The 24th Academy Awards (1951): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS		AWARDS
12 9 8 8 5 5 4 4 3	A Streetcar Named Desire A Place in the Sun An American in Paris Quo Vadis David and Bathsheba Death of a Salesman The African Queen Detective Story The Great Caruso	6 6 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1	An American in Paris A Place in the Sun A Streetcar Named Desire The African Queen Benjy The Great Caruso Here Comes the Groom Kon-Tiki Nature's Half Acre Seven Days to Noon Two Mouseketeers When Worlds Collide World of Kids
NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND Best Picture winner Best Picture nominee Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

PICTURE (Best Motion Picture)

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

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

ACTOR

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

ACTRESS

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

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Actor in a Supporting Role)

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

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Actress in a Supporting Role)

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

SCREENPLAY

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

STORY AND SCREENPLAY

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

MOTION PICTURE STORY

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

SONG

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

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

SCORING OF A MUSICAL PICTURE

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

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

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White)

• Death of a Salesman - Frank 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

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color)

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

ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White)

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

ART DIRECTION (Color)

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

COSTUME DESIGN (Black-and-White)

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

COSTUME DESIGN (Color)

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

SOUND RECORDING

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

SPECIAL EFFECTS

• When Worlds Collide - Paramount

HONORARY FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM AWARD

• To Rashomon - voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1951.

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

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

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

• Benjy - 'Made by Fred Zinnemann with the cooperation of Paramount Pictures Corporation for the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital'
• One Who Came Back - Owen Crump. (Film sponsored by the Disabled American Veterans, in cooperation with the United States Department of Defense, the Association of Motion Picture Producers)
• The Seeing Eye - Gordon Hollingshead

SHORT SUBJECT (Cartoon)

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

SHORT SUBJECT (One-Reel)

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

SHORT SUBJECT (Two-Reel)

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

HONORARY AWARDS

• To Gene Kelly in appreciation of his versatility as an actor, singer, director and dancer, and specifically for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film.

IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD

• Arthur Freed

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

• To RADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA, VICTOR DIVISION, for pioneering direct positive recording with anticipatory noise reduction. [Sound]
• To GORDON JENNINGS, S. L. STANCLIFFE and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC and ENGINEERING DEPARTMENTS for the design, construction and application of a servo-operated recording and repeating device. [Special Photographic]
• To OLIN L. DUPY of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio for the design, construction and application of a motion picture reproducing system. [Special Photographic]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE III (Certificate)

• To CARLOS RIVAS of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio for the development of an automatic magnetic film splicer. [Editorial]
• To RICHARD M. HAFF, FRANK P. HERRNFELD, GARLAND C. MISENER and the ANSCO FILM DIVISION OF GENERAL ANILINE AND FILM CORPORATION for the development of the Ansco color scene tester. [Laboratory]
• To FRED PONEDEL, RALPH AYRES and GEORGE BROWN of Warner Bros. Studio for an air-driven water motor to provide flow, wake and white water for marine sequences in motion pictures. [Stage Operations]
• To GLEN ROBINSON and the METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIO CONSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT for the development of a new music wire and cable cutter. [Stage Operations]
• To JACK GAYLORD and the METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIO CONSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT for the development of balsa falling snow. [Stage Operations]