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Outstanding Production Prior to the Awards for 1951, no producer(s) named with nominations
 DARK VICTORY - Warner Bros. [Produced by David Lewis]
 GONE WITH THE WIND (Won 9 Awards) - Selznick International, MGM. [Produced by
David O. Selznick]
GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS - MGM (British). [Produced by Victor Saville]
LOVE AFFAIR - RKO Radio. [Produced by Leo McCarey]
MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON - Columbia. [Produced by Frank Capra]
NINOTCHKA - MGM. [Produced by Sidney Franklin]
OF MICE AND MEN - Roach, UA. [Produced by Lewis Milestone]
STAGECOACH - Wanger, UA. [Produced by Walter Wanger]
THE WIZARD OF OZ - MGM. [Produced by Mervyn LeRoy]
WUTHERING HEIGHTS - Samuel Goldwyn Productions, UA. [Produced by Samuel Goldwyn]
Actor
Robert Donat in GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS
Clark Gable in GONE WITH THE WIND
Laurence Olivier in WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Mickey Rooney in BABES IN ARMS
James Stewart in MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
Actress
Bette Davis in DARK VICTORY
Irene Dunne in LOVE AFFAIR
Greta Garbo in NINOTCHKA
Greer Garson in GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS
Vivien Leigh in GONE WITH THE WIND
Supporting Actor
Brian Aherne in JUAREZ
Harry Carey in MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
Brian Donlevy in BEAU GESTE
Thomas Mitchell in STAGECOACH
Claude Rains in MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
Supporting Actress
Olivia De Havilland im GONE WITH THE WIND
Geraldine Fitzgerald in WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Hattie McDaniel in GONE WITH THE WIND
Edna May Oliver in DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK
Maria Ouspenskaya in LOVE AFFAIR
Directing
Frank Capra for MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
Victor Fleming for GONE WITH THE WIND
John Ford for STAGECOACH
Sam Wood for GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS
William Wyler for WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Writing: Screenplay
Sidney Howard - GONE WITH THE WIND
Eric Maschwitz, R.C. Sherriff & Claudine West - GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS
Sidney Buchman - MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch & Billy Wilder - NINOTCHKA
Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur - WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Writing: Original Story
Felix Jackson - BACHELOR MOTHER
Mildred Cram & Leo McCarey - LOVE AFFAIR
Lewis R. Foster - MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
Melchior Lengyel - NINOTCHKA
Lamar Trotti - YOUNG MR. LINCOLN
Interior Decoration
Hans Dreier & Robert Odell - BEAU GESTE
Charles D. Hall - CAPTAIN FURY
Jack Otterson & Martin Obzina - FIRST LOVE
Lyle Wheeler - GONE WITH THE WIND
Van Nest Polglase & Al Herman - LOVE AFFAIR
John Victor Mackay - MAN OF CONQUEST
Lionel Banks - MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
Anton Grot - THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX
William Darling & George Dudley - THE RAINS CAME
Alexander Toluboff - STAGECOACH
Cedric Gibbons & William A. Horning - THE WIZARD OF OZ
James Basevi - WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Cinematography (Color)
Ray Rennahan & Bert Glennon - DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK
Georges Périnal & Osmond Borradaile - THE FOUR FEATHERS
Ernest Haller & Ray Rennahan - GONE WITH THE WIND
William V. Skall - THE MIKADO
Sol Polito & W. Howard Greene - THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX
Hal Rosson - THE WIZARD OF OZ
Cinematography (Black and White)
Joseph Valentine - FIRST LOVE
Victor Milner - THE GREAT VICTOR HERBERT
Joseph H. August - GUNGA DIN
Gregg Toland - INTERMEZZO
Tony Gaudio - JUAREZ
Norbert Brodine - LADY OF THE TROPICS
Joseph Walker - ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS
Arthur C. Miller - THE RAINS CAME
Bert Glennon - STAGECOACH
Gregg Toland - WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Film Editing
Hal C. Kern & James E. Newcom - GONE WITH THE WIND
Charles Frend - GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS
Gene Havlick & Al Clark - MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
Barbara McLean - THE RAINS CAME
Otho Lovering & Dorothy Spencer - STAGECOACH
Music: Original Score
Max Steiner - DARK VICTORY
Werner Janssen - ETERNALLY YOURS
Victor Young - GOLDEN BOY
Max Steiner - GONE WITH THE WIND
Victor Young - GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
Lud Gluskin & Lucien Moraweck - THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK
Victor Young - MAN OF CONQUEST
Anthony Collins - NURSE EDITH CAVELL
Aaron Copland - OF MICE AND MEN
Alfred Newman - THE RAINS CAME
Herbert Stothart - THE WIZARD OF OZ
Alfred Newman - WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Music: Score
Roger Edens & George Stoll - BABES IN ARMS
Charles Previn - FIRST LOVE
Phil Boutelje & Arthur Lange - THE GREAT VICTOR HERBERT
Alfred Newman - THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Lou Forbes - INTERMEZZO
Dimitri Tiomkin - MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
Aaron Copland - OF MICE AND MEN
Erich Wolfgang Korngold - THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX
Cy Feuer - SHE MARRIED A COP
Richard Hageman, Frank Harling, John Leipold & Leo Shuken - STAGECOACH
Louis Silvers - SWANEE RIVER
Alfred Newman - THEY SHALL HAVE MUSIC
Victor Young - WAY DOWN SOUTH
Music: Song
Ralph Rainger - Music, Leo Robin - Lyrics GULLIVER'S TRAVELS "Faithful Forever"
Irving Berlin - Music & Lyrics SECOND FIDDLE "I Poured My Heart into a Song"
Harold Arlen - Music, E.Y. Harburg - Lyrics THE WIZARD OF OZ "Over the Rainbow" 
Buddy De Sylva - Music & Lyrics LOVE AFFAIR "Wishing"
Short Subjects (Cartoons)
DETOURING AMERICA - Warner Bros.
