Best Picture & Directing
Best Picture
Winner
Gentleman's Agreement
Darryl F. Zanuck, producer
The Bishop's Wife
Crossfire
Great Expectations
Miracle on 34th Street
Best Director
Winner
Elia Kazan
Gentleman's Agreement
George Cukor— A Double Life
Edward Dmytryk— Crossfire
Henry Koster— The Bishop's Wife
David Lean— Great Expectations
Acting
Best Actor
Winner
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
Winner
Loretta Young
The Farmer's Daughter
Joan Crawford— Possessed
Susan Hayward— Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
Dorothy McGuire— Gentleman's Agreement
Rosalind Russell— Mourning Becomes Electra
Best Supporting Actor
Winner
Edmund Gwenn
Miracle on 34th Street
Charles Bickford— The Farmer's Daughter
Thomas Gomez— Ride the Pink Horse
Robert Ryan— Crossfire
Best Supporting Actress
Winner
Celeste Holm
Gentleman's Agreement
Ethel Barrymore— The Paradine Case
Gloria Grahame— Crossfire
Marjorie Main— The Egg and I
Writing
Best Original Story
Winner
Valentine Davies
Miracle on 34th Street
Best Original Screenplay
Winner
Sidney Sheldon
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Best Screenplay
Winner
George Seaton
Miracle on 34th Street
Music
Best Score (Drama/Comedy)
Winner
Miklos Rozsa
A Double Life
Best Score (Musical)
Winner
Alfred Newman
Mother Wore Tights
Best Original Song
Winner
"Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" — Allie Wrubel, Ray Gilbert
Song of the South
Technical
Best Cinematography (B&W)
Winner
Guy Green
Great Expectations
Best Cinematography (Color)
Winner
Jack Cardiff
Black Narcissus
Best Film Editing
Winner
Francis Lyon, Robert Parrish
Body and Soul
Art Direction & Costume
Best Art Direction (B&W)
Winner
John Bryan, Wilfred Shingleton
Great Expectations
Best Art Direction (Color)
Winner
Alfred Junge
Black Narcissus
Sound & Visual Effects
Best Sound Recording
Winner
Edmund H. Hansen (20th Century Fox Sound Dept.)
The Bishop's Wife
Best Special Effects
Winner
A. Arnold Gillespie, Warren Newcombe, Douglas Shearer
Green Dolphin Street
Documentary & Short Films
Best Animated Short
Winner
Tweetie Pie
Warner Bros. — first Tweety Bird and Sylvester Oscar
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
Design for Death
RKO Radio — exploration of the Japanese military mind