Rank / Archers / Eagle-Lion; Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
Warner Bros; Henry Blanke
Also Considered:
EASTER PARADE (Arthur Freed); A FOREIGN AFFAIR
(Charles Brackett); FORT APACHE (John Ford & Merian C. Cooper); I REMEMBER MAMA (Harriet Parsons); THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (Orson Welles); MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE
(Norman Panama & Melvin Frank); PORTRAIT OF JENNIE (David O. Selznick); THE SEARCH (Lazar Wechsler); THE SNAKE PIT (Anatole Litvak & Robert Bassler); THE THREE MUSKETEERS
(Pandro S. Berman)
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Lew Ayres as "Dr. Robert Richardson" - JOHNNY
BELINDA
Humphrey Bogart as "Frank McCloud" - KEY
LARGO
Montgomery Clift as "Ralph Stevenson" - THE
SEARCH
Dan Dailey as "Skid Johnson" - WHEN MY BABY SMILES AT
ME
Robert Donat as "Sir Robert Morton" - THE WINSLOW
BOY
Van Heflin as "Frank R. Enley" - ACT OF
VIOLENCE
William Holden as "Al Walker" - THE DARK
PAST
Lamberto Maggiorani as "Antonio Ricci" - BICYCLE
THIEVES
Laurence Olivier as "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark" - HAMLET
Clifton Webb as "Lynn Belvedere" - SITTING
PRETTY
Also Considered:
Fred Astaire (EASTER PARADE); Humphrey Bogart (THE
TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE); Joseph Cotten (PORTRAIT OF JENNIE); John Dall (ROPE); John Garfield (FORCE OF EVIL); Cary Grant (MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE); Fredric March (ANOTHER
PART OF THE FOREST); Toshiro Mifune (DRUNKEN ANGEL); Ralph Richardson (THE FALLEN IDOL); John Wayne (RED RIVER)
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Jean Arthur as "Phoebe Frost" - A FOREIGN
AFFAIR
Ingrid Bergman as "Joan of Arc" - JOAN OF
ARC
Olivia de Havilland as "Virginia Stuart Cunningham" - THE
SNAKE PIT
Irene Dunne as "Mama" - I REMEMBER MAMA
Joan Fontaine as "Lisa Berndle" - LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN
WOMAN
Rita Hayworth as "Elsa Bannister" - THE LADY FROM
SHANGHAI
Lilli Palmer as "Tisa Kepes" - MY GIRL TISA
Moira Shearer as "Victoria Page" - THE RED
SHOES
Barbara Stanwyck as "Leona Stevenson" - SORRY, WRONG
NUMBER
Jane Wyman as "Belinda McDonald" - JOHNNY BELINDA
Also Considered:
Leslie Brooks (BLONDE ICE); Judy Garland (EASTER PARADE);
Valerie Hobson (BLANCHE FURY); Glynis Johns (MIRANDA); Jennifer Jones (PORTRAIT OF JENNIE); Margaret Leighton (THE WINSLOW BOY); Myrna Loy (MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE); Gabi Morlay
(GIGI); Rosalind Russell (THE VELVET TOUCH); Teresa Wright (ENCHANTMENT)
BEST DIRECTOR
Jules Dassin - THE NAKED CITY
Vittorio de Sica - BICYCLE THIEVES
Howard Hawks - RED RIVER
Alfred Hitchcock - ROPE
John Huston - THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
David Lean - OLIVER TWIST
Jean Negulesco - JOHNNY BELINDA
Laurence Olivier - HAMLET
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger - THE RED SHOES
Carol Reed - THE FALLEN IDOL
Also Considered:
John Ford (FORT APACHE); John Huston (KEY LARGO); Anatole
Litvak (THE SNAKE PIT); Max Ophüls (LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN); H.C. Potter (MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE); George Sidney (THE THREE MUSKETEERS); George Stevens (I REMEMBER MAMA);
Orson Welles (THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI); Billy Wilder (A FOREIGN AFFAIR); Fred Zinnemann (THE SEARCH)
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Charles Bickford as "Black McDonald" - JOHNNY
