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