1951 Milstead Movie Awards
BEST PICTURE
ACE IN THE HOLE
Paramount; Billy Wilder
THE AFRICAN QUEEN
United Artists; Sam Spiegel
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
MGM; Arthur Freed
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
20th Century Fox; Julian Blaustein
DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Columbia; Stanley Kramer
THE LAVENDER HILL MOB
Ealing; Michael Balcon
THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT
Ealing; Michael Balcon
A PLACE IN THE SUN
Paramount; George Stevens
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
Warner Bros; Alfred Hitchcock
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Warner Bros; Charles K. Feldman
Also Considered:
DECISION BEFORE DAWN (Anatole Litvak & Frank
McCarthy); THE DESERT FOX (Nunnally Johnson); DETECTIVE STORY (William Wyler); FOURTEEN HOURS (Sol C. Siegel); QUO VADIS (Sam Zimbalist); THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE (Gottfried Reinhardt); THE
RIVER (Jean Renoir & Kenneth McEldowney); SHOWBOAT (Arthur Freed); THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (Howard Hawks); WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (George Pal)
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Humphrey Bogart as "Charlie Allnut" - THE AFRICAN
QUEEN
Marlon Brando as "Stanley Kowalski" - A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Montgomery Clift as "George Eastman" - A PLACE IN THE
SUN
Kirk Douglas as "Chuck Tatum" - ACE IN THE
HOLE
Alec Guinness as "Henry Holland" - THE LAVENDER HILL
MOB
Gene Kelly as "Jerry Mulligan" - AN AMERICAN IN
PARIS
Arthur Kennedy as "Larry Nevins" - BRIGHT
VICTORY
Fredric March as "Willy Loman" - DEATH OF A
SALESMAN
Michael Redgrave as "Andrew Crocker-Harris" - THE BROWNING
VERSION
Alastair Sim as "Ebeneezer Scrooge" -
SCROOGE
Also Considered:
James Cagney (COME FILL THE CUP); Bing Crosby (HERE COMES
THE GROOM); Kirk Douglas (DETECTIVE STORY); Daniel Gelin (EDOUARD ET CAROLINE); Alec Guinness (THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT); Danny Kaye (ON THE RIVIERA); Howard Keel (SHOW BOAT); Claude Laydu
(DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST); James Mason (THE DESERT FOX); Audie Murphy (THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE)
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Susan Hayward as "Harriet Boyd" - I CAN GET IT
FOR YOU WHOLESALE
Katharine Hepburn as "Rose Sayer" - THE
AFRICAN QUEEN
Vivian Leigh as "Blanche DuBois" - A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Eleanor Parker as "Mary McLeod" - DETECTIVE
STORY
Ginger Rogers as "Marsha Mitchell" - STORM
WARNING
Jan Sterling as "Lorraine Minosa" - ACE IN THE
HOLE
Nora Swinburne as "The Mother" - THE
RIVER
Elizabeth Taylor as "Angela Vickers" - A PLACE
IN THE SUN
Shelley Winters as "Alice Tripp" - A PLACE IN
THE SUN
Jane Wyman as "Louise Mason" - THE BLUE
VEIL
Also Considered:
June Allyson (TOO YOUNG TO KISS); Leslie Caron (AN
AMERICAN IN PARIS); Ava Gardner (PANDORA & THE FLYING DUTCHMAN); Kathryn Grayson (SHOW BOAT); Setsuko Hara (EARLY SUMMER); Deborah Kerr (QUO VADIS); Ida Lupino (ON DANGEROUS GROUND); Anna
Magnani (BELLISSIMA); Thelma Ritter (THE MODEL & THE MARRIAGE BROKER); Anne Vernon (EDOUARD ET CAROLINE)
BEST DIRECTOR
Charles Crichton - THE LAVENDER HILL MOB
Alfred Hitchcock - STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
John Huston - THE AFRICAN QUEEN
Elia Kazan - A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Alexander Mackendrick - THE MAN IN THE WHITE
SUIT
Vincente Minnelli - AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
George Stevens - A PLACE IN THE SUN
Billy Wilder - ACE IN THE HOLE
