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- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsLaurence OlivierJoan FontaineGeorge SandersA self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.Best Film
Winner: Rebecca
Foreign Correspondent
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Dictator
Kitty Foyle
The Letter
The Long Voyage Home
Our Town
The Philadelphia Story
The Westerner - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJoel McCreaLaraine DayHerbert MarshallOn the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.Best Director
Winner: John Ford – The Grapes of Wrath
Charlie Chaplin – The Great Dictator
George Cukor – The Philadelphia Story
Alfred Hitchcock – Rebecca
William Wyler – The Westerner
Sound: Strike Up the Band
Captain Caution
The Grapes of Wrath
The Sea Hawk
Spring Parade
Special Effect: The Thief of Bagdad
The Blue Bird
Dr. Cyclops
The Invisible Man Returns
The Sea Hawk - DirectorJohn FordStarsHenry FondaJane DarwellJohn CarradineAn Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.Best Actor
Winner: Henry Fonda – The Grapes of Wrath
Charlie Chaplin – The Great Dictator
Raymond Massey – Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Laurence Olivier – Rebecca
Edward G. Robinson – Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
James Stewart – The Philadelphia Story
Cinematography: Rebecca – George Barnes
Foreign Correspondent
The Long Voyage Home
The Thief of Bagdad
Waterloo Bridge - DirectorGeorge CukorStarsCary GrantKatharine HepburnJames StewartWhen a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.Best Actress
Winner: Joan Fontaine – Rebecca
Bette Davis – The Letter
Katharine Hepburn – The Philadelphia Story
Ginger Rogers – Kitty Foyle
Rosalind Russell – His Girl Friday
Martha Scott – Our Town
Production: The Thief of Bagdad – Vincent Korda
The Boys from Syracuse
Pride and Prejudice
Rebecca
The Sea Hawk - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGary CooperWalter BrennanDoris DavenportJudge Roy Bean, a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegarroon, Texas, befriends saddle tramp Cole Harden, who opposes Bean's policy against homesteaders.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Walter Brennan – The Westerner
Albert Bassermann – Foreign Correspondent
John Carradine – The Grapes of Wrath
William Gargan – They Knew What They Wanted
Jack Oakie – The Great Dictator
James Stephenson – The Letter
Film Editing: North West Mounted Police – Anne Bauchens
The Grapes of Wrath
The Letter
The Long Voyage Home
Rebecca - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsBette DavisHerbert MarshallJames StephensonThe wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter written in her own hand may prove her undoing.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Jane Darwell – The Grapes of Wrath
Judith Anderson – Rebecca
Ruth Hussey – The Philadelphia Story
Barbara O'Neil – All This, and Heaven Too
Marjorie Rambeau – Primrose Path
Flora Robson – The Sea Hawk
Costume: The Thief of Bagdad – Oliver Messel, Marcel Vertes and John Armstrong
The Mark of Zorro
Pride and Prejudice
The Sea Hawk
Waterloo Bridge - DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPaulette GoddardJack OakieDictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.Best Screenplay
Original: The Great Dictator – Charlie Chaplin
Angels Over Broadway
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Foreign Correspondent
The Great McGinty
Adapted: Rebecca – Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison
The Grapes of Wrath
Kitty Foyle
The Long Voyage Home
The Philadelphia Story - DirectorNorman FergusonT. HeeWilfred JacksonStarsDickie JonesChristian RubMel BlancA living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy.Best Soundtrack
Song: "When You Wish Upon a Star" Pinocchio – Leigh Harline and Ned Washington
"Down Argentine Way" Down Argentine Way
"Love of My Life" Second Chorus
"Only Forever" Rhythm on the River
"Our Love Affair" Strike Up the Band
Score: Pinocchio – Leigh Harline, Paul Smith and Ned Washington
The Mark of Zorro
Rebecca
The Thief of Bagdad
Waterloo Bridge - DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy ComingoreFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'Best Film
Winner: Citizen Kane
All That Money Can Buy
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Hold Back the Dawn
How Green Was My Valley
The Lady Eve
The Little Foxes
The Maltese Falcon
One Foot in Heaven
Sergeant York - DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsEdward ArnoldWalter HustonJane DarwellA nineteenth-century New Hampshire farmer makes a pact with Satan for economic success, then enlists famed orator Daniel Webster to extract him from his contract.Best Director
Winner: Orson Welles – Citizen Kane
William Dieterle – All That Money Can Buy
Alexander Hall – Here Comes Mr. Jordan
John Ford – How Green Was My Valley
Howard Hawks – Sergeant York
Sound: That Hamilton Woman
Citizen Kane
How Green Was My Valley
Sergeant York
Topper Returns
Special Effect: The Sea Wolf
I Wanted Wings
The Invisible Woman
