Dark
• I Want to Live!
• Separate Tables

Best Film - Musical or Comedy

Gigi

• Damn Yankees
• South Pacific
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Best Film - Promoting International Understanding

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

• The Defiant Ones
• Me and the Colonel
• A Time to Love and a Time to Die
• The Young Lions

Samuel Goldwyn Award

Do Aankhen Barah Haath

Television

Best TV Show

• The Ann Sothern Show
• Letter to Loretta
• The Red Skelton Show
• Toast of the Town
• Tonight!