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.

Sunset Boulevard

• All About Eve
• Born Yesterday
• Cyrano de Bergerac
• Harvey

José Ferrer – Cyrano de Bergerac

• Louis Calhern – The Magnificent Yankee
• James Stewart – Harvey

Gloria Swanson – Sunset Boulevard

• Bette Davis – All About Eve
• Judy Holliday – Born Yesterday

Fred Astaire – Three Little Words

• Dan Dailey – When Willie Comes Marching Home
• Harold Lloyd – Mad Wednesday

Judy Holliday – Born Yesterday

• Spring Byington – Louisa
• Betty Hutton – Annie Get Your Gun

Edmund Gwenn – Mister 880

• George Sanders – All About Eve
• Erich von Stroheim – Sunset Boulevard

Josephine Hull – Harvey

• Judy Holliday – Adam's Rib
• Thelma Ritter – All About Eve

Billy Wilder – Sunset Boulevard

• George Cukor – Born Yesterday
• John Huston – The Asphalt Jungle
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz – All About Eve

All About Eve – Joseph L. Mankiewicz

• The Asphalt Jungle – John Huston
• Sunset Boulevard – Charles Brackett

Sunset Boulevard – Franz Waxman

• A Life of Her Own – Bronislau Kaper
• Destination Moon – Leith Stevens

Cyrano de Bergerac – Franz F. Planer

• The Asphalt Jungle
• Sunset Boulevard

King Solomon's Mines – Robert Surtees

• Broken Arrow
• Samson and Delilah

Gene Nelson

• Mala Powers
• Debbie Reynolds

Broken Arrow directed by Delmer Daves

• The Big Lift directed by George Seton
• The Next Voice You Hear... directed by William A. Wellman

Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman