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The 24th Academy Awards
| 1952
RKO Pantages Theatre
Thursday, March 20, 1952
Honoring movies released in 1951
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Highlights
Costume Design
A Place in the Sun / An American in Paris
Edith Head, Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett and Irene Sharaff
Music Awards
An American in Paris / A Place in the Sun / Here Comes the Groom
Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin, Franz Waxman, Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael
Best Directing
A Place in the Sun
George Stevens
Memorable Moments
Karl Malden
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Supporting Actor for A Streetcar Named Desire, with Claire Trevor and Danny Kaye
Humphrey Bogart
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Best Actor winner for The African Queen, with presenter Claire Trevor
Vivien Leigh
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Accepting her Best Actress award for A Streetcar Named Desire from Harry Cohn in London, England
WINNERS & NOMINEES
Actor
Winner
Humphrey Bogart
The African Queen
Nominees
Marlon Brando
A Streetcar Named Desire
Nominees
Montgomery Clift
A Place in the Sun
Nominees
Arthur Kennedy
Bright Victory
Nominees
Fredric March
Death of a Salesman
Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner
Karl Malden
A Streetcar Named Desire
Nominees
Leo Genn
Quo Vadis
Nominees
Kevin McCarthy
Death of a Salesman
Nominees
Peter Ustinov
Quo Vadis
Nominees
Gig Young
Come Fill the Cup
Actress
Winner
Vivien Leigh
A Streetcar Named Desire
Nominees
Katharine Hepburn
The African Queen
Nominees
Eleanor Parker
Detective Story
Nominees
Shelley Winters
A Place in the Sun
Nominees
Jane Wyman
The Blue Veil
Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner
Kim Hunter
A Streetcar Named Desire
Nominees
Joan Blondell
The Blue Veil
Nominees
Mildred Dunnock
Death of a Salesman
Nominees
Lee Grant
Detective Story
Nominees
Thelma Ritter
The Mating Season
Art Direction (Black-and-White)
Winner
A Streetcar Named Desire
Art Direction: Richard Day; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
Nominees
Fourteen Hours
Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Fred J. Rode
Nominees
House on Telegraph Hill
Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox
Nominees
La Ronde
D'Eaubonne
Nominees
Too Young to Kiss
Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore
Art Direction (Color)
Winner
An American in Paris
Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason
Nominees
David and Bathsheba
Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, George Davis; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox
Nominees
On the Riviera
Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller; Musical Settings: Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott
Nominees
Quo Vadis
Art Direction: William A. Horning, Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Hugh Hunt
Nominees
Tales of Hoffmann
Hein Heckroth
Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Winner
A Place in the Sun
William C. Mellor
Nominees
Death of a Salesman
Frank Planer
Nominees
The Frogmen
Norbert Brodine
Nominees
Strangers on a Train
Robert Burks
Nominees
A Streetcar Named Desire
Harry Stradling
Cinematography (Color)
Winner
An American in Paris
Alfred Gilks; Ballet Photography by John Alton
Nominees
David and Bathsheba
Leon Shamroy
Nominees
Quo Vadis
Robert Surtees, William V. Skall
Nominees
Show Boat
Charles Rosher
Nominees
When Worlds Collide
John F. Seitz, W. Howard Greene
Costume Design (Black-and-White)
Winner
A Place in the Sun
Edith Head
Nominees
Kind Lady
Walter Plunkett, Gile Steele
Nominees
The Model and the Marriage Broker
Charles LeMaire, Renie
Nominees
The Mudlark
Edward Stevenson, Margaret Furse
Nominees
A Streetcar Named Desire
Lucinda Ballard
Costume Design (Color)
Winner
An American in Paris
Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett, Irene Sharaff
Nominees
David and Bathsheba
Charles LeMaire, Edward Stevenson
Nominees
The Great Caruso
Helen Rose, Gile Steele
Nominees
Quo Vadis
Herschel McCoy
Nominees
Tales of Hoffmann
Hein Heckroth
Directing
Winner
A Place in the Sun
George Stevens
Nominees
The African Queen
John Huston
Nominees
An American in Paris
Vincente Minnelli
Nominees
Detective Story
William Wyler
Nominees
A Streetcar Named Desire
Elia Kazan
Documentary (Feature)
Winner
Kon-Tiki
Olle Nordemar, Producer
Nominees
I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.
Bryan Foy, Producer
Documentary (Short Subject)
Winner
Benjy
Made by Fred Zinnemann with the cooperation of Paramount Pictures Corporation for the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital
Nominees
One Who Came Back
Owen Crump, Producer. (Film sponsored by the Disabled American Veterans, in cooperation with the United States Department of Defense and the Association of Motion Picture Producers)
Nominees
The Seeing Eye
Gordon Hollingshead, Producer
Film Editing
Winner
A Place in the Sun
William Hornbeck
Nominees
An American in Paris
Adrienne Fazan
Nominees
Decision before Dawn
Dorothy Spencer
Nominees
Quo Vadis
Ralph E. Winters
Nominees
The Well
Chester Schaeffer
Honorary Foreign Language Film Award
Winner
Rashomon
Special Award
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Winner
Arthur Freed
Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)
Winner
A Place in the Sun
Franz Waxman
Nominees
David and Bathsheba
Alfred Newman
Nominees
Death of a Salesman
Alex North
Nominees
Quo Vadis
Miklos Rozsa
Nominees
A Streetcar Named Desire
Alex North
Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)
Winner
An American in Paris
Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin
Nominees
Alice in Wonderland
Oliver Wallace
Nominees
The Great Caruso
Peter Herman Adler, Johnny Green
Nominees
On the Riviera
Alfred Newman
Nominees
Show Boat
Adolph Deutsch, Conrad Salinger
Music (Song)
Winner
Here Comes the Groom
In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening in "Here Comes the Groom" Music by Hoagy Carmichael; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Nominees
The Strip
A Kiss To Build A Dream On in "The Strip" Music and Lyrics by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby and Oscar Hammerstein II
Nominees
Golden Girl
Never in "Golden Girl" Music by Lionel Newman; Lyrics by Eliot Daniel
Nominees
Royal Wedding
Too Late Now in "Royal Wedding" Music by Burton Lane; Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Nominees
Rich, Young and Pretty
Wonder Why in "Rich, Young and Pretty" Music by Nicholas Brodszky; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Best Motion Picture
Winner
An American in Paris
Arthur Freed, Producer
Nominees
Decision before Dawn
Anatole Litvak and Frank McCarthy, Producers
Nominees
A Place in the Sun
George Stevens, Producer
Nominees
Quo Vadis
Sam Zimbalist, Producer
Nominees
A Streetcar Named Desire
Charles K. Feldman, Producer
Short Subject (Cartoon)
Winner
The Two Mouseketeers
Fred Quimby, Producer
Nominees
Lambert, the Sheepish Lion
Walt Disney, Producer
Nominees
Rooty Toot Toot
Stephen Bosustow, Producer
Short Subject (One-reel)
Winner
World of Kids
Robert Youngson, Producer
Nominees
Ridin' the Rails
Jack Eaton, Producer
Nominees
The Story of Time
Robert G. Leffingwell, Producer
Short Subject (Two-reel)
Winner
Nature's Half Acre
Walt Disney, Producer
Nominees
Balzac
Les Films du Compass
Nominees
Danger under the Sea
Tom Mead, Producer
Sound Recording
Winner
The Great Caruso
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director
Nominees
Bright Victory
Universal-International Studio Sound Department, Leslie I. Carey, Sound Director
Nominees
I Want You
Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon Sawyer, Sound Director
Nominees
A Streetcar Named Desire
Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Col. Nathan Levinson, Sound Director
Nominees
Two Tickets to Broadway
RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John O. Aalberg, Sound Director
Special Effects
Winner
When Worlds Collide
Paramount
Writing (Motion Picture Story)
Winner
Seven Days to Noon
Paul Dehn, James Bernard
Nominees
Bullfighter and the Lady
Budd Boetticher, Ray Nazarro
Nominees
The Frogmen
Oscar Millard
Nominees
Here Comes the Groom
Robert Riskin, Liam O'Brien
Nominees
Teresa
Alfred Hayes, Stewart Stern
Writing (Screenplay)
Winner
A Place in the Sun
Michael Wilson, Harry Brown
Nominees
The African Queen
James Agee, John Huston
Nominees
Detective Story
Philip Yordan, Robert Wyler
Nominees
La Ronde
Max Ophuls, Jacques Natanson
Nominees
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
Writing (Story and Screenplay)
Winner
An American in Paris
Alan Jay Lerner
Nominees
The Big Carnival
Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, Walter Newman
Nominees
David and Bathsheba
Philip Dunne
Nominees
Go for Broke!
