| John Ford – How Green Was My Valley* Orson Welles – Citizen Kane* Alexander Hall – Here Comes Mr. Jordan* William Wyler – The Little Foxes* Howard Hawks – Sergeant York |
| Gary Cooper – Sergeant York as Alvin C. York* Cary Grant – Penny Serenade as Roger Adams* Walter Huston – All That Money Can Buy as Mr Scratch* Robert Montgomery – Here Comes Mr. Jordan as Joe Pendleton* Orson Welles – Citizen Kane as Charles Foster Kane | Joan Fontaine – Suspicion as Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth* Bette Davis – The Little Foxes as Regina Hubbard Giddens* Olivia de Havilland – Hold Back the Dawn as Emmy Brown* Greer Garson – Blossoms in the Dust as Edna Kahly Gladney* Barbara Stanwyck – Ball of Fire as Katherine "Sugarpuss" O'Shea |
| Donald Crisp – How Green Was My Valley as Gwilym Morgan* Walter Brennan – Sergeant York as Pastor Rosier Pile* Charles Coburn – The Devil and Miss Jones as John P Merrick* James Gleason – Here Comes Mr. Jordan as Max "Pop" Corkle* Sydney Greenstreet – The Maltese Falcon as Kasper Gutman | Mary Astor – The Great Lie as Sandra Kovak* Sara Allgood – How Green Was My Valley as Mrs Beth Morgan* Patricia Collinge – The Little Foxes as Birdie Hubbard* Teresa Wright – The Little Foxes as Alexandra Giddens* Margaret Wycherly – Sergeant York as Mary Brooks York |
| Citizen Kane – Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles* The Devil and Miss Jones – Norman Krasna* Sergeant York – John Huston, Howard Koch, Abem Finkel, and Harry Chandlee* Tall, Dark and Handsome – Karl Tunberg and Darrell Ware* Tom, Dick and Harry – Paul Jarrico | Here Comes Mr. Jordan – Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller, based on the play Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall* Hold Back the Dawn – Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, based on "Memo to a Movie Producer" by Ketti Frings* How Green Was My Valley – Philip Dunne, based on the novel by Richard Llewellyn* The Little Foxes – Lillian Hellman, based on the play by Lillian Hellman* The Maltese Falcon – John Huston, based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett |
| Here Comes Mr. Jordan – Harry Segall* Ball of Fire – Billy Wilder and Thomas Monroe* The Lady Eve – Monckton Hoffe* Meet John Doe – Richard Connell and Robert Presnell Sr.* Night Train to Munich – Gordon Wellesley | Churchill's Island – National Film Board of Canada and United Artists* Adventure in the Bronx – Film Associates* ' – U.S. Office for Emergency Management Film Unit and Motion Picture Committee Cooperating for National Defense* Christmas Under Fire – British Ministry of Information and Warner Bros.* A Letter from Home – British Ministry of Information and United Artists* Life of a Thoroughbred – Truman Talley and 20th Century Fox* Norway in Revolt – The March of Time and RKO Radio* A Place to Live – Philadelphia Housing Authority and Philadelphia Housing Association* Russian Soil – Amkino* Soldiers of the Sky – Truman Talley and 20th Century Fox* War Clouds in the Pacific – National Film Board of Canada and MGM |
| Of Pups and Puzzles – MGM* Army Champions – Pete Smith and MGM* Beauty and the Beach – Paramount* Down on the Farm – Paramount* Forty Boys and a Song – Warner Bros.* Kings of the Turf – Warner Bros.* Sagebrush and Silver – 20th Century Fox | Main Street on the March! – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer* Alive in the Deep – Woodard Productions, Inc.* Forbidden Passage – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer* The Gay Parisian – Warner Bros.* The Tanks Are Coming – U.S. Army and Warner Bros. |
| Lend a Paw – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio* Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B – Walter Lantz Productions and Universal* Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt – Leon Schlesinger and Warner Bros.* How War Came – Columbia* The Night Before Christmas – MGM* Rhapsody in Rivets – Leon Schlesinger and Warner Bros.* Rhythm in the Ranks – George Pal Productions and Paramount* The Rookie Bear – MGM* Superman – Fleischer Studios and Paramount* Truant Officer Donald – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio | All That Money Can Buy – Bernard Herrmann* Back Street – Frank Skinner* Ball of Fire – Alfred Newman* Cheers for Miss Bishop – Edward Ward* Citizen Kane – Bernard Herrmann* Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Franz Waxman* Hold Back the Dawn – Victor Young* How Green Was My Valley – Alfred Newman* King of the Zombies – Edward J. Kay* Ladies in Retirement – Morris Stoloff and Ernst Toch* The Little Foxes – Meredith Willson* Lydia – Miklós Rózsa* Mercy Island – Cy Feuer and Walter Scharf* Sergeant York – Max Steiner* So Ends Our Night – Louis Gruenberg* Sundown – Miklós Rózsa* Suspicion – Franz Waxman* Tanks a Million – Edward Ward* That Uncertain Feeling – Werner R. Heymann* This Woman is Mine – Richard Hageman |