That Hamilton Woman
Topper Returns - DirectorHoward HawksStarsGary CooperWalter BrennanJoan LeslieA Tennessee farmer and marksman is drafted in World War I, and struggles with his pacifist inclinations before becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.Best Actor
Winner: Gary Cooper – Sergeant York
Humphrey Bogart – The Maltese Falcon
Charles Coburn – The Devil and Miss Jones
Cary Grant – Penny Serenade
Robert Montgomery – Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Orson Welles – Citizen Kane
Cinematography: Citizen Kane – Gregg Toland
Blood and Sand
How Green Was My Valley
Sergeant York
That Hamilton Woman - DirectorPreston SturgesStarsBarbara StanwyckHenry FondaCharles CoburnA trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.Best Actress
Winner: Barbara Stanwyck – The Lady Eve
Bette Davis – The Little Foxes
Olivia de Havilland – Hold Back the Dawn
Irene Dunne – Penny Serenade
Joan Fontaine – Suspicion
Greer Garson – Blossoms in the Dust
Production: Citizen Kane – Perry Ferguson and Van Nest Polglase
Blossoms in the Dust
How Green Was My Valley
The Little Foxes
That Hamilton Woman - DirectorJohn FordStarsWalter PidgeonMaureen O'HaraAnna LeeAt the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Donald Crisp – How Green Was My Valley
Walter Brennan – Sergeant York
James Gleason – Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Sydney Greenstreet – The Maltese Falcon
Walter Huston – All That Money Can Buy
Peter Lorre – The Maltese Falcon
Film Editing: Citizen Kane – Robert Wise
All That Money Can Buy
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
How Green Was My Valley
Sergeant York - DirectorJohn HustonStarsHumphrey BogartMary AstorGladys GeorgeSan Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Mary Astor – The Maltese Falcon
Sara Allgood – How Green Was My Valley
Patricia Collinge – The Little Foxes
Maria Ouspenskaya – The Wolf Man
Teresa Wright – The Little Foxes
Margaret Wycherly – Sergeant York
Costume: That Hamilton Woman – Rene Hubert
Blossoms in the Dust
The Chocolate Soldier
Ladies in Retirement
The Little Foxes - DirectorAlexander HallStarsRobert MontgomeryClaude RainsEvelyn KeyesBoxer Joe Pendleton dies 50 years too soon due to a heavenly mistake, and is given a new life as a millionaire playboy.Best Screenplay
Original: Citizen Kane – Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles
The Devil and Miss Jones
Sergeant York
Tall, Dark and Handsome
Tom, Dick and Harry
Adapted: Here Comes Mr. Jordan – Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller
All That Money Can Buy
How Green Was My Valley
The Little Foxes
The Maltese Falcon - DirectorH. Bruce HumberstoneStarsSonja HenieJohn PayneGlenn MillerAfter Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort, its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. Later, soloist Vivian Dawn quits and Karen stages an ice show as a substitute.Best Soundtrack
Song: "Chattanooga Choo Choo" Sun Valley Serenade – Harry Warren and Mack Gordon
"Baby Mine" Dumbo
"Blues in the Night" Blues in the Night
"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" Buck Privates
"Dolores" Las Vegas Nights
Score: Citizen Kane – Bernard Herrmann
All That Money Can Buy
Dumbo
How Green Was My Valley
Suspicion - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGreer GarsonWalter PidgeonTeresa WrightA British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.Best Film
Winner: Mrs. Miniver
49th Parallel
Kings Row
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Pied Piper
The Pride of the Yankees
Random Harvest
The Talk of the Town
Woman of the Year
Yankee Doodle Dandy - DirectorSam WoodStarsAnn SheridanRobert CummingsRonald ReaganThe dark side and hypocrisy of provincial American life is seen through the eyes of five children as they grow to adulthood at the turn of the century.Best Director
Winner: William Wyler – Mrs. Miniver
Sam Wood – Kings Row
Orson Welles – The Magnificent Ambersons
Mervyn LeRoy – Random Harvest
Michael Curtiz – Yankee Doodle Dandy
Sound: Yankee Doodle Dandy
Bambi
Mrs. Miniver
The Pride of the Yankees
Road to Morocco
Special Effect: Jungle Book
Mrs. Miniver
One of Our Aircraft is Missing
The Pride of the Yankees
Reap the Wild Wind - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyJoan LeslieWalter HustonThe life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.Best Actor
Winner: James Cagney – Yankee Doodle Dandy
Ronald Colman – Random Harvest
Gary Cooper – The Pride of the Yankees
Joel McCrea – Sullivan's Travels
Spencer Tracy – Woman of the Year
Monty Woolley – The Pied Piper
Cinematography: Mrs. Miniver – Joseph Ruttenberg
The Black Swan
Kings Row
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Pride of the Yankees - DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsRonald ColmanGreer GarsonPhilip DornAn amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.Best Actress
Winner: Greer Garson – Mrs. Miniver
Bette Davis – Now, Voyager
Katharine Hepburn – Woman of the Year
Rosalind Russell – My Sister Eileen
Ann Sheridan – Kings Row
Teresa Wright – The Pride of the Yankees
Production: My Gal Sal – Richard Day and Joseph C. Wright
Arabian Nights
The Magnificent Ambersons
Take a Letter, Darling
This Above All - DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsRobert TaylorLana TurnerEdward ArnoldThe step-daughter of a district attorney falls in love with a gangster on parole who her father originally imprisoned.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Van Heflin – Johnny Eager
William Bendix – Wake Island
Walter Huston – Yankee Doodle Dandy
Frank Morgan – Tortilla Flat
Ronald Reagan – Kings Row
Henry Travers – Mrs. Miniver
Film Editing: The Pride of the Yankees – Daniel Mandell
Mrs. Miniver
The Talk of the Town
This Above All
Yankee Doodle Dandy - DirectorOrson WellesFred FleckRobert WiseStarsTim HoltJoseph CottenDolores CostelloThe spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Agnes Moorehead – The Magnificent Ambersons
Gladys Cooper – Now, Voyager
Beatty Field – Kings Row
Susan Peters – Random Harvest
May Whitty – Mrs. Miniver
Teresa Wright – Mrs. Miniver
Costume: The Magnificent Ambersons – Edward Stevenson
Mrs. Miniver
My Gal Sal
Now, Voyager
Yankee Doodle Dandy - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsSpencer TracyKatharine HepburnFay BainterRival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.Best Screenplay
Original: Woman of the Year – Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner Jr.
49th Parallel
The Pride of the Yankees
Road to Morocco
The Talk of the Town
Adapted: Mrs. Miniver – George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West and Arthur Wimperis
Kings Row
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Pied Piper
Random Harvest - DirectorMark SandrichRobert AllenStarsBing CrosbyFred AstaireMarjorie ReynoldsAt an inn which is open only on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer.Best Soundtrack
Song: "White Christmas" Holiday Inn – Irving Berlin
"How About You?" Babes on Broadway
"I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo" Orchestra Wives
"I've Heard That Song Before" Youth on Parade
"Love Is a Song" Bambi
Score: Now, Voyager – Max Steiner
Bambi
Jungle Book
Random Harvest
Yankee Doodle Dandy - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul HenreidA cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.Best Film
Winner: Casablanca
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Heaven Can Wait
The Human Comedy
In Which We Serve
Madame Curie
The More the Merrier
The Ox-Bow Incident
The Song of Bernadette
Watch on the Rhine - DirectorClarence BrownStarsMickey RooneyFrank MorganJames CraigTeenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.Best Director
Winner: Michael Curtiz – Casablanca
Ernst Lubitsch – Heaven Can Wait
Clarence Brown – The Human Comedy
George Stevens – The More the Merrier
Henry King – The Song of Bernadette
Sound: This Land Is Mine
Phantom of the Opera
Sahara
The Song of Bernadette
This Is the Army
Special Effect: Air Force
Bombardier
Crash Dive
The North Star
So Proudly We Hail! - DirectorErnst LubitschStarsGene TierneyDon AmecheCharles CoburnAn old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld.Best Actor
Winner: Humphrey Bogart – Casablanca
Gary Cooper – For Whom the Bell Tolls
Henry Fonda – The Ox-Bow Incident
Paul Lukas – Watch on the Rhine
Walter Pidgeon – Madame Curie
Mickey Rooney – The Human Comedy
Cinematography: Phantom of the Opera – Hal Mohr and W. Howard Greene
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Heaven Can Wait
Lassie Come Home
The Song of Bernadette - DirectorHenry KingStarsJennifer JonesCharles BickfordWilliam Eythe14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous, living in a small town in the south of 1850s France, claims to have seen a divine vision, prompting extreme skepticism, concern from her family, and religious and political turmoil.Best Actress
Winner: Jennifer Jones – The Song of Bernadette
Jean Arthur – The More the Merrier
Ingrid Bergman – Casablanca
Joan Fontaine – The Constant Nymph
Greer Garson – Madame Curie
Ida Lupino – The Hard Way
Production: Phantom of the Opera – Alexander Golitzen and John B. Goodman
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Madame Curis
The Song of Bernadette
This Is the Army - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsJean ArthurJoel McCreaCharles CoburnDuring the World War II housing shortage in Washington, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the older man plays Cupid to the other two.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Charles Coburn – The More the Merrier
Charles Bickford – The Song of Bernadette
Frank Morgan – The Human Comedy
J. Carrol Naish – Sahara
Claude Rains – Casablanca
Akim Tamiroff – For Whom the Bell Tolls
Film Editing: Air Force – George Amy
Casablanca
Five Graves to Cairo
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Song of Bernadette - DirectorSam WoodStarsGary CooperIngrid BergmanAkim TamiroffDuring the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Katina Paxinou – For Whom the Bell Tolls
Gladys Cooper – The Song of Bernadette
Paulette Goddard – So Proudly We Hail!
Veronica Lake – So Proudly We Hail!
Anne Revere – The Song of Bernadette
Lucile Watson – Watch on the Rhine
Costume: Heaven Can Wait – Rene Hubert
Casablanca
The Gang's All Here
Lady of Burlesque
Phantom of the Opera - DirectorNoël CowardStarsNoël CowardJohn MillsBernard MilesThis "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.Best Screenplay
Original: In Which We Serve – Noël Coward
Air Force
The North Star
Princess O'Rourke
So Proudly We Hail!
Adapted: Casablanca – Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard E. Koch
The Human Comedy
The More the Merrier
The Song of Bernadette
Watch on the Rhine - DirectorH. Bruce HumberstoneStarsAlice FayeJohn PayneJack OakieIn turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress.Best Soundtrack
Song: "You'll Never Know" Hello, Frisco, Hello – Harry Warren and Mack Gordon
"Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe" Cabin In The Sky
"My Shining Hour" The Sky's the Limit
"They're Either Too Young or Too Old" Thank Your Lucky Stars
"You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" Something to Shout About
Score: The Song of Bernadette – Alfred Newman
Casablanca
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Madame Curie
The North Star - 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 Film
Winner: Double Indemnity
Gaslight
Going My Way
Laura
Lifeboat
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 Director
Winner: Billy Wilder – Double Indemnity
George Cukor – Gaslight
Leo McCarey – Going My Way
Otto Preminger – Laura
Alfred Hitchcock – Lifeboat
Sound: Wilson
Cover Girl
Double Indemnity
Hollywood Canteen
Voice in the Wind
Special Effect: Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Days of Glory
The Story of Dr. Wassell
Wilson - 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 Actor
Winner: Bing Crosby – Going My Way
Charles Boyer – Gaslight
Eddie Bracken – The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Cary Grant – None But the Lonely Heart
Alexander Knox – Wilson
Fred MacMurray – Double Indemnity
Cinematography: Laura – Joseph LaShelle
Double Indemnity
Lifeboat
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Wilson - 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 Actress
Winner: Ingrid Bergman – Gaslight
Tallulah Bankhead – Lifeboat
Claudette Colbert – Since You Went Away
Bette Davis – Mr. Skeffington
Greer Garson – Mrs. Parkington
Barbara Stanwyck – Double Indemnity
Production: Gaslight – Cedric Gibbons and William Ferrari
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Cover Girl
Kismet
Wilson - DirectorOtto PremingerRouben MamoulianStarsGene TierneyDana AndrewsClifton WebbA police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Clifton Webb – Laura
Hume Cronyn – The Seventh Cross
William Demarest – The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Barry Fitzgerald – Going My Way
Edward G. Robinson – Double Indemnity
Monty Woolley – Since You Went Away
Film Editing: Double Indemnity – Doane Harrison
Going My Way
Janie
None but the Lonely Heart
Since You Went Away - DirectorClifford OdetsStarsCary GrantEthel BarrymoreBarry FitzgeraldWhen an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they are both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Ethel Barrymore – None But the Lonely Heart
Jennifer Jones – Since You Went Away
Angela Lansbury – Gaslight
Aline MacMahon – Dragon Seed
Agnes Moorehead – Mrs. Parkington
Margaret O'Brien – Meet Me in St. Louis
Costume: Meet Me in St. Louis – Irene Sharaff
Cover Girl
Gaslight
Kismet
Mrs. Parkington - DirectorPreston SturgesStarsEddie BrackenBetty HuttonDiana LynnAfter an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl with an awkward boyfriend wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity.Best Screenplay
Original: The Miracle of Morgan's Creek – Preston Sturges
A Guy Named Joe
Going My Way
Hail the Conquering Hero
Wilson
Adapted: Double Indemnity – Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder
Gaslight
Laura
Meet Me in St. Louis
Since You Went Away - DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsJudy GarlandMargaret O'BrienMary AstorYoung love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.Best Soundtrack
Song: "The Trolley Song" Meet Me in St. Louis – Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane
"I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night" Higher and Higher
"I'll Walk Alone" Follow the Boys
"Long Ago and Far Away" Cover Girl
"Swinging on a Star" Going My Way
Score: Since You Went Away – Max Steiner
Address Unknown
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Double Indemnity
Wilson - DirectorBilly WilderStarsRay MillandJane WymanPhillip TerryThe desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.Best Film
Winner: The Lost Weekend
Anchors Aweigh
Mildred Pierce
National Velvet
Spellbound
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - DirectorGeorge SidneyJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsFrank SinatraKathryn GraysonGene KellyA pair of sailors on leave try to help a movie extra become a singing star.Best Director
Winner: Billy Wilder – The Lost Weekend
Michael Curtiz – Mildred Pierce
Clarence Brown – National Velvet
