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Academy Awards, USA 1951

Event held on 29 March 1951 in RKO Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA

Oscar

Best Picture

Won

All About Eve (1950)

Nominated

Born Yesterday (1950)

Nominated

Father of the Bride (1950)

Nominated

King Solomon's Mines (1950)

Nominated

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Won

Cyrano de Bergerac (1950), José Ferrer

Nominated

Father of the Bride (1950), Spencer Tracy

Nominated

Harvey (1950), James Stewart

Nominated

The Magnificent Yankee (1950), Louis Calhern

Nominated

Sunset Blvd. (1950), William Holden

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Won

Born Yesterday (1950), Judy Holliday

Nominated

All About Eve (1950), Anne Baxter

Nominated

All About Eve (1950), Bette Davis

Nominated

Caged (1950), Eleanor Parker

Nominated

Sunset Blvd. (1950), Gloria Swanson

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Won

All About Eve (1950), George Sanders

Nominated

The Asphalt Jungle (1950), Sam Jaffe

Nominated

Broken Arrow (1950), Jeff Chandler

Nominated

Mister 880 (1950), Edmund Gwenn

Nominated

Sunset Blvd. (1950), Erich von Stroheim

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Won

Harvey (1950), Josephine Hull

Nominated

All About Eve (1950), Celeste Holm

Nominated

All About Eve (1950), Thelma Ritter

Nominated

Caged (1950), Hope Emerson

Nominated

Sunset Blvd. (1950), Nancy Olson

Best Director

Won

All About Eve (1950), Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Nominated

The Asphalt Jungle (1950), John Huston

Nominated

Born Yesterday (1950), George Cukor

Nominated

Sunset Blvd. (1950), Billy Wilder

Nominated

The Third Man (1949), Carol Reed

Best Writing, Story and Screenplay

Won

Sunset Blvd. (1950), Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr.

Nominated

Adam's Rib (1949), Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin

Nominated

Caged (1950), Virginia Kellogg, Bernard C. Schoenfeld

Nominated

The Men (1950), Carl Foreman

Nominated

No Way Out (1950), Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Lesser Samuels

Best Writing, Motion Picture Story

Won

Panic in the Streets (1950), Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt

Nominated

The Gunfighter (1950), William Bowers, André De Toth

Nominated

Mystery Street (1950), Leonard Spigelgass

Nominated

Bitter Rice (1949), Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani

Nominated

When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950), Sy Gomberg

Best Writing, Screenplay

Won

All About Eve (1950), Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Nominated

The Asphalt Jungle (1950), Ben Maddow, John Huston

Nominated

Born Yesterday (1950), Albert Mannheimer

Nominated

Broken Arrow (1950), Albert Maltz

Nominated

Father of the Bride (1950), Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

Won

The Third Man (1949), Robert Krasker

Nominated

All About Eve (1950), Milton R. Krasner

Nominated

The Asphalt Jungle (1950), Harold Rosson

Nominated

The Furies (1950), Victor Milner

Nominated

Sunset Blvd. (1950), John F. Seitz

Best Cinematography, Color

Won

King Solomon's Mines (1950), Robert Surtees

Nominated

Annie Get Your Gun (1950), Charles Rosher

Nominated

Broken Arrow (1950), Ernest Palmer

Nominated

The Flame and the Arrow (1950), Ernest Haller

Nominated

Samson and Delilah (1949), George Barnes

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color

Won

Samson and Delilah (1949), Hans Dreier, Walter H. Tyler, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer

Nominated

Annie Get Your Gun (1950), Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Richard Pefferle

Nominated

Destination Moon (1950), Ernst Fegté, George Sawley

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

Won

Sunset Blvd. (1950), Hans Dreier, John Meehan, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer

Nominated

All About Eve (1950), Lyle R. Wheeler, George W. Davis, Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott

Nominated

The Red Danube (1949), Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt

Best Costume Design, Color

Won

Samson and Delilah (1949), Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Eloise Jensson, Gile Steele, Gwen Wakeling

Nominated

The Black Rose (1950), Michael Whittaker

Nominated

That Forsyte Woman (1949), Walter Plunkett, Valles

Best Costume Design, Black-and-White

Won

All About Eve (1950), Edith Head, Charles Le Maire

Nominated

Born Yesterday (1950), Jean Louis

Nominated

The Magnificent Yankee (1950), Walter Plunkett

Best Sound, Recording

Won

All About Eve (1950)

Nominated

Cinderella (1950)

Nominated

Louisa (1950)

Nominated

Our Very Own (1950)

Nominated

Trio (1950), Sydney Box

Best Film Editing

Won

King Solomon's Mines (1950), Ralph E. Winters, Conrad A. Nervig

Nominated

All About Eve (1950), Barbara McLean

Nominated

Annie Get Your Gun (1950), James E. Newcom

Nominated

Sunset Blvd. (1950), Arthur P. Schmidt, Doane Harrison

Nominated

The Third Man (1949), Oswald Hafenrichter

Best Effects, Special Effects

Won

Destination Moon (1950)

Nominated

Samson and Delilah (1949)

Best Music, Original Song

Won

Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950), Ray Evans, Jay Livingston

Nominated

Cinderella (1950), Mack David, Al Hoffman, Jerry Livingston

Nominated

Singing Guns (1950), Fred Glickman, Hy Heath, Johnny Lange

Nominated

The Toast of New Orleans (1950), Nicholas Brodszky, Sammy Cahn

Nominated

Wabash Avenue (1950), Josef Myrow, Mack Gordon

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

Won

Sunset Blvd. (1950), Franz Waxman

Nominated

All About Eve (1950), Alfred Newman

Nominated

The Flame and the Arrow (1950), Max Steiner

Nominated

No Sad Songs for Me (1950), George Duning

Nominated

Samson and Delilah (1949), Victor Young

Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture

Won

Annie Get Your Gun (1950), Adolph Deutsch, Roger Edens

Nominated

Cinderella (1950), Oliver Wallace, Paul J. Smith

Nominated

I'll Get By (1950), Lionel Newman

Nominated

Three Little Words (1950), André Previn

Nominated

The West Point Story (1950), Ray Heindorf

Best Short Subject, Cartoons

Won

Gerald McBoing-Boing (1951), Stephen Bosustow

Nominated

Jerry's Cousin (1951), Fred Quimby

Nominated

Trouble Indemnity (1950), Stephen Bosustow

Best Short Subject, Two-reel

Won

Beaver Valley (1950), Walt Disney

Nominated

Grandma Moses (1950)

Nominated

My Country 'Tis of Thee (1950), Gordon Hollingshead

Best Short Subject, One-reel

Won

Grandad of Races (1950), Gordon Hollingshead

Nominated

Blaze Busters (1950), Robert Youngson

Nominated

Wrong Way Butch (1950), Pete Smith

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

Won

Why Korea? (1951), Edmund Reek

Nominated

The Fight: Science Against Cancer (1950)

Nominated

The Stairs (1950)

Best Documentary, Features

Won

The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950), Robert Snyder

Nominated

With These Hands (1950), Jack Arnold, Lee Goodman

Honorary Award

Won

Louis B. Mayer

Won

George Murphy

Won

The Walls of Malapaga (1949)

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Won

Darryl F. Zanuck

Academy Award of Merit

Won

Scientific and Engineering Award

Won

James B. Gordon

Won

John P. Livadary, Floyd Campbell

Won

Loren L. Ryder

Technical Achievement Award

Won

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