Awards - Academy Awards - 1945-1954

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• From Here to Eternity
• Julius Caesar
• The Robe
• Roman Holiday
• Shane

Best Achievement in Directing

• Fred Zinnemann (From Here to Eternity)
• George Stevens (Shane)
• Charles Walters (Lili)
• Billy Wilder (Stalag 17)
• William Wyler (Roman Holiday)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• William Holden (Stalag 17)
• Marlon Brando (Julius Caesar)
• Richard Burton (The Robe)
• Montgomery Clift (From Here to Eternity)
• Burt Lancaster (From Here to Eternity)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday)
• Leslie Caron (Lili)
• Ava Gardner (Mogambo)
• Deborah Kerr (From Here to Eternity)
• Maggie McNamara (The Moon Is Blue)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Frank Sinatra (From Here to Eternity)
• Eddie Albert (Roman Holiday)
• Brandon De Wilde (Shane)
• Jack Palance (Shane)
• Robert Strauss (Stalag 17)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Donna Reed (From Here to Eternity)
• Grace Kelly (Mogambo)
• Geraldine Page (Hondo)
• Marjorie Rambeau (Torch Song)
• Thelma Ritter (Pickup on South Street)

Best Documentary Feature

• The Living Desert
• The Conquest of Everest
• Queen Is Crowned, A

Best Original Screenplay

• Charles Brackett, Richard L. Breen, Walter Reisch (Titanic)
• Betty Comden, Adolph Green (The Band Wagon)
• Richard Murphy (The Desert Rats)
• Harold Jack Bloom, Sam Rolfe (The Naked Spur)
• Millard Kaufman (Take the High Ground!)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Daniel Taradash (From Here to Eternity)
• Eric Ambler (The Cruel Sea)
• Helen Deutsch (Lili)
• John Dighton, Ian McLellan Hunter (Roman Holiday)
• A.B. Guthrie Jr. (Shane)

Best Original Story

• Dalton Trumbo (Roman Holiday)
• Above and Beyond
• The Captain's Paradise
• Hondo
• Little Fugitive

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Loyal Griggs (Shane)
• George J. Folsey (All the Brothers Were Valiant)
• Edward Cronjager (Beneath the 12-Mile Reef)
• Robert H. Planck (Lili)
• Leon Shamroy (The Robe)

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Burnett Guffey (From Here to Eternity)
• Hal Mohr (The Four Poster)
• Joseph Ruttenberg (Julius Caesar)
• Joseph C. Brun (Martin Luther)
• Henri Alekan, Franz Planer (Roman Holiday)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• From Here to Eternity
• Crazylegs
• The Moon Is Blue
• Roman Holiday
• The War of the Worlds

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Bronislau Kaper (Lili)
• Hugo Friedhofer (Above and Beyond)
• George Duning, Morris Stoloff (From Here to Eternity)
• Miklós Rózsa (Julius Caesar)
• Louis Forbes (This Is Cinerama)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Sammy Fain (Calamity Jane) - "Secret Love"
• The Moon Is Blue - "The Moon Is Blue".
• Small Town Girl - "My Flaming Heart"
• Miss Sadie Thompson - "Sadie Thompson's Song (Blue Pacific Blues)"
• The Caddy - "That's Amore"

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Alfred Newman (Call Me Madam)
• Adolph Deutsch (The Band Wagon)
• Ray Heindorf (Calamity Jane)
• Friedrich Hollaender, Morris Stoloff (The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T)
• Saul Chaplin, André Previn (Kiss Me Kate)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• The Robe
• Knights of the Round Table
• Lili
• The Story of Three Loves
• Young Bess

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White)

• Julius Caesar
• Martin Luther
• The President's Lady
• Roman Holiday
• Titanic

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• The Robe
• The Band Wagon
• Call Me Madam
• How to Marry a Millionaire
• Young Bess

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• Roman Holiday
• The Actress
• Dream Wife
• From Here to Eternity
• The President's Lady

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• The War of the Worlds

Best Sound Mixing

• From Here to Eternity
• Calamity Jane
• Knights of the Round Table
• The Mississippi Gambler
• The War of the Worlds

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• Merry Wives of Windsor, The
• Wee Water Wonders
• Joy of Living
• Herring Hunt
• Christ Among the Primitives

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• Bear Country
• Ben and Me
• Return to Glennascaul
• Winter Paradise
• Vesuvius Express

Best Animated Short Film

• Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom
• Christopher Crumpet
• From A to Z-Z-Z-Z
• Rugged Bear
• The Tell-Tale Heart

Best Documentary Short Film

• Alaskan Eskimo, The
• The Word
• They Planted a Stone
• Operation Blue Jay
• The Living City

Honorary Award

• Bell and Howell Company
• 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation
• Joseph I. Breen
• Pete Smith

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• The Greatest Show on Earth
• High Noon
• Ivanhoe
• Moulin Rouge
• The Quiet Man

Best Achievement in Directing

• John Ford (The Quiet Man)
• Cecil B. DeMille (The Greatest Show on Earth)
• John Huston (Moulin Rouge)
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz (5 Fingers)
• Fred Zinnemann (High Noon)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Gary Cooper (High Noon)
• Marlon Brando (Viva Zapata!)
• Kirk Douglas (The Bad and the Beautiful)
• José Ferrer (Moulin Rouge)
• Alec Guinness (The Lavender Hill Mob)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba)
• Joan Crawford (Sudden Fear)
• Bette Davis (The Star)
• Julie Harris (The Member of the Wedding)
• Susan Hayward (With a Song in My Heart)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Anthony Quinn (Viva Zapata!)
• Richard Burton (My Cousin Rachel)
• Arthur Hunnicutt (The Big Sky)
• Victor McLaglen (The Quiet Man)
• Jack Palance (Sudden Fear)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Gloria Grahame (The Bad and the Beautiful)
• Jean Hagen (Singin' in the Rain)
• Colette Marchand (Moulin Rouge)
• Terry Moore (Come Back, Little Sheba)
• Thelma Ritter (With a Song in My Heart)

