1958 — Year in Review
The Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. Vertigo (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)

2. Wild Strawberries (dir: Ingmar Bergman; US Release Date)

3. Murder by Contract (dir: Irving Lerner)

4. Bojour Tristese (dir: Otto Preminger)

5. Touch of Evil (dir: Orson Welles)

6. Mon Oncle (dir: Jacques Tati)

7. Elevator to the Gallows (dir: Louis Malle)

8. Some Came Running (dir: Vincente Minnelli)

9. Ashes and Diamonds (dir: Andrzej Wajda)

10. The Seventh Seal (dir: Ingmar Bergman; US Release Date)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Bell, Book, and Candle (dir: Richard Quine), The Big Country (dir: William Wyler), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (dir: Richard Brooks), The Horse’s Mouth (dir: Ronald Neame), Hot Spell (dir: Daniel Mann), I Bury the Living (dir: Albert Brand), Man of the West (dir: Anthony Mann), A Night to Remember (dir: Roy Ward Baker), Separate Tables (dir: Delbert Mann), Terror in a Texas Town (dir: Joseph H. Lewis, A Time to Love and a Time to Die (dir: Douglas Sirk)

Best Picture: Vertigo
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
US Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Best Director:
Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo
2. Ingmar Bergman, Wild Strawberries AND The Seventh Seal
3. Orson Welles, Touch of Evil
4. Otto Preminger, Bonjour Tristesse
5. Jacques Tati, Mon Oncle

Best Actor:
James Stewart, Vertigo
2. Zbigniew Cybulski, Ashes and Diamonds
3. Frank Sinatra, Some Came Running
4. Orson Welles, Touch of Evil
5. Alec Guinness, The Horse's Mouth

Best Actress:
Jean Seberg, Bonjour Tristesse
2. Shirley MacLaine, Some Came Running
3. Rosalind Russell, Auntie Mame
4. Elizabeth Taylor, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
5. Kim Novak, Vertigo

Best Supporting Actor:
Anthony Quinn, Hot Spell
2. Joseph Calleia, Touch of Evil
3. Dean Martin, Some Came Running
4. Burl Ives, The Big Country
5. Dennis Weaver, Touch of Evil

Best Supporting Actress:
Deborah Kerr, Bonjour Tristesse
2. Ingrid Thulin, Wild Strawberries
3. Marlene Dietrich, Touch of Evil
4. Barbara Bel Geddes, Vertigo
5. Kathie Brown, Murder by Contract

Best Original Screenplay:
Wild Strawberries — Ingmar Bergman
2. The Seventh Seal — Ingmar Bergman
3. Mon Oncle — Jacques Tati, Jacques Lagrange and Jean L'Hote
4. Murder by Contract — Ben Simcoe
5. I Bury the Living — Louis Garfinkle

Best Adapted Screenplay: 
Touch of Evil — Orson Welles
2. Bonjour Tristesse — Arthur Laurents
3. Ashes and Diamonds — Andrzej Wajda and Jerzy Andrzekewski
4. Vertigo — Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor
5. Some Came Running — John Patrick and Arthur Sheekman

Best Cinematography:
Touch of Evil — Russell Metty
2. Vertigo — Robert Burks
3. Wild Strawberries – Gunnar Fischer
4. Mon Oncle — Jean Bourgoin
5. Some Came Running — William H. Daniels

Best Film Editing:
Vertigo — George Tomasini
2. Ashes and Diamonds — Halina Nawrocka
3. Touch of Evil — Walter Murch, Aaron Stell, and Virgil Vogel
4. Mon Oncle — Suzanne Baron
5. Wild Strawberries — Oscar Rosander

Best Original Score: 
Touch of Evil — Henry Mancini
2. Vertigo — Bernard Herrmann
3. Elevator to the Gallows — Miles Davis
4. Murder by Contract — Perry Botkin
5. The Big Country – Jerome Moross

Best Production Design:
Gigi — Cecil Beaton, Keogh Gleason, Henry Grace, William Horning, and Preston Ames
2. Vertigo — Henry Bumstead, Hal Pereira, Sam Comer, and Frank McKelvy
3. Touch of Evil — Robert Clatworthy, Alexander Golitzen, John P. austin, and Russell A. Gausman
4. Mon Oncle — Henri Schmitt
5. A Night to Remember — Alex Vetchinsky

Best Costume Design:
Gigi — Cecil Beaton
2. Some Came Running — Walter Plunkett
3. Bell, Book and Candle — Jean Louis
4. A Night to Remember — Yvonne Caffin
5. Auntie Mame — Orry-Kelly

Best Visual Effects:
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad

Best Sound:
Vertigo

Best Ensemble Cast:
Some Came Running

Orson Welles’ Best First Feature:
Louis Malle, Elevator to the Gallows

Best Ensemble Cast:
Some Came Running (dir: Vincente Minnelli; in alphabetical order) Leora Dana, Larry Gates, Nancy Gates, Martha Hyer, Betty Lou Keim, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley MacLaine, Dean Matin, Steve Peck, Carmen Phillips and Frank Sinatra

Orson Welles' Best First Feature Award: 
Louis Malle, Elevator to the Gallows

R E C A P

W I N S:

Vertigo – 5,
The Touch of Evil — 3, Bonjour Tristesse — 2, Gigi — 2, The Elevator to the Gallows — 1, Hot Spell — 1, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad — 1, Some Came Running — 1, Wild Strawberries — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S:

Vertigo — 12,
The Touch of Evil – 11, Some Came Running — 8, Mon Oncle — 6, Wild Strawberries — 6, Bonjour Tristesse — 5, Ashes and Diamonds — 4, Murder by Contract — 4, The Seventh Seal — 4, Ashes and Diamonds — 3, Big Country — 2, Gigi — 2, A Night to Remember — 2


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