Best Picture & Directing
Best Picture
Winner
All About Eve
Darryl F. Zanuck, producer
Born Yesterday
Father of the Bride
King Solomon's Mines
Sunset Blvd.
Best Director
Winner
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
All About Eve
John Huston— The Asphalt Jungle
Carol Reed— The Third Man
Billy Wilder— Sunset Blvd.
George Cukor— Born Yesterday
Acting
Best Actor
Winner
Jose Ferrer
Cyrano de Bergerac
Louis Calhern— The Magnificent Yankee
William Holden— Sunset Blvd.
James Stewart— Harvey
Spencer Tracy— Father of the Bride
Best Actress
Winner
Judy Holliday
Born Yesterday
Anne Baxter— All About Eve
Bette Davis— All About Eve
Eleanor Parker— Caged
Gloria Swanson— Sunset Blvd.
Best Supporting Actor
Winner
George Sanders
All About Eve
Jeff Chandler— Broken Arrow
Edmund Gwenn— Mister 880
Sam Jaffe— The Asphalt Jungle
Best Supporting Actress
Winner
Josephine Hull
Harvey
Hope Emerson— Caged
Celeste Holm— All About Eve
Thelma Ritter— All About Eve
Writing
Best Story and Screenplay
Winner
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr.
Sunset Blvd.
Best Screenplay
Winner
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
All About Eve
Music
Best Score (Drama/Comedy)
Winner
Franz Waxman
Sunset Blvd.
Best Score (Musical)
Winner
Adolph Deutsch, Roger Edens
Annie Get Your Gun
Best Original Song
Winner
"Mona Lisa" — Ray Evans, Jay Livingston
Captain Carey USA
Technical
Best Cinematography (B&W)
Winner
Robert Krasker
The Third Man
Best Cinematography (Color)
Winner
Robert Surtees
King Solomon's Mines
Best Film Editing
Winner
Ralph E. Winters, Conrad A. Nervig
King Solomon's Mines
Art Direction & Costume
Best Art Direction (B&W)
Winner
Hans Dreier, John Meehan, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
Sunset Blvd.
Best Art Direction (Color)
Winner
Hans Dreier, Walter Tyler, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
Samson and Delilah
Best Costume Design (B&W)
Winner
Edith Head, Charles LeMaire
All About Eve
Best Costume Design (Color)
Winner
Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele, Gwen Wakeling
Samson and Delilah
Sound & Visual Effects
Best Sound Recording
Winner
Douglas Shearer (MGM Sound Dept.)
The Great Caruso
Best Visual Effects
Winner
Lee Zavitz
Destination Moon
Documentary & Short Films
Best Animated Short
Winner
Gerald McBoing-Boing
UPA — a landmark departure from Disney style
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
Kon-Tiki
Norwegian — Thor Heyerdahl's Pacific raft voyage