Best Documentary Feature

• The Sea Around Us
• Hoaxters, The
• Navajo

Best Original Screenplay

• T.E.B. Clarke (The Lavender Hill Mob)
• Sydney Boehm (The Atomic City)
• Terence Rattigan (Breaking the Sound Barrier)
• Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin (Pat and Mike)
• John Steinbeck (Viva Zapata!)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Charles Schnee (The Bad and the Beautiful)
• Michael Wilson (5 Fingers)
• Carl Foreman (High Noon)
• John Dighton, Roger MacDougall, Alexander Mackendrick (The Man in the White Suit)
• Frank S. Nugent (The Quiet Man)

Best Original Story

• Frank Cavett, Fredric M. Frank, Theodore St. John (The Greatest Show on Earth)
• My Son John
• The Narrow Margin
• The Pride of St.Louis
• The Sniper

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Winton C. Hoch, Archie Stout (The Quiet Man)
• Harry Stradling Sr. (Hans Christian Andersen)
• Freddie Young (Ivanhoe)
• George J. Folsey (Million Dollar Mermaid)
• Leon Shamroy (The Snows of Kilimanjaro)

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Robert Surtees (The Bad and the Beautiful)
• Russell Harlan (The Big Sky)
• Joseph LaShelle (My Cousin Rachel)
• Virgil Miller (Navajo)
• Charles Lang (Sudden Fear)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• High Noon
• Come Back, Little Sheba
• Flat Top
• The Greatest Show on Earth
• Moulin Rouge

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Dimitri Tiomkin (High Noon)
• Miklós Rózsa (Ivanhoe)
• Max Steiner (The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima)
• Herschel Burke Gilbert (The Thief)
• Alex North (Viva Zapata!)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Dimitri Tiomkin (High Noon) - "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin')"
• Son of Paleface - "Am I in Love"
• Because You're Mine - "Because You're Mine"
• Hans Christian Andersen - "Thumbelina"
• Just for You - "Zing a Little Zong"

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Alfred Newman (With a Song in My Heart)
• Walter Scharf (Hans Christian Andersen)
• Ray Heindorf, Max Steiner (The Jazz Singer)
• Gian Carlo Menotti (Medium, The)
• Lennie Hayton (Singin' in the Rain)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Moulin Rouge
• Hans Christian Andersen
• The Merry Widow
• The Quiet Man
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White)

• The Bad and the Beautiful
• Carrie
• My Cousin Rachel
• Rashomon
• Viva Zapata!

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• Moulin Rouge
• The Greatest Show on Earth
• The Merry Widow
• Hans Christian Andersen
• With a Song in My Heart

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• The Bad and the Beautiful
• Affair in Trinidad
• Carrie
• My Cousin Rachel
• Sudden Fear

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• Plymouth Adventure

Best Sound Mixing

• Breaking the Sound Barrier
• Hans Christian Andersen
• The Promoter
• The Quiet Man
• With a Song in My Heart

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• Light in the Window
• Athletes of the Saddle
• Desert Killer
• Neighbours
• Royal Scotland

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• Water Birds
• Bridge of Time
• Devil Take Us
• Thar She Blows!

Best Animated Short Film

• Tom and Jerry - Johann Mouse
• Little Johnny Jet
• Madeline
• Pink and Blue Blues
• The Romance of Transportation in Canada

Best Documentary Short Film

• Neighbours
• Devil Take Us
• Epeira Diadema
• Man Alive!

Honorary Award

• Forbidden Games
• Harold Lloyd
• Bob Hope
• Merian C. Cooper
• George Mitchell
• Joseph M. Schenck

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• An American in Paris
• Decision Before Dawn
• A Place in the Sun
• Quo Vadis
• A Streetcar Named Desire

Best Achievement in Directing

• George Stevens (A Place in the Sun)
• John Huston (The African Queen)
• Elia Kazan (A Streetcar Named Desire)
• Vincente Minnelli (An American in Paris)
• William Wyler (Detective Story)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen)
• Marlon Brando (A Streetcar Named Desire)
• Montgomery Clift (A Place in the Sun)
• Arthur Kennedy (Bright Victory)
• Fredric March (Death of a Salesman)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Vivien Leigh (A Streetcar Named Desire)
• Katharine Hepburn (The African Queen)
• Eleanor Parker (Detective Story)
• Shelley Winters (A Place in the Sun)
• Jane Wyman (The Blue Veil)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Karl Malden (A Streetcar Named Desire)
• Leo Genn (Quo Vadis)
• Kevin McCarthy (Death of a Salesman)
• Peter Ustinov (Quo Vadis)
• Gig Young (Come Fill the Cup)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Kim Hunter (A Streetcar Named Desire)
• Joan Blondell (The Blue Veil)
• Mildred Dunnock (Death of a Salesman)
• Lee Grant (Detective Story)
• Thelma Ritter (The Mating Season)

Best Documentary Feature

• Kon-Tiki
• I Was a Communist for the FBI

Best Original Screenplay

• Alan Jay Lerner (An American in Paris)
• Walter Newman, Lesser Samuels, Billy Wilder (Ace in the Hole)
• Philip Dunne (David and Bathsheba)
• Robert Pirosh (Go for Broke!)
• Clarence Greene, Russell Rouse (The Well)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Harry Brown, Michael Wilson (A Place in the Sun)
• James Agee, John Huston (The African Queen)
• Robert Wyler, Philip Yordan (Detective Story)
• Jacques Natanson, Max Ophüls (La Ronde)
• Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire)

Best Original Story

• James Bernard, Paul Dehn (Seven Days to Noon)
• Bullfighter and the Lady
• The Frogmen
• Here Comes the Groom
• Teresa

Best Cinematography (Color)

• John Alton, Alfred Gilks (An American in Paris)
• Leon Shamroy (David and Bathsheba)
• William V. Skall, Robert Surtees (Quo Vadis)
• Charles Rosher (Show Boat)
• W. Howard Greene, John F. Seitz (When Worlds Collide)

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• William C. Mellor (A Place in the Sun)
• Franz Planer (Death of a Salesman)
• Mark N. Hopkins (The Frogmen)
• Robert Burks (Strangers on a Train)
• Harry Stradling Sr. (A Streetcar Named Desire)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• A Place in the Sun
• An American in Paris
• Decision Before Dawn
• Quo Vadis
• The Well

