1950

1950 Academy Awards (Oscar winners and nominees)

(winners listed first in bold print)

Best Picture

All About Eve (1950)

Born Yesterday (1950)

Father of the Bride (1950)

King Solomon’s Mines

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

José Ferrer Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)

Spencer Tracy Father of the Bride (1950)

James Stewart Harvey (1950)

Louis Calhern The Magnificent Yankee (1950)

William Holden Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Judy Holliday Born Yesterday (1950)

Anne Baxter All About Eve (1950)

Bette Davis All About Eve (1950)

Eleanor Parker Caged (1950)

Gloria Swanson Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

George Sanders All About Eve (1950)

Sam Jaffe The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

Jeff Chandler Broken Arrow (1950)

Edmund Gwenn Mister 880 (1950)

Erich von Stroheim Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Josephine Hull Harvey (1950)

Celeste Holm All About Eve (1950)

Thelma Ritter All About Eve (1950)

Hope Emerson Caged (1950)

Nancy Olson Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Best Director

Joseph L. Mankiewicz All About Eve (1950)

John Huston The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

George Cukor Born Yesterday (1950)

Billy Wilder Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Carol Reed The Third Man (1949)

Best Writing Story and Screenplay

Charles Brackett Billy Wilder and D.M. Marshman Jr. Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin Adam’s Rib (1949)

Virginia Kellogg & Bernard Schoenfeld Caged (1950)

Carl Foreman The Men (1950)

Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Lesser Samuels No Way Out (1950)

Best Writing Motion Picture Story

Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt Panic in the Streets (1950)

William Bowers and André De Toth The Gunfighter (1950)

Leonard Spigelgass Mystery Street (1950)

Giuseppe De Santis and Carlo Lizzani Riso amaro (1949)

Sy Gomberg When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)

Best Writing Screenplay

Joseph L. Mankiewicz All About Eve (1950)

Ben Maddow and John Huston The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

Albert Mannheimer Born Yesterday (1950)

Albert Maltz Broken Arrow (1950)

Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett Father of the Bride (1950)

Best B&W Cinematography

Robert Krasker The Third Man (1949)

Milton Krasner All About Eve (1950)

Harold Rosson The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

Victor Milner The Furies (1950)

John Seitz Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Best Color Cinematography

Robert Surtees King Solomon’s Mines (1950)

Charles Rosher Annie Get Your Gun (1950)

Ernest Palmer Broken Arrow (1950)

Ernest Haller The Flame and the Arrow (1950)

George Barnes Samson and Delilah (1949)

Best Color Art Direction-Set Decoration

Hans Dreier Walter Tyler Sam Comer and Ray Moyer Samson and Delilah (1949)

Cedric Gibbons Paul Groesse Edwin Willis and Richard Pefferle Annie Get Your Gun (1950)

Ernst Fegté and George Sawley Destination Moon (1950)

Best B&W Art Direction-Set Decoration

Hans Dreier John Meehan Sam Comer and Ray Moyer Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Lyle Wheeler George Davis Thomas Little and Walter Scott All About Eve (1950)

Cedric Gibbons Hans Peters Edwin Willis and Hugh Hunt The Red Danube (1949)

Best Color Costume Design

Edith Head Dorothy Jeakins Eloise Jensson Gile Steele and Gwen Wakeling Samson and Delilah (1949)

Michael Whittaker The Black Rose (1950)

Walter Plunkett and Valles That Forsythe Woman (1949)

Best B&W Costume Design

Edith Head and Charles Le Maire All About Eve (1950)

Jean Louis Born Yesterday (1950)

Walter Plunkett The Magnificent Yankee (1950)

Best Sound Recording

All About Eve (1950)

Cinderella (1950)

Louisa (1950)

Our Very Own (1950)

Trio (1950)

Best Film Editing

Ralph Winters and Conrad Nervig King Solomon’s Mines (1950)

Barbara McLean All About Eve (1950)

James Newcom Annie Get Your Gun (1950)

Arthur Schmidt and Doane Harrison Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Oswald Hafenrichter The Third Man (1949)

Best Effects Special Effects

Destination Moon (1950)

Samson and Delilah (1949)

Best Music Original Song

Ray Evans and Jay Livingston “Mona Lisa” Captain Carey U.S.A. (1950)

Mack David Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston “Bibbidy-Bobbidi-Boo” Cinderella (1950)

Fred Glickman Hy Heath and Johnny Lange “Mule Train” Singing Guns (1950)

Nicholas Brodszky (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics) “Be My Love” The Toast of New Orleans (1950)

Josef Myrow (music); Mack Gordon (lyrics) “Wilhelmina” Wabash Avenue (1950)

Best Music Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

Franz Waxman Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Alfred Newman All About Eve (1950)

Max Steiner The Flame and the Arrow (1950)

George Duning No Sad Songs for Me (1950)

Victor Young Samson and Delilah (1949)

Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture

Adolph Deutsch and Roger Edens Annie Get Your Gun (1950)

Oliver Wallace and Paul J. Smith Cinderella (1950)

Lionel Newman I’ll Get By (1950)

André Previn Three Little Words (1950)

Ray Heindorf The West Point Story (1950)