Academy Awards 1951

Best Picture

WINNER:
All About Eve: (20th Century Fox)

NOMINEES:
Born Yesterday: (Columbia)
Father of the Bride: (M-G-M)
King Solomon's Mines: (M-G-M)
Sunset Blvd.: (Paramount)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER:
Cyrano de Bergerac: José Ferrer

NOMINEES:
The Magnificent Yankee: Louis Calhern
Sunset Blvd.: William Holden
Harvey: James Stewart
Father of the Bride: Spencer Tracy

Best Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER:
Born Yesterday: Judy Holliday
Judy Holliday was not present at the awards ceremony. Ethel Barrymore accepted on her behalf.

NOMINEES:
All About Eve: Anne Baxter
All About Eve: Bette Davis
Caged: Eleanor Parker
Sunset Blvd.: Gloria Swanson

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER:
All About Eve: George Sanders

NOMINEES:
Broken Arrow: Jeff Chandler
Mister 880: Edmund Gwenn
The Asphalt Jungle: Sam Jaffe
Sunset Blvd.: Erich von Stroheim

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER:
Harvey: Josephine Hull

NOMINEES:
Caged: Hope Emerson
All About Eve: Celeste Holm
Sunset Blvd.: Nancy Olson
All About Eve: Thelma Ritter

Best Director

WINNER:
All About Eve: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

NOMINEES:
Born Yesterday: George Cukor
The Asphalt Jungle: John Huston
The Third Man: Carol Reed
Sunset Blvd.: Billy Wilder

Best Writing, Screenplay

WINNER:
All About Eve: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

NOMINEES:
The Asphalt Jungle: Ben Maddow, John Huston
Born Yesterday: Albert Mannheimer
Broken Arrow: Albert Maltz
Originally Michael Blankfort had been listed for this nomination. Blankfort fronted for Maltz, who was a blacklisted writer at the time. Following research by the Writers Guild of America West in July 1991, the Academy officially attributed the nomination to Maltz and removed Blankford.
Father of the Bride: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett

Best Writing, Motion Picture Story

WINNER:
Panic in the Streets: Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt

NOMINEES:
Riso amaro: Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani
The Gunfighter: William Bowers, André De Toth
Mystery Street: Leonard Spigelgass
When Willie Comes Marching Home: Sy Gomberg

Best Writing, Story and Screenplay

WINNER:
Sunset Blvd.: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr.

NOMINEES:
Adam's Rib: Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
Caged: Virginia Kellogg, Bernard C. Schoenfeld
The Men: Carl Foreman
No Way Out: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Lesser Samuels

Best Cinematography, Color

WINNER:
King Solomon's Mines: Robert Surtees

NOMINEES:
Annie Get Your Gun: Charles Rosher
Broken Arrow: Ernest Palmer
The Flame and the Arrow: Ernest Haller
Samson and Delilah: George Barnes

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

WINNER:
The Third Man: Robert Krasker

NOMINEES:
All About Eve: Milton R. Krasner
The Asphalt Jungle: Harold Rosson
The Furies: Victor Milner
Sunset Blvd.: John F. Seitz

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White

WINNER:
Sunset Blvd.: Hans Dreier, John Meehan, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer

NOMINEES:
All About Eve: Lyle R. Wheeler, George W. Davis, Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott
The Red Danube: Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color

WINNER:
Samson and Delilah: Hans Dreier, Walter H. Tyler, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer

NOMINEES:
Annie Get Your Gun: Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Richard Pefferle
Destination Moon: Ernst Fegté, George Sawley

Best Costume Design, Black-and-White

WINNER:
All About Eve: Edith Head, Charles Le Maire

NOMINEES:
Born Yesterday: Jean Louis
The Magnificent Yankee: Walter Plunkett

Best Costume Design, Color

WINNER:
Samson and Delilah: Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Eloise Jensson, Gile Steele, Gwen Wakeling

NOMINEES:
The Black Rose: Michael Whittaker
That Forsyte Woman: Walter Plunkett, Valles

Best Sound, Recording

WINNER:
All About Eve: (20th Century-Fox Sound Dept.)