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Franz Waxman (A Place in the Sun)
• Alfred Newman (David and Bathsheba)
• Alex North (Death of a Salesman)
• Miklós Rózsa (Quo Vadis)
• Alex North (A Streetcar Named Desire)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Hoagy Carmichael (Here Comes the Groom) - "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening"
• The Strip - "A Kiss to Build a Dream on"
• Golden Girl - "Never"
• Royal Wedding - "Too Late Now"
• Rich, Young and Pretty - "Wonder Why"

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green (An American in Paris)
• Oliver Wallace (Alice in Wonderland)
• Peter Herman Adler, Johnny Green (The Great Caruso)
• Alfred Newman (On the Riviera)
• Adolph Deutsch, Conrad Salinger (Show Boat)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• An American in Paris
• David and Bathsheba
• On the Riviera
• Quo Vadis
• The Tales of Hoffmann

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White)

• A Streetcar Named Desire
• Fourteen Hours
• The House on Telegraph Hill
• La Ronde
• Too Young to Kiss

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• An American in Paris
• David and Bathsheba
• The Great Caruso
• Quo Vadis
• The Tales of Hoffmann

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• A Place in the Sun
• Kind Lady
• The Mudlark
• The Model and the Marriage Broker
• A Streetcar Named Desire

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• When Worlds Collide

Best Sound Mixing

• The Great Caruso
• Bright Victory
• I Want You
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• Two Tickets to Broadway

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• World of Kids
• Ridin' the Rails
• Story of Time, The

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• Nature's Half Acre
• Balzac
• Danger Under the Sea

Best Animated Short Film

• Tom and Jerry - The Two Mouseketeers
• Lambert the Sheepish Lion
• Rooty Toot Toot

Best Documentary Short Film

• Benjy
• One Who Came Back
• The Seeing Eye

Honorary Award

• Gene Kelly
• Rashomon

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• All About Eve
• Born Yesterday
• Father of the Bride
• King Solomon's Mines
• Sunset Boulevard

Best Achievement in Directing

• Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve)
• George Cukor (Born Yesterday)
• John Huston (The Asphalt Jungle)
• Carol Reed (The 3rd Man)
• Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• José Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac)
• Louis Calhern (The Magnificent Yankee)
• William Holden (Sunset Boulevard)
• James Stewart (Harvey)
• Spencer Tracy (Father of the Bride)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday)
• Anne Baxter (All About Eve)
• Bette Davis (All About Eve)
• Eleanor Parker (Caged)
• Gloria Swanson (Sunset Boulevard)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• George Sanders (All About Eve)
• Jeff Chandler (Broken Arrow)
• Edmund Gwenn (Mister 880)
• Sam Jaffe (The Asphalt Jungle)
• Erich von Stroheim (Sunset Boulevard)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Josephine Hull (Harvey)
• Hope Emerson (Caged)
• Celeste Holm (All About Eve)
• Nancy Olson (Sunset Boulevard)
• Thelma Ritter (All About Eve)

Best Documentary Feature

• Titan: Story of Michelangelo, The
• With These Hands

Best Original Screenplay

• Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman Jr., Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard)
• Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin (Adam's Rib)
• Virginia Kellogg, Bernard C. Schoenfeld (Caged)
• Carl Foreman (The Men)
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Lesser Samuels (No Way Out)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve)
• John Huston, Ben Maddow (The Asphalt Jungle)
• Albert Mannheimer (Born Yesterday)
• Albert Maltz (Broken Arrow)
• Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett (Father of the Bride)

Best Original Story

• Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt (Panic in the Streets)
• Bitter Rice
• The Gunfighter
• Mystery Street
• When Willie Comes Marching Home

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Robert Surtees (King Solomon's Mines)
• Charles Rosher (Annie Get Your Gun)
• Ernest Palmer (Broken Arrow)
• Ernest Haller (The Flame and the Arrow)
• George Barnes (Samson and Delilah)

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Robert Krasker (The 3rd Man)
• Milton R. Krasner (All About Eve)
• Harold Rosson (The Asphalt Jungle)
• Victor Milner (The Furies)
• John F. Seitz (Sunset Boulevard)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• King Solomon's Mines
• All About Eve
• Annie Get Your Gun
• Sunset Boulevard
• The 3rd Man

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Franz Waxman (Sunset Boulevard)
• Alfred Newman (All About Eve)
• Max Steiner (The Flame and the Arrow)
• George Duning (No Sad Songs for Me)
• Victor Young (Samson and Delilah)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Ray Evans, Jay Livingston (Captain Carey, U.S.A.) - "Mona Lisa"
• The Toast of New Orleans - "Be My Love"
• Cinderella - "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo"
• Singing Guns - "Mule Train"
• Wabash Avenue - "Wilhelmina"

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Adolph Deutsch, Roger Edens (Annie Get Your Gun)
• Paul J. Smith, Oliver Wallace (Cinderella)
• Lionel Newman (I'll Get By)
• André Previn (Three Little Words)
• Ray Heindorf (The West Point Story)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Samson and Delilah
• Annie Get Your Gun
• Destination Moon

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White)

• Sunset Boulevard
• All About Eve
• The Red Danube

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• Samson and Delilah
• The Black Rose
• That Forsyte Woman

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• All About Eve
• Born Yesterday
• The Magnificent Yankee

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• Destination Moon
• Samson and Delilah

Best Sound Mixing

• All About Eve
• Our Very Own
• Trio
• Cinderella
• Louisa

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• Granddad of Races
• Blaze Busters
• Wrong Way Butch

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• Beaver Valley
• Grandma Moses
• My Country 'Tis of Thee

Best Animated Short Film

• Gerald McBoing-Boing
• Tom and Jerry - Jerry's Cousin
• Trouble Indemnity

Best Documentary Short Film

• Why Korea?
• The Fight: Science Against Cancer
• The Stairs

Honorary Award

• The Walls of Malapaga
• George Murphy
• Louis B. Mayer

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• All the King's Men
• Battleground
• The Heiress
• A Letter to Three Wives
• Twelve O'Clock High

