Academy Awards 1951 Nominations

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Best Motion Picture	Best Director
Best Actor	Best Actress
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Story and Screenplay	Best Motion Picture Story
Best Screenplay	Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short	Best Live Action Short Subject (One-reel)
Best Live Action Short Subject (Two-reel)	Best Short Subject (Cartoon)
Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture	Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
Best Song	Best Sound Recording
Best Art Direction (Color)	Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)
Best Cinematography (Color)	Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Best Costume Design (Color)	Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)
Best Film Editing	Best Special Effects

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Best Motion Picture

• All About Eve
• Born Yesterday
• Father of the Bride
• King Solomon's Mines
• Sunset Blvd.

Best Director

• All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
• Born Yesterday (George Cukor)
• Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)
• The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston)
• The Third Man (Carol Reed)

Best Actor

• Cyrano de Bergerac (José Ferrer)
• Father of the Bride (Spencer Tracy)
• Harvey (James Stewart)
• Sunset Blvd. (William Holden)
• The Magnificent Yankee (Louis Calhern)

Best Actress

• All About Eve (Bette Davis)
• All About Eve (Anne Baxter)
• Born Yesterday (Judy Holliday)
• Caged (Eleanor Parker)
• Sunset Blvd. (Gloria Swanson)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• All About Eve (George Sanders)
• Broken Arrow (Jeff Chandler)
• Mister 880 (Edmund Gwenn)
• Sunset Blvd. (Erich von Stroheim)
• The Asphalt Jungle (Sam Jaffe)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• All About Eve (Thelma Ritter)
• All About Eve (Celeste Holm)
• Caged (Hope Emerson)
• Harvey (Josephine Hull)
• Sunset Blvd. (Nancy Olson)

Best Story and Screenplay

• Adam's Rib
• Caged
• No Way Out
• Sunset Blvd.
• The Men

Best Motion Picture Story

• Bitter Rice
• Mystery Street
• Panic in the Streets
• The Gunfighter
• When Willie Comes Marching Home

Best Screenplay

• All About Eve
• Born Yesterday
• Broken Arrow
• Father of the Bride
• The Asphalt Jungle

Best Documentary Feature

• The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
• With These Hands

Best Documentary Short

• Steps of Age
• The Fight: Science Against Cancer
• Why Korea?

Best Live Action Short Subject (One-reel)

• Blaze Busters
• Grandad of Races
• Wrong Way Butch

Best Live Action Short Subject (Two-reel)

• Beaver Valley
• Grandma Moses
• My Country 'Tis of Thee

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• Gerald McBoing-Boing
• Jerry's Cousin
• Trouble Indemnity

Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

• All About Eve
• No Sad Songs for Me
• Samson and Delilah
• Sunset Blvd.
• The Flame and the Arrow

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Annie Get Your Gun
• Cinderella
• I'll Get By
• The West Point Story
• Three Little Words

Best Song

• Captain Carey, U.S.A. ("Mona Lisa")
• Cinderella ("Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo")
• Singing Guns ("Mule Train")
• The Toast of New Orleans ("Be My Love")
• Wabash Avenue ("Wilhelmina")

Best Sound Recording

• All About Eve
• Cinderella
• Louisa
• Our Very Own
• Trio

Best Art Direction (Color)

• Annie Get Your Gun
• Destination Moon
• Samson and Delilah

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

• All About Eve
• Sunset Blvd.
• The Red Danube

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Annie Get Your Gun
• Broken Arrow
• King Solomon's Mines
• Samson and Delilah
• The Flame and the Arrow

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• All About Eve
• Sunset Blvd.
• The Asphalt Jungle
• The Furies
• The Third Man

Best Costume Design (Color)

• Samson and Delilah
• That Forsyte Woman
• The Black Rose

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• All About Eve
• Born Yesterday
• The Magnificent Yankee

Best Film Editing

• All About Eve
• Annie Get Your Gun
• King Solomon's Mines
• Sunset Blvd.
• The Third Man

Best Special Effects

• Destination Moon
• Samson and Delilah