BELINDA
Lee J. Cobb as "Dr. Andrew Collins" - THE DARK
PAST
Jose Ferrer as "Charles VII" - JOAN OF ARC
Oscar Homolka as "Uncle Chris" - I REMEMBER
MAMA
Walter Huston as "Howard" - THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
Ivan Jandl as "Karel Malik" - THE SEARCH
Cecil Kellaway as "Horace the Leprechaun" - THE LUCK OF
THE IRISH
Robert Newton as "Bill Sykes" - OLIVER TWIST
Edward G. Robinson as "Johnny Rocco" - KEY
LARGO
Enzo Staiola as "Bruno Ricci" - BICYCLE
THIEVES
Also Considered:
Montgomery Clift (RED RIVER); Dan Duryea (ANOTHER PART OF
THE FOREST); Thomas Gomez (FORCE OF EVIL); Alec Guinness (OLIVER TWIST); Cedric Hardwicke (THE WINSLOW BOY); James Robertson Justice (VICE VERSA); Robert Ryan (ACT OF VIOLENCE); James Stewart
(ROPE); Basil Sydney (HAMLET); Richard Widmark (ROAD HOUSE)
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Stella Adler as "Mrs. Faludi" - MY GIRL TISA
Mary Astor as "Pat" - ACT OF VIOLENCE
Barbara Bel Geddes as "Katrin" - I REMEMBER
MAMA
Ellen Corby as "Aunt Trina" - I REMEMBER
MAMA
Marlene Dietrich as "Erika Von Schluetow" - A FOREIGN
AFFAIR
Agnes Moorehead as "Aggie McDonald" - JOHNNY
BELINDA
Kasia Orzazewski as "Tillie Wiecek" - CALL NORTHSIDE
777
Jean Simmons as "Ophelia" - HAMLET
Shirley Temple as "Philadelphia Thursday" - FORT
APACHE
Claire Trevor as "Gaye Dawn" - KEY LARGO
Also Considered:
Ethel Barrymore (PORTRAIT OF JENNIE); Anne Blyth (ANOTHER
PART OF THE FOREST); Florence Eldridge (ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST); Nina Foch (THE DARK PAST); Eileen Herlie (HAMLET); Elsa Lanchester (THE BIG CLOCK); Angela Lansbury (STATE OF THE UNION);
Barbara Lawrence (UNFAITHFULLY YOURS); Kay Walsh (OLIVER TWIST); Maria Windsor (FORCE OF EVIL)
BEST ENSEMBLE
CAST
EASTER PARADE
HAMLET
I REMEMBER MAMA
JOHNNY BELINDA
KEY LARGO
OLIVER TWIST
THE RED SHOES
THE SNAKE PIT
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
THE WINSLOW BOY
Also Considered:
ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST; BICYCLE THIEVES; THE FALLEN IDOL;
FORCE OF EVIL; A FOREIGN AFFAIR; JOAN OF ARC; MY GIRL TISA; PORTRAIT OF JENNIE; ROPE; THE SEARCH
BEST SCREENPLAY - ADAPTATION
THE FALLEN IDOL
Graham Greene
JOHNNY BELINDA
Irma Von Cube & Allen Vincent
KEY LARGO
Richard Brooks & John Huston
THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI
Orson Welles
LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN
Howard Koch
MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE
Norman Panama & Melvin Frank
RED RIVER
Borden Chase & Charles Schnee
ROPE
Arthur Laurents & Hume Cronyn
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
John Huston
THE WINSLOW BOY
Terence Rattigan & Anatole de Grunwald
Also Considered:
ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST (Vladimir Pozner); THE DARK
PAST (Philip MacDonald, Michael Blankfort & Albert Duffy); FORCE OF EVIL (Abraham Polonsky & Ira Wolfert); HAMLET (Laurence Olivier); I REMEMBER MAMA (DeWitt Bodeen); OLIVER TWIST
(David Lean & Stanley Haynes); SITTING PRETTY (F. Hugh Herbert); THE SNAKE PIT (Frank Partos & Millen Brand); SPRING IN PARK LANE (Nicholas Phipps); STATE OF THE UNION (Anthony
Veiller & Myles Connolly)
BEST SCREENPLAY - ORIGINAL
ACT OF VIOLENCE
Robert L. Richards & Collier Young
BICYCLE THIEVES
Cesare Zavattini
CALL NORTHSIDE 777
Jay Dratler & Jerome Cady
A FOREIGN AFFAIR
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder & Richard L.