| Dumbo – Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace* All-American Co-Ed – Edward Ward* Birth of the Blues – Robert Emmett Dolan* Buck Privates – Charles Previn* The Chocolate Soldier – Herbert Stothart and Bronisław Kaper* Ice-Capades – Cy Feuer* The Strawberry Blonde – Heinz Roemheld* Sun Valley Serenade – Emil Newman* Sunny – Anthony Collins* You'll Never Get Rich – Morris Stoloff | "The Last Time I Saw Paris" from Lady Be Good – Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II* "Baby Mine" from Dumbo – Music by Frank Churchill; Lyrics by Ned Washington* "Be Honest With Me" from Ridin' on a Rainbow – Music and Lyrics by Gene Autry and Fred Rose* "Blues in the Night" from Blues in the Night – Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer* "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B" from Buck Privates – Music by Hugh Prince; Lyrics by Don Raye* "Chattanooga Choo Choo" from Sun Valley Serenade – Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Mack Gordon* "Dolores" from Las Vegas Nights – Music by Louis Alter; Lyrics by Frank Loesser* "Out of the Silence" from All-American Co-ed – Music and Lyrics by Lloyd B. Norlin* "Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye" from You'll Never Get Rich – Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter |
| That Hamilton Woman – Jack Whitney* Appointment for Love – Bernard B. Brown* Ball of Fire – Thomas T. Moulton* The Chocolate Soldier – Douglas Shearer* Citizen Kane – John O. Aalberg* The Devil Pays Off – Charles L. Lootens* How Green Was My Valley – E. H. Hansen* The Men in Her Life – John P. Livadary* Sergeant York – Nathan Levinson* Skylark – Loren L. Ryder* Topper Returns – Elmer Raguse | How Green Was My Valley – Art Direction: Richard Day and Nathan H. Juran; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little* Citizen Kane – Art Direction: Perry Ferguson and Van Nest Polglase; Interior Decoration: Al Fields and Darrell Silvera* The Flame of New Orleans – Art Direction: Martin Obzina and Jack Otterson; Interior Decoration: Russell A. Gausman* Hold Back the Dawn – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Robert Usher; Interior Decoration: Samuel M. Comer* Ladies in Retirement – Art Direction: Lionel Banks; Interior Decoration: George Montgomery* The Little Foxes – Art Direction: Stephen Goosson; Interior Decoration: Howard Bristol* Sergeant York – Art Direction: John Hughes; Interior Decoration: Fred M. MacLean* The Son of Monte Cristo – Art Direction: John DuCasse Schulze; Interior Decoration: Edward G. Boyle* Sundown – Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen; Interior Decoration: Richard Irvine* That Hamilton Woman – Art Direction: Vincent Korda; Interior Decoration: Julia Heron* When Ladies Meet – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Randall Duell; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis* Sis Hopkins – N/A |
| Blossoms in the Dust – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Urie McCleary; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis* Blood and Sand – Art Direction: Richard Day and Joseph C. Wright; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little* Louisiana Purchase – Art Direction: Raoul Pene Du Bois; Interior Decoration: Stephen Seymour | How Green Was My Valley – Arthur Miller* The Chocolate Soldier – Karl Freund* Citizen Kane – Gregg Toland* Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Joseph Ruttenberg* Here Comes Mr. Jordan – Joseph Walker* Hold Back the Dawn – Leo Tover* Sergeant York – Sol Polito* Sun Valley Serenade – Edward Cronjager* Sundown – Charles Lang* That Hamilton Woman – Rudolph Maté |
| Blood and Sand – Ernest Palmer and Ray Rennahan* Aloma of the South Seas – Wilfred M. Cline, Karl Struss, and William Snyder* Billy the Kid – William V. Skall and Leonard Smith* Blossoms in the Dust – Karl Freund and W. Howard Greene* Dive Bomber – Bert Glennon* Louisiana Purchase – Harry Hallenberger and Ray Rennahan | Sergeant York – William Holmes* Citizen Kane – Robert Wise* Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Harold F. Kress* How Green Was My Valley – James B. Clark* The Little Foxes – Daniel Mandell |
I Wanted Wings – Photographic Effects Farciot Edouart and Gordon Jennings; Sound Effects: Louis Mesenkop'* Aloma of the South Seas – Photographic Effects: Farciot Edouart and Gordon Jennings; Sound Effects: Louis Mesenkop* Flight Command – Photographic Effects: A. Arnold Gillespie; Sound Effects: Douglas Shearer* The Invisible Woman – Photographic Effects: John P. Fulton; Sound Effects: John D. Hall* The Sea Wolf – Photographic Effects: Byron Haskin; Sound Effects: Nathan Levinson* That Hamilton Woman – Photographic Effects: Lawrence W. Butler; Sound Effects: William H. Wilmarth* Topper Returns – Photographic Effects: Roy Seawright; Sound Effects: Elmer Raguse* A Yank in the R.A.F. – Photographic Effects: Fred Sersen; Sound Effects: Edmund H. Hansen* Dive Bomber'' – Photographic Effects: Byron Haskin; Sound Effects: Nathan Levinson | - |
