23rd Academy Awards

The 23rd Academy Awards were held on March 29, 1951, honoring the films of 1950. All About Eve received a record 14 nominations, besting the previous record of 13 set by Gone with the Wind in 1939. It won six Oscars, including Best Picture, and earned writer/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz his second consecutive Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay awards, the only time such a feat has been accomplished. All About Eve was the second film, after Mrs. Miniver (1942), to receive five acting nominations. It was the first to receive multiple nominations in two acting categories, and the first (and, to date, only) film to receive four female acting nominations—two each for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. None was successful, losing to Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday and Josephine Hull in Harvey, respectively. Jose Ferrer, then under investigation from the House Un American Activities Committee over suspected Communist ties, won the Best Actor award despite being given very little chances to win. Marlene Dietrich nearly stole the show by wearing an apparently painted on dress that displayed her legs and figure. Best Motion Picture Best Director All About Eve – Darryl F. Zanuck for 20th Century Fox Born Yesterday – S. Sylvan Simon for Columbia Pictures
Father of the Bride – Pandro S. Berman for Metro Goldwyn Mayer
King Solomon's Mines – Sam Zimbalist for Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Sunset Boulevard – Charles Brackett for Paramount Pictures
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz – All About Eve
John Huston – The Asphalt Jungle
George Cukor – Born Yesterday
Billy Wilder – Sunset Boulevard
Carol Reed – The Third Man Best Actor Best Actress José Ferrer – Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac
Louis Calhern – The Magnificent Yankee as Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
William Holden – Sunset Boulevard as Joe Gillis
James Stewart – Harvey as Elwood P. Dowd
Spencer Tracy – Father of the Bride as Stanley T. Banks Judy Holliday – Born Yesterday as Emma "Billie" Dawn
Anne Baxter – All About Eve as Eve Harrington
Bette Davis – All About Eve as Margo Channing
Eleanor Parker – Caged as Marie Allen
Gloria Swanson – Sunset Boulevard as Norma Desmond Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress George Sanders – All About Eve as Addison DeWitt
Jeff Chandler – Broken Arrow as Cochise
Edmund Gwenn – Mister 880 as "Skipper" Miller
Sam Jaffe – The Asphalt Jungle as "Doc" Erwin Riedenschneider
Erich von Stroheim – Sunset Boulevard as Max von Mayerling Josephine Hull – Harvey as Veta Louise Simmons
Hope Emerson – Caged as Evelyn Harper
Celeste Holm – All About Eve as Karen Richards
Nancy Olson – Sunset Boulevard as Betty Schaefer
Thelma Ritter – All About Eve as Birdie Best Screenplay Best Story and Screenplay All About Eve – Joseph L. Mankiewicz from "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr The Asphalt Jungle – Ben Maddow and John Huston from The Asphalt Jungle by W. R. Burnett
Born Yesterday – Albert Mannheimer from Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin
Broken Arrow – Albert Maltz from Blood Brother by Elliott Arnold
Father of the Bride – Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett from Father of the Bride by Edward Streeter
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Sunset Boulevard– Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D. M. Marshman Jr. Adam's Rib – Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin
Caged – Virginia Kellogg and Bernard C. Schoenfeld
The Men – Carl Foreman
No Way Out – Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Lesser Samuels
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Panic in the Streets – Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt Bitter Rice – Giuseppe De Santis and Carlo Lizzani
The Gunfighter – William Bowers and André de Toth
Mystery Street – Leonard Spigelgass
When Willie Comes Marching Home – Sy Gomberg
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The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
With These Hands Best Documentary Short Subject Best Live Action Short Subject, One Reel Why Korea? The Fight: Science Against Cancer
The Stairs Grandad of Races – Gordon Hollingshead Blaze Busters – Robert Youngson
Wrong Way Butch – Pete Smith
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In Beaver Valley
Grandma Moses
My Country 'Tis of Thee Gerald McBoing Boing
Jerry's Cousin
Trouble Indemnity Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Best Scoring of a Musical Picture Sunset Boulevard – Franz Waxman
All About Eve – Alfred Newman
The Flame and the Arrow – Max Steiner
No Sad Songs for Me – George Duning
Samson and Delilah – Victor Young Annie Get Your Gun – Adolph Deutsch and Roger Edens
Cinderella – Oliver Wallace and Paul J. Smith
I'll Get By – Lionel Newman
Three Little Words – André Previn
The West Point Story – Ray Heindorf Best Original Song Best Sound Recording "Mona Lisa" from Captain Carey, U. S. A. – Music and Lyrics by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston
"Be My Love" from The Toast of New Orleans – Music by Nicholas Brodszky; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
"Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo" from Cinderella – Music and Lyrics by Mack David, Al Hoffman, and Jerry Livingston
"Mule Train" from Singing Guns – Music and Lyrics by Fred Glickman, Hy Heath, and Johnny Lange
"Wilhelmina" from Wabash Avenue – Music by Josef Myrow; Lyrics by Mack Gordon All About Eve – Thomas T. Moulton
Cinderella – C. O. Slyfield
Louisa – Leslie I. Carey
Our Very Own – Gordon E. Sawyer
Trio – Cyril Crowhurst Best Art Direction – Set Decoration, Black and White Best Art Direction – Set Decoration, Color Sunset Boulevard – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and John Meehan; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Ray Moyer
All About Eve – Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler and George Davis; Set Decoration: Thomas Little and Walter M. Scott
The Red Danube – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Hans Peters; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt Samson and Delilah – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Walter Tyler; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Ray Moyer
Annie Get Your Gun – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Richard A. Pefferle
Destination Moon – Art Direction: Ernst Fegté; Set Decoration: George Sawley Best Cinematography, Black and White Best Cinematography, Color The Third Man – Robert Krasker
All About Eve – Milton Krasner
The Asphalt Jungle – Harold Rosson
The Furies – Victor Milner
Sunset Boulevard – John F. Seitz King Solomon's Mines – Robert Surtees
Annie Get Your Gun – Charles Rosher
Broken Arrow – Ernest Palmer
The Flame and the Arrow – Ernest Haller
Samson and Delilah – George Barnes Best Costume Design, Black and White Best Costume Design, Color All About Eve – Edith Head and Charles LeMaire
Born Yesterday – Jean Louis
The Magnificent Yankee – Walter Plunkett Samson and Delilah – Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele, and Gwen Wakeling
The Black Rose – Michael Whittaker
That Forsyte Woman – Walter Plunkett and Valles Best Film Editing Best Special Effects King Solomon's Mines – Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig
All About Eve – Barbara McLean
Annie Get Your Gun – James E. Newcom
Sunset Boulevard – Arthur P. Schmidt and Doane Harrison
The Third Man – Oswald Hafenrichter Destination Moon – George Pal Productions and Eagle Lion Classics
Samson and Delilah – Cecil B. DeMille Productions and Paramount

George Murphy "for his services in interpreting the film industry to the country at large". Louis B. Mayer "for distinguished service to the motion picture industry".

Darryl F. Zanuck