Date: March 20, 1952
Best Picture
Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Humphrey Bogart for The African Queen
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Vivien Leigh for A Streetcar Named Desire
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Karl Malden for A Streetcar Named Desire
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Kim Hunter for A Streetcar Named Desire
Best Director
- George Stevens for A Place in the Sun
Best Screenplay
- Michael Wilson & Harry Brown for A Place in the Sun
Best Motion Picture Story
- Paul Dehn & James Bernard for Seven Days to Noon
Best Story and Screenplay
- Alan Jay Lerner for An American in Paris
Best Cinematography, Colour
- Alfred Gilks & John Alton for An American in Paris
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
- William C. Mellor for A Place in the Sun
Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White
- Richard Day & George James Hopkins for A Streetcar Named Desire
Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Colour
- Cedric Gibbons, E. Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, & F. Keogh Gleason for An American in Paris
Best Costume Design, Black-and-White
- Edith Head for A Place in the Sun
Best Costume Design, Colour
- Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett, & Irene Sharaff for An American in Paris
Best Sound, Recording
- Douglas Shearer for The Great Caruso
Best Film Editing
- William Hornbeck for A Place in the Sun
Best Special Effects
- When Worlds Collide
Best Original Song
- Hoagy Carmichael & Johnny Mercer for “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening” from Here Comes the Groom
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
- Johnny Green & Saul Chaplin for An American in Paris
Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
- Franz Waxman for A Place in the Sun
Best Short Subject, Two-Reel
- Walt Disney for Nature’s Half Acre
Best Short Subject, One-Reel
- Robert Youngson for World of Kids
Best Short Subject, Cartoons
- Fred Quimby for The Two Mouseketeers
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
- Fred Zinnemann for Benjy
Best Documentary, Features
- Bryan Foy for I Was a Communist for the FBI
Honorary Award
- Gene Kelly
- Rashomon
