Oscar Rewrite: 1951

 

Best Picture: An American in Paris   A Streetcar Named Desire

Best Director: George Stevens (A Place in the Sun)

Best Actor: Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen) Gene Kelly (An American in Paris)

Best Actress: Vivien Leigh (A Streetcar Named Desire) Katharine Hepburn (The African Queen)

Best Supporting Actor: Peter Ustinov (Quo Vadis)  Bruno Antony (Strangers on a Train)

Best Supporting Actress: Kim Hunter (Streetcar Named Desire) Liz Taylor (A Place in the Sun)

Best Original Screenplay: An American in Paris   Ace in the Hole

Best Adapted Screenplay: A Place in the Sun    The Day the Earth Stood Still

Jason Fraley

Hailed by The Washington Post for “his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history," Jason Fraley began at WTOP as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Entertainment Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.

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