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Outside the Academy Awards. Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Original Screenplay winner for A Letter to Three Wives, with wife Rose Stradner. Olivia de Havilland. Best Actress winner for The Heiress. View More Memorable Moments.
1950's Academy Award Nominees & Winners. Categories included are best picture, best animated feature film, best actor/actress, best supporting actor/actress and best director that were either nominated or winners.
The 22nd Academy Awards were held on March 23, 1950, at the RKO Pantages Theatre, honoring the films in 1949. This was the final year in which all five Best Picture nominees were in Black & White, and the first year in which every film nominated for Best Picture won multiple Oscars.
All About Eve won six Oscars - Best Picture (producer Darryl F. Zanuck), Best Director and Best Writing: Screenplay (both for director/writer Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Best Supporting Actor, Best Costume Design (Edith Head again), and Best Sound Recording.
- 1950. Filmsite's Greatest Films of 1950. ALL ABOUT EVE (1950) Born Yesterday (1950) Father of the Bride (1950) King Solomon's Mines (1950) Sunset Boulevard (1950) (aka Sunset Blvd.)
- 1951. Filmsite's Greatest Films of 1951. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951) Decision Before Dawn (1951) A Place in the Sun (1951) Quo Vadis (1951)
- 1952. Filmsite's Greatest Films of 1952. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (1952) High Noon (1952) Ivanhoe (1952) Moulin Rouge (1952) The Quiet Man (1952)
- 1953. Filmsite's Greatest Films of 1953. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953) Julius Caesar (1953) The Robe (1953) Roman Holiday (1953) Shane (1953)
The 23rd Academy Awards were held on March 29, 1951, honoring the films of 1950. All About Eve received a record 14 nominations, besting the previous record of 13 set by Gone with the Wind in 1939.
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929.