Robert Pirosh
Nominees
The Well
Clarence Greene, Russell Rouse
A
The African Queen
4 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Actor - Humphrey Bogart
- Actress - Katharine Hepburn
- Directing - John Huston
- Writing (Screenplay) - James Agee, John Huston
Alice in Wonderland
1 NOMINATION
- Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) - Oliver Wallace
An American in Paris
8 NOMINATIONS,
6 WINS
- * Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason
- * Cinematography (Color) - Alfred Gilks; Ballet Photography by John Alton
- * Costume Design (Color) - Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett, Irene Sharaff
- * Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) - Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin
- * Best Motion Picture - Arthur Freed, Producer
- * Writing (Story and Screenplay) - Alan Jay Lerner
- Directing - Vincente Minnelli
- Film Editing - Adrienne Fazan
B
Balzac
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (Two-reel) - Les Films du Compass
Benjy
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Documentary (Short Subject) - Made by Fred Zinnemann with the cooperation of Paramount Pictures Corporation for the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital
The Big Carnival
1 NOMINATION
- Writing (Story and Screenplay) - Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, Walter Newman
The Blue Veil
2 NOMINATIONS
- Actress - Jane Wyman
- Actress in a Supporting Role - Joan Blondell
Bright Victory
2 NOMINATIONS
- Actor - Arthur Kennedy
- Sound Recording - Universal-International Studio Sound Department, Leslie I. Carey, Sound Director
Bullfighter and the Lady
1 NOMINATION
- Writing (Motion Picture Story) - Budd Boetticher, Ray Nazarro
C
Come Fill the Cup
1 NOMINATION
- Actor in a Supporting Role - Gig Young
D
Danger under the Sea
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (Two-reel) - Tom Mead, Producer
David and Bathsheba
5 NOMINATIONS
- Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, George Davis; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox
- Cinematography (Color) - Leon Shamroy
- Costume Design (Color) - Charles LeMaire, Edward Stevenson
- Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Alfred Newman
- Writing (Story and Screenplay) - Philip Dunne
Death of a Salesman
5 NOMINATIONS
- Actor - Fredric March
- Actor in a Supporting Role - Kevin McCarthy
- Actress in a Supporting Role - Mildred Dunnock
- Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Frank Planer
- Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Alex North
Decision before Dawn
2 NOMINATIONS
- Film Editing - Dorothy Spencer
- Best Motion Picture - Anatole Litvak and Frank McCarthy, Producers
Detective Story
4 NOMINATIONS
- Actress - Eleanor Parker
- Actress in a Supporting Role - Lee Grant
- Directing - William Wyler
- Writing (Screenplay) - Philip Yordan, Robert Wyler
F
Fourteen Hours
1 NOMINATION
- Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Fred J. Rode
The Frogmen
2 NOMINATIONS
- Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Norbert Brodine
- Writing (Motion Picture Story) - Oscar Millard
G
Go for Broke!
