David Niven Wins Best Actor: 1959 Oscars
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2013
- David Niven winning the Oscar® for Best Actor for "Separate Tables" at the 31st Academy Awards® in 1959. Presented by Irene Dunne and John Wayne and hosted by Jerry Lewis.
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RIP David Niven (March 1, 1910 - July 29, 1983), aged 73
You will be remembered as a legend.
I’ll always remember he passed away when I was on holiday in Blackpool.
Possibly the greatest gentleman in show business history
1000% ❤❤❤❤
David Niven deserved that Oscar, good bless him.
What a lovely reaction to winning!! David Niven was a class act. Wonderful to see such joy come over him!!
He should have been prosecuted for child abuse.
Love love love David Niven. He’s amazing. And Separate Tables was such a brilliant movie!
Witty, classy, urbane and a terrific actor. One of my favorites!
A well-deserved Oscar. David Niven was brilliant as the shy, introverted Major Pollock. His mannerisms in the role, talking to himself and so on, were perfect. Of course, Niven had many great roles - in The Guns of Navarone, The Bishop's Wife, The Pink Panther and others - but this was his best performance.
Don't forget eternally yours bachelor mother and the best thing about casino Royale 67!
Matter of life and death .
Irene Dunne has such class, even as a presenter.
David was great and a great movie, well deserved
Right now I'm watching the movie that he won the Oscar for. Well done sir.
His performance in Separate Tables was amazing.
I watched this movie 'Separate Tables' once again yesterday. It was a wet dull dreary day here in the country where I live about 90km from Melbourne. I really love this movie probably one of my all time favourites. The cast are all superb!
He was a legend with the best voice and wit.love David Niven.👍
STARTED OUT AS AN EXTRA IN HOLLYWOOD. NEVER WENT TO A SCHOOL TO LEARN HOW TO ACT.HE WAS SELF TAUGHT.WHICH MAGNIFIES HIS ACCOMPLISHMENT EVEN MORE.
I loved David Niven...his books are fun too
best acceptance speech ever
How elegant Hollywood was!
Superb Class All The Way !!!!!
What a glorious man he was.
He is charming and dapper.
I am sure that 100% of here will agree with me, that the actors or actresses who have won an Oscar for acting and who are British, have the best speeches
Wish they'd keep the acceptance speeches that short, nowadays!
I believe that Niven's Best Actor Oscar was a valedictory award for 25 years of outstanding performances in various iconic films including Wuthering Heights, The Dawn Patrol, The Bishop's Wife, et al. Two of his best were yet to come: excellent work in The Guns Of Navarone and The Pink Panther.
+MrImiller07 Also it was a wonderful year for performances by actors (listen to that line up). I think the idea was, everyone else has won or will win and we all love David, so that's how they voted.
His reaction had me laughing so hard!
"Oh joy! Oh Rapture!"
He had also won the New York Film Critics Award and the Golden Globe, so I don't believe that this was a sentimental choice.
such a gracious occasion... unlike today.
Great performance...well deserved.
What a line up of acting talent - wow,
So many to choose from Spencer Sidney Tony ... all good performances ...
I don't think this was a sentimental award at all. It was the first time David Niven had played a part like this and the consensus was that he was brilliant (like Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend) and it was unexpected. So the Oscar was his, deservedly.
No. A FACE IN THE CROWD directed by Elia Kazan with a wonderful performance from Andy Griffith came out in 1957. SEPARATE TABLES was released in 1958. I agree that Andy deserved a Best Actor nomination
for that role though.
If it was a sentimental win who cares. There were far worse wins in this category. David Niven was wonderful in the part and a wonderful man. I remember when he died, Marlon Brando, not the most press friendly person released a statement saying that when he worked with Niven(in Bedtime Story) it was one of the few times he looked forward to going to the studio every day. I do think three young actors may have split the vote. It happens, and I love his reaction. Thanks for this post.
Classy and dependable
I wish all award show winners would just get up and say, “Thank you.”
Niven was the favored to win.
+Olly4Ever no
One of my favourite actors.