Best Achievement in Directing

• Joseph L. Mankiewicz (A Letter to Three Wives)
• Carol Reed (The Fallen Idol)
• Robert Rossen (All the King's Men)
• William A. Wellman (Battleground)
• William Wyler (The Heiress)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Broderick Crawford (All the King's Men)
• Kirk Douglas (Champion)
• Gregory Peck (Twelve O'Clock High)
• Richard Todd (The Hasty Heart)
• John Wayne (Sands of Iwo Jima)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Olivia de Havilland (The Heiress)
• Jeanne Crain (Pinky)
• Susan Hayward (My Foolish Heart)
• Deborah Kerr (Edward, My Son)
• Loretta Young (Come to the Stable)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Dean Jagger (Twelve O'Clock High)
• John Ireland (All the King's Men)
• Arthur Kennedy (Champion)
• Ralph Richardson (The Heiress)
• James Whitmore (Battleground)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Mercedes McCambridge (All the King's Men)
• Ethel Barrymore (Pinky)
• Celeste Holm (Come to the Stable)
• Elsa Lanchester (Come to the Stable)
• Ethel Waters (Pinky)

Best Documentary Feature

• Daybreak in Udi
• Kenji Comes Home

Best Original Screenplay

• Robert Pirosh (Battleground)
• Sidney Buchman (Jolson Sings Again)
• Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini, Alfred Hayes, Marcello Pagliero, Roberto Rossellini (Paisan)
• T.E.B. Clarke (Passport to Pimlico)
• Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, Sidney Meyers (The Quiet One)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Joseph L. Mankiewicz (A Letter to Three Wives)
• Robert Rossen (All the King's Men)
• Cesare Zavattini (Bicycle Thieves)
• Carl Foreman (Champion)
• Graham Greene (The Fallen Idol)

Best Original Story

• Douglas Morrow (The Stratton Story)
• Clare Boothe Luce (Come to the Stable)
• Valentine Davies, Shirley W. Smith (It Happens Every Spring)
• Harry Brown (Sands of Iwo Jima)
• Virginia Kellogg (White Heat)

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Winton C. Hoch (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon)
• Harry Stradling Sr. (The Barkleys of Broadway)
• William E. Snyder (Jolson Sings Again)
• Robert H. Planck, Charles Edgar Schoenbaum (Little Women)
• Charles G. Clarke (Sand)

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Paul Vogel (Battleground)
• Franz Planer (Champion)
• Joseph LaShelle (Come to the Stable)
• Leo Tover (The Heiress)
• Leon Shamroy (Prince of Foxes)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• Champion
• All the King's Men
• Battleground
• Sands of Iwo Jima
• The Window

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Aaron Copland (The Heiress)
• Max Steiner (Beyond the Forest)
• Dimitri Tiomkin (Champion)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Frank Loesser (Neptune's Daughter) - "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
• It's a Great Feeling - "It's a Great Feeling"
• So Dear to My Heart - "Lavender Blue"
• My Foolish Heart - "My Foolish Heart"
• Come to the Stable - "Through a Long and Sleepless Night"

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Roger Edens, Lennie Hayton (On the Town)
• George Duning, Morris Stoloff (Jolson Sings Again)
• Ray Heindorf (Look for the Silver Lining)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Little Women
• Adventures of Don Juan
• Saraband for Dead Lovers

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White)

• The Heiress
• Come to the Stable
• Madame Bovary

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• Adventures of Don Juan
• Mother Is a Freshman

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• The Heiress
• Prince of Foxes

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• Mighty Joe Young
• Tulsa

Best Sound Mixing

• Twelve O'Clock High
• Once More, My Darling
• Sands of Iwo Jima

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• Aquatic House Party
• Roller Derby Girl
• So You Think You're Not Guilty
• Spills and Chills
• Water Trix

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• Van Gogh
• Boy and the Eagle
• Chase of Death
• The Grass Is Always Greener
• Snow Carnival

Best Animated Short Film

• For Scent-imental Reasons
• So Much for So Little
• 1848
• The Rising Tide

Best Documentary Short Film

• Chance to Live, A
• So Much for So Little
• 1848
• The Rising Tide

Juvenile Award

• Bobby Driscoll

Honorary Award

• Jean Hersholt
• Cecil B. DeMille
• Fred Astaire
• Bicycle Thieves

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Hamlet
• Johnny Belinda
• The Red Shoes
• The Snake Pit
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Best Achievement in Directing

• John Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
• Anatole Litvak (The Snake Pit)
• Jean Negulesco (Johnny Belinda)
• Laurence Olivier (Hamlet)
• Fred Zinnemann (The Search)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Laurence Olivier (Hamlet)
• Lew Ayres (Johnny Belinda)
• Montgomery Clift (The Search)
• Dan Dailey (When My Baby Smiles at Me)
• Clifton Webb (Sitting Pretty)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Jane Wyman (Johnny Belinda)
• Ingrid Bergman (Joan of Arc)
• Olivia de Havilland (The Snake Pit)
• Irene Dunne (I Remember Mama)
• Barbara Stanwyck (Sorry, Wrong Number)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Walter Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
• Charles Bickford (Johnny Belinda)
• José Ferrer (Joan of Arc)
• Oskar Homolka (I Remember Mama)
• Cecil Kellaway (The Luck of the Irish)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Claire Trevor (Key Largo)
• Barbara Bel Geddes (I Remember Mama)
• Ellen Corby (I Remember Mama)
• Agnes Moorehead (Johnny Belinda)
• Jean Simmons (Hamlet)

Best Documentary Feature

• Secret Land, The
• The Quiet One

Best Original Screenplay

• Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler (The Search)
• Frances H. Flaherty, Robert J. Flaherty (Louisiana Story)
• Malvin Wald (The Naked City)
• Borden Chase (Red River)
• Emeric Pressburger (The Red Shoes)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• John Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
• Charles Brackett, Richard L. Breen, Billy Wilder (A Foreign Affair)
• Irma von Cube, Allen Vincent (Johnny Belinda)
• Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler (The Search)
• Millen Brand, Frank Partos (The Snake Pit)