Robert Wise - THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
William Wyler - DETECTIVE STORY
Also Considered:
Laslo Benedek (DEATH OF A SALESMAN); Samuel Fuller (THE
STEEL HELMET); Henry Hathaway (FOURTEEN HOURS); Henry Hathaway (THE DESERT FOX); John Huston (THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE); Mervyn LeRoy (QUO VADIS); Anatole Litvak (DECISION BEFORE DAWN);
Yasujiro Ozu (EARLY SUMMER); Jean Renoir (THE RIVER); George Sidney (SHOWBOAT)
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Joe E. Brown as "Capt. Andy Hawks" - SHOW
BOAT
Leo Genn as "Petronius" - QUO VADIS
Porter Hall as "Jacob Boot" - ACE IN THE
HOLE
Stanley Holloway as "Pendlebury" - THE LAVENDER HILL
MOB
Karl Malden as "Mitch" - A STREETCAR NAMED
DESIRE
Kevin McCarthy as "Biff Loman" - DEATH OF A
SALESMAN
Peter Ustinov as "Nero" - QUO VADIS
Robert Walker as "Bruno Antony" - STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
Joseph Wiseman as "Charley Gennini" - DETECTIVE
STORY
Gig Young as "Boyd S. Copeland" - COME FILL THE
CUP
Also Considered:
Leo G. Carroll (THE DESERT FOX); Hugh Marlowe (RAWHIDE);
Raymond Massey (COME FILL THE CUP); Adolphe Menjou (THE TALL TARGET); Nigel Patrick (THE BROWNING VERSION); Sidney Poitier (CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY); Vincent Price (HIS KIND OF WOMAN);
Ronald Reagan (STORM WARNING); Michael Rennie (THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL); Oskar Werner (DECISION BEFORE DAWN)
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Joan Blondell as "Annie Rawlins" - THE BLUE
VEIL
Ruby Dee as "Rachel" - THE TALL TARGET
Mildred Dunnock as "Linda Loman" - DEATH OF A
SALESMAN
Lee Grant as "Shoplifter" - DETECTIVE STORY
Kim Hunter as "Stella Kowalski" - A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Jean Kent as "Millie Crocker-Harris" - THE BROWNING
VERSION
Patricia Laffan as "Poppaea" - QUO VADIS
Anne Revere as "Hannah Eastman" - A PLACE IN THE
SUN
Thelma Ritter as "Ellen McNulty" - THE MATING
SEASON
Kay Walsh as "Molly Reid" - ENCORE
Also Considered:
Doris Day (STORM WARNING); Hope Emerson (WESTWARD THE
WOMEN); Nina Foch (AN AMERICAN IN PARIS); Joan Greenwood (THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT); Miriam Hopkins (THE MATING SEASON); Angela Lansbury (KIND LADY); Christina Larson (THE WELL); Agnes
Moorehead (FOURTEEN HOURS); Suprova Mukerjee (THE RIVER); Ruth Roman (STRANGERS ON A TRAIN)
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
ACE IN THE HOLE
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
DEATH OF A SALESMAN
DETECTIVE STORY
THE LAVENDER HILL MOB
A PLACE IN THE SUN
QUO VADIS
STORM WARNING
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Also Considered:
THE AFRICAN QUEEN; THE BLUE VEIL; THE BROWNING VERSION; COME FILL THE CUP; THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL; THE DESERT FOX; THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT; THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE; SHOW BOAT; THE TALL TARGET
BEST SCREENPLAY - ADAPTATION
THE AFRICAN QUEEN
James Agee
THE BROWNING VERSION
Terence Rattigan
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
Edmund H. North
DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Stanley Roberts
DETECTIVE STORY
Philip Yordan & Robert Wyler
THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT
Roger MacDougall, John Dighton & Alexander
Mackendrick
A PLACE IN THE SUN
Michael Wilson & Harry Brown
THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE
John Huston
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
Raymond Chandler & Czenzi Ormonde
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Tennessee Williams & Oscar Saul
