1950 ceremony · films of 1949

The 22nd Oscars

107 nominations in 26 categories.

Nominations and wins

The night's big films

Winners first

Every category

Best Picture

Announced as Best Motion Picture

All the King's Men
Robert Rossen Productions
A Letter to Three Wives
20th Century-Fox
Battleground
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The Heiress
Paramount
Twelve O'Clock High
20th Century-Fox

Best Director

Best Actor

Announced as Actor

Broderick Crawford · Willie Stark
All the King's Men
Kirk Douglas · Midge Kelly
Champion
John Wayne · Sergeant John M. Stryker
Sands of Iwo Jima
Richard Todd · Lachie
The Hasty Heart
Gregory Peck · General Savage
Twelve O'Clock High

Best Actress

Announced as Actress

Olivia de Havilland · Catherine Sloper
The Heiress
Loretta Young · Sister Margaret
Come to the Stable
Deborah Kerr · Evelyn Boult
Edward, My Son
Susan Hayward · Eloise Winters
My Foolish Heart
Jeanne Crain · Pinky
Pinky

Best Supporting Actor

Dean Jagger · Major Stovall
Twelve O'Clock High
John Ireland · Jack Burden
All the King's Men
James Whitmore · Kinnie
Battleground
Arthur Kennedy · Connie Kelly
Champion
Ralph Richardson · Dr. Austin Sloper
The Heiress

Best Supporting Actress

Mercedes McCambridge · Sadie Burke
All the King's Men
Celeste Holm · Sister Scholastica
Come to the Stable
Elsa Lanchester · Miss Potts
Come to the Stable
Ethel Barrymore · Miss Em
Pinky
Ethel Waters · Granny
Pinky

Best Original Screenplay

Announced as Writing (Story and Screenplay)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Announced as Writing (Screenplay)

Best Original Story

Announced as Writing (Motion Picture Story)

Best Documentary Feature

Daybreak in Udi
Crown Film Unit
Kenji Comes Home
Paul F. Heard, Producer

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

Best Cinematography (Color)

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Winton Hoch
Winton C. Hoch
Jolson Sings Again
William Snyder
William E. Snyder
Little Women
Robert Planck, Charles Schoenbaum
Robert H. Planck Charles Edgar Schoenbaum
Sand
Charles G. Clarke
The Barkleys of Broadway
Harry Stradling
Harry Stradling Sr.

Best Film Editing

Best Production Design (Black-and-White)

The Heiress
Art Direction: Harry Horner, John Meehan; Set Decoration: Emile Kuri
Come to the Stable
Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox
Lyle R. Wheeler
Madame Bovary
Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Jack Martin Smith; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Richard A. Pefferle
Richard Pefferle

Best Production Design (Color)

Little Women
Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore
Adventures of Don Juan
Art Direction: Edward Carrere; Set Decoration: Lyle Reifsnider
Lyle B. Reifsnider
Saraband
Art Direction: Jim Morahan, William Kellner, Michael Relph

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

Best Costume Design (Color)

Best Original Score

Announced as Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

Best Song Score or Adaptation Score

Announced as Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

Best Original Song

Announced as Music (Song)

Neptune's Daughter · Baby, It's Cold Outside
Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser
Come to the Stable · Through A Long And Sleepless Night
Music by Alfred Newman; Lyrics by Mack Gordon
It's a Great Feeling · It's A Great Feeling
Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
My Foolish Heart · My Foolish Heart
Music by Victor Young; Lyrics by Ned Washington
So Dear to My Heart · Lavender Blue
Music by Eliot Daniel; Lyrics by Larry Morey

Best Sound

Twelve O'Clock High
20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton, Sound Director
Once More, My Darling
Universal-International Studio Sound Department, Leslie I. Carey, Sound Director
Sands of Iwo Jima
Republic Studio Sound Department, Daniel J. Bloomberg, Sound Director

Best Visual Effects

Announced as Special Effects

Mighty Joe Young
ARKO Productions
Tulsa
Walter Wanger Pictures

Best Documentary Short

So Much for So Little
Edward Selzer, Producer
NOTE: A tie. The other winning film in this category was A Chance to Live.
The March of Time, Vol. 15, No. 12: A Chance to Live
Richard de Rochemont, Producer
Richard De Rochemont
NOTE: A tie. The other winning film in this category was So Much for So Little.
1848
French Cinema General Cooperative
The Rising Tide
St. Francis-Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia

Best Animated Short

Announced as Short Subject (Cartoon)

For Scent-imental Reasons
Edward Selzer, Producer
Canary Row
Edward Selzer, Producer
NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. Nomination withdrawn by producer.
Hatch Up Your Troubles
Fred Quimby, Producer
The Magic Fluke
Stephen Bosustow, Producer
Toy Tinkers
Walt Disney, Producer

Best Live Action Short (One-reel)

Aquatic House Party
Jack Eaton, Producer
Roller Derby Girl
Justin Herman, Producer
So You Think You're Not Guilty
Gordon Hollingshead, Producer
Spills and Chills
Walton C. Ament, Producer
Water Trix
Pete Smith, Producer

Best Live Action Short (Two-reel)

Van Gogh
Gaston Diehl and Robert Haessens, Producers
Robert Hessens
Boy and the Eagle
William Lasky, Producer
Chase of Death
Irving Allen, Producer
Snow Carnival
Gordon Hollingshead, Producer
The Grass Is Always Greener
Gordon Hollingshead, Producer

Not competitive

Honorary and special awards

Special Award

Bobby Driscoll
To Bobby Driscoll, as the outstanding juvenile actor of 1949.
Cecil B. DeMille
To Cecil B. DeMille, distinguished motion picture pioneer, for 37 years of brilliant showmanship.
Fred Astaire
To Fred Astaire for his unique artistry and his contributions to the technique of musical pictures.
Jean Hersholt
To Jean Hersholt, for distinguished service to the motion picture industry.

Special Foreign Language Film Award

Bicycle Thieves
The Bicycle Thief
To The Bicycle Thief - voted by the Academy Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1949.