1951 Oscars 23rd Academy Awards |
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| 1951 Oscar Nominees and Winners |
| Best Motion Picture: All About Eve – Darryl F. Zanuck for 20th Century Fox (WINNER) Born Yesterday – S. Sylvan Simon for Columbia Pictures Father of the Bride – Pandro S. Berman for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer King Solomon’s Mines – Sam Zimbalist for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Sunset Boulevard – Charles Brackett for Paramount Pictures |
| Best Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz – All About Eve (WINNER) John Huston – The Asphalt Jungle George Cukor – Born Yesterday Billy Wilder – Sunset Boulevard Carol Reed – The Third Man |
| Best Actor: José Ferrer – Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac (WINNER) Louis Calhern – The Magnificent Yankee as Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. William Holden – Sunset Boulevard as Joe Gillis James Stewart – Harvey as Elwood P. Dowd Spencer Tracy – Father of the Bride as Stanley T. Banks |
| Best Actress: Judy Holliday – Born Yesterday as Emma “Billie” Dawn (WINNER) Anne Baxter – All About Eve as Eve Harrington Bette Davis – All About Eve as Margo Channing Eleanor Parker – Caged as Marie Allen Gloria Swanson – Sunset Boulevard as Norma Desmond |
| Best Supporting Actor: George Sanders – All About Eve as Addison DeWitt (WINNER) Jeff Chandler – Broken Arrow as Cochise Edmund Gwenn – Mister 880 as “Skipper” Miller Sam Jaffe – The Asphalt Jungle as “Doc” Erwin Riedenschneider Erich von Stroheim – Sunset Boulevard as Max von Mayerling |
| Best Supporting Actress: Josephine Hull – Harvey as Veta Louise Simmons (WINNER) Hope Emerson – Caged as Evelyn Harper Celeste Holm – All About Eve as Karen Richards Nancy Olson – Sunset Boulevard as Betty Schaefer Thelma Ritter – All About Eve as Birdie |
| Best Screenplay: All About Eve – Joseph L. Mankiewicz from “The Wisdom of Eve” by Mary Orr (WINNER) The Asphalt Jungle – Ben Maddow and John Huston from The Asphalt Jungle by W. R. Burnett Born Yesterday – Albert Mannheimer from Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin Broken Arrow – Albert Maltz from Blood Brother by Elliott Arnold Father of the Bride – Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett from Father of the Bride by Edward Streeter |
| Best Story and Screenplay: Sunset Boulevard – Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D. M. Marshman Jr. (WINNER) Adam’s Rib – Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin Caged – Virginia Kellogg and Bernard C. Schoenfeld The Men – Carl Foreman No Way Out – Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Lesser Samuels |
| Best Motion Picture Story: Panic in the Streets – Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt (WINNER) Bitter Rice – Giuseppe De Santis and Carlo Lizzani The Gunfighter – William Bowers and André de Toth Mystery Street – Leonard Spigelgass When Willie Comes Marching Home – Sy Gomberg |
| Best Short Subject – Cartoons: Gerald McBoing-Boing (WINNER) Jerry’s Cousin Trouble Indemnity |
| Best Documentary Feature: The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (WINNER) With These Hands |
| Best Documentary Short Subject: Why Korea? (WINNER) The Fight: Science Against Cancer The Stairs |
| Best Live Action Short Subject, One-Reel: Grandad of Races – Gordon Hollingshead (WINNER) Blaze Busters – Robert Youngson Wrong Way Butch – Pete Smith |
| Best Live Action Short Subject, Two-Reel: In Beaver Valley (WINNER) Grandma Moses My Country ‘Tis of Thee |
| Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture: Sunset Boulevard – Franz Waxman (WINNER) 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 Scoring of a Musical Picture: Annie Get Your Gun – Adolph Deutsch and Roger Edens (WINNER) Cinderella – Oliver Wallace and Paul J. Smith I’ll Get By – Lionel Newman Three Little Words – André Previn The West Point Story – Ray Heindorf |
| Best Original Song: “Mona Lisa” from Captain Carey, U.S.A. – Music and Lyrics by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston (WINNER) “Be My Love” from The Toast of New Orleans – Music by Nicholas Brodszky; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo” from Cinderella – Music and Lyrics by Mack David, Al Hoffman, and Jerry Livingston “Mule Train” from Singing Guns – Music and Lyrics by Fred Glickman, Hy Heath, and Johnny Lange “Wilhelmina” from Wabash Avenue – Music by Josef Myrow; Lyrics by Mack Gordon |
| Best Sound Recording: All About Eve – Thomas T. Moulton (WINNER) Cinderella – C. O. Slyfield Louisa – Leslie I. Carey Our Very Own – Gordon E. Sawyer Trio – Cyril Crowhurst |
| Best Art Direction – Set Decoration, Black-and-White: Sunset Boulevard – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and John Meehan; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Ray Moyer (WINNER) All About Eve – Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler and George Davis; Set Decoration: Thomas Little and Walter M. Scott The Red Danube – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Hans Peters; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt |
| Best Art Direction – Set Decoration, Color: Samson and Delilah – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Walter Tyler; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Ray Moyer (WINNER) Annie Get Your Gun – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Richard A. Pefferle Destination Moon – Art Direction: Ernst Fegté; Set Decoration: George Sawley |
| Best Cinematography, Black-and-White: The Third Man – Robert Krasker (WINNER) All About Eve – Milton Krasner The Asphalt Jungle – Harold Rosson The Furies – Victor Milner Sunset Boulevard – John F. Seitz |
| Best Cinematography, Color: King Solomon’s Mines – Robert Surtees (WINNER) Annie Get Your Gun – Charles Rosher Broken Arrow – Ernest Palmer The Flame and the Arrow – Ernest Haller Samson and Delilah – George Barnes |
| Best Costume Design, Black-and-White: All About Eve – Edith Head and Charles LeMaire (WINNER) Born Yesterday – Jean Louis The Magnificent Yankee – Walter Plunkett |
| Best Costume Design, Color: Samson and Delilah – Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele, and Gwen Wakeling (WINNER) The Black Rose – Michael Whittaker That Forsyte Woman – Walter Plunkett and Valles |
| Best Film Editing: King Solomon’s Mines – Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig (WINNER) All About Eve – Barbara McLean Annie Get Your Gun – James E. Newcom Sunset Boulevard – Arthur P. Schmidt and Doane Harrison The Third Man – Oswald Hafenrichter |
| Best Special Effects: Destination Moon – George Pal Productions and Eagle Lion Classics (WINNER) Samson and Delilah – Cecil B. DeMille Productions and Paramount Academy Honorary Awards 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.” |
| Best Foreign Language Film: The Walls of Malapaga (France/Italy) Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Darryl F. Zanuck |
Academy Honorary Awards: Louis B. Mayer “for distinguished service to the motion picture industry.” |
| Best Foreign Language Film: The Walls of Malapaga (France/Italy) |
| Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award: Darryl F. Zanuck |
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