Winner

Fred Astaire

Three Little Words

Nominated

Dan Dailey

When Willie Comes Marching Home

Harold Lloyd

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

Winner

José Ferrer

Cyrano de Bergerac

Nominated

Louis Calhern

The Magnificent Yankee

James Stewart

Harvey

Winner

Judy Holliday

Born Yesterday

Nominated

Betty Hutton

Annie Get Your Gun

Spring Byington

Louisa

Winner

Gloria Swanson

Sunset Boulevard

Nominated

Judy Holliday

Born Yesterday

Bette Davis

All About Eve

Winner

Cyrano de Bergerac

Franz Planer

Nominated

The Asphalt Jungle

Harold Rosson

Sunset Boulevard

John F. Seitz

Winner

King Solomon's Mines

Robert Surtees

Nominated

Samson and Delilah

George Barnes

Broken Arrow

Ernest Palmer

Winner

Billy Wilder

Sunset Boulevard

Nominated

John Huston

The Asphalt Jungle

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

All About Eve

George Cukor

Born Yesterday

Winner

Broken Arrow

Nominated

The Big Lift

The Next Voice You Hear...

Winner

Sunset Boulevard

Nominated

Born Yesterday

All About Eve

Cyrano de Bergerac

Harvey

Winner

Sunset Boulevard

Franz Waxman

Nominated

A Life of Her Own

Bronislau Kaper

Destination Moon

Leith Stevens

Winner

All About Eve

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Nominated

Sunset Boulevard

Charles Brackett

D.M. Marshman Jr.

Billy Wilder

The Asphalt Jungle

John Huston

Ben Maddow

Winner

Edmund Gwenn

Mister 880

Nominated

Erich von Stroheim

Sunset Boulevard

George Sanders

All About Eve

Winner

Josephine Hull

Harvey

Nominated

Judy Holliday

Adam's Rib

Thelma Ritter

All About Eve

Winner

Tea for Two

Gene Nelson

Nominated

Three Little Words

Debbie Reynolds

Cyrano de Bergerac

Mala Powers