Best Picture & Directing
Best Picture
Winner
Going My Way
Leo McCarey, producer
Double Indemnity
Gaslight
Since You Went Away
Wilson
Best Director
Winner
Leo McCarey
Going My Way
Alfred Hitchcock— Lifeboat
Henry King— Wilson
Otto Preminger— Laura
Billy Wilder— Double Indemnity
Acting
Best Actor
Winner
Bing Crosby
Going My Way
Charles Boyer— Gaslight
Barry Fitzgerald— Going My Way
Cary Grant— None but the Lonely Heart
Alexander Knox— Wilson
Best Actress
Winner
Ingrid Bergman
Gaslight
Barbara Stanwyck— Double Indemnity
Claudette Colbert— Since You Went Away
Greer Garson— Mrs. Parkington
Irene Dunne— Together Again
Best Supporting Actor
Winner
Barry Fitzgerald
Going My Way
Hume Cronyn— The Seventh Cross
Claude Rains— Mr. Skeffington
Clifton Webb— Laura
Best Supporting Actress
Winner
Ethel Barrymore
None but the Lonely Heart
Jennifer Jones— Since You Went Away
Angela Lansbury— Gaslight
Aline MacMahon— Dragon Seed
Writing
Best Original Story
Winner
Leo McCarey
Going My Way
Best Original Screenplay
Winner
Lamar Trotti
Wilson
Best Screenplay
Winner
Frank Butler, Frank Cavett
Going My Way
Music
Best Score (Drama/Comedy)
Winner
Max Steiner
Since You Went Away
Best Score (Musical)
Winner
Morris Stoloff, Carmen Dragon
Cover Girl
Best Original Song
Winner
"Swinging on a Star" — James Van Heusen, Johnny Burke
Going My Way
Technical
Best Cinematography (B&W)
Winner
Joseph LaShelle
Laura
Best Cinematography (Color)
Winner
Leon Shamroy
Wilson
Best Film Editing
Winner
Barbara McLean
Wilson
Art Direction & Costume
Best Art Direction (B&W)
Winner
Cedric Gibbons, William Ferrari
Gaslight
Best Art Direction (Color)
Winner
Wiard Ihnen
Wilson
Sound & Visual Effects
Best Sound Recording
Winner
E.H. Hansen (20th Century Fox Sound Dept.)
Wilson
Best Special Effects
Winner
A. Arnold Gillespie, Donald Jahraus, Warren Newcombe, Douglas Shearer
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Documentary & Short Films
Best Animated Short
Winner
Mouse Trouble
MGM — Tom & Jerry
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress
USAAF — William Wyler's wartime documentary