Also Considered:
BRIGHT VICTORY (Robert Buckner); THE DESERT FOX (Nunnally
Johnson); DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST (Robert Bresson); THE HOUSE IN THE SQUARE (Ranald MacDougall); ON DANGEROUS GROUND (A.I. Bezzerides); PEOPLE WILL TALK (Joseph L. Mankiewicz); QUO VADIS
(John Lee Mahin, S.N. Behrman & Sonya Levien); THE RIVER (Jean Renoir & Rumer Godden); THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (Charles Lederer); TOM BROWN'S SCHOOLDAYS (Noel
Langley)
BEST SCREENPLAY - ORIGINAL
ACE IN THE HOLE
Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels & Walter Newman
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Alan Jay Lerner
ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD
George Wells & Dorothy Kingsley
FOURTEEN HOURS
John Paxton
THE LAVENDER HILL MOB
T.E.B. Clarke
THE STEEL HELMET
Samuel Fuller
STORM WARNING
Richard Brooks & Daniel Fuchs
SUMMER INTERLUDE
Ingmar Bergman
THE TALL TARGET
George Worthing Yates & Art Cohn
THE WELL
Clarence Greene & Russell Rouse
Also Considered:
THE BULLFIGHTER & THE LADY (James Edward Grant); DAVID
& BATHSHEBA (Philip Dunne); DISTANT DRUMS (Niven Busch & Martin Rackin); EARLY SUMMER (Kogo Noda & Yasujiro Ozu); THE ENFORCER (Martin Rackin); FATHER'S LITTLE DIVIDEND (Albert
Hackett & France's Goodrich); GO FOR BROKE! (Robert Pirosh); HERE COMES THE GROOM (Virginia van Upp, Myles Connolly & Liam O'Brien); LITTLE BIG HORN (Charles Marquis Warren); TERESA
(Stewart Stern)
BEST ANIMATED FILM
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Walt Disney
AROUND IS AROUND
Norman McLaren
CASANOVA CAT
Fred Quimby
JERRY'S COUSIN
Fred Quimby
TWO MOUSEKETEERS
Fred Quimby
Also Considered:
HIS HARE-RAISING TALE (Edward Selzer); HIS MOUSE FRIDAY
(Fred Quimby); A HOUND FOR TROUBLE (Edward Selzer); PUTTY TAT TROUBLE (Edward Selzer); ROOTY TOOT TOOT (Stephen Bosustow)
BEST ART DIRECTION - SET DECORATION
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Cedric Gibbons & Preston Ames; Edwin B. Willis & Keogh
Gleason
DAVID & BATHSHEBA
Lyle Wheeler & George W. Davis; Thomas Little & Paul
S. Fox
THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL
Lyle Wheeler & John de Cuir; Thomas Little & Paul S.
Fox
ON THE RIVIERA
Lyle Wheeler & Leland Fuller; Joseph C. Wright, Thomas
Little & Walter M. Scott
A PLACE IN THE SUN
Hans Dreier & Walter Tyler; Emile Kuri
QUO VADIS
William A. Horning, Cedric Gibbons & Edward Carfango; Hugh
Hunt
THE RIVER
Eugene Lourie & Bansi Chandragupta
SCROOGE
Ralph Brinton; Freda Pearson
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Richard Day; George James Hopkins
THE TALES OF HOFFMANN
Hein Heckroth & Arthur Lawson
Also Considered:
ACE IN THE HOLE (Hal Pereira & Earl Hedrick; Sam Comer
& Ray Moyer); THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (Lyle Wheeler & Addison Hehr; Thomas Little & Claude Carpenter); FOURTEEN HOURS (Lyle Wheeler & Leland Fuller; Thomas Little &
Paul S. Fox); THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT (Jim Morahan); THE MODEL & THE MARRIAGE BROKER (Lyle Wheeler & John de Cuir; Thomas Little & Walter M. Scott); ROYAL WEDDING (Cedric
Gibbons & Jack Martin Smith; Edwin B. Willis); SHOW BOAT (Cedric Gibbons & Jack Martin Smith; Edwin B. Willis); THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (Albert D'Agostino & John J. Hughes;
Darrell Silvera & William Stevens); TOO YOUNG TO KISS (Cedric Gibbons & Paul Groesse; Edwin B. Willis & Jack D. Moore); WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (Hal Pereira & Albert
Nozaki; Sam Comer & Ross Dowd)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
ACE IN THE HOLE
Charles B. Lang, Jr.
