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Best Motion Picture Prior to the Awards for 1951, no producer(s) named with nominations
 ALL ABOUT EVE (Won 6 Awards; tied for record with 14 nominations) - 20th Century-Fox. [Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck]
 BORN YESTERDAY - Columbia. [Produced by S. Sylvan Simon]
FATHER OF THE BRIDE - MGM. [Produced by Pandro S. Berman]
KING SOLOMON'S MINES - MGM. [Produced by Sam Zimbalist]
SUNSET BOULEVARD - Paramount. [Produced by Charles Brackett]
Actor
Louis Calhern in THE MAGNIFICENT YANKEE
José Ferrer in CYRANO DE BERGERAC
William Holden in SUNSET BOULEVARD
James Stewart in HARVEY
Spencer Tracy in FATHER OF THE BRIDE
Actress
Anne Baxter in ALL ABOUT EVE
Bette Davis in ALL ABOUT EVE
Judy Holliday in BORN YESTERDAY
Eleanor Parker in CAGED
Gloria Swanson in SUNSET BOULEVARD
Supporting Actor
Jeff Chandler in BROKEN ARROW
Edmund Gwenn in MISTER 880
Sam Jaffe in THE ASPHALT JUNGLE
George Sanders in ALL ABOUT EVE
Erich von Stroheim in SUNSET BOULEVARD
Supporting Actress
Hope Emerson in CAGED
Celeste Holm in ALL ABOUT EVE
Josephine Hull in HARVEY
Nancy Olson in SUNSET BOULEVARD
Thelma Ritter in ALL ABOUT EVE
Director
George Cukor for BORN YESTERDAY
John Huston for THE ASPHALT JUNGLE
Joseph L. Mankiewicz for ALL ABOUT EVE
Carol Reed for THE THIRD MAN
Billy Wilder for SUNSET BOULEVARD
Writing: Screenplay
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - ALL ABOUT EVE
Ben Maddow & John Huston - THE ASPHALT JUNGLE
Albert Mannheimer - BORN YESTERDAY
Albert Maltz - BROKEN ARROW - Originally Michael Blankfort had been listed for this nomination. Blankfort fronted for Maltz who was a blacklisted writer at the time. Following research by the Writers Guild of America West in July 1991, the Academy officially attributed the nomination to Maltz and removed Blankfort.
Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett - FATHER OF THE BRIDE
Writing: Motion Picture Story
Giuseppe De Santis & Carlo Lizzani - BITTER RICE
André De Toth & William Bowers - THE GUNFIGHTER
Leonard Spigelgass - MYSTERY STREET
Edna Anhalt & Edward Anhalt - PANIC IN THE STREETS
Sy Gomberg - WHEN WILLIE COMES MARCHING HOME
Writing: Story and Screenplay
Ruth Gordon & Garson Kanin - ADAM'S RIB
Virginia Kellogg & Bernard C. Schoenfeld - CAGED
Carl Foreman - THE MEN
Joseph L. Mankiewicz & Lesser Samuels - NO WAY OUT
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder & D.M. Marshman Jr. - SUNSET BOULEVARD
Art Direction/Set Decoration (Color)
Cedric Gibbons & Paul Groesse - Art Direction, Edwin B. Willis & Richard A. Pefferle - Set Decoration ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
Hans Dreier & Walter Tyler - Art Direction, Sam Comer & Ray Moyer - Set Decoration SAMSON AND DELILAH
Ernst Fegte - Art Direction, George Sawley - Set Decoration DESTINATION MOON
Art Direction/Set Decoration (Black and White)
Lyle Wheeler & George W. Davis - Art Direction, Thomas Little & Walter M. Scott - Set Decoration ALL ABOUT EVE
Cedric Gibbons & Hans Peters - Art Direction, Edwin B. Willis & Hugh Hunt - Set Decoration THE RED DANUBE
Hans Dreier & John Meehan - Art Direction, Sam Comer & Ray Moyer - Set Decoration SUNSET BOULEVARD
Cinematography (Color)
Charles Rosher - ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
Ernest G. Palmer - BROKEN ARROW
Ernest Haller - THE FLAME AND THE ARROW
Robert L. Surtees - KING SOLOMON'S MINES
George Barnes - SAMSON AND DELILAH
Cinematography (Black and White)
Milton Krasner - ALL ABOUT EVE
Hal Rosson - THE ASPHALT JUNGLE
Victor Milner - THE FURIES
John F. Seitz - SUNSET BOULEVARD
Robert Krasker - THE THIRD MAN
Costume Design (Color)
Michael Whittaker - THE BLACK ROSE
Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele & Gwen Wakeling - SAMSON AND DELILAH
Walter Plunkett & Valles - THAT FORSYTE WOMAN
Costume Design (Black and White)
Edith Head & Charles LeMaire - ALL ABOUT EVE
Jean Louis - BORN YESTERDAY
Walter Plunkett - THE MAGNIFICENT YANKEE
Documentary (Features)
Robert Snyder - Producer THE TITAN --STORY OF MICHELANGELO
Jack Arnold & Lee Goodman - Producers WITH THESE HANDS
Documentary (Short Subjects)
THE FIGHT: SCIENCE AGAINST CANCER
THE STAIRS
Edmund Reek - Producer WHY KOREA?
Film Editing
Barbara McLean - ALL ABOUT EVE
James E. Newcom - ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
Ralph E. Winters & Conrad A. Nervig - KING SOLOMON'S MINES
Arthur Schmidt & Doane Harrison - SUNSET BOULEVARD
Oswald Hafenrichter - THE THIRD MAN
Music: Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Alfred Newman - ALL ABOUT EVE
Max Steiner - THE FLAME AND THE ARROW
George Duning - NO SAD SONGS FOR ME
Victor Young - SAMSON AND DELILAH
Franz Waxman - SUNSET BOULEVARD
Music: Scoring of a Musical Picture
Adolph Deutsch & Roger Edens - ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
Oliver Wallace & Paul J. Smith - CINDERELLA
Lionel Newman - I'LL GET BY
Andre Previn - THREE LITTLE WORDS
Ray Heindorf - WEST POINT STORY
Music: Song
Nicholas Brodszky - Music, Sammy Cahn - Lyrics THE TOAST OF NEW ORLEANS "Be My Love"
Mack David, Al Hoffman & Jerry Livingston - Music & Lyrics
CINDERELLA "Bibbidy-Bobbidi-Boo"
Ray Evans & Jay Livingston - Music & Lyrics - CAPTAIN CAREY, U.S.A. "Mona Lisa" 
Fred Glickman,Hy Heath & Johnny Lange - Music & Lyrics SINGING GUNS "Mule Train"
Josef Myrow - Music, Mack Gordon - Lyrics WABASH AVENUE "Wilhelmina"
Short Subjects (Cartoons)
Stephen Bosustow - Executive Producer GERALD McBOING BOING
Fred Quimby - Producer JERRY'S COUSIN
Stephen Bosustow - Executive Producer TROUBLE INDEMNITY
Short Subjects (One-reel)
Robert Youngson - Producer BLAZE BUSTERS
Gordon Hollingshead - Producer GRANDAD OF RACES
Pete Smith - Producer WRONG WAY BUTCH
Short Subjects (Two-reel)
GRANDMA MOSES
Walt Disney - Producer IN BEAVER VALLEY
Gordon Hollingshead - Producer MY COUNTRY 'TIS OF THEE
Sound Recording
20th Century-Fox Sound Department - ALL ABOUT EVE
Disney Sound Department - CINDERELLA
Universal-International Sound Department - LOUISA
Goldwyn Sound Department - OUR VERY OWN
Rank-Sydney Box & Paramount [Great Britain] - TRIO
Special Effects
DESTINATION MOON [No names given, but credits indicate Lee Zavitz]
SAMSON AND DELILAH
Scientific Or Technical
Class I (Statuette):
No award given for 1950.
Class II (Plaque):
 James B. Gordon (20th Century-Fox Studio Camera Department) - For the design and development of a multiple film viewer.
John P. Livadary, Floyd Campbell & L. W. Russell (Columbia Studio Sound Department) - For the development of a multi-track magnetic re-recording system.
Loren L. Ryder (Paramount Studio Sound Department) - For the first studio-wide application of magnetic sound recording to motion picture production.
Class III (Citation):
No award given for 1950.
Honorary & Other Awards
New Classification
George Murphy - For his services in interpreting the film industry to the country at large. Winner presented a Statuette.
Louis B. Mayer - For distinguished service to the motion picture industry. Winner presented a Statuette.
