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The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards.
The top ten 1959 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
| Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic rentals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ben-Hur | MGM | $36,000,000 [1] |
| 2 | The Shaggy Dog | Buena Vista | $9,600,000 [2] |
| 3 | Operation Petticoat | Universal | $9,321,555 [3] |
| 4 | Some Like It Hot | United Artists | $8,127,835 [3] |
| 5 | Pillow Talk | Universal | $7,669,713 [3] |
| 6 | Imitation of Life | $6,417,807 [3] | |
| 7 | Suddenly, Last Summer | Columbia | $6,375,000 [3] |
| 8 | Rio Bravo The Nun's Story | Warner Bros. | $5,750,000 [3] |
| 9 | North by Northwest | MGM | $5,740,000 [4] |
| 10 | Anatomy of a Murder | Columbia | $5,500,000 [1] |
| Category/Organization | 17th Golden Globe Awards March 10, 1960 | 12th BAFTA Awards March 26, 1960 | 32nd Academy Awards April 4, 1960 | |
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| Best Film | Some Like It Hot (Comedy) Porgy and Bess (Musical) | Ben-Hur | Room at the Top | Ben-Hur |
| Best Director | William Wyler Ben-Hur | - | William Wyler Ben-Hur | |
| Best Actor | Jack Lemmon Some Like It Hot | Anthony Franciosa Career | Sidney Poitier The Defiant Ones | Charlton Heston Ben-Hur |
| Best Actress | Marilyn Monroe Some Like It Hot | Elizabeth Taylor Suddenly, Last Summer | Simone Signoret Room at the Top | Simone Signoret Room at the Top |
| Best Supporting Actor | Stephen Boyd Ben-Hur | - | Hugh Griffith Ben-Hur | |
| Best Supporting Actress | Susan Kohner Imitation of Life | - | Shelley Winters The Diary of Anne Frank | |
| Best Screenplay, Adapted | Room at the Top Neil Paterson | Orders to Kill Paul Dehn | Room at the Top Neil Paterson | |
| Best Screenplay, Original | Pillow Talk Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene, Stanley Shapiro, and Maurice Richlin | |||
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
United States unless stated
United States unless stated
The year 1971 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1967 in film involved some significant events. It is widely considered one of the most ground-breaking years in American cinema, with "revolutionary" films highlighting the shift towards forward thinking European standards at the time, including: Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Cool Hand Luke, The Dirty Dozen, In Cold Blood, In the Heat of the Night, The Jungle Book and You Only Live Twice.
The year 1966 in film involved some significant events. A Man for All Seasons won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
The year 1965 in film involved several significant events, with The Sound of Music topping the U.S. box office and winning five Academy Awards.
The year 1964 in film involved some significant events, including three highly successful musical films, Mary Poppins,My Fair Lady, and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
The year 1963 in film involved some significant events, including the big-budget epic Cleopatra and two films with all-star casts, How the West Was Won and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
The year 1962 in film involved some very significant events, with Lawrence of Arabia winning seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director.
The year 1961 in film involved some significant events, with West Side Story winning 10 Academy Awards.
The year 1960 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1958 in film in the US involved some significant events, including the hit musicals South Pacific and Gigi, the latter of which won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.
The year 1957 in film involved some significant events. The Bridge on the River Kwai topped the year's box office in North America, France, and Germany, and won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
The following is an overview of 1956 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
The year 1955 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1954 in film involved some significant events and memorable ones.
The year 1953 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1952 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1950 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1943 in film featured various significant events for the film industry.
The year 1941 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time, Citizen Kane.
The year 1937 in film involved some significant events, including the Walt Disney production of the first American full-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.