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The 31st National Board of Review Awards were announced in late December, 1959.

1. The Nun's Story
2. Ben-Hur
3. Anatomy of a Murder
4. The Diary of Anne Frank
5. Middle of the Night
6. The Man Who Understood Women
7. Some Like It Hot
8. Suddenly, Last Summer
9. On the Beach
10. North by Northwest

1. Wild Strawberries
2. Room at the Top
3. Aparajito
4. The Roof
5. Look Back in Anger

• Best Film: The Nun's Story
• Best Foreign Film: Wild Strawberries
• Best Actor: Victor Sjöström (Wild Strawberries)
• Best Actress: Simone Signoret (Room at the Top)
• Best Supporting Actor: Hugh Griffith (Ben-Hur)
• Best Supporting Actress: Edith Evans (The Nun's Story)
• Best Director: Fred Zinnemann (The Nun's Story)
• Special Citation: Ingmar Bergman; Andrew Marton, Yakima Canutt (Ben-Hur, for directing the chariot race)

• National Board of Review of Motion Pictures :: Awards for 1959