Best Picture

WINNER

Gentleman's Agreement: (20th Century Fox)

NOMINEES

The Bishop's Wife: (Samuel Goldwyn Productions)

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Crossfire: (RKO Radio)

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Great Expectations: (J. Arthur Rank, Cineguild)

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Miracle on 34th Street: (20th Century Box)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER

A Double Life: Ronald Colman

NOMINEES

Body and Soul: John Garfield

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Gentleman's Agreement: Gregory Peck

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Life with Father: William Powell

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Mourning Becomes Electra: Michael Redgrave

Best Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER

The Farmer's Daughter: Loretta Young

NOMINEES

Possessed: Joan Crawford

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Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman: Susan Hayward

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Gentleman's Agreement: Dorothy McGuire

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Mourning Becomes Electra: Rosalind Russell

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER

Miracle on 34th Street: Edmund Gwenn

NOMINEES

The Farmer's Daughter: Charles Bickford

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Ride the Pink Horse: Thomas Gomez

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Crossfire: Robert Ryan

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Kiss of Death: Richard Widmark

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER

Gentleman's Agreement: Celeste Holm

NOMINEES

The Paradine Case: Ethel Barrymore

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Crossfire: Gloria Grahame

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The Egg and I: Marjorie Main

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Gentleman's Agreement: Anne Revere

Best Director

WINNER

Gentleman's Agreement: Elia Kazan

NOMINEES

A Double Life: George Cukor

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Crossfire: Edward Dmytryk

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The Bishop's Wife: Henry Koster

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Great Expectations: David Lean

Best Writing, Original Screenplay

WINNER

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer: Sidney Sheldon

NOMINEES

Body and Soul: Abraham Polonsky

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A Double Life: Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin

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Monsieur Verdoux: Charles Chaplin

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Shoeshine: Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Giulio Viola, Cesare Zavattini

Best Writing, Original Story

WINNER

Miracle on 34th Street: Valentine Davies

NOMINEES

La cage aux rossignols: Georges Chaperot, René Wheeler

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It Happened on Fifth Avenue: Herbert Clyde Lewis, Frederick Stephani

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Kiss of Death: Eleazar Lipsky

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Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman: Dorothy Parker, Frank Cavett

Best Writing, Screenplay

WINNER

Miracle on 34th Street: George Seaton

NOMINEES

Boomerang!: Richard Murphy

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Crossfire: John Paxton

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Gentleman's Agreement: Moss Hart

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Great Expectations: David Lean, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan

Best Cinematography, Color

WINNER

Black Narcissus: Jack Cardiff

NOMINEES

Life with Father: J. Peverell Marley, William V. Skall

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Mother Wore Tights: Harry Jackson

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

WINNER

Great Expectations: Guy Green

NOMINEES

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir: Charles Lang

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Green Dolphin Street: George J. Folsey

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White

WINNER

Great Expectations: John Bryan, Wilfred Shingleton

NOMINEE

The Foxes of Harrow: Lyle R. Wheeler, Maurice Ransford, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color

WINNER

Black Narcissus: Alfred Junge

NOMINEE

Life with Father: Robert M. Haas, George James Hopkins

Best Sound, Recording

WINNER

The Bishop's Wife: Gordon Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn SSD)

NOMINEES

Green Dolphin Street: Douglas Shearer (M-G-M SSD)

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T-Men: Jack Whitney (Sound Services Inc.)

Best Film Editing

WINNER

Body and Soul: Francis D. Lyon, Robert Parrish

NOMINEES

The Bishop's Wife: Monica Collingwood

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Gentleman's Agreement: Harmon Jones

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Green Dolphin Street: George White

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Odd Man Out: Fergus McDonell

Best Effects, Special Effects

WINNER

Green Dolphin Street: A. Arnold Gillespie (visual), Warren Newcombe (visual), Douglas Shearer (audible), Michael Steinore (audible)

NOMINEE

Unconquered: Farciot Edouart (visual), Devereaux Jennings (visual), Gordon Jennings (visual), W. Wallace Kelley (visual), Paul K. Lerpae (visual), George Dutton (audible)

Best Music, Original Song

WINNER

Song of the South: Allie Wrubel (music), Ray Gilbert (lyrics)
For the song "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah".

