The year 1958 in film involved some significant events.
Events
- February 16- "In the Money" by William Beaudine is released on this date. It would be the last installment of The Bowery Boys series which began back in 1946.
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank |
Title |
Studio |
Gross |
| 1. |
South Pacific |
Magna/20th Century Fox |
$17,500,000 |
| 2. |
Auntie Mame |
Warner Brothers |
$9,300,000 |
| 3. |
Cat on the Hot Tin Roof |
MGM |
$8,785,000 |
| 4. |
No Time For Sergeants |
Warner Brothers |
$7,500,000 |
| 5. |
Gigi |
MGM |
$7,321,000 |
| 6. |
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad |
Columbia |
$6,500,000 |
| 7. |
The Vikings |
20th Century Fox |
$6,283,000 |
| 8. |
Vertigo* |
Paramount/Universal |
$5,306,000 |
| 9. |
The Young Lions |
20th Century Fox |
$4,480,000 |
| 10. |
Some Came Running |
MGM |
$4,442,000 |
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1958.shtml
Awards
Academy Awards:
- Best Picture: Gigi - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Best Director: Vincente Minnelli - Gigi
- Best Actor: David Niven - Separate Tables
- Best Actress: Susan Hayward - I Want to Live!
- Best Supporting Actor: Burl Ives - The Big Country
- Best Supporting Actress: Wendy Hiller - Separate Tables
- Best Foreign Language Film: Mon Oncle (My Uncle), directed by Jacques Tati, France
Golden Globe Awards:
- Drama:
- Best Picture: The Defiant Ones
- Best Actor: David Niven - Separate Tables
- Best Actress: Susan Hayward - I Want to Live!
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: Gigi
- Best Actor: Danny Kaye - Me and the Colonel
- Best Actress: Rosalind Russell - Auntie Mame
- Other
- Best Director: Vincente Minnelli - Gigi
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- The Cranes Are Flying (Летят журавли, Letyat zhuravli), directed by Mikheil Kalatozishvili, Soviet Union
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- The Rickshaw Man (Muhomatsu no issho), directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, Japan
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället), directed by Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
Films released in 1958
- Les Amants de Montparnasse
- Andy Hardy Comes Home
- Attack of the Puppet People
- Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
- Auntie Mame (film)
- The Big Country
- The Black Orchid
- The Blob
- Bonjour Tristesse
- The Bonnie Parker Story
- The Brothers Karamazov
- The Buccaneer
- Carve Her Name with Pride
- El Castillo de los Monstruos
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Cowboy
- Damn Yankees
- The Defiant Ones
- Desire Under the Elms
- The Horror of Dracula
- Le Fatiche di Ercole (The Labors of Hercules)
- The Fly
- The Geisha Boy, starring Jerry Lewis
- Gigi
- God's Little Acre
- The Goddess starring Kim Stanley
- The Horse's Mouth
- Houseboat
- The Hunters
- Indiscreet
- In the Money
- I Want to Live!
- The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
- Jalsaghar
- The Key, based on Jan de Hartog novel
- King Creole
- Lafayette Escadrille, WWI film starring Tab Hunter, with an early appearance by Clint Eastwood
- Lonelyhearts
- The Long, Hot Summer
- Man of the West
- Marjorie Morningstar
- Me and the Colonel
- Merry Andrew
- Mon Oncle
- Monster on the Campus
- The Naked Maja
- No Time for Sergeants -(film mentioned in article)
- The Old Man and the Sea - based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, starring Spencer Tracy
- The Rickshaw Man (Muhomatsu no issho) (aka The Rikisha-Man)
- Ride a Crooked Trail
- Rock-A-Bye Baby, starring Jerry Lewis
- Run Silent, Run Deep
- Separate Tables
- The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
- The Sheepman, starring Glenn Ford and Shirley MacLaine
- Some Came Running
- South Pacific
- Teacher's Pet
- tom thumb
- Torpedo Run
- Touch of Evil
- Vertigo
- The Vikings
- White Wilderness, a Disney nature film
- The Young Lions
Short film series
Ending this year
Births
- February 11 - Michael Jackson, controller of BBC2.
- February 13 - Pernilla August, Swedish actress
- March 3 - Miranda Richardson, actress
- March 10 - Sharon Stone, US actress
- March 20 - Holly Hunter,actress
- March 21 - Gary Oldman, actor
- April 3 - Alec Baldwin, actor
- April 21 - Andie MacDowell, actress
- April 29 - Michelle Pfeiffer,actress
- May 29 - Annette Bening, US actress (Mrs Warren Beatty)
- July 8 - Kevin Bacon, actor
- August 16 - Angela Bassett, US actress
- August 18 - Madeleine Stowe, actress
- August 24 - Steve Guttenberg, US actor
- August 25 - Tim Burton, director
- October 16 - Tim Robbins, American actor
- October 26 - Pascale Ogier, French actress (d. 1984)
- October 26 - Rita Wilson, actress
- November 17 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, US actress
- December 6 - Nick Park, film-maker and animator
Deaths
|
