BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE
The Third Man – WINNER!
- White Heat
- Kind Hearts and Coronets
- The Heiress
- On the Town
BEST NON-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE
Banshun / Late Spring – WINNER!
- Jour de fête
- Le Silence de la Mer / The Silence of the Sea
- Nora inu / Stray Dog
- Cisaruv slavík / The Emperor’s Nightingale
BEST ACTOR
James Cagney (White Heat) – WINNER!
- Richard Todd (The Hasty Heart)
- Toshiro Mifune (Stray Dog)
- Joseph Cotten (The Third Man)
- Broderick Crawford (All the King’s Men)
- Kirk Douglas (Champion)
- Chishu Ryu (Late Spring)
BEST ACTRESS
Olivia de Havilland (The Heiress) – WINNER!
- Setsuko Hara (Late Spring)
- Silvana Mangano (Bitter Rice)
- Patricia Neal (The Fountainhead)
- Ingrid Bergman (Under Capricorn)
- Katharine Hepburn (Adam’s Rib)
- Deborah Kerr (Edward, My Son)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alec Guinness (Kind Hearts and Coronets) – WINNER!
- Ralph Richardson (The Heiress)
- Orson Welles (The Third Man)
- Juano Hernandez (Intruder in the Dust)
- Paul Douglas (A Letter to Three Wives)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Margaret Wycherly (White Heat) – WINNER!
- Betty Garrett (On the Town)
- Mercedes McCambridge (All the King’s Men)
- Elizabeth Patterson (Intruder in the Dust)
- Judy Holliday (Adam’s Rib)
- Ann Miller (On the Town)
- Nicole Stéphane (Le Silence de la Mer)
BEST DIRECTOR
Carol Reed (The Third Man) – WINNER!
- William Wyler (The Heiress)
- Yasujiro Ozu (Late Spring)
- Raoul Walsh (White Heat)
- Robert Hamer (Kind Hearts and Coronets)
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Graham Greene (The Third Man) – WINNER!
- Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts & Virginia Kellogg (White Heat)
- T.E.B. Clarke (Passport to Pimlico)
- Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani & Gianni Puccini (Bitter Rice)
- Garson Kanin & Ruth Gordon (Adam’s Rib)
- Robert Pirosh (Battleground)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Robert Hamer & John Dighton [from the novel "Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal" by Roy Horniman] (Kind Hearts and Coronets) – WINNER!
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz & Vera Caspary [from the novel by John Klempner] (A Letter to Three Wives)
- Augustus Goetz & Ruth Goetz [from the novel "Washington Square" by Henry James] (The Heiress)
- Kogo Noda & Yasujiro Ozu [from the novel "Father and Daughter" by Kazuo Hirotsu] (Late Spring)
- Robert Rossen [from the novel by Robert Penn Warren] (All the King’s Men)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Third Man (Robert Krasker) – WINNER!
- The Heiress (Leo Tover)
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Winton C. Hoch)
- Le Silence de la Mer (Henri Decaë)
- The Passionate Friends (Guy Green)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Third Man (Anton Karas) – WINNER!
- Samson and Delilah (Victor Young)
- The Fountainhead (Max Steiner)
- Jour de fête (Jean Yatove)
- The Queen of Spades (Georges Auric)
- The Red Pony (Aaron Copland)
- Beyond the Forest (Max Steiner)
- White Heat (Max Steiner)
BEST ADAPTED/SONG/MUSICAL SCORE
The Heiress (Aaron Copland – original music; Van Cleave – orchestrator) – 28 votes (16 Adapted, 12 Original) – WINNER!
- On the Town (Leonard Bernstein – adapted songs and compositions; Roger Edens – original songs; Betty Comden & Adolph Green – adapted and original lyrics; Lennie Hayton – musical director)
- Bitter Rice (uncredited)
- Jolson Sings Again (Harry M. Woods, Harry Warren, Al Dubin, et. al. – adapted songs; Morris Stoloff – musical director)
- Neptune’s Daughter (Frank Loesser – original songs; George Stoll – musical director)
- Take Me Out to the Ballgame (Roger Edens, Betty Comden & Adolph Green – original songs; Adolph Deutsch – musical director)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Baby, It’s Cold Outside”, Frank Loesser (Neptune’s Daughter) – WINNER!
- “Prehistoric Man”, Roger Edens, Betty Comden & Adolph Green (On the Town)
- “Count on Me”, Roger Edens, Betty Comden & Adolph Green (On the Town)
- “The Headless Horseman”, Don Raye & Gene de Paul (The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad/The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)
- “Ichabod”, Don Raye & Gene de Paul (The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad/The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)
- “My Foolish Heart”, Victor Young & Ned Washington (My Foolish Heart)
- “Through a Long and Sleepless Night”, Alfred Newman & Mack Gordon (Come to the Stable)
- “You’re Awful”, Roger Edens, Betty Comden & Adolph Green (On the Town)
BEST SOUND
Twelve O’Clock High – WINNER!
- White Heat
- The Third Man
- Stray Dog
- Battleground
BEST FILM EDITING
The Third Man (Oswald Hafenrichter) – WINNER!
- White Heat (Owen Marks)
- Le Silence de la Mer (Henri Decaë and Jean-Pierre Melville)
- Stray Dog (Toshio Gotô and Yoshi Sugihara)
- Twelve O’Clock High (Barbara McLean)
BEST ART DIRECTION
The Heiress (Harry Horner – production designer; Harry Horner and John Meehan – art directors; Emile Kuri – set decorator) – WINNER!
- The Third Man (Joseph Bato, John Hawkesworth and Vincent Korda – set designer; Ferdinand Bellan and James Sawyer – art directors; Dario Simoni – set decorator)
- Jour de fête (René Moulaert – set decorator; André Pierdel – property master)
- Madame Bovary (Cedric Gibbons and Jack Martin Smith – art directors; Richard Pefferle and Edwin B. Willis – set decorators)
- Samson and Delilah (Hans Dreier, Walter H. Tyler and John Meehan – art directors; Sam Comer, Ray Moyer and Maurice Goodman – set decorators)
- Fabiola (Veniero Colasanti – set decorator; Giuseppe Della Torre – art advisor; Demofilo Fidani – assistant production designer; Franco Lolli and Aldo Tommasini – set designers)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
The Heiress (Edith Head & Gile Steele) – Winner!
- On the Town (Helen Rose)
- Madame Bovary (Walter Plunkett and Valles)
- Kind Hearts and Coronets (Anthony Mandleson)
- Under Capricorn (Roger K. Furse and Julia Squire)
- Prince of Foxes (Vittorio Nino Novarrese)
BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Mighty Joe Young (Willis O’Brien, Ray Harryhausen, et. al.) – WINNER!
- Twelve O’Clock High (Fred Sersen)
- Battleground (Uncredited)
- White Heat (Roy Davidson and Hans F. Koenekamp)
- Samson and Delilah (Barney Wolff)
BEST SHORT FILM
Bad Luck Blackie – Winner!
- Begone Dull Care
- Le sang des bêtes / The Blood of the Beasts
- Long-Haired Hare
- Fast and Furry-ous
- For Scent-imental Reasons
- High Diving Hare
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Little Rural Riding Hood
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly for the choreography of On the Town – WINNER!
