The 1950 Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1951 at the RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, Calif.
| Best Motion Picture | All About Eve (Twentieth Century-Fox) |
| Born Yesterday (Columbia) |
| Father of the Bride (MGM) |
| King Solomon's Mines (MGM) |
| Sunset Boulevard (Paramount) |
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 All About Eve Archive Photos |
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| Best Actor | Louis Calhern, The Magnificent Yankee |
| José Ferrer, Cyrano de Bergerac |
| William Holden, Sunset Boulevard |
| James Stewart, Harvey |
| Spencer Tracy, Father of the Bride |
| Best Actress | Anne Baxter, All About Eve |
| Bette Davis, All About Eve |
| Judy Holliday, Born Yesterday |
| Eleanor Parker, Caged |
| Gloria Swanson, Sunset Boulevard |
| Actor in a Supporting Role | Jeff Chandler, Broken Arrow |
| Edmund Gwenn, Mister 880 |
| Sam Jaffe, The Asphalt Jungle |
| George Sanders, All About Eve |
| Erich von Stroheim, Sunset Boulevard |
| Actress in a Supporting Role | Hope Emerson, Caged |
| Celeste Holm, All About Eve |
| Josephine Hull, Harvey |
| Nancy Olson, Sunset Boulevard |
| Thelma Ritter, All About Eve |
| Directing | George Cukor, Born Yesterday |
| John Huston, The Asphalt Jungle |
| Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve |
| Carol Reed, The Third Man |
| Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard |
| Writing | | Motion Picture Story | Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt, Panic in the Streets | | William Bowers and Andre de Toth, The Gunfighter | | Giuseppe De Santis and Carlo Lizzani, Bitter Rice | | Sy Gomberg, When Willie Comes Marching Home | | Leonard Spigelgass, Mystery Street | | Screenplay | Michael Blankfort, Broken Arrow | | Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, Father of the Bride | | Ben Maddow and John Huston, The Asphalt Jungle | | Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve | | Albert Mannheimer, Born Yesterday | | Story and Screenplay | Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and D. M. Marshman, Jr., Sunset Boulevard | | Carl Foreman, The Men | | Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, Adam's Rib | | Virginia Kellogg and Bernard C. Schoenfeld, Caged | | Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Lesser Samuels, No Way Out |
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| Cinematography | | Black-and-White | Robert Krasker, The Third Man | | Milton Krasner, All About Eve | | Victor Milner, The Furies | | Harold Rosson, The Asphalt Jungle | | John F. Seitz, Sunset Boulevard | | Color | George Barnes, Samson and Delilah | | Ernest Haller, The Flame and the Arrow | | Ernest Palmer, Broken Arrow | | Charles Rosher, Annie Get Your Gun | | Robert Surtees, King Solomon's Mines |
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| Art Direction | | Black-and-White | Hans Dreier and John Meehan, art direction; Sam Comer and Ray Moyer, set decoration, Sunset Boulevard | | Cedric Gibbons and Hans Peters, art direction; Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt, set decoration, The Red Danube | | Lyle Wheeler and George Davis, art direction; Thomas Little and Walter M. Scott, set decoration, All About Eve | | Color | Hans Dreier and Walter Tyler, art direction; Sam Comer and Ray Moyer, set decoration, Samson and Delilah | | Ernst Fegte, art direction; George Sawley, set decoration, Destination Moon | | Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse, art direction; Edwin B. Willis and Richard A. Pefferle, set decoration, Annie Get Your Gun |
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| Sound Recording | Pinewood Studio Sound Dept., Trio |
| Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept., Our Very Own |
| Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, All About Eve |
| Universal-International Studio Sound Dept., Louisa |
| Walt Disney Studio Sound Dept., Cinderella |
| Music | | Song | “Be My Love,” The Toast of New Orleans, Nicholas Brodszky, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics | | “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo,” Cinderella, Mack David, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston, music and lyrics | | “Mona Lisa,” Captain Carey, Ray Evans and Jay Livingston, music and lyrics] | | “Mule Train,” Singing Guns, Fred Glickman, Hy Heath and Johnny Lange, music and lyrics | | “Wilhelmina,” Wabash Avenue, Josef Myrow, music; Mack Gordon, lyrics | | Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | George Duning, No Sad Songs for Me | | Alfred Newman, All About Eve | | Max Steiner, The Flame and the Arrow | | Franz Waxman, Sunset Boulevard | | Victor Young, Samson and Delilah | | Scoring of a Musical Picture | Adolph Deutsch and Roger Edens, Annie Get Your Gun | | Ray Heindorf, The West Point Story | | Lionel Newman, I'll Get By | | André Previn, Three Little Words | | Oliver Wallace and Paul J. Smith, Cinderella |
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| Film Editing | Oswald Hafenrichter, The Third Man |
| Barbara McLean, All About Eve |
| James E. Newcom, Annie Get Your Gun |
| Arthur Schmidt and Doane Harrison, Sunset Boulevard |
| Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig, King Solomon's Mines |
| Costume Design | | Black-and-White | Edith Head and Charles LeMaire, All About Eve | | Jean Louis, Born Yesterday | | Walter Plunkett, The Magnificent Yankee | | Color | Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele and Gwen Wakeling, Samson and Delilah | | Walter Plunkett and Valles, That Forsyte Woman | | Michael Whittaker, The Black Rose |
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| Special Effects | Destination Moon (George Pal Productions; Eagle Lion Classics) |
| Samson and Delilah (Cecil B. DeMille Productions; Paramount) |
| Short Subjects | | Cartoon | Gerald McBoing-Boing (Jolly Frolics Series) (United Productions of America; Columbia) | | Jerry's Cousin (Tom and Jerry Series) (Frederick Quimby, producer; MGM) | | Trouble Indemnity (Mr. Magoo Series) (United Productions of America; Columbia) | | One-Reel | Blaze Busters (Vitaphone Novelties Series) (Robert Youngson, producer; Warner Bros.) | | Grandad of Races (Sports Parade Series) (Gordon Hollingshead, producer; Warner Bros.) | | Wrong Way Butch (Pete Smith Specialty Series) (Pete Smith, producer; MGM) | | Two-Reel | Grandma Moses (Falcon Films, Inc.; A.F. Films) | | In Beaver Valley (True-Life Adventure Series) (Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio) | | My Country 'Tis of Thee (Featurette Series) (Gordon Hollingshead, producer; Warner Bros.) |
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| Documentary | | Short Subject | The Fight: Science Against Cancer (Medical Film Institute of the Association of American Medical Colleges; National Film Board of Canada) | | The Stairs (Film Documents, Inc.) | | Why Korea? (Twentieth Century-Fox Movietone; Twentieth Century-Fox) | | Feature | The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (Michelangelo Co.; Classics Pictures, Inc.) | | With These Hands (Jack Arnold and Lee Goodman, producers; Promotional Films Co., Inc.) |
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| Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Honorary Awards | To George Murphy for his services in interpreting the film industry to the country at large |
| To Louis B. Mayer for distinguished service to the motion picture industry |
| To The Walls of Malapaga (France/Italy) voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States in 1950 |