Alfred Hitchcock – Spellbound
Elia Kazan – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Sound: They Were Expendable
The Bells of St. Mary's
Rhapsody in Blue
The Three Caballeros
Wonder Man
Special Effect: Wonder Man
Anchors Aweigh
Captain Eddie
They Were Expendable
A Thousand and One Nights - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsIngrid BergmanGregory PeckMichael ChekhovA psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.Best Actor
Winner: Ray Milland – The Lost Weekend
Bing Crosby – The Bells of St. Mary's
John Garfield – Pride of the Marines
Gene Kelly – Anchors Aweigh
Gregory Peck – Spellbound
Cornel Wilde – A Song to Remember
Cinematography: Leave Her to Heaven – Leon Shamroy
Anchors Aweigh
The Lost Weekend
National Velvet
The Picture of Dorian Gray - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJoan CrawfordJack CarsonZachary ScottA hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.Best Actress
Winner: Joan Crawford – Mildred Pierce
Peggy Ann Garner – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Ingrid Bergman – Spellbound
Greer Garson – The Valley of Decision
Jennifer Jones – Love Letters
Gene Tierney – Leave Her to Heaven
Production: Blood on the Sun – Wiard Ihnen
Frenchman's Creek
Leave Her to Heaven
National Velvet
The Picture of Dorian Gray - DirectorElia KazanStarsDorothy McGuireJoan BlondellJames DunnEncouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: James Dunn – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Michael Chekhov – Spellbound
John Dall – The Corn Is Green
Robert Mitchum – Story of G.I. Joe
J. Carrol Naish – A Medal for Benny
Vincent Price – The Keys of the Kingdom
Film Editing: The Lost Weekend – Doane Harrison
National Velvet
Objective, Burma!
A Song to Remember
Spellbound - DirectorClarence BrownStarsMickey RooneyElizabeth TaylorDonald CrispA jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Anne Revere – National Velvet
Eve Arden – Mildred Pierce
Joan Blondell – Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Ann Blyth – Mildred Pierce
Angela Lansbury – The Picture of Dorian Gray
Joan Lorring – The Corn Is Green
Costume: Experiment Perilous – Leah Rhodes and Edward Stevenson
Frenchman's Creek
San Antonio
A Song to Remember
A Thousand and One Nights - DirectorMax NosseckStarsLawrence TierneyEdmund LoweAnne JeffreysJohn Dillinger begins his life of crime as a petty thief, meets his future gang in prison and eventually masterminds a series of daring robberies.Best Screenplay
Original: Dillinger – Philip Yordan
A Medal for Benny
Music for Millions
Salty O'Rourke
What Next, Corporal Hargrove?
Adapted: The Lost Weekend – Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder
Mildred Pierce
Pride of the Marines
Story of G.I. Joe
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsJennifer JonesJoseph CottenAnn RichardsAllen Quinton writes a fellow soldier's love letters; tragedy results. Later, Allen meets a beautiful amnesiac who fears postmen...Best Soundtrack
Song: "Love Letters" Love Letters – Victor Young and Edward Heyman
"Accentuate the Positive" Here Come the Waves
"Aren't You Glad You're You" The Bells of St. Mary's
"I Fall in Love Too Easily" Anchors Aweigh
"It Might as Well Be Spring" State Fair
Score: Spellbound – Miklós Rózsa
Anchors Aweigh
The Lost Weekend
Love Letters
A Song to Remember - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMyrna LoyDana AndrewsFredric MarchThree World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.Best Film
Winner: The Best Years of Our Lives
Brief Encounter
Henry V
It's a Wonderful Life
The Razor's Edge
The Yearling - DirectorDavid LeanStarsCelia JohnsonTrevor HowardStanley HollowayMeeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.Best Director
Winner: William Wyler – The Best Years of Our Lives
David Lean – Brief Encounter
Frank Capra – It's a Wonderful Life
Robert Siodmak – The Killers
Clarence Brown – The Yearling
Sound: The Best Years of Our Lives
It's a Wonderful Life
The Jolson Story
Special Effect: Blithe Spirit - DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartDonna ReedLionel BarrymoreAn angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.Best Actor
Winner: James Stewart – It's a Wonderful Life
Dana Andrews – The Best Years of Our Lives
Fredric March – The Best Years of Our Lives
Laurence Olivier – Henry V
Larry Parks – The Jolson Story
Gregory Peck – The Yearling
Cinematography: The Yearling – Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith and Arthur Arling
Anna and the King of Siam
The Best Years of Our Lives
It's a Wonderful Life
The Jolson Story - DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsOlivia de HavillandJohn LundMary AndersonAn unwed mother, forced to give up her child to avoid scandal, follows her son's life from afar even as she prospers in business.Best Actress
Winner: Olivia de Havilland – To Each His Own
Ingrid Bergman – Notorious
Celia Johnson – Brief Encounter
Jennifer Jones – Duel in the Sun
Rosalind Russell – Sister Kenny
Jane Wyman – The Yearling
Production: Anna and the King of Siam – William S. Darling and Lyle R. Wheeler
Caesar and Cleopatra
Henry V
The Razor's Edge
