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Academy Awards, USA: 1951

Oscar

Date:	29 March
Host:	Fred Astaire
Location:	RKO Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA
Notes:	Many of the nominees are in New York. They are holding a party at the La Zambra café - with which the awards ceremony sets up an open-circuit broadcast line in case any of the winners were in attendance there. Best Actor winner José Ferrer (I) actually is in New York and delivers his acceptance speech to the Hollywood audience in this manner.

Best Picture


Winner:
	All About Eve (1950) - 20th Century Fox
Other Nominees:
	Born Yesterday (1950) - Columbia Father of the Bride (1950) - M-G-M King Solomon's Mines (1950) - M-G-M Sunset Blvd. (1950) - Paramount

Best Actor in a Leading Role


Winner:
	Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) - José Ferrer (I)
Other Nominees:
	Father of the Bride (1950) - Spencer Tracy Harvey (1950) - James Stewart (I) Magnificent Yankee, The (1950) - Louis Calhern Sunset Blvd. (1950) - William Holden (I)

Best Actress in a Leading Role


Winner:
	Born Yesterday (1950) - Judy Holliday - Judy Holliday was not present at the awards ceremony. Ethel Barrymore accepted on her behalf.
Other Nominees:
	All About Eve (1950) - Anne Baxter All About Eve (1950) - Bette Davis Caged (1950) - Eleanor Parker (I) Sunset Blvd. (1950) - Gloria Swanson

Best Actor in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	All About Eve (1950) - George Sanders (I)
Other Nominees:
	Asphalt Jungle, The (1950) - Sam Jaffe (I) Broken Arrow (1950) - Jeff Chandler (I) Mister 880 (1950) - Edmund Gwenn Sunset Blvd. (1950) - Erich von Stroheim

Best Actress in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	Harvey (1950) - Josephine Hull
Other Nominees:
	All About Eve (1950) - Celeste Holm All About Eve (1950) - Thelma Ritter Caged (1950) - Hope Emerson Sunset Blvd. (1950) - Nancy Olson

Best Director


Winner:
	All About Eve (1950) - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Other Nominees:
	Asphalt Jungle, The (1950) - John Huston (I) Born Yesterday (1950) - George Cukor Sunset Blvd. (1950) - Billy Wilder Third Man, The (1949) - Carol Reed (I)

Best Writing, Story and Screenplay


Winner:
	Sunset Blvd. (1950) - Charles Brackett; Billy Wilder; D.M. Marshman Jr.
Other Nominees:
	Adam's Rib (1949) - Ruth Gordon (I); Garson Kanin Caged (1950) - Virginia Kellogg; Bernard C. Schoenfeld Men, The (1950) - Carl Foreman (I) No Way Out (1950) - Joseph L. Mankiewicz; Lesser Samuels

Best Writing, Motion Picture Story


Winner:
	Panic in the Streets (1950) - Edna Anhalt; Edward Anhalt
Other Nominees:
	Gunfighter, The (1950) - William Bowers (I); André De Toth Mystery Street (1950) - Leonard Spigelgass Riso amaro (1949) - Giuseppe De Santis; Carlo Lizzani When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950) - Sy Gomberg

Best Writing, Screenplay


Winner:
	All About Eve (1950) - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Other Nominees:
	Asphalt Jungle, The (1950) - Ben Maddow; John Huston (I) Born Yesterday (1950) - Albert Mannheimer Broken Arrow (1950) - 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 (1950) - Frances Goodrich; Albert Hackett

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White


Winner:
	Third Man, The (1949) - Robert Krasker
Other Nominees:
	All About Eve (1950) - Milton R. Krasner Asphalt Jungle, The (1950) - Harold Rosson Furies, The (1950) - Victor Milner Sunset Blvd. (1950) - John F. Seitz

Best Cinematography, Color


Winner:
	King Solomon's Mines (1950) - Robert Surtees
Other Nominees:
	Annie Get Your Gun (1950) - Charles Rosher Broken Arrow (1950) - Ernest Palmer (I) Flame and the Arrow, The (1950) - Ernest Haller Samson and Delilah (1949) - George Barnes (I)

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color


Winner:
	Samson and Delilah (1949) - Hans Dreier; Walter H. Tyler; Sam Comer; Ray Moyer (I)
Other Nominees:
	Annie Get Your Gun (1950) - Cedric Gibbons; Paul Groesse; Edwin B. Willis; Richard Pefferle Destination Moon (1950) - Ernst Fegté; George Sawley

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


Winner:
	Sunset Blvd. (1950) - Hans Dreier; John Meehan (III); Sam Comer; Ray Moyer (I)
Other Nominees:
	All About Eve (1950) - Lyle R. Wheeler; George W. Davis; Thomas Little (I); Walter M. Scott Red Danube, The (1949) - Cedric Gibbons; Hans Peters (I); Edwin B. Willis; Hugh Hunt (I)

