16th Golden Globe Awards

The 16th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1958 films, were held on March 5, 1959.

Best Film - Drama
 The Defiant Ones
 * Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
 * Home Before Dark
 * I Want to Live!
 * Separate Tables

Best Film - Comedy
 Auntie Mame
 * Bell, Book and Candle
 * Indiscreet
 * Me and the Colonel
 * The Perfect Furlough

Best Film - Musical
 Gigi
 * Damn Yankees
 * South Pacific
 * Tom Thumb

Best Actor - Drama
 David Niven – Separate Tables
 * Tony Curtis – The Defiant Ones
 * Robert Donat – The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (posthumous nomination)
 * Sidney Poitier – The Defiant Ones
 * Spencer Tracy – The Old Man and the Sea

Best Actress - Drama
 Susan Hayward – I Want to Live!
 * Ingrid Bergman – The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
 * Deborah Kerr – Separate Tables
 * Shirley MacLaine – Some Came Running
 * Jean Simmons – Home Before Dark

Best Actor - Comedy or Musical
 Danny Kaye – Me and the Colonel
 * Maurice Chevalier – Gigi
 * Clark Gable – Teacher's Pet
 * Cary Grant – Indiscreet
 * Louis Jourdan – Gigi

Best Actress - Comedy or Musical
 Rosalind Russell – Auntie Mame
 * Ingrid Bergman – Indiscreet
 * Leslie Caron – Gigi
 * Doris Day – The Tunnel of Love
 * Mitzi Gaynor – South Pacific

Best Supporting Actor
 Burl Ives – The Big Country
 * Harry Guardino – Houseboat
 * David Ladd – The Proud Rebel
 * Gig Young – Teacher's Pet
 * Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. – Home Before Dark

Best Supporting Actress
 Hermione Gingold – Gigi
 * Peggy Cass – Auntie Mame
 * Wendy Hiller – Separate Tables
 * Maureen Stapleton – Lonelyhearts
 * Cara Williams – The Defiant Ones

Best Director
 Vincente Minnelli – Gigi
 * Richard Brooks – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
 * Stanley Kramer – The Defiant Ones
 * Delbert Mann – Separate Tables
 * Robert Wise – I Want to Live!

Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film
 Das Mädchen Rosemarie (West Germany)

 L'Eau vive (France)

 The Road a Year Long (Yugoslavia)

Best English-Language Foreign Film
 A Night to Remember

Best Film - Promoting International Understanding
 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
 * The Defiant Ones
 * Me and the Colonel
 * A Time to Love and a Time to Die
 * The Young Lions

Samuel Goldwyn International Film Award
 Do Aankhen Barah Haath 

Henrietta Award (World Film Favorite)
Rock Hudson

Deborah Kerr

Best TV Show
The Ann Sothern Show

Letter to Loretta

The Red Skelton Show

Toast of the Town

Tonight!

Most Promising Newcomer - Male
Bradford Dillman

John Gavin

Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
 * David Ladd
 * Ricky Nelson
 * Ray Stricklyn

Most Promising Newcomer - Female
Linda Cristal

Susan Kohner

Tina Louise
 * Joanna Barnes
 * Carol Lynley
 * France Nuyen

Achievement in Television
Red Skelton

Special Award
David Ladd (For best juvenile actor)

Shirley MacLaine (For most versatile actress)

Cecil B. DeMille Award
Maurice Chevalier