1951 (24th Annual Awards)
Academy Award Overview
Shown below is an overview of the 1951 Academy Awards, comprised of selected items from the WebMaster’s collection. (All of the items for a given category—for example, all Reminder Lists—can be found in the “Gallery” section.)
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The 1951 Preliminaries
 
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Eligibility Period: January 1, 1951 to December 31, 1951 Reminder List of Eligible Releases Text of Voting Rules |
The 1951 Ceremony
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Thursday, March 20, 1952 8:00 PM RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood Ceremony Program Nominations & Winners Winners Only Nominations by Film Nomination Statistics by Film See Also: Nominations & Winners by Category Winners Only by Category |
The 1951 Winners
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Best Picture: An American in Paris Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Arthur Freed, Producer Best Picture Poster Best Picture Home Page Background |
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Best Actor: Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnut in the film The African Queen |
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Best Actress: Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois in the film A Streetcar Named Desire |
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Best Supporting Actor: Karl Malden as Harold ‘Mitch’ Mitchell in the film A Streetcar Named Desire |
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Best Supporting Actress: Kim Hunter as Stella Kowalski in the film A Streetcar Named Desire |
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Best Song: In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening from the film Here Comes the Groom Music by Hoagy Carmichael; lyrics by Johnny Mercer Best Song Lyrics |