22nd Academy Awards
Encyclopedia

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Picture
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the motion picture industry. The Best Picture category is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible not only...

Best Director
  • All the King's Men
    All the King's Men (1949 film)
    All the King's Men is a 1949 drama film based on the Robert Penn Warren novel of the same name. It was directed by Robert Rossen and starred Broderick Crawford in the role of Willie Stark.-Plot:...

    • Battleground
    • The Heiress
      The Heiress
      The Heiress is a 1949 American drama film. It was written by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, adapted from their 1947 play of the same title that was based on the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James. The film was directed by William Wyler, with starring performances by Olivia de Havilland as...

    • A Letter to Three Wives
      A Letter to Three Wives
      A Letter to Three Wives is a 1949 film which tells the story of a woman who mails a letter to three women, telling them she has left town with the husband of one of them. It stars Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas in his film debut, Jeffrey Lynn, and Thelma Ritter...

    • Twelve O'Clock High
      Twelve O'Clock High
      Twelve O'Clock High is a 1949 American war film about aircrews in the United States Army's Eighth Air Force who flew daylight bombing missions against Nazi Germany and occupied France during the early days of American involvement in World War II. The film was adapted by Sy Bartlett, Henry King ...

  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career and is best known as the writer-director of All About Eve , which was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won six. He was brother to screenwriter and drama critic Herman J...

     – A Letter to Three Wives
    A Letter to Three Wives
    A Letter to Three Wives is a 1949 film which tells the story of a woman who mails a letter to three women, telling them she has left town with the husband of one of them. It stars Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas in his film debut, Jeffrey Lynn, and Thelma Ritter...

    • Carol Reed
      Carol Reed
      Sir Carol Reed was an English film director best known for Odd Man Out , The Fallen Idol , The Third Man and Oliver!...

       –
      The Fallen Idol
    • Robert Rossen
      Robert Rossen
      Robert Rossen was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer whose film career spanned almost three decades. His 1949 film All the King's Men won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, while Rossen was nominated for an Oscar as Best Director...

       –
      All the King's Men
      All the King's Men (1949 film)
      All the King's Men is a 1949 drama film based on the Robert Penn Warren novel of the same name. It was directed by Robert Rossen and starred Broderick Crawford in the role of Willie Stark.-Plot:...

    • William A. Wellman
      William A. Wellman
      William Augustus Wellman was an American film director. Although Wellman began his film career as an actor, he worked on over 80 films, as director, producer and consultant but most often as a director, notable for his work in crime, adventure and action genre films, often focusing on aviation...

       –
      Battleground
    • William Wyler
      William Wyler
      William Wyler was a leading American motion picture director, producer, and screenwriter.Notable works included Ben-Hur , The Best Years of Our Lives , and Mrs. Miniver , all of which won Wyler Academy Awards for Best Director, and also won Best Picture...

       –
      The Heiress
      The Heiress
      The Heiress is a 1949 American drama film. It was written by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, adapted from their 1947 play of the same title that was based on the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James. The film was directed by William Wyler, with starring performances by Olivia de Havilland as...

  • Best Actor
    Academy Award for Best Actor
    Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...

    Best Actress
    Academy Award for Best Actress
    Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...

  • Broderick Crawford
    Broderick Crawford
    Broderick Crawford was an Academy Award-winning American stage, film, radio and TV actor, often cast in tough-guy roles and best known for his starring role in the television series "Highway Patrol."-Early life:...

     – All the King's Men
    All the King's Men (1949 film)
    All the King's Men is a 1949 drama film based on the Robert Penn Warren novel of the same name. It was directed by Robert Rossen and starred Broderick Crawford in the role of Willie Stark.-Plot:...

    • John Wayne
      John Wayne
      Marion Mitchell Morrison , better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. He epitomized rugged masculinity and became an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height...

       – Sands of Iwo Jima
      Sands of Iwo Jima
      Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 war film that follows a group of United States Marines from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. It stars John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara and Forrest Tucker. The movie was written by Harry Brown and James Edward Grant and directed by Allan Dwan...

    • Kirk Douglas
      Kirk Douglas
      Kirk Douglas is an American stage and film actor, film producer and author. His popular films include Out of the Past , Champion , Ace in the Hole , The Bad and the Beautiful , Lust for Life , Paths of Glory , Gunfight at the O.K...

       – Champion
      Champion (1949 film)
      Champion is an American film noir drama based on a short story by Ring Lardner. Filmed in black-and-white, it recounts the struggles of boxer "Midge" Kelly fighting his own demons while working to achieve success in the boxing ring. The drama was directed by Mark Robson, with cinematography by...

    • Gregory Peck
      Gregory Peck
      Eldred Gregory Peck was an American actor.One of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, Peck continued to play important roles well into the 1980s. His notable performances include that of Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he won an...

       – Twelve O'Clock High
      Twelve O'Clock High
      Twelve O'Clock High is a 1949 American war film about aircrews in the United States Army's Eighth Air Force who flew daylight bombing missions against Nazi Germany and occupied France during the early days of American involvement in World War II. The film was adapted by Sy Bartlett, Henry King ...

    • Richard Todd
      Richard Todd
      Richard Todd OBE was an Irish-born British stage and film actor and soldier.-Early life:Richard Todd was born as Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd in Dublin, Ireland. His father, Andrew William Palethorpe Todd, was an Irish physician and an international Irish rugby player who gained three caps for...

       – The Hasty Heart
      The Hasty Heart
      The Hasty Heart is a 1949 British-American co-production film based on the play of the same name by John Patrick. It tells the story of a group of wounded Allied soldiers in a mobile surgery unit at the end of World War II who, after initial resentment and ostracism, rally around a loner, a...

