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1940
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"REBECCA"
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"All This, and Heaven Too"
"Foreign Correspondent"
"The Grapes of Wrath"

"The Great Dictator"

"Kitty Foyle"
"The Letter"
"The Long Voyage Home"
"Our Town"
"The Philadelphia Story"
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Actor:
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JAMES STEWART for "The Philadelphia Story"
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Charles Chaplin for "The Great Dictator"

Henry Fonda for "The Grapes of Wrath"

Raymond Massey for "Abe Lincoln in Illinois"
Laurence Olivier for "Rebecca"
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Actress:
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GINGER ROGERS for "Kitty Foyle" |
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Bette Davis for "The Letter"
Joan Fontaine for "Rebecca"

Katharine Hepburn for "The Philadelphia Story"

Martha Scott for "Our Town" |
Supporting Actor:
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WALTER BRENNAN for "The Westerner" |
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Albert Basserman for "Foreign Correspondent"
William Gargan for "They Knew What They Wanted"
Jack Oakie for "The Great Dictator"

James Stephenson for "The Letter" |
Supporting Actress:
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JANE DARWELL for "The Grapes of Wrath"
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Judith Anderson for "Rebecca"

Ruth Hussey for "The Philadelphia Story"

Barbara O'Neil for "All This, and Heaven Too"
Marjorie Rambeau for "Primrose Path" |
Director:
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JOHN FORD for "The Grapes of Wrath"
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George Cukor for "The Philadelphia Story"

Alfred Hitchcock for "Rebecca"

Sam Wood for "Kitty Foyle"
William Wyler for "The Letter" |
1941
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"HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY"
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"Blossoms in the Dust"
"Citizen Kane"

"Here Comes Mr. Jordan"
"Hold Back the Dawn"
"The Little Foxes"
"The Maltese Falcon"

"One Foot in Heaven"
"Sergeant York"
"Suspicion" |
Actor:
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GARY COOPER for "Sergeant York" |
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Cary Grant for "Penny Serenade"
Walter Huston for "All That Money Can Buy"
Robert Montgomery for "Here Comes Mr. Jordan"
Orson Welles for "Citizen Kane"
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Actress:
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JOAN FONTAINE for "Suspicion" |
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Bette Davis for "The Little Foxes"
Olivia de Havilland for "Hold Back the Dawn"
Greer Garson for "Blossoms in the Dust"
Barbara Stanwyck for "Ball of Fire"
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Supporting Actor:
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DONALD CRISP for "How Green Was My Valley"
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Walter Brennan for "Sergeant York"
Charles Coburn for "The Devil and Miss Jones"
James Gleason for "Here Comes Mr. Jordan"
Sydney Greenstreet for "The Maltese Falcon"
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Supporting Actress:
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MARY ASTOR for "The Great Lie" |
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Sara Allgood for "How Green Was My Valley"

Patricia Collinge for "The Little Foxes"
Teresa Wright for "The Little Foxes"
Margaret Wycherly for "Sergeant York" |
Director:
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JOHN FORD for "How Green Was My Valley"
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Alexander Hall for "Here Comes Mr. Jordan"
Howard Hawks for "Sergeant York"
Orson Welles for "Citizen Kane"

William Wyler for "The Little Foxes" |
1942
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"MRS. MINIVER" |
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"The Invaders"
"Kings Row"
"The Magnificent Ambersons"

"The Pied Piper"
"The Pride of the Yankees"
"Random Harvest"
"The Talk of the Town"
"Wake Island"
"Yankee Doodle Dandy"
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Actor:
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JAMES CAGNEY for "Yankee Doodle Dandy"
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Ronald Colman for "Random Harvest"
Gary Cooper for "The Pride of the Yankees"
Walter Pidgeon for "Mrs. Miniver"
Monty Woolley for "The Pied Piper" |
Actress:
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GREER GARSON for "Mrs. Miniver" |
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Bette Davis for "Now, Voyager"

Katharine Hepburn for "Woman of the Year"

Rosalind Russell for "My Sister Eileen"
Teresa Wright for "The Pride of the Yankees" |
Supporting Actor:
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VAN HEFLIN for "Johnny Eager" |
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William Bendix for "Wake Island"
Walter Huston for "Yankee Doodle Dandy"

Frank Morgan for "Tortilla Flat"
Henry Travers for "Mrs. Miniver" |
Supporting Actress:
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TERESA WRIGHT for "Mrs. Miniver" |
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Gladys Cooper for "Now, Voyager"

Agnes Moorehead for "The Magnificent Ambersons"

Susan Peters for "Random Harvest"

Dame May Whitty for "Mrs. Miniver" |
Director:
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WILLIAM WYLER for "Mrs. Miniver" |
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Michael Curtiz for "Yankee Doodle Dandy"

John Farrow for "Wake Island"
Mervyn LeRoy for "Random Harvest"

Sam Wood for "Kings Row" |
1943
Picture:
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"CASABLANCA"
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"For Whom the Bell Tolls"
"Heaven Can Wait"
"The Human Comedy"
"In Which We Serve"
"Madame Curie"
"The More the Merrier"
"The Ox-Bow Incident"

