Academy Awards®
Awards for 1951
Picture
* Arthur Freed - Producer, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Anatole Litvak - Producer, Frank McCarthy - Producer, DECISION BEFORE DAWN
George Stevens - Producer, A PLACE IN THE SUN
Sam Zimbalist - Producer, QUO VADIS?
Charles K. Feldman - Producer, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Actor
Montgomery Clift, A PLACE IN THE SUN
* Humphrey Bogart, THE AFRICAN QUEEN
Marlon Brando, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Arthur Kennedy, BRIGHT VICTORY
Fredric March, DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Actress
Katharine Hepburn, THE AFRICAN QUEEN
* Vivien Leigh, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Eleanor Parker, DETECTIVE STORY
Shelley Winters, A PLACE IN THE SUN
Jane Wyman, THE BLUE VEIL
Supporting Actor
Leo Genn, QUO VADIS?
* Karl Malden, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Kevin McCarthy, DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Sir Peter Ustinov, QUO VADIS?
Gig Young, COME FILL THE CUP
Supporting Actress
Joan Blondell, THE BLUE VEIL
Mildred Dunnock, DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Lee Grant, DETECTIVE STORY
* Kim Hunter, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Thelma Ritter, THE MATING SEASON
Director
John Huston, THE AFRICAN QUEEN
Elia Kazan, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Vincente Minnelli, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
* George Stevens, A PLACE IN THE SUN
William Wyler, DETECTIVE STORY
Writing - Motion Picture Story
Budd Boetticher, Ray Nazarro, BULLFIGHTER AND THE LADY
Oscar Millard, THE FROGMEN
Robert Riskin, Liam O'Brien, HERE COMES THE GROOM
* Paul Dehn, James Bernard, SEVEN DAYS TO NOON
Alfred Hayes, Stewart Stern, TERESA
Writing - Story and Screenplay
* Alan Jay Lerner, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Lesser Samuels, Walter Newman, THE BIG CARNIVAL/ACE IN THE HOLE
Philip Dunne, DAVID AND BATHSHEBA
Robert Pirosh, GO FOR BROKE!
Clarence Greene, Russell Rouse, THE WELL
Writing - Screenplay
James Agee, John Huston, THE AFRICAN QUEEN
Philip Yordan, Robert Wyler, DETECTIVE STORY
Jacques Natanson, Max Ophüls, LA RONDE
* Michael Wilson, Harry Brown, A PLACE IN THE SUN
Tennessee Williams, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Art Direction/Set Decoration - Color
* Cedric Gibbons - Art Direction, Preston Ames - Art Direction, Edwin B. Willis - Set Decoration, Keogh Gleason - Set Decoration, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Lyle Wheeler - Art Direction, George W. Davis - Art Direction, Thomas Little - Set Decoration, Paul S. Fox - Set Decoration, DAVID AND BATHSHEBA
Lyle Wheeler - Art Direction, Leland Fuller - Art Direction, Joseph C. Wright - Musical Settings, Thomas Little - Set Decoration, Walter M. Scott - Set Decoration, ON THE RIVIERA
William A. Horning - Art Direction, Cedric Gibbons - Art Direction, Edward C. Carfagno - Art Direction, Hugh Hunt - Set Decoration, QUO VADIS?
Hein Heckroth - Art Direction, THE TALES OF HOFFMANN
Art Direction/Set Decoration - Black & White
Lyle Wheeler - Art Direction, Leland Fuller - Art Direction, Thomas Little - Set Decoration, Fred J. Rode - Set Decoration, FOURTEEN HOURS
Lyle Wheeler - Art Direction, John DeCuir - Art Direction, Thomas Little - Set Decoration, Paul S. Fox - Set Decoration, THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL
D'Eaubonne - Art Direction, LA RONDE
* Richard Day - Art Direction, George James Hopkins - Set Decoration, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Cedric Gibbons - Art Direction, Paul Groesse - Art Direction, Edwin B. Willis - Set Decoration, Jack D. Moore - Set Decoration, TOO YOUNG TO KISS
Cinematography - Color
* Alfred Gilks, John Alton - Ballet Photography, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Leon Shamroy, DAVID AND BATHSHEBA
Robert L. Surtees, William V. Skall, QUO VADIS?
Charles Rosher, SHOW BOAT
John F. Seitz, W. Howard Greene, WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
Cinematography - Black & White
Frank Planer, DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Norbert Brodine, THE FROGMEN
* William C. Mellor, A PLACE IN THE SUN
Robert Burks, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
Harry Stradling, Sr., A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Costume Design - Color
* Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett, Irene Sharaff, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Charles LeMaire, Edward Stevenson, DAVID AND BATHSHEBA
Helen Rose, Gile Steele, THE GREAT CARUSO
Herschel McCoy, QUO VADIS?
