Winner

Fredric March

The Best Years of Our Lives

Nominated

James Stewart

It's a Wonderful Life

Laurence Olivier

Henry V

Gregory Peck

The Yearling

Larry Parks

The Jolson Story

Winner

Harold Russell

The Best Years of Our Lives

Nominated

Claude Rains

Notorious

Charles Coburn

The Green Years

Clifton Webb

The Razor's Edge

William Demarest

The Jolson Story

Winner

Olivia de Havilland

To Each His Own

Nominated

Celia Johnson

Brief Encounter

Jennifer Jones

Duel in the Sun

Rosalind Russell

Sister Kenny

Jane Wyman

The Yearling

Winner

Anne Baxter

The Razor's Edge

Nominated

Flora Robson

Saratoga Trunk

Lillian Gish

Duel in the Sun

Ethel Barrymore

The Spiral Staircase

Gale Sondergaard

Anna and the King of Siam

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

David Lean

Brief Encounter

Frank Capra

It's a Wonderful Life

Clarence Brown

The Yearling

Robert Siodmak

The Killers

Winner

Seeds of Destiny

Nominated

Traffic with the Devil

Life at the Zoo

Atomic Power

Paramount News Issue #37

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 Killers

Arthur Hilton

The Yearling

Harold F. Kress

The Jolson Story

William A. Lyon

It's a Wonderful Life

William Hornbeck

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

Humoresque

Franz Waxman

Anna and the King of Siam

Bernard Herrmann

Henry V

William Walton

The Killers

Miklós Rózsa

Winner

The Jolson Story

Morris Stoloff

Nominated

The Harvey Girls

Lennie Hayton

Blue Skies

Robert Emmett Dolan

Centennial Summer

Alfred Newman

Night and Day

Ray Heindorf

Max Steiner

Winner

The Best Years of Our Lives

Nominated

The Yearling

Henry V

The Razor's Edge

It's a Wonderful Life

Winner

The Cat Concerto

Fred Quimby

Nominated

John Henry and the Inky-Poo

George Pal

Walky Talky Hawky

Edward Selzer

Musical Moments from Chopin

Walter Lantz

Squatter's Rights

Walt Disney

Winner

Facing Your Danger

Gordon Hollingshead

Nominated

Dive-Hi Champs

Jack Eaton

Smart as a Fox

Gordon Hollingshead

Sure Cures

Pete Smith

Golden Horses

Edmund Reek

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

The Best Years of Our Lives

Gordon Sawyer

It's a Wonderful Life

John Aalberg

Winner

The Seventh Veil

Muriel Box

Sydney Box

Nominated

Children of Paradise

Jacques Prévert

Road to Utopia

Norman Panama

Melvin Frank

Notorious

Ben Hecht

The Blue Dahlia

Raymond Chandler

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

The Killers

Anthony Veiller

Anna and the King of Siam

Sally Benson

Talbot Jennings

Rome, Open City

Sergio Amidei

Federico Fellini

Brief Encounter

Anthony Havelock-Allan

David Lean

Ronald Neame