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24th Academy Awards

March 20, 1952 · Honoring films from 1951

BEST PICTURE
Poster for An American in Paris
Arthur Freed
An American in Paris
BEST DIRECTOR
Photo of George Stevens
George Stevens
A Place in the Sun
BEST ACTOR
Photo of Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey Bogart
The African Queen
BEST ACTRESS
Photo of Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
A Streetcar Named Desire
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Poster for A Place in the Sun
Michael Wilson, Harry Brown
A Place in the Sun
Category:
1951 (24th)
Best Actor
Humphrey Bogart
Charlie Allnut, The African Queen
Marlon Brando
Stanley Kowalski, A Streetcar Named Desire
Montgomery Clift
George Eastman, A Place in the Sun
Arthur Kennedy
Larry Levins, Bright Victory
Fredric March
Willy Loman, Death of a Salesman
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Karl Malden
Mitch, A Streetcar Named Desire
Leo Genn
Petronius, Quo Vadis
Kevin McCarthy
Biff Loman, Death of a Salesman
Peter Ustinov
Nero, Quo Vadis
Gig Young
Boyd Copeland, Come Fill the Cup
Best Actress
Vivien Leigh
Blanche DuBois, A Streetcar Named Desire
Katharine Hepburn
Rose Sayer, The African Queen
Eleanor Parker
Mary McLeod, Detective Story
Shelley Winters
Alice Tripp, A Place in the Sun
Jane Wyman
Louise Mason, The Blue Veil
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Kim Hunter
Stella Kowalski, A Streetcar Named Desire
Joan Blondell
Annie Rawlins, The Blue Veil
Mildred Dunnock
Linda Loman, Death of a Salesman
Lee Grant
A Shoplifter, Detective Story
Thelma Ritter
Ellen McNulty, The Mating Season
Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)
Richard Day, George James Hopkins
A Streetcar Named Desire
Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Thomas Little, Fred J. Rode
Fourteen Hours
Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox
House on Telegraph Hill
D'Eaubonne
La Ronde
Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore
Too Young to Kiss
Best Art Direction (Color)
Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason
An American in Paris
Lyle Wheeler, George Davis, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox
David and Bathsheba
Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Joseph C. Wright, Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott
On the Riviera
William A. Horning, Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Hugh Hunt
Quo Vadis
Hein Heckroth
Tales of Hoffmann
Best Motion Picture
Arthur Freed
An American in Paris
Anatole Litvak, Frank McCarthy
Decision before Dawn
George Stevens
A Place in the Sun
Sam Zimbalist
Quo Vadis
Charles K. Feldman
A Streetcar Named Desire
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
William C. Mellor
A Place in the Sun
Frank Planer
Death of a Salesman
Norbert Brodine
The Frogmen
Robert Burks
Strangers on a Train
Harry Stradling
A Streetcar Named Desire
Best Cinematography (Color)
Alfred Gilks, John Alton
An American in Paris
Leon Shamroy
David and Bathsheba
Robert Surtees, William V. Skall
Quo Vadis
Charles Rosher
Show Boat
John F. Seitz, W. Howard Greene
When Worlds Collide
Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)
Edith Head
A Place in the Sun
Walter Plunkett, Gile Steele
Kind Lady
Charles LeMaire, Renie
The Model and the Marriage Broker
Edward Stevenson, Margaret Furse
The Mudlark
Lucinda Ballard
A Streetcar Named Desire
Best Costume Design (Color)
Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett, Irene Sharaff
An American in Paris
Charles LeMaire, Edward Stevenson
David and Bathsheba
Helen Rose, Gile Steele
The Great Caruso
Herschel McCoy
Quo Vadis
Hein Heckroth
Tales of Hoffmann
Best Director
George Stevens
A Place in the Sun
John Huston
The African Queen
Vincente Minnelli
An American in Paris
William Wyler
Detective Story
Elia Kazan
A Streetcar Named Desire
Best Documentary (Feature)
Olle Nordemar
Kon-Tiki
Bryan Foy
I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Fred Zinnemann
Benjy
Owen Crump
One Who Came Back
Gordon Hollingshead
The Seeing Eye
Best Film Editing
William Hornbeck
A Place in the Sun
Adrienne Fazan
An American in Paris
Dorothy Spencer
Decision before Dawn
Ralph E. Winters
Quo Vadis
Chester Schaeffer
The Well
Honorary Foreign Language Film Award
Japan
Rashomon
Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Franz Waxman
A Place in the Sun
Alfred Newman
David and Bathsheba
Alex North
Death of a Salesman
Miklos Rozsa
Quo Vadis
Alex North
A Streetcar Named Desire
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin
An American in Paris
Oliver Wallace
Alice in Wonderland
Peter Herman Adler, Johnny Green
The Great Caruso
Alfred Newman
On the Riviera
Adolph Deutsch, Conrad Salinger
Show Boat
Best Song
Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer
“In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening”, Here Comes the Groom
Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Oscar Hammerstein II
“A Kiss To Build A Dream On”, The Strip
Lionel Newman, Eliot Daniel
“Never”, Golden Girl
Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner
“Too Late Now”, Royal Wedding
Nicholas Brodszky, Sammy Cahn
“Wonder Why”, Rich, Young and Pretty
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)
Fred Quimby
The Two Mouseketeers
Walt Disney
Lambert, the Sheepish Lion
Stephen Bosustow
Rooty Toot Toot
Short Subject (One-reel)
Robert Youngson
World of Kids
Jack Eaton
Ridin' the Rails
Robert G. Leffingwell
The Story of Time
Best Short Subject (Two-reel)
Walt Disney
Nature's Half Acre
Les Films du Compass
Balzac
Tom Mead
Danger under the Sea
Best Sound Recording
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer
The Great Caruso
Universal-International Studio Sound Department, Leslie I. Carey
Bright Victory
Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon Sawyer
I Want You
Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Col. Nathan Levinson
A Streetcar Named Desire
RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John O. Aalberg
Two Tickets to Broadway
Best Special Effects
Paramount
When Worlds Collide
Best Motion Picture Story
Paul Dehn, James Bernard
Seven Days to Noon
Budd Boetticher, Ray Nazarro
Bullfighter and the Lady
Oscar Millard
The Frogmen
Robert Riskin, Liam O'Brien
Here Comes the Groom
Alfred Hayes, Stewart Stern
Teresa
Best Screenplay
Michael Wilson, Harry Brown
A Place in the Sun
James Agee, John Huston
The African Queen
Philip Yordan, Robert Wyler
Detective Story
Max Ophuls, Jacques Natanson
La Ronde
Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire
Best Story and Screenplay
Alan Jay Lerner
An American in Paris
Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, Walter Newman
The Big Carnival
Philip Dunne
David and Bathsheba
Robert Pirosh
Go for Broke!
Clarence Greene, Russell Rouse
The Well