1 NOMINATION
- Writing (Story and Screenplay) - Robert Pirosh
Golden Girl
1 NOMINATION
- Music (Song) - Never in "Golden Girl" Music by Lionel Newman; Lyrics by Eliot Daniel
The Great Caruso
3 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Sound Recording - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director
- Costume Design (Color) - Helen Rose, Gile Steele
- Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) - Peter Herman Adler, Johnny Green
H
Here Comes the Groom
2 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Music (Song) - In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening in "Here Comes the Groom" Music by Hoagy Carmichael; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
- Writing (Motion Picture Story) - Robert Riskin, Liam O'Brien
House on Telegraph Hill
1 NOMINATION
- Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox
I
I Want You
1 NOMINATION
- Sound Recording - Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon Sawyer, Sound Director
I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Feature) - Bryan Foy, Producer
K
Kind Lady
1 NOMINATION
- Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Walter Plunkett, Gile Steele
Kon-Tiki
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Documentary (Feature) - Olle Nordemar, Producer
L
La Ronde
2 NOMINATIONS
- Art Direction (Black-and-White) - D'Eaubonne
- Writing (Screenplay) - Max Ophuls, Jacques Natanson
Lambert, the Sheepish Lion
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (Cartoon) - Walt Disney, Producer
M
The Mating Season
1 NOMINATION
- Actress in a Supporting Role - Thelma Ritter
The Model and the Marriage Broker
1 NOMINATION
- Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Charles LeMaire, Renie
The Mudlark
1 NOMINATION
- Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Edward Stevenson, Margaret Furse
N
Nature's Half Acre
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Short Subject (Two-reel) - Walt Disney, Producer
O
One Who Came Back
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Short Subject) - Owen Crump, Producer. (Film sponsored by the Disabled American Veterans, in cooperation with the United States Department of Defense and the Association of Motion Picture Producers)
P
A Place in the Sun
9 NOMINATIONS,
6 WINS
- * Cinematography (Black-and-White) - William C. Mellor
- * Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Edith Head
- * Directing - George Stevens
- * Film Editing - William Hornbeck
- * Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Franz Waxman
- * Writing (Screenplay) - Michael Wilson, Harry Brown
- Actor - Montgomery Clift
- Actress - Shelley Winters
- Best Motion Picture - George Stevens, Producer
Q
Quo Vadis
7 NOMINATIONS
- Actor in a Supporting Role - Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov
- Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: William A. Horning, Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Hugh Hunt
- Cinematography (Color) - Robert Surtees, William V. Skall
- Costume Design (Color) - Herschel McCoy
- Film Editing - Ralph E. Winters
- Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Miklos Rozsa
- Best Motion Picture - Sam Zimbalist, Producer
R
Rashomon
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Honorary Foreign Language Film Award - Special Award
Rich, Young and Pretty
1 NOMINATION
- Music (Song) - Wonder Why in "Rich, Young and Pretty" Music by Nicholas Brodszky; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Ridin' the Rails
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (One-reel) - Jack Eaton, Producer
Rooty Toot Toot
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (Cartoon) - Stephen Bosustow, Producer
Royal Wedding
1 NOMINATION
- Music (Song) - Too Late Now in "Royal Wedding" Music by Burton Lane; Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
On the Riviera
2 NOMINATIONS
- Art Direction (Color) - Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller; Musical Settings: Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott
- Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) - Alfred Newman
S
The Seeing Eye
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Short Subject) - Gordon Hollingshead, Producer
Seven Days to Noon
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Writing (Motion Picture Story) - Paul Dehn, James Bernard
Show Boat
2 NOMINATIONS
- Cinematography (Color) - Charles Rosher
- Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) - Adolph Deutsch, Conrad Salinger
The Story of Time
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (One-reel) - Robert G. Leffingwell, Producer
Strangers on a Train
1 NOMINATION
- Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Robert Burks
A Streetcar Named Desire
12 NOMINATIONS,
4 WINS
- * Actor in a Supporting Role - Karl Malden
- * Actress - Vivien Leigh
- * Actress in a Supporting Role - Kim Hunter
- * Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: Richard Day; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
- Actor - Marlon Brando
- Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Harry Stradling
- Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Lucinda Ballard
- Directing - Elia Kazan
- Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Alex North
- Best Motion Picture - Charles K. Feldman, Producer
- Sound Recording - Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Col. Nathan Levinson, Sound Director
- Writing (Screenplay) - Tennessee Williams
The Strip
1 NOMINATION
- Music (Song) - A Kiss To Build A Dream On in "The Strip" Music and Lyrics by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby and Oscar Hammerstein II
T
Tales of Hoffmann
2 NOMINATIONS
- Art Direction (Color) - Hein Heckroth
- Costume Design (Color) - Hein Heckroth
Teresa
1 NOMINATION
- Writing (Motion Picture Story) - Alfred Hayes, Stewart Stern
Too Young to Kiss
1 NOMINATION
- Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore
The Two Mouseketeers
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Short Subject (Cartoon) - Fred Quimby, Producer
Two Tickets to Broadway
1 NOMINATION
- Sound Recording - RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John O. Aalberg, Sound Director
W
The Well
2 NOMINATIONS
- Film Editing - Chester Schaeffer
- Writing (Story and Screenplay) - Clarence Greene, Russell Rouse
When Worlds Collide
2 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Special Effects - Paramount
- Cinematography (Color) - John F. Seitz, W. Howard Greene
World of Kids
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Short Subject (One-reel) - Robert Youngson, Producer
No Films Found