1946

Best Picture

It's A Wonderful Life
-Notorious
-The Postman Always Rings Twice
-The Big Sleep
-Great Expectations

Best Director

"Isn't it wonderful? I'm going to jail!"
Frank Capra for It's A Wonderful Life
-Alfred Hitchcock for Notorious
-David Lean for Great Expectations
-William Wyler for The Best Years of Our Lives
-Howard Hawks for The Big Sleep

Best Actor

"Now, you listen to me! I don't want any plastics, and I don't want any ground floors, and I don't want to get married - ever - to anyone! You understand that? I want to do what I want to do..."
James Stewart as George Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life
-Cary Grant as T.R. Devlin in Notorious
-John Garfield as Frank Chambers in The Postman Always Rings Twice
-Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp in My Darling Clementine
-Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep

Best Actress

"Isn't it wonderful? Nobody has to apologize, because we were both stinkers, weren't we? Isn't it wonderful?"
Rita Hayworth as Gilda Mundson Farrell in Gilda
-Ingrid Bergman as Alicia Huberman in Notorious
-Joan Crawford as Mrs. Helen Wright in Humoresque
-Lana Turner as Cora Smith in The Postman Always Rings Twice
-Paulette Goddard as Celestine in The Diary of a Chambermaid

Best Supporting Actor

"Well, I'm the poor fool who likes to play a hand without any trumps."
Hume Cronyn as Arthur Keats in The Postman Always Rings Twice
-Claude Rains as Alexander Sebastian in Notorious
-William Bendix as Buzz Wancheck in The Blue Dahlia
-Alec Guinness as Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations
-Orson Welles as Prof. Charles Rankin in The Stranger

Best Supporting Actress

"I'd say you don't like to be rated. You like to get out in front, open up a little lead, take a little breather in the backstretch, and then come home free."
Lauren Bacall as Vivian Sternwood Rutledge in The Big Sleep
-Donna Reed as Mary Hatch Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life
-Loretta Young as Mary Longstreet in The Stranger
-Leopoldine Konstantin as Madame Anna Sebastian in Notorious
-Doris Dowling as Helen Morrison in The Blue Dahlia

Best Screenplay

"Sure, change is fun, for awhile."
Notorious
-It's A Wonderful Life
-The Best Years of Our Lives
-The Postman Always Rings Twice
-The Big Sleep
-Humoresque