The Yearling - DirectorClarence BrownStarsGregory PeckJane WymanClaude Jarman Jr.A boy persuades his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Harold Russell – The Best Years of Our Lives
Lionel Barrymore – It's a Wonderful Life
William Bendix – The Blue Dahlia
Claude Rains – Notorious
Henry Travers – It’s a Wonderful Life
Clifton Webb – The Razor's Edge
Film Editing: The Best Years of Our Lives – Daniel Mandell
It's a Wonderful Life
The Jolson Story
The Killers
The Yearling - DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsTyrone PowerGene TierneyJohn PayneAn adventuresome young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Anne Baxter – The Razor's Edge
Ethel Barrymore – The Spiral Staircase
Lillian Gish – Duel in the Sun
Flora Robson – Saratoga Trunk
Margaret Rutherford – Blithe Spirit
Teresa Wright – The Best Years of Our Lives
Costume: Anna and the King of Siam – Bonnie Cashin
Caesar and Cleopatra
Henry V
Kitty
Saratoga Trunk - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCary GrantIngrid BergmanClaude RainsThe daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?Best Screenplay
Original: Notorious – Ben Hecht
The Blue Dahlia
Children of Paradise
Road to Utopia
The Seventh Veil
Adapted: The Best Years of Our Lives – Robert E. Sherwood
Anna and the King of Siam
Brief Encounter
The Killers
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers - DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsJudy GarlandRay BolgerJohn HodiakOn a train trip West to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley (Judy Garland) meets a cheery crew of young women travelling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.Best Soundtrack
Song: "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" The Harvey Girls – Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer
"Anniversary Song" The Jolson Story
"I Can't Begin to Tell You" The Dolly Sisters
"Mam’selle" The Razor’s Edge
"Ole Buttermilk Sky" Canyon Passage
Score: The Best Years of Our Lives – Hugo Friedhofer
Anna and the King of Siam
Henry V
Humoresque
The Killers - DirectorElia KazanStarsGregory PeckDorothy McGuireJohn GarfieldA reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.Best Film
Winner: Gentleman's Agreement
The Bishop's Wife
Crossfire
A Double Life
Great Expectations
Miracle on 34th Street
Foreign Film: Shoeshine (Italy) – Vittorio De Sica - DirectorHenry KosterStarsCary GrantLoretta YoungDavid NivenA debonair angel comes to Earth to help an Episcopalian bishop and his wife in their quest to raise money for the new church.Best Director
Winner: Elia Kazan – Gentleman's Agreement
Henry Koster – The Bishop's Wife
Edward Dmytryk – Crossfire
George Cukor – A Double Life
David Lean – Great Expectations
Sound: Green Dolphin Street
The Bishop's Wife
T-Men
Special Effect: Green Dolphin Street - DirectorGeorge CukorStarsRonald ColmanEdmond O'BrienSigne HassoA celebrated actor struggles to distinguish his own life from that of his most recent stage role, Othello.Best Actor
Winner: Ronald Colman – A Double Life
John Garfield – Body and Soul
Robert Mitchum – Out of the Past
Gregory Peck – Gentleman's Agreement
William Powell – Life with Father
Michael Redgrave – Mourning Becomes Electra
Cinematography: Great Expectations – Guy Green
Black Narcissus
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Green Dolphin Street
Mother Wore Tights - DirectorH.C. PotterStarsLoretta YoungJoseph CottenEthel BarrymoreAfter leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.Best Actress
Winner: Loretta Young – The Farmer's Daughter
Joan Crawford – Possesed
Susan Hayward – Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman
Deborah Kerr – Black Narcissus
Dorothy McGuire – Gentleman's Agreement
Rosalind Russell – Mourning Becomes Electra
Production: Great Expectations – Wilfred Shingleton
Black Narcissus
The Foxes of Harrow
Life with Father
Mother Wore Tights - DirectorGeorge SeatonStarsEdmund GwennMaureen O'HaraJohn PayneAfter a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mistaken.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Edmund Gwenn – Miracle on 34th Street
Charles Bickford – The Farmer's Daughter
Finlay Currie – Great Expectations
Thomas Gomez – Ride the Pink Horse
Robert Ryan – Crossfire
Richard Widmark – Kiss of Death
Film Editing: Body and Soul – Francis D. Lyon and Robert Parrish
The Bishop's Wife
Gentleman's Agreement
Green Dolphin Street
Odd Man Out - DirectorDavid LeanStarsJohn MillsValerie HobsonTony WagerA humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Celeste Holm – Gentleman's Agreement
Ethel Barrymore – The Paradine Case
Gloria Grahame – Crossfire
Marjorie Main – The Egg and I
Martha Raye – Monsieur Verdoux
Anne Revere – Gentleman's Agreement
Costume: Green Dolphin Street – Walter Plunkett and Arlington Valles
The Foxes of Harrow
Forever Amber
Mother Wore Tights
Unconquered - DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsRobert YoungRobert MitchumRobert RyanA man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why?Best Screenplay
Original: Miracle on 34th Street – Valentine Davies and George Seaton
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Body and Soul
A Double Life
Monsieur Verdoux
Adapted: Gentleman's Agreement – Moss Hart
Boomerang!