Best Costume Design, Color


Winner:
	Samson and Delilah (1949) - Edith Head; Dorothy Jeakins; Eloise Jensson; Gile Steele; Gwen Wakeling
Other Nominees:
	Black Rose, The (1950) - Michael Whittaker (II) That Forsyte Woman (1949) - Walter Plunkett; Valles

Best Costume Design, Black-and-White


Winner:
	All About Eve (1950) - Edith Head; Charles Le Maire
Other Nominees:
	Born Yesterday (1950) - Jean Louis (I) Magnificent Yankee, The (1950) - Walter Plunkett

Best Sound, Recording


Winner:
	All About Eve (1950) - 20th Century-Fox Sound Dept.
Other Nominees:
	Cinderella (1950) - Disney Sound Dept. Louisa (1950) - Universal-International Sound Dept. Our Very Own (1950) - Goldwyn Sound Dept. Trio (1950) - Sydney Box (Rank)

Best Film Editing


Winner:
	King Solomon's Mines (1950) - Ralph E. Winters; Conrad A. Nervig
Other Nominees:
	All About Eve (1950) - Barbara McLean (I) Annie Get Your Gun (1950) - James E. Newcom Sunset Blvd. (1950) - Arthur P. Schmidt; Doane Harrison Third Man, The (1949) - Oswald Hafenrichter

Best Effects, Special Effects


Winner:
	Destination Moon (1950) - George Pal Productions
Other Nominees:
	Samson and Delilah (1949) - Cecil B. DeMille Productions

Best Music, Original Song


Winner:
	Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950) - Ray Evans (I); Jay Livingston - For the song "Mona Lisa"
Other Nominees:
	Cinderella (1950) - Mack David; Al Hoffman; Jerry Livingston - For the song "Bibbidy-Bobbidi-Boo" Singing Guns (1950) - Fred Glickman; Hy Heath; Johnny Lange - For the song "Mule Train" Toast of New Orleans, The (1950) - Nicholas Brodszky (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics) - For the song "Be My Love" Wabash Avenue (1950) - Josef Myrow (music); Mack Gordon (lyrics) - For the song "Wilhelmina"

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture


Winner:
	Sunset Blvd. (1950) - Franz Waxman
Other Nominees:
	All About Eve (1950) - Alfred Newman Flame and the Arrow, The (1950) - Max Steiner (I) No Sad Songs for Me (1950) - George Duning Samson and Delilah (1949) - Victor Young (I)

Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture


Winner:
	Annie Get Your Gun (1950) - Adolph Deutsch; Roger Edens
Other Nominees:
	Cinderella (1950) - Oliver Wallace; Paul J. Smith (III) I'll Get By (1950) - Lionel Newman Three Little Words (1950) - André Previn West Point Story, The (1950) - Ray Heindorf

Best Short Subject, Cartoons


Winner:
	Gerald McBoing-Boing (1951) - Stephen Bosustow
Other Nominees:
	Jerry's Cousin (1951) - Fred Quimby Trouble Indemnity (1950) - Stephen Bosustow

Best Short Subject, Two-reel


Winner:
	Beaver Valley (1950) - Walt Disney
Other Nominees:
	Grandma Moses (1950) - Falcon Films Inc. My Country 'Tis of Thee (1950) - Gordon Hollingshead

Best Short Subject, One-reel


Winner:
	Granddad of Races (1950) - Gordon Hollingshead
Other Nominees:
	Blaze Busters (1950) - Robert Youngson Wrong Way Butch (1950) - Pete Smith (I)

Best Documentary, Short Subjects


Winner:
	Why Korea? (1951) - Edmund Reek
Other Nominees:
	Fight: Science Against Cancer, The (1950) - National Film Board of Canada; Medical Film Institute of the Association of American Medical Colleges Stairs, The (1950) - Film Documents Inc.

Best Documentary, Features


Winner:
	Titan: Story of Michelangelo, The (1950) - Robert Snyder (I)
Other Nominees:
	With These Hands (1950) - Jack Arnold (I); Lee Goodman (II)

Honorary Award


Awarded to:
	Louis B. Mayer - For distinguished service to the motion picture industry. George Murphy (I) - For his services in interpreting the film industry to the country at large. Mura di Malapaga, Le (1949) - 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


Awarded to:
	Darryl F. Zanuck

Academy Award of Merit


Winner:
	- Not awarded.

Scientific and Engineering Award


Winners:
	James B. Gordon (II); 20th Century-Fox Studio Camera Dept. - For the design and development of a multiple-image film viewer. John P. Livadary; Floyd Campbell (I); 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.