When the Academy awards ceremonies still had class and the movies were still worth watching.
Short and Sweet. 😊
His reaction 😭😭😭😭
They had such class back then.
I use to love the Oscars. Not now but unfortunately.
Niven was a great story teller, never envisioning the rise of the computer and on line perusal to check all admissions, he rashly stated many times and included it in the first volume of his memoirs that he said that before his acceptance speech he stumbled going up the steps onto the stage, he covered this by saying he was so loaded, [he hinted that the audience laughed at this remark assuming he was inebriated before he had finished the sentence] which concluded that he was so loaded with good luck charms etc, a look at this clip disproves it, but, like Flynn, Niv left a swathe of colour on a black and white world.
All of the Best Actor Nominees of 1958 except for Tony Curtis have won at least 1 Oscar:
David Niven: Separate Tables
Paul Newman: The Color of Money
Sidney Poitier: Lilies of the Field
Spencer Tracy: Captains Courageous and Boys Town
+Batman1989King Mr Newman should have won four Oscars now
dr strangelove He should have won for Cat and The Hustler. He was a close second in Hud and Poitier deserved that Oscar. He gave a fantastic performance in Cool Hand Luke but couldn't have won against Dustin Hoffman. He couldn't have won for Absence of Malice. The Verdict was another terrific performance but Ben Kingsley and Dustin Hoffman were slightly better. The Color of Money was a compensatory Oscar. Bob Hoskins should have won.
I actually felt Newman should have won for Hud, and Potier should have been nominated and won for A Raisin In The Sun!
@@neelabhraroy4238 Dustin Hoffman didn't win that year. It was Rod Steiger, I believe. Hoffman didn't win til "Kramer vs. Kramer", although he should have won for "Midnight Cowboy".
@@howie9751 I know Steiger won
I just think that Hoffman should have won for the Graduate and should have won for Midnight Cowboy as well.
They really did have class back then, not like today.
Today i watch ' Separate Tables '
2019/10/31
Back when they were worth watching.
The most edge of your seat performance ever until Anthony Hopkins. David's soliloquy about children is bone chilling! His hiding something so monstrous gave him a well deserved Oscar. Well played mr. Niven! From bachelor mother to this? Bravo!
Erudite, urbane and bloody good looking too.
True it was a supporting role, but in those days stars weren't nominated for supporting actor Oscars and vice versa. Witness the fact that Wendy Hiller won for supporting actress for the same film. There are far worse best actor awards that this one.
Of course this was only his second greatest moment at the Oscars....
Actually, one best-supporting actor who was a star had already won: Jack Lemmon for "Mr Roberts." And it was a controversial win for many in the Academy who were featured players exclusively and thought only they should be considered in the category.
Jerry Louis. John Wayne. Paul Newman. David Niven. Irene Dern. .....
It's fascinating to compare what *actually* happened when Niven won the Oscar to the way he describes it in The Moon's A Balloon - he claimed he fell over on the stairs up to the stage, which got a big laugh from the audience, and then when he tried to explain it away he phrased it in a manner that made the audience think he was drunk, which got another huge laugh. Of course, when he wrote that, he did so safe in the knowledge that it had happened nearly 15 years earlier, nobody could remember what happened, and nobody had any easy way of actually going back to the original footage to see for themselves.
He similarly fictionalised his appearances in Barbary Coast and A Feather In Her Hat, both of which are easy to find now, and both of which bear pretty much no resemblance at all to what he claimed happened :)
His two books were all lies.
This isn't how he told it in The Moon's a Balloon!
Niven was widely known to embellish his anecdotes, and in some ways it did make for a better autobiography.
Well, that's the Moon's a Balloon ruined for me! How can we believe a single word of it? Perhaps Niven didn't think ahead to the age of UA-cam, but plenty of people witnessed that night! So disappointed. I don't agree with Animal House. If it isn't fact it shouldn't be in an autobiography. Lying doesn't make it better, it merely makes it fiction.
