Film dalam tahun 1959

Film dalam tahun 1959 melibatkan beberapa peristiwa yang signifikan, dengan Ben-Hur memenangkan rekor 11 Academy Awards.

 Penghargaan 
 4 Juni - The Three Stooges merilis film pendek ke-190 dan terakhir mereka, Sappy Bull Fighters.
 18 September - Zeppo Marx dari The Marx Brothers menikahi istri keduanya, Barbara Blakely.
 30 September - Film Mise Éire, yang dibuat oleh George Morrison untuk Gael Linn, tayang perdana untuk penutupan Festival Film Cork, film berbahasa Irlandia berjangka fitur pertama.
 18 November - Film William Wyler Ben-Hur tayang perdana di Loews Theater di New York City.
 Sammy Davis, Jr. dan May Britt mulai berkencan.

 Film dengan keuntungan tertinggi (A.S.) 
 #  Film  Studio  Aktor  Keuntungan 1. Ben-Hur MGM Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet, Hugh Griffith, Jack Hawkins $36.992 m 2. Sleeping Beauty* Disney Mary Costa, Eleanor Audley, Bill Shirley, Verna Felton $21.998 m 3. North by Northwest MGM Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason $12.703 m 4. Some Like It Hot United Artists Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon $10.128 m 5. Pillow Talk Universal Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall $9.670 m 6. Imitation of Life Universal Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee $9.618 m 7. Suddenly, Last Summer Columbia Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Katharine Hepburn $6.375 m 8. The Nun's Story Warner Bros. Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch $5.750 m 9. Rio Bravo Warner Bros. John Wayne, Dean Martin, Angie Dickinson $5.650 m 10. Anatomy of a Murder Columbia James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara $5.500 m 11. On the Beach United Artists Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire $4.803 m 12. Operation Petticoat Universal Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Dina Merrill $3.950 m

(*) Setelah penayangan ulang di bioskop

 Debut film 
 James Coburn - Ride Lonesome
 Mia Farrow - John Paul Jones
 Richard Harris - Shake Hands with the Devil
 Martin Landau - Pork Chop Hill
 Martin Scorsese - Vesuvius VI
 George C. Scott - The Hanging Tree
 Steven Spielberg - The Lost Guy

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