  • Olivia de Havilland
    Olivia de Havilland
    Olivia Mary de Havilland is a British American film and stage actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1946 and 1949. She is the elder sister of actress Joan Fontaine. The sisters are among the last surviving leading ladies from Hollywood of the 1930s.-Early life:Olivia de Havilland...

     – The Heiress
    The Heiress
    The Heiress is a 1949 American drama film. It was written by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, adapted from their 1947 play of the same title that was based on the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James. The film was directed by William Wyler, with starring performances by Olivia de Havilland as...

    • Susan Hayward
      Susan Hayward
      Susan Hayward was an American actress.After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward travelled to Hollywood in 1937 when open auditions were held for the leading role in Gone with the Wind . Although she was not selected, she secured a film contract, and played several small supporting...

       –
      My Foolish Heart
      My Foolish Heart (film)
      My Foolish Heart is a 1949 American film which tells the story of a woman's reflections on the bad turns her life has taken. It was directed by Mark Robson and stars Dana Andrews and Susan Hayward. Adapted from J. D...

    • Jeanne Crain
      Jeanne Crain
      Jeanne Elizabeth Crain was an American actress.-Early life:Crain was born in Barstow, California, to George A. Crain, a school teacher, and Loretta Carr; she was of Irish heritage on her mother's side, and of English and distant French descent on her father's...

       –
      Pinky
    • Deborah Kerr
      Deborah Kerr
      Deborah Kerr, CBE was a Scottish film and television actress from Glasgow. She won the Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago performance as Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy, a role which she originated on Broadway, a Golden Globe Award for the motion picture The King and I, and was a three-time...

       –
      Edward, My Son
      Edward, My Son
      Edward, My Son is a 1949 American/British drama film directed by George Cukor that stars Spencer Tracy and Deborah Kerr. The screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart is based on the play by Noel Langley and Robert Morley.-Plot:...

    • Loretta Young
      Loretta Young
      Loretta Young was an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953...

       –
      Come to the Stable
      Come to the Stable
      Come to the Stable is a 1949 American film which tells the story of two French nuns who come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital...

  • Best Supporting Actor
    Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
    Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...

    Best Supporting Actress
    Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
    Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...

  • Dean Jagger
    Dean Jagger
    Dean Jagger was an Academy Award winning American film actor.-Career:Born Ira Dean Jagger in Columbus Grove, Ohio, Jagger made his film debut in The Woman from Hell with Mary Astor...

     – Twelve O'Clock High
    Twelve O'Clock High
    Twelve O'Clock High is a 1949 American war film about aircrews in the United States Army's Eighth Air Force who flew daylight bombing missions against Nazi Germany and occupied France during the early days of American involvement in World War II. The film was adapted by Sy Bartlett, Henry King ...

    • John Ireland
      John Ireland (actor)
      John Benjamin Ireland was an actor and film director.-Biography:Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he was raised in New York City from the age of 18. He started out in minor stage roles on Broadway...

       – All the King's Men
      All the King's Men (1949 film)
      All the King's Men is a 1949 drama film based on the Robert Penn Warren novel of the same name. It was directed by Robert Rossen and starred Broderick Crawford in the role of Willie Stark.-Plot:...

    • Arthur Kennedy
      Arthur Kennedy (actor)
      Arthur Kennedy was an American stage and film actor known for his versatility in supporting film roles and his ability to create "an exceptional honesty and naturalness on stage" especially in the original casts of Arthur Miller plays on Broadway.- Early life and education :Kennedy was born John...

       – Champion
      Champion (1949 film)
      Champion is an American film noir drama based on a short story by Ring Lardner. Filmed in black-and-white, it recounts the struggles of boxer "Midge" Kelly fighting his own demons while working to achieve success in the boxing ring. The drama was directed by Mark Robson, with cinematography by...

    • Ralph Richardson
      Ralph Richardson
      Sir Ralph David Richardson was an English actor, one of a group of theatrical knights of the mid-20th century who, though more closely associated with the stage, also appeared in several classic films....

       – The Heiress
      The Heiress
      The Heiress is a 1949 American drama film. It was written by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, adapted from their 1947 play of the same title that was based on the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James. The film was directed by William Wyler, with starring performances by Olivia de Havilland as...

    • James Whitmore
      James Whitmore
      James Allen Whitmore, Jr. was an American film and stage actor.-Early life:Born in White Plains, New York, to Florence Belle and James Allen Whitmore, Sr., a park commission official, Whitmore attended Amherst Central High School in Snyder, New York, before graduating from The Choate School in...

       – Battleground
  • Mercedes McCambridge
    Mercedes McCambridge
    Carlotta Mercedes McCambridge was an American actress. Orson Welles called her "the world's greatest living radio actress."-Early life:...

     – All the King's Men
    All the King's Men (1949 film)
    All the King's Men is a 1949 drama film based on the Robert Penn Warren novel of the same name. It was directed by Robert Rossen and starred Broderick Crawford in the role of Willie Stark.-Plot:...

    • Ethel Barrymore
      Ethel Barrymore
      Ethel Barrymore was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors.-Early life:Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew...

       –
      Pinky
    • Celeste Holm
      Celeste Holm
      Celeste Holm is an American stage, film, and television actress, known for her Academy Award-winning performance in Gentleman's Agreement , as well as for her Oscar-nominated performances in Come to the Stable and All About Eve...

       –
      Come to the Stable
      Come to the Stable
      Come to the Stable is a 1949 American film which tells the story of two French nuns who come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital...

    • Elsa Lanchester
      Elsa Lanchester
      Elsa Sullivan Lanchester was an English-American character actress with a long career in theatre, film and television....

       –
      Come to the Stable
      Come to the Stable
      Come to the Stable is a 1949 American film which tells the story of two French nuns who come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital...