Tricia Markham
I understand why you'd disagree with me. But he didn't necessarily lie with his stories, but I've heard that he spiced them up to make them more appealing. However, a large amount of the stories that appeared in Moon's a Balloon were absolutely true, and amazing. He did leave an amazing life regardless.
+McDonaldNACD One person said that you would be laughing hysterically at one of David's stories and then remember that the incident wasn't nearly as funny when you were there. The stories were true. The telling was a work of art.
He was a great wit and raconteur. The stories were true in essence, but he embellished them for humour, mostly against himself. Don’t knock him for making people laugh. He clearly wanted everyone to like him and we did.
Tony Curtis was great in 'The Defiant Ones' but I think the win here
was a sentimental one.
"what have i done"
I wouldn't compare this performance to Ray Milland's in 'The Lost Weekend',
Ray Milland was magnificent in 'The Lost Weekend'.
His only competition was Crosby who won the previous year. Cornel wilde who?
I've seen the Lost Weekend. I hated the movie. I heard that Billy Wilder who directed Lost Weekend didn't like film. Vastly overrated. Ray Milland who won best actor is like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He is not drinking he is fine. He is clean, hard working and articulate. As soon as he has a few he turns into Mr. Hyde, mean, nasty to others and full of melodramatic overacting complete with clutching his throat and going crazy when he has had too much to drink.
He says in his autobiography he fell going to collect the award and she helped him up 🤔
The Duke was 52, Irene Dunne was 61.
Irene always looked gorgeous! Especially in love affair and Theodora. Stunning!
don't you know about quality over quantity?
it should have gone: 1. Mr. Newman (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 2. Curtiz (The Defient Ones 3. Poitier (the defiant ones 4. Niven (Seperate Tables 5. Tracy (the old man and the sea)
Not in my opinion. But actually, Jimmy Stewart is my fourth favorite actor OF ALL TIME & he should have won for both Mr. Smith Goes To Washington and Its a Wonderful Life
He should have won at this awards season for his performance in Vertigo, but he wasn’t even nominated.
Cat on a hot tin roof
Back when the Oscars and Hollywood were without virtue signalling, lefty cretins. Decent, humble, respectful and full of joy. Pure class
This belonged to James Stewart for Vertigo
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Oh, come on, people. Newman wasn't that good in Cat. i've seen much better Bricks. It's yet another example of fans wanting the biggest star to win. It could be argued that Mr Niven's part as the shamed major in Separate Tables was too small to win in the lead category, but there was nothing small about the performance which is the best of his career. A great study of a lifelong fraud reduced overnight from a practiced self-importance to utter degradation. The New York Film Critics Circle agreed w/ the academy that year, naming him best actor as well. What you should be complaining about is that James Stewart was denied a nomination for Vertigo.
Agree, I am a Paul Newman fan but wasn't crazy about his performance in Cat
Biggest star?? If that's the case then people would have wanted Spencer Tracy to win. Paul Newman had just about come on the big scene. But I still think, Paul Newman deserved that Oscar
David Niven gave a great performance Irene Dunne was the most glaring example of a great starvicerkkoked. Dunne was a convservatuve Catholic
David Niven won in 1958 not 1959
As the impecunious fraud, Major Pollack, David Niven was on screen for only 23 minutes & 39 seconds in 'Separate Tables' (1958). This is still the shortest screen time of any actor who has won the Best Actor Oscar.
Niven is good, though not the best thing in this fine movie. That accolade, IMO, goes to Deborah Kerr as mousy, mother dominated, Sybil Railton-Bell. She plays against type and shows her range. He plays a variation on his type that is within his range.
Niven should have won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance the previous year in Mark Todd's star studded travelogue 'Around The World In 80 Days' (1956) His Phineas Fogg is a tour de force that carries the movie.
Could it be that the Academy recognised a mistake had been made and made up for it a year later? Maybe. Just maybe.
An undeserved award.
God I miss Jerry Lewis
Jimmy Stewart was snubbed.