"The Song of Bernadette"
"Watch on the Rhine" |
Actor:
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PAUL LUKAS for "Watch on the Rhine" |
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Humphrey Bogart for "Casablanca"

Gary Cooper for "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
Walter Pidgeon for "Madame Curie"
Mickey Rooney for "The Human Comedy" |
Actress:
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JENNIFER JONES for "The Song of Bernadette" |
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Jean Arthur for "The More the Merrier"
Ingrid Bergman for "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
Joan Fontaine for "The Constant Nymph"
Greer Garson for "Madame Curie" |
Supporting Actor:
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CHARLES COBURN for "The More the Merrier" |
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Charles Bickford for "The Song of Bernadette"
J. Carrol Naish for "Sahara"
Claude Rains for "Casablanca"

Akim Tamiroff for "For Whom the Bell Tolls" |
Supporting Actress:
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KATINA PAXINOU for "For Whom the Bell Tolls" |
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Gladys Cooper for "The Song of Bernadette"
Paulette Goddard for "So Proudly We Hail"
Anne Revere for "The Song of Bernadette"
Lucile Watson for "Watch on the Rhine" |
Director:
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MICHAEL CURTIZ for "Casablanca"
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Clarence Brown for "The Human Comedy"
Henry King for "The Song of Bernadette"
Ernst Lubitsch for "Heaven Can Wait"
George Stevens for "The More the Merrier" |
1944
Picture:
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"GOING MY WAY" |
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"Double Indemnity"

"Gaslight"

"Since You Went Away"
"Wilson" |
Actor:
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BING CROSBY for "Going My Way" |
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Charles Boyer for "Gaslight"

Barry Fitzgerald for "Going My Way"
Cary Grant for "None But the Lonely Heart"
Alexander Knox for "Wilson" |
Actress:
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INGRID BERGMAN for "Gaslight"
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Claudette Colbert for "Since You Went Away"
Bette Davis for "Mr. Skeffington"
Greer Garson for "Mrs. Parkington"
Barbara Stanwyck for "Double Indemnity"
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Supporting Actor:
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BARRY FITZGERALD for "Going My Way" |
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Hume Cronyn for "The Seventh Cross"
Claude Rains for "Mr. Skeffington"
Clifton Webb for "Laura"

Monty Woolley for "Since You Went Away" |
Supporting Actress:
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ETHEL BARRYMORE for "None But the Lonely Heart" |
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Jennifer Jones for "Since You Went Away"
Angela Lansbury for "Gaslight"

Aline MacMahon for "Dragon Seed"
Agnes Moorehead for "Mrs. Parkington" |
Director:
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LEO MCCAREY for "Going My Way" |
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Alfred Hitchcock for "Lifeboat"
Henry King for "Wilson"
Otto Preminger for "Laura"

Billy Wilder for "Double Indemnity"
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1945
Picture:
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"THE LOST WEEKEND" |
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"Anchors Aweigh"
"The Bells of St. Mary's"
"Mildred Pierce"

"Spellbound" |
Actor:
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RAY MILLAND for "The Lost Weekend" |
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Bing Crosby for "The Bells of St. Mary's"
Gene Kelly for "Anchors Aweigh"
Gregory Peck for "The Keys of the Kingdom"
Cornel Wilde for "A Song to Remember" |
Actress:
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JOAN CRAWFORD for "Mildred Pierce"
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Ingrid Bergman for "The Bells of St. Mary's"
Greer Garson for "The Valley of Decision"
Jennifer Jones for "Love Letters"
Gene Tierney for "Leave Her to Heaven" |
Supporting Actor:
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JAMES DUNN for "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" |
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Michael Chekhov for "Spellbound"
John Dall for "The Corn Is Green"
Robert Mitchum for "The Story of G.I. Joe"
J. Carrol Naish for "A Medal for Benny" |
Supporting Actress:
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ANNE REVERE for "National Velvet" |
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Eve Arden for "Mildred Pierce"

Ann Blyth for "Mildred Pierce"

Angela Lansbury for "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

Joan Lorring for "The Corn Is Green" |
Director:
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BILLY WILDER for "The Lost Weekend" |
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Clarence Brown for "National Velvet"
Alfred Hitchcock for "Spellbound"
Leo McCarey for "The Bells of St. Mary's"
Jean Renoir for "The Southerner" |
1946
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"THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES"

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"Henry V"
"It's A Wonderful Life"

"The Razor's Edge"
"The Yearling" |
Actor:
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FREDRIC MARCH for "The Best Years of Our Lives"

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Laurence Olivier for "Henry V"
Larry Parks for "The Jolson Story"
Gregory Peck for "The Yearling"
James Stewart for "It's A Wonderful Life"
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Actress:
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OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND for "To Each His Own" |
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Celia Johnson for "Brief Encounter"
Jennifer Jones for "Duel in the Sun"
Rosalind Russell for "Sister Kenny"
Jane Wyman for "The Yearling" |
Supporting Actor:
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HAROLD RUSSELL for "The Best Years of Our Lives"
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Charles Coburn for "The Green Years"
William Demarest for "The Jolson Story"
Claude Rains for "Notorious"

