24th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1952)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Thursday, March 20, 1952
  • For films released in: 1951
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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 24th Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Motion Picture

  • An American in Paris
    Arthur Freed [Producer]
  • Decision before Dawn
    Anatole Litvak [Producer] and Frank McCarthy [Producer]
  • A Place in the Sun
    George Stevens [Producer]
  • Quo Vadis
    Sam Zimbalist [Producer]
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
    Charles K. Feldman

Best Directing

  • The African Queen
    John Huston
  • An American in Paris
    Vincente Minnelli
  • Detective Story
    William Wyler
  • A Place in the Sun
    George Stevens
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
    Elia Kazan

Best Actor

  • The African Queen
    Humphrey Bogart
  • Bright Victory
    Arthur Kennedy
  • Death of a Salesman
    Fredric March
  • A Place in the Sun
    Montgomery Clift
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
    Marlon Brando

Best Actress

  • The African Queen
    Katharine Hepburn
  • The Blue Veil
    Jane Wyman
  • Detective Story
    Eleanor Parker
  • A Place in the Sun
    Shelley Winters
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
    Vivien Leigh

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

  • Come Fill the Cup
    Gig Young
  • Death of a Salesman
    Kevin McCarthy
  • Quo Vadis
    Leo Genn
  • Quo Vadis
    Peter Ustinov
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
    Karl Malden

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

  • The Blue Veil
    Joan Blondell
  • Death of a Salesman
    Mildred Dunnock
  • Detective Story
    Lee Grant
  • The Mating Season
    Thelma Ritter
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
    Kim Hunter

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

  • Fourteen Hours
    Lyle Wheeler [Art Direction], Leland Fuller [Art Direction], Thomas Little [Set Decoration] and Fred J. Rode [Set Decoration]
  • House on Telegraph Hill
    Lyle Wheeler [Art Direction], John DeCuir [Art Direction], Thomas Little [Set Decoration] and Paul S. Fox [Set Decoration]
  • La Ronde
    D'Eaubonne
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
    Richard Day [Art Direction] and George James Hopkins [Set Decoration]
  • Too Young to Kiss
    Cedric Gibbons [Art Direction], Paul Groesse [Art Direction], Edwin B. Willis [Set Decoration] and Jack D. Moore [Set Decoration]

Best Art Direction (Color)

  • An American in Paris
    Cedric Gibbons [Art Direction], Preston Ames [Art Direction], Edwin B. Willis [Set Decoration] and Keogh Gleason [Set Decoration]
  • David and Bathsheba
    Lyle Wheeler [Art Direction], George Davis [Art Direction], Thomas Little [Set Decoration] and Paul S. Fox [Set Decoration]
  • On the Riviera
    Lyle Wheeler [Art Direction], Leland Fuller [Art Direction], Joseph C. Wright [Musical Settings], Thomas Little [Set Decoration] and Walter M. Scott [Set Decoration]
  • Quo Vadis
    William A. Horning [Art Direction], Cedric Gibbons [Art Direction], Edward Carfagno [Art Direction] and Hugh Hunt [Set Decoration]
  • Tales of Hoffmann
    Hein Heckroth

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

  • Death of a Salesman
    Franz F. Planer
  • The Frogmen
    Norbert Brodine
  • A Place in the Sun
    William C. Mellor
  • Strangers on a Train
    Robert Burks
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
    Harry Stradling Sr.

Best Cinematography (Color)

  • An American in Paris
    Alfred Gilks and John Alton [Ballet Photography by]
  • David and Bathsheba
    Leon Shamroy
  • Quo Vadis
    Robert Surtees and William V. Skall
  • Show Boat
    Charles Rosher
  • When Worlds Collide
    John F. Seitz and W. Howard Greene

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

  • Kind Lady
    Walter Plunkett and Gile Steele
  • The Model and the Marriage Broker
    Charles LeMaire and Renie
  • The Mudlark
    Edward Stevenson and Margaret Furse
  • A Place in the Sun
    Edith Head
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
    Lucinda Ballard

Best Costume Design (Color)

