Recap / Twenty Third Academy Awards

The 23rd Academy Awards

Host: Fred Astaire

Air Date: March 29, 1951

Best Motion Picture

• All About Eve (winner)
• Born Yesterday
• Father Of The Bride
• King Solomon's Mines
• Sunset Boulevard

Best Actor

• José Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac (winner)
• Louis Calhern - The Magnificent Yankee
• William Holden - Sunset Boulevard
• James Stewart - Harvey
• Spencer Tracy - Father Of The Bride

Best Actress

• June Holliday - Born Yesterday (winner)
• Anne Baxter - All About Eve
• Bette Davis - All About Eve
• Eleanor Parker - Caged
• Gloria Swanson - Sunset Boulevard

Best Supporting Actor

• George Sanders - All About Eve (winner)
• Jeff Chandler - Broken Arrow
• Edmund Gween - Mister 880
• Sam Jaffe - The Asphalt Jungle
• Erich von Stroheim - Sunset Boulevard

Best Supporting Actress

• Josephine Hull - Harvey (winner)
• Hope Emerson - Caged
• Celeste Holm - All About Eve
• Nancy Olson - Sunset Boulevard
• Thelma Ritter - All About Eve

Best Director

• Joseph L. Mankiewicz - All About Eve (winner)
• John Huston - The Asphalt Jungle
• George Cukor - Born Yesterday
• Billy Wilder - Sunset Boulevard
• Carol Reed - The Third Man

Best Screenplay

• All About Eve (winner)
• The Asphalt Jungle
• Born Yesterday
• Broken Arrow
• Father of the Bride

Best Story and Screenplay

• Sunset Boulevard (winner)
• Adam's Rib
• Caged
• The Men
• No Way Out

Best Motion Picture Story

• Panic in the Streets (winner)
• Bitter Rice
• The Gunfighter
• Mystery Street
• When Willie Comes Marching Home

Best Documentary (feature)

• The Titan Story Of Michelangelo (winner)
• With These Hands

Best Documentary (short subject)

• Why Korea (winner)
• The Fight Science Against Cancer
• The Stairs

Best Short Film (One-Reel)

• Grandad of Races (winner)
• Blaze Busters
• Wrong Way Butch

Best Short Film (Two-Reel)

• In Beaver Valley (winner)
• Grandma Moses
• My Country 'Tis of Thee

Best Short Film (Cartoons)

• Gerald McBoing-Boing (winner)
• Jerry's Cousin
• Trouble Indemnity

Best Scoring of Drama or Comedy

• Sunset Boulevard (winner)
• All About Eve
• The Flame And The Arrow
• No Sad Songs For Me
• Samson And Delilah

Best Scoring of a Musical

• Annie Get Your Gun (winner)
• Cinderella
• Ill Get By
• Three Little Words
• The West Point Story

Best Original Song

• "Mona Lisa" - Captain Carey USA (winner)
• "Be My Love" - The Toast Of New Orleans
• "Bibbi-Bobbidi-Boo" - Cinderella
• "Mule Train" - Singing Guns
• "Wilhelmina" - Wabash Avenue

Best Sound Recording

• All About Eve (winner)
• Cinderella
• Louisa
• Our Very Own
• Trio

Best Art Direction (black and white)

• Sunset Boulevard (winner)
• All About Eve
• The Red Danube

Best Art Direction (color)

• Samson And Delilah (winner)
• Annie Get Your Gun
• Destination Moon

Best Cinematography (black and white)

• The Third Man (winner)
• All About Eve
• The Asphalt Jungle
• The Furies
• Sunset Boulevard

Best Cinematography (color)

• King Solomon's Mines (winner)
• Annie Get Your Gun
• Broken Arrow
• The Flame And The Arrow
• Samson And Delilah

Best Costume Design (black and white)

• All About Eve (winner)
• Born Yesterday
• The Magnificent Yankee

Best Costume Design (color)

• Samson And Delilah (winner)
• The Black Rose
• The Forsyte Woman

Best Film Editing

• King Solomon's Mines (winner)
• All About Eve
• Annie Get Your Gun
• Sunset Boulevard
• The Third Man

Best Special Effects

• Destination Moon (winner)
• Samson And Delilah

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