1951 (24th Annual Awards)
Nominations and Winners
Listed below are the Academy Award nominations and winners for the year 1951. The
symbol appears next to the winner in each category. Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song. Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the nominations and winners from that year.
Best Motion Picture
A Streetcar Named Desire, Charles K. Feldman Group Productions; Warner Bros. Charles K. Feldman, Producer.Best Actor
Best Actress
Actor in a Supporting Role
Actress in a Supporting Role
Directing
Art Direction-Set Decoration
(Black-and-White)
Fourteen Hours, 20th Century-Fox. Art direction by Lyle Wheeler and Leland Fuller; set decoration by Thomas Little and Fred J. Rode.House on Telegraph Hill, 20th Century-Fox. Art direction by Lyle Wheeler and John DeCuir; set decoration by Thomas Little and Paul S. Fox.A Streetcar Named Desire, Charles K. Feldman Group Productions; Warner Bros. Art direction by Richard Day; set decoration by George James Hopkins.Too Young to Kiss, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse; set decoration by Edwin B. Willis and Jack D. Moore.(Color)
An American in Paris, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons and Preston Ames; set decoration by Edwin B. Willis and Keogh Gleason.David and Bathsheba, 20th Century-Fox. Art direction by Lyle Wheeler and George Davis; set decoration by Thomas Little and Paul S. Fox.On the Riviera, 20th Century-Fox. Art direction by Lyle Wheeler and Leland Fuller; musical settings by Joseph C. Wright; set decoration by Thomas Little and Walter M. Scott.Quo Vadis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Art direction by William A. Horning, Cedric Gibbons and Edward Carfagno; set decoration by Hugh Hunt.Cinematography
(Black-and-White)
(Color)
Costume Design
(Black-and-White)
(Color)
Documentary
(Feature)
(Short Subject)
Benjy, Paramount. Fred Zinnemann, Producer. [Made by Fred Zinnemann with the cooperation of Paramount Pictures Corporation for the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital.]One Who Came Back, United States Department of Defense; Association of Motion Picture Producers. Owen Crump, Producer. [Film sponsored by the Disabled American Veterans, in cooperation with the United States Department of Defense and the Association of Motion Picture Producers.]Film Editing
Music
(Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)
(Scoring of a Musical Picture)
(Song)
In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening from Here Comes the Groom, Paramount. Music by Hoagy Carmichael; lyrics by Johnny Mercer.A Kiss to Build a Dream On from The Strip, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Music and lyrics by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby and Oscar Hammerstein II.Too Late Now from Royal Wedding, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Music by Burton Lane; lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner.Wonder Why from Rich, Young and Pretty, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Music by Nicholas Brodszky; lyrics by Sammy Cahn.Short Subjects
(Cartoons)
Lambert, the Sheepish Lion, Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio. [Special Series] Walt Disney, Producer.Rooty Toot Toot, UPA (United Productions of America); Columbia. [Jolly Frolics Series] Stephen Bosustow, Producer.(One-reel)
The Story of Time, Signal Films Production; Cornell Film Company (British). Robert G. Leffingwell, Producer.(Two-reel)
Balzac, Les Films du Compass; A. F. Films, Inc. (French).Nature’s Half Acre, Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio. [True-Life Adventure Series] Walt Disney, Producer.Sound Recording
Bright Victory, Universal-International. Universal-International Studio Sound Department, Leslie I. Carey, Sound Director.The Great Caruso, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director.I Want You, Samuel Goldwyn Productions; RKO Radio. Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon Sawyer, Sound Director.A Streetcar Named Desire, Charles K. Feldman Group Productions; Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Col. Nathan Levinson, Sound Director.Two Tickets to Broadway, RKO Radio. RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John O. Aalberg, Sound Director.Special Effects
When Worlds Collide, Paramount.Writing
(Motion Picture Story)
Seven Days to Noon, Boulting Brothers; Mayer-Kingsley-Distinguished Films (British). Paul Dehn and James Bernard.(Screenplay)
(Story and Screenplay)
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Honorary Award
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. [Statuette](Foreign Language Film)
To Rashomon (Japanese)—voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1951. [Statuette]Scientific or Technical Award
(Class II)
To Gordon Jennings, S. L. Stancliffe, the Paramount Studio Special Photographic Department and the Paramount Studio Engineering Department for the design, construction and application of a servo-operated recording and repeating device.To Olin L. Dupy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio for the design, construction and application of a motion picture reproducing system.To Radio Corporation of America, Victor Division, for pioneering direct positive recording with anticipatory noise reduction.(Class III)
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.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.To Glen Robinson and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Construction Department for the development of a new music wire and cable cutter.To Jack Gaylord and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Construction Department for the development of balsa falling snow.To Carlos Rivas of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio for the development of an automatic magnetic film splicer.