Winner

Fredric March

The Best Years of Our Lives

Nominated

Laurence Olivier

Henry V

Larry Parks

The Jolson Story

Gregory Peck

The Yearling

James Stewart

It's a Wonderful Life

Winner

Harold Russell

The Best Years of Our Lives

Nominated

Charles Coburn

The Green Years

Claude Rains

Notorious

William Demarest

The Jolson Story

Clifton Webb

The Razor's Edge

Winner

Olivia de Havilland

To Each His Own

Nominated

Celia Johnson

Brief Encounter

Jane Wyman

The Yearling

Rosalind Russell

Sister Kenny

Jennifer Jones

Duel in the Sun

Winner

Anne Baxter

The Razor's Edge

Nominated

Flora Robson

Saratoga Trunk

Gale Sondergaard

Anna and the King of Siam

Lillian Gish

Duel in the Sun

Ethel Barrymore

The Spiral Staircase

Winner

Anna and the King of Siam

Lyle R. Wheeler

William S. Darling

Thomas Little

Frank E. Hughes

Nominated

The Razor's Edge

Richard Day

Nathan Juran

Thomas Little

Paul S. Fox

Kitty

Hans Dreier

Walter H. Tyler

Sam Comer

Ray Moyer

Winner

The Yearling

Cedric Gibbons

Paul Groesse

Edwin B. Willis

Nominated

Caesar and Cleopatra

John Bryan

Henry V

Paul Sheriff

Carmen Dillon

Winner

Anna and the King of Siam

Arthur C. Miller

Nominated

The Green Years

George J. Folsey

Winner

The Yearling

Charles Rosher

Leonard Smith

Arthur E. Arling

Nominated

The Jolson Story

Joseph Walker

Winner

William Wyler

The Best Years of Our Lives

Nominated

Clarence Brown

The Yearling

Frank Capra

It's a Wonderful Life

David Lean

Brief Encounter

Robert Siodmak

The Killers

Winner

Seeds of Destiny

Nominated

Atomic Power

Life at the Zoo

Paramount News Issue #37

Traffic with the Devil

Winner

Blithe Spirit

Tom Howard

Nominated

A Stolen Life

William C. McGann

Nathan Levinson

Winner

The Best Years of Our Lives

Daniel Mandell

Nominated

The Jolson Story

William A. Lyon

The Yearling

Harold F. Kress

It's a Wonderful Life

William Hornbeck

The Killers

Arthur Hilton

Winner

The Harvey Girls

Harry Warren

Johnny Mercer

Nominated

Blue Skies

Irving Berlin

Centennial Summer

Jerome Kern

Oscar Hammerstein II

The Dolly Sisters

James V. Monaco

Mack Gordon

Canyon Passage

Hoagy Carmichael

Jack Brooks

Winner

The Best Years of Our Lives

Hugo Friedhofer

Nominated

Henry V

William Walton

Humoresque

Franz Waxman

The Killers

Miklós Rózsa

Anna and the King of Siam

Bernard Herrmann

Winner

The Jolson Story

Morris Stoloff

Nominated

The Harvey Girls

Lennie Hayton

Night and Day

Ray Heindorf

Max Steiner

Blue Skies

Robert Emmett Dolan

Centennial Summer

Alfred Newman

Winner

The Best Years of Our Lives

Nominated

The Yearling

Henry V

It's a Wonderful Life

The Razor's Edge

Winner

The Cat Concerto

Fred Quimby

Nominated

Musical Moments from Chopin

Walter Lantz

Walky Talky Hawky

Edward Selzer

Squatter's Rights

Walt Disney

John Henry and the Inky-Poo

George Pal

Winner

Facing Your Danger

Gordon Hollingshead

Nominated

Golden Horses

Edmund Reek

Smart as a Fox

Gordon Hollingshead

Dive-Hi Champs

Jack Eaton

Sure Cures

Pete Smith

Winner

A Boy and His Dog

Gordon Hollingshead

Nominated

The Luckiest Guy in the World

Jerry Bresler

College Queen

George Templeton

Hiss and Yell

Jules White

Winner

The Jolson Story

John P. Livadary

Nominated

It's a Wonderful Life

John Aalberg

The Best Years of Our Lives

Gordon Sawyer

Winner

The Seventh Veil

Muriel Box

Sydney Box

Nominated

Notorious

Ben Hecht

Road to Utopia

Norman Panama

Melvin Frank

The Blue Dahlia

Raymond Chandler

Children of Paradise

Jacques Prévert

Winner

Vacation from Marriage

Clemence Dane

Nominated

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

John Patrick

To Each His Own

Charles Brackett

The Dark Mirror

Vladimir Pozner

The Stranger

Victor Trivas

Winner

The Best Years of Our Lives

Robert E. Sherwood

Nominated

Brief Encounter

Anthony Havelock-Allan

David Lean

Ronald Neame

Anna and the King of Siam

Sally Benson

Talbot Jennings

The Killers

Anthony Veiller

Rome, Open City

Sergio Amidei

Federico Fellini