AUX-DELÀ DES GILLES (THE WALLS OF MALAPAGA, Italy/France) - Voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States in 1950. Winner presented a Statuette.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Darryl F. Zanuck
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FIRSTS
· Joseph L. Mankiewicz becomes the only person to win Best Director and Best Screenplay two years in a row.
· Each writing category has a husband-and- wife team competing -- Edna & Edward Anhalt, Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett, and Ruth Gordon & Garson Kanin.
· All About Eve sets a new record with 14 nominations, topping Gone With the Wind's 13.
· Cyrano de Bergerac is the first Hollywood movie endorsed by the NYC Board of Education.
RULE CHANGES
· "Special Awards" now called "Honorary Awards."
ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID...
Thelma Ritter receives the first of her six unsuccessful Supporting Actress nominations, all from 1950 through 1962.
ROLE REVERSALS
· Billy Wilder initially approached Mae West, Mary Pickford, and Pola Negri for Gloria Swanson's role in Sunset Boulevard. Montgomery Clift backed out of the film -- he was the companion of torch singer Libby Holman, 30 years his senior, who threatened to commit suicide if he made the movie. Fred MacMurray also turned down the part that was eventually -- and unforgettably -- played by William Holden.
· Claudette Colbert broke a vertebrae while skiing and was replaced by Bette Davis in All About Eve.
· Harry Cohn had paid a million dollars for the rights to the play Born Yesterday as a star vehicle for Rita Hayworth. When Hayworth announced that she was quitting movies and marrying Sheik Aly Khan, it was largely through Katharine Hepburn's efforts that her co-star in Adam's Rib, Judy Holliday (who had replaced Jean Arthur in the play only three days before opening and had made the play a hit), gained serious consideration by Cohn. He referred to Holliday as "that fat Jewish broad."
SINS OF OMISSION
Picture: The Third Man, The Asphalt Jungle, Adam's Rib
Actor: Joseph Cotten - The Third Man
Song: "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes"
UNMENTIONABLES
· Erich von Stroheim threatened to sue the Academy over his Supporting nomination. He said he was too big a name for that category.
· Harry Cohn sought to endear newcomer Judy Holliday to Academy votes with ads that compared her to Jean Harlow in Hell's Angels, Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind, and, yes, Bette Davis in Of Human Bondage.
· Holliday was named in Red Channels for having "alleged" Communist leanings. José Ferrer was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee. He countered with a series of ads touting his patriotism.
· Ferrer was starring on Broadway with Gloria Swanson in a revival of Twentieth Century. He hosted a birthday party for Swanson on Awards night. New York residents Judy Holliday, Celeste Holm and Sam Jaffe -- all Academy nominees -- decided to go to Ferrer's party rather than the Academy's. They were joined by George Cukor from Hollywood. The Academy quickly arranged a radio hookup in NYC since so many of the potential winners would be there.
· Bette Davis was at neither show. She was somewhere on the Yorkshire moors filming a British movie called Another Man's Poison with Gary Merrill.
· Marilyn Monroe began crying when she noticed her dress was torn. Fellow starlets Debra Paget, Jane Greer and Gloria DeHaven rushed over to console her while a fashion attendant did some quick mending. Monroe composed herself when it was time to present the Sound Award. But -- in what would be her only appearance at the Academy Awards -- she barely looked up from the podium when she was onstage.
· Frankie Laine had some problems with the whip he had brought onstage for his performance of "Mule Train." After some unscripted banter with musical conductor Alfred Newman, Laine continued with the song after he was pleased with the whip's performance.
· Within months of receiving his Honorary Award as "one of our most distinguished citizens of Hollywood," Louis B. Mayer was out as studio chief at MGM. He was replaced by former chief of production, Dore Schary.
· After accepting his Award for Supporting Actor, George Sanders bowed to the audience, walked backstage and started crying. "I can't help it," wept Zsa Zsa Gabor's third husband. "This has unnerved me."
· Just before Broderick Crawford announced the winner for Best Actress, in New York Gloria Swanson whispered to Judy Holliday, "One of us is about to be very happy."
· Holliday walked to the microphone in New York, but the radio connection had been lost after Ferrer's thank-yous. So her remarks didn't make it out of the restaurant. In Hollywood, Ethel Barrymore was quickly pressed into service to accept on Holliday's behalf. "I am very happy to accept this award for her radiant performance, but I don't know what she wants me to say," Barrymore confessed.
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