NOMINEES:
Cinderella: (Disney Sound Dept.)
Louisa: (Universal-International Sound Dept.)
Our Very Own: (Goldwyn Sound Dept.)
Trio: Sydney Box (Rank)

Best Film Editing

WINNER:
King Solomon's Mines: Ralph E. Winters, Conrad A. Nervig

NOMINEES:
All About Eve: Barbara McLean
Annie Get Your Gun: James E. Newcom
Sunset Blvd.: Arthur P. Schmidt, Doane Harrison
The Third Man: Oswald Hafenrichter

Best Effects, Special Effects

WINNER:
Destination Moon: (George Pal Productions)

NOMINEE:
Samson and Delilah: (Cecil B. DeMille Productions)

Best Music, Original Song

WINNER:
Captain Carey, U.S.A.: Ray Evans, Jay Livingston
For the song "Mona Lisa"

NOMINEES:
The Toast of New Orleans: Nicholas Brodszky (music), Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
For the song "Be My Love"
Cinderella: Mack David, Al Hoffman, Jerry Livingston
For the song "Bibbidy-Bobbidi-Boo"
Singing Guns: Fred Glickman, Hy Heath, Johnny Lange
For the song "Mule Train"
Wabash Avenue: Josef Myrow (music), Mack Gordon (lyrics)
For the song "Wilhelmina"

Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture

WINNER:
Annie Get Your Gun: Adolph Deutsch, Roger Edens

NOMINEES:
Cinderella: Oliver Wallace, Paul J. Smith
I'll Get By: Lionel Newman
Three Little Words: André Previn
The West Point Story: Ray Heindorf

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

WINNER:
Sunset Blvd.: Franz Waxman

NOMINEES:
All About Eve: Alfred Newman
The Flame and the Arrow: Max Steiner
No Sad Songs for Me: George Duning
Samson and Delilah: Victor Young

Best Short Subject, Two-reel

WINNER:
Beaver Valley: Walt Disney

NOMINEES:
Grandma Moses: (Falcon Films Inc.)
My Country 'Tis of Thee: Gordon Hollingshead

Best Short Subject, One-reel

WINNER:
Granddad of Races: Gordon Hollingshead

NOMINEES:
Blaze Busters: Robert Youngson
Wrong Way Butch: Pete Smith

Best Short Subject, Cartoons

WINNER:
Gerald McBoing-Boing: Stephen Bosustow

NOMINEES:
Jerry's Cousin: Fred Quimby
Trouble Indemnity: Stephen Bosustow

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

WINNER:
Why Korea?: Edmund Reek

NOMINEES:
The Fight: Science Against Cancer: (National Film Board of Canada, Medical Film Institute of the Association of American Medical Colleges)
The Stairs: (Film Documents Inc.)

Best Documentary, Features

WINNER:
The Titan: Story of Michelangelo: Robert Snyder

NOMINEE:
With These Hands: Jack Arnold, Lee Goodman

Honorary Award

WINNERS:
George Murphy
For his services in interpreting the film industry to the country at large.
Louis B. Mayer
For distinguished service to the motion picture industry.
Le mura die Malapaga
France/Italy. Voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States in 1950.

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

WINNER:
Darryl F. Zanuck

Academy Award of Merit

WINNER:

Not awarded.

Scientific and Engineering Award

WINNERS:
James B. Gordon (20th Century-Fox Studio Camera Dept.)
For the design and development of a multiple-image film viewer.
John P. Livadary, Floyd Campbell, L.W. Russell (Columbia SSD)
For the development of a multi-track magnetic re-recording system.
Loren L. Ryder (Paramount SSD)
For the first studio-wide application of magnetic sound recording to motion picture production.

Technical Achievement Award

WINNER:

Not awarded.

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