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The American films of 1959 are listed in a table of the films which were made in the United States and released in 1959. The film Ben-Hur won the Academy Award for Best Picture , among winning a record-setting eleven Oscars .
June 7 – A contract between Paramount and Jerry Lewis Productions is signed specifying a payment of $10 million plus 60% of the profits for 14 films over a seven-year period. [6] This contract makes Lewis the highest paid individual Hollywood talent to date and is unprecedented in that he has unlimited creative control, including final cut ...
This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1959 per Variety's weekly National Boxoffice Survey. The results are based on a sample of 20-25 key cities and therefore, any box office amounts quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
The Best of Everything is a 1959 American drama film directed by Jean Negulesco from a screenplay by Edith Sommer and Mann Rubin, based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Rona Jaffe. [2] It stars Hope Lange , Stephen Boyd , Suzy Parker , Martha Hyer , Diane Baker , Brian Aherne , Robert Evans , Louis Jourdan , and Joan Crawford .
The Legend of Tom Dooley is a 1959 American Western film directed by Ted Post and starring Michael Landon, Jo Morrow, Jack Hogan, Richard Rust, Dee Pollock and Ken Lynch.It was based on the 90-year-old folk song "Tom Dooley", which had been inspired by the real-life case of convicted murderer Tom Dula.
The 31st Academy Awards ceremony was held on April 6, 1959, to honor the best films of 1958.The night was dominated by Gigi, which won nine Oscars, breaking the previous record of eight set by Gone with the Wind and tied by From Here to Eternity and On the Waterfront.
Number 32 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films; winner of two Academy Awards, three BAFTAs and an award at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival: The Rough and the Smooth: Robert Siodmak: Nadja Tiller, Tony Britton: Drama: Sapphire: Basil Dearden: Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell: Drama: The Scapegoat: Robert Hamer: Alec Guinness, Bette Davis: Crime ...
On the Beach is a 1959 American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film, starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony Perkins.Produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, [2] it is based on Nevil Shute's 1957 novel of the same title depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war. [3]