The 22nd Academy Awards (1949): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS		AWARDS
8 7 7 6 5 4 4 3 3 3	The Heiress All the King's Men Come to the Stable Champion Battleground Sands of Iwo Jima Twelve O'Clock High Jolson Sings Again A Letter to Three Wives Pinky	4 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1	The Heiress All the King's Men Battleground A Letter to Three Wives Twelve O'Clock High The Adventures of Don Juan Aquatic House-Party Champion A Chance To Live Daybreak in Udi For Scent-Imental Reasons Little Women Mighty Joe Young Neptune's Daughter On the Town She Wore a Yellow Ribbon So Much for So Little The Stratton Story Van Gogh
NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND Best Picture winner Best Picture nominee Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

PICTURE (Best Motion Picture)

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

DIRECTING

• All the King's Men - Robert Rossen
• Battleground - William A. Wellman
• The Fallen Idol - Carol Reed
• The Heiress - William Wyler
• A Letter to Three Wives - Joseph L. Mankiewicz

ACTOR

• Broderick Crawford - All the King's Men
• Kirk Douglas - Champion
• Gregory Peck - Twelve O'Clock High
• Richard Todd - The Hasty Heart
• John Wayne - Sands of Iwo Jima

ACTRESS

• Jeanne Crain - Pinky
• Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress
• Susan Hayward - My Foolish Heart
• Deborah Kerr - Edward, My Son
• Loretta Young - Come to the Stable

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Actor in a Supporting Role)

• John Ireland - All the King's Men
• Dean Jagger - Twelve O'Clock High
• Arthur Kennedy - Champion
• Ralph Richardson - The Heiress
• James Whitmore - Battleground

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Actress in a Supporting Role)

• Ethel Barrymore - Pinky
• Celeste Holm - Come to the Stable
• Elsa Lanchester - Come to the Stable
• Mercedes McCambridge - All the King's Men
• Ethel Waters - Pinky

SCREENPLAY

• All the King's Men - Robert Rossen
• The Bicycle Thief - Cesare Zavattini
• Champion - Carl Foreman
• The Fallen Idol - Graham Greene
• A Letter to Three Wives - Joseph L. Mankiewicz

STORY AND SCREENPLAY

• Battleground - Robert Pirosh
• Jolson Sings Again - Sidney Buchman
• Paisan - Alfred Hayes, Federico Fellini, Sergio Amidei, Marcello Pagliero, Roberto Rossellini
• Passport to Pimlico - T. E. B. Clarke
• The Quiet One - Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, Sidney Meyers

MOTION PICTURE STORY

• Come to the Stable - Clare Boothe Luce
• It Happens Every Spring - Shirley W. Smith, Valentine Davies
• Sands of Iwo Jima - Harry Brown
• The Stratton Story - Douglas Morrow
• White Heat - Virginia Kellogg

SONG

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

MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

• Beyond the Forest - Max Steiner
• Champion - Dimitri Tiomkin
• The Heiress - Aaron Copland

SCORING OF A MUSICAL PICTURE

• Jolson Sings Again - Morris Stoloff, George Duning
• Look for the Silver Lining - Ray Heindorf
• On the Town - Roger Edens, Lennie Hayton

FILM EDITING

• All the King's Men - Robert Parrish, Al Clark
• Battleground - John Dunning
• Champion - Harry Gerstad
• Sands of Iwo Jima - Richard L. Van Enger
• The Window - Frederic Knudtson

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White)

• Battleground - Paul C. Vogel
• Champion - Frank Planer
• Come to the Stable - Joseph LaShelle
• The Heiress - Leo Tover
• Prince of Foxes - Leon Shamroy

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color)

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

ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White)

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

ART DIRECTION (Color)

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

COSTUME DESIGN (Black-and-White)

• The Heiress - Edith Head, Gile Steele
• Prince of Foxes - Vittorio Nino Novarese

COSTUME DESIGN (Color)

• The Adventures of Don Juan - Leah Rhodes, Travilla, Marjorie Best
• Mother Is a Freshman - Kay Nelson

SOUND RECORDING

• 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)
• Twelve O'Clock High - 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton (Sound Director)

SPECIAL EFFECTS

• Mighty Joe Young - ARKO Productions
• Tulsa - Walter Wanger Pictures

SPECIAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM AWARD

• 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.

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

• Daybreak in Udi - Crown Film Unit
• Kenji Comes Home - Paul F. Heard

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

• A Chance To Live - Richard de Rochemont [1]
• 1848 - French Cinema General Cooperative
• The Rising Tide - St. Francis-Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia
• So Much for So Little - Edward Selzer [1]

SHORT SUBJECT (Cartoon)

• Canary Row - Edward Selzer [2]
• For Scent-Imental Reasons - Edward Selzer
• Hatch Up Your Troubles - Fred Quimby
• The Magic Fluke - Stephen Bosustow
• Toy Tinkers - Walt Disney

SHORT SUBJECT (One-Reel)

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

SHORT SUBJECT (Two-Reel)

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

SPECIAL AWARDS

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

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE I (Academy Award of Merit)

• To EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY for the development and introduction of an improved safety base motion picture film. [Film]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE III (Certificate)

• To ANDRE COUTANT and JACQUES MATHOT for the design of the Eclair camerette. [Camera]
• To CHARLES R. DAILY, STEVE CSILLAG and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO ENGINEERING, EDITORIAL and MUSIC DEPARTMENTS for a new precision method of computing variable tempo click tracks. [Editorial]
• To ALEXANDER VELCOFF for the application to production of the infra-red photographic evaluator. [Photography]
• To the INTERNATIONAL PROJECTOR CORPORATION for a simplified and self-adjusting take-up device for projection machines. [Projection]
• To M. B. PAUL for the first successful large-area seamless translucent backgrounds. [Special Photographic]
• To HERBERT E. BRITT for the development and application of formulas and equipment producing artificial snow and ice for dressing motion picture sets. [Stage Operations]
• To LOREN L. RYDER, BRUCE H. DENNEY, ROBERT CARR and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT for the development and application of the supersonic playback and public address system. [Stage Operations]

ACADEMY NOTES

1. A tie.
2. This is not an official nomination. Nomination withdrawn by producer.