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 (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); 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); Rudolph Maté (WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE);
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 (the entire cast)
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (the entire cast)
DEATH OF A SALESMAN (the entire cast)
DETECTIVE STORY (the entire cast)
THE LAVENDER HILL MOB (the entire cast)
A PLACE IN THE SUN (the entire cast)
QUO VADIS (the entire cast)
STORM WARNING (the entire cast)
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (the entire cast)
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (the entire cast)
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 Gorssman & 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 MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT (Mary Habberfield)
WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (Howard Beals)
Also Considered:
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (credit unknown); QUO VADIS
(credit unknown); THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (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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