23rd Academy Awards (1951)

Highlights of 23rd Academy Awards ceremony

The 23rd Academy Awards honored the best films of 1950.
The award ceremony was held on 29th March 1952.
All About Eve won the Best Picture award.
Jose Ferrer won the Best Actor award for his role in Cyrano de Bergerac.
Judy Holliday won the Best Actess award for her role in Born Yesterday.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz won the Best Director award for All About Eve.
- WINNER

Best Picture

All About Eve
Born Yesterday
Father of the Bride
King Solomon's Mines
Sunset Boulevard

Best Director

All About Eve - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Born Yesterday - George Cukor
The Asphalt Jungle - John Huston
The Third Man - Carol Reed
Sunset Boulevard - Billy Wilder

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Cyrano de Bergerac - Jose Ferrer
The Magnificent Yankee - Louis Calhern
Sunset Boulevard - William Holden
Harvey - James Stewart
Father of the Bride - Spencer Tracy

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Born Yesterday - Judy Holliday
All About Eve - Anne Baxter
All About Eve - Bette Davis
Caged - Eleanor Parker
Sunset Boulevard - Gloria Swanson

Best Supporting Actor

All About Eve - George Sanders
Broken Arrow - Jeff Chandler
Mister 880 - Edmund Gwenn
The Asphalt Jungle - Sam Jaffe
Sunset Boulevard - Erich von Stroheim

Best Supporting Actress

Harvey - Josephine Hull
Caged - Hope Emerson
All About Eve - Celeste Holm
Sunset Boulevard - Nancy Olson
All About Eve - Thelma Ritter

Best Documentary Feature

The Titan - Story of Michelangelo
With These Hands - Jack Arnold, Lee Goodman

Best Documentary Short Subject

Why Korea?
The Fight - Science Against Cancer
The Stairs

Academy Honorary Award

George Murphy for "Services in interpreting the film industry to the country at large"
Louis B. Mayer for "Distinguished service to the motion picture industry"
The Walls of Malapaga for "The most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States in 1950"

Best Film Editing

King Solomon's Mines - Ralph E. Winters, Conrad A. Nervig
The Third Man - Oswald Hafenrichter
All About Eve - Barbara McLean
Annie Get Your Gun - James E. Newcom
Sunset Boulevard - Arthur Schmidt, Doane Harrison

Best Cinematography, Color

King Solomon's Mines - Robert Surtees
Samson and Delilah - George Barnes
The Flame and the Arrow - Ernest Haller
Broken Arrow - Ernest Palmer
Annie Get Your Gun - Charles Rosher

Best Cinematography, Black & 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 Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color

Samson and Delilah - Hans Dreier, Walter Tyler, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
Destination Moon - Ernst Fegte, George Sawley
Annie Get Your Gun - Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Richard A. Pefferle

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black & White

Sunset Boulevard - Hans Dreier, John Meehan, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
The Red Danube - Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt
All About Eve - Lyle Wheeler, George Davis, Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott

Best Costume Design, Color

Samson and Delilah - Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele, Gwen Wakeling
That Forsyte Woman - Walter Plunkett, Valles
The Black Rose - Michael Whittaker

Best Costume Design, Black & White

All About Eve - Edith Head, Charles LeMaire
Born Yesterday - Jean Louis
The Magnificent Yankee - Walter Plunkett

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Darryl F. Zanuck

Best Short Subject - One-reel

Grandad of Races - Gordon Hollingshead
Blaze Busters - Robert Youngson
Wrong Way Butch - Pete Smith

Best Short Subject - Two-reel

In Beaver Valley
Grandma Moses
My Country 'Tis of Thee - Gordon Hollingshead

Best Short Subject - Cartoon

Gerald McBoing-Boing
Jerry's Cousin - Frederick Quimby
Trouble Indemnity

Best Music - Song

Captain Carey - Ray Evans, Jay Livingston for "Mona Lisa"
The Toast of New Orleans - Nicholas Brodszky, Sammy Cahn for "Be My Love"
Cinderella - Mack David, Al Hoffman, Jerry Livingston for "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo"
Singing Guns - Fred Glickman, Hy Heath, Johnny Lange for "Mule Train"
Wabash Avenue - Josef Myrow, Mack Gordon for "Wilhelmina"

Best Music - Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

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 Music - Scoring of a Musical Picture

Annie Get Your Gun - Adolph Deutsch, Roger Edens
The West Point Story - Ray Heindorf
I'll Get By - Lionel Newman
Three Little Words - Andre Previn
Cinderella - Oliver Wallace, Paul J. Smith

Best Writing, Motion Picture Story

Panic in the Streets - Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt
The Gunfighter - William Bowers, Andre de Toth
Bitter Rice - Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani
When Willie Comes Marching Home - Sy Gomberg
Mystery Street - Leonard Spigelgass

Best Sound, Recording

All About Eve
Trio
Our Very Own
Louisa
Cinderella

Best Effects, Special Effects

Destination Moon
Samson and Delilah

Best Writing, Screenplay

All About Eve - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Broken Arrow - Albert Maltz
Father of the Bride - Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett
The Asphalt Jungle - Ben Maddow, John Huston
Born Yesterday - Albert Mannheimer

Best Writing, Story and Screenplay

Sunset Boulevard - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D. M. Marshman, Jr.
The Men - Carl Foreman
Adam's Rib - Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
Caged - Virginia Kellogg, Bernard C. Schoenfeld
No Way Out - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Lesser Samuels
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