Best Motion Picture

• The Bishop's Wife
• Crossfire
• Gentleman's Agreement
• Great Expectations
• Miracle on 34th Street

Best Actor

• Ronald Colman, A Double Life
• John Garfield, Body and Soul
• Gregory Peck, Gentleman's Agreement
• William Powell, Life With Father
• Michael Redgrave, Mourning Becomes Electra

Best Actress

• Joan Crawford, Possessed
• Susan Hayward, Smash-Up:The Story of a Woman
• Dorothy McGuire, Gentleman's Agreement
• Rosalind Russell, Mourning Becomes Electra
• Loretta Young, The Farmer's Daughter

Actor in a Supporting Role

• Charles Bickford, The Farmer's Daughter
• Thomas Gomez, Ride the Pink Horse
• Edmund Gwenn, Miracle on 34th Street
• Robert Ryan, Crossfire
• Richard Widmark, Kiss of Death

Actress in a Supporting Role

• Ethel Barrymore, The Paradine Case
• Gloria Grahame, Crossfire
• Celeste Holm, Gentleman's Agreement
• Marjorie Main, The Egg and I
• Anne Revere, Gentleman's Agreement

Directing

• George Cukor, A Double Life
• Edward Dmytryk, Crossfire
• Elia Kazan, Gentleman's Agreement
• Henry Koster, The Bishop's Wife
• David Lean, Great Expectations

Writing

• Original Motion Picture Story
  • Georges Chaperot and Rene Wheeler, A Cage of Nightingales
  • Herbert Clyde Lewis and Frederick Stephani, It Happened on Fifth Avenue
  • Valentine Davies, Miracle on 34th Street
  • Eleazar Lipsky, Kiss of Death
  • Dorothy Parker and Frank Cavett, Smash Up:The Story of a Woman
• Original Screenplay
  • Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, C. G. Viola and Cesare Zavattini, Shoeshine
  • Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux
  • Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, A Double Life
  • Abraham Polonsky, Body and Soul
  • Sidney Sheldon, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
• Screenplay
  • Moss Hart, Gentleman's Agreement
  • David Lean, Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan, Great Expectations
  • Richard Murphy, Boomerang!
  • John Paxton, Crossfire
  • George Seaton, Miracle on 34th Street

Cinematography

• Black-and-White
  • George Folsey, Green Dolphin Street
  • Guy Green, Great Expectations
  • Charles Lang, Jr., The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
• Color
  • Jack Cardiff, Black Narcissus
  • Harry Jackson, Mother Wore Tights
  • Peverell Marley and William V. Skall, Life With Father

Art Direction

• Black-and-White
  • John Bryan, art direction; Wilfred Shingleton, set decoration, Great Expectations
  • Lyle Wheeler and Maurice Ransford, art direction; Thomas Little and Paul S. Fox, set decoration, The Foxes of Harrow
• Color
  • Robert M. Haas, art direction; George James Hopkins, set decoration, Life With Father
  • Alfred Junge, art direction and set decoration, Black Narcissus

Sound Recording

• Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, The Bishop's Wife
• MGM Studio Sound Department, Green Dolphin Street
• Sound Service, Inc., T-Men

Music

• Song
  • "A Gal in Calico", The Time, the Place and the Girl, Arthur Schwartz, music; Leo Robin, lyrics
  • "I Wish I Didn't Love You So", The Perils of Pauline, Frank Loesser, music and lyrics
  • "Pass That Peace Pipe", Good News, Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin and Roger Edens, music and lyrics
  • "You Do", Mother Wore Tights, Josef Myrow, music; Mack Gordon, lyrics
  • "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah", Song of the South, Allie Wrubel, music; Ray Gilbert, lyrics
• Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
  • Hugo Friedhofer, The Bishop's Wife
  • Alfred Newman, Captain From Castile
  • David Raksin, Forever Amber
  • Miklos Rozsa, A Double Life
  • Max Steiner, Life With Father
• Scoring of a Musical Picture
  • Daniele Amfitheatrof, Paul J. Smith and Charles Wolcott, Song of the South
  • Robert Emmett Dolan, Road to Rio
  • Johnny Green, Fiesta
  • Ray Heindorf and Max Steiner, My Wild Irish Rose
  • Alfred Newman, Mother Wore Tights

