| Best Motion Picture
|
The Bishop's Wife (Goldwyn; RKO Radio) |
| |
Crossfire (RKO Radio) |
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Gentleman's Agreement
(Twentieth Century-Fox) |
| |
Great Expectations (J. Arthur Rank-Cineguild;
Universal-International) |
| |
Miracle on 34th Street (Twentieth Century-Fox) |
| Best Actor
|
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 Actress
|
Joan Crawford, Possessed |
| |
Susan Hayward, Smash Up—The Story of a Woman
|
| |
Dorothy McGuire, Gentleman's Agreement |
| |
Rosalind Russell, Mourning Becomes Electra
|
| |
Loretta Young, The Farmer's
Daughter |
| Actor in a Supporting Role
|
Charles Bickford, The Farmer's Daughter |
| |
Thomas Gomez, Ride the Pink Horse |
| |
Edmund Gwenn, Miracle
on 34th Street |
| |
Robert Ryan, Crossfire |
| |
Richard Widmark, Kiss of Death |
| Actress in a Supporting
Role |
Ethel Barrymore, The Paradine Case |
| |
Gloria Grahame, Crossfire |
| |
Celeste Holm, Gentleman's
Agreement |
| |
Marjorie Main, The Egg and I |
| |
Anne Revere, Gentleman's Agreement |
| Directing |
George Cukor, A Double Life |
| |
Edward Dmytryk, Crossfire |
| |
Elia Kazan, Gentleman's
Agreement |
| |
Henry Koster, The Bishop's Wife |
| |
David Lean, Great Expectations |
| Writing |
| Original Motion Picture
Story |
Georges Chaperot and Rene Wheeler, A Cage
of Nightingales |
| |
Herbert Clyde Lewis and Frederick Stephani,
It Happened on Fifth Avenue |
| |
Valentine Davies,
Miracle on 34th Street |
| |
Eleazar Lipsky, Kiss of Death |
| |
Dorothy Parker and Frank Cavett, Smash Up—The
Story of a Woman |
| Original Screenplay
|
Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, C. G. Viola and
Cesare Zavattini, Shoeshine |
| |
Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux |
| |
Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, A Double Life
|
| |
Abraham Polonsky, Body and Soul |
| |
Sidney Sheldon, The
Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
|
| Screenplay
|
Moss Hart, Gentleman's Agreement |
| |
David Lean, Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan,
Great Expectations |
| |
Richard Murphy, Boomerang! |
| |
John Paxton, Crossfire |
| |
George Seaton, Miracle
on 34th Street |
|
| Cinematography
|
| Black-and-White
|
George Folsey, Green Dolphin Street |
| |
Guy Green, Great
Expectations |
| |
Charles Lang, Jr., The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
|
| Color
|
Jack Cardiff, Black
Narcissus |
| |
Harry Jackson, Mother Wore Tights |
| |
Peverell Marley and William V. Skall, Life
With Father |
|
| Art Direction
|
| Black-and-White
|
John Bryan, art direction;
Wilfred Shingleton, set decoration, Great Expectations
|
| |
Lyle Wheeler and Maurice Ransford, art direction;
Thomas Little and Paul S. Fox, set decoration,
The Foxes of Harrow |
| Color
|
Robert M. Haas, art direction; George James
Hopkins, set decoration, Life With Father
|
| |
Alfred Junge, art
direction and set decoration, Black Narcissus
|
|
| Sound Recording
|
Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound
Department, The Bishop's Wife |
| |
MGM Studio Sound Department, Green Dolphin Street
|
| |
Sound Service, Inc., T-Men |
| Music |
| Song
|
“A Gal in Calico,” The Time, the Place and
the Girl, Arthur Schwartz, music; Leo Robin,
lyrics |
| |
“I Wish I Didn't Love You So,” The Perils
of Pauline, Frank Loesser, music and lyrics |
| |
“Pass That Peace Pipe,” Good News, Ralph
Blane, Hugh Martin and Roger Edens, music and
lyrics |
| |
“You Do,” Mother Wore Tights, Josef Myrow,
music; Mack Gordon, lyrics |
| |
“Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah,”
