Academy Awards

annual awards for cinematic achievements

Since 1929 99 editions in the catalogue Official site

1950 edition

• Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)

  🏆 A Chance to Live

  🏆 Eddie Selzer

  🏆 Richard de Rochemont

  For the film: So Much for So Little

  Also nominated: 1848 · The Rising Tide

• Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

  🏆 Lennie Hayton

  🏆 Roger Edens

  For the film: On the Town

  Also nominated: George Duning · Jolson Sings Again · Look for the Silver Lining · Morris Stoloff · Ray Heindorf

• Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel

  🏆 Gaston Diehl

  🏆 Robert Hessens

  For the film: Van Gogh

  Also nominated: Boy and the Eagle · Chase of Death · Gordon Hollingshead · Irving Allen · Snow Carnival · The Grass Is Always Greener · William Lasky

• Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

  🏆 Eddie Selzer

  For the film: For Scent-imental Reasons

  Also nominated: Canary Row · Fred Quimby · Hatch Up Your Troubles · Steven Bosustow · The Magic Fluke · Toy Tinkers · Walt Disney

• Academy Award for Best Director

  🏆 Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  For the film: A Letter to Three Wives

  Also nominated: All the King's Men · Battleground · Carol Reed · The Fallen Idol · Robert Rossen · The Heiress · William A. Wellman · William Wyler

• Academy Award for Best Film Editing

  🏆 Harry W. Gerstad

  For the film: Champion

  Also nominated: Al Clark · All the King's Men · Battleground · Frederic Knudtson · John Dunning · Richard L. Van Enger · Robert Parrish · Sands of Iwo Jima · The Window

• Academy Award for Best Story

  🏆 Douglas Morrow

  For the film: The Stratton Story

  Also nominated: Clare Boothe Luce · Come to the Stable · Harry Brown · It Happens Every Spring · Sands of Iwo Jima · Shirley W. Smith · Valentine Davies · Virginia Kellogg · White Heat

• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

  🏆 Dean Jagger

  For the film: Twelve O'Clock High

  Also nominated: All the King's Men · Arthur Kennedy · Battleground · Champion · James Whitmore · John Ireland · Ralph Richardson · The Heiress

• Academy Scientific and Technical Award

  🏆 M. B. Paul

  🏆 Stephen Csillag

• Academy Award for Best Picture

  🏆 All the King's Men

  Also nominated: A Letter to Three Wives · Battleground · The Heiress · Twelve O'Clock High

• Academy Award for Best Sound

  🏆 Twelve O'Clock High

  Also nominated: Once More, My Darling · Sands of Iwo Jima

• Academy Juvenile Award

  🏆 Bobby Driscoll

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