Film Editing

• Monica Collingwood, The Bishop's Wife
• Harmon Jones, Gentleman's Agreement
• Francis Lyon and Robert Parrish, Body and Soul
• Fergus McDonnell, Odd Man Out
• George White, Green Dolphin Street

Special Effects

• Farciot Edouart, Devereux Jennings, Gordon Jennings, Wallace Kelley and Paul Lerpae, visual; George Dutton, audible, Unconquered
• A. Arnold Gillespie and Warren Newcombe, visual; Douglas Shearer and Michael Steinore, audible, Green Dolphin Street

Short Subjects

• Cartoon
  • Chip an' Dale (Donald Duck Series) (Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio)
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse (Tom and Jerry Series) (Frederick Quimby, producer; MGM)
  • Pluto's Blue Note (Pluto Series) (Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio)
  • Tubby the Tuba (George Pal Puppetoon Series) (George Pal, producer; Paramount)
  • Tweetie Pie (Merrie Melodies Series) (Edward Selzer, producer; Warner Bros.)
• One-Reel
  • Brooklyn, U.S.A. (Variety View Series) (Thomas Mead, producer; Universal-International)
  • Goodbye Miss Turlock (John Nesbitt Passing Parade Series) (Herbert Moulton, producer; MGM)
  • Moon Rockets (Popular Science Series) (Jerry Fairbanks, producer; Paramount)
  • Now You See It (Pete Smith Specialty Series) (Pete Smith, producer; MGM)
  • So You Want to Be in Pictures (Joe McDoakes Series) (Gordon Hollingshead, producer; Warner Bros.)
• Two-Reel
  • Champagne for Two (Musical Parade Featurette Series) (Harry Grey, producer; Paramount)
  • Climbing the Matterhorn (Color Series) (Irving Allen, producer; Monogram)
  • Fight of the Wild Stallions (Featurette Series) (Thomas Mead, producer; Universal-International)
  • Give Us the Earth (Herbert Morgan, producer; MGM)
  • A Voice Is Born: The Story of Niklos Gafni (Musical Featurette Series) (Ben Blake, producer; Columbia)

Documentary

• Short Subject
  • First Steps (United Nations Division of Films and Visual Education)
  • Passport to Nowhere (This Is America Series) (Frederic Ullman, Jr., producer; RKO Pathé)
  • School in the Mailbox (Australian News and Information Bureau)
• Feature
  • Design for Death (Theron Warth and Richard O. Fleischer, producers; RKO Radio)
  • Journey Into Medicine (U.S. State Department Office of Information and Educational Exchange)
  • The World Is Rich (Paul Rotha, producer; British Information Services)

Special Awards

• To James Baskett for his able and heartwarming characterization of Uncle Remus, friend and storyteller to the children of the world in Walt Disney's Song of the South
• To Bill and Coo, in which artistry and patience blended in a novel and entertaining use of the medium of motion pictures
• To Shoeshine, the high quality of this motion picture, brought to eloquent life in a country scarred by war, is proof to the world that the creative spirit can triumph over adversity.
• To Colonel William N. Selig, Albert E. Smith, Thomas Armat and George K. Spoor, the small group of pioneers whose belief in a new medium and whose contributions to its development blazed the trail along which the motion picture has progressed, in their lifetime, from obscurity to worldwide acclaim

Facts:

• Winners Announced: March 20, 1948
• Held at: Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California
• Hosts: Agnes Moorehead and Dick Powell
• Eligibility Year: 1947