23rd Academy Awards Ceremony
(1951)
Drama / Family / News
March 29, 1951 at RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, California
Hosted by Fred Astaire
BEST PICTURE
All About Eve
Born Yesterday
Father of the Bride
King Solomon's Mines
Sunset Boulevard
BEST DIRECTOR
Joseph Mankiewicz – All About Eve
George Cukor – Born Yesterday
John Huston – The Asphalt Jungle
Carol Reed – The Third Man
Billy Wilder – Sunset Boulevard
BEST ACTOR
Jose Ferrer – Cyrano de Bergerac
Louis Calhern – The Magnificent Yankee
William Holden – Sunset Boulevard
James Stewart – Harvey
Spencer Tracy – Father of the Bride
BEST ACTRESS
Judy Holliday – Born Yesterday
Anne Baxter – All About Eve
Bette Davis – All About Eve
Eleanor Parker – Caged
Gloria Swanson – Sunset Boulevard
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
George Sanders – All About Eve
Jeff Chandler – Broken Arrow
Edmund Gwenn – Mister 880
Sam Jaffe – The Asphalt Jungle
Erich von Stroheim – Sunset Boulevard
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Josephine Hull – Harvey
Hope Emerson – Caged
Celeste Holm – All About Eve
Nancy Olson – Sunset Boulevard
Thelma Ritter – All About Eve
BEST SCREENPLAY
All About Eve – Joseph Mankiewicz
Broken Arrow – Albert Maltz
Father of the Bride – Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
The Asphalt Jungle – Ben Maddow and John Huston
Born Yesterday – Albert Mannheimer
BEST STORY AND SCREENPLAY
Sunset Boulevard – Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and D. M. Marshman, Jr.
The Men – Carl Foreman
Adam's Rib – Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin
Caged – Virginia Kellogg and Bernard C. Schoenfeld
No Way Out – Joseph Mankiewicz and Lesser Samuels
BEST STORY
Panic in the Streets – Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt
The Gunfighter – William Bowers and Andre de Toth
Bitter Rice – Giuseppe De Santis and Carlo Lizzani
When Willie Comes Marching Home – Sy Gomberg
Mystery Street – Leonard Spigelgass
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Gerald McBoing-Boing
Jerry's Cousin
Trouble Indemnity
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
With These Hands
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Why Korea?
The Fight: Science Against Cancer
The Stairs
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM, ONE-REEL
Grandad of Races – Gordon Hollingshead
Blaze Busters – Robert Youngson
Wrong Way Butch – Pete Smith
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM, TWO-REEL
In Beaver Valley
Grandma Moses
My Country 'Tis of Thee
BEST DRAMATIC OR COMEDY SCORE
Sunset Boulevard – Franz Waxman
No Sad Songs for Me – George Duning
All About Eve – Alfred Newman
The Flame and the Arrow – Max Steiner
Samson and Delilah – Victor Young
BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Annie Get Your Gun – Adolph Deutsch and Roger Edens
The West Point Story – Ray Heindorf
I'll Get By – Lionel Newman
Three Little Words – André Previn
Cinderella – Oliver Wallace and Paul J. Smith
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Mona Lisa" from Captain Carey, U.S.A. – Music and Lyric by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston
"Be My Love" from The Toast of New Orleans – Music by Nicholas Brodszky; Lyric by Sammy Cahn
"Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" from Cinderella – Music and Lyric by Mack David, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston
" Mule Train " from Singing Guns – Music and Lyric by Fred Glickman, Hy Heath and Johnny Lange
"Wilhelmina" from Wabash Avenue – Music by Josef Myrow; Lyric by Mack Gordon
BEST SOUND RECORDING
All About Eve – Thomas T. Moulton, Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Department
Trio – Cyril Crowhurst, Pinewood Studio Sound Dept.
Our Very Own – Gordon Sawyer, Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department
Louisa – Leslie I. Carey, Universal-International Studio Sound Department
Cinderella – C. O. Slyfield, Walt Disney Studio Sound Department
BEST ART DIRECTION, BLACK AND WHITE
Sunset Boulevard – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and John Meehan; Set Decoration: Sam Comer and Ray Moyer
The Red Danube – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Hans Peters; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt
All About Eve – Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler and George Davis; Set Decoration: Thomas Little and Walter M. Scott
BEST ART DIRECTION, COLOR
Samson and Delilah – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Walter Tyler; Set Decoration: Sam Comer and Ray Moyer
Destination Moon – Art Direction: Ernst Fegte; Set Decoration: George Sawley
Annie Get Your Gun – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Richard A. Pefferle
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BLACK AND WHITE
The Third Man – Robert Krasker
All About Eve – Milton R. Krasner
The Furies – Victor Milner
The Asphalt Jungle – Harold Rosson
Sunset Boulevard – John F. Seitz
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, COLOR
King Solomon's Mines – Robert L. Surtees
Samson and Delilah – George Barnes
The Flame and the Arrow – Ernest Haller
Broken Arrow – Ernest Palmer
Annie Get Your Gun – Charles Rosher
BEST COSTUME DESIGN, BLACK AND WHITE
All About Eve – Edith Head and Charles LeMaire
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
That Forsyte Woman – Walter Plunkett and Valles
The Black Rose – Michael Whittaker
BEST FILM EDITING
King Solomon's Mines – Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig
The Third Man – Oswald Hafenrichter
All About Eve – Barbara McLean
Annie Get Your Gun – James E. Newcom
Sunset Boulevard – Arthur Schmidt and Doane Harrison
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Destination Moon – George Pal Productions and Eagle Lion Classics
Samson and Delilah – Cecil B. DeMille Productions and Paramount
ACADEMY HONORARY AWARDS
George Murphy
Louis B. Mayer
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Walls of Malapaga (France/Italy)
IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD
Darryl F. Zanuck
PRESENTERS
Lex Barker and Arlene Dahl (Best Art Direction)
Charles Brackett (Honorary Awards)
Ralph Bunche (Best Picture)
Ruth Chatterton (Writing Awards)
Broderick Crawford (Best Actress)
Marlene Dietrich (Best Foreign Language Film)
Coleen Gray (Documentary Awards)
Jane Greer (Best Special Effects)
Helen Hayes (Best Actor)
Dean Jagger (Best Supporting Actress)
Gene Kelly (Music Awards)
Phyllis Kirk (Short Subject Awards)
Mercedes McCambridge (Best Supporting Actor)
Leo McCarey (Best Director)
Marilyn Monroe (Best Sound Recording)
Debra Paget (Best Film Editing)
Debbie Reynolds (Best Cinematography)
Jan Sterling (Best Costume Design)
David Wayne (Scientific & Technical Awards)
PERFORMERS
Gloria DeHaven and Alan Young
Frankie Laine
Martin and Lewis
Lucille Norman
