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Best Motion Picture Prior to the Awards for 1951, no producer(s) named with nominations
 DOUBLE INDEMNITY - Paramount. [Produced by Joseph Sistrom]
GASLIGHT - MGM. Produced by Arthur Hornblow, Jr.]
 GOING MY WAY (Won 7 Awards) - Paramount. [Produced by Leo McCarey]
SINCE YOU WENT AWAY - Selznick International, UA. [Produced by David O. Selznick]
WILSON - 20th Century-Fox. [Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck]
Actor
Charles Boyer in GASLIGHT
Bing Crosby in GOING MY WAY
Barry Fitzgerald in GOING MY WAY
Cary Grant in NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART
Alexander Knox in WILSON
Actress
Ingrid Bergman in GASLIGHT
Claudette Colbert in SINCE YOU WENT AWAY
Bette Davis in MR. SKEFFINGTON
Greer Garson in MRS. PARKINGTON
Barbara Stanwyck in DOUBLE INDEMNITY
Supporting Actor
Hume Cronyn in THE SEVENTH CROSS
Barry Fitzgerald in GOING MY WAY
Claude Rains in MR. SKEFFINGTON
Clifton Webb in LAURA
Monty Woolley in SINCE YOU WENT AWAY
Supporting Actress
Ethel Barrymore in NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART
Jennifer Jones in SINCE YOU WENT AWAY
Angela Lansbury in GASLIGHT
Aline MacMahon in DRAGON SEED
Agnes Moorehead in MRS. PARKINGTON
Director
Alfred Hitchcock for LIFEBOAT
Henry King for WILSON
Leo McCarey for GOING MY WAY
Otto Preminger for LAURA
Billy Wilder for DOUBLE INDEMNITY
Writing: Screenplay
Raymond Chandler & Billy Wilder - DOUBLE INDEMNITY
John L. Balderston, Walter Reisch & John Van Druten - GASLIGHT
Frank Butler & Frank Cavett - GOING MY WAY
Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein & Betty Reinhardt - LAURA
Irving Brecher & Fred F. Finklehoffe - MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
Writing: Original Story
Leo McCarey - GOING MY WAY
David Boehm & Chandler Sprague - A GUY NAMED JOE
John Steinbeck - LIFEBOAT
Alfred Neumann & Joseph Than - NONE SHALL ESCAPE
Edward Doherty & Jules Schermer - THE SULLIVANS
Writing: Original Screenplay
Preston Sturges - HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO
Preston Sturges - THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK
Richard Connell & Gladys Lehman - TWO GIRLS AND A SAILOR
Lamar Trotti - WILSON
Jerome Cady - WING AND A PRAYER
Interior Decoration (Color)
John B. Goodman & Alexander Golitzen - Art Direction, Russell A. Gausman & Ira S. Webb - Interior Decoration THE CLIMAX
Lionel Banks & Cary Odell - Art Direction, Fay Babcock - Interior Decoration COVER GIRL
Charles Novi & Jack McConaghy - Art Direction THE DESERT SONG
Cedric Gibbons & Daniel B. Cathcart - Art Direction, Edwin B. Willis & Richard Pefferle - Interior Decoration KISMET
Hans Dreier & Raoul Pene DuBois - Art Direction, Ray Moyer - Interior Decoration LADY IN THE DARK
Ernst Fegte - Art Direction, Howard Bristol - Interior Decoration THE PRINCESS AND THE PIRATE
Wiard Ihnen - Art Direction, Thomas Little - Interior Decoration WILSON
Interior Decoration (Black and White)
Lionel Banks & Walter Holscher - Art Direction, Joseph Kish - Interior Decoration ADDRESS UNKNOWN
John J. Hughes - Art Direction, Fred MacLean - Interior Decoration THE ADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN
Perry Ferguson - Art Direction, Julia Heron - Interior Decoration CASANOVA BROWN
Cedric Gibbons & William Ferrari - Art Direction, Edwin B. Willis & Paul Huldschinsky - Interior Decoration GASLIGHT
Lyle Wheeler & Leland Fuller - Art Direction, Thomas Little - Interior Decoration LAURA
Hans Dreier & Robert Usher - Art Direction, Sam Comer - Interior Decoration NO TIME FOR LOVE
Mark-Lee Kirk - Art Direction, Victor A. Gangelin - Interior Decoration SINCE YOU WENT AWAY
Albert S. D'Agostino & Carroll Clark - Art Direction, Darrell Silvera & Claude Carpenter - Interior Decoration STEP LIVELY
Cinematography (Color)
Rudolph Maté & Allen M. Davey - COVER GIRL
Edward Cronjager - HOME IN INDIANA
Charles Rosher - KISMET
Ray Rennahan - LADY IN THE DARK
George Folsey - MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
Leon Shamroy - WILSON
Cinematography (Black and White)
John F. Seitz - DOUBLE INDEMNITY
Sidney Wagner - DRAGON SEED
Joseph Ruttenberg - GASLIGHT
Lionel Lindon - GOING MY WAY
Joseph La Shelle - LAURA
Glen MacWilliams - LIFEBOAT
Stanley Cortez & Lee Garmes - SINCE YOU WENT AWAY
Robert L. Surtees & Hal Rosson - THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO
Charles B. Lang - THE UNINVITED
George Folsey - THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER
Documentary (Features)
THE FIGHTING LADY
RESISTING ENEMY INTERROGATION
Documentary (Short Subjects)
ARTURO TOSCANINI
NEW AMERICANS
WITH THE MARINES AT TARAWA
Film Editing
LeRoy Stone - GOING MY WAY
Owen Marks - JANIE
Roland Gross - NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART
James E. Newcom & Hal C. Kern - SINCE YOU WENT AWAY
Barbara McLean - WILSON
Music: Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Morris Stoloff & Ernst Toch - ADDRESS UNKNOWN
Max Steiner - THE ADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN
Dimitri Tiomkin - THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY
Arthur Lange - CASANOVA BROWN
Hans J. Salter - CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY
Miklos Rozsa - DOUBLE INDEMNITY
Walter Scharf & Roy Webb - THE FