1952 (25th Annual Awards)
Winners Only
Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1952 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). 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 winners from that year.
Best Motion Picture
Best Actor
Best Actress
Actor in a Supporting Role
Actress in a Supporting Role
Directing
Art Direction-Set Decoration
(Black-and-White)
The Bad and the Beautiful, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons and Edward Carfagno; set decoration by Edwin B. Willis and Keogh Gleason.(Color)
Moulin Rouge, Romulus Films, Ltd. Production; United Artists. Art direction by Paul Sheriff; set decoration by Marcel Vertes.Cinematography
(Black-and-White)
(Color)
Costume Design
(Black-and-White)
(Color)
Documentary
(Feature)
(Short Subject)
Neighbours, National Film Board of Canada; Arthur Mayer-Edward Kingsley, Inc. (Canadian). Norman McLaren, Producer.Film Editing
Music
(Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)
(Scoring of a Musical Picture)
(Song)
High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin’) from High Noon, Stanley Kramer Productions; United Artists. Music by Dimitri Tiomkin; lyrics by Ned Washington.Short Subjects
(Cartoons)
(One-reel)
Light in the Window: The Art of Vermeer, Art Film Productions; 20th Century-Fox. [Art Film Series] Boris Vermont, Producer.(Two-reel)
Water Birds, Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio. [True Life Adventure Series] Walt Disney, Producer.Sound Recording
Special Effects
Plymouth Adventure, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.Writing
(Motion Picture Story)
The Greatest Show on Earth, Cecil B. DeMille Productions; Paramount. Frederic M. Frank, Theodore St. John and Frank Cavett.(Screenplay)
(Story and Screenplay)
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Honorary Award
To George Alfred Mitchell for the design and development of the camera which bears his name and for his continued and dominant presence in the field of cinematography. [Statuette]To Joseph M. Schenck for long and distinguished service to the motion picture industry. [Statuette]To Merian C. Cooper for his many innovations and contributions to the art of motion pictures. [Statuette]To Harold Lloyd, master comedian and good citizen. [Statuette]To Bob Hope for his contribution to the laughter of the world, his service to the motion picture industry, and his devotion to the American premise. [Statuette](Foreign Language Film)
To Forbidden Games (French)—Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1952. [Statuette]Scientific or Technical Award
(Class I)
To Eastman Kodak Company for the introduction of Eastman color negative and Eastman color print film.To Ansco Film Division of General Aniline and Film Corporation for the introduction of Ansco color negative and Ansco color print film.(Class II)
To Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation for an improved method of color motion picture photography under incandescent light.(Class III)
To the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Projection Department, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Still Photographic Department and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Development Engineering Department for an improved method of projecting photographic backgrounds.To John G. Frayne and R. R. Scoville and Westrex Corporation for a method of measuring distortion in sound reproduction.To Photo Research Corporation for creating the Spectra color temperature meter.To Gustav Jirouch for the design of the Robot automatic film splicer.To Carlos Rivas of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio for the development of a sound reproducer for magnetic film.