21st Academy Awards (1949)

Best Picture

Hamlet - Laurence Olivier
Johnny Belinda - Jerry Wald
The Red Shoes - Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
The Snake Pit - Anatole Litvak, Robert Bassler
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Henry Blanke

Best Director

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - John Huston
The Snake Pit - Anatole Litvak
Johnny Belinda - Jean Negulesco
Hamlet - Laurence Olivier
The Search - Fred Zinnemann

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Hamlet - Laurence Olivier
Johnny Belinda - Lew Ayres
The Search - Montgomery Clift
When My Baby Smiles at Me - Dan Dailey
Sitting Pretty - Clifton Webb

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Johnny Belinda - Jane Wyman
Joan of Arc - Ingrid Bergman
The Snake Pit - Olivia de Havilland
I Remember Mama - Irene Dunne
Sorry, Wrong Number - Barbara Stanwyck

Best Supporting Actor

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Walter Huston
Johnny Belinda - Charles Bickford
Joan of Arc - Jose Ferrer
I Remember Mama - Oscar Homolka
The Luck of the Irish - Cecil Kellaway

Best Supporting Actress

Key Largo - Claire Trevor
I Remember Mama - Barbara Bel Geddes
I Remember Mama - Ellen Corby
Johnny Belinda - Agnes Moorehead
Hamlet - Jean Simmons

Best Documentary Feature

The Secret Land - O. O. Dull
The Quiet One - Janice Loch

Best Documentary Short Subject

Toward Independence
Heart to Heart
Operation Vittles

Academy Honorary Award

Monsieur Vincent for "The most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1948"
Sid Grauman for "Raised the standard of exhibition of motion pictures"
Adolph Zukor
Walter Wanger

Best Film Editing

The Naked City - Paul Weatherwax
Joan of Arc - Frank Sullivan
Johnny Belinda - David Weisbart
Red River - Christian Nyby
The Red Shoes - Reginald Mills

Best Cinematography, Color

Joan of Arc - Joseph Valentine, William V. Skall, Winton Hoch
Green Grass of Wyoming - Charles G. Clarke
The Loves of Carmen - William Snyder
The Three Musketeers - Robert Planck

Best Cinematography, Black & White

The Naked City - William Daniels
A Foreign Affair - Charles B. Lang Jr.
I Remember Mama - Nicholas Musuraca
Johnny Belinda - Ted McCord
Portrait of Jennie - Joseph August

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color

The Red Shoes - Hein Heckroth, Arthur Lawson
Joan of Arc - Richard Day, Edwin Casey Roberts, Joseph Kish

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black & White

Hamlet - Roger K. Fume, Carmen Dillon
Johnny Belinda - Robert Ham, William Wallace

Best Costume Design, Color

Joan of Arc - Dorothy Jeakins, Karinska
The Emperor Waltz - Edith Head, Gile Steele

Best Costume Design, Black & White

Hamlet - Roger K. Furse
B.F.'s Daughter - Irene

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Jerry Wald

Best Short Subject - One-reel

Symphony of a City - Edmund H. Reek
Annie Was a Wonder - Herbert Moulton
Cinderella Horse - Gordon Hollingshead
So You Want to Be on the Radio - Gordon Hollingshead
You Can't Win - Pete Smith

Best Short Subject - Two-reel

Seal Island - Walt Disney
Calgary Stampede - Gordon Hollingshead
Going to Blazes - Herbert Morgan
Samba-Mania - Harry Grey
Snow Capers - Thomas Head

Best Short Subject - Cartoon

The Little Orphan - Fred Quimby
Mickey and the Seal - Walt Disney
Mouse Wreckers - Edward Selzer
Robin Hoodlum
Tea for Two Hundred - Walt Disney

Best Music - Song

The Paleface - Jay Livingston, Ray Evans for "Buttons and Bows"
Casbah - Harold Arlen, Leo Robin for "For Every Man There is a Woman"
Romance on the High Seas - Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn for "It's Magic"
That Lady in Ermine - Frederick Hollander, Leo Robin for "This is the Moment"
Wee Blanket Police - Ramey Idriss and George Tibbles for "The Woody Woodpecker Song"

Best Music - Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

The Red Shoes - Brian Easdale
Hamlet - William Walton
Joan of Arc - Hugo Friedhofer
Johnny Belinda - Max Steiner
The Snake Pit - Alfred Newman

Best Music - Scoring of a Musical Picture

Easter Parade - Johnny Green, Roger Edens
The Emperor Waltz - Victor Young
The Pirate - Lennie Hayton
Romance on the High Seas - Ray Heindorf
When My Baby Smiles at Me - Alfred Newman

Best Writing, Motion Picture Story

The Search - Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler
The Louisiana Story - Robert Flaherty, Lopert, Frances Flaherty
The Naked City - Marvin Wald
Red River - Borden Chase
The Red Shoes - Emeric Pressburger

Best Sound, Recording

The Snake Pit
Johnny Belinda
Moonrise

Best Effects, Special Effects

Portrait of Jennie - Paul Eagler, J. McMillan Johnson, Russell Shearman, Clarence Slifer, Charles Freeman, James G. Stewart
Deep Waters - Ralph Hammeras, Fred Semen, Edward Snyder, Roger Herman

Best Writing, Screenplay

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - John Huston
A Foreign Affair - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Richard L. Breen
Johnny Belinda - Irmgard von Cube, Allen Vincent
The Search - Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler
The Snake Pit - Frank Partos, Millen Brand

Juvenile Academy Award

The Search - Ivan Jandl