22nd Academy Awards (1950)
Highlights of 22nd Academy Awards ceremony
The 22nd Academy Awards honored the best films of 1949.
The award ceremony was held on 23th March 1950.
All the King's Men won the Best Picture award.
Broderick Crawford won the Best Actor award for his role in All the King's Men.
Olivia de Havilland won the Best Actess award for her role in The Heiress.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz won the Best Director award for A Letter to Three Wives.
- WINNER
Best Picture
All the King's Men
Battleground
The Heiress
A Letter to Three Wives
Twelve O'Clock High
Best Director
A Letter to Three Wives
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
The Fallen Idol
- Carol Reed
All the King's Men
- Robert Rossen
Battleground
- William A. Wellman
The Heiress
- William Wyler
Best Actor in a Leading Role
All the King's Men
- Broderick Crawford
Sands of Iwo Jima
- John Wayne
Champion
- Kirk Douglas
Twelve O'Clock High
- Gregory Peck
The Hasty Heart
- Richard Todd
Best Actress in a Leading Role
The Heiress
- Olivia de Havilland
My Foolish Heart
- Susan Hayward
Pinky
- Jeanne Crain
Edward, My Son
- Deborah Kerr
Come to the Stable
- Loretta Young
Best Supporting Actor
Twelve O'Clock High
- Dean Jagger
All the King's Men
- John Ireland
Champion
- Arthur Kennedy
The Heiress
- Ralph Richardson
Battleground
- James Whitmore
Best Supporting Actress
All the King's Men
- Mercedes McCambridge
Pinky
- Ethel Barrymore
Come to the Stable
- Celeste Holm
Come to the Stable
- Elsa Lanchester
Pinky
- Ethel Waters
Best Documentary Feature
Daybreak in Udi
Kenji Comes Home
- Paul F. Heard
Best Documentary Short Subject
A Chance to Live
- Richard de Rochemont
Much for So Little
1848
The Rising Tide
Academy Honorary Award
The Bicycle Thief
for "The most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1949"
Bobby Driscoll
for "outstanding juvenile actor"
Fred Astaire
for "Unique artistry and his contributions to the technique of musical pictures"
Cecil B. DeMille
for "Distinguished motion picture pioneer, for 37 years of brilliant showmanship"
Jean Hersholt
for "Distinguished service to the motion picture industry"
Best Film Editing
Champion
- Harry Gerstad
Battleground
- John Dunning
The Window
- Frederic Knudtson
All the King's Men
- Robert Parrish, Al Clark
Sands of Iwo Jima
- Richard L. Van Enger
Best Cinematography, Color
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
- Winton Hoch
Sands of Iwo Jima
- Charles G. Clarke
Little Women
- Robert Planck, Charles Schoenbaum
Jolson Sings Again
- William Snyder
The Barkleys of Broadway
- Harry Stradling
Best Cinematography, Black & White
Battleground
- Paul C. Vogel
Come to the Stable
- Joseph LaShelle
Champion
- Frank Planer
Prince of Foxes
- Leon Shamroy
The Heiress
- Leo Tover
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
Little Women
- Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore
Adventures of Don Juan
- Edward Carrere, Lyle Reifsnider
Saraband for Dead Lovers
- Jim Morahan, William Kellner, Michael Relph
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black & White
The Heiress
- John Meehan, Harry Horner, Emile Kuri
Madame Bovary
- Cedric Gibbons, Jack Martin Smith, Edwin B. Willis, Richard A. Pefferle
Come to the Stable
- Lyle Wheeler, Joseph C. Wright, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox
Best Costume Design, Color
Adventures of Don Juan
- Leah Rhodes, Travilla, Marjorie Best
Mother Is a Freshman
- Kay Nelson
Best Costume Design, Black & White
The Heiress
- Edith Head, Gile Steele
Prince of Foxes
- Vittorio Nino Novarese
Best 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
Best Short Subject - Two-reel
Van Gogh
- Gaston Diehl, Robert Haeessens
The Boy and the Eagle
- William Lasky
Chase of Death
- Irving Allen
The Grass Is Always Greener
- Gordon Hollingshead
Snow Carnival
- Gordon Hollingshead
Best Short Subject - Cartoon
For Scent-imental Reasons
Canary Row
Hatch Up Your Troubles
The Magic Fluke
Toy Tinkers
Best Music - Song
Neptune's Daughter
- Frank Loesser
for "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
It's a Great Feeling
- Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn
for "It's a Great Feeling"
So Dear to My Heart
- Eliot Daniel, Larry Morey
for "Lavender Blue"
My Foolish Heart
- Victor Young, Ned Washington
for "My Foolish Heart"
Come to the Stable
- Alfred Newman, Mack Gordon
for "Through a Long and Sleepless Night"
Best Music - Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
The Heiress
- Aaron Copland
Beyond the Forest
- Max Steiner
Champion
- Dimitri Tiomkin
Best Music - Scoring of a Musical Picture
On the Town
- Roger Edens, Lennie Hayton
Look for the Silver Lining
- Ray Heindorf
Jolson Sings Again
- Morris Stoloff, George Duning
Best Writing, Motion Picture Story
The Stratton Story
- Douglas Morrow
Sands of Iwo Jima
- Harry Brown
White Heat
- Virginia Kellogg
Come to the Stable
- Clare Boothe Luce
It Happens Every Spring
- Shirley W. Smith, Valentine Davies
Best Sound Recording
Twelve O'Clock High
Sands of Iwo Jima
Once More, My Darling
Best Effects, Special Effects
Mighty Joe Young
Tulsa
Best Writing, Screenplay
A Letter to Three Wives
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Champion
- Carl Foreman
The Fallen Idol
- Graham Greene
All the King's Men
- Robert Rossen
The Bicycle Thief
- Cesare Zavattini
Best Writing, Story and Screenplay
Battleground
- Robert Pirosh
Jolson Sings Again
- Sidney Buchman
Passport to Pimlico
- T. E. B. Clarke
Paisa
- Alfred Hayes, Federico Fellini, Sergio Amidei, Marcello Pagliero, Roberto Rossellini
The Quiet One
- Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, Sidney Meyers