In 1958, Stanley Kramer's excellent interracial drama “The Defiant Ones” (arguably his greatest directorial achievement) competed with four other films for the Best Picture: The old-fashioned melodrama “Separate Tables,” the musical “Auntie Mame,” the screen version of Tennessee Williams's “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” and Minnelli's musical “Gigi,” which swept most of the Oscars (including Best Director).

In 1958, the old-fashioned melodrama “Separate Tables” competed with four other films for the Best Picture: the musical “Auntie Mame,” the screen version of Tennessee Williams's “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” Stanley Kramer's “The Defiant Ones” (arguably his greatest directorial achievement), Minnelli's musical “Gigi,” which swept most of the Oscars (including Best Director).

One of the biggest Oscar losers, in 1958, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof competed with four other films for the top award: the musical “Auntie Mame,” “Stanley Kramer's “The Defiant Ones” (arguably his greatest directorial achievement), Minnelli's musical “Gigi,” which swept most of the Oscars (including Best Director), and the old-fashioned melodrama, “Separate Tables.”

April 19, 2007–TNT and TBS have renewed their agreement with the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) to continue carrying the Screen Actors Guild Awards, which will be be simulcast live on TNT and TBS from the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center Sunday, January 27, 2008, at 8 pm ET/PT, 7 pm CT and 6 pm MT.

Bette Davis won a second Oscar for “Jezebel, as the rich, spoiled and willful Julie Marsden, a role was originated on stage by Miriam Hopkins.