PEACE ON EARTH - M-G-M
THE POINTER -
Walt Disney - Producer
THE UGLY DUCKLING - Walt Disney - Producer
Short Subjects (One-reel)
BUSY LITTLE BEARS - Paramount (Paragraphics)
INFORMATION PLEASE - RKO Radio
PROPHET WITHOUT HONOR - M-G-M (Miniature)
SWORD FISHING - Warner Bros. (Vitaphone Varieties)
Short Subjects (Two-reel)
DRUNK DRIVING: Jack Chertok, Producer - M-G-M (Crime Doesn't Pay)
FIVE TIMES FIVE - RKO Radio (Special)
SONS OF LIBERTY - Warner Bros. (Historical Featurette)
Sound Recording
Douglas Shearer - BALALAIKA
Thomas T. Moulton - GONE WITH THE WIND
A.W. Watkins - GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS
Loren L. Ryder - THE GREAT VICTOR HERBERT
John Aalberg - THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Charles Lootens - MAN OF CONQUEST
John Livadary - MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
Elmer Raguse - OF MICE AND MEN
Nathan Levinson - THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX
E.H. Hansen - THE RAINS CAME
Bernard B. Brown - WHEN TOMORROW COMES
Special Effects
John R. Cosgrove, Fred Albin & Arthur Johns - GONE WITH THE WIND
Roy Davidson & Edwin C. Hahn - ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS
Byron Haskin & Nathan Levinson - THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX
E.H. Hansen & Fred Sersen - THE RAINS CAME
Roy Seawright - TOPPER TAKES A TRIP
Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings, Loren L. Ryder - UNION PACIFIC
A. Arnold Gillespie & Douglas Shearer - THE WIZARD OF OZ
Scientific Or Technical
Class I (Statuette):
No award given for 1939.
Class II (Plaque):
No award given for 1939.
Class III (Citation):
 George Anderson (Warner Bros. Studio) - For an improved positive head for sun arcs.
John Arnold (MGM Studio) - For the M-G-M mobile camera crane.
Thomas T. Moulton & Fred Albin (Sound Department of the Samuel Goldwyn Studio) - For the origination and application of the Delta db test to sound recording in motion pictures.
Farciot Edouart, Joseph E. Robbins & William Rudolph (Paramount Pictures Inc.) - For the design and construction of a quiet portable treadmill.
Emery Huse & Ralph B. Atkinson (Eastman Kodak Company) - For their specifications for chemical analysis of photographic developers and fixing baths.
Harold Nye (Warner Bros. Studio) - For a miniature incandescent spot lamp.
A. J. Tondreau (Warner Bros. Studio) - For the design and manufacture of an improved sound track printer.
F. R. Abbott, Haller Belt & Alan Cook (Bausch & Lomb Optical Company) - For faster projection lenses. (Part of a Multiple Award for important contributions in cooperative development of new improved Process Projection Equipment).
Mole-Richardson Company - For a new type automatically controlled projection arc lamp. (Part of a Multiple Award for important contributions in cooperative development of new improved Process Projection Equipment).
Mitchell Camera Company - For a new type process projection head. (Part of a Multiple Award for important contributions in cooperative development of new improved Process Projection Equipment).
Charles Handley, David Joy (National Carbon Company) - For improved
and more stable high-intensity carbons. (Part of a Multiple Award for important contributions in cooperative development of new improved Process Projection Equipment).
Winton Hoch (Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation) - For an auxiliary optical system. (Part of a Multiple Award for important contributions in cooperative development of new improved Process Projection Equipment).
Don Musgrave (Selznick International Pictures Inc.) - For pioneering in the use of coordinated equipment in the production, GONE WITH THE WIND. (Part of a Multiple Award for important contributions in cooperative development of new improved Process Projection Equipment).
Special Awards
Douglas Fairbanks - Recognizing the unique and outstanding contribution of Douglas Fairbanks, first President of the Academy, to the international development of the motion picture. Winner of this Commemorative Award received a Statuette.
