1958 — Year in Review
The Fritz Golden Superlatives

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  1. Vertigo (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)

  2. Wild Strawberries (dir: Ingmar Bergman; US Release Date)

  3. Murder by Contract (dir: Irving Lerner)

  4. Some Came Running (dir: Vincente Minnelli)

  5. Touch of Evil (dir: Orson Welles)

  6. Bojour Tristese (dir: Otto Preminger)

  7. Mon Oncle (dir: Jacques Tati)

  8. Elevator to the Gallows (dir: Louis Malle)

  9. Ashes and Diamonds (dir: Andrzej Wajda)

  10. The Seventh Seal (dir: Ingmar Bergman; US Release Date)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Bell, Book, and Candle (dir: Richard Quine), The Big Country (dir: William Wyler), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (dir: Richard Brooks), The Horse’s Mouth (dir: Ronald Neame), Hot Spell (dir: Daniel Mann), I Bury the Living (dir: Albert Brand), Man of the West (dir: Anthony Mann), A Night to Remember (dir: Roy Ward Baker), Separate Tables (dir: Delbert Mann), Terror in a Texas Town (dir: Joseph H. Lewis, A Time to Love and a Time to Die (dir: Douglas Sirk)


Barbara Bel Geddes and James Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo

Barbara Bel Geddes and James Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo

Best Picture: Vertigo
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
US Distributor: Paramount Pictures


Kim Novack and Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Vertigo

Kim Novack and Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Vertigo

Best Director:
Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo

2. Ingmar Bergman, Wild Strawberries AND The Seventh Seal
3. Orson Welles, Touch of Evil
4. Otto Preminger, Bonjour Tristesse
5. Jacques Tati, Mon Oncle

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James Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo

James Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo

Best Actor:
James Stewart, Vertigo

2. Zbigniew Cybulski, Ashes and Diamonds
3. Frank Sinatra, Some Came Running
4. Orson Welles, Touch of Evil
5. Alec Guinness, The Horse's Mouth

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Jean Seberg and David Niven in Otto Preminger’s Bonjour Tristesse

Jean Seberg and David Niven in Otto Preminger’s Bonjour Tristesse

Best Actress:
Shirley MacLaine, Some Came Running
2. Jean Seberg, Bonjour Tristesse
3. Rosalind Russell, Auntie Mame
4. Elizabeth Taylor, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
5. Kim Novak, Vertigo

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Anthony Quinn (left), Shirley MacLaine, and Earl Holliman in Daniel Mann’s Hot Spell

Anthony Quinn (left), Shirley MacLaine, and Earl Holliman in Daniel Mann’s Hot Spell

Best Supporting Actor:
Anthony Quinn, Hot Spell

2. Joseph Calleia, Touch of Evil
3. Dean Martin, Some Came Running
4. Burl Ives, The Big Country
5. Dennis Weaver, Touch of Evil

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Deborah Kerr and Jean Seberg in Otto Preminger’s Bonjour Tristesse

Deborah Kerr and Jean Seberg in Otto Preminger’s Bonjour Tristesse

Best Supporting Actress:
Deborah Kerr, Bonjour Tristesse

2. Ingrid Thulin, Wild Strawberries
3. Marlene Dietrich, Touch of Evil
4. Barbara Bel Geddes, Vertigo
5. Kathie Brown, Murder by Contract

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Bibi Andersson and Victor Sjöström in Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries

Bibi Andersson and Victor Sjöström in Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries

Best Original Screenplay:
Wild Strawberries — Ingmar Bergman
2. The Seventh Seal — Ingmar Bergman
3. Mon Oncle — Jacques Tati, Jacques Lagrange and Jean L'Hote
4. Murder by Contract — Ben Simcoe
5. I Bury the Living — Louis Garfinkle

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Orson Welles and Charlton Heston in Welles’ Touch of Evil

Orson Welles and Charlton Heston in Welles’ Touch of Evil

Best Adapted Screenplay: 
Touch of Evil Orson Welles
2. Bonjour Tristesse — Arthur Laurents
3. Ashes and Diamonds — Andrzej Wajda and Jerzy Andrzekewski
4. Vertigo — Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor
5. Some Came Running — John Patrick and Arthur Sheekman

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Janet Leigh in Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil

Janet Leigh in Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil

Best Cinematography:
Touch of Evil Russell Metty
2. Vertigo — Robert Burks
3. Wild Strawberries – Gunnar Fischer
4. Mon Oncle — Jean Bourgoin
5. Some Came Running — William H. Daniels

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James Stewart and Kim Novak in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo

James Stewart and Kim Novak in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo

Best Film Editing:
Vertigo — George Tomasini

2. Ashes and Diamonds — Halina Nawrocka
3. Touch of Evil — Walter Murch, Aaron Stell, and Virgil Vogel
4. Mon Oncle — Suzanne Baron
5. Wild Strawberries — Oscar Rosander

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Janet Leigh and Valentin de Vargas in Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil

Janet Leigh and Valentin de Vargas in Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil

Best Original Score: 
Touch of Evil — Henry Mancini
2. Vertigo — Bernard Herrmann
3. Elevator to the Gallows — Miles Davis
4. Murder by Contract — Perry Botkin
5. The Big Country – Jerome Moross

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Hermione Gingold, Louis Jourdan, and Leslie Caron in Vincente Minnelli’s Gigi

Hermione Gingold, Louis Jourdan, and Leslie Caron in Vincente Minnelli’s Gigi

Best Production Design:
Gigi — Cecil Beaton, Keogh Gleason, Henry Grace, William Horning, and Preston Ames
2. Vertigo — Henry Bumstead, Hal Pereira, Sam Comer, and Frank McKelvy
3. Touch of Evil — Robert Clatworthy, Alexander Golitzen, John P. austin, and Russell A. Gausman
4. Mon Oncle — Henri Schmitt
5. A Night to Remember — Alex Vetchinsky

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Leslie Caron in Vincente Minnelli’s Gigi

Leslie Caron in Vincente Minnelli’s Gigi

Best Costume Design:
Gigi — Cecil Beaton
2. Some Came Running — Walter Plunkett
3. Bell, Book and Candle — Jean Louis
4. A Night to Remember — Yvonne Caffin
5. Auntie Mame — Orry-Kelly

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Best Visual Effects:
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad


Best Sound:
Vertigo


Best Ensemble Cast:
Bonjour Tristese

Orson Welles’ Best First Feature:
Louis Malle, Elevator to the Gallows

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Best Ensemble Cast:
Bonjour Tristesse 
(prior to 1971 this award, in addition to the cast, goes to the director, Otto Preminger) starring (in alphabetical order)

Orson Welles' Best First Feature Award: 
Jeanne Moreau in Louis Malle’s Elevator to the Gallows


R E C A P

W I N S:

Vertigo 5,
The Touch of Evil 3, Bonjour Tristesse 2, Gigi 2, The Elevator to the Gallows — 1, Hot Spell 1, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad 1, Some Came Running 1, Wild Strawberries 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S:

Vertigo 12,
The Touch of Evil 11, Some Came Running 8, Mon Oncle 6, Wild Strawberries 6, Bonjour Tristesse 5, Ashes and Diamonds 4, Murder by Contract — 4, The Seventh Seal 4, Ashes and Diamonds — 3, Big Country 2, Gigi 2, A Night to Remember 2


the year-end project:
2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 20102009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 20022001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 197619751974, 1973, 1972, 1971, 1970, 1969, 1968, 1967, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1963, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956, 19551954, 1953, 1952, 1951, 1950, 1940 - 1949, 1930 - 1939, 1920 - 1929 + Superlatives Index

Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s