Academy Awards 1952

Best Picture

WINNER:
An American in Paris: Arthur Freed

NOMINEES:
Decision Before Dawn: Anatole Litvak, Frank McCarthy
A Place in the Sun: George Stevens
Quo Vadis: Sam Zimbalist
A Streetcar Named Desire: Charles K. Feldman

Best Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER:
The African Queen: Humphrey Bogart

NOMINEES:
A Streetcar Named Desire: Marlon Brando
A Place in the Sun: Montgomery Clift
Bright Victory: Arthur Kennedy
Death of a Salesman: Fredric March

Best Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER:
A Streetcar Named Desire: Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh was not present at the awards ceremony. Greer Garson accepted on her behalf.

NOMINEES:
The African Queen: Katharine Hepburn
Detective Story: Eleanor Parker
A Place in the Sun: Shelley Winters
The Blue Veil: Jane Wyman

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER:
A Streetcar Named Desire: Karl Malden

NOMINEES:
Quo Vadis: Leo Genn
Death of a Salesman: Kevin McCarthy
Quo Vadis: Peter Ustinov
Come Fill the Cup: Gig Young

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER:
A Streetcar Named Desire: Kim Hunter
Kim Hunter was not present at the awards ceremony. Bette Davis accepted on her behalf.

NOMINEES:
The Blue Veil: Joan Blondell
Death of a Salesman: Mildred Dunnock
Detective Story: Lee Grant
The Mating Season: Thelma Ritter

Best Director

WINNER:
A Place in the Sun: George Stevens

NOMINEES:
The African Queen: John Huston
A Streetcar Named Desire: Elia Kazan
An American in Paris: Vincente Minnelli
Detective Story: William Wyler

Best Writing, Screenplay

WINNER:
A Place in the Sun: Michael Wilson, Harry Brown

NOMINEES:
The African Queen: James Agee, John Huston
Detective Story: Philip Yordan, Robert Wyler
La ronde: Jacques Natanson, Max Ophüls
A Streetcar Named Desire: Tennessee Williams

Best Writing, Motion Picture Story

WINNER:
Seven Days to Noon: Paul Dehn, James Bernard

NOMINEES:
Bullfighter and the Lady: Budd Boetticher, Ray Nazarro
The Frogmen: Oscar Millard
Here Comes the Groom: Robert Riskin, Liam O'Brien
Teresa: Alfred Hayes, Stewart Stern

Best Writing, Story and Screenplay

WINNER:
An American in Paris: Alan Jay Lerner

NOMINEES:
Ace in the Hole: Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, Walter Newman
David and Bathsheba: Philip Dunne
Go for Broke!: Robert Pirosh
The Well: Clarence Greene, Russell Rouse

Best Cinematography, Color

WINNER:
An American in Paris: Alfred Gilks, John Alton

NOMINEES:
David and Bathsheba: Leon Shamroy
Quo Vadis: Robert Surtees, William V. Skall
Show Boat: Charles Rosher
When Worlds Collide: John F. Seitz, W. Howard Greene

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

WINNER:
A Place in the Sun: William C. Mellor

NOMINEES:
Death of a Salesman: Franz Planer
The Frogmen: Norbert Brodine
Strangers on a Train: Robert Burks
A Streetcar Named Desire: Harry Stradling Sr.

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

WINNER:
A Streetcar Named Desire: Richard Day, George James Hopkins

NOMINEES:
Fourteen Hours: Lyle R. Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Thomas Little, Fred J. Rode
The House on Telegraph Hill: Lyle R. Wheeler, John DeCuir, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox
La ronde: Jean d'Eaubonne
Too Young to Kiss: Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color

WINNER:
An American in Paris: Cedric Gibbons, E. Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason

NOMINEES:
David and Bathsheba: Lyle R. Wheeler, George W. Davis, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox
On the Riviera: Lyle R. Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Joseph C. Wright, Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott
Quo Vadis: William A. Horning, Cedric Gibbons, Edward C. Carfagno, Hugh Hunt
The Tales of Hoffmann: Hein Heckroth

Best Costume Design, Black-and-White

WINNER:
A Place in the Sun: Edith Head

NOMINEES:
Kind Lady: Walter Plunkett, Gile Steele
The Model and the Marriage Broker: Charles Le Maire, Renié
The Mudlark: Edward Stevenson, Margaret Furse
A Streetcar Named Desire: Lucinda Ballard

Best Costume Design, Color

WINNER:
An American in Paris: Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett, Irene Sharaff