Breen
LOUISIANA STORY
Frances Flaherty & Robert Flaherty
THE NAKED CITY
Marvin Wald & Albert Maltz
THE PALEFACE
Edmund Hartman & Frank Tashlin
THE RED SHOES
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
THE SEARCH
Richard Schweitzer & David Wechsler
UNFAITHFULLY YOURS
Preston Sturges
Also Considered:
ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (Robert Lees,
Frederic I. Rinaldo & John Grant); BERLIN EXPRESS (Harold Medford & Curt Siodmak); DRUNKEN ANGEL (Akira Kurosawa & Keinosuke Uekusa); EASTER PARADE (Sidney Sheldon, Frances
Goodrich & Albert Hackett); GOOD SAM (Leo McCarey, John Klorer & Ken Englund); HE WALKED BY NIGHT (Crane Wilbur & John C. Higgins); RAW DEAL (Leopold Atlas & John C. Higgins);
THREE GODFATHERS (Laurence Stallings & Frank S. Nugent); THE VELVET TOUCH (Leo Rosten); YELLOW SKY (W.R. Burnett & Lamar Trotti)
BEST ANIMATED FILM
THE CAT THAT HATED PEOPLE
Tex Avery
THE LITTLE ORPHAN
Frederick Quimby
MELODY TIME
Walt Disney
MOUSE WRECKERS
Edward Selzer
WET BLANKET POLICY
Edward Selzer
Also Considered:
BUCCANEER BUNNY (Edward Selzer); DRIP DIPPY DONALD (Walt
Disney); I TAW A PUTTY TAT (Edward Selzer); MICKEY & THE SEAL (Walt Disney); TEA FOR TWO HUNDRED (Walt Disney)
BEST ART DIRECTION - SET DECORATION
ADVENTURES OF DON JUAN
Edward Carrere; Lyle Reifsnider
HAMLET
Roger K. Furse & Carmen Dillon
JOAN OF ARC
Richard Day; Joseph Kish & Edwin Roberts
JOHNNY BELINDA
Robert M. Haas; William Wallace
LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN
Alexander Golitzen; Ruby Levitt & Russell
Gausman
MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE
Carroll Clark & Albert D'Agostino; Darrell Silvera &
Harley Miller
PORTRAIT OF JENNIE
J. McMillan Johnson; Claude Carpenter
THE RED SHOES
Hein Heckroth & Arthur Lawson
SARABAND FOR DEAD LOVERS
Michael Relph, William Kellner & Jim Morahan
THE THREE MUSKETEERS
Malcolm Brown & Cedric Gibbons; Edwin B.
Willis
Also Considered:
ANNA KARENINA (Andrej Andrejew); CASBAH (John de Cuir
& Bernard Herzbrun; Oliver Emert & Russell Gausman); EASTER PARADE (Cedric Gibbons & Jack Martin Smith; Edwin B. Willis); THE EMPEROR WALTZ (Hans Dreier & Franz Bachelin; Sam
Comer & Paul Huldschinsky); THE FALLEN ANGEL (John Hawkesworth; Vincent Korda); A FOREIGN AFFAIR (Hans Dreier & Walter Tyler; Sam Comer & Ross Dowd); I REMEMBER MAMA (Carroll
Clark & Albert D'Agostino; Emile Kuri & Darrell Silvera); THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (Sturges Kane & Stephen Goosson; Wilbur Menefee & Herman Schoenbrun); THE LOVES OF CARMEN
(Cary Odell & Stephen Goosson; William Kiernan & Wilbur Menefee); OLIVER TWIST (John Bryan; T. Hopewell Ash)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
GREEN GRASS OF WYOMING
Charles G. Clarke
HE WALKED BY NIGHT
John Alton
JOAN OF ARC
Joseph Valentine, William V. Skall & Winton
Hoch
JOHNNY BELINDA
Ted McCord
KEY LARGO
Karl Freund
THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI
Charles Lawton, Jr.
THE NAKED CITY
William Daniels
PORTRAIT OF JENNIE
Joseph August
RED RIVER
Russell Harlan
THE RED SHOES
Jack Cardiff
Also Considered:
BICYCLE THIEVES (Carlo Montuori); CALL NORTHSIDE 777 (Joe
MacDonald); FORCE OF EVIL (George Barnes); A FOREIGN AFFAIR (Charles B. Lang); FORT APACHE (Archie Stout); THE LOVES OF CARMEN (William Snyder); OLIVER TWIST (Guy Green); SUMMER HOLIDAY
(Charles Schoenbaum); THE THREE MUSKETEERS (Robert Planck); THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (Ted McCord)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
ADVENTURES OF DON JUAN
Leah Rhodes, Travilla & Marjorie Best
ANNA KARENINA
Cecil Beaton
B.F.'S DAUGHTER
Irene Sharaff
THE EMPEROR WALTZ
Edith Head & Gile Steele
HAMLET
Roger K. Furse & Elizabeth Hennings
JOAN OF ARC
Dorothy Jeakins & Barbara Karinska
THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI
Jean Louis
OLIVER TWIST
Margaret Furse
THE RED SHOES
Hein Heckroth
THE THREE MUSKETEERS
Walter Plunkett
Also Considered:
EASTER PARADE (Irene & Valles); A FOREIGN AFFAIR
(Edith Head); FORT APACHE (Michael Meyers & Ann Peck); I REMEMBER MAMA (Edward Stevenson & Gile Steele); LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (Travis Banton); THE LOVES OF CARMEN (Jean
Louis); MACBETH (Fred Ritter); PAGLIACCI (Vittorio Nino Novarese); THE PIRATE (Tom Keogh & Barbara Karinska); PORTRAIT OF JENNIE (Lucinda Ballard & Anna Hill Johnstone)
BEST FILM EDITING
THE FALLEN IDOL
Oswald Hafenrichter
JOAN OF ARC
Frank Sullivan
JOHNNY BELINDA
David Weisbart
THE NAKED CITY
Paul Weatherwax
OLIVER TWIST
Jack Harris
PORTRAIT OF JENNIE
William Morgan & Gerald Wilson
RED RIVER
Christian Nyby
THE RED SHOES
Reginald Mills
ROPE
William Ziegler
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
Owen Marks
Also Considered:
BICYCLE THIEVES (Eraldo Da Roma); CALL NORTHSIDE 777 (J.