NOMINEES

Good News: Roger Edens, Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane
for the song "Pass That Peace Pipe"

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The Time, the Place and the Girl: Arthur Schwartz (music), Leo Robin (lyrics)
For the song "A Gal in Calico".

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The Perils of Pauline: Frank Loesser
For the song "I Wish I Didn't Love You So".

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Mother Wore Tights: Josef Myrow (music), Mack Gordon (lyrics)
For the song "You Do".

Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture

WINNER

Mother Wore Tights: Alfred Newman

NOMINEES

Fiesta: Johnny Green

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My Wild Irish Rose: Ray Heindorf, Max Steiner

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Road to Rio: Robert Emmett Dolan

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Song of the South: Daniele Amfitheatrof, Paul J. Smith, Charles Wolcott

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

WINNER

A Double Life: Miklós Rózsa

NOMINEES

The Bishop's Wife: Hugo Friedhofer

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Captain from Castile: Alfred Newman

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Forever Amber: David Raksin

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Life with Father: Max Steiner

Best Short Subject, Two-reel

WINNER

Climbing the Matterhorn: Irving Allen

NOMINEES

Champagne for Two: Harry Grey

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Fight of the Wild Stallions: Thomas Mead

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Give Us the Earth!: Herbert Morgan

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A Voice Is Born: Ben K. Blake

Best Short Subject, One-reel

WINNER

Goodbye, Miss Turlock: Herbert Moulton

NOMINEES

Brooklyn, U.S.A.: Thomas Mead

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Moon Rockets: Jerry Fairbanks

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Now You See It: Pete Smith

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So You Want to Be in Pictures: Gordon Hollingshead

Best Short Subject, Cartoons

WINNER

Tweetie Pie: Edward Selzer

NOMINEES

Chip an' Dale: Walt Disney

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse: Fred Quimby

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Pluto's Blue Note: Walt Disney

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Tubby the Tuba: George Pal

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

WINNER

First Steps: (United Nations Division of Films and Visual Education)

NOMINEES

Passport to Nowhere: Frederic Ullman Jr.

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School in the Mailbox: (Australian News and Information Bureau)

Best Documentary, Features

WINNER

Design for Death: Sid Rogell, Theron Warth, Richard Fleischer

NOMINEES

Journey Into Medicine: (U.S. Dept. of State Office of Information and Educational Exchange)

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The World Is Rich: Paul Rotha

WINNERS

Song of the South: James Baskett
For his able and heart-warming characterization of Uncle Remus, friend and story teller to the children of the world, in Walt Disney's Song of the South.

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Bill and Coo
In which artistry and patience blended in a novel and entertaining use of the medium of motion pictures (plaque).

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Shoeshine
Italy. The high quality of this Italian-made motion picture, brought to eloquent life in a country scarred by war, is proof to the world that the creative spirit can triumph over adversity.

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William Nicholas Selig, Albert E. Smith, Thomas Armat, George K. Spoor
(One of) the small group of pioneers whose belief in a new medium, and whose contributions to its development, blazed the trail along which the motion picture has progressed, in their lifetime, from obscurity to world-wide acclaim.

WINNER

Not awarded.

WINNERS

C.C. Davis (Electrical Research Products Division of Western Electric Co. Inc.)
For the development and application of an improved film drive filter mechanism.

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C.R. Daily (Paramount Studio Film Laboratory, Still and Engineering Departments)
For the development and first practical applications to motion picture and still photography of a method of increasing film speed as first suggested to the industry by E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co.

WINNERS

Nathan Levinson (Warner Bros. SSD)
For the design and construction of a constant-speed sound editing machine.

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Farciot Edouart, C.R. Daily, Hal Corl, H.G. Cartwright (Paramount Studio Engineering and Transparency Departments)
For the first application of a special antisolarizing glass to high intensity background and spot arc projectors.

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Fred Ponedel (Warner Bros. Studio)
For pioneering the fabrication and practical application to motion picture color photography of large translucent photographic backgrounds.

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Kurt Singer (RCA-Victor Division of the Radio Corp. of America)
For the design and development of a continuously variable band elimination filter.

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James Gibbons (Warner Bros. Studios)
For the development and production of large dyed plastic filters for motion picture photography.