Best Picture & Directing
Best Picture
Winner
All the King's Men
Robert Rossen, producer
Battleground
The Heiress
A Letter to Three Wives
Twelve O'Clock High
Best Director
Winner
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
All the King's Men — A Letter to Three Wives
Carol Reed— The Fallen Idol
Robert Rossen— All the King's Men
William Wyler— The Heiress
William A. Wellman— Battleground
Acting
Best Actor
Winner
Broderick Crawford
All the King's Men
Kirk Douglas— Champion
Gregory Peck— Twelve O'Clock High
Richard Todd— The Hasty Heart
John Wayne— Sands of Iwo Jima
Best Actress
Winner
Olivia de Havilland
The Heiress
Jeanne Crain— Pinky
Susan Hayward— My Foolish Heart
Deborah Kerr— Edward, My Son
Loretta Young— Come to the Stable
Best Supporting Actor
Winner
Dean Jagger
Twelve O'Clock High
John Ireland— All the King's Men
Arthur Kennedy— Champion
Ralph Richardson— The Heiress
Best Supporting Actress
Winner
Mercedes McCambridge
All the King's Men
Ethel Barrymore— Pinky
Celeste Holm— Come to the Stable
Elsa Lanchester— Come to the Stable
Writing
Best Story and Screenplay
Winner
Robert Pirosh
Battleground
Best Screenplay
Winner
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
A Letter to Three Wives
Music
Best Score (Drama/Comedy)
Winner
Aaron Copland
The Heiress
Best Score (Musical)
Winner
Roger Edens, Lennie Hayton
On the Town
Best Original Song
Winner
"Baby It's Cold Outside" — Frank Loesser
Neptune's Daughter
Technical
Best Cinematography (B&W)
Winner
Paul C. Vogel
Battleground
Best Cinematography (Color)
Winner
Winton Hoch
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Best Film Editing
Winner
Harry Gerstad
Champion
Art Direction & Costume
Best Art Direction (B&W)
Winner
Harry Horner, John Meehan
The Heiress
Best Art Direction (Color)
Winner
Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse
Little Women
Best Costume Design (B&W)
Winner
Edith Head
The Heiress — first Costume Design Oscar
Best Costume Design (Color)
Winner
Leah Rhodes, Travilla, Marjorie Best
Adventures of Don Juan
Documentary & Short Films
Best Animated Short
Winner
For Scent-imental Reasons
Warner Bros. — Pepe Le Pew's first Oscar
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
Daybreak in Udi
British Information Services
Sound & Visual Effects
Best Sound Recording
Winner
20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Dept. (Thomas T. Moulton)
Twelve O Clock High
Best Special Effects
Winner
Mighty Joe Young
Willis O Brien (visual) & Murray Spivack (audible) / RKO