1950 Film Year: Oscar Winners & Nominees
The AwardWentTo archive contains 109 Academy Award records for the 1950 film year, covering 56 films and including 27 wins.
Years follow the source film eligibility/dataset year, which may differ from the ceremony calendar year. Counts describe film-linked archive records, including historical and special-award context where supplied.
Best Picture result
- ★ All about Eve20th Century-Fox
5 Best Picture award records for this film year. See the full result · Best Picture history
Acting category results
Leading winning films
Ranked by winning records in this film-year selection.
- All about Eve
6 wins from 14 award records
- Sunset Blvd.
3 wins from 11 award records
- Samson and Delilah
2 wins from 5 award records
- King Solomon's Mines
2 wins from 3 award records
- Born Yesterday
1 win from 5 award records
- Annie Get Your Gun
1 win from 4 award records
Category winners
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- ★ Cyrano de Bergerac — Cyrano de Bergerac
- ★ All about Eve — Addison De Witt
- ★ Born Yesterday — Billie Dawn
- ★ Harvey — Veta Louise Simmons
- ★ Captain Carey, U.S.A. — Mona Lisa
Nominations and award records by category
Showing 109 of 109 archive records. Gold stars mark winning records.
Best Picture
- ★ All about Eve IMDB — 20th Century-Fox
- Born Yesterday IMDB — Columbia
- Father of the Bride IMDB — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- King Solomon's Mines IMDB — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Sunset Blvd. IMDB — Paramount
Best Actor
- ★ Cyrano de Bergerac IMDB — José FerrerCyrano de Bergerac
- The Magnificent Yankee IMDB — Louis CalhernOliver Wendell Holmes
- Sunset Blvd. IMDB — William HoldenJoe Gillis
- Harvey IMDB — James StewartElwood P. Dowd
- Father of the Bride IMDB — Spencer TracyStanley T. Banks
Best Supporting Actor
- ★ All about Eve IMDB — George SandersAddison De Witt
- Broken Arrow IMDB — Jeff ChandlerCochise
- Mister 880 IMDB — Edmund GwennSkipper Miller
- The Asphalt Jungle IMDB — Sam JaffeDr. Erwin Riedenschneider
- Sunset Blvd. IMDB — Erich von StroheimMax Von Mayerling
Best Actress
- ★ Born Yesterday IMDB — Judy HollidayBillie Dawn
- All about Eve IMDB — Anne BaxterEve Harrington
- All about Eve IMDB — Bette DavisMargo Channing
- Caged IMDB — Eleanor ParkerMarie Allen
- Sunset Blvd. IMDB — Gloria SwansonNorma Desmond
Best Supporting Actress
- ★ Harvey IMDB — Josephine HullVeta Louise Simmons
- Caged IMDB — Hope EmersonEvelyn Harper
- All about Eve IMDB — Celeste HolmKaren Richards
- Sunset Blvd. IMDB — Nancy OlsonBetty Schaefer
- All about Eve IMDB — Thelma RitterBirdie
Art Direction (Black-and-White)
- ★ Sunset Blvd. IMDB — Art Direction: Hans Dreier, John Meehan; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
- All about Eve IMDB — Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, George W. Davis; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott
- The Red Danube IMDB — Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt
Art Direction (Color)
- ★ Samson and Delilah IMDB — Art Direction: Hans Dreier, Walter Tyler; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
- Annie Get Your Gun IMDB — Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Richard A. Pefferle
- Destination Moon IMDB — Art Direction: Ernst Fegte; Set Decoration: George Sawley
Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Cinematography (Color)
Costume Design (Black-and-White)
- ★ All about Eve IMDB — Edith Head, Charles LeMaire
- Born Yesterday IMDB — Jean Louis
- The Magnificent Yankee IMDB — Walter Plunkett
Costume Design (Color)
- ★ Samson and Delilah IMDB — Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele, Gwen Wakeling
- The Black Rose IMDB — Michael Whittaker
- That Forsyte Woman IMDB — Walter Plunkett, Valles
Best Director
Documentary Feature
- ★ The Titan: Story of Michelangelo IMDB — Robert Snyder, Producer
- With These Hands IMDB — Jack Arnold and Lee Goodman, Producers
Documentary Short Subject
- ★ Why Korea? IMDB — Edmund Reek, Producer
- The Fight: Science against Cancer IMDB — Guy Glover, Producer
- The Stairs IMDB — Film Documents, Inc.
Film Editing
- ★ King Solomon's Mines IMDB — Ralph E. Winters, Conrad A. Nervig
- All about Eve IMDB — Barbara McLean
- Annie Get Your Gun IMDB — James E. Newcom
- Sunset Blvd. IMDB — Arthur Schmidt, Doane Harrison
- The Third Man IMDB — Oswald Hafenrichter
International Feature Film
- ★ The Walls of Malapaga IMDB
Source context
To The Walls of Malapaga - voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States in 1950.
