The 8th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1950 films, were held on February 28, 1951, in the Ciro's nightclub in West Hollywood, California, at 8433 Sunset Boulevard, on the Sunset Strip.
Winners and Nominees
Best Picture Sunset Boulevard All About Eve Born Yesterday Cyrano de Bergerac Harvey
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama José Ferrer – Cyrano de Bergerac Louis Calhern – The Magnificent Yankee James Stewart – Harvey
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama Gloria Swanson – Sunset Boulevard Bette Davis – All About Eve Judy Holliday – Born Yesterday
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical Fred Astaire – Three Little Words Dan Dailey – When Willie Comes Marching Home Harold Lloyd – Mad Wednesday
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical Judy Holliday – Born Yesterday Spring Byington – Louisa Betty Hutton – Annie Get Your Gun
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Edmund Gwenn – Mister 880 George Sanders – All About Eve Erich von Stroheim – Sunset Boulevard
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Josephine Hull – Harvey Judy Holliday – Adam's Rib Thelma Ritter – All About Eve
Best Director - Motion Picture Billy Wilder – Sunset Boulevard George Cukor – Born Yesterday John Huston – The Asphalt Jungle Joseph L. Mankiewicz – All About Eve
Best Screenplay - Motion Picture All About Eve – Joseph L. Mankiewicz The Asphalt Jungle – John Huston Sunset Boulevard – Charles Brackett
Best Music, Original Score - Motion Picture Sunset Boulevard – Franz Waxman A Life of Her Own – Bronislau Kaper Destination Moon – Leith Stevens
Cinematography - Black and White Cyrano de Bergerac – Franz F. Planer The Asphalt Jungle Sunset Boulevard
Cinematography - Color King Solomon's Mines – Robert Surtees Broken Arrow Samson and Delilah
New Star of the Year Gene Nelson Mala Powers Debbie Reynolds
Promoting International Understanding Broken Arrow directed by Delmer Daves The Big Lift directed by George Seton The Next Voice You Hear... directed by William A. Wellman
Henrietta Award (World Film Favorites) Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman
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