32th Academy Awards (1960) - Movies from 1959 - Best Leading Actor

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32th Academy Awards (1960) - Movies from 1959

Nominees - Best Leading Actor

Winner

Charlton Heston

Ben-Hur (1959) United States

William Wyler

Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott

12 nominations 11 Awards

James Stewart

Anatomy of a Murder (1959) United States

Otto Preminger

James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell, George C. Scott, Eve Arden

Paul Muni

The Last Angry Man (1959) United States

Daniel Mann

Paul Muni, David Wayne, Betsy Palmer, Luther Adler, Joby Baker, Joanna Cook Moore

Laurence Harvey

Room at the Top (1959) United Kingdom

Jack Clayton

Simone Signoret, Laurence Harvey, Heather Sears, Hermione Baddeley, Donal Wolfit, Ambrosine Phillpotts

6 nominations 2 Awards

Jack Lemmon

Some Like It Hot (1959) United States

Billy Wilder

Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown

6 nominations 1 Award