The 24th Academy Awards is an event that honored the Greatest Films of 1951 as recognized by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Best Picture was awarded to An American in Paris, which, like A Place in the Sun, received six academy awards. A Streetcar Named Desire won four Oscars, including three of the acting awards, excluding Marlon Brando, whose performance as Stanley Kowalski was later considered one of the most influential of modern film acting.
An American in Paris became only the 2nd film to win Best Picture to be in color. The first one was 12 years earlier, Gone with the Wind.
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