| Best Motion Picture | Best Director |
| Elia Kazan – Gentleman's Agreement*Henry Koster – The Bishop's Wife*Edward Dmytryk – Crossfire*George Cukor – A Double Life*David Lean – Great Expectations |
| Best Actor | Best Actress |
| Ronald Colman – A Double Life as Anthony John*John Garfield – Body and Soul as Charlie Davis*Gregory Peck – Gentleman's Agreement as Philip Schuyler Green*William Powell – Life with Father as Clarence Day, Sr.*Michael Redgrave – Mourning Becomes Electra as Orin Mannon | Loretta Young – The Farmer's Daughter as Katie Holstrom*Joan Crawford – Possessed as Louise Howell*Susan Hayward – Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman as Angie Evans*Dorothy McGuire – Gentleman's Agreement as Kathy Lacey*Rosalind Russell – Mourning Becomes Electra as Lavinia Mannon |
| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
| Edmund Gwenn – Miracle on 34th Street as Kris Kringle*Charles Bickford – The Farmer's Daughter as Joseph Clancy*Thomas Gomez – Ride the Pink Horse as Pancho*Robert Ryan – Crossfire as Montgomery*Richard Widmark – Kiss of Death as Tommy Udo | Celeste Holm – Gentleman's Agreement as Anne Dettrey*Ethel Barrymore – The Paradine Case as Lady Sophie Horfield*Gloria Grahame – Crossfire as Ginny Tremaine*Marjorie Main – The Egg and I as Ma Kettle*Anne Revere – Gentleman's Agreement as Mrs Green |
| Best Original Screenplay | Best Screenplay |
| The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer – Sidney Sheldon*Body and Soul – Abraham Polonsky*A Double Life – Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin*Monsieur Verdoux – Charlie Chaplin*Shoeshine – Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Giulio Viola and Cesare Zavattini | Miracle on 34th Street – George Seaton from a story by Valentine Davies*Boomerang! – Richard Murphy from a Reader's Digest article by Anthony Abbot*Crossfire – John Paxton from The Brick Foxhole by Richard Brooks*Gentleman's Agreement – Moss Hart from Gentleman's Agreement by Laura Z. Hobson*Great Expectations – David Lean, Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| Best Motion Picture Story | Best Short Subject – Cartoons |
| Miracle on 34th Street – Valentine Davies*A Cage of Nightingales – Georges Chaperot and René Wheeler*It Happened on Fifth Avenue – Herbert Clyde Lewis and Frederick Stephani*Kiss of Death – Eleazar Lipsky*Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman – Dorothy Parker and Frank Cavett | Tweetie Pie – Edward Selzer*Chip an' Dale – Walt Disney*Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse – Fred Quimby*Pluto's Blue Note – Walt Disney*Tubby the Tuba – George Pal |
| Best Documentary Feature | Best Documentary Short Subject |
| Design for Death*Journey into Medicine*The World Is Rich | First Steps*Passport to Nowhere*School in the Mailbox |
| Best Live Action Short Subject, One-Reel | Best Live Action Short Subject, Two-Reel |
| Goodbye, Miss Turlock – Herbert Moulton*Brooklyn, U.S.A. – Thomas Mead*Moon Rockets – Jerry Fairbanks*Now You See It – Pete Smith*So You Want to Be in Pictures – Gordon Hollingshead | Climbing the Matterhorn – Irving Allen*Champagne for Two – Harry Grey*Fight of the Wild Stallions – Thomas Mead*Give Us the Earth – Herbert Morgan*A Voice Is Born: The Story of Niklos Gafni – Ben Blake |
| Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | Best Scoring of a Musical Picture |
| A Double Life – Miklós Rózsa*The Bishop's Wife – Hugo Friedhofer*Captain from Castile – Alfred Newman*Forever Amber – David Raksin*Life with Father – Max Steiner | Mother Wore Tights – Alfred Newman*Fiesta – Johnny Green*My Wild Irish Rose – Ray Heindorf and Max Steiner*Road to Rio – Robert Emmett Dolan*Song of the South – Daniele Amfitheatrof, Paul J. Smith and Charles Wolcott |
| Best Original Song | Best Sound Recording |
| "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" from Song of the South – Music by Allie Wrubel; Lyrics by Ray Gilbert*"A Gal in Calico" from The Time, the Place and the Girl – Music by Arthur Schwartz; Lyrics by Leo Robin*"I Wish I Didn't Love You So" from The Perils of Pauline – Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser*"Pass That Peace Pipe" from Good News – Music and Lyrics by Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin and Roger Edens*"You Do" from Mother Wore Tights – Music by Josef Myrow; Lyrics by Mack Gordon | The Bishop's Wife – Gordon E. Sawyer*Green Dolphin Street – Douglas Shearer*T-Men – Jack Whitney |
| Best Art Direction – Set Decoration, Black-and-White | Best Art Direction – Set Decoration, Color |
| Great Expectations – Art Direction: John Bryan; Set Decoration: Wilfred Shingleton*The Foxes of Harrow – Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler and Maurice Ransford; Set Decoration: Thomas Little and Paul S. Fox | Black Narcissus – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Alfred Junge*Life with Father – Art Direction: Robert M. Haas; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins |
| Best Cinematography, Black-and-White | Best Cinematography, Color |
| Great Expectations – Guy Green*The Ghost and Mrs. Muir – Charles Lang*Green Dolphin Street – George J. Folsey | Black Narcissus – Jack Cardiff*Life with Father – Peverell Marley and William V. Skall*Mother Wore Tights – Harry Jackson |
| Best Film Editing | Best Special Effects |
| Body and Soul – Francis D. Lyon and Robert Parrish*The Bishop's Wife – Monica Collingwood*Gentleman's Agreement – Harmon Jones*Green Dolphin Street – George White*Odd Man Out – Fergus McDonell | Green Dolphin Street – A. Arnold Gillespie and Warren Newcombe; Special Audible Effects: Douglas Shearer and Michael Steinore*Unconquered – Farciot Edouart, Devereux Jennings, Gordon Jennings, Wallace Kelley and Paul Lerpae; Special Audible Effects: George Dutton |