Original Score
Original Song
- ★ Captain Carey, U.S.A. IMDB — Music and Lyrics by Ray Evans and Jay LivingstonMona Lisa
- The Toast of New Orleans IMDB — Music by Nicholas Brodszky; Lyrics by Sammy CahnBe My Love
- Cinderella IMDB — Music and Lyrics by Mack David, Al Hoffman and Jerry LivingstonBibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo
- Singing Guns IMDB — Music and Lyrics by Fred Glickman, Hy Heath and Johnny LangeMule Train
- Wabash Avenue IMDB — Music by Josef Myrow; Lyrics by Mack GordonWilhelmina
Music (Original Song Score or Adaptation Score)
- ★ Annie Get Your Gun IMDB — Adolph Deutsch, Roger Edens
- Cinderella IMDB — Oliver Wallace, Paul J. Smith
- I'll Get By IMDB — Lionel Newman
- Three Little Words IMDB — Andre Previn
- The West Point Story IMDB — Ray Heindorf
Animated Short Film
- ★ Gerald McBoing-Boing IMDB — Stephen Bosustow, Producer
- Jerry's Cousin IMDB — Fred Quimby, Producer
- Trouble Indemnity IMDB — Stephen Bosustow, Producer
Short Subject (One-Reel)
- ★ Grandad of Races IMDB — Gordon Hollingshead, Producer
- Blaze Busters IMDB — Robert Youngson, Producer
- Wrong Way Butch IMDB — Pete Smith, Producer
Short Subject (Two-Reel)
- ★ In Beaver Valley IMDB — Walt Disney, Producer
- Grandma Moses IMDB — Falcon Films, Inc.
- My Country 'Tis of Thee IMDB — Gordon Hollingshead, Producer
Sound Recording
- ★ All about Eve IMDB — 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton, Sound Director
- Cinderella IMDB — Walt Disney Studio Sound Department, C. O. Slyfield, Sound Director
- Louisa IMDB — Universal-International Studio Sound Department, Leslie I. Carey, Sound Director
- Our Very Own IMDB — Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon Sawyer, Sound Director
- Trio IMDB — Pinewood Studio Sound Department, Cyril Crowhurst, Sound Director
Visual Effects
Adapted Screenplay
- ★ All about Eve IMDB — Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- The Asphalt Jungle IMDB — Ben Maddow, John Huston
- Born Yesterday IMDB — Albert Mannheimer
- Broken Arrow IMDB — Albert Maltz
Source context
NOTE: Based upon the research made by, and the board motion of, the Writers Guild of America West, the Academy, on July 3, 1991, decided to restore Albert Maltz to the screenplay credit on the 1950 film Broken Arrow. Michael Blankfort had fronted for him on the screenplay and consequently was named in the screenplay nomination. Mr. Blankfort's name was removed from the nomination.
- Father of the Bride IMDB — Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett
Original Screenplay
- ★ Sunset Blvd. IMDB — Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D. M. Marshman, Jr.
- Adam's Rib IMDB — Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
- Caged IMDB — Virginia Kellogg, Bernard C. Schoenfeld
- The Men IMDB — Carl Foreman
- No Way Out IMDB — Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Lesser Samuels
Writing (Original Story)
- ★ Panic in the Streets IMDB — Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt
- Bitter Rice IMDB — Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani
- The Gunfighter IMDB — William Bowers, Andre de Toth
- Mystery Street IMDB — Leonard Spigelgass
- When Willie Comes Marching Home IMDB — Sy Gomberg
Nominated films and other recorded entries
56 films represented in the 1950 archive selection.
- Adam's Rib
- All about Eve
- Annie Get Your Gun
- Bitter Rice
- Blaze Busters
- Born Yesterday
- Broken Arrow
- Caged
- Captain Carey, U.S.A.
- Cinderella
- Cyrano de Bergerac
- Destination Moon
- Father of the Bride
- Gerald McBoing-Boing
- Grandad of Races
- Grandma Moses
- Harvey
- I'll Get By
- In Beaver Valley
- Jerry's Cousin
- King Solomon's Mines
- Louisa
- Mister 880
- My Country 'Tis of Thee
- Mystery Street
- No Sad Songs for Me
- No Way Out
- Our Very Own
- Panic in the Streets
- Samson and Delilah
- Singing Guns
- Sunset Blvd.
- That Forsyte Woman
- The Asphalt Jungle
- The Black Rose
- The Fight: Science against Cancer
- The Flame and the Arrow
- The Furies
- The Gunfighter
- The Magnificent Yankee
- The Men
- The Red Danube
- The Stairs
- The Third Man
- The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
- The Toast of New Orleans
- The Walls of Malapaga
- The West Point Story
- Three Little Words
- Trio
- Trouble Indemnity
- Wabash Avenue
- When Willie Comes Marching Home
- Why Korea?
- With These Hands
- Wrong Way Butch
About these award records
This independent archive groups film-linked award records by film, credited name, category and eligibility year. The film year can differ from the year the ceremony took place. Ceremony numbers are shown where supplied by the records.
Each distinct performance, song or award credit remains a separate record, even when it belongs to the same film. Shared credits stay together. A person's page covers the name shown, without combining aliases or shared credits into a complete career total.
Totals can include honorary, special and historical awards alongside competitive nominations. Awards without a linked film are outside these page totals. Source notes and uncertain records are retained; category comparisons omit groups with unresolved notes, ties or conflicting identities.
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