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- DirectorBilly WilderStarsFred MacMurrayBarbara StanwyckEdward G. RobinsonA Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.BEST PICTURE
Double Indemnity
Lifeboat
Gaslight
Meet Me In St. Louis
Laura
Henry V
Ivan the Terrible - Part I (Ivan Groznyy)
Since You Went Away
Going My Way
A Canterbury Tale - DirectorBilly WilderStarsFred MacMurrayBarbara StanwyckEdward G. RobinsonA Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.BEST DIRECTOR
Billy Wilder - Double Indemnity
Alfred Hitchcock - Lifeboat
Otto Preminger - Laura
George Cukor - Gaslight
Laurence Olivier - Henry V
Vincente Minnelli - Meet Me In St. Louis - DirectorLaurence OlivierStarsLaurence OlivierRobert NewtonLeslie BanksIn the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.BEST ACTOR
Laurence Olivier - Henry V
Fred MacMurray - Double Indemnity
Nikolay Cherkasov - Ivan the Terrible - Part I (Ivan Groznyy)
Charles Boyer - Gaslight
Bing Crosby - Going My Way
Dana Andrews - Laura - DirectorBilly WilderStarsFred MacMurrayBarbara StanwyckEdward G. RobinsonA Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.BEST ACTRESS
Barbara Stanwyck - Double Indemnity
Bette Davis - Mr. Skeffington
Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight
Judy Garland - Meet Me In St. Louis
Claudette Colbert - Since You Went Away
Tallulah Bankhead - Lifeboat - DirectorOtto PremingerRouben MamoulianStarsGene TierneyDana AndrewsClifton WebbA police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Clifton Webb - Laura
Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way
Edward G. Robinson - Double Indemnity
Claude Rains - Mr. Skeffington
William Bendix - Lifeboat
Monty Woolley - Since You Went Away - DirectorJohn CromwellEdward F. ClineTay GarnettStarsClaudette ColbertJennifer JonesJoseph CottenWith her husband away to fight in World War II, a housewife must care for their two daughters alone.BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Jones - Since You Went Away
Agnes Moorehead - Since You Went Away
Angela Lansbury - Gaslight
Margaret O'Brien - Meet Me In St. Louis
Judith Anderson - Laura
Marjorie Riordan - Mr. Skeffington - DirectorJohn CromwellEdward F. ClineTay GarnettStarsClaudette ColbertJennifer JonesJoseph CottenWith her husband away to fight in World War II, a housewife must care for their two daughters alone.BEST CASTING
Since You Went Away
Gaslight
Laura
Mr. Skeffington
Double Indemnity
Going My Way - DirectorLeo McCareyStarsBing CrosbyBarry FitzgeraldFrank McHughWhen young Father O'Malley arrives at St. Dominic's, old Father Fitzgibbon doesn't think much of the church's newest member.BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Going My Way
Lifeboat
A Canterbury Tale - DirectorBilly WilderStarsFred MacMurrayBarbara StanwyckEdward G. RobinsonA Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Double Indemnity
Gaslight
Laura
Meet Me In St. Louis
Henry V
Since You Went Away - DirectorLaurence OlivierStarsLaurence OlivierRobert NewtonLeslie BanksIn the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.BEST TITLES/CREDITS DESIGN
Henry V
Meet Me In St. Louis
Cover Girl
Going My Way
Gaslight
Lifeboat - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsTallulah BankheadJohn HodiakWalter SlezakSeveral survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U-boat that sank their ship.BEST EDITING
Lifeboat
A Canterbury Tale
Laura
Double Indemnity
Since You Went Away
Going My Way - DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsEric PortmanSheila SimDennis PriceThree modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
A Canterbury Tale
Double Indemnity
Ivan the Terrible - Part I (Ivan Groznyy)
Gaslight
Laura
Lifeboat - DirectorGeorge CukorStarsCharles BoyerIngrid BergmanJoseph CottenTen years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the home rises from a secret that may require driving his wife insane.BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Gaslight
Meet Me In St. Louis
Mr. Skeffington
Henry V
Ivan the Terrible - Part I (Ivan Groznyy)
Cover Girl
A Canterbury Tale - DirectorVincent ShermanStarsBette DavisClaude RainsWalter AbelPopular and beautiful Fanny Trellis is forced into a loveless marriage with an older man, Jewish banker Job Skeffington, in order to save her beloved brother Trippy from an embezzlement charge.BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Mr. Skeffington
Meet Me In St. Louis
Ivan the Terrible - Part I (Ivan Groznyy)
Gaslight
Henry V
Cover Girl - DirectorVincent ShermanStarsBette DavisClaude RainsWalter AbelPopular and beautiful Fanny Trellis is forced into a loveless marriage with an older man, Jewish banker Job Skeffington, in order to save her beloved brother Trippy from an embezzlement charge.BEST MAKE-UP & HAIR
Mr. Skeffington
Ivan the Terrible - Part I (Ivan Groznyy)
Lifeboat
Henry V
Meet Me In St. Louis
Since You Went Away - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsTallulah BankheadJohn HodiakWalter SlezakSeveral survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U-boat that sank their ship.BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Lifeboat
Days of Glory
A Canterbury Tale
Cover Girl
Henry V - DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsJudy GarlandMargaret O'BrienMary AstorYoung love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.BEST SCORE
Meet Me In St. Louis
Ivan the Terrible - Part I (Ivan Groznyy)
A Canterbury Tale
Henry V
Double Indemnity
Mr. Skeffington - DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsJudy GarlandMargaret O'BrienMary AstorYoung love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.BEST SONG
Meet Me In St. Louis - "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
Cover Girl - "Long Ago and Far Away".
Going My Way - "Swinging on a Star"
Meet Me In St. Louis - "The Trolley Song"
Going My Way - "Going My Way"
Meet Me In St. Louis - "The Boy Next Door" - DirectorCharles VidorStarsRita HayworthGene KellyLee BowmanRusty Parker wins a contest and becomes a celebrated cover girl; this endangers her romance with dancing mentor Danny.BEST DANCE CHOREOGRAPHY
Cover Girl
Meet Me In St. Louis - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsTallulah BankheadJohn HodiakWalter SlezakSeveral survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U-boat that sank their ship.BEST SOUND
Lifeboat
Double Indemnity
Days of Glory
A Canterbury Tale
Meet Me In St. Louis
Ivan the Terrible - Part I (Ivan Groznyy) - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsTallulah BankheadJohn HodiakWalter SlezakSeveral survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U-boat that sank their ship.BEST SOUND EDITING
Lifeboat
Days of Glory
A Canterbury Tale
Henry V - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsTallulah BankheadJohn HodiakWalter SlezakSeveral survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U-boat that sank their ship.BEST STUNTS
Lifeboat
Henry V
Days of Glory - DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsNikolay CherkasovLyudmila TselikovskayaSerafima BirmanDuring the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.BEST FOREIGN FILM
Ivan the Terrible - Part I (Ivan Groznyy)