1951 (24th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1951 (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

An American in Paris, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Arthur Freed, Producer.

Best Actor

Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, Horizon Enterprises, Inc.; United Artists. (USA, UK)

Best Actress

Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire, Charles K. Feldman Group Productions; Warner Bros.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Karl Malden in A Streetcar Named Desire, Charles K. Feldman Group Productions; Warner Bros.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Kim Hunter in A Streetcar Named Desire, Charles K. Feldman Group Productions; Warner Bros.

Directing

A Place in the Sun, Paramount. George Stevens.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

(Black-and-White)

A Streetcar Named Desire, Charles K. Feldman Group Productions; Warner Bros. Art direction by Richard Day; set decoration by George James Hopkins.

(Color)

An American in Paris, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons and Preston Ames; set decoration by Edwin B. Willis and Keogh Gleason.

Cinematography

(Black-and-White)

A Place in the Sun, Paramount. William C. Mellor.

(Color)

An American in Paris, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Alfred Gilks; ballet photography by John Alton.

Costume Design

(Black-and-White)

A Place in the Sun, Paramount. Edith Head.

(Color)

An American in Paris, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett and Irene Sharaff.

Documentary

(Feature)

Kon-Tiki, Artfilm Production; RKO Radio. (Norway, Sweden) Olle Nordemar, Producer.

(Short Subject)

Benjy, Paramount. Fred Zinnemann, Producer.

Film Editing

A Place in the Sun, Paramount. William Hornbeck.

Music

(Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

A Place in the Sun, Paramount. Franz Waxman.

(Scoring of a Musical Picture)

An American in Paris, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Johnny Green and Saul Chaplin.

(Song)

In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening from Here Comes the Groom, Paramount. Music by Hoagy Carmichael; lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

Two Mouseketeers, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. [Tom & Jerry Series] Fred Quimby, Producer.

(One-reel)

World of Kids, Warner Bros. [Vitaphone Novelties Series] Robert Youngson, Producer.

(Two-reel)

Nature’s Half Acre, Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio. [True-Life Adventure Series] Walt Disney, Producer.

Sound Recording

The Great Caruso, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director.

Special Effects

When Worlds Collide, Paramount.

Writing

(Motion Picture Story)

Seven Days to Noon, Boulting Brothers; Mayer-Kingsley-Distinguished Films. (UK) Paul Dehn and James Bernard.

(Screenplay)

A Place in the Sun, Paramount. Michael Wilson and Harry Brown.

(Story and Screenplay)

An American in Paris, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Alan Jay Lerner.

Honorary Award

To 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. [ [Statuette]]

(Foreign Language Film)

To Rashomon, Daiei Production; RKO Radio. (Japan) – voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1951. [ [Statuette]]

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Arthur Freed

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class II)

To Gordon Jennings, S. L. Stancliffe, the Paramount Studio Special Photographic Department and the Paramount Studio Engineering Department for the design, construction and application of a servo-operated recording and repeating device.

To Olin L. Dupy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio for the design, construction and application of a motion picture reproducing system.

To Radio Corporation of America, Victor Division, for pioneering direct positive recording with anticipatory noise reduction.

(Class III)

To Richard M. Haff, Frank P. Herrnfeld, Garland C. Misener and the Ansco Film Division of General Aniline and Film Corporation for the development of the Ansco color scene tester.

To Fred Ponedel, Ralph Ayres and George Brown of Warner Bros. Studio for an air-driven water motor to provide flow, wake and white water for marine sequences in motion pictures.

To Glen Robinson and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Construction Department for the development of a new music wire and cable cutter.

To Jack Gaylord and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Construction Department for the development of balsa falling snow.

To Carlos Rivas of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio for the development of an automatic magnetic film splicer.