Date: March 29, 1951
Best Picture
Best Actor in a Leading Role
- José Ferrer for Cyrano de Bergerac
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- George Sanders for All About Eve
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Josephine Hull for Harvey
Best Director
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz for All About Eve
Best Screenplay
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz for All About Eve
Best Motion Picture Story
- Edna Anhalt & Edward Anhalt for Panic in the Streets
Best Story and Screenplay
- Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, & D.M. Marshman Jr. for Sunset Blvd.
Best Cinematography, Colour
- Robert Surtees for King Solomon’s Mines
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
- Robert Krasker for The Third Man
Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White
- Hans Dreier, John Meehan, Sam Comer, & Ray Moyer for Sunset Blvd.
Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Colour
- Hans Dreier, Walter H. Tyler, Sam Comer, & Ray Moyer for Samson and Delilah
Best Costume Design, Black-and-White
- Edith Head & Charles Le Maire for All About Eve
Best Costume Design, Colour
- Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele, & Gwen Wakeling for Samson and Delilah
Best Sound, Recording
- Thomas T. Moulton for All About Eve
Best Film Editing
- Ralph E. Winters & Conrad A. Nervig for King Solomon’s Mines
Best Special Effects
- Destination Moon
Best Original Song
- Ray Evans & Jay Livingston for “Mona Lisa” from Captain Carey, U.S.A.
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
- Adolph Deutsch & Roger Edens for Annie Get Your Gun
Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
- Franz Waxman for Sunset Blvd.
Best Short Subject, Two-Reel
- Walt Disney for Beaver Valley
Best Short Subject, One-Reel
- Gordon Hollingshead for Grandad of Races
Best Short Subject, Cartoons
- Stephen Bosustow for Gerald McBoing-Boing
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
- Edmund Reek for Why Korea?
Best Documentary, Features
- Olle Nordemar for Kon-Tiki
Honorary Award
- George Murphy
- Louis B. Mayer
- The Walls of Malapaga
