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

Winners and nominees

Film

Best Film - Drama

The Defiant Ones

Best Film - Comedy

Auntie Mame

Best Film - Musical

Gigi

Best Actor - Drama

David Niven – Separate Tables

Best Actress - Drama

Susan Hayward – I Want to Live!

Best Actor - Comedy or Musical

Danny Kaye – Me and the Colonel

Best Actress - Comedy or Musical

Rosalind Russell – Auntie Mame

Best Supporting Actor

Burl Ives – The Big Country

Best Supporting Actress

Hermione Gingold – Gigi

Best Director

Vincente Minnelli – Gigi

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

Samuel Goldwyn International Film Award

Do Aankhen Barah Haath

Henrietta Award (World Film Favorite)

Rock Hudson Deborah Kerr

Television

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.

Most Promising Newcomer - Female

Linda Cristal Susan Kohner Tina Louise

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