1949

Best Picture

The Third Man
-All the King's Men
-The Fountainhead
-White Heat
-The Heiress

Best Director

"I'd make comic faces... and stand on my head and grin at you between my legs... and tell all sorts of jokes. I wouldn't stand a chance, would I?"
Carol Reed for The Third Man
-Robert Rossen for All The King's Men
-King Vidor for The Fountainhead
-Raoul Walsh for White Heat
-William Wyler for The Heiress

Best Actor

"Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"
James Cagney as Cody Jarrett in White Heat
-Broderick Crawford as Willie Stark in All the King's Men
-Gary Cooper as Howard Roark in The Fountainhead
-Joseph Cotton as Holly Martins in The Third Man
-James Stewart as Monty Stratton in The Stratton Story

Best Actress

"Father won't abuse you, he doesn't know you well enough."
Olivia de Havilland as Catherine Sloper in The Heiress
-Hedy Lamarr as Delilah in Samson & Delilah
-Patricia Neal as Dominique Francon in The Fountainhead
-Susan Hayward as Eloise Winters in My Foolish Heart
-Jeanne Crain as Deborah Bishop in A Letter to Three Wives

Best Supporting Actor

"Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
Orson Welles as Harry Lime in The Third Man
-Trevor Howard as Maj. Calloway in The Third Man
-Ralph Richardson as Dr. Austin Sloper in The Heiress
-James Whitmore as Kinnie in Battleground
-John Ireland as Jack Burden in All the King's Men

Best Supporting Actress

"Be smart. Play square with him. You're gonna need people like us around."
Mercedes McCambridge as Sadie Burke in All the King's Men
-Aida Villi as Anna Schmidt in The Third Man
-Margaret Wycherly as Ma Jarrett in White Heat
-Elsa Lanchester as Amelia Potts in Come to the Stable
-Miriam Hopkins as Lavinia Penniman in The Heiress

Best Screenplay

"Death's at the bottom of everything, Martins. Leave death to the professionals."
The Third Man
-All the King's Men
-The Fountainhead
-White Heat
-The Heiress
-The Stratton Story