David Niven – Separate Tables as Major David Angus Pollock‡.Mark Robson – The Inn of the Sixth Happiness.Separate Tables – Harold Hecht, producer.The Defiant Ones – Stanley Kramer, producer.Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Lawrence Weingarten, producer.Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface. Nominations announced on February 23, 1959. Eventually, NBC cut to a re-run of a sports show. The show's producer, Jerry Wald, started cutting numbers from the show to make sure it ran on time, but cut too much material, and the ceremony ended 20 minutes early, leaving Jerry Lewis to attempt to fill in the time. Niven won Best Actor that night, making him the only host in Oscar history to have win an award while hosting. The ceremony was hosted by an ensemble of actors: Jerry Lewis, Mort Sahl, Tony Randall, Bob Hope, David Niven, and Laurence Olivier.
Finally, Gigi was the last film until The Last Emperor to win Best Picture without any acting nominations. Gigi set a new record for biggest Oscars sweep, winning all nine of its nominations, which would later be tied by The Last Emperor in 1987 and broken, in 2003, when The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won all 11 of its nominations. 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. Honoré salutes them with his cane.The 31st Academy Awards ceremony was held on April 6, 1959, to honor the best films of 1958. In the final scene, Gigi and Gaston are shown mounting a carriage in the Bois de Boulogne and riding off together. for little girls." Honoré continues with the song. Mamita responds by saying happily, "Thank heaven!. After wandering around for a bit, thinking about Gigi, Gaston returns and asks Mamita for Gigi's hand in marriage. He takes her back home and delivers her to Mamita, then walks away. As Gigi comes back from the powder room, Gaston grabs her arm and pulls her out of the restaurant. While Gigi is gone, Honoré congratulates Gaston for getting Gigi to reconsider, but Gaston has had enough. When she tries to put it on, Gaston tells her that the clasp is tricky and suggests that she get the lady in the powder room to help her with it. Of course, Gigi makes all the appropriate comments for everyone to hear. After they have danced, Gaston presents Gigi with an emerald bracelet. When they walk in together, all heads turn and then the tongues begin wagging, but Gigi plays the role of courtesan quite well, calling upon everything Aunt Alicia taught her about pouring coffee, choosing cigars, and acting like a lady. However, Gigi decides that she'd rather be miserable with Gaston than without him, he takes her with him to Maxim's. Angrily, Gaston seeks advice from Honoré, who suggests that he toss himself back into the gay life and party with him tonight at Maxim's. Gaston realizes that he is in love with Gigi and offers to make her his courtesan and keep her "beautifully", but Gigi refuses, not wanting to live a life hopping from bed to bed whenever her "keeper" gets tired of her. The diner then slowly chews the ortolan, including the bones while letting the ambrosial fat cascade freely down the throat. Tradition has it that the diner places a handkerchief over his head before stuffing the whole bird into his mouth with only the head sticking out, which is bitten off and discarded. It requires blinding the ortolan or raising it in a lightless box for a month to gorge on millet, grapes, and figs, then drowning them in Armagnac brandy, stripping the feathers, removing the feet, and baking them whole for eight minutes before serving. The method of preparing and eating an ortolan is considered by some to be barbaric. Considered an extreme delicacy, the ortolan was named an endangered species in 1999 France, but the laws that were passed meant to protect the bird were not well-enforced until 2007 when French restaurants were forced to take ortolan off their menus and a fine was set at 6,000 francs if caught. Those were ortolans, small songbirds in the bunting family Emberizidae, similar to finches and sparrows.
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