THE AFRICAN QUEEN
Jack Cardiff
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Alfred Gilks & John Alton
THE DESERT FOX
Norbert Brodine
DECISION BEFORE DAWN
Franz Planer
A PLACE IN THE SUN
William C. Mellor
QUO VADIS
Robert Surtees & William V. Skall
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
Robert Burks
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Harry Stradling
THE TALES OF HOFFMANN
Christopher Challis
Also Considered:
ACROSS THE WIDE MISSOURI (William C. Mellor); COME FILL
THE CUP (Robert Burks); DAVID & BATHSHEBA (Leon Shamroy); THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (Leo Tover); DEATH OF A SALESMAN (Franz Planer); DETECTIVE STORY (Lee Garmes); THE LAVENDER HILL
MOB (Douglas Slocombe); THE PROWLER (Arthur Miller); SHOW BOAT (Charles Rosher); WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (John F. Seitz & W. Howard Greene)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Walter Plunkett & Irene Sharaff
DAVID & BATHSHEBA
Charles LeMaire & Edward Stevenson
THE GREAT CARUSO
Helen Rose & Gile Steele
KIND LADY
Walter Plunkett & Gile Steele
THE MODEL & THE MARRIAGE BROKER
Charles LeMaire & Renie
A PLACE IN THE SUN
Edith Head
QUO VADIS
Herschel McCoy
SHOW BOAT
Walter Plunkett
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Lucien Ballard
THE TALES OF HOFFMANN
Hein Heckroth & Ivy Baker
Also Considered:
THE BULLFIGHTER & THE LADY (Adele Palmer); DETECTIVE
STORY (Edith Head); THE HOUSE IN THE SQUARE (Margaret Furse); KIND LADY (Walter Plunkett & Gile Steele); THE LAVENDER HILL MOB (Anthony Mendleson); THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT (Anthony
Mendleson); ROYAL WEDDING (Helen Rose); SCROOGE (Doris Lee); STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (Leah Rhodes); THE STRIP (Helen Rose)
BEST FILM EDITING
ACE IN THE HOLE
Arthur P. Schmidt
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Adrienne Fazan
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
William Reynolds
DECISION BEFORE DAWN
Dorothy Spencer
THE DESERT FOX
James B. Clark
DETECTIVE STORY
Robert E. Swink
A PLACE IN THE SUN
William Hornbeck
QUO VADIS
Ralph E. Winters
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
William Ziegler
THE WELL
Chester Schaeffer
Also Considered:
THE AFRICAN QUEEN (Ralph Kemplen); THE ENFORCER (Fred
Allen); FLYING LEATHERNECKS (Sherman Todd); FOURTEEN HOURS (Dorothy Spencer); THE LAVENDER HILL MOB (Seth Holt); RAWHIDE (Robert Simpson); SIROCCO (Viola Lawrence); A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
(David Weisbart); THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (Roland Gross); WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (Arthur P. Schmidt)
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
BELISSSIMA
Italy; Luchino Visconti
DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST
France; Robert Bresson
EARLY SUMMER
Japan; Yasujiro Ozu
EDOUARD ET CAROLINE
France; Jacques Becker
HAKUCHI (THE IDIOT)
Japan; Akira Kurosawa
KON-TIKI
Norway; Olle Nordemar
THE LOST ONE
West Germany; Peter Lorre
MIRACLE IN MILAN
Italy; Vittorio de Sica
THE RED INN
France; Claude Autant-Lara
SUMMER INTERLUDE
Sweden; Ingmar Bergman
Also Considered:
ANNA (Italy; Alberto Lattuada); AWAARA (India; Raj
Kapoor); COPS & ROBBERS (Italy; Mario Monicelli); DAUGHTER OF DECEIT (Mexico; Luis Buñuel); FAR AWAY IN THE BUSHVELD (South Africa; Jamie Uys); THE FORBIDDEN CHRIST (Italy; Curzio
Malaparte); FRÖKEN JULIE (Sweden; Alf Sjöberg); ONE SUMMER OF HAPPINESS (Sweden; Arne Mattsson); THE RIVER (India; Jean Renoir); VICTIMS OF SIN (Mexico; Emilio Fernández)
BEST MAKEUP
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
William Tuttle
THE TALES OF HOFFMANN
Constance Reeve
THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD
Lee Greenway
Also Considered:
DAVID & BATHSHEBA (Ben Nye); QUO VADIS (Charles E.
