1949 (22nd Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1949 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Motion Picture

All the King’s Men, Robert Rossen Productions; Columbia.

Best Actor

Broderick Crawford in All the King’s Men, Robert Rossen Productions; Columbia.

Best Actress

Olivia de Havilland in The Heiress, Paramount.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Dean Jagger in Twelve O’Clock High, 20th Century-Fox.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Mercedes McCambridge in All the King’s Men, Robert Rossen Productions; Columbia.

Directing

A Letter to Three Wives, 20th Century-Fox. Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

(Black-and-White)

The Heiress, Paramount. Art direction by Harry Horner and John Meehan; set decoration by Emile Kuri.

(Color)

Little Women, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse; set decoration by Edwin B. Willis and Jack D. Moore.

Cinematography

(Black-and-White)

Battleground, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Paul C. Vogel.

(Color)

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Argosy Pictures; RKO Radio. Winton Hoch.

Costume Design

(Black-and-White)

The Heiress, Paramount. Edith Head and Gile Steele.

(Color)

The Adventures of Don Juan, Warner Bros. Leah Rhodes, Travilla and Marjorie Best.

Documentary

(Feature)

Daybreak in Udi, British Information Services. (UK) Crown Film Unit.

(Short Subject)

A Chance to Live, March of Time; 20th Century-Fox. [March of Time Series] Richard de Rochemont, Producer.

So Much for So Little, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.; Warner Bros. Edward Selzer, Producer.

Film Editing

Champion, Screen Plays Corporation; United Artists. Harry Gerstad.

Music

(Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

The Heiress, Paramount. Aaron Copland.

(Scoring of a Musical Picture)

On the Town, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Roger Edens and Lennie Hayton.

(Song)

Baby, It’s Cold Outside from Neptune’s Daughter, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

For Scent-imental Reasons, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.; Warner Bros. [Merrie Melodies Series] Edward Selzer, Producer.

(One-reel)

Aquatic House-Party, Paramount. [Grantland Rice Sportlights Series] Jack Eaton, Producer.

(Two-reel)

Van Gogh, Société du Cinema du Pantheon; Canton-Weiner Films. (France) Gaston Diehl and Robert Haessens, Producers.

Sound Recording

Twelve O’Clock High, 20th Century-Fox. 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton, Sound Director.

Special Effects

Mighty Joe Young, ARKO Production; RKO Radio.

Writing

(Motion Picture Story)

The Stratton Story, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Douglas Morrow.

(Screenplay)

A Letter to Three Wives, 20th Century-Fox. Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

(Story and Screenplay)

Battleground, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Robert Pirosh.

Special Award

To Fred Astaire for his unique artistry and his contributions to the technique of musical pictures. [ [Statuette]]

To Cecil B. DeMille, distinguished motion picture pioneer, for 37 years of brilliant showmanship. [ [Statuette]]

To Jean Hersholt, for distinguished service to the motion picture industry. [ [Statuette]]

(Foreign Language Film)

To The Bicycle Thief, Vittorio DeSica Productions; Mayer-Burstyn. (Italy) – voted by the Academy Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1949. [ [Statuette]]

(Juvenile)

To Bobby Driscoll, as the outstanding juvenile actor of 1949. [ [Miniature Statuette]]

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class I)

To Eastman Kodak Company for the development and introduction of an improved safety base motion picture film.

(Class III)

To Loren L. Ryder, Bruce H. Denney, Robert Carr and the Paramount Studio Sound Department for the development and application of the supersonic playback and public address system.

To M. B. Paul for the first successful large-area seamless translucent backgrounds.

To Herbert E. Britt for the development and application of formulas and equipment for producing artificial snow and ice for dressing motion picture sets.

To Andre Coutant and Jacques Mathot for the design of the Eclair camerette.

To Charles R. Daily, Steve Csillag, the Paramount Studio Engineering Department, the Paramount Studio Editorial Department and the Paramount Studio Music Department for a new precision method of computing variable tempo click tracks.

To the International Projector Corporation for a simplified and self-adjusting take-up device for projection machines.

To Alexander Velcoff for the application to production of the infra-red photographic evaluator.