NOMINEES:
David and Bathsheba: Charles Le Maire, Edward Stevenson
The Great Caruso: Helen Rose, Gile Steele
Quo Vadis: Herschel McCoy
The Tales of Hoffmann: Hein Heckroth

Best Sound, Recording

WINNER:
The Great Caruso: Douglas Shearer (M-G-M)

NOMINEES:
Bright Victory: Leslie I. Carey (U-I)
I Want You: Gordon Sawyer (Goldwyn)
A Streetcar Named Desire: Nathan Levinson (Warner Bros.)
Two Tickets to Broadway: John Aalberg (RKO Radio)

Best Film Editing

WINNER:
A Place in the Sun: William Hornbeck

NOMINEES:
An American in Paris: Adrienne Fazan
Decision Before Dawn: Dorothy Spencer
Quo Vadis: Ralph E. Winters
The Well: Chester W. Schaeffer

Best Effects, Special Effects

WINNER:
When Worlds Collide: (Paramount)

Best Music, Original Song

WINNER:
Here Comes the Groom: Hoagy Carmichael (music), Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
For the song "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening"

NOMINEES:
The Strip: Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Oscar Hammerstein II
For the song "A Kiss to Build a Dream on"
Golden Girl: Lionel Newman (music), Eliot Daniel (lyrics)
For the song "Never"
Royal Wedding: Burton Lane (music), Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics)
For the song "Too Late Now"
Rich, Young and Pretty: Nicholas Brodszky (music), Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
For the song "Wonder Why"

Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture

WINNER:
An American in Paris: Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin

NOMINEES:
Alice in Wonderland: Oliver Wallace
The Great Caruso: Peter Herman Adler, Johnny Green
On the Riviera: Alfred Newman
Show Boat: Adolph Deutsch, Conrad Salinger

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

WINNER:
A Place in the Sun: Franz Waxman

NOMINEES:
David and Bathsheba: Alfred Newman
Death of a Salesman: Alex North
Quo Vadis: Miklós Rózsa
A Streetcar Named Desire: Alex North

Best Short Subject, Two-reel

WINNER:
Nature's Half Acre: Walt Disney

NOMINEES:
Balzac: (Les Films du Compass)
Danger Under the Sea: Tom Mead

Best Short Subject, One-reel

WINNER:
World of Kids: Robert Youngson

NOMINEES:
Grantland Rice Sportscope R-11-2: Ridin' the Rails: Jack Eaton
The Story of Time: Robert G. Leffingwell

Best Short Subject, Cartoons

WINNER:
The Two Mouseketeers: Fred Quimby

NOMINEES:
Lambert the Sheepish Lion: Walt Disney
Rooty Toot Toot: Stephen Bosustow

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

WINNER:
Benjy: Fred Zinnemann

NOMINEES:
One Who Came Back: Owen Crump
The Seeing Eye: Gordon Hollingshead

Best Documentary, Features

WINNER:
Kon-Tiki: Olle Nordemar

NOMINEE:
I Was a Communist for the FBI: Bryan Foy

Honorary Award

WINNERS:
Gene Kelly
In appreciation of his versatility as an actor, singer, director and dancer, and specifically for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film.
Rashômon
Japan. Voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1951.

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

WINNER:
Arthur Freed

Academy Award of Merit

WINNER:

Not awarded.

Scientific and Engineering Award

WINNERS:
Gordon Jennings, S.L. Stancliffe (Paramount Studio Special Photographic and Engineering Departments)
For the design, construction and application of a servo-operated recording and repeating device.
Olin L. Dupy (M-G-M Studio)
For the design, construction and application of a motion picture reproducing system.
(Radio Corp. of America, Victor Division)
For pioneering direct positive recording with anticipatory noise reduction.

Technical Achievement Award

WINNERS:
Richard M. Haff, Frank P. Herrnfeld, Garland C. Misener (Ansco Film Division of General Aniline and Film Corp.)
For the development of the Ansco color scene tester.
Fred Ponedel (Warner Bros. Studio), Ralph Ayres (Warner Bros. Studio), George Brown (Warner Bros. Studio)
For an air-driven water motor to provide flow, wake and white water for marine sequences in motion pictures.
Glen Robinson (M-G-M Studio Construction Dept.)
For the development of a new music wire and cable cutter.
Jack Gaylord (M-G-M Studio Construction Dept.)
For the development of balsa falling snow.
Carlos Rivas (M-G-M Studio)
For the development of an automatic magnetic film splicer.

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