The 1951 Academy Awards were presented March 20, 1952 at the RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, Calif.

Best Motion Picture An American in Paris, Arthur Freed, producer (MGM)

Decision Before Dawn, Anatole Litvak and Frank McCarthy, producers (Twentieth Century-Fox)

A Place in the Sun, George Stevens, producer (Paramount)

Quo Vadis, Sam Zimbalist, producer (MGM)

A Streetcar Named Desire, Charles K. Feldman, producer (Warner Bros.)

Best Actor Humphrey Bogart, The African Queen

Marlon Brando, A Streetcar Named Desire

Montgomery Clift, A Place in the Sun

Arthur Kennedy, Bright Victory

Fredric March, Death of a Salesman



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Best Actress Katharine Hepburn, The African Queen

Vivien Leigh, A Streetcar Named Desire

Eleanor Parker, Detective Story

Shelley Winters, A Place in the Sun

Jane Wyman, The Blue Veil

Actor in a Supporting Role Leo Genn, Quo Vadis

Karl Malden, A Streetcar Named Desire

Kevin McCarthy, Death of a Salesman

Peter Ustinov, Quo Vadis

Gig Young, Come Fill the Cup

Actress in a Supporting Role Joan Blondell, The Blue Veil

Mildred Dunnock, Death of a Salesman

Lee Grant, Detective Story

Kim Hunter, A Streetcar Named Desire

Thelma Ritter, The Mating Season

Directing John Huston, The African Queen

Elia Kazan, A Streetcar Named Desire

Vincente Minnelli, An American in Paris

George Stevens, A Place in the Sun

William Wyler, Detective Story

Writing Motion Picture Story Budd Boetticher and Ray Nazarro, Bullfighter and the Lady Paul Dehn and James Bernard, Seven Days to Noon Alfred Hayes and Stewart Stern, Teresa Oscar Millard, The Frogmen Robert Riskin and Liam O'Brian, Here Comes the Groom Screenplay James Agee and John Huston, The African Queen Jacques Natanson and Max Ophuls, La Ronde Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire Michael Wilson and Harry Brown, A Place in the Sun Philip Yordan and Robert Wyler, Detective Story Story and Screenplay Philip Dunne, David and Bathsheba Clarence Greene and Russell Rouse, The Well Alan Jay Lerner, An American in Paris Robert Pirosh, Go for Broke! Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels and Walter Newman, The Big Carnival

Cinematography Black-and-White Norbert Brodine, The Frogmen Robert Burks, Strangers on a Train William C. Mellor, A Place in the Sun Frank Planer, Death of a Salesman Harry Stradling, A Streetcar Named Desire Color Alfred Gilks and John Alton, An American in Paris Charles Rosher, Show Boat John F. Seitz and W. Howard Greene, When Worlds Collide Leon Shamroy, David and Bathsheba Robert Surtees and William V. Skall, Quo Vadis

Art Direction Black-and-White Richard Day, art direction; George James Hopkins, set decoration, A Streetcar Named Desire D'Eaubonne, art direction and set decoration, La Ronde Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse, art direction; Edwin B. Willis and Jack D. Moore, set decoration, Too Young to Kiss Lyle Wheeler and John DeCuir, art direction; Thomas Little and Paul S. Fox, set decoration, House on Telegraph Hill Lyle Wheeler and Leland Fuller, art direction; Thomas Little and Fred J. Rode, set decoration, Fourteen Hours Color Cedric Gibbons and Preston Ames, art direction; Edwin B. Willis and Keogh Gleason, set decoration, An American in Paris Hein Heckroth, art direction and set decoration, Tales of Hoffmann William A. Horning, Cedric Gibbons and Edward Carfagno, art direction; Hugh Hunt, set decoration, Quo Vadis Lyle Wheeler and George Davis, art direction; Thomas Little and Paul S. Fox, set decoration, David and Bathsheba Lyle Wheeler and Leland Fuller, art direction; Joseph C. Wright, musical settings; Thomas Little and Walter M. Scott, set decoration, On the Riviera

Sound Recording MGM Studio Sound Dept., The Great Caruso

RKO Radio Studio Sound Dept., Two Tickets to Broadway

Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept., I Want You

Universal-International Studio Sound Dept., Bright Victory

Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept., A Streetcar Named Desire

Music Song “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening,” Here Comes the Groom, Hoagy Carmichael, music; Johnny Mercer, lyrics “A Kiss to Build a Dream On,” The Strip, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby and Oscar Hammerstein II, music and lyrics “Never,” Golden Girl, Lionel Newman, music; Eliot Daniel, lyrics “Too Late Now,” Royal Wedding, Burton Lane, music; Alan Jay Lerner, lyrics “Wonder Why,” Rich, Young and Pretty, Nicholas Brodszky, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Alfred Newman, David and Bathsheba Alex North, Death of a Salesman Alex North, A Streetcar Named Desire Miklos Rozsa, Quo Vadis Franz Waxman, A Place in the Sun Scoring of a Musical Picture Peter Herman Adler and Johnny Green, The Great Caruso Adolph Deutsch and Conrad Salinger, Show Boat Johnny Green and Saul Chaplin, An American in Paris Alfred Newman, On the Riviera Oliver Wallace, Alice in Wonderland

Film Editing Adrienne Fazan, An American in Paris

William Hornbeck, A Place in the Sun

Chester Schaeffer, The Well

Dorothy Spencer, Decision Before Dawn

Ralph E. Winters, Quo Vadis

Costume Design Black-and-White Lucinda Ballard, A Streetcar Named Desire Edith Head, A Place in the Sun Charles LeMaire and Renie, The Model and the Marriage Broker Walter Plunkett and Gile Steele, Kind Lady Edward Stevenson and Margaret Furse, The Mudlark Color Hein Heckroth, Tales of Hoffmann Charles LeMaire and Edward Stevenson, David and Bathsheba Herschel McCoy, Quo Vadis Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett and Irene Sharaff, An American in Paris Helen Rose and Gile Steele, The Great Caruso

Special Effects When Worlds Collide (Paramount)

Short Subjects Cartoon Lambert, the Sheepish Lion (Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio) Rooty Toot Toot (Jolly Frolics Series) (United Productions of America; Columbia) Two Mouseketeers (Tom and Jerry Series) (Frederick Quimby, producer; MGM) One-Reel Ridin' the Rails (Grantland Rice Spotlight Series) (Jack Eaton, producer; Paramount) The Story of Time (Signal Films Production; Cornell Film Company) World of Kids (Vitaphone Novelties Series) (Robert Youngson, producer; Warner Bros.) Two-Reel Balzac (Les Films du Compass; A.F. Films, Inc.) Danger Under the Sea (Tom Mead, producer; Universal-International) Nature's Half Acre (True-Life Adventure Series) (Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio)

Documentary Short Subject Benjy (Fred Zinnemann, producer; Paramount) One Who Came Back (U.S. Department of Defense; Association of Motion Picture Producers) The Seeing Eye (Gordon Hollingshead, producer; Warner Bros.) Feature I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. (Bryan Foy, producer; Warner Bros.) Kon-Tiki (Artfilm Production; RKO Radio)

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Arthur Freed

Honorary Awards 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