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Winton C. Hoch, William V. Skall, Joseph A. Valentine (Joan of Arc)
• Charles G. Clarke (Green Grass of Wyoming)
• William E. Snyder (The Loves of Carmen)
• Robert H. Planck (The Three Musketeers)

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• William H. Daniels (The Naked City)
• Charles Lang (A Foreign Affair)
• Nicholas Musuraca (I Remember Mama)
• Ted D. McCord (Johnny Belinda)
• Joseph H. August (Portrait of Jennie)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• The Naked City
• Joan of Arc
• Johnny Belinda
• Red River
• The Red Shoes

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Brian Easdale (The Red Shoes)
• William Walton (Hamlet)
• Hugo Friedhofer (Joan of Arc)
• Max Steiner (Johnny Belinda)
• Alfred Newman (The Snake Pit)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Ray Evans, Jay Livingston (The Paleface) - "Buttons and Bows"
• Casbah - "For Every Man There's a Woman"
• Romance on the High Seas - "It's Magic"
• That Lady in Ermine - "This Is the Moment"
• Wet Blanket Policy - "The Woody Woodpecker Song"

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Roger Edens, Johnny Green (Easter Parade)
• Victor Young (The Emperor Waltz)
• Lennie Hayton (The Pirate)
• Ray Heindorf (Romance on the High Seas)
• Alfred Newman (When My Baby Smiles at Me)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• The Red Shoes
• Joan of Arc

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White)

• Hamlet
• Johnny Belinda

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• Joan of Arc
• The Emperor Waltz

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• Hamlet
• B.F.'s Daughter

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• Portrait of Jennie
• Deep Waters

Best Sound Mixing

• The Snake Pit
• Johnny Belinda
• Moonrise

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• Symphony of a City
• Annie Was a Wonder
• Cinderella Horse
• So You Want to Be on the Radio
• You Can't Win

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• Seal Island
• Calgary Stampede
• Going to Blazes!
• Samba-Mania
• Snow Capers

Best Animated Short Film

• Tom and Jerry - The Little Orphan
• Mickey and the Seal
• Mouse Wreckers
• Robin Hoodlum
• Tea for Two Hundred

Best Documentary Short Film

• Toward Independence
• Heart to Heart
• Operation Vittles

Juvenile Award

• Ivan Jandl (The Search)

Honorary Award

• Adolph Zukor
• Sid Grauman
• Monsieur Vincent
• Walter Wanger (Joan of Arc)

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Gentleman's Agreement
• The Bishop's Wife
• Crossfire
• Great Expectations
• Miracle on 34th Street

Best Achievement in Directing

• Elia Kazan (Gentleman's Agreement)
• George Cukor (A Double Life)
• Edward Dmytryk (Crossfire)
• Henry Koster (The Bishop's Wife)
• David Lean (Great Expectations)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Ronald Colman (A Double Life)
• John Garfield (Body and Soul)
• Gregory Peck (Gentleman's Agreement)
• William Powell (Life with Father)
• Michael Redgrave (Mourning Becomes Electra)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Loretta Young (The Farmer's Daughter)
• Joan Crawford (Possessed)
• Susan Hayward (Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman)
• Dorothy McGuire (Gentleman's Agreement)
• Rosalind Russell (Mourning Becomes Electra)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Edmund Gwenn (Miracle on 34th Street)
• Charles Bickford (The Farmer's Daughter)
• Thomas Gomez (Ride the Pink Horse)
• Robert Ryan (Crossfire)
• Richard Widmark (Kiss of Death)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Celeste Holm (Gentleman's Agreement)
• Ethel Barrymore (The Paradine Case)
• Gloria Grahame (Crossfire)
• Marjorie Main (The Egg and I)
• Anne Revere (Gentleman's Agreement)

Best Documentary Feature

• Design for Death
• Journey Into Medicine
• World Is Rich, The

Best Original Screenplay

• Sidney Sheldon (The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer)
• Abraham Polonsky (Body and soul)
• Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin (A Double Life)
• Charlie Chaplin (Monsieur Verdoux)
• Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Giulio Viola, Cesare Zavattini (Shoeshine)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Valentine Davies (Miracle on 34th Street)
• Georges Chaperot, René Wheeler (La Cage aux rossignols)
• Herbert Clyde Lewis, Frederick Stephani (It Happened on 5th Avenue)
• Eleazar Lipsky (Kiss of Death)
• Frank Cavett, Dorothy Parker (Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman)

Best Original Story

• George Seaton (Miracle on 34th Street)
• Boomerang!
• Crossfire
• Gentleman's Agreement
• Great Expectations

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Jack Cardiff (Black Narcissus)
• J. Peverell Marley, William V. Skall (Life with Father)
• Harry Jackson (Mother Wore Tights)

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Guy Green (Great Expectations)
• Charles Lang (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir)
• George J. Folsey (Green Dolphin Street)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• Body and Soul
• The Bishop's Wife
• Gentleman's Agreement
• Green Dolphin Street
• Odd Man Out

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Miklós Rózsa (A Double Life)
• Hugo Friedhofer (The Bishop's Wife)
• Alfred Newman (Captain from Castile)
• David Raksin (Forever Amber)
• Max Steiner (Life with Father)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Allie Wrubel (Song of the South) - "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"
• Good News - "A Gal in Calico"
• The Time, the Place and the Girl - "You Do"
• The Perils of Pauline - "Pass That Peace Pipe"
• Mother Wore Tights - "I Wish I Didn't Love You So"

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Alfred Newman (Mother Wore Tights)
• Johnny Green (Fiesta)
• Ray Heindorf, Max Steiner (My Wild Irish Rose)
• Robert Emmett Dolan (Road to Rio)
• Daniele Amfitheatrof, Paul J. Smith, Charles Wolcott (Song of the South)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Black Narcissus
• Life with Father

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White)

• Great Expectations
• The Foxes of Harrow

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• Green Dolphin Street
• Unconquered

Best Sound Mixing

• The Bishop's Wife
• Green Dolphin Street
• T-Men

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• Goodbye, Miss Turlock
• Brooklyn, U.S.A.
• Moon Rockets
• Now You See It
• So You Want to Be in Pictures

