1946

* = winner

BEST PICTURE:

The Best Years of Our Lives

The Big Sleep

It's a Wonderful Life*

A Matter of Life and Death

Notorious


BEST DIRECTOR:

Frank Capra, It's a Wonderful Life*

Jean Cocteau, Beauty and the Beast

Alfred Hitchcock, Notorious

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, A Matter of Life and Death

William Wyler, The Best Years of Our Lives


BEST ACTOR:

Dana Andrews, The Best Years of Our Lives

Humphrey Bogart, The Big Sleep

Henry Fonda, My Darling Clementine

Fredric March, The Best Years of Our Lives

James Stewart, It's a Wonderful Life*


BEST ACTRESS:

Ingrid Bergman, Notorious*

Olivia de Havilland, To Each His Own

Rita Hayworth, Gilda

Jennifer Jones, Duel in the Sun

Lana Turner, The Postman Always Rings Twice


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Lionel Barrymore, It's a Wonderful Life

Victor Mature, My Darling Clementine

Claude Rains, Notorious*

Harold Russell, The Best Years of Our Lives

Tom Tully, Lady in the Lake


BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Lauren Bacall, The Big Sleep*

Anne Baxter, The Razor's Edge

Myrna Loy, The Best Years of Our Lives

Donna Reed, It's a Wonderful Life

Martha Vickers, The Big Sleep


BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

The Best Years of Our Lives*

The Big Sleep

It's a Wonderful Life

My Darling Clementine

The Postman Always Rings Twice


BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

Gilda

A Matter of Life and Death*

Notorious

Shoeshine

The Stranger


BEST ART DIRECTION:

Beauty and the Beast

Duel in the Sun

Great Expectations

A Matter of Life and Death*

The Yearling


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Beauty and the Beast

Duel in the Sun*

A Matter of Life and Death

Notorious

The Stranger


BEST COSTUME DESIGN:

Beauty and the Beast*

The Diary of a Chambermaid

Duel in the Sun

Great Expectations

A Matter of Life and Death


BEST FILM EDITING:

The Best Years of Our Lives

The Big Sleep

It's a Wonderful Life

A Matter of Life and Death

Notorious*


BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

Angel on My Shoulder

Beauty and the Beast

The Best Years of Our Lives*

Great Expectations

A Matter of Life and Death


BEST ORIGINAL SONG: (incomplete lineup)

"Amado Mio" from Gilda

"Duel in the Sun" from Duel in the Sun

"Put the Blame on Mame" from Gilda*

"Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" from Song of the South


BEST MAKEUP:

Beauty and the Beast*

The Diary of a Chambermaid

Duel in the Sun

Great Expectations

A Matter of Life and Death


BEST SOUND:

Duel in the Sun*

Great Expectations

It's a Wonderful Life

A Matter of Life and Death

The Spiral Staircase


BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

Beauty and the Beast

Duel in the Sun

Great Expectations

It's a Wonderful Life

A Matter of Life and Death*


BEST STUNTS:

Beauty and the Beast

Duel in the Sun*

The Killers

A Matter of Life and Death

My Darling Clementine


BEST CASTING:

The Best Years of Our Lives*

The Big Sleep

It's a Wonderful Life

A Matter of Life and Death

My Darling Clementine


BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM:

Beauty and the Beast

A Day in the Country

Great Expectations

A Matter of Life and Death*

Shoeshine

1947

* = winner

BEST PICTURE:

Black Narcissus

Crossfire

Out of the Past

Ride the Pink Horse*

Snow Trail


BEST DIRECTOR:

Edward Dmytryk, Crossfire

Robert Montgomery, Ride the Pink Horse*

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Black Narcissus

Senkichi Taniguchi, Snow Trail

Jacques Tourneur, Out of the Past


BEST ACTOR:

Ronald Colman, A Double Life

Rex Harrison, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Robert Mitchum, Out of the Past

Robert Montgomery, Ride the Pink Horse

Tyrone Power, Nightmare Alley*


BEST ACTRESS:

Susan Hayward, Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

Rita Hayworth, The Lady from Shanghai

Deborah Kerr, Black Narcissus*

Rosalind Russell, Mourning Becomes Electra

Gene Tierney, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Thomas Gomez, Ride the Pink Horse*

Edmund Gwenn, Miracle on 34th Street

Percy Kilbride, The Egg and I

Robert Ryan, Crossfire

Richard Widmark, Kiss of Death


BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Kathleen Byron, Black Narcissus*

Gloria Grahame, Crossfire

Jane Greer, Out of the Past

Wanda Hendrix, Ride the Pink Horse

Marjorie Main, The Egg and I


BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

Black Narcissus

Crossfire

Miracle on 34th Street

Out of the Past

Ride the Pink Horse*


BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

A Double Life

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

Monsieur Verdoux

Snow Trail*


BEST ART DIRECTION:

Black Narcissus*

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Life with Father

Nightmare Alley

Odd Man Out


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Black Narcissus*

The Lady from Shanghai

Nightmare Alley

Out of the Past

Ride the Pink Horse


BEST COSTUME DESIGN:

Black Narcissus

Life with Father

Monsieur Verdoux

Mourning Becomes Electra

Nightmare Alley*


BEST FILM EDITING:

Black Narcissus

Body and Soul

Brute Force

Out of the Past*

Ride the Pink Horse


BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

Black Narcissus

Dark Passage

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Miracle on 34th Street

Odd Man Out*


BEST ORIGINAL SONG:

"Body and Soul" from Body and Soul

"I Miss That Feeling" from Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

"Life Can Be Beautiful" from Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman*

"Lost April" from The Bishop's Wife

"That's What Christmas Means to Me" from It Happened on Fifth Avenue


BEST MAKEUP:

Black Narcissus*

Body and Soul

A Double Life

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Nightmare Alley


BEST SOUND:

Black Narcissus*

Brute Force

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Nightmare Alley

Odd Man Out


BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

The Bishop's Wife

Black Narcissus*

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Nightmare Alley

Snow Trail


BEST STUNTS:

Body and Soul

Brute Force*

Nightmare Alley

Road to Rio

Snow Trail


BEST CASTING:

The Bishop’s Wife

Black Narcissus

Crossfire*

Odd Man Out

Ride the Pink Horse


BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM: (incomplete lineup)

Black Narcissus*

Odd Man Out

Snow Trail