23rd Academy Awards

23rd Academy Awards
Date	March 29, 1951
Site	RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, California
Host	Fred Astaire
Highlights
Best Picture	All About Eve
Most awards	All About Eve (6)
Most nominations	All About Eve (14)

The 23rd Academy Awards Ceremony awarded Oscars for the best in films in 1950. The nominations were notable this year, as All About Eve was nominated for fourteen Oscars, beating the previous record of Gone with the Wind.

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.¹

Best Motion Picture	Best Director
Darryl F. Zanuck for 20th Century Fox - All About Eve S. Sylvan Simon for Columbia Pictures - Born Yesterday Sam Zimbalist for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Father of the Bride Sam Zimbalist for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - King Solomon's Mines Charles Brackett for Paramount Pictures - Sunset Boulevard	Joseph L. Mankiewicz – All About Eve George Cukor – Born Yesterday John Huston – The Asphalt Jungle Carol Reed – The Third Man Billy Wilder – Sunset Boulevard
Best Actor	Best Actress
José Ferrer – Cyrano de Bergerac Louis Calhern – The Magnificent Yankee William Holden – Sunset Boulevard James Stewart – Harvey Spencer Tracy – Father of the Bride	Judy Holliday – Born Yesterday Anne Baxter – All About Eve Bette Davis – All About Eve Eleanor Parker – Caged Gloria Swanson – Sunset Boulevard
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
George Sanders – All About Eve Jeff Chandler – Broken Arrow Edmund Gwenn – Mister 880 Sam Jaffe – The Asphalt Jungle Erich von Stroheim – Sunset Boulevard	Josephine Hull – Harvey Hope Emerson – Caged Celeste Holm – All About Eve Nancy Olson – Sunset Boulevard Thelma Ritter – All About Eve
Best Screenplay	Best Story and 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	Sunset Boulevard – Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and D. M. Marshman, Jr. 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 Story	Best Animated Short Film
Panic in the Streets – Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt Bitter Rice – Giuseppe De Santis and Carlo Lizzani The Gunfighter – William Bowers and André de Toth Mystery Street – Leonard Spigelgass When Willie Comes Marching Home – Sy Gomberg	Gerald McBoing-Boing Jerry's Cousin Trouble Indemnity
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
The Titan: Story of Michelangelo With These Hands	Why Korea? The Fight: Science Against Cancer The Stairs
Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel	Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
Grandad of Races – Gordon Hollingshead Blaze Busters – Robert Youngson Wrong Way Butch – Pete Smith	In Beaver Valley Grandma Moses My Country 'Tis of Thee
Best Dramatic or Comedy Score	Best Musical Score
Sunset Boulevard – Franz Waxman All About Eve – Alfred Newman The Flame and the Arrow – Max Steiner No Sad Songs for Me – George Duning Samson and Delilah – Victor Young	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 – André Previn The West Point Story – Ray Heindorf
Best Original Song	Best Sound Recording
*"Mona Lisa" from Captain Carey, U.S.A.* – Music and Lyric by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston** "Be My Love" from The Toast of New Orleans – Music by Nicholas Brodszky; Lyric by Sammy Cahn "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" from Cinderella – Music and Lyric by Mack David, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston "Mule Train" from Singing Guns – Music and Lyric by Fred Glickman, Hy Heath and Johnny Lange "Wilhelmina" from Wabash Avenue – Music by Josef Myrow; Lyric by Mack Gordon	All About Eve – Thomas T. Moulton, Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Department Cinderella – C. O. Slyfield, Walt Disney Studio Sound Department Louisa – Leslie I. Carey, Universal-International Studio Sound Department Our Very Own – Gordon Sawyer, Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department Trio – Cyril Crowhurst, Pinewood Studio Sound Dept.
Best Art Direction, Black and White	Best Art Direction, Color
Sunset Boulevard – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and John Meehan; Set Decoration: Sam Comer and Ray Moyer All About Eve – Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler and George Davis; Set Decoration: Thomas Little and Walter M. Scott The Red Danube – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Hans Peters; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt	Samson and Delilah – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Walter Tyler; Set Decoration: Sam Comer and Ray Moyer Annie Get Your Gun – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Richard A. Pefferle Destination Moon – Art Direction: Ernst Fegte; Set Decoration: George Sawley
Best Cinematography, Black and White	Best Cinematography, Color
The Third Man – Robert Krasker All About Eve – Milton R. Krasner The Asphalt Jungle – Harold Rosson The Furies – Victor Milner Sunset Boulevard – John F. Seitz	King Solomon's Mines – Robert L. Surtees Annie Get Your Gun – Charles Rosher Broken Arrow – Ernest Palmer The Flame and the Arrow – Ernest Haller Samson and Delilah – George Barnes
Best Costume Design, Black and White	Best Costume Design, Color
All About Eve – Edith Head and Charles LeMaire Born Yesterday – Jean Louis The Magnificent Yankee – Walter Plunkett	Samson and Delilah – Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele and Gwen Wakeling The Black Rose – Michael Whittaker That Forsyte Woman – Walter Plunkett and Valles
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
King Solomon's Mines – Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig All About Eve – Barbara McLean Annie Get Your Gun – James E. Newcom Sunset Boulevard – Arthur Schmidt and Doane Harrison The Third Man – Oswald Hafenrichter	Destination Moon – George Pal Productions and Eagle Lion Classics Samson and Delilah – Cecil B. DeMille Productions and Paramount

Academy Honorary Awards

Best Foreign Language Film

The Walls of Malapaga (France/Italy)

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 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

Gloria DeHaven and Alan Young
Frankie Laine ("Mule Train" from Singing Guns)
Martin and Lewis ("Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" from Cinderella)
Lucille Norman

Multiple nominations and awards

These films had multiple nominations:

14 nominations: All About Eve
11 nominations: Sunset Boulevard
5 nominations: Born Yesterday, Samson and Delilah
4 nominations: Annie Get Your Gun, The Asphalt Jungle
3 nominations: Broken Arrow, Caged, Cinderella, Father of the Bride, King Solomon's Mines, The Third Man
2 nominations: Destination Moon, The Flame and the Arrow, Harvey, The Magnificent Yankee

The following films received multiple awards.

6 wins: All About Eve
3 wins: Sunset Boulevard
2 wins: King Solomon's Mines, Samson and Delilah

References

^ "The 23rd Academy Awards (1951) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-19.

[Oscars1951-1] "The 23rd Academy Awards (1951) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-19.

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