    • Ethel Waters
      Ethel Waters
      Ethel Waters was an American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress. She frequently performed jazz, big band, and pop music, on the Broadway stage and in concerts, although she began her career in the 1920s singing blues.Her best-known recordings includes, "Dinah", "Birmingham Bertha",...

       –
      Pinky
  • Best Screenplay Best Story and Screenplay
  • A Letter to Three Wives
    A Letter to Three Wives
    A Letter to Three Wives is a 1949 film which tells the story of a woman who mails a letter to three women, telling them she has left town with the husband of one of them. It stars Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas in his film debut, Jeffrey Lynn, and Thelma Ritter...

    Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career and is best known as the writer-director of All About Eve , which was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won six. He was brother to screenwriter and drama critic Herman J...

    • Champion
      Champion (1949 film)
      Champion is an American film noir drama based on a short story by Ring Lardner. Filmed in black-and-white, it recounts the struggles of boxer "Midge" Kelly fighting his own demons while working to achieve success in the boxing ring. The drama was directed by Mark Robson, with cinematography by...

      Carl Foreman
      Carl Foreman
      Carl Foreman, CBE was an American screenwriter and film producer who wrote the notable film High Noon. He was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.-Biography:...

    • The Fallen IdolGraham Greene
      Graham Greene
      Henry Graham Greene, OM, CH was an English author, playwright and literary critic. His works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world...

    • All the King's Men
      All the King's Men (1949 film)
      All the King's Men is a 1949 drama film based on the Robert Penn Warren novel of the same name. It was directed by Robert Rossen and starred Broderick Crawford in the role of Willie Stark.-Plot:...

      Robert Rossen
      Robert Rossen
      Robert Rossen was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer whose film career spanned almost three decades. His 1949 film All the King's Men won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, while Rossen was nominated for an Oscar as Best Director...

    • The Bicycle ThiefCesare Zavattini
      Cesare Zavattini
      Cesare Zavattini was an Italian screenwriter and one of the first theorists and proponents of the Neorealist movement in Italian cinema.-Brief biography:...

  • Battleground – Robert Pirosh
    Robert Pirosh
    Robert Pirosh was an American screenwriter and director.-Early years:Pirosh was born in Baltimore, Maryland and graduated from the Baltimore City College high school in 1928...

    • Jolson Sings Again
      Jolson Sings Again
      Jolson Sings Again is the 1949 film sequel to The Jolson Story, both of which cover the life of singer Al Jolson.-Synopsis:In this follow-up to The Jolson Story, we pick up the singer's career just as he has returned to the stage after a premature retirement. But his wife has left him and the...

      Sidney Buchman
      Sidney Buchman
      Sidney Robert Buchman was a screenwriter and producer who worked on 38 films from the late 1920s to the early 1970s. He is also sometimes credited as Sydney Buchman.-Career:...

    • Passport to Pimlico
      Passport to Pimlico
      Passport to Pimlico is a 1949 British comedy film made by Ealing Studios and starred Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford, and Hermione Baddeley. It was directed by Henry Cornelius....

      T. E. B. Clarke
      T. E. B. Clarke
      Thomas Ernest Bennett "Tibby" Clarke was a movie scriptwriter who wrote several of the Ealing Studios comedies. His scripts always feature careful logical development from a slightly absurd premise to a farcical conclusion...

    • Paisà
      Paisà
      Paisà is a 1946 Italian film directed by Roberto Rossellini, the second of a trilogy by Rossellini. It is divided into six episodes. They are set in the Italian Campaign during World War II when Nazi Germany was losing the war against the Allies, using themes such as the difficulty of communication...

      Alfred Hayes
      Alfred Hayes (writer)
      Alfred Hayes was a British screenwriter, television writer, novelist, and poet, who worked in Italy and the United States...

      , Federico Fellini
      Federico Fellini
      Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century...

      , Sergio Amidei
      Sergio Amidei
      Sergio Amidei was an Italian screenwriter and an important figure in Italy's neorealist movement.Amidei was born in Trieste. He worked with famed Italian directors such as Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica...

      , Marcello Pagliero
      Marcello Pagliero
      Marcello Pagliero was an Italian film director, actor, and screenwriter.Pagliero was born in London and died in Paris...

       and Roberto Rossellini
      Roberto Rossellini
      Roberto Rossellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Rossellini was one of the directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing films such as Roma città aperta to the movement.-Early life:Born in Rome, Roberto Rossellini lived on the Via Ludovisi, where Benito Mussolini had...

    • The Quiet One
      The Quiet One
      The Quiet One is a 1948 American documentary film directed by Sidney Meyers. The documentary chronicles the rehabilitation of a young, emotionally disturbed African-American boy; it contains a commentary written by James Agee, and narrated by Gary Merrill...

      Helen Levitt
      Helen Levitt
      Helen Levitt was an American photographer. She was particularly noted for "street photography" around New York City, and has been called "the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time."- Biography :...

      , Janice Loeb and Sidney Meyers
      Sidney Meyers
      Sidney Meyers was an American film director and editor.Sidney Meyers is best known for two documentary films: The Quiet One, which he wrote and directed, and for which he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay; and British Academy of Film and Television Arts winner The Savage Eye,...

  • Best Story
    Academy Award for Best Story
    The Academy Award for Best Story was an Academy Award given from the beginning of the Academy Awards until 1957, when it was eliminated in favor of the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, which had been introduced in 1940.-1920s:...

    Best Animated Short Film
    Academy Award for Animated Short Film
    The Academy Award for Animated Short Film is an award which has been given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of the Academy Awards every year since the 5th Academy Awards, covering the year 1931-32, to the present....

