Academy Awards®
Awards for 1950
Picture
* Darryl F. Zanuck - Producer, ALL ABOUT EVE
S. Sylvan Simon - Producer, BORN YESTERDAY
Pandro S. Berman - Producer, FATHER OF THE BRIDE
Sam Zimbalist - Producer, KING SOLOMON'S MINES
Charles Brackett - Producer, SUNSET BLVD.
Actor
Louis Calhern, THE MAGNIFICENT YANKEE
* José Ferrer, CYRANO DE BERGERAC
William Holden, SUNSET BLVD.
James Stewart, HARVEY
Spencer Tracy, FATHER OF THE BRIDE
Actress
Anne Baxter, ALL ABOUT EVE
Bette Davis, ALL ABOUT EVE
* Judy Holliday, BORN YESTERDAY
Eleanor Parker, CAGED
Gloria Swanson, SUNSET BLVD.
Supporting Actor
Jeff Chandler, BROKEN ARROW
Edmund Gwenn, MISTER 880
Sam Jaffe, THE ASPHALT JUNGLE
* George Sanders, ALL ABOUT EVE
Erich von Stroheim, SUNSET BLVD.
Supporting Actress
Hope Emerson, CAGED
Celeste Holm, ALL ABOUT EVE
* Josephine Hull, HARVEY
Nancy Olson, SUNSET BLVD.
Thelma Ritter, ALL ABOUT EVE
Director
George Cukor, BORN YESTERDAY
John Huston, THE ASPHALT JUNGLE
* Joseph L. Mankiewicz, ALL ABOUT EVE
Sir Carol Reed, THE THIRD MAN
Billy Wilder, SUNSET BLVD.
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 BLVD.
Writing - Screenplay
* Joseph L. Mankiewicz, ALL ABOUT EVE
Ben Maddow, John Huston, THE ASPHALT JUNGLE
Albert Mannheimer, BORN YESTERDAY
Michael Blankfort, BROKEN ARROW
Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, FATHER OF THE BRIDE
Art Direction/Set Decoration - Color
Cedric Gibbons - Art Direction, Paul Groesse - Art Direction, Edwin B. Willis - Set Decoration, Richard A. Pefferle - Set Decoration, ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
* Hans Dreier - Art Direction, Walter Tyler - Art Direction, Sam Comer - Set Decoration, Ray Moyer - Set Decoration, SAMSON AND DELILAH
Ernst Fegte - Art Direction, George Sawley - Set Decoration, DESTINATION MOON
Art Direction/Set Decoration - Black & White
Lyle Wheeler - Art Direction, George W. Davis - Art Direction, Thomas Little - Set Decoration, Walter M. Scott - Set Decoration, ALL ABOUT EVE
Cedric Gibbons - Art Direction, Hans Peters - Art Direction, Edwin B. Willis - Set Decoration, Hugh Hunt - Set Decoration, THE RED DANUBE
* Hans Dreier - Art Direction, John Meehan - Art Direction, Sam Comer - Set Decoration, Ray Moyer - Set Decoration, SUNSET BLVD.
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 & White
Milton Krasner, ALL ABOUT EVE
Harold Rosson, THE ASPHALT JUNGLE
Victor Milner, THE FURIES
John F. Seitz, SUNSET BLVD.
* 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 & White
* Edith Head, Charles LeMaire, ALL ABOUT EVE
Jean Louis, BORN YESTERDAY
Walter Plunkett, THE MAGNIFICENT YANKEE
Documentary Feature
* Robert Snyder - Producer, THE TITAN—STORY OF MICHELANGELO
Jack Arnold - Producer, Lee Goodman - Producer, WITH THESE HANDS
Documentary Short Subject
National Film Board of Canada in cooperation with the Medical Film Institute of the Association of American Medical Colleges, THE FIGHT: SCIENCE AGAINST CANCER
Film Documents, Inc., 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 BLVD.
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 BLVD.
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
Song
Nicholas Brodszky - Music, Sammy Cahn - Lyrics, THE TOAST OF NEW ORLEANS
"Be My Love"
Mack David - Music & Lyrics, Al Hoffman - Music & Lyrics, Jerry Livingston - Music & Lyrics, CINDERELLA
"Bibbidy-Bobbidi-Boo"
* Ray Evans - Music & Lyrics, Jay Livingston - Music & Lyrics, CAPTAIN CAREY, U.S.A.
"Mona Lisa"
Fred Glickman - Music & Lyrics, Hy Heath - Music & Lyrics, Johnny Lange - Music & Lyrics, SINGING GUNS
"Mule Train"
Josef Myrow - Music, Mack Gordon - Lyrics, WABASH AVENUE
"Wilhelmina"
Animated Short
* 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
Falcon Films, Inc.,
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
Cyril Crowhurst (Rank-Sydney Box, Paramount (Great Britain)),
TRIO
Special Effects
Award given this year to the film without mentioning specific artist.
* DESTINATION MOON
SAMSON AND DELILAH
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 Paul 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 and Other Awards
* 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.
* THE WALLS OF MALAPAGA
Voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding Foreign Language Film released in the United States in 1950. Winner presented a Statuette.
The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
* Darryl F. Zanuck,