23rd Academy Awards
The Academy Awards 1951 took place on 29 March 1951 at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles. It was the 23rd Annual Academy Awards. In the year of award films of the past year are always excellent, in this case, the films of the year 1950.
- 3.1 Honorary Oscar
- 3.2 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
- 3.3 Scientific and Engineering Award
Presentation
Fred Astaire
Nominations and Winners
Best Picture
All About Eve ( All About Eve ) - 20th Century Fox
Best Director
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - All About Eve ( All About Eve )
Best Actor
José Ferrer - The Last Musketeer ( Cyrano de Bergerac)
Best Actress
Judy Holliday - The Born Yesterday ( Born Yesterday )
Best Supporting Actor
George Sanders - All About Eve ( All About Eve )
Best Supporting Actress
Josephine Hull - My friend Harvey ( Harvey )
Best Original Screenplay
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, DM Marshman Jr. - Sunset Boulevard (Sunset Boulevard)
Best Original Story
Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt - Panic in the Streets ( Panic in the Streets )
Best Adapted Screenplay
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - All About Eve ( All About Eve )
Best Cinematography (black & white )
Robert Krasker - The Third Man ( The Third Man)
Best Cinematography ( color film )
Robert Surtees - King Solomon's Mines (King Solomon's Mines )
Best Art Direction (black & white )
Hans Dreier, John Meehan, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer - Sunset Boulevard (Sunset Boulevard)
Best Art Direction (Color film )
Hans Dreier, Walter H. Tyler, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer - Samson and Delilah ( Samson and Delilah )
Best Costume Design (black & white )
Edith Head, Charles Le Maire - All About Eve ( All About Eve )
Best Costume Design (Color film )
Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Eloise Jensson, Gile Steele, Gwen Wakeling - Samson and Delilah ( Samson and Delilah )
Best Sound
Thomas T. Moulton - All About Eve ( All About Eve )
Best Editing
Ralph E. Winters, Conrad A. Annoying - King Solomon's Mines (King Solomon's Mines )
Best Visual Effects
Destination Moon ( Destination Moon )
Best Song
Ray Evans, Jay Livingston for Mona Lisa - Captain Carey, USA
Best Score ( Drama )
Franz Waxman - Sunset Boulevard (Sunset Boulevard)
Best Original Score ( Music Film )
Adolph German, Roger Edens - duel in the ring ( Annie Get Your Gun )
Best Short Documentary
Why Korea? - Edmund Reek
Best Documentary
The Titan: Story of Michelangelo - Ralph Alswang, Robert J. Flaherty, Robert Snyder
Best Short Film ( a film reel )
Grandad of Races - Gordon Hollingshead
Best short film (two rolls of film )
In the valley of the beaver (in Beaver Valley ) - Walt Disney
Best Short Film ( Animation )
Stephen Bosustow - Gerald McBoing - Boing