Watson Webb); ENCHANTMENT (Daniel Mandell); FORCE OF EVIL (Arthur Seid); FORT APACHE (Jack Murray); HAMLET (Helga Cranston); KEY LARGO (Rudi Fehr); THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (Viola Lawrence);
THE SNAKE PIT (Dorothy Spencer); THE THREE MUSKETEERS (George Boemler & Robert J. Kern)
BEST FILM IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
BICYCLE THIEVES
Italy; Vittorio de Sica
DÉDÉE D'ANVERS
France; Yves Allegret
DRUNKEN ANGEL
Japan; Akira Kurosawa
THE EAGLE WITH TWO HEADS
France; Jean Cocteau
GIGI
France; Jacqueline Audry
GOD REWARD YOU
Argentina; Luis Cesar Amadori
NOSOTROS, LOS POBRES (WE THE POOR)
Mexico; Ismael Rodriguez
PAGLIACCI
Italy; Mario Costa
PORT OF CALL
Sweden; Ingmar Bergman)
SPRING IN A SMALL TOWN
China; Fei Mu
Also Considered:
BERLIN BALLADE (Germany; Robert A. Stemmle); GERMANY YEAR
ZERO (Italy; Roberto Rossellini); A HEN IN THE WIND (Japan; Yasujiro Ozu); THE LAME DEVIL (France; Sacha Guitry); LES AMANTS DE VERONE (France; Andre Cayette); MELA (India; S.A. Sunny);
MYRIAD OF LIGHT (China; Fu Chen); ON OUR OWN LAND (Yugoslavia; France Stiglic); THE SEARCH (Switzerland; Fred Zinnemann); UNDER THE SUN OF ROME (Italy; Renato Castellani)
BEST MAKEUP
HAMLET
Tony Sforzini
OLIVER TWIST
Stuart Freeborn
THE RED SHOES
George Blackler, Eric Carter & Ernest Gasser
Also Considered:
ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTIEN (Bud Westmore); EASTER
PARADE (Jack Dawn); JOAN OF ARC (Jack Pierce)
BEST ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE
ANNA KARENINA
Constant Lambert
BICYCLE THIEVES
Alessandro Cicognini
FORCE OF EVIL
David Raksin
JOAN OF ARC
Hugo Friedhofer
JOHNNY BELINDA
Max Steiner
PORTRAIT OF JENNIE
Dimitri Tiomkin
RED RIVER
Dimitri Tiomkin
THE SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR
Miklos Rozsa
THE SNAKE PIT
Alfred Newman
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
Max Steiner
Also Considered:
CALL NORTHSIDE 777 (Alfred Newman); ENCHANTMENT (Hugo
Friedhofer); FORT APACHE (Richard Hageman); HAMLET (William Walton); KEY LARGO (Max Steiner); THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (Heinz Roemheld); THE NAKED CITY (Frank Skinner & Miklos Rozsa);
OLIVER TWIST (Arnold Bax); ROPE (David Buttolph); THE THREE MUSKETEERS (Herbert Stothart)
BEST ORIGINAL MUSICAL OR COMEDY SCORE
CASBAH
Harold Arlen
A DATE WITH JUDY
George Stoll
EASTER PARADE
Johnny Green & Roger Edens
THE EMPEROR WALTZ
Victor Young
MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE
Leigh Harline
THE PALEFACE
Victor Young
THE PIRATE
Lennie Hayton
THE RED SHOES
Brian Easdale
ROMANCE ON THE HIGH SEAS
Ray Heindorf
WHEN MY BABY SMILES AT ME
Alfred Newman
Also Considered:
APRIL SHOWERS (Ray Heindorf & Max Steiner); THE BOY
WITH GREEN HAIR (Leigh Harline); A FOREIGN AFFAIR (Frederick Hollander); THE LUCK OF THE IRISH (Cyril Mockridge); MISS TATLOCK'S MILLIONS (Victor Young); PAGLIACCI (Giuseppe Morelli); SITTING
PRETTY (Victor Young); STATE OF THE UNION (Victor Young); THAT LADY IN ERMINE (Alfred Newman); UNFAITHFULLY YOURS (Alfred Newman)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Buttons & Bows" - THE PALEFACE
