Best Picture & Directing
Best Picture
Winner
The Lost Weekend
Charles Brackett, producer
Anchors Aweigh
The Bells of St. Mary's
Mildred Pierce
Spellbound
Best Director
Winner
Billy Wilder
The Lost Weekend
Clarence Brown— National Velvet
Alfred Hitchcock— Spellbound
Leo McCarey— The Bells of St. Mary's
Jean Renoir— The Southerner
Acting
Best Actor
Winner
Ray Milland
The Lost Weekend
Bing Crosby— The Bells of St. Mary's
Gene Kelly— Anchors Aweigh
Gregory Peck— The Keys of the Kingdom
Cornel Wilde— A Song to Remember
Best Actress
Winner
Joan Crawford
Mildred Pierce
Ingrid Bergman— The Bells of St. Mary's
Greer Garson— The Valley of Decision
Jennifer Jones— Love Letters
Gene Tierney— Leave Her to Heaven
Best Supporting Actor
Winner
James Dunn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Michael Chekhov— Spellbound
John Dall— The Corn Is Green
Robert Mitchum— The Story of G.I. Joe
Best Supporting Actress
Winner
Anne Revere
National Velvet
Eve Arden— Mildred Pierce
Ann Blyth— Mildred Pierce
Angela Lansbury— The Picture of Dorian Gray
Joan Lorring— The Corn Is Green
Writing
Best Original Story
Winner
Charles G. Booth
The House on 92nd Street
Best Original Screenplay
Winner
Richard Schweizer
Marie-Louise
Best Screenplay
Winner
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
The Lost Weekend
Music
Best Score (Drama/Comedy)
Winner
Miklos Rozsa
Spellbound
Best Score (Musical)
Winner
Georgie Stoll
Anchors Aweigh
Best Original Song
Winner
"It Might as Well Be Spring" — Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II
State Fair
Technical
Best Cinematography (B&W)
Winner
Harry Stradling
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Best Cinematography (Color)
Winner
Leon Shamroy
Leave Her to Heaven
Best Film Editing
Winner
Robert J. Kern
National Velvet
Art Direction & Costume
Best Art Direction (B&W)
Winner
Wiard Ihnen, A. Roland Fields
Blood on the Sun
Best Art Direction (Color)
Winner
Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegte, Sam Comer
Frenchman's Creek
Sound & Visual Effects
Best Sound Recording
Winner
Stephen Dunn (RKO Radio Studio)
The Bells of St. Mary's
Best Special Effects
Winner
John Fulton (photo), A.W. Johns (sound)
Wonder Man
Documentary & Short Films
Best Animated Short
Winner
Quiet Please!
MGM — Tom & Jerry
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
The True Glory
UK/US joint production — the liberation of Europe