Parker); SCROOGE (Eric Carter)
BEST ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE
DAVID & BATHSHEBA
Alfred Newman
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
Bernard Herrmann
DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Alex North
A PLACE IN THE SUN
Franz Waxman
QUO VADIS
Miklos Rozsa
THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE
Bronislau Kaper
SCROOGE
Richard Addinsell
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
Dimitri Tiomkin
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Alex North
THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD
Dimitri Tiomkin
Also Considered:
ACE IN THE HOLE (Hugo Friedhofer); ACROSS THE WIDE
MISSOURI (David Raksin); APPOINTMENT WITH DANGER (Victor Young); DECISION BEFORE DAWN (Franz Waxman); FOURTEEN HOURS (Alfred Newman); ON DANGEROUS GROUND (Bernard Herrmann); RAWHIDE (Sol
Kaplan); THE 13TH LETTER (Alex North); THE WELL (Dimitri Tiomkin); WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (Leith Stevens)
BEST ORIGINAL MUSICAL OR COMEDY SCORE
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Oliver Wallace
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Saul Chaplin & Johnny Green
BEDTIME FOR BONZO
Frank Skinner
THE GREAT CARUSO
Peter Herman Adler & Johnny Green
THE LAVENDER HILL MOB
Georges Auric
THE LEMON DROP KID
Victor Young
THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT
Benjamin Frankel
THE MEDIUM
Gian-Carlo Menotti
ON THE RIVIERA
Alfred Newman
SHOW BOAT
Adolph Deutsch & Conrad Salinger
Also Considered:
ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD (Daniele Amfitheatrof); FATHER'S
LITTLE DIVIDEND (Albert Sendrey); GOLDEN GIRL (Alfred Newman & Cyril J. Mockridge); HERE COMES THE GROOM (Joseph J. Lilley); THE MODEL & THE MARRIAGE BROKER (Cyril Mockridge); ON
MOONLIGHT BAY (Max Steiner); THE PENNYWHISTLE BLUES (Tommy Ramokgopa & Ralph Trewhela); ROYAL WEDDING (Johnny Green); THE TALES OF HOFFMANN (Jacques Offenbach); THREE GUYS NAMED MIKE
(Bronislau Kaper)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Alice In Wonderland" - ALICE IN
WONDERLAND
Sammy Fain & Bob Hilliard
"Happy Trails" - PALS OF THE GOLDEN
WEST
Dale Evans
"In A World Of My Own" - ALICE IN
WONDERLAND
Sammy Fain & Bob Hilliard
"In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening" - HERE COMES
THE GROOM
Hoagy Carmichael & Johnny Mercer
"A Kiss To Build A Dream On" - THE
STRIP
Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby & Oscar Hammerstein
II
"Never" - GOLDEN GIRL
Lionel Newman & Eliot Daniel
"Silver Bells" - THE LEMON DROP KID
Jay Livingston & Ray Evans
"Too Late Now" - ROYAL WEDDING
Burton Lane & Alan Jay Lerner
"The Walrus & The Carpenter" - ALICE IN
WONDERLAND
Sammy Fain & Bob Hilliard
"Wonder Why" - RICH, YOUNG & PRETTY
Nicholas Brodzsky & Sammy Cahn
Also Considered:
"Are You A Beautiful Dream?" - TWO TICKETS TO BROADWAY
(Jule Styne & Leo Robin); "Call Me Mister" - CALL ME MISTER (Harold Rome); "Esta Noche (Tonight)" - THE BULLFIGHTER & THE LADY (Victor Young & Jack Elliott); "Everything I Have Is
Yours" - STRICTLY DISHONORABLE (Burton Lane & Harold Adamson); "I'm Late" - ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Sammy Fain & Bob Hilliard); "The Mating Season" - THE MATING SEASON (Jay Livingston
