Winner 
23rd Academy Awards
The 1950 file: winners first, ballot trails on demand, and the films that shaped the ceremony.
Ceremony at a glance
Best Picture went to All about Eve. The winning leader is All about Eve with 6 wins. The most nominated title is All about Eve with 14 nominations. 33 winners named across 30 categories.
Most awarded titles
- All about Eve 6 wins14 nominations
- Sunset Blvd. 3 wins11 nominations
- Samson and Delilah 2 wins5 nominations
- King Solomon's Mines 2 wins3 nominations
- Born Yesterday 1 win5 nominations
Best Picture Nominees
The major races
The 1950 ceremony centers on All about Eve. Picture, Director, Actor and Actress: 4 of 4 decided, 20 nominees in all.
Complete Ceremony Ledger
The winner in every category. Open the full ballot to see every nominee.
27 categories115 records33 winners
1 winner5 records
4 more nominees in the full ballot
All about Eve
Credit: 20th Century-Fox
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All about Eve
Credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1 winner5 records
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All about Eve
Credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1 winner1 record
1 winner5 records
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Sunset Blvd.
Credit: Franz Waxman
1 winner5 records
4 more nominees in the full ballot
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1 winner2 records
1 more nominee in the full ballot
Destination Moon
Credit: George Pal Productions
1 winner3 records
2 more nominees in the full ballot
1 winner3 records
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The Third Man
Credit: Robert Krasker
1 winner5 records
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King Solomon's Mines
Credit: Robert Surtees
1 winner3 records
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1 winner2 records
1 more nominee in the full ballot
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Why Korea?
Credit: Edmund Reek
1 winner5 records
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1 winner3 records
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Gerald McBoing-Boing
Credit: Stephen Bosustow
1 winner3 records
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Grandad of Races
Credit: Gordon Hollingshead
1 winner3 records
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In Beaver Valley
Credit: Walt Disney
1 winner5 records
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Ceremony Highlights
Winner Cyrano de Bergerac
Winner Harvey
Winner Samson and Delilah
Winner The Third Man
Winner The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
Winner Why Korea?
Winner The Walls of Malapaga
Winner Annie Get Your Gun
Winner Captain Carey, U.S.A.
Winner Gerald McBoing-Boing
Winner Grandad of Races
Winner In Beaver Valley
Winner Destination Moon
Winner Panic in the Streets
Categories in this ceremony
Winner Circle
All about Eve
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Judy Holliday
José Ferrer
Josephine Hull
George Sanders
Sunset Blvd.
All about Eve
The Walls of Malapaga
Sunset Blvd.
Mona Lisa
Ralph E. Winters, Conrad A. Nervig
George Pal Productions
Art Direction: Hans Dreier, John Meehan; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
Art Direction: Hans Dreier, Walter Tyler; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
Robert Krasker
Robert Surtees
Edith Head, Charles LeMaire
Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele, Gwen Wakeling
Robert Snyder, Producer
Edmund Reek, Producer
George Murphy
Louis B. Mayer
Darryl F. Zanuck
Adolph Deutsch | Roger Edens
James B. Gordon and 20Th Century-Fox
John Paul Livadary, Floyd Campbell, L. W. Russell and Columbia
Loren L. Ryder and Paramount
Stephen Bosustow, Producer
Gordon Hollingshead, Producer
Walt Disney, Producer
20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton, Sound Director
Panic in the Streets
Sortable ledger
Every nomination from this ceremony as a sortable table, for research that needs the raw record beside the posters and winners above.