Gentleman's Agreement – Darryl F. Zanuck for 20th Century Fox
The Bishop's Wife – Samuel Goldwyn for RKO Radio Pictures* Crossfire – Adrian Scott for RKO Radio Pictures* Great Expectations – Ronald Neame for Universal Studios and General Film Distributors, Ltd.* Miracle on 34th Street – William Perlberg for 20th Century Fox | Elia Kazan – Gentleman's Agreement* Henry Koster – The Bishop's Wife* Edward Dmytryk – Crossfire* George Cukor – A Double Life* David Lean – Great Expectations |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Miracle on 34th Street – Valentine Davies* A Cage of Nightingales – Georges Chaperot and René Wheeler* It Happened on 5th Avenue – Herbert Clyde Lewis and Frederick Stephani* Kiss of Death – Eleazar Lipsky* Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman – Dorothy Parker and Frank Cavett | Design for Death – Sid Rogell, Theron Warth, and Richard Fleischer* Journey into Medicine – United States Department of State Office of Information and Educational Exchange* The World Is Rich – Paul Rotha |
| First Steps – United Nations Division of Films and Visual Information* Passport to Nowhere – Frederic Ullman, Jr.* School in the Mailbox – Australian News & Information Bureau | 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 Miklos Gafni – Ben Blake | 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 |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 – Special Visual Effects: A. Arnold Gillespie and Warren Newcombe; Special Audible Effects: Douglas Shearer and Michael Steinore* Unconquered – Special Visual Effects: Farciot Edouart, Devereux Jennings, Gordon Jennings, Wallace Kelley and Paul Lerpae; Special Audible Effects: George Dutton |