8th Golden Globe Awards

8th Golden Globe Awards
DateFebruary 28, 1951
Highlights
Best Picture Sunset Boulevard

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

Sunset Boulevard

José Ferrer – Cyrano de Bergerac

Gloria Swanson – Sunset Boulevard

Fred Astaire – Three Little Words

Judy Holliday – Born Yesterday

Edmund Gwenn – Mister 880

Josephine Hull – Harvey

Billy Wilder – Sunset Boulevard

All About Eve – Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Sunset Boulevard – Franz Waxman

Cinematography - Black and White

Cyrano de Bergerac – Franz F. Planer

Cinematography - Color

King Solomon's Mines – Robert Surtees

New Star of the Year

Gene Nelson

Promoting International Understanding

Broken Arrow directed by Delmer Daves

Henrietta Award (World Film Favorites)

Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman

References