& Ray Evans); "Painting The Clouds With Sunshine" - PAINTING THE CLOUDS WITH SUNSHINE (Joseph Burke & Al Dublin); "Paris" - RICH, YOUNG & PRETTY (Nicholas Brodzsky & Sammy
Cahn); "A Very Merry Unbirthday (The Unbirthday Song)" - ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Mack David, Al Hoffman & Jerry Livingston); "You Never Know When Love May Come Along" - PALS OF THE GOLDEN
WEST (Jack Elliott)
BEST SOUND
ACE IN THE HOLE
Gene Garvin & Harold Lewis
THE AFRICAN QUEEN
John W. Mitchell
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Douglas Shearer
BRIGHT VICTORY
Leslie I. Carey
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
Arthur L. Kirbach & Harry M. Leonard
THE DESERT FOX
Eugene Grossman & Roger Heman
THE GREAT CARUSO
Douglas Shearer
QUO VADIS
Douglas Shearer
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
Dolph Thomas
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Nathan Levinson
Also Considered:
CAPTAIN HORATIO HORNBLOWER (Harold King); DECISION BEFORE
DAWN (Alfred Bruzlin & Harry M. Leonard); DISTANT DRUMS (Oliver S. Garretson); I WANT YOU (Gordon E. Sawyer); THE LAVENDER HILL MOB (Stephen Dalby); THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT (Stephen
Dalby); THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE (Douglas Shearer); THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (Clem Portman & Phil Brigandi); TWO TICKETS TO BROADWAY (John Aalberg); WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (Gene Merritt
& Walter Oberst)
BEST SOUND EFFECTS
THE AFRICAN QUEEN
Eric Wood
THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD
Clem Portman & Phil Brigandi
WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
Howard Beals
Also Considered:
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (credit unknown); THE MAN IN THE
WHITE SUIT (Mary Habberfield); QUO VADIS (credit unknown)
BEST SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET THE INVISIBLE MAN
David S. Horsley
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
Fred Sersen
THE DESERT FOX
Fred Sersen & Ray Kellogg
QUO VADIS
Thomas Hayward, A. Arnold Gillespie & Donald
Jahraus
WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
Tim Baar, Farciot Edouart & Gordon Jennings
Also Considered:
THE AFRICAN QUEEN (Cliff Richardson); THE LAVENDER HILL
MOB (Sydney Pearson); ROYAL WEDDING (Warren Newcombe); STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (H.F. Koenecamp); THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (Don Steward & Linwood Dunn)
Most Wins:
6 - A Streetcar Named Desire
2 - An American in Paris; The Day the Earth Stood Still; The Lavender Hill Mob; Strangers on a Train; When Worlds Collide
1 - Alice in Wonderland; Early Summer; The Lemon Drop Kid; A Place in the Sun; Quo Vadis; The Thing from Another World
Most Nominations:
13 - A Place in the Sun; A Streetcar Named Desire
12 - An American in Paris
11 - Quo Vadis
10 - Ace In The Hole
9 - Strangers on a Train
8 - The African Queen
7 - The Day the Earth Stood Still; Death of a Salesman; Detective Story; The Lavender Hill Mob
5 - Alice in Wonderland; The Man in the White Suit
WORST FILM
BRIDE OF THE GORILLA (Jack Broder)
CHAINED FOR LIFE (George Moskov)
FLIGHT TO MARS (Walter Mirisch)
RACKET GIRLS (George Weiss)
SUPERMAN AND THE MOLE MEN (Barney A.
Sarecky)
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