1952 ceremony · films of 1951

The 24th Oscars

116 nominations in 27 categories.

Nominations and wins

The night's big films

Winners first

Every category

Best Picture

Announced as Best Motion Picture

An American in Paris
Arthur Freed, Producer
A Place in the Sun
George Stevens, Producer
A Streetcar Named Desire
Charles K. Feldman, Producer
Decision Before Dawn
Anatole Litvak and Frank McCarthy, Producers
Quo Vadis
Sam Zimbalist, Producer

Best Director

Best Actor

Announced as Actor

Humphrey Bogart · Charlie Allnut
The African Queen
Montgomery Clift · George Eastman
A Place in the Sun
Marlon Brando · Stanley Kowalski
A Streetcar Named Desire
Arthur Kennedy · Larry Levins
Bright Victory
Fredric March · Willy Loman
Death of a Salesman

Best Actress

Announced as Actress

Vivien Leigh · Blanche DuBois
A Streetcar Named Desire
Shelley Winters · Alice Tripp
A Place in the Sun
Eleanor Parker · Mary McLeod
Detective Story
Katharine Hepburn · Rose Sayer
The African Queen
Jane Wyman · Louise Mason
The Blue Veil

Best Supporting Actor

Karl Malden · Mitch
A Streetcar Named Desire
Gig Young · Boyd Copeland
Come Fill the Cup
Kevin McCarthy · Biff Loman
Death of a Salesman
Peter Ustinov · Nero
Quo Vadis
Leo Genn · Petronius
Quo Vadis

Best Supporting Actress

Kim Hunter · Stella Kowalski
A Streetcar Named Desire
Mildred Dunnock · Linda Loman
Death of a Salesman
Lee Grant · A Shoplifter
Detective Story
Joan Blondell · Annie Rawlins
The Blue Veil
Thelma Ritter · Ellen McNulty
The Mating Season

Best Original Screenplay

Announced as Writing (Story and Screenplay)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Announced as Writing (Screenplay)

Best Original Story

Announced as Writing (Motion Picture Story)

Best International Feature

Announced as Honorary Foreign Language Film Award

Rashomon
Rashomon
To Rashomon - voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1951.

Best Film Editing

Best Production Design (Black-and-White)

A Streetcar Named Desire
Art Direction: Richard Day; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
Fourteen Hours
Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Fred J. Rode
Lyle R. Wheeler
La Ronde
D'Eaubonne
Jean d'Eaubonne
The House on Telegraph Hill
Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox
Lyle R. Wheeler
Too Young to Kiss
Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore

Best Production Design (Color)

An American in Paris
Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason
E. Preston Ames F. Keogh Gleason
David and Bathsheba
Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, George Davis; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox
Lyle R. Wheeler George W. Davis
On the Riviera
Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller; Musical Settings: Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott
Lyle R. Wheeler
Quo Vadis
Art Direction: William A. Horning, Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Hugh Hunt
Edward C. Carfagno
The Tales of Hoffmann
Hein Heckroth

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

A Place in the Sun
Edith Head
A Streetcar Named Desire
Lucinda Ballard
Kind Lady
Walter Plunkett, Gile Steele
The Model and the Marriage Broker
Charles LeMaire, Renie
Charles Le Maire Renié
The Mudlark
Edward Stevenson, Margaret Furse

Best Costume Design (Color)

Best Original Score

Announced as Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

Best Song Score or Adaptation Score

Announced as Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

Best Original Song

Announced as Music (Song)

Here Comes the Groom · In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening
Music by Hoagy Carmichael; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Golden Girl · Never
Music by Lionel Newman; Lyrics by Eliot Daniel
Rich, Young and Pretty · Wonder Why
Music by Nicholas Brodszky; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Royal Wedding · Too Late Now
Music by Burton Lane; Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
The Strip · A Kiss To Build A Dream On
Music and Lyrics by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby and Oscar Hammerstein II

Best Sound

The Great Caruso
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director
A Streetcar Named Desire
Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Col. Nathan Levinson, Sound Director
Bright Victory
Universal-International Studio Sound Department, Leslie I. Carey, Sound Director
I Want You
Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon Sawyer, Sound Director
Two Tickets to Broadway
RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John O. Aalberg, Sound Director
John Aalberg

Best Visual Effects

Announced as Special Effects

When Worlds Collide
Paramount

Best Documentary Short

Benjy
'Made by Fred Zinnemann with the cooperation of Paramount Pictures Corporation for the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital'
One Who Came Back
Owen Crump, Producer. (Film sponsored by the Disabled American Veterans, in cooperation with the United States Department of Defense and the Association of Motion Picture Producers)
The Seeing Eye
Gordon Hollingshead, Producer

Best Animated Short

Announced as Short Subject (Cartoon)

The Two Mouseketeers
Fred Quimby, Producer
Lambert the Sheepish Lion
Walt Disney, Producer
Rooty Toot Toot
Stephen Bosustow, Producer

Best Live Action Short (One-reel)

World of Kids
Robert Youngson, Producer
Ridin' the Rails
Jack Eaton, Producer
The Story of Time
Robert G. Leffingwell, Producer

Best Live Action Short (Two-reel)

Nature's Half Acre
Walt Disney, Producer
Balzac
Les Films du Compass
Danger Under the Sea
Tom Mead, Producer

Not competitive

Honorary and special awards

Honorary Award

Gene Kelly
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.

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Arthur Freed