Hein Heckroth, THE TALES OF HOFFMANN
Costume Design - Black & White
Walter Plunkett, Gile Steele, KIND LADY
Charles LeMaire, Renie, THE MODEL AND THE MARRIAGE BROKER
Edward Stevenson, Margaret Furse, THE MUDLARK
* Edith Head, A PLACE IN THE SUN
Lucinda Ballard, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Documentary Feature
Bryan Foy - Producer, I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE FBI
* Olle Nordemar - Producer, KON-TIKI
Documentary Short Subject
* Fred Zinnemann - Producer, BENJY
Owen Crump - Producer, ONE WHO CAME BACK
Gordon Hollingshead - Producer, THE SEEING EYE
Film Editing
Adrienne Fazan, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Dorothy Spencer, DECISION BEFORE DAWN
* William Hornbeck, A PLACE IN THE SUN
Ralph E. Winters, QUO VADIS?
Chester Schaeffer, THE WELL
Music - Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Alfred Newman, DAVID AND BATHSHEBA
Alex North, DEATH OF A SALESMAN
* Franz Waxman, A PLACE IN THE SUN
Miklos Rozsa, QUO VADIS?
Alex North, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Music - Scoring of a Musical Picture
Oliver Wallace, ALICE IN WONDERLAND
* Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Peter Herman Alder, Johnny Green, THE GREAT CARUSO
Alfred Newman, ON THE RIVIERA
Adolph Deutsch, Conrad Salinger, SHOW BOAT
Song
* Hoagy Carmichael - Music, Johnny Mercer - Lyrics, HERE COMES THE GROOM
"In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening"
Bert Kalmar - Music & Lyrics, Harry Ruby - Music & Lyrics, Oscar Hammerstein II - Music & Lyrics, THE STRIP
"A Kiss to Build a Dream On"
Lionel Newman - Music, Eliot Daniel - Lyrics, GOLDEN GIRL
"Never"
Burton Lane - Music, Alan Jay Lerner - Lyrics, ROYAL WEDDING
"Too Late Now"
Nicholas Brodszky - Music, Sammy Cahn - Lyrics, RICH, YOUNG AND PRETTY
"Wonder Why"
Animated Short
Walt Disney - Producer, LAMBERT, THE SHEEPISH LION
Stephen Bosustow - Executive Producer, ROOTY TOOT TOOT
* Fred Quimby - Producer, TWO MOUSEKETEERS
Short Subjects - One-Reel
Jack Eaton - Producer, RIDIN' THE RAILS
Robert G. Leffingwell - Producer, THE STORY OF TIME
* Robert Youngson - Producer, WORLD OF KIDS
Short Subjects - Two-Reel
Les Films Du Compass, BALZAC
Tom Mead - Producer, DANGER UNDER THE SEA
* Walt Disney - Producer, NATURE'S HALF ACRE
Sound Recording
Leslie I. Carey - Sound Director, BRIGHT VICTORY
* Douglas Shearer - Sound Director, THE GREAT CARUSO
Gordon Sawyer - Sound Director, I WANT YOU
Colonel Nathan Levinson - Sound Director, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
John O. Aalberg - Sound Director, TWO TICKETS TO BROADWAY
Special Effects
Rules changed in 1951: Special Effects becomes an "other" award, not necessarily given each year, with a single winner and no nominees.
Award given this year to the film without mentioning specific artist.
* WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
Class I (Statuette)
No award given for 1951.
Class II (Plaque)
* Gordon Jennings, S.L. Stancliffe, Paramount Studio Special Photographic and Engineering Departments, For the design, construction and application of a servo-operated recording and repeating device.
* Olin L. Dupy, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio, For the design, construction and application of a motion picture reproducing system.
* Radio Corporation of America Victor Division, For pioneering direct positive recording with anticipatory noise reduction.
Class III (Citation)
* Richard M. Haff, Frank P. Herrnfeld, Garland C. Misener, Ansco Film Division of General Aniline and Film Corporation, For the development of the Ansco color scene tester.
* Fred Ponedel (Warner Bros. Studio)
Ralph Ayres (Warner Bros. Studio)
George Brown (Warner Bros. Studio)
For an air-driven water motor to provide flow, wake and white water for marine sequences in motion pictures.
* Glen Robinson, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Construction Department, For the development of a new music wire and cable cutter.
* Jack Gaylord, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Construction Department, For the development of balsa falling snow.
* Carlos Rivas (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio)
For the development of an automatic magnetic film splicer.
Honorary and Other Awards
* 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. Winner presented a Statuette.
* RASHOMON
Voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding Foreign Language Film released in the United States during 1951. Winner presented a Statuette.
The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
* Arthur Freed,