1959 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role Winner
![I Want to Live! Susan Hayward](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/i-want-to-live-robert-wise-image.jpg)
I Want to Live!
Susan Hayward
A prostitute, sentenced to death for murder, pleads her innocence.
1959 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role Nominees
![Auntie Mame Rosalind Russell](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/auntie-mame-morton-dacosta-image.jpg)
Auntie Mame
Rosalind Russell
![Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Elizabeth Taylor](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof-richard-brooks-image.jpg)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Elizabeth Taylor
![Separate Tables Deborah Kerr](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/separate-tables-delbert-mann-image.jpg)
Separate Tables
Deborah Kerr
![Some Came Running Shirley MacLaine](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/some-came-running-vincente-minnelli-image.jpg)