1959 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film Nominees

Anatomy of a Murder
Otto Preminger

Conflagration
Kon Ichikawa

Double Agents
Robert Hossein

Esterina
Carlo Lizzani

Leda
Claude Chabrol

Life in Your Hands
Nikolai Rozantsev

Pociag
Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Sleepless Years
Félix Máriássy

Some Like It Hot
Billy Wilder

Sonatas
Juan Antonio Bardem

Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?
Frank Wisbar

The Boy and the Bridge
Kevin McClory