Jay Livingston & Ray Evans
"A Couple Of Swells" - EASTER PARADE
Irving Berlin
"For Every Man There's A Woman" - CASBAH
Harold Arlen & Leo Robin
"I Love A Piano" - EASTER PARADE
Irving Berlin
"It's A Most Unusual Day" - A DATE WITH
JUDY
Jimmy McHugh & Sammy Cahn
"It's Magic" - ROMANCE ON THE HIGH SEAS
Jule Styne & Sammy Cahn
"Mack The Black" - THE PIRATE
Cole Porter
"Steppin' Out With My Baby" - EASTER
PARADE
Irving Berlin
"This Is The Moment" - THAT LADY IN
ERMINE
Frederick Hollander & Leo Robin
"The Woody Woodpecker Song" - WET BLANKET POLICY
Ramsay Idress & George Tibbles
Also Considered:
"Afraid To Fall In Love" - SUMMER HOLIDAY (Harry Warren
& Ralph Blane); "Forever & Always" - JUNGLE PATROL (Al Rinker & Floyd Huddlestone); "Illusions" - A FOREIGN AFFAIR (Frederick Hollander); "It Only Happens When I Dance With You" -
EASTER PARADE (Irving Berlin); "Jennie's Song" - PORTRAIT OF JENNIE (Bernard Herrmann & Robert Nathan); "Love Of My Life" - THE PIRATE (Cole Porter); "The Ruins Of Berlin" - A FOREIGN
AFFAIR (Frederick Hollander); "Run, Run, Run" - ROMANCE ON THE HIGH SEAS (Jule Styne & Sammy Cahn); "A Song Is Born" - A SONG IS BORN (Gene de Paul & Don Raye); "There's Something
About Midnight" - THAT LADY IN ERMINE (Frederick Hollander & Leo Robin)
BEST SOUND
DEEP WATERS
Bernard Freericks & Roger Heman, Sr.
EASTER PARADE
Douglas Shearer
FORT APACHE
Joseph Kane & Frank Webster
JOHNNY BELINDA
Charles Lang
MOONRISE
Earl Crain, Sr & Howard Wilson
THE NAKED CITY
Leslie I. Carey
RED RIVER
Gordon E. Sawyer
THE SNAKE PIT
Thomas Moulton
THE THREE MUSKETEERS
Douglas Shearer
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
Robert B. Lee
Also Considered:
CALL NORTHSIDE 777 (W.D. Flick & Roger Heman); COMMAND
DECISION (Douglas Shearer); HAMLET (C.C. Stevens); JOAN OF ARC (Gene Garvin & William Randall); KEY LARGO (Dolph Thomas); MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE (Clem Portman & Francis
M. Sarver); OLIVER TWIST (Gordon K. McCallum & Stanley Lambourne); PORTRAIT OF JENNIE (Don McKay, James G. Stewart & Charles L. Freeman); THE RED SHOES (Gordon K. McCallum &
Charles Poulton); ROPE
(Al Riggs)
BEST SOUND EFFECTS
Not Awarded This Year
BEST SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
DEEP WATERS
Ralph Hammeras, Fred Sersen & Edward Snyder
PORTRAIT OF JENNIE
Paul Eagler, Russell Shearman & Clarence Silfer
THE RED SHOES
George Gunn, E. Hague & Les Bowie
Also Considered:
ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (David S.
Horsley); BILL & COO (George Burton); FIGHTER SQUADRON (Roy Davidson)
Most Wins:
4 - The Red Shoes
3 - Hamlet
2 - Bicycle Thieves; Red River; The Treasure of the Sierra
Madre
1 - The Cat That Hated People; Joan of Arc; Johnny Belinda;
Key Largo; The Naked City; Oliver Twist; Portrait of Jennie; Wet Blanket Policy
Most Nominations:
13 - Johnny Belinda
12 - The Red Shoes
8 - Hamlet; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
7 - Bicycle Thieves; Joan of Arc; Key Largo; Oliver Twist; Red
River
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