1950 (23rd Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1950 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Motion Picture

All About Eve, 20th Century-Fox.

Best Actor

Jose Ferrer in Cyrano de Bergerac, Stanley Kramer Productions; United Artists.

Best Actress

Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday, Columbia.

Actor in a Supporting Role

George Sanders in All About Eve, 20th Century-Fox.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Josephine Hull in Harvey, Universal-International.

Directing

All About Eve, 20th Century-Fox. Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

(Black-and-White)

Sunset Blvd., Paramount. Art direction by Hans Dreier and John Meehan; set decoration by Sam Comer and Ray Moyer.

(Color)

Samson and Delilah, Cecil B. DeMille Productions; Paramount. Art direction by Hans Dreier and Walter Tyler; set decoration by Sam Comer and Ray Moyer.

Cinematography

(Black-and-White)

The Third Man, Selznick Enterprises in assoc. with London Films Productions, Ltd.; Selznick Releasing Organization (SRO). (UK) Robert Krasker.

(Color)

King Solomon’s Mines, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Robert Surtees.

Costume Design

(Black-and-White)

All About Eve, 20th Century-Fox. Edith Head and Charles LeMaire.

(Color)

Samson and Delilah, Cecil B. DeMille Productions; Paramount. Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele and Gwen Wakeling.

Documentary

(Feature)

The Titan: Story of Michelangelo, Michelangelo Company; Classic Pictures, Inc. (Switzerland, West Germany) Robert Snyder, Producer.

(Short Subject)

Why Korea?, 20th Century-Fox Movietone; 20th Century-Fox. Edmund Reek, Producer.

Film Editing

King Solomon’s Mines, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig.

Music

(Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

Sunset Blvd., Paramount. Franz Waxman.

(Scoring of a Musical Picture)

Annie Get Your Gun, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Adolph Deutsch and Roger Edens.

(Song)

Mona Lisa from Captain Carey, U.S.A., Paramount. Music and lyrics by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

Gerald McBoing-Boing, UPA (United Productions of America); Columbia. [Jolly Frolics Series] Stephen Bosustow, Producer.

(One-reel)

Grandad of Races, Warner Bros. [Sports Parade Series] Gordon Hollingshead, Producer.

(Two-reel)

In Beaver Valley, Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio. [True-Life Adventure Series] Walt Disney, Producer.

Sound Recording

All About Eve, 20th Century-Fox. 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton, Sound Director.

Special Effects

Destination Moon, George Pal Productions; Eagle Lion Classics.

Writing

(Motion Picture Story)

Panic in the Streets, 20th Century-Fox. Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt.

(Screenplay)

All About Eve, 20th Century-Fox. Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

(Story and Screenplay)

Sunset Blvd., Paramount. Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and D. M. Marshman, Jr.

Honorary Award

To George Murphy for his services in interpreting the film industry to the country at large. [ [Statuette]]

To Louis B. Mayer for distinguished service to the motion picture industry. [ [Statuette]]

(Foreign Language Film)

To The Walls of Malapaga. (Italy, France) – voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States in 1950. [ [Statuette]]

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Darryl F. Zanuck

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class II)

To James B. Gordon and the 20th Century-Fox Studio Camera Department for the design and development of a multiple image film viewer.

To John Paul Livadary, Floyd Campbell, L. W. Russell, and the Columbia Studio Sound Department for the development of a multi-track magnetic re-recording system.

To Loren L. Ryder and the Paramount Studio Sound Department for the first studio-wide application of magnetic sound recording to motion picture production.