  • The Stratton Story
    The Stratton Story
    The Stratton Story is a 1949 film directed by Sam Wood which tells the true story of Monty Stratton, a Major League Baseball pitcher who pitched for the Chicago White Sox from 1934-1938...

    Douglas Morrow
    Douglas Morrow
    Douglas Morrow was a Hollywood screenwriter and film producer. He earned an Academy Award for his script for 1949's The Stratton Story, a biography of baseball player Monty Stratton, who was disabled in a hunting accident. Morrow died of an aneurysm in 1994.- Legacy :The Space Foundation...

    • Sands of Iwo Jima
      Sands of Iwo Jima
      Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 war film that follows a group of United States Marines from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. It stars John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara and Forrest Tucker. The movie was written by Harry Brown and James Edward Grant and directed by Allan Dwan...

      Harry Brown
      Harry Brown (writer)
      Harry Peter McNab Brown, Jr. was an American poet, novelist and screenwriter.-Life:Born in Portland, Maine, he was educated at Harvard University, where he was friends with American poet, Robert Lowell...

    • White Heat
      White Heat
      White Heat may refer to:In film:* White Heat , a British film directed by Thomas Bentley* White Heat , an American film* White Heat, a 1949 film starring James CagneyIn music:...

      Virginia Kellogg
      Virginia Kellogg
      Virginia Kellogg was a film writer whose scripts for White Heat and Caged were nominated for Oscars.At one time, she was married to director Frank Lloyd.-External links:...

    • Come to the Stable
      Come to the Stable
      Come to the Stable is a 1949 American film which tells the story of two French nuns who come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital...

      Clare Boothe Luce
      Clare Boothe Luce
      Clare Boothe Luce was an American playwright, editor, journalist, ambassador, socialite and U.S. Congresswoman, representing the state of Connecticut.-Early life:...

    • It Happens Every Spring
      It Happens Every Spring
      It Happens Every Spring is a 1949 comedy film starring Ray Milland directed by Lloyd Bacon. The story of a baseball pitcher is completely fictitious, and the main character King Kelly is not based on or related to the actual player....

      – Shirley W. Smith and Valentine Davies
      Valentine Davies
      Valentine Davies was an American film and television writer, producer, and director. His credits included Miracle on 34th Street , Chicken Every Sunday , The Bridges at Toko-Ri , and The Benny Goodman Story...

  • For Scent-imental Reasons
    For Scent-imental Reasons
    For Scent-imental Reasons is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short released in 1949. It was directed by Chuck Jones, written by Michael Maltese, and featured the characters Pepe Le Pew and Penelope Pussycat . It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film...

    • Canary Row
    • Hatch Up Your Troubles
      Hatch Up Your Troubles
      Hatch Up Your Troubles is a 1949 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 41st Tom and Jerry short produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with musical supervision by Scott Bradley and animation by Ed Barge, Ray Patterson, Irven Spence and Kenneth Muse...

    • The Magic Fluke
    • Toy Tinkers
  • Best Documentary Feature Best Documentary Short
  • Daybreak in Udi
    Daybreak in Udi
    Daybreak in Udi is a 1949 documentary film directed by Terry Bishop. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.-Plot:It is 1949, and colonial Nigeria is undergoing an identity crisis. There is a clash between the progressive, educated elements of society - those who desire...

    • Kenji Comes Home
      Kenji Comes Home
      Kenji Comes Home is a 1949 documentary film produced by Paul F. Heard. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature....

  • A Chance to Live
    A Chance to Live
    A Chance to Live is a 1949 American short documentary film directed by James L. Shute, produced by Richard de Rochemont for Time Inc. and distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox....

  • So Much for So Little
    So Much for So Little
    So Much for So Little is a 1949 short documentary film directed by Chuck Jones. It won an Academy Award in 1950 for Documentary Short Subject, tying with A Chance to Live. As a work of the United States Government, the film is in the public domain.-Plot:...

    • 1848
      1848 (film)
      1848 is a 1949 French short documentary film directed by Marguerite de la Mure and Victoria Mercanton. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short....

    • The Rising Tide
      The Rising Tide (film)
      The Rising Tide is a 1949 Canadian short documentary film directed by Jean Palardy. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short....

  • Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
    Academy Award for Live Action Short Film
    This name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974. For the three preceding years it was known as "Short Subjects, Live Action Films." The term "Short Subjects, Live Action Subjects" was used from 1957 until 1970. From 1936 until 1956 there were two separate...

    Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
    Academy Award for Live Action Short Film
    This name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974. For the three preceding years it was known as "Short Subjects, Live Action Films." The term "Short Subjects, Live Action Subjects" was used from 1957 until 1970. From 1936 until 1956 there were two separate...

  • Aquatic House Party
    Aquatic House Party
    Aquatic House Party is a 1949 short film produced by Jack Eaton. It won an Academy Award at the 22nd Academy Awards in 1949 for Best Short Subject ....

    Jack Eaton
    Jack Eaton
    Jack Eaton was an American film producer and director. He produced 78 films between 1918 and 1953. He also directed 38 films between 1918 and 1953. He was nominated for five Academy Awards, all for Best Short Subject, winning twice...

    • Roller Derby Girl
      Roller Derby Girl
      Roller Derby Girl is a 1949 short American film directed by Justin Herman.- Awards :Justin Herman was nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Short Subject, One-reel"....

      Justin Herman
      Justin Herman
      Justin Herman was an American screenwriter, film producer and director. He wrote for 42 films between 1934 and 1952. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1950 for Roller Derby Girl and again in 1956 for Three Kisses...

    • So You Think You're Not GuiltyGordon Hollingshead
      Gordon Hollingshead
      Gordon Hollingshead was an American movie producer, associate producer and assistant director....