Song of the South, Allie Wrubel, music;
Ray Gilbert, lyrics |
| Scoring of a Dramatic
or Comedy Picture |
Hugo Friedhofer, The Bishop's Wife |
| |
Alfred Newman, Captain From Castile |
| |
David Raksin, Forever Amber |
| |
Miklos Rozsa, A
Double Life |
| |
Max Steiner, Life With Father |
| Scoring of a Musical
Picture |
Daniele Amfitheatrof, Paul J. Smith and Charles
Wolcott, Song of the South |
| |
Robert Emmett Dolan, Road to Rio |
| |
Johnny Green, Fiesta |
| |
Ray Heindorf and Max Steiner, My Wild Irish
Rose |
| |
Alfred Newman, Mother
Wore Tights |
|
| Film Editing
|
Monica Collingwood, The Bishop's Wife |
| |
Harmon Jones, Gentleman's Agreement |
| |
Francis Lyon and Robert
Parrish, Body and Soul |
| |
Fergus McDonnell, Odd Man Out |
| |
George White, Green Dolphin Street |
| Special Effects
|
Farciot Edouart, Devereux Jennings, Gordon Jennings,
Wallace Kelley and Paul Lerpae, visual; George Dutton,
audible, Unconquered |
| |
A. Arnold Gillespie and
Warren Newcombe, visual; Douglas Shearer and Michael
Steinore, audible, Green Dolphin Street
|
| Short Subjects
|
| Cartoon
|
Chip an' Dale (Donald Duck Series) (Walt
Disney Productions; RKO Radio) |
| |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse (Tom and
Jerry Series) (Frederick Quimby, producer;
MGM) |
| |
Pluto's Blue Note (Pluto Series) (Walt
Disney Productions; RKO Radio) |
| |
Tubby the Tuba (George Pal Puppetoon Series)
(George Pal, producer; Paramount) |
| |
Tweetie Pie (Merrie
Melodies Series) (Edward Selzer, producer;
Warner Bros.) |
| One-Reel
|
Brooklyn, U.S.A. (Variety View Series)
(Thomas Mead, producer; Universal-International) |
| |
Goodbye Miss
Turlock (John Nesbitt Passing Parade Series)
(Herbert Moulton, producer; MGM) |
| |
Moon Rockets (Popular Science Series)
(Jerry Fairbanks, producer; Paramount) |
| |
Now You See It (Pete Smith Specialty Series)
(Pete Smith, producer; MGM) |
| |
So You Want to Be in Pictures (Joe McDoakes
Series) (Gordon Hollingshead, producer; Warner
Bros.) |
| Two-Reel
|
Champagne for Two (Musical Parade Featurette
Series) (Harry Grey, producer; Paramount) |
| |
Climbing the
Matterhorn (Color Series) (Irving Allen, producer;
Monogram) |
| |
Fight of the Wild Stallions (Featurette
Series) (Thomas Mead, producer; Universal-International) |
| |
Give Us the Earth (Herbert Morgan, producer;
MGM) |
| |
A Voice Is Born: The Story of Niklos Gafni
(Musical Featurette Series) (Ben Blake, producer;
Columbia) |
|
| Documentary
|
| Short Subject
|
First Steps
(United Nations Division of Films and Visual Education)
|
| |
Passport to Nowhere (This Is America Series)
(Frederic Ullman, Jr., producer; RKO Pathé) |
| |
School in the Mailbox (Australian News
and Information Bureau) |
| Feature
|
Design for Death
(Theron Warth and Richard O. Fleischer, producers;
RKO Radio) |
| |
Journey Into Medicine (U.S. State Department
Office of Information and Educational Exchange) |
| |
The World Is Rich (Paul Rotha, producer;
British Information Services) |
|
| Special Awards
|
To James Baskett
for his able and heartwarming characterization
of Uncle Remus, friend and storyteller to the children
of the world in Walt Disney's Song of the South
|
| |
To Bill and Coo,
in which artistry and patience blended
in a novel and entertaining use of the medium of motion
pictures |
| |
To Shoeshine,
the high quality of this 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. |
| |
To Colonel William N. Selig,
Albert E. Smith, Thomas Armat and George
K. Spoor, 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 worldwide acclaim |