I enjoyed the performances of David Niven in The Guns Of Navarone, The Pink Panther and various other films, but this was more of a sentimental award. Tony Curtis was very disappointed in not winning for The Defiant Ones, although he was better in Sweet Smell Of Success. Was this the year that Andy Griffith should have been nominated for A Face In The Crowd?
Well David was only in Separate Tables for 16 minutes.
This belolonged to the incredible genius Mr. Newman for hes incredile performance playing pollit! Niven was the second or the third best of the nominees imo. Curtis is also the third or second best, potier was the fourth best of the nominees for the defant ones, aaand Tracy was the fifth and worst of the nominees and dont deserved to be on there! Dont get me wrong I LOVE Mr. Tracy but hes performance as the old man was not one of hes best, imo. I called Curtis more supporting than lead character for the defiant ones, so I nominated him for supporting actor instead.
Orson welles should have won for touch of evil of course he wasnt nominated
He’s more of a supporting role than lead. I think he should win Supporting Actor and Jimmy Stewart in Vertigo for lead.
Deborah Kerr was better in the film.
Winner by default, as per two actors cancelling each other out; one already a double winner; a newcomer not yet worthy of the award...so, the actor who actually gave a supporting performance won.
Wonderful performance, but not exactly his most moving speech ...
Well that a bit of a disappointing speech. I was expecting a bit more from the man.. :(
What in recent years some have howled so this was normal 😆
Extremely good author as well.
Should of went to Alec Guinness for The Horse's Mouth.
Paul Newman should have won
I'm guessing you've never seen Separate Tables. His performance was superb.
***** Agreed, he was in the wrong category, like Timothy Hutton in Ordinary People and and Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs. Still i think Niven deserved it more than Newman.
I could not agree more, he was Amazing as Mr. Pollit.
+Stephanie Santos And I guess you havent seen cat on a hot tin roof. Mr. Newman performance was waay more suberb and incredible and amaxzing!
The real winner wasn’t even nominated which was Jimmy Stewart in Vertigo.
The camera cut away from John Wayne's face of relief at knowing he wouldn't have to shake Sidney Poitier's hand
Deborah Kerr should have won also
For best actor?
Did anyone notice John Wayne's reaction to hearing Sidney Poitier's name as one of the nominees? He was known as a racist. I can only imagine what his reaction would have been had Poitier had won
I didn’t see nothinh wrong with his reaction.
@@myaccount4699 His reaction was one of surprise as if to say ""hmmm?"
Well I did.
Interestingly enough- Sidney Poitier co- starred in a movie produced by John Wayne's production company, Batjac.
The movie was Good By My Lady and it was filmed 3 years before these Academy Awards in 1956. It starred Walter Brennan, the great actor who was also purported to be a bigot.
The truth is that many actors during that era were bigots. There were those who were not like Marlon Bando, Paul Newman, Anne Bancroft, Bette Davis etc... However, I would say that Sidney Poitier was also seen as one of "the good ones." by many Whites in Hollywood as well as the larger Americna society at the time..
David Niven's role in Separate Tables is more of a Supporting Role not a leading role.
I think you should have to be onscreen for more than 20 minutes to be eligible for a leading role Oscar. - this would disqualify Niven and Anthony Hopkins.
This would disqualify lee Marvin George Arliss Lionel Barrymore Spencer Tracy for captains courageous James Stewart Fredric March for the best years rod steiger Marlon Brando for the godfather peter finch Michael Douglas Jeremy Irons Geoffrey rush. All were on less than half of their films.
@@jamesmonroe7751 I think most of them have more than 20 minutes screen time though. It needs some basic guidelines - to reduce the category fraud wins in BOTH categories.
I also think it is the worst win in that category in history.
Is it because Jimmy Stewart wasn't nominated for his performance in Vertigo?
The speech was longer than his performance.
Niven was a decent enough actor, but his Best Actor victory for this performance was the worst win in the category's history.
This is the shortest Oscar winner in lead actor and was a supporting performance.
Excellent movie and Niven was good in his role but his performance winning the Oscar over Paul Newman in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is ridiculous.
A fantastic film