    • Spills and ChillsWalton C. Ament
      Walton C. Ament
      Walton C. Ament was an attorney and film executive who produced Frank Buck’s film Jungle Cavalcade. Ament was an outspoken champion of newsreels. “The newsreel has not lost its vitality. It is not obsolescent. Never has it been more important,” he wrote in 1944...

    • Water TrixPete Smith
      Pete Smith (film producer)
      Pete Smith was a film producer and narrator of "short subject" films from 1931 to 1955....

  • Van Gogh
    Van Gogh (1948 film)
    Van Gogh is a 1948 short French film directed by Alain Resnais. It won an Academy Award in 1950 for Best Short Subject . It is a remake of a film made the previous year....

    Gaston Diehl
    Gaston Diehl
    Gaston Diehl was a French professor of art history and an art critic.-Biography:Diehl graduated from the Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie in 1934 and the Ecole du Louvre in 1936...

     and Robert Hessens
    • The Boy and the Eagle – William Lasky
    • Chase of DeathIrving Allen
      Irving Allen
      Irving Allen was a theatrical and cinematic producer and director. He won an Academy Award in 1948 for producing the short movie Climbing the Matterhorn. In the early 1950s he formed Warwick Films with partner Albert "Cubby" Broccoli and relocated to England to leverage film making against a...

    • The Grass Is Always GreenerGordon Hollingshead
      Gordon Hollingshead
      Gordon Hollingshead was an American movie producer, associate producer and assistant director....

    • Snow Carnival – Gordon Hollingshead
  • Best Dramatic or Comedy Score
    Academy Award for Best Original Score
    The Academy Award for Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.-Superlatives:...

    Best Musical Score
    Academy Award for Best Original Score
    The Academy Award for Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.-Superlatives:...

  • The Heiress
    The Heiress
    The Heiress is a 1949 American drama film. It was written by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, adapted from their 1947 play of the same title that was based on the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James. The film was directed by William Wyler, with starring performances by Olivia de Havilland as...

    Aaron Copland
    Aaron Copland
    Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...

    • Beyond the Forest
      Beyond the Forest
      Beyond the Forest is a 1949 American film, representative of the film noir genre. It was nominated for an Academy Award for best score.-Plot:...

      Max Steiner
      Max Steiner
      Max Steiner was an Austrian composer of music for theatre productions and films. He later became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Trained by the great classical music composers Brahms and Mahler, he was one of the first composers who primarily wrote music for motion pictures, and as...

    • Champion
      Champion (1949 film)
      Champion is an American film noir drama based on a short story by Ring Lardner. Filmed in black-and-white, it recounts the struggles of boxer "Midge" Kelly fighting his own demons while working to achieve success in the boxing ring. The drama was directed by Mark Robson, with cinematography by...

      Dimitri Tiomkin
      Dimitri Tiomkin
      Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a Russian-born Hollywood film score composer and conductor. He is considered "one of the giants of Hollywood movie music." Musically trained in Russia, he is best known for his westerns, "where his expansive, muscular style had its greatest impact." Tiomkin...

  • On the Town
    On the Town (film)
    On the Town is a 1949 musical film with music by Leonard Bernstein and Roger Edens and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. It is an adaptation of the Broadway stage musical of the same name produced in 1944, although many changes in script and score were made from the original stage...

    Roger Edens
    Roger Edens
    Roger Edens was a Hollywood composer, arranger and associate producer, and is considered one of the major creative figures in Arthur Freed's musical film production unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the "golden era of Hollywood".-Early career and work with Judy Garland:Edens was born in...

     and Lennie Hayton
    Lennie Hayton
    Leonard George "Lennie" Hayton was an American Jewish composer, conductor and arranger. His trademark was the wearing of a captain’s hat, which he always wore at a rakish angle....

    • Look for the Silver Lining
      Look for the Silver Lining (film)
      Look for the Silver Lining is a 1949 film directed by David Butler. It stars June Haver and Ray Bolger. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1950.-Cast:*June Haver as Marilyn Miller*Ray Bolger as Jack Donahue*Gordon MacRae as Frank Carter...

      Ray Heindorf
      Ray Heindorf
      Ray Heindorf was an American songwriter, composer, conductor, and arranger.-Early life:Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in a movie house in Mechanicville in his early teens. In 1928, he moved to New York City, where he worked as a musical arranger before heading to...

    • Jolson Sings Again
      Jolson Sings Again
      Jolson Sings Again is the 1949 film sequel to The Jolson Story, both of which cover the life of singer Al Jolson.-Synopsis:In this follow-up to The Jolson Story, we pick up the singer's career just as he has returned to the stage after a premature retirement. But his wife has left him and the...

      Morris Stoloff
      Morris Stoloff
      Morris Stoloff was a musical composer.Stoloff worked as a music director at Columbia Pictures from 1936 to 1962...

       and George Duning
      George Duning
      George Duning was an American musician and film composer. He was born in Richmond, Indiana and educated in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where his mentor was Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco....

  • Best Original Song
    Academy Award for Best Original Song
    The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film...

    Best Sound Recording
  • "Baby, It's Cold Outside
    Baby, It's Cold Outside
    Baby, It's Cold Outside may refer to:*"Baby, It's Cold Outside", a 1948 song by Frank Loesser*"Cold Outside", a song by country music band Big House from their self-titled debut album*"Baby, It's Cold Outside", a 1991 short story by Isaac Asimov...

    " from Neptune's Daughter
    Neptune's Daughter (1949 film)
    Neptune's Daughter is a 1949 musical romantic comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Ricardo Montalbán, Betty Garrett, Keenan Wynn, Xavier Cugat and Mel Blanc...

    – Music and Lyric by Frank Loesser
    Frank Loesser
    Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics and scores to the Broadway hits Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won separate Tony Awards for the music and lyrics in both shows, as well as sharing the Pulitzer Prize for...