 Motion Picture Relief Fund -- Jean Hersholt, President; Ralph Morgan, Chairman of the Executive Committee; Ralph Block, First Vice-President & Conrad Nagel - Acknowledging the outstanding services to the industry during the past year of the Motion Picture Relief Fund and its progressive leadership. Winners presented Plaques.
Judy Garland - For her outstanding performance as a screen juvenile during the past year. Winner presented a Miniature Statuette.
William Cameron Menzies - For outstanding achievement in the use of color for the enhancement of dramatic mood in the production of GONE WITH THE WIND. Winner presented a Plaque.
Technicolor Company - For its contributions in successfully bringing three-color feature production to the screen. Winner presented a Statuette.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
David O. Selznick
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· Gone with the Wind's nine-Award sweep (8 competitive, 1 honorary) was a landmark.
· Hattie McDaniel broke the color barrier not only by winning an Oscar® but by being the first black guest at the Academy Awards.
· Bob Hope made his debut as Oscar® host, the first of 19 such appearances as host or co-host.
· Following the leak of winners' names by the Los Angeles Times, from this point forward only Price, Waterhouse would have the names prior to the ceremony.
· G.W.T.W. screenwriter Sidney Howard, killed in a freak tractor mishap on his Massachusetts farm, was the first posthumous Oscar® winner.
RULE CHANGES
· "Special Effects" added.
· Cinematography split into "Black and White" and "Color" categories.
· Directors could be nominated for only one motion picture in a single year.
· English-language films now eligible in all categories.
ROLE REVERSALS
· The seriously considered Scarletts: Jean Arthur, Claudette Colbert, Bette Davis, Jean Harlow, Tallulah Bankhead, Miriam Hopkins, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Norma Shearer, and Carole Lombard. Among the Rhetts: Errol Flynn and Margaret Mitchell's own choice, Basil Rathbone.
· The Wizard of Oz was launched as a star vehicle for Shirley Temple.
SINS OF OMISSION
Picture: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Women, Four Feathers, Gunga Din
Actor: Henry Fonda - Young Mr. Lincoln, Charles Laughton - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Actress: Merle Oberon - Wuthering Heights
Supporting Actor: Frank Morgan - The Wizard of Oz
Supporting Actress: Ina Claire - Ninotchka
Song: "Good Morning," "Lydia, the Tattooed Lady"
UNMENTIONABLES
· Hattie McDaniel and her escort were seated at a table in the back of the room, near the kitchen.
· When McDaniel's name was announced, Olivia De Havilland leaped up and ran to the kitchen to sob. Irene Mayer Seznick followed her, told her to grow up, that she'd have plenty of other chances for an Oscar®, and ordered her to go out and congratulate McDaniel. De Havilland, putting on her prettiest Melanie smile, did just that.
· McDaniel's performance in G.W.T.W. was harshly criticized by the N.A.A.C.P., which thought that her role as the long-suffering, loyal slave Mammy was a giant step backward for the "Negro" image.
· Frank Capra was a working director on Oscar® Night, as well as a nominee. He'd made the Academy a quick $30,000 by selling Warners the rights to film the banquet for a short subject. With cinematographer Charles Rosher shooting away under Capra's direction, the 1,200 guests prepared for the roving cameras by dressing to the nines; Daily Variety estimated that "the ermine and mink and silks and satins that constituted the femme finery for the occasion represented an investment of better than half a million dollars."
· The Los Angeles Times broke its vow not to publish the names of the winners until after the ceremony. The 8:45 edition spilled the beans and late arrivals Clark Gable and Bette Davis were among those who knew whether or not they were winners by the time they entered the Ambassador.
· New Academy president Walter Wanger promised that he would strive to create "an Academy that will see that our public relations are maintained on the same level as the great steel, iron and motor industries." The audience heartily applauded -- all except director Alfred Hitchcock, seated at Wanger's guests of honor table, and fast asleep during the ovation.
· As he accepted his Award for Best Supporting Actor, Thomas Mitchell confessed, "I didn't think I was that good. I don't have a speech, I'm too incoherent."
· After presenting the Best Actor and Actress statuettes to Robert Donat and Vivien Leigh, Spencer Tracy never attended another Oscar® ceremony.
· Clark Gable was upset with the way things had gone. Mrs. Gable tried to cheer up her husband on the way home: "Aw, don't be blue, Pappy. I just know we'll bring one home next year." "No, we won't," Gable responded. "This was it. This was my last chance. I'm never gonna go to one of these things again." "Not you, you self-centered bastard," Carole Lombard answered. "I mean me."
· Number one box-office attraction Mickey Rooney handed 17-year-old Judy Garland what would be her only Oscar®. She rewarded the audience by singing her heart-tugging fairy tale rendition of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," which had won that evening for Best Song.
· MGM execs thought Oz was running too long and seriously considered cutting "Rainbow."
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