Clifton Webb for "The Razor's Edge" |
Supporting Actress:
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ANNE BAXTER for "The Razor's Edge" |
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Ethel Barrymore for "The Spiral Staircase"
Lillian Gish for "Duel in the Sun"
Flora Robson for "Saratoga Trunk"
Gale Sondergaard for "Anna and the King of Siam" |
Director:
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WILLIAM WYLER for "The Best Years of Our Lives"
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Clarence Brown for "The Yearling"
Frank Capra for "It's A Wonderful Life"

David Lean for "Brief Encounter"
Robert Siodmak for "The Killers" |
1947
Picture:
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"GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT" |
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"The Bishop's Wife"
"Crossfire"
"Great Expectations"
"Miracle on 34th Street" |
Actor:
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RONALD COLMAN for "A Double Life" |
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John Garfield for "Body and Soul"
Gregory Peck for "Gentleman's Agreement"
William Powell for "Life With Father"
Michael Redgrave for "Mourning Becomes Electra" |
Actress:
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LORETTA YOUNG for "The Farmer's Daughter" |
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Joan Crawford for "Possessed"
Susan Hayward for "Smash Up - The Story of a Woman"
Dorothy McGuire for "Gentleman's Agreement"
Rosalind Russell for "Mourning Becomes Electra" |
Supporting Actor:
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EDMUND GWENN for "Miracle on 34th Street" |
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Charles Bickford for "The Farmer's Daughter"
Thomas Gomez for "Ride the Pink Horse"
Robert Ryan for "Crossfire"
Richard Widmark for "Kiss of Death" |
Supporting Actress:
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CELESTE HOLM for "Gentleman's Agreement" |
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Ethel Barrymore for "The Paradine Case"
Gloria Grahame for "Crossfire"
Marjorie Main for "The Egg and I"
Anne Revere for "Gentleman's Agreement" |
Director:
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ELIA KAZAN for "Gentleman's Agreement" |
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George Cukor for "A Double Life"
Edward Dmytryk for "Crossfire"
Henry Koster for "The Bishop's Wife"
David Lean for "Great Expectations" |
1948
Picture:
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"HAMLET" |
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"Johnny Belinda"
"The Red Shoes"
"The Snake Pit"
"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
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Actor:
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LAURENCE OLIVIER for "Hamlet" |
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Lew Ayres for "Johnny Belinda"
Montgomery Clift for "The Search"
Dan Dailey for "When My Baby Smiles at Me"
Clifton Webb for "Sitting Pretty" |
Actress:
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JANE WYMAN for "Johnny Belinda" |
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Ingrid Bergman for "Joan of Arc"
Olivia de Havilland for "The Snake Pit"
Irene Dunne for "I Remember Mama"
Barbara Stanwyck for "Sorry, Wrong Number" |
Supporting Actor:
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WALTER HUSTON for "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
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Charles Bickford for "Johnny Belinda"
Jose Ferrer for "Joan of Arc"
Oscar Homolka for "I Remember Mama"
Cecil Kellaway for "The Luck of the Irish" |
Supporting Actress:
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CLAIRE TREVOR for "Key Largo" |
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Barbara Bel Geddes for "I Remember Mama"
Ellen Corby for "I Remember Mama"
Agnes Moorehead for "Johnny Belinda"
Jean Simmons for "Hamlet" |
Director:
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JOHN HUSTON for "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
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Anatole Litvak for "The Snake Pit"
Jean Negulesco for "Johnny Belinda"
Laurence Olivier for "Hamlet"
Fred Zinnemann for "The Search" |
1949
Picture:
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"ALL THE KING'S MEN"
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"Battleground"
"The Heiress"

"A Letter to Three Wives"
"Twelve O'Clock High"
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Actor:
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BRODERICK CRAWFORD for "All the King's Men"
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Kirk Douglas for "Champion"
Gregory Peck for "Twelve O'Clock High"

Richard Todd for "The Hasty Heart"
John Wayne for "Sands of Iwo Jima" |
Actress:
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OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND for "The Heiress" |
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Jeanne Crain for "Pinky"
Susan Hayward for "My Foolish Heart"
Deborah Kerr for "Edward, My Son"
Loretta Young for "Come to the Stable" |
Supporting Actor:
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DEAN JAGGER for "Twelve O'Clock High"
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John Ireland for "All the King's Men"

Arthur Kennedy for "Champion"
Ralph Richardson for "The Heiress"

James Whitmore for "Battleground" |
Supporting Actress:
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MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE for "All the King's Men"
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Ethel Barrymore for "Pinky"
Celeste Holm for "Come to the Stable"
Elsa Lanchester for "Come to the Stable"
Ethel Waters for "Pinky" |
Director:
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JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ for "A Letter to Three Wives" |
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Carol Reed for "The Fallen Idol"
Robert Rossen for "All the King's Men"

William A. Wellman for "Battleground"
William Wyler for "The Heiress"
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