    • "It's a Great Feeling" from It's a Great Feeling
      It's a Great Feeling
      It's a Great Feeling is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Doris Day, Jack Carson, and Dennis Morgan in a spoof of what goes on behind-the-scenes in Hollywood movie-making. The screenplay by Jack Rose and Melville Shavelson was based upon a story by I.A.L. Diamond. The film was directed by...

      – Music by Jule Styne
      Jule Styne
      Jule Styne was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.-Early life:...

      ; Lyric by Sammy Cahn
      Sammy Cahn
      Sammy Cahn was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area...

    • "Lavender Blue" from So Dear to My Heart
      So Dear to My Heart
      So Dear to My Heart is a 1948 feature film produced by Walt Disney, released in Chicago on November 29, 1948 and nationwide on January 19, 1949 by RKO Radio Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. Like 1946's Song of the South, the film combines animation and live action...

      – Music by Eliot Daniel; Lyric by Larry Morey
    • "My Foolish Heart
      My Foolish Heart (song)
      "My Foolish Heart" is a popular song that was published in 1949.The music was written by Victor Young and the lyrics by Ned Washington. The song was introduced by the singer Martha Mears in the 1949 film of the same name. The song failed to escape critics' general laceration of the film...

      " from My Foolish Heart
      My Foolish Heart (film)
      My Foolish Heart is a 1949 American film which tells the story of a woman's reflections on the bad turns her life has taken. It was directed by Mark Robson and stars Dana Andrews and Susan Hayward. Adapted from J. D...

      – Music by Victor Young
      Victor Young
      Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor. He was born in Chicago.-Biography:...

      ; Lyric by Ned Washington
      Ned Washington
      Ned Washington was an American lyricist.-Biography:Washington was nominated for eleven Academy Awards from 1940 to 1962...

    • "Through a Long and Sleepless Night" from Come to the Stable
      Come to the Stable
      Come to the Stable is a 1949 American film which tells the story of two French nuns who come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital...

      – Music by Alfred Newman
      Alfred Newman
      Alfred Newman was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of music for films.In a career which spanned over forty years, Newman composed music for over two hundred films. He was one of the most respected film score composers of his time, and is today regarded as one of the greatest...

      ; Lyric by Mack Gordon
      Mack Gordon
      Mack Gordon was an American composer and lyricist of songs for the stage and film. He was nominated for the best original song Oscar nine times, including six consecutive years between 1940 and 1945, and won the award once, for "You'll Never Know"...

  • Twelve O'Clock High
    Twelve O'Clock High
    Twelve O'Clock High is a 1949 American war film about aircrews in the United States Army's Eighth Air Force who flew daylight bombing missions against Nazi Germany and occupied France during the early days of American involvement in World War II. The film was adapted by Sy Bartlett, Henry King ...

    Thomas T. Moulton
    Thomas T. Moulton
    Thomas T. Moulton was an American sound engineer. He won five Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for eleven more in the same category...

    , Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Department
    • Sands of Iwo Jima
      Sands of Iwo Jima
      Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 war film that follows a group of United States Marines from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. It stars John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara and Forrest Tucker. The movie was written by Harry Brown and James Edward Grant and directed by Allan Dwan...

      Daniel J. Bloomberg, Republic Studio Sound Department
    • Once More, My Darling
      Once More, My Darling
      Once More, My Darling is a 1949 American comedy film directed by and starring Robert Montgomery. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording .-Cast:* Robert Montgomery as Collier 'Collie' Laing...

      Leslie I. Carey
      Leslie I. Carey
      Sound recordist Leslie I. Carey first hit Hollywood in 1938, where he embarked on the first of over 300 films...

      , Universal-International Studio Sound Department
  • Best Art Direction, Black and White
    Academy Award for Best Art Direction
    The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures. The Academy Award for Best Art Direction recognizes achievement in art direction on a film. The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999...

    Best Art Direction, Color
    Academy Award for Best Art Direction
    The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures. The Academy Award for Best Art Direction recognizes achievement in art direction on a film. The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999...

  • The Heiress
    The Heiress
    The Heiress is a 1949 American drama film. It was written by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, adapted from their 1947 play of the same title that was based on the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James. The film was directed by William Wyler, with starring performances by Olivia de Havilland as...

    – Art Direction: John Meehan
    John Meehan
    John Meehan was an American art director and production designer.He was born in Tehachapi, California and attended the University of Southern California...

     and Harry Horner; Set Decoration: Emile Kuri
    Emile Kuri
    Emile Kuri was a Mexican-born American set decorator of Lebanese parentage. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for six more in the category Best Art Direction....

    • Madame Bovary
      Madame Bovary (1949 film)
      Madame Bovary is a 1949 film adaptation of the classic novel of the same name by Gustave Flaubert. It stars Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin , Gene Lockhart, Frank Allenby and Gladys Cooper....

      – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons
      Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

       and Jack Martin Smith
      Jack Martin Smith
      Jack Martin Smith was a highly successful Hollywood art director with over 130 films to his credit and nine Academy Award nominations which ultimately yielded three Oscars.-MGM:...

      ; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Richard A. Pefferle
    • Come to the Stable
      Come to the Stable
      Come to the Stable is a 1949 American film which tells the story of two French nuns who come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital...

      – Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler and Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Best Art Direction...

      ; Set Decoration: Thomas Little
      Thomas Little
      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Oscars for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category...

       and Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Fox won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and was nominated for ten more:Won...

  • Little Women
    Little Women (1949 film)
    Little Women directed by Mervyn LeRoy is based on Louisa May Alcott's novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Sally Benson, Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason, and Andrew Solt...

    – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons
    Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

     and Paul Groesse
    Paul Groesse
    Paul Groesse was a Hungarian-born American art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for another eight in the category Best Art Direction.-Academy Awards:...

    ; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Jack D. Moore
    Jack D. Moore
    Jack D. Moore was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated six times in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...

    • Adventures of Don Juan
      Adventures of Don Juan
      Adventures of Don Juan, known in the United Kingdom as The New Adventures of Don Juan, is a 1948 adventure Technicolor romance film made by Warner Bros...

      – Art Direction: Edward Carrere; Set Decoration: Lyle Reifsnider
      Lyle Reifsnider
      Leif B. Reifsnider was a set decorator who worked in Hollywood movies from 1946 to 1962. Nominated for an Academy Award for his work on the Errol Flynn swashbuckler Adventures of Don Juan in 1949, he was also responsible for the set dressings on films such as My Wild Irish Rose , The Flame and the...

    • Saraband for Dead Lovers
      Saraband for Dead Lovers
      Saraband for Dead Lovers is a 1948 British historical drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Stewart Granger and Joan Greenwood. It is based on the novel by Helen Simpson...

       – Art Direction and Set Direction: Jim Morahan
      Jim Morahan
      Jim Morahan was a British art director. He began his career in film in 1936. He worked in a number of prominent British productions in the 1940s and 1950s, such as Scott of the Antarctic , Whisky Galore! , The Blue Lamp , The Man in the White Suit , The Cruel Sea , The...

      , William Kellner
      William Kellner
      William Kellner was an Austrian-born art director who worked primarily on British films in the 1940s and 1950s. He began his career as a draughtsman working for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger on their films A Canterbury Tale and I Know Where I'm Going! and on David Lean's Brief...

       and Michael Relph
      Michael Relph
      Michael Relph was a British art director and producer. He was the son of actor George Relph....

  • Best Cinematography, Black and White
    Academy Award for Best Cinematography
    The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work in one particular motion picture.-History:...

    Best Cinematography, Color
    Academy Award for Best Cinematography
    The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work in one particular motion picture.-History:...

  • Battleground – Paul C. Vogel
    • Come to the Stable
      Come to the Stable
      Come to the Stable is a 1949 American film which tells the story of two French nuns who come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital...

      Joseph LaShelle
      Joseph LaShelle
      Joseph LaShelle, A.S.C. was a Los Angeles born film cinematographer.He won an Academy Award for Laura , and was nominated eight additional times.-Career:...

    • Champion
      Champion (1949 film)
      Champion is an American film noir drama based on a short story by Ring Lardner. Filmed in black-and-white, it recounts the struggles of boxer "Midge" Kelly fighting his own demons while working to achieve success in the boxing ring. The drama was directed by Mark Robson, with cinematography by...

      Franz Planer
      Franz Planer
      Franz Planer, A.S.C. was a cinematographer born in Karlsbad, Austria-Hungary ,-Biography:...

    • Prince of Foxes
      Prince of Foxes (film)
      Prince of Foxes is a 1949 film based on the Samuel Shellabarger novel Prince of Foxes. The movie starred Tyrone Power as Orsini and Orson Welles as Cesare Borgia.-Plot:...

      Leon Shamroy
      Leon Shamroy
      Leon Shamroy, A.S.C. was an American film cinematographer. Together with Charles Lang, he holds the record for most number of Academy Award nominations for Cinematography...

    • The Heiress
      The Heiress
      The Heiress is a 1949 American drama film. It was written by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, adapted from their 1947 play of the same title that was based on the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James. The film was directed by William Wyler, with starring performances by Olivia de Havilland as...

      Leo Tover
      Leo Tover
      Leo Tover, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer, twice nominated for Academy Awards for his work on The Heiress and Hold Back the Dawn...

  • She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
    She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
    She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is a 1949 Western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne. The film was the second of Ford's trilogy of films focusing on the US Cavalry ; the other two films were Fort Apache and Rio Grande...

    Winton Hoch
    Winton Hoch
    Winton C. Hoch, A.S.C. in Santa Monica was originally a lab technician who contributed to the development of Technicolor before becoming a cinematographer in 1936. His understanding of the colour process quickly led to him being hailed as one of Hollywood's premier colour cinematographers...

    • Sand – Charles G. Clarke
    • Little Women
      Little Women (1949 film)
      Little Women directed by Mervyn LeRoy is based on Louisa May Alcott's novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Sally Benson, Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason, and Andrew Solt...

      – Robert Planck and Charles Schoenbaum
      Charles Schoenbaum
      Charles Edgar Schoenbaum was a popular cinematographer whose career began in 1917 and ended with his abrupt death in 1951.He worked on over 100 films, including several of the Lassie films in the late 40s. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1949 for his work on Little Women.-Partial...

    • Jolson Sings Again
      Jolson Sings Again
      Jolson Sings Again is the 1949 film sequel to The Jolson Story, both of which cover the life of singer Al Jolson.-Synopsis:In this follow-up to The Jolson Story, we pick up the singer's career just as he has returned to the stage after a premature retirement. But his wife has left him and the...

      – William Snyder
    • The Barkleys of Broadway
      The Barkleys of Broadway
      The Barkleys of Broadway is a 1949 musical film from the Arthur Freed unit at MGM that reunited Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers after ten years apart...

      Harry Stradling
      Harry Stradling
      Harry Stradling Sr., A.S.C. was an American cinematographer with over 130 films to his credit.His uncle Walter Stradling and son Harry Stradling Jr. were also cinematographers.-Early career:...

  • Best Costume Design, Black and White Best Costume Design, Color
  • The Heiress
    The Heiress
    The Heiress is a 1949 American drama film. It was written by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, adapted from their 1947 play of the same title that was based on the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James. The film was directed by William Wyler, with starring performances by Olivia de Havilland as...

