23rd Academy Awards

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23rd Academy Awards
DateMarch 29, 1951
SiteRKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, California
Hosted byFred Astaire
Highlights
Best PictureAll About Eve
Most awardsAll About Eve (6)
Most nominationsAll About Eve (14)

The 23rd Academy Awards Ceremony awarded Oscars for the best in films in 1950. All About Eve received 14 Oscar nominations, beating the previous record of 13 set by Gone with the Wind.

Sunset Boulevard became the second film with nominations in every acting category not to win a single one (after My Man Godfrey in 1936).

All About Eve was the second film, after Mrs. Miniver (1942), to receive five acting nominations. It also became the first to receive multiple nominations in two acting categories, and the first (and, to date, only) film to receive four female acting nominations—two each for Best Actress in a Leading Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role. None was successful, losing to Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday and Josephine Hull in Harvey, respectively.

Awards[]

Darryl F. Zanuck; Best Picture winner
Joseph L. Mankiewicz; Best Director and Best Screenplay winner
José Ferrer; Best Actor winner
Judy Holliday; Best Actress winner
George Sanders; Best Supporting Actor winner
Charles Brackett; Best Story and Screenplay co-winner
Billy Wilder (right); Best Story and Screenplay co-winner
Charles LeMaire; Best Costume Design, Black-and-White co-winner

Nominations announced on February 12, 1951. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.[1]

Best Motion Picture Best Director
  • All About EveDarryl F. Zanuck for 20th Century Foxdouble-dagger
    • Born YesterdayS. Sylvan Simon for Columbia Pictures
    • Father of the BridePandro S. Berman for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    • King Solomon's MinesSam Zimbalist for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    • Sunset BoulevardCharles Brackett for Paramount Pictures
  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz – All About Evedouble-dagger
    • John Huston – The Asphalt Jungle
    • George Cukor – Born Yesterday
    • Billy Wilder – Sunset Boulevard
    • Carol Reed – The Third Man
Best Actor Best Actress
  • Judy Holliday – Born Yesterday as Emma "Billie" Dawndouble-dagger
    • Anne Baxter – All About Eve as Eve Harrington
    • Bette Davis – All About Eve as Margo Channing
    • Eleanor Parker – Caged as Marie Allen
    • Gloria Swanson – Sunset Boulevard as Norma Desmond
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
  • George Sanders – All About Eve as Addison DeWittdouble-dagger
    • Jeff Chandler – Broken Arrow as Cochise
    • Edmund Gwenn – Mister 880 as "Skipper" Miller
    • Sam Jaffe – The Asphalt Jungle as "Doc" Erwin Riedenschneider
    • Erich von Stroheim – Sunset Boulevard as Max von Mayerling
  • Josephine Hull – Harvey as Veta Louise Simmonsdouble-dagger
    • Hope Emerson – Caged as Evelyn Harper
    • Celeste Holm – All About Eve as Karen Richards
    • Nancy Olson – Sunset Boulevard as Betty Schaefer
    • Thelma Ritter – All About Eve as Birdie
Best Screenplay Best Story and Screenplay
  • All About Eve – Joseph L. Mankiewicz from "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orrdouble-dagger
    • The Asphalt Jungle – Ben Maddow and John Huston from The Asphalt Jungle by W. R. Burnett
    • Born Yesterday – Albert Mannheimer from Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin
    • Broken Arrow – Albert Maltz from Blood Brother by Elliott Arnold
    • Father of the Bride – Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett from Father of the Bride by Edward Streeter
  • Sunset Boulevard – Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D. M. Marshman Jr.double-dagger
    • 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
Best Motion Picture Story Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short Subject Best Live Action Short Subject, One-Reel
Best Live Action Short Subject, Two-Reel Best Short Subject – Cartoons
  • Gerald McBoing-Boingdouble-dagger
    • Jerry's Cousin
    • Trouble Indemnity
Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
Best Original Song Best Sound Recording
Best Art Direction – Set Decoration, Black-and-White Best Art Direction – Set Decoration, Color
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Best Cinematography, Color
  • The Third Man – Robert Kraskerdouble-dagger
    • All About Eve – Milton Krasner
    • The Asphalt Jungle – Harold Rosson
    • The Furies – Victor Milner
    • Sunset Boulevard – John F. Seitz
Best Costume Design, Black-and-White Best Costume Design, Color
Best Film Editing Best Special Effects
  • Destination Moon – George Pal Productions and Eagle Lion Classicsdouble-dagger

Academy Honorary Awards[]

  • George Murphy "for his services in interpreting the film industry to the country at large".
  • Louis B. Mayer "for distinguished service to the motion picture industry".

Best Foreign Language Film[]

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award[]

  • Darryl F. Zanuck

Presenters[]

  • Lex Barker and Arlene Dahl (Presenters: Best Art Direction)
  • Charles Brackett (Presenter: Honorary Awards)
  • Ralph Bunche (Presenter: Best Motion Picture)
  • Ruth Chatterton (Presenter: Writing Awards)
  • Broderick Crawford (Presenter: Best Actress)
  • Marlene Dietrich (Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film)
  • Coleen Gray (Presenter: Documentary Awards)
  • Jane Greer (Presenter: Best Special Effects)
  • Helen Hayes (Presenter: Best Actor)
  • Dean Jagger (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress)
  • Gene Kelly (Presenter: Music Awards)
  • Phyllis Kirk (Presenter: Short Subject Awards)
  • Mercedes McCambridge (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor)
  • Leo McCarey (Presenter: Best Director)
  • Marilyn Monroe (Presenter: Best Sound Recording)
  • Debra Paget (Presenter: Best Film Editing)
  • Debbie Reynolds (Presenter: Best Cinematography)
  • Jan Sterling (Presenter: Best Costume Design)
  • David Wayne (Presenter: Scientific & Technical Awards)

Performers[]

Multiple nominations and awards[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "The 23rd Academy Awards (1951) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
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