1959 Academy Awards – Directing Winner
![Gigi Vincente Minnelli](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/gigi-vincente-minnelli-charles-walters-image.jpg)
Gigi
Vincente Minnelli
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 – Directing Nominees
![Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Richard Brooks](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
Richard Brooks
![I Want to Live! Robert Wise](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/i-want-to-live-robert-wise-image.jpg)
I Want to Live!
Robert Wise
![The Defiant Ones Stanley Kramer](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-defiant-ones-stanley-kramer-image.jpg)
The Defiant Ones
Stanley Kramer
![The Inn of the Sixth Happiness Mark Robson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-inn-of-the-sixth-happiness-mark-robson-image.jpg)