1950 (23rd Annual Awards)
Winners Only
Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1950 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.
Best Motion Picture
All About Eve, 20th Century-Fox.
Best Actor
Jose Ferrer in Cyrano de Bergerac, Stanley Kramer Productions; United Artists.
Best Actress
Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday, Columbia.
Actor in a Supporting Role
George Sanders in All About Eve, 20th Century-Fox.
Actress in a Supporting Role
Josephine Hull in Harvey, Universal-International.
Directing
All About Eve, 20th Century-Fox. Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
Art Direction-Set Decoration
(Black-and-White)
Sunset Blvd., Paramount. Art direction by Hans Dreier and John Meehan; set decoration by Sam Comer and Ray Moyer.
(Color)
Samson and Delilah, Cecil B. DeMille Productions; Paramount. Art direction by Hans Dreier and Walter Tyler; set decoration by Sam Comer and Ray Moyer.
Cinematography
(Black-and-White)
The Third Man, Selznick Enterprises in assoc. with London Films Productions, Ltd.; Selznick Releasing Organization (SRO). (UK) Robert Krasker.
(Color)
King Solomon’s Mines, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Robert Surtees.
Costume Design
(Black-and-White)
(Color)
Samson and Delilah, Cecil B. DeMille Productions; Paramount. Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele and Gwen Wakeling.
Documentary
(Feature)
The Titan: Story of Michelangelo, Michelangelo Company; Classic Pictures, Inc. (Switzerland, West Germany) Robert Snyder, Producer.
(Short Subject)
Why Korea?, 20th Century-Fox Movietone; 20th Century-Fox. Edmund Reek, Producer.
Film Editing
Music
(Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)
Sunset Blvd., Paramount. Franz Waxman.
(Scoring of a Musical Picture)
(Song)
Short Subjects
(Cartoons)
Gerald McBoing-Boing, UPA (United Productions of America); Columbia. [Jolly Frolics Series] Stephen Bosustow, Producer.
(One-reel)
Grandad of Races, Warner Bros. [Sports Parade Series] Gordon Hollingshead, Producer.
(Two-reel)
In Beaver Valley, Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio. [True-Life Adventure Series] Walt Disney, Producer.
Sound Recording
All About Eve, 20th Century-Fox. 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton, Sound Director.
Special Effects
Destination Moon, George Pal Productions; Eagle Lion Classics.
Writing
(Motion Picture Story)
(Screenplay)
All About Eve, 20th Century-Fox. Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
(Story and Screenplay)
Honorary Award
To George Murphy for his services in interpreting the film industry to the country at large. [ [Statuette]]
To Louis B. Mayer for distinguished service to the motion picture industry. [ [Statuette]]
(Foreign Language Film)
To The Walls of Malapaga. (Italy, France) – voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States in 1950. [ [Statuette]]
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Scientific or Technical Award
(Class II)
To James B. Gordon and the 20th Century-Fox Studio Camera Department for the design and development of a multiple image film viewer.
To John Paul Livadary, Floyd Campbell, L. W. Russell, and the Columbia Studio Sound Department for the development of a multi-track magnetic re-recording system.
To Loren L. Ryder and the Paramount Studio Sound Department for the first studio-wide application of magnetic sound recording to motion picture production.