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	1948
	1950

Academy Awards, USA: 1950

Oscar

Date:	23 March
Host:	Paul Douglas (I)
Location:	RKO Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA

Best Picture


Winner:
	All the King's Men (1949) - Robert Rossen Productions
Other Nominees:
	A Letter to Three Wives (1949) - 20th Century Fox Battleground (1949) - M-G-M The Heiress (1949) - Paramount Twelve O'Clock High (1949) - 20th Century Fox

Best Actor in a Leading Role


Winner:
	All the King's Men (1949) - Broderick Crawford (I)
Other Nominees:
	Champion (1949) - Kirk Douglas (I) Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) - John Wayne (I) The Hasty Heart (1949) - Richard Todd (I) Twelve O'Clock High (1949) - Gregory Peck

Best Actress in a Leading Role


Winner:
	The Heiress (1949) - Olivia de Havilland
Other Nominees:
	Come to the Stable (1949) - Loretta Young Edward, My Son (1949) - Deborah Kerr My Foolish Heart (1949) - Susan Hayward (I) Pinky (1949) - Jeanne Crain

Best Actor in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	Twelve O'Clock High (1949) - Dean Jagger
Other Nominees:
	All the King's Men (1949) - John Ireland (I) Battleground (1949) - James Whitmore Champion (1949) - Arthur Kennedy (I) The Heiress (1949) - Ralph Richardson (I)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	All the King's Men (1949) - Mercedes McCambridge
Other Nominees:
	Come to the Stable (1949) - Celeste Holm Come to the Stable (1949) - Elsa Lanchester Pinky (1949) - Ethel Barrymore Pinky (1949) - Ethel Waters

Best Director


Winner:
	A Letter to Three Wives (1949) - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Other Nominees:
	All the King's Men (1949) - Robert Rossen Battleground (1949) - William A. Wellman The Fallen Idol (1948) - Carol Reed (I) The Heiress (1949) - William Wyler

Best Writing, Screenplay


Winner:
	A Letter to Three Wives (1949) - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Other Nominees:
	All the King's Men (1949) - Robert Rossen Champion (1949) - Carl Foreman (I) Ladri di biciclette (1948) - Cesare Zavattini The Fallen Idol (1948) - Graham Greene (I)

Best Writing, Motion Picture Story


Winner:
	The Stratton Story (1949) - Douglas Morrow
Other Nominees:
	Come to the Stable (1949) - Clare Boothe Luce It Happens Every Spring (1949) - Shirley W. Smith; Valentine Davies Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) - Harry Brown (I) White Heat (1949) - Virginia Kellogg

Best Writing, Story and Screenplay


Winner:
	Battleground (1949) - Robert Pirosh
Other Nominees:
	Jolson Sings Again (1949) - Sidney Buchman Paisà (1946) - Alfred Hayes; Federico Fellini; Sergio Amidei; Marcello Pagliero; Roberto Rossellini (I) Passport to Pimlico (1949) - T.E.B. Clarke The Quiet One (1948) - Helen Levitt (II); Janice Loeb; Sidney Meyers

Best Cinematography, Color


Winner:
	She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) - Winton C. Hoch
Other Nominees:
	Jolson Sings Again (1949) - William E. Snyder Little Women (1949) - Robert H. Planck; Charles Edgar Schoenbaum Sand (1949) - Charles G. Clarke (I) The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) - Harry Stradling Sr.

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White


Winner:
	Battleground (1949) - Paul Vogel
Other Nominees:
	Champion (1949) - Franz Planer Come to the Stable (1949) - Joseph LaShelle Prince of Foxes (1949) - Leon Shamroy The Heiress (1949) - Leo Tover

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White


Winner:
	The Heiress (1949) - John Meehan (III); Harry Horner; Emile Kuri
Other Nominees:
	Come to the Stable (1949) - Lyle R. Wheeler; Joseph C. Wright; Thomas Little (I); Paul S. Fox Madame Bovary (1949) - Cedric Gibbons; Jack Martin Smith; Edwin B. Willis; Richard Pefferle

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color


Winner:
	Little Women (1949) - Cedric Gibbons; Paul Groesse; Edwin B. Willis; Jack D. Moore
Other Nominees:
	Adventures of Don Juan (1948) - Edward Carrere; Lyle B. Reifsnider Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948) - Jim Morahan (I); William Kellner; Michael Relph

Best Costume Design, Black-and-White


Winner:
	The Heiress (1949) - Edith Head; Gile Steele
Other Nominees:
	Prince of Foxes (1949) - Vittorio Nino Novarese

Best Costume Design, Color


Winner:
	Adventures of Don Juan (1948) - Leah Rhodes; Travilla; Marjorie Best
Other Nominees:
	Mother Is a Freshman (1949) - Kay Nelson

Best Sound, Recording


Winner:
	Twelve O'Clock High (1949) - 20th Century-Fox Sound Dept.
Other Nominees:
	Once More, My Darling (1949) - Universal-International Sound Dept. Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) - Republic Sound Dept.