Crossfire
Great Expectations
Odd Man Out - DirectorHarve FosterWilfred JacksonStarsRuth WarrickBobby DriscollJames BaskettThe kindly story-teller Uncle Remus tells a young boy stories about trickster Br'er Rabbit, who outwits Br'er Fox and slow-witted Br'er Bear.Best Soundtrack
Song: "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" Song of the South – Allie Wrubel and Ray Gilbert
"I Wish I Didn't Love You So" The Perils of Pauline
"On Green Dolphin Street" Green Dolphin Street
"Pass That Peace Pipe" Good News
"You Do" Mother Wore Tights
Score: A Double Life – Miklos Rozsa
The Bishop's Wife
Captain from Castile
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Life with Father - DirectorLaurence OlivierStarsLaurence OlivierJean SimmonsJohn LauriePrince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.Best Film
Winner: Hamlet
Johnny Belinda
The Red Shoes
The Search
The Snake Pit
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Foreign Film: Monsieur Vincent (France) – Maurice Cloche - DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsOlivia de HavillandMark StevensLeo GennA detailed chronicle of a woman during her stay in a mental institution.Best Director
Winner: John Huston – The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Laurence Olivier – Hamlet
Jean Negulesco – Johnny Belinda
Fred Zinnemann – The Search
Anatole Litvak – The Snake Pit
Sound: The Snake Pit
Johnny Belinda
Moonrise
Special Effect: Portrait of Jennie - DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsAnton WalbrookMarius GoringMoira ShearerA young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.Best Actor
Winner: Laurence Olivier – Hamlet
Lew Ayres – Johnny Belinda
Humphrey Bogart – The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Dan Dailey – When My Baby Smiles at Me
Montgomery Clift – The Search
Clifton Webb – Sitting Pretty
Cinematography: The Naked City – William Daniels
A Foreign Affair
Green Grass of Wyoming
Joan of Arc
Portrait of Jennie - DirectorJean NegulescoStarsJane WymanLew AyresCharles BickfordA kind doctor volunteers to tutor a deaf-mute woman, but scandal starts to swirl when his pupil is raped and falls pregnant.Best Actress
Winner: Jane Wyman – Johnny Belinda
Ingrid Bergman – Joan of Arc
Olivia de Havilland – The Snake Pit
Irene Dunne – I Remember Mama
Moira Shearer – The Red Shoes
Barbara Stanwyck – Sorry, Wrong Number
Production: The Red Shoes – Hein Heckroth
Hamlet
Joan of Arc
Johnny Belinda
The Paleface - DirectorJohn HustonStarsHumphrey BogartWalter HustonTim HoltTwo down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Walter Huston – The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Charles Bickford – Johnny Belinda
Oscar Homolka – I Remember Mama
Ivan Jandl – The Search
Cecil Kellaway – The Luck of the Irish
Edward G. Robinson – Key Largo
Film Editing: The Naked City – Paul Weatherwax
Johnny Belinda
Red River
The Red Shoes
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - DirectorJohn HustonStarsHumphrey BogartEdward G. RobinsonLauren BacallA man visits his war buddy's family hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Claire Trevor – Key Largo
Barbara Bel Geddes – I Remember Mama
Ellen Corby – I Remember Mama
Agnes Moorehead – Johnny Belinda
Jarmila Novotna – The Search
Jean Simmons – Hamlet
Costume: Hamlet – Roger K. Furse
B.F.'s Daughter
The Emperor Waltz
A Foreign Affair
Joan of Arc - DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsMontgomery CliftIvan JandlAline MacMahonIn post-war Berlin, an American private helps a lost Czech boy find his mother.Best Screenplay
Original: The Search – Richard Schweizer and David Wechsler
A Foreign Affair
Louisiana Story
The Naked City
The Red Shoes
Adapted: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre – John Huston
I Remember Mama
Johnny Belinda
Red River
The Snake Pit - DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsBob HopeJane RussellRobert ArmstrongCalamity Jane is dispatched to find out who's smuggling rifles to the Indians, and winds up married to a hapless correspondence-school dentist as part of her cover.Best Soundtrack
