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Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Awards — Hollywood Foreign Press Association

The 16th Golden Globe Awards

March 5, 1959  •  Beverly Hills, California  •  Cecil B. DeMille Award: Maurice Chevalier

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The Defiant Ones wins
The Defiant Ones — Drama Film, Director (Kramer)
David Niven wins Actor for Separate Tables • Rosalind Russell wins Actress for Auntie Mame
Film Awards
Best Motion Picture — Drama
Winner
The Defiant Ones
Stanley Kramer, dir. — United Artists
Best Motion Picture — Comedy or Musical
Winner
Auntie Mame
Morton DaCosta, dir. — Warner Bros.
Best Director — Motion Picture
Winner
Stanley Kramer
The Defiant Ones
Best Actor — Drama Film
Winner
David Niven
Separate Tables — as Major Pollock
Best Actress — Drama Film
Winner
Susan Hayward
I Want to Live!
Best Actor — Comedy or Musical Film
Winner
Danny Kaye
Me and the Colonel
Best Actress — Comedy or Musical Film
Winner
Rosalind Russell
Auntie Mame — as Mame Dennis
Best Supporting Actor — Motion Picture
Winner
Burl Ives
The Big Country
Best Supporting Actress — Motion Picture
Winner
Hermione Gingold
Gigi
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner
The Road (La Strada)
Italy — Federico Fellini, dir.
Cecil B. DeMille Award
Winner
Maurice Chevalier
For outstanding contributions to the entertainment field
Television Awards
Best TV Series — Drama
Winner
Maverick
ABC — James Garner
Best TV Series — Comedy
Winner
The Jack Benny Program
CBS — Jack Benny

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