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1950 Oscars:
The 1950 Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1951 at the RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, Calif.
| Best Motion Picture | All About Eve (Twentieth Century-Fox) |
| Born Yesterday (Columbia) |
| Father of the Bride (MGM) |
| King Solomon's Mines (MGM) |
| Sunset Boulevard (Paramount) | |
| Best Actor | Louis Calhern, The Magnificent Yankee |
| José Ferrer, Cyrano de Bergerac |
| William Holden, Sunset Boulevard |
| James Stewart, Harvey | | Spencer Tracy, Father of the Bride |
| Best Actress | Anne Baxter, All About Eve |
| Bette Davis, All About Eve |
| Judy Holliday, Born Yesterday |
| Eleanor Parker, Caged | | Gloria Swanson, Sunset Boulevard |
| Actor in a Supporting Role | Jeff Chandler, Broken Arrow |
| Edmund Gwenn, Mister 880 |
| Sam Jaffe, The Asphalt Jungle |
| George Sanders, All About Eve | | Erich von Stroheim, Sunset Boulevard |
| Actress in a Supporting Role | Hope Emerson, Caged |
| Celeste Holm, All About Eve |
| Josephine Hull, Harvey |
| Nancy Olson, Sunset Boulevard | | Thelma Ritter, All About Eve |
| Directing | George Cukor, Born Yesterday |
| John Huston, The Asphalt Jungle |
| Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve |
| Carol Reed, The Third Man | | Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard |
| Writing |
| Motion Picture Story | Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt, Panic in the Streets |
| William Bowers and Andre de Toth, The Gunfighter |
| Giuseppe De Santis and Carlo Lizzani, Bitter Rice |
| Sy Gomberg, When Willie Comes Marching Home | | Leonard Spigelgass, Mystery Street |
| Screenplay | Michael Blankfort, Broken Arrow |
| Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, Father of the Bride |
| Ben Maddow and John Huston, The Asphalt Jungle |
| Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve | | Albert Mannheimer, Born Yesterday |
| Story and Screenplay | Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and D. M. Marshman, Jr., Sunset Boulevard |
| Carl Foreman, The Men |
| Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, Adam's Rib |
| Virginia Kellogg and Bernard C. Schoenfeld, Caged | | Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Lesser Samuels, No Way Out | |
| Cinematography |
| Black-and-White | Robert Krasker, The Third Man |
| Milton Krasner, All About Eve |
| Victor Milner, The Furies |
| Harold Rosson, The Asphalt Jungle | | John F. Seitz, Sunset Boulevard |
| Color | George Barnes, Samson and Delilah |
| Ernest Haller, The Flame and the Arrow |
| Ernest Palmer, Broken Arrow |
| Charles Rosher, Annie Get Your Gun | | Robert Surtees, King Solomon's Mines | |
| Art Direction |
| Black-and-White | Hans Dreier and John Meehan, art direction; Sam Comer and Ray Moyer, set decoration, Sunset Boulevard |
| Cedric Gibbons and Hans Peters, art direction; Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt, set decoration, The Red Danube | | Lyle Wheeler and George Davis, art direction; Thomas Little and Walter M. Scott, set decoration, All About Eve |
| Color | Hans Dreier and Walter Tyler, art direction; Sam Comer and Ray Moyer, set decoration, Samson and Delilah |
| Ernst Fegte, art direction; George Sawley, set decoration, Destination Moon | | Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse, art direction; Edwin B. Willis and Richard A. Pefferle, set decoration, Annie Get Your Gun | |
| Sound Recording | Pinewood Studio Sound Dept., Trio |
| Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept., Our Very Own |
| Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, All About Eve |
| Universal-International Studio Sound Dept., Louisa | | Walt Disney Studio Sound Dept., Cinderella |
| Music |
| Song | “Be My Love,” The Toast of New Orleans, Nicholas Brodszky, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics |
| “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo,” Cinderella, Mack David, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston, music and lyrics |
| “Mona Lisa,” Captain Carey, Ray Evans and Jay Livingston, music and lyrics] |
| “Mule Train,” Singing Guns, Fred Glickman, Hy Heath and Johnny Lange, music and lyrics | | “Wilhelmina,” Wabash Avenue, Josef Myrow, music; Mack Gordon, lyrics |
| Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | George Duning, No Sad Songs for Me |
| Alfred Newman, All About Eve |
| Max Steiner, The Flame and the Arrow |
| Franz Waxman, Sunset Boulevard | | Victor Young, Samson and Delilah |
| Scoring of a Musical Picture | Adolph Deutsch and Roger Edens, Annie Get Your Gun |
| Ray Heindorf, The West Point Story |
| Lionel Newman, I'll Get By |
| André Previn, Three Little Words | | Oliver Wallace and Paul J. Smith, Cinderella | |
| Film Editing | Oswald Hafenrichter, The Third Man |
| Barbara McLean, All About Eve |
| James E. Newcom, Annie Get Your Gun |
| Arthur Schmidt and Doane Harrison, Sunset Boulevard | | Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig, King Solomon's Mines |
| Costume Design |
| Black-and-White | Edith Head and Charles LeMaire, All About Eve |
| Jean Louis, Born Yesterday | | Walter Plunkett, The Magnificent Yankee |
| Color | Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele and Gwen Wakeling, Samson and Delilah |
| Walter Plunkett and Valles, That Forsyte Woman | | Michael Whittaker, The Black Rose | |
| Special Effects | Destination Moon (George Pal Productions; Eagle Lion Classics) | | Samson and Delilah (Cecil B. DeMille Productions; Paramount) |
| Short Subjects |
| Cartoon | Gerald McBoing-Boing (Jolly Frolics Series) (United Productions of America; Columbia) |
| Jerry's Cousin (Tom and Jerry Series) (Frederick Quimby, producer; MGM) | | Trouble Indemnity (Mr. Magoo Series) (United Productions of America; Columbia) |
| One-Reel | Blaze Busters (Vitaphone Novelties Series) (Robert Youngson, producer; Warner Bros.) |
| Grandad of Races (Sports Parade Series) (Gordon Hollingshead, producer; Warner Bros.) | | Wrong Way Butch (Pete Smith Specialty Series) (Pete Smith, producer; MGM) |
| Two-Reel | Grandma Moses (Falcon Films, Inc.; A.F. Films) |
| In Beaver Valley (True-Life Adventure Series) (Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio) | | My Country 'Tis of Thee (Featurette Series) (Gordon Hollingshead, producer; Warner Bros.) | |
| Documentary |
| Short Subject | The Fight: Science Against Cancer (Medical Film Institute of the Association of American Medical Colleges; National Film Board of Canada) |
| The Stairs (Film Documents, Inc.) | | Why Korea? (Twentieth Century-Fox Movietone; Twentieth Century-Fox) |
| Feature | The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (Michelangelo Co.; Classics Pictures, Inc.) | | With These Hands (Jack Arnold and Lee Goodman, producers; Promotional Films Co., Inc.) | |
| Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Honorary Awards | To George Murphy for his services in interpreting the film industry to the country at large |
| To Louis B. Mayer for distinguished service to the motion picture industry | | To The Walls of Malapaga (France/Italy) voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States in 1950 |
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