The 23rd Academy Awards (1950): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS		AWARDS
14 11 5 5 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3	All about Eve Sunset Blvd. Born Yesterday Samson and Delilah Annie Get Your Gun The Asphalt Jungle Broken Arrow Caged Cinderella Father of the Bride King Solomon's Mines The Third Man	6 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1	All about Eve Sunset Blvd. Samson and Delilah Annie Get Your Gun Born Yesterday Captain Carey, U.S.A. Cyrano de Bergerac Destination Moon Gerald McBoing-Boing Grandad of Races Harvey In Beaver Valley King Solomon's Mines Panic in the Streets The Third Man The Titan: Story of Michelangelo Why Korea?
NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND Best Picture winner Best Picture nominee Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

PICTURE (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

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

ACTOR

• Louis Calhern - The Magnificent Yankee
• Jos Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac
• William Holden - Sunset Blvd.
• James Stewart - Harvey
• Spencer Tracy - Father of the Bride

ACTRESS

• Anne Baxter - All about Eve
• Bette Davis - All about Eve
• Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday
• Eleanor Parker - Caged
• Gloria Swanson - Sunset Blvd.

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Actor in a Supporting Role)

• Jeff Chandler - Broken Arrow
• Edmund Gwenn - Mister 880
• Sam Jaffe - The Asphalt Jungle
• George Sanders - All about Eve
• Erich von Stroheim - Sunset Blvd.

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Actress in a Supporting Role)

• Hope Emerson - Caged
• Celeste Holm - All about Eve
• Josephine Hull - Harvey
• Nancy Olson - Sunset Blvd.
• Thelma Ritter - All about Eve

SCREENPLAY

• All about Eve - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• The Asphalt Jungle - Ben Maddow, John Huston
• Born Yesterday - Albert Mannheimer
• Broken Arrow - Albert Maltz [1]
• Father of the Bride - Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett

STORY AND SCREENPLAY

• Adam's Rib - Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
• Caged - Virginia Kellogg, Bernard C. Schoenfeld
• The Men - Carl Foreman
• No Way Out - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Lesser Samuels
• Sunset Blvd. - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D. M. Marshman Jr.

MOTION PICTURE STORY

• Bitter Rice - Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani
• The Gunfighter - William Bowers, Andre de Toth
• Mystery Street - Leonard Spigelgass
• Panic in the Streets - Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt
• When Willie Comes Marching Home - Sy Gomberg

SONG

• "Be My Love" - The Toast of New Orleans - Music by Nicholas Brodszky; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
• "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" - Cinderella - Music, Lyrics by Mack David, Al Hoffman, Jerry Livingston
• "Mona Lisa" - Captain Carey, U.S.A. - Music, Lyrics by Ray Evans, Jay Livingston
• "Mule Train" - Singing Guns - Music, Lyrics by Fred Glickman, Hy Heath, Johnny Lange
• "Wilhelmina" - Wabash Avenue - Music by Josef Myrow; Lyrics by Mack Gordon

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

SCORING OF A MUSICAL PICTURE

• Annie Get Your Gun - Adolph Deutsch, Roger Edens
• Cinderella - Oliver Wallace, Paul J. Smith
• I'll Get By - Lionel Newman
• Three Little Words - Andre Previn
• The West Point Story - Ray Heindorf

FILM EDITING

• All about Eve - Barbara McLean
• Annie Get Your Gun - James E. Newcom
• King Solomon's Mines - Ralph E. Winters, Conrad A. Nervig
• Sunset Blvd. - Arthur Schmidt, Doane Harrison
• The Third Man - Oswald Hafenrichter

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

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

ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White)

• All about Eve - Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, George W. Davis; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott
• The Red Danube - Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt
• Sunset Blvd. - Art Direction: Hans Dreier, John Meehan; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer

ART DIRECTION (Color)

• Annie Get Your Gun - Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Richard A. Pefferle
• Destination Moon - Art Direction: Ernst Fegte; Set Decoration: George Sawley
• Samson and Delilah - Art Direction: Hans Dreier, Walter Tyler; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer

COSTUME DESIGN (Black-and-White)

• All about Eve - Edith Head, Charles LeMaire
• Born Yesterday - Jean Louis
• The Magnificent Yankee - Walter Plunkett

COSTUME DESIGN (Color)

• The Black Rose - Michael Whittaker
• Samson and Delilah - Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele, Gwen Wakeling
• That Forsyte Woman - Walter Plunkett, Valles

SOUND RECORDING

• All about Eve - 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton (Sound Director)
• Cinderella - Walt Disney Studio Sound Department, C. O. Slyfield (Sound Director)
• Louisa - Universal-International Studio Sound Department, Leslie I. Carey (Sound Director)
• Our Very Own - Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon Sawyer (Sound Director)
• Trio - Pinewood Studio Sound Department, Cyril Crowhurst (Sound Director)

SPECIAL EFFECTS

• Destination Moon - George Pal Productions
• Samson and Delilah - Cecil B. DeMille Productions

HONORARY FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM AWARD

• To The Walls of Malapaga - voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States in 1950.

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

• The Titan: Story of Michelangelo - Robert Snyder
• With These Hands - Jack Arnold, Lee Goodman

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

• The Fight: Science against Cancer - Guy Glover
• The Stairs - Film Documents, Inc.
• Why Korea? - Edmund Reek

SHORT SUBJECT (Cartoon)

• Gerald McBoing-Boing - Stephen Bosustow
• Jerry's Cousin - Fred Quimby
• Trouble Indemnity - Stephen Bosustow

SHORT SUBJECT (One-Reel)

• Blaze Busters - Robert Youngson
• Grandad of Races - Gordon Hollingshead
• Wrong Way Butch - Pete Smith

SHORT SUBJECT (Two-Reel)

• Grandma Moses - Falcon Films, Inc.
• In Beaver Valley - Walt Disney
• My Country 'Tis of Thee - Gordon Hollingshead

HONORARY AWARDS

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

IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD

• Darryl F. Zanuck

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE II (Plaque)

• To JAMES B. GORDON and the 20TH CENTURY-FOX STUDIO CAMERA DEPARTMENT for the design and development of a multiple image film viewer. [Laboratory]
• To JOHN PAUL LIVADARY, FLOYD CAMPBELL, L. W. RUSSELL and the COLUMBIA STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT for the development of a multi-track magnetic re-recording system. [Sound]
• To LOREN L. RYDER and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT for the first studio-wide application of magnetic sound recording to motion picture production. [Sound]

ACADEMY NOTES

1. Based upon the research made by, and the board motion of, the Writers Guild of America West, the Academy, on July 3, 1991, decided to restore Albert Maltz to the screenplay credit on the 1950 film 'Broken Arrow.' Michael Blankfort had fronted for him on the screenplay and consequently was named in the screenplay nomination. Mr. Blankfort's name was removed from the nomination.