23rd Academy Awards
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award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 1950
Key facts
- Date
- March 29, 1951
- Site
- RKO Pantages Theatre , Hollywood, California
- Hosted by
- Fred Astaire
- Best picture
- All About Eve
- Most awards
- All About Eve (6)
- Most nominations
- All About Eve (14)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Series
- Academy Awards
- Followed by
- 24th Academy Awards
- Follows
- 22nd Academy Awards
- Location
- Hollywood Pantages Theatre
- Official website
- www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1951
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- point in time
- 1951-03-29
- edition number
- 23
- presenter
- Fred Astaire
- awarded for period
- 1950-00-00
- Commons category
- 1951 Academy Awards
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Encyclopedic overview
The 23rd Academy Awards were held on March 29, 1951, honoring the films of 1950. All About Eve received a record 14 nominations, surpassing the previous record of 13 set by Gone with the Wind in 1939. It won six Oscars, including Best Picture, and earned writer/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz his second consecutive Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay awards, the only time such a feat has been accomplished.
All About Eve was the second film, after Mrs. Miniver (1942), to receive five acting nominations. It was the first to receive multiple nominations in two acting categories, and the (to date) only film to receive four female acting nominations—two each for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. None was successful, losing to Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday and Josephine Hull in Harvey, respectively.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “23rd Academy Awards” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.