Best Film Editing


Winner:
	Champion (1949) - Harry W. Gerstad (II)
Other Nominees:
	All the King's Men (1949) - Robert Parrish (I); Al Clark (I) Battleground (1949) - John D. Dunning Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) - Richard L. Van Enger The Window (1949) - Frederic Knudtson (I)

Best Effects, Special Effects


Winner:
	Mighty Joe Young (1949) - ARKO Productions
Other Nominees:
	Tulsa (1949) - Walter Wanger Pictures

Best Music, Original Song


Winner:
	Neptune's Daughter (1949) - Frank Loesser - For the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
Other Nominees:
	Come to the Stable (1949) - Alfred Newman (music); Mack Gordon (lyrics) - For the song "Through a Long and Sleepless Night" It's a Great Feeling (1949) - Jule Styne (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics) - For the song "It's a Great Feeling" My Foolish Heart (1949) - Victor Young (I) (music); Ned Washington (lyrics) - For the song "My Foolish Heart" So Dear to My Heart (1948) - Eliot Daniel (music); Larry Morey (lyrics) - For the song "Lavender Blue"

Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture


Winner:
	On the Town (1949) - Roger Edens; Lennie Hayton
Other Nominees:
	Jolson Sings Again (1949) - Morris Stoloff; George Duning Look for the Silver Lining (1949) - Ray Heindorf

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture


Winner:
	The Heiress (1949) - Aaron Copland
Other Nominees:
	Beyond the Forest (1949) - Max Steiner (I) Champion (1949) - Dimitri Tiomkin

Best Short Subject, Two-reel


Winner:
	Van Gogh (1948) - Gaston Diehl; Robert Hessens
Other Nominees:
	Boy and the Eagle (1949) - William Lasky Chase of Death (1949) - Irving Allen Snow Carnival (1949) - Gordon Hollingshead The Grass Is Always Greener (1950) - Gordon Hollingshead

Best Short Subject, One-reel


Winner:
	Aquatic House Party (1949) - Jack Eaton
Other Nominees:
	Roller Derby Girl (1949) - Justin Herman (I) So You Think You're Not Guilty (1950) - Gordon Hollingshead Spills and Chills (1949) - Walton C. Ament Water Trix (1949) - Pete Smith (I)

Best Short Subject, Cartoons


Winner:
	For Scent-imental Reasons (1949) - Edward Selzer
Other Nominees:
	Canary Row (1950) - Edward Selzer - The film was withdrawn by the producer. It is thus not to be counted as an official Academy nomination and listed for the purpose of information only. Hatch Up Your Troubles (1949) - Fred Quimby The Magic Fluke (1949) - Stephen Bosustow Toy Tinkers (1949) - Walt Disney

Best Documentary, Short Subjects


Winners:
	A Chance to Live (1949) - Richard De Rochemont So Much for So Little (1949) - Edward Selzer
Other Nominees:
	1848 (1949) - French Cinema General Cooperative The Rising Tide (1949) - St. Francis-Xavier University Nova Scotia

Best Documentary, Features


Winner:
	Daybreak in Udi (1949) - Crown Film Unit
Other Nominees:
	Kenji Comes Home (1949) - Paul F. Heard

Juvenile Award


Awarded to:
	Bobby Driscoll - For the outstanding juvenile actor of 1949.

Honorary Award


Awarded to:
	Fred Astaire - For his unique artistry and his contributions to the technique of musical pictures. Cecil B. DeMille - Distinguished motion picture pioneer for 37 years of brilliant showmanship. Jean Hersholt - For distinguished service to the motion picture industry. Ladri di biciclette (1948) - Italy. Voted by the Academy Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1949.

Academy Award of Merit


Winner:
	Eastman Kodak Co. - For the development and introduction of an improved safety base motion picture film.

Scientific and Engineering Award


Winner:
	- Not awarded.

Technical Achievement Award


Winners:
	International Projector Corp. - For a simplified and self-adjusting take-up device for projection machines. Herbert Britt - For the development and application of formulas and equipment producing artificial snow and ice for dressing motion-picture sets. André Coutant; Jacques Mathot - For the design of the Eclair Camerette. Charles R. Daily; Stephen Csillag; Paramount Studio Engineering, Editorial and Music Departments - For a new precision method of computing variable tempo click tracks. M.B. Paul - For the first successful large-area seamless translucent backgrounds. Loren L. Ryder; Bruce H. Denney; Robert Carr (II); Paramount SSD - For the development and application of the supersonic playback and public address system. Alexander Velcoff (II) - For the application to production of the infrared photographic evaluator.