  • An American in Paris
    Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett and Irene Sharaff
  • David and Bathsheba
    Charles LeMaire and Edward Stevenson
  • The Great Caruso
    Helen Rose and Gile Steele
  • Quo Vadis
    Herschel McCoy
  • Tales of Hoffmann
    Hein Heckroth

Best Documentary (Feature)

  • I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.
    Brian Foy
  • Kon-Tiki
    Olle Nordemar

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

  • Benjy
    Fred Zinnemann
  • One Who Came Back
    Owen Crump
  • The Seeing Eye
    Gordon Hollingshead

Best Film Editing

  • An American in Paris
    Adrienne Fazan
  • Decision before Dawn
    Dorothy Spencer
  • A Place in the Sun
    William Hornbeck
  • Quo Vadis
    Ralph E. Winters
  • The Well
    Chester Schaeffer

Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

  • David and Bathsheba
    Alfred Newman
  • Death of a Salesman
    Alex North
  • A Place in the Sun
    Franz Waxman
  • Quo Vadis
    Miklos Rozsa
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
    Alex North

Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

  • Alice in Wonderland
    Oliver Wallace
  • An American in Paris
    Johnny Green and Saul Chaplin
  • The Great Caruso
    Peter Herman Adler and Johnny Green
  • On the Riviera
    Alfred Newman
  • Show Boat
    Adolph Deutsch and Conrad Salinger

Best Music (Song)

  • Golden Girl "Never"
    Lionel Newman [Music by] and Eliot Daniel [Lyrics by]
  • Here Comes the Groom "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening"
    Hoagy Carmichael [Music by] and Johnny Mercer [Lyrics by]
  • Rich, Young and Pretty "Wonder Why"
    Nicholas Brodszky [Music by] and Sammy Cahn [Lyrics by]
  • Royal Wedding "Too Late Now"
    Burton Lane [Music by] and Alan Jay Lerner [Lyrics by]
  • The Strip "A Kiss to Build a Dream On"
    Bert Kalmar [Music and Lyrics by], Harry Ruby [Music and Lyrics by] and Oscar Hammerstein II [Music and Lyrics by]

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

  • Lambert, the Sheepish Lion
    Walt Disney
  • Rooty Toot Toot
    Stephen Bosustow
  • The Two Mouseketeers
    Fred Quimby

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

  • Ridin' the Rails
    Jack Eaton
  • The Story of Time
    Robert G. Leffingwell
  • World of Kids
    Robert Youngson

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

  • Balzac
    Les Films du Compass
  • Danger under the Sea
    Tom Mead
  • Nature's Half Acre
    Walt Disney

Best Sound Recording

  • Bright Victory
    Universal-International Studio Sound Department and Leslie I. Carey [Sound Director]
  • The Great Caruso
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer London Studio Sound Department and Douglas Shearer [Sound Director]
  • I Want You
    Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department and Gordon Sawyer [Sound Director]
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
    Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department and Col. Nathan Levinson [Sound Director]
  • Two Tickets to Broadway
    RKO Radio Studio Sound Department and John O. Aalberg [Sound Director]

Best Special Effects

  • When Worlds Collide
    Paramount

Best Writing (Screenplay)

  • The African Queen
    James Agee and John Huston
  • Detective Story
    Philip Yordan and Robert Wyler
  • La Ronde
    Max Ophuls and Jacques Natanson
  • A Place in the Sun
    Michael Wilson and Harry Brown
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
    Tennessee Williams

Best Writing (Story and Screenplay)

  • An American in Paris
    Alan Jay Lerner
  • The Big Carnival
    Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels and Alfred Newman
  • David and Bathsheba
    Philip Dunne
  • Go for Broke!
    Robert Pirosh
  • The Well
    Clarence Greene and Russell Rouse

Best Writing (Motion Picture Story)

  • Bullfighter and the Lady
    Budd Boetticher and Ray Nazarro
  • The Frogmen
    Oscar Millard
  • Here Comes the Groom
    Robert Riskin and Liam O'Brien
  • Seven Days to Noon
    Paul Dehn and James Bernard
  • Teresa
    Alfred Hayes and Stewart Stern
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