    Edith Head
    Edith Head
    Edith Head was an American costume designer who won eight Academy Awards, more than any other woman.-Early life and career:...

     and Gile Steele
    Gile Steele
    Gile Steele, born in Ohio on 24 September 1908 and died in Culver City, California 16 January 1952, was a Hollywood costume designer. His career began at MGM in 1938 with one of his first assignments being the Norma Shearer film Marie Antoinette...

    • Prince of Foxes
      Prince of Foxes (film)
      Prince of Foxes is a 1949 film based on the Samuel Shellabarger novel Prince of Foxes. The movie starred Tyrone Power as Orsini and Orson Welles as Cesare Borgia.-Plot:...

      Vittorio Nino Novarese
      Vittorio Nino Novarese
      Vittorio Nino Novarese was an Italian costume designer who found great success in Hollywood after decamping there in 1949. In his first year there he scored an Oscar nomination for his work on the film Prince of Foxes, winning the Academy Award 14 years later for the grandiose epic Cleopatra...

  • Adventures of Don Juan
    Adventures of Don Juan
    Adventures of Don Juan, known in the United Kingdom as The New Adventures of Don Juan, is a 1948 adventure Technicolor romance film made by Warner Bros...

    Leah Rhodes
    Leah Rhodes
    Leah Rhodes was an American costume designer.She began her Hollywood career in 1939. After proving her mettle on a series of B-movies throughout the 40s, she started to gain more attention after working on The Big Sleep in 1946...

    , Travilla
    William Travilla
    William Travilla , who went by the professional name of Travilla, was an American costume designer for theatre, film, and television. He is perhaps best-known for dressing Marilyn Monroe in eight of her films....

     and Marjorie Best
    Marjorie Best
    Marjorie Best was an American Hollywood costume designer best known for her period designs.Best was born in Jacksonville, Illinois and studied at the Chouinard Art Institute. She taught school briefly before going to work for the Western Costume Company in 1926. She later moved to United...

    • Mother Is a Freshman
      Mother Is a Freshman
      Mother Is a Freshman is a 1949 comedy motion picture directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Loretta Young and Van Johnson.The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Costume Design.-Principal cast:*Loretta Young - Mrs...

      Kay Nelson
      Kay Nelson
      Kay Nelson was a Hollywood costume designer whose first film was Up in Mabel's Room in 1944. Over the next 17 years she provided the costumes for such films as Leave Her to Heaven , Boomerang, Miracle on 34th Street and Gentleman's Agreement and A Letter to Three Wives .She was nominated for an...

  • Best Film Editing Best Visual Effects
  • Champion
    Champion (1949 film)
    Champion is an American film noir drama based on a short story by Ring Lardner. Filmed in black-and-white, it recounts the struggles of boxer "Midge" Kelly fighting his own demons while working to achieve success in the boxing ring. The drama was directed by Mark Robson, with cinematography by...

    – Harry Gerstad
    • BattlegroundJohn Dunning
      John Dunning (film editor)
      John "Jack" D. Dunning was an American film editor who worked on several large-scale Hollywood movies from 1947 to 1970...

    • The Window
      The Window
      The Window is a 1949 American black-and-white suspense film noir, based on the short story "The Boy Cried Murder" by Cornell Woolrich. The film, which was a critical success, was produced by Frederic Ullman, Jr. for $210,000 but earned much more, making it a box office hit for RKO Pictures...

      Frederic Knudtson
      Frederic Knudtson
      Frederic Knudtson was an American film editor with 79 credits over his career, which spanned 1932 to 1964...

    • All the King's Men
      All the King's Men (1949 film)
      All the King's Men is a 1949 drama film based on the Robert Penn Warren novel of the same name. It was directed by Robert Rossen and starred Broderick Crawford in the role of Willie Stark.-Plot:...

      Robert Parrish
      Robert Parrish
      Robert R. Parrish was an American actor, film editor, film director, and writer. He received an Academy Award for Film Editing for the 1947 film, Body and Soul....

       and Al Clark
    • Sands of Iwo Jima
      Sands of Iwo Jima
      Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 war film that follows a group of United States Marines from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. It stars John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara and Forrest Tucker. The movie was written by Harry Brown and James Edward Grant and directed by Allan Dwan...

      Richard L. Van Enger
      Richard L. Van Enger
      Editor Richard van Enger made his debut as an assistant on Gone with the Wind in 1939. Up until his retirement in 1976, he worked on a myriad of projects - mainly B movies - before moving to television in the 50s where he worked on such shows as Bonanza, The High Chaparral and Alias Smith and Jones...

  • Mighty Joe Young – Arko Production; RKO Radio
  • Tulsa
    Tulsa (film)
    Tulsa is a 1949 Technicolor film that was directed by Stuart Heisler and starred Susan Hayward, Robert Preston, Lloyd Gough, Chill Wills , and featured Ed Begley in one of his earliest film roles, billed as Edward Begley....

    – Walter Wagner; Eagle Lion

  • Multiple nominations and awards

    These films had multiple nominations:
    • 8 nominations: The Heiress
    • 7 nominations: All the King's Men, Come to the Stable
    • 6 nominations: Battleground, Champion
    • 4 nominations: Sands of Iwo Jima, Twelve O'Clock High
    • 3 nominations: Jolson Sings Again, A Letter to Three Wives, Pinky
    • 2 nominations: Adventures of Don Juan The Fallen Idol, Little Women, My Foolish Heart, Prince of Foxes

    The following films received multiple awards.
    • 4 wins: The Heiress
    • 3 wins: All the King's Men
    • 2 wins: Battleground, A Letter to Three Wives, Twelve O'Clock High
    The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
     
    x
    OK