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- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsOlivia de HavillandMontgomery CliftRalph RichardsonA naive young woman falls for a handsome young man her emotionally abusive father suspects is only a fortune hunter.BEST PICTURE
The Heiress
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Battleground
On the Town
The Third Man
All the King's Men
Champion
A Letter to Three Wives
Twelve O'Clock High
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsOlivia de HavillandMontgomery CliftRalph RichardsonA naive young woman falls for a handsome young man her emotionally abusive father suspects is only a fortune hunter.BEST DIRECTOR
William Wyler - The Heiress
Carol Reed - The Third Man
Robert Hamer - Kind Hearts and Coronets
William A. Wellman - Battleground
Robert Rossen - All the King's Men
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - A Letter to Three Wives - DirectorRobert RossenStarsBroderick CrawfordJohn IrelandJoanne DruThe rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.BEST ACTOR
Broderick Crawford - All the King's Men
Kirk Douglas - Champion
Dennis Price - Kind Hearts and Coronets
John Ireland - All the King's Men
Joseph Cotten - The Third Man
Gregory Peck - Twelve O'Clock High - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsOlivia de HavillandMontgomery CliftRalph RichardsonA naive young woman falls for a handsome young man her emotionally abusive father suspects is only a fortune hunter.BEST ACTRESS
Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress
Linda Darnell - A Letter to Three Wives
Jeanne Crain - A Letter to Three Wives
Ann Sothern - A Letter to Three Wives
June Allyson - Little Women - DirectorRobert HamerStarsDennis PriceAlec GuinnessValerie HobsonA distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alec Guinness - Kind Hearts and Coronets
Ralph Richardson - The Heiress
George Murphy - Battleground
Arthur Kennedy - Champion
Orson Welles - The Third Man
James Whitmore - Battleground - DirectorRobert RossenStarsBroderick CrawfordJohn IrelandJoanne DruThe rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mercedes McCambridge - All the King's Men
Miriam Hopkins - The Heiress
Joan Greenwood - Kind Hearts and Coronets
Valerie Hobson - Kind Hearts and Coronets
Ruth Roman - Champion
Marilyn Maxwell - Champion - DirectorRobert RossenStarsBroderick CrawfordJohn IrelandJoanne DruThe rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.BEST CASTING
All the King's Men
The Heiress
A Letter to Three Wives
Champion
Battleground
Twelve O'Clock High - DirectorCarol ReedStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenAlida ValliPulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Third Man
Battleground - DirectorRobert HamerStarsDennis PriceAlec GuinnessValerie HobsonA distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Kind Hearts and Coronets
A Letter to Three Wives
All the King's Men
The Heiress
Champion
Little Women - DirectorCarol ReedStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenAlida ValliPulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.BEST TITLES/CREDITS DESIGN
The Third Man
Little Women
Samson and Delilah
Battleground
On the Town
Kind Hearts and Coronets - DirectorMark RobsonStarsKirk DouglasArthur KennedyMarilyn MaxwellBoxer Midge Kelly rises to fame...mainly by stepping on other people.BEST EDITING
Champion
Battleground
The Third Man
Twelve O'Clock High
All the King's Men
Samson and Delilah - DirectorCarol ReedStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenAlida ValliPulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Third Man
Champion
Battleground
The Heiress
Little Women
Twelve O'Clock High - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsOlivia de HavillandMontgomery CliftRalph RichardsonA naive young woman falls for a handsome young man her emotionally abusive father suspects is only a fortune hunter.BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Heiress
Samson and Delilah
Little Women
Kind Hearts and Coronets
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
On the Town - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsOlivia de HavillandMontgomery CliftRalph RichardsonA naive young woman falls for a handsome young man her emotionally abusive father suspects is only a fortune hunter.BEST COSTUME DESIGN
The Heiress
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Little Women
Samson and Delilah
On the Town
A Letter to Three Women - DirectorRobert HamerStarsDennis PriceAlec GuinnessValerie HobsonA distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.BEST MAKE-UP & HAIR
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Samson and Delilah
Champion
The Heiress
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Battleground - DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsHedy LamarrVictor MatureGeorge SandersWhen strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Samson and Delilah
Twelve O'clock High
Battleground
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon - DirectorCarol ReedStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenAlida ValliPulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.BEST SCORE
The Third Man
The Heiress
Little Women
Champion
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Samson and Delilah - DirectorStanley DonenGene KellyStarsGene KellyFrank SinatraBetty GarrettThree sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.BEST SOUNDTRACK/ADAPTED SCORE
On the Town
Kind Hearts and Coronets - DirectorStanley DonenGene KellyStarsGene KellyFrank SinatraBetty GarrettThree sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.BEST SONG
On the Town - "Prehistoric Man" - DirectorStanley DonenGene KellyStarsGene KellyFrank SinatraBetty GarrettThree sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.BEST DANCE CHOREOGRAPHY
On the Town - DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsVan JohnsonJohn HodiakRicardo MontalbanTrue tale about a squad of the 101st Airborne Division coping with being trapped by the Germans in the besieged city of Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944.BEST SOUND
Battleground
Samson and Delilah
Twelve O'Clock High
On the Town
Champion
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon - DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsVan JohnsonJohn HodiakRicardo MontalbanTrue tale about a squad of the 101st Airborne Division coping with being trapped by the Germans in the besieged city of Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944.BEST SOUND EDITING
Battleground
Samson and Delilah
Twelve O'Clock High
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Champion - DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsVan JohnsonJohn HodiakRicardo MontalbanTrue tale about a squad of the 101st Airborne Division coping with being trapped by the Germans in the besieged city of Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944.BEST STUNTS
Battleground
Twelve O'Clock High
Samson and Delilah
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Champion