23rd Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1951)
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- Date of Ceremony: Thursday, March 29, 1951
- For films released in: 1950
Here is a complete list of nominations for the 23rd Annual Academy Awards.
And the nominees are:
Best Motion Picture
- All About Eve
20th Century-Fox - Born Yesterday
Columbia - Father of the Bride
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - King Solomon's Mines
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sunset Blvd.
Paramount
Best Directing
- All About Eve
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - The Asphalt Jungle
John Huston - Born Yesterday
George Cukor - Sunset Blvd.
Billy Wilder - The Third Man
Carol Reed
Best Actor
- Cyrano de Bergerac
Jose Ferrer - Father of the Bride
Spencer Tracy - Harvey
James Stewart - The Magnificent Yankee
Louis Calhern - Sunset Blvd.
William Holden
Best Actress
- All About Eve
Anne Baxter - All About Eve
Bette Davis - Born Yesterday
Judy Holliday - Caged
Eleanor Parker - Sunset Blvd.
Gloria Swanson
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- All About Eve
George Sanders - The Asphalt Jungle
Sam Jaffe - Broken Arrow
Jeff Chandler - Mister 880
Edmund Gwenn - Sunset Blvd.
Erich von Stroheim
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- All About Eve
Celeste Holm - All About Eve
Thelma Ritter - Caged
Hope Emerson - Harvey
Josephine Hull - Sunset Blvd.
Nancy Olson
Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)
- All About Eve
Lyle Wheeler [Art Direction], George W. Davis [Art Direction], Thomas Little [Set Decoration] and Walter M. Scott [Set Decoration] - The Red Danube
Cedric Gibbons [Art Direction], Hans Peters [Art Direction], Edwin B. Willis [Set Decoration] and Hugh Hunt [Set Decoration] - Sunset Blvd.
Hans Dreier [Art Direction], John Meehan [Art Direction], Sam Comer [Set Decoration] and Ray Moyer [Set Decoration]
Best Art Direction (Color)
- Annie Get Your Gun
Cedric Gibbons [Art Direction], Paul Groesse [Art Direction], Edwin B. Willis [Set Decoration] and Richard A. Pefferle [Set Decoration] - Destination Moon
Ernst Fegte [Art Direction] and George Sawley [Set Decoration] - Samson and Delilah
Hans Dreier [Art Direction], Walter Tyler [Art Direction], Sam Comer [Set Decoration] and Ray Moyer [Set Decoration]
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
- All About Eve
Milton Krasner - The Asphalt Jungle
Harold Rosson - The Furies
Victor Milner - Sunset Blvd.
John F. Seitz - The Third Man
Robert Krasker
Best Cinematography (Color)
- Annie Get Your Gun
Charles Rosher - Broken Arrow
Ernest Palmer - The Flame and the Arrow
Ernest Haller - King Solomon's Mines
Robert Surtees - Samson and Delilah
George Barnes
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)
- The Black Rose
Michael Whittaker - Samson and Delilah
Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele and Gwen Wakeling - That Forsyte Woman
Walter Plunkett and Valles
Best Documentary (Feature)
- The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
Robert Snyder - With These Hands
Jack Arnold and Lee Goodman
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
- The Fight: Science against Cancer
Guy Glover - The Stairs
Film Documents, Inc. - Why Korea?
Edmund Reek
Best Film Editing
- All About Eve
Barbara McLean - Annie Get Your Gun
James E. Newcom - King Solomon's Mines
Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig - Sunset Blvd.
Arthur Schmidt and Doane Harrison - The Third Man
Oswald Hafenrichter
Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)
- All About Eve
Alfred Newman - The Flame and the Arrow
Max Steiner - No Sad Songs for Me
George Duning - Samson and Delilah
Victor Young - Sunset Blvd.
Franz Waxman
Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)
- Annie Get Your Gun
Adolph Deutsch and Roger Edens - Cinderella
Oliver Wallace and Paul J. Smith - I'll Get By
Lionel Newman - Three Little Words
Andre Previn - The West Point Story
Ray Heindorf
Best Music (Song)
- Captain Carey, U.S.A. "Mona Lisa"
Ray Evans [Music and Lyrics by] and Jay Livingston [Music and Lyrics by] - Cinderella "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo"
Mack David [Music and Lyrics by], Al Hoffman [Music and Lyrics by] and Jerry Livingston [Music and Lyrics by] - Singing Guns "Mule Train"
Fred Glickman [Music and Lyrics by], Hy Heath [Music and Lyrics by] and Johnny Lange [Music and Lyrics by] - The Toast of New Orleans "Be My Love"
Nicholas Brodszky [Music by] and Sammy Cahn [Lyrics by] - Wabash Avenue "Wilhelmina"
Josef Myrow [Music by] and Mack Gordon [Lyrics by]
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)
- Gerald McBoing-Boing
Stephen Bosustow - Jerry's Cousin
Fred Quimby - Trouble Indemnity
Stephen Bosustow
Best Short Subject (One-reel)
- Blaze Busters
Robert Youngson - Grandad of Races
Gordon Hollingshead - Wrong Way Butch
Pete Smith
Best Short Subject (Two-reel)
- Grandma Moses
Falcon Films, Inc. - In Beaver Valley
Walt Disney - My Country 'Tis of Thee
Gordon Hollingshead
Best Sound Recording
- All About Eve
20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department and Thomas T. Moulton [Sound Director] - Cinderella
Walt Disney Studio Sound Department and C.O. Slyfield [Sound Director] - Louisa
Universal-International Studio Sound Department and Leslie I. Carey [Sound Director] - Our Very Own
Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department and Gordon Sawyer [Sound Director] - Trio
Pinewood Studios Sound Department and Cyril Crowhurst [Sound Director]
Best Special Effects
- Destination Moon
George Pal Productions - Samson and Delilah
Cecil B. DeMille Productions
Best Writing (Screenplay)
- All About Eve
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - The Asphalt Jungle
Ben Maddow and John Huston - Born Yesterday
Albert Mannheimer - Broken Arrow
Albert Maltz - Father of the Bride
Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
Best Writing (Story and Screenplay)
- 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 - Sunset Blvd.
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and D.M. Marshman, Jr.
Best Writing (Motion Picture Story)
- Bitter Rice
Giuseppe De Santis and Carlo Lizzani - The Gunfighter
William Bowers and Andre de Toth - Mystery Street
Leonard Spigelgass - Panic in the Streets
Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt - When Willie Comes Marching Home
Sy Gomberg