Song: "Buttons and Bows" The Paleface – Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
"Again" Road House
"For Every Man There is a Woman" Casbah
"It's Magic" Romance on the High Seas
"The Woody Woodpecker Song" Wet Blanket Policy
Score: The Red Shoes – Brian Easdale
Hamlet
Joan of Arc
The Snake Pit
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - DirectorRobert RossenStarsBroderick CrawfordJohn IrelandJoanne DruThe rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.Best Film
Winner: All the King's Men
Battleground
The Fallen Idol
The Heiress
A Letter to Three Wives
Twelve O'Clock High
Foreign Film: Bicycle Thieves (Italy) – Vittorio De Sica - DirectorHenry KingStarsGregory PeckHugh MarloweGary MerrillA tough-as-nails general (Gregory Peck as General Savage) takes over a B-17 bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape.Best Director
Winner: Robert Rossen – All the King's Men
William A. Wellman – Battleground
Carol Reed – The Fallen Idol
William Wyler – The Heiress
Joseph L. Mankiewicz – A Letter to Three Wives
Sound: Twelve O'Clock High
Once More, My Darling
Sands of Iwo Jima
Special Effect: Mighty Joe Young - DirectorMark RobsonStarsKirk DouglasArthur KennedyMarilyn MaxwellBoxer Midge Kelly rises to fame...mainly by stepping on other people.Best Actor
Winner: Broderick Crawford – All the King's Men
Kirk Douglas – Champion
John Ireland – All the King's Men
Ralph Richardson – The Fallen Idol
Richard Todd – The Hasty Heart
John Wayne – Sands of Iwo Jima
Cinematography: Battleground – Paul C. Vogel
The Heiress
Little Women
Sand
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsOlivia de HavillandMontgomery CliftRalph RichardsonA naive young woman falls for a handsome young man her emotionally abusive father suspects is only a fortune hunter.Best Actress
Winner: Olivia de Havilland – The Heiress
Jeanne Crain – Pinky
Linda Darnell – A Letter to Three Wives
Deborah Kerr – Edward, My Son
Ann Sothern – A Letter to Three Wives
Loretta Young – Come to the Stable
Production: The Heiress – Harry Horner
Adventures of Don Juan
Come to the Stable
Little Women
Saraband for Dead Lovers - DirectorCarol ReedStarsRalph RichardsonMichèle MorganSonia DresdelA butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Ralph Richardson – The Heiress
Paul Douglas – A Letter to Three Wives
Kirk Douglas – A Letter to Three Wives
Dean Jagger – Twelve O’Clock High
Arthur Kennedy – Champion
James Whitmore – Battleground
Film Editing: Champion – Harry W. Gerstad
All the King's Men
Battleground
Sands of Iwo Jima
The Window - DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsJeanne CrainLinda DarnellAnn SothernA letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Mercedes McCambridge – All the King's Men
Sonia Dresdel – The Fallen Idol
Celeste Holm – Come to the Stable
Elsa Lanchester – Come to the Stable
Ethel Waters – Pinky
Margaret Wycherly – White Heat
Costume: The Heiress – Edith Head
Adventures of Don Juan
Little Women
Mother Is a Freshman
Prince of Foxes - DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsVan JohnsonJohn HodiakRicardo MontalbanTrue tale about a squad of the 101st Airborne Division coping with being trapped by the Germans in the besieged city of Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944.Best Screenplay
Original: Battleground – Robert Pirosh
Come to the Stable
Jolson Sings Again
Passport to Pimlico
White Heat
Adapted: A Letter to Three Wives – Joseph L. Mankiewicz
All the King's Men
Bicycle Thieves
Champion
The Fallen Idol - DirectorEdward BuzzellStarsEsther WilliamsRed SkeltonRicardo MontalbanA swimsuit fashion designer is determined to protect her scatterbrained sister from a South American heartbreaker, but a case of mistaken identity complicates matters.Best Soundtrack
Song: "Baby, It's Cold Outside" Neptune's Daughter – Frank Loesser
"It's a Great Feeling" It's a Great Feeling
"Lavender Blue" So Dear to My Heart
"My Foolish Heart" My Foolish Heart
"Through a Long and Sleepless Night" Come to the Stable
Score: The Heiress – Aaron Copland
Beyond the Forest
Champion
Look for the Silver Lining
On the Town