1951

Best Picture

A Streetcar Named Desire
-A Place in the Sun
-Detective Story
-The African Queen
-Strangers on a Train

Best Director

"I never met a dame yet that didn't know if she was good-looking or not without being told, and there's some of them that give themselves credit for more than they've got."
Elia Kazan for A Streetcar Named Desire
-William Wyler for Detective Story
-George Stevens for A Place in the Sun
-John Huston for The African Queen
-Alfred Hitchcock for Strangers on a Train

Best Actor

"You know what luck is? Luck is believing you're lucky, that's all... To hold a front position in this rat-race, you've got to believe you are lucky."
Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire
-Montgomery Clift as George Eastman in A Place in the Sun
-Alec Guinness as Henry Holland in The Lavender Hill Mob
-Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnut in The African Queen
-Fredric March as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman

Best Actress

"Is there something wrong with me?"
Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire
-Katherine Hepburn as Rose Sayer in The African Queen
-Elizabeth Taylor as Angela Vickers in A Place in the Sun
-Jan Sterling as Lorraine Minosa in Ace in the Hole
-Eleanor Parker as Mary McLeod in Detective Story

Best Supporting Actor

"I like you to be exactly the way that you are, because in all my experience, I have never known anyone like you."
Karl Malden as Harold "Mitch" Mitchell in A Streetcar Named Desire
-Keven McCarthy as Biff Loman in Death of a Salesman
-Robert Walker as Bruno Antony in Strangers on a Train
-Stanley Holloway as Alfred Pendlebury in The Lavender Hill Mob
-Zero Mostel as Big Babe Lazick in The Enforcer

Best Supporting Actress

"He smashed all the lightbulbs with the heel of my slipper...Actually, I was sort of thrilled by it."
Kim Hunter as Stella Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire
-Shelley Winters as Alice Tripp in A Place in the Sun
-Lee Grant as Shoplifter in Detective Story
-Lesli Caron as Lisa Bouvier in An American in Paris
-Thelma Ritter as Ellen "the Maid" McNulty in The Mating Season

Best Screenplay

"Be comfortable. That's my motto up where I come from. You gonna shack up here? Well, I guess I'm gonna strike you as being the unrefined type, huh?"
A Streetcar Named Desire
-A Place in the Sun
-Strangers on a Train
-The African Queen
-The Lavender Hill Mob
-Ace in the Hole