23rd Academy Awards
Held in 1951 · 15 categories
Best Picture
- Winner All About Eve
- Nominee Born Yesterday
- Nominee Father of the Bride
- Nominee King Solomon's Mines
- Nominee Sunset Boulevard
Best Actor
- Winner Cyrano de Bergerac · José Ferrer
- Nominee Father of the Bride · Spencer Tracy
- Nominee Harvey · James Stewart
- Nominee Sunset Boulevard · William Holden
- Nominee The Magnificent Yankee · Louis Calhern
Best Actress
- Winner Born Yesterday · Judy Holliday
- Nominee All About Eve · Anne Baxter
- Nominee All About Eve · Bette Davis
- Nominee Caged · Eleanor Parker
- Nominee Sunset Boulevard · Gloria Swanson
Best Supporting Actor
- Winner All About Eve · George Sanders
- Nominee Broken Arrow · Jeff Chandler
- Nominee Mister 880 · Edmund Gwenn
- Nominee Sunset Boulevard · Erich von Stroheim
- Nominee The Asphalt Jungle · Sam Jaffe
Best Supporting Actress
- Winner Harvey · Josephine Hull
- Nominee All About Eve · Celeste Holm
- Nominee All About Eve · Thelma Ritter
- Nominee Caged · Hope Emerson
- Nominee Sunset Boulevard · Nancy Olson
Best Director
- Winner All About Eve · Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Nominee Born Yesterday · George Cukor
- Nominee Sunset Boulevard · Billy Wilder
- Nominee The Asphalt Jungle · John Huston
- Nominee The Third Man · Carol Reed
Best Original Screenplay
- Winner Sunset Boulevard · Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, D. M. Marshman, Jr.
- Nominee Adam's Rib · Garson Kanin, Ruth Gordon
- Nominee Caged · Bernard C. Schoenfeld, Virginia Kellogg
- Nominee No Way Out · Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Lesser Samuels
- Nominee The Men · Carl Foreman
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Winner All About Eve · Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Nominee Born Yesterday · Albert Mannheimer
- Nominee Broken Arrow · Albert Maltz
- Nominee Father of the Bride · Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich
- Nominee The Asphalt Jungle · Ben Maddow, John Huston
Best International Feature Film
- Winner The Walls of Malapaga
Best Documentary Feature
- Winner The Titan: Story of Michelangelo · Robert Snyder
- Nominee With These Hands · Jack Arnold, Lee Goodman
Best Original Score
- Winner Annie Get Your Gun · Adolph Deutsch, Roger Edens
- Winner Sunset Boulevard · Franz Waxman
- Nominee All About Eve · Alfred Newman
- Nominee Cinderella · Oliver Wallace, Paul Smith
- Nominee I'll Get By · Lionel Newman
- Nominee No Sad Songs for Me · George Duning
- Nominee Samson and Delilah · Victor Young
- Nominee The Flame and the Arrow · Max Steiner
- Nominee The West Point Story · Ray Heindorf
- Nominee Three Little Words · André Previn
Best Original Song
- Winner Mona Lisa from Captain Carey, U.S.A. · Jay Livingston, Ray Evans
- Nominee Be My Love from The Toast of New Orleans · Nicholas Brodzsky, Sammy Cahn
- Nominee Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo from Cinderella · Al Hoffman, Jerry Livingston, Mack David
- Nominee Mule Train from Singing Guns · Fred Glickman, Hy Heath, Johnny Lange
- Nominee Wilhelmina from Wabash Avenue · Josef Myrow, Mack Gordon
Best Film Editing
- Winner King Solomon's Mines · Conrad A. Nervig, Ralph E. Winters
- Nominee All About Eve · Barbara McLean
- Nominee Annie Get Your Gun · James E. Newcom
- Nominee Sunset Boulevard · Arthur P. Schmidt, Doane Harrison
- Nominee The Third Man · Oswald Hafenrichter
Best Sound
- Winner All About Eve · Thomas T. Moulton
- Nominee Cinderella · Sam Slyfield
- Nominee Louisa · Leslie I. Carey
- Nominee Our Very Own · Gordon E. Sawyer
- Nominee Trio · Cyril Crowhurst
Best Visual Effects
- Winner Destination Moon
- Nominee Samson and Delilah