1959 Academy Awards – Best Picture Winner
![Gigi Arthur Freed](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/gigi-vincente-minnelli-charles-walters-image.jpg)
Gigi
Arthur Freed
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.
1959 Academy Awards – Best Picture Nominees
![Auntie Mame Jack L. Warner](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/auntie-mame-morton-dacosta-image.jpg)
Auntie Mame
Jack L. Warner
![Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Lawrence Weingarten](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
Lawrence Weingarten
![Separate Tables Harold Hecht](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/separate-tables-delbert-mann-image.jpg)
Separate Tables
Harold Hecht
![The Defiant Ones Stanley Kramer](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-defiant-ones-stanley-kramer-image.jpg)