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• Climbing the Matterhorn
• Champagne for Two
• Fight of the Wild Stallions
• Give Us the Earth!
• A Voice Is Born

Best Animated Short Film

• Tweetie Pie
• Chip an' Dale
• Tom and Jerry - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse
• Pluto's Blue Note
• Tubby the Tuba

Best Documentary Short Film

• First Steps
• Passport to Nowhere
• School in the Mailbox

Honorary Award

• Shoeshine
• Bill and Coo
• James Baskett (Song of the South)
• Thomas Armat, William Nicholas Selig, Albert E. Smith, George K. Spoor

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• The Best Years of Our Lives
• The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France
• It's a Wonderful Life
• The Razor's Edge
• The Yearling

Best Achievement in Directing

• William Wyler (The Best Years of Our Lives)
• Clarence Brown (The Yearling)
• Frank Capra (It's a Wonderful Life)
• David Lean (Brief Encounter)
• Robert Siodmak (The Killers)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Fredric March (The Best Years of Our Lives)
• Laurence Olivier (The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France)
• Larry Parks (The Jolson Story)
• Gregory Peck (The Yearling)
• James Stewart (It's a Wonderful Life)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Olivia de Havilland (To Each His Own)
• Celia Johnson (Brief Encounter)
• Jennifer Jones (Duel in the Sun)
• Rosalind Russell (Sister Kenny)
• Jane Wyman (The Yearling)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Harold Russell (The Best Years of Our Lives)
• Charles Coburn (The Green Years)
• William Demarest (The Jolson Story)
• Claude Rains (Notorious)
• Clifton Webb (The Razor's Edge)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Anne Baxter (The Razor's Edge)
• Ethel Barrymore (The Spiral Staircase)
• Lillian Gish (Duel in the Sun)
• Flora Robson (Saratoga Trunk)
• Gale Sondergaard (Anna and the King of Siam)

Best Original Screenplay

• Muriel Box, Sydney Box (The Seventh Veil)
• Raymond Chandler (The Blue Dahlia)
• Jacques Prévert (Children of Paradise)
• Ben Hecht (Notorious)
• Melvin Frank, Norman Panama (Road to Utopia)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Robert E. Sherwood (The Best Years of Our Lives)
• Sally Benson, Talbot Jennings (Anna and the King of Siam)
• Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Ronald Neame (Brief Encounter)
• Anthony Veiller (The Killers)
• Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini (Rome, Open City)

Best Original Story

• Clemence Dane (Vacation from Marriage)
• The Dark Mirror
• The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
• The Stranger
• To Each His Own

Best Cinematography (Color)

• The Yearling
• To Each His Own

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Anna and the King of Siam
• The Green Years

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• The Best Years of Our Lives
• It's a Wonderful Life
• The Jolson Story
• The Killers
• The Yearling

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Hugo Friedhofer (The Best Years of Our Lives)
• Bernard Herrmann (Anna and the King of Siam)
• William Walton (The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France)
• Franz Waxman (Humoresque)
• Miklós Rózsa (The Killers)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Harryette Warren (The Harvey Girls) - "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe"
• Centennial Summer - "All Through the Day"
• The Dolly Sisters - "I Can't Begin to Tell You"
• Canyon Passage - "Ole Buttermilk Sky"
• Blue Skies - "You Keep Coming Back Like a Song"

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Morris Stoloff (The Jolson Story)
• Robert Emmett Dolan (Blue Skies)
• Alfred Newman (Centennial Summer)
• Lennie Hayton (The Harvey Girls)
• Ray Heindorf, Max Steiner (Night and Day)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• The Yearling
• The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France
• Caesar and Cleopatra

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White)

• Anna and the King of Siam
• Kitty
• The Razor's Edge

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• Blithe Spirit
• A Stolen Life

Best Sound Mixing

• The Jolson Story
• The Best Years of Our Lives
• It's a Wonderful Life

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• Facing Your Danger
• Dive-Hi Champs
• Golden Horses
• Smart as a Fox
• Sure Cures

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• Boy and His Dog, A
• College Queen
• Hiss and Yell
• A Crime Does Not Pay Subject: The Luckiest Guy in the World

Best Animated Short Film

• Tom and Jerry - The Cat Concerto
• Musical Moments from Chopin
• John Henry and the Inky-Poo
• Squatter's Rights
• Walky Talky Hawky

Best Documentary Short Film

• Seeds of Destiny
• Atomic Power
• Life at the Zoo
• Paramount News Issue #37
• Traffic with the Devil

Juvenile Award

• Claude Jarman Jr.

Honorary Award

• Ernst Lubitsch
• Laurence Olivier (The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France)
• Harold Russell (The Best Years of Our Lives)

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• The Lost Weekend
• Anchors Aweigh
• The Bells of St. Mary's
• Mildred Pierce
• Spellbound

Best Achievement in Directing

• Billy Wilder (The Lost Weekend)
• Clarence Brown (National Velvet)
• Alfred Hitchcock (Spellbound)
• Leo McCarey (The Bells of St. Mary's)
• Jean Renoir (The Southerner)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Ray Milland (The Lost Weekend)
• Bing Crosby (The Bells of St. Mary's)
• Gene Kelly (Anchors Aweigh)
• Gregory Peck (The Keys of the Kingdom)
• Cornel Wilde (A Song to Remember)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce)
• Ingrid Bergman (The Bells of St. Mary's)
• Greer Garson (The Valley of Decision)
• Jennifer Jones (Love Letters)
• Gene Tierney (Leave Her to Heaven)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• James Dunn (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
• Michael Chekhov (Spellbound)
• John Dall (The Corn Is Green)
• Robert Mitchum (The Story of G.I. Joe)
• J. Carrol Naish (A Medal for Benny)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Anne Revere (National Velvet)
• Ann Blyth (Mildred Pierce)
• Eve Arden (Mildred Pierce)
• Angela Lansbury (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
• Joan Lorring (The Corn Is Green)

Best Documentary Feature

• The True Glory
• Last Bomb, The

Best Original Screenplay

• Richard Schweizer (Marie-Louise)
• Philip Yordan (Dillinger)
• Myles Connolly (Music for Millions)
• Milton Holmes (Salty O'Rourke)
• Harry Kurnitz (What Next, Corporal Hargrove?)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder (The Lost Weekend)
• Ranald MacDougall (Mildred Pierce)
• Albert Maltz (Pride of the Marines)
• Leopold Atlas, Guy Endore, Philip Stevenson (The Story of G.I. Joe)
• Frank Davis, Tess Slesinger (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)

Best Original Story

• Charles G. Booth (The House on 92nd Street)
• The Affairs of Susan
• A Medal for Benny
• Objective, Burma!
• A Song to Remember

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Leon Shamroy (Leave Her to Heaven)
• Charles P. Boyle, Robert H. Planck (Anchors Aweigh)
• Leonard Smith (National Velvet)
• Allen M. Davey, Tony Gaudio (A Song to Remember)
• George Barnes (The Spanish Main)

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Harry Stradling Sr. (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
• Arthur C. Miller (The Keys of the Kingdom)
• John F. Seitz (The Lost Weekend)
• Ernest Haller (Mildred Pierce)
• George Barnes (Spellbound)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• National Velvet
• The Bells of St. Mary's
• The Lost Weekend
• Objective, Burma!
• A Song to Remember

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Miklós Rózsa (Spellbound)
• Robert Emmett Dolan (The Bells of St. Mary's)
• Louis Forbes (Brewster's Millions)
• Werner Janssen (Captain Kidd)
• Roy Webb (The Enchanted Cottage)
• R. Dale Butts, Morton Scott (Flame of Barbary Coast)
• Edward J. Kay (G.I. Honeymoon)
• Werner Janssen (Guest in the House)
• Daniele Amfitheatrof (Guest Wife)
• Alfred Newman (The Keys of the Kingdom)
• Miklós Rózsa (The Lost Weekend)
• Victor Young (Love Letters)
• Karl Hajos (The Man Who Walked Alone)
• Franz Waxman (Objective, Burma!)
• Alexander Tansman (Paris Underground)
• Miklós Rózsa, Morris Stoloff (A Song to Remember)
• Werner Janssen (The Southerner)
• Louis Applebaum, Ann Ronell (The Story of G.I. Joe)
• Hans J. Salter (This Love of Ours)
• Herbert Stothart (The Valley of Decision)
• Hugo Friedhofer, Arthur Lange (The Woman in the Window)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Richard Rodgers (State Fair) - "It Might as Well Be Spring"
• Here Come the Waves - "Accentuate the Positive"
• Tonight and Every Night - "Anywhere"
• The Bells of St. Mary's - "Aren't You Glad You're You"
• Why Girls Leave Home - "The Cat and the Canary"
• Earl Carroll Vanities - "Endlessly"
• Anchors Aweigh - "I Fall in Love Too Easily"
• Sing Your Way Home - "I'll Buy That Dream"
• The Story of G.I. Joe - "Linda"
• Love Letters - "Love Letters"
• Can't Help Singing - "More and More"
• Belle of the Yukon - "Sleighride in July"
• Wonder Man - "So in Love"
• San Antonio - "Some Sunday Morning"

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• George Stoll (Anchors Aweigh)
• Arthur Lange (Belle of the Yukon)
• Jerome Kern, Hans J. Salter (Can't Help Singing)
• Morton Scott (Hitchhike to Happiness)
• Robert Emmett Dolan (Incendiary Blonde)
• Ray Heindorf, Max Steiner (Rhapsody in Blue)
• Alfred Newman (State Fair)
• Edward J. Kay (Sunbonnet Sue)
• Edward H. Plumb, Paul J. Smith, Charles Wolcott (The Three Caballeros)
• Marlin Skiles, Morris Stoloff (Tonight and Every Night)
• Walter Greene (Why Girls Leave Home)
• Louis Forbes, Ray Heindorf (Wonder Man)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Frenchman's Creek
• Leave Her to Heaven
• National Velvet
• San Antonio
• A Thousand and One Nights

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White)

• Blood on the Sun
• Experiment Perilous
• The Keys of the Kingdom
• Love Letters
• The Picture of Dorian Gray

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• Wonder Man
• Captain Eddie
• Spellbound
• They Were Expendable
• A Thousand and One Nights

Best Sound Mixing

• The Bells of St. Mary's
• Flame of Barbary Coast
• Lady on a Train
• Leave Her to Heaven
• Rhapsody in Blue
• A Song to Remember
• The Southerner
• They Were Expendable
• The Three Caballeros
• Three Is a Family
• The Unseen
• Wonder Man

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• Stairway to Light
• Along the Rainbow Trail
• Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 1: 25th Anniversary
• Story of a Dog
• White Rhapsody
• Your National Gallery

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• Star in the Night
• A Gun in His Hand
• The Jury Goes Round 'n' Round
• The Little Witch

Best Animated Short Film

• Tom and Jerry - Quiet Please!
• Donald's Crime
• Jasper and the Beanstalk
• Life with Feathers
• Mighty Mouse in Gypsy Life
• Poet & Peasant, The
• Rippling Romance

Best Documentary Short Film

• Hitler Lives
• Library of Congress
• To the Shores of Iwo Jima

Juvenile Award

• Peggy Ann Garner

Honorary Award

• Walter Wanger
• The House I Live In
• Republic Studio, Daniel J. Bloomberg and the Republic Studio Sound Department

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Going My Way
• Double Indemnity
• Gaslight
• Since You Went Away
• Wilson

Best Achievement in Directing

• Leo McCarey (Going My Way)
• Alfred Hitchcock (Lifeboat)
• Henry King (Wilson)
• Otto Preminger (Laura)
• Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Bing Crosby (Going My Way)
• Charles Boyer (Gaslight)
• Barry Fitzgerald (Going My Way)
• Cary Grant (None But the Lonely Heart)
• Alexander Knox (Wilson)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight)
• Claudette Colbert (Since You Went Away)
• Bette Davis (Mr. Skeffington)
• Greer Garson (Mrs. Parkington)
• Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Barry Fitzgerald (Going My Way)
• Hume Cronyn (The Seventh Cross)
• Claude Rains (Mr. Skeffington)
• Clifton Webb (Laura)
• Monty Woolley (Since You Went Away)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Ethel Barrymore (None But the Lonely Heart)
• Jennifer Jones (Since You Went Away)
• Angela Lansbury (Gaslight)
• Aline MacMahon (Dragon Seed)
• Agnes Moorehead (Mrs. Parkington)

Best Documentary Feature

• Fighting Lady, The
• Resisting Enemy Interrogation

Best Original Screenplay

• Lamar Trotti (Wilson)
• Preston Sturges (Hail the Conquering Hero)
• Preston Sturges (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek)
• Richard Connell, Gladys Lehman (Two Girls and a Sailor)
• Jerome Cady (Wing and a Prayer: The Story of Carrier X)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Frank Butler, Frank Cavett (Going My Way)
• Raymond Chandler, Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity)
• John L. Balderston, John Van Druten, Walter Reisch (Gaslight)
• Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, Elizabeth Reinhardt (Laura)
• Irving Brecher, Fred F. Finklehoffe (Meet Me in St. Louis)

Best Original Story

• Leo McCarey (Going My Way)
• A Guy Named Joe
• Lifeboat
• None Shall Escape
• The Sullivans

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Leon Shamroy (Wilson)
• Allen M. Davey, Rudolph Maté (Cover Girl)
• Edward Cronjager (Home in Indiana)
• Charles Rosher (Kismet)
• Ray Rennahan (Lady in the Dark)
• George J. Folsey (Meet Me in St. Louis)

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Joseph LaShelle (Laura)
• John F. Seitz (Double Indemnity)
• Sidney Wagner (Dragon Seed)
• Joseph Ruttenberg (Gaslight)
• Lionel Lindon (Going My Way)
• Glen MacWilliams (Lifeboat)
• Stanley Cortez, Lee Garmes (Since You Went Away)
• Harold Rosson, Robert Surtees (Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo)
• Charles Lang (The Uninvited)
• George J. Folsey (The White Cliffs of Dover)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• Wilson
• Going My Way
• Janie
• None But the Lonely Heart
• Since You Went Away

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Max Steiner (Since You Went Away)
• Morris Stoloff, Ernst Toch (Address Unknown)
• Max Steiner (The Adventures of Mark Twain)
• Dimitri Tiomkin (The Bridge of San Luis Rey)
• Arthur Lange (Casanova Brown)
• Hans J. Salter (Christmas Holiday)
• Miklós Rózsa (Double Indemnity)
• Walter Scharf, Roy Webb (The Fighting Seabees)
• Michel Michelet, Edward Paul (The Hairy Ape)
• Robert Stolz (It Happened Tomorrow)
• Freddie Rich (Jack London)
• Herbert Stothart (Kismet)
• Constantin Bakaleinikoff, Hanns Eisler (None But the Lonely Heart)
• David Rose (The Princess and the Pirate)
• Karl Hajos (Summer Storm)
• W. Franke Harling (Three Russian Girls)
• Edward Paul (Up in Mabel's Room)
• Michel Michelet (Voice in the Wind)
• Alfred Newman (Wilson)
• Miklós Rózsa (The Woman of the Town)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Jimmy Van Heusen (Going My Way) - "Swinging on a Star"
• Meet Me in St. Louis - "The Trolley Song"
• Follow the Boys - "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night"
• Follow the Boys - "I'll Walk Alone"
• Sweet and Low-Down - "I'm Making Believe"
• Cover Girl - "Long Ago and Far Away"
• Up in Arms - "Now I Know"
• Minstrel Man - "Remember Me to Carolina"
• Brazil - "Rio de Janeiro"
• Lady, Let's Dance - "Silver Shadows and Golden Dreams"
• Hollywood Canteen - "Sweet Dreams Sweetheart"
• Song of the Open Road - "Too Much in Love"

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Carmen Dragon, Morris Stoloff (Cover Girl)
• Walter Scharf (Brazil)
• Constantin Bakaleinikoff (Higher and Higher)
• Ray Heindorf (Hollywood Canteen)
• Alfred Newman (Irish Eyes Are Smiling)
• Werner R. Heymann, Kurt Weill (Knickerbocker Holiday)
• Robert Emmett Dolan (Lady in the Dark)
• Edward J. Kay (Lady, Let's Dance)
• George Stoll (Meet Me in St. Louis)
• Hans J. Salter (The Merry Monahans)
• Leo Erdody, Ferde Grofé Sr. (Minstrel Man)
• Mahlon Merrick (Sensations of 1945)
• Charles Previn (Song of the Open Road)
• Louis Forbes, Ray Heindorf (Up in Arms)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Wilson
• The Climax
• Cover Girl
• The Desert Song
• Kismet
• Lady in the Dark
• The Princess and the Pirate

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White)

• Gaslight
• Address Unknown
• The Adventures of Mark Twain
• Casanova Brown
• Laura
• No Time for Love
• Since You Went Away
• Step Lively

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
• The Adventures of Mark Twain
• Days of Glory
• Secret Command
• Since You Went Away
• The Story of Dr. Wassell
• Wilson

Best Sound Mixing

• Wilson
• Brazil
• Casanova Brown
• Cover Girl
• Double Indemnity
• His Butler's Sister
• Hollywood Canteen
• It Happened Tomorrow
• Kismet
• Music in Manhattan
• Voice in the Wind

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• Who's Who in Animal Land
• Blue-Grass Gentlemen
• Jammin' the Blues
• Movie Pests
• 50th Anniversary of Motion Pictures

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• I Won't Play
• Bombalera
• Main Street Today

Best Animated Short Film

• Tom and Jerry - Mouse Trouble
• And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street
• Dog, Cat, and Canary
• Fish Fry
• How to Play Football
• My Boy Johnny
• Swooner Crooner

Best Documentary Short Film

• With the Marines at Tarawa
• Hymn of the Nations
• New Americans

Juvenile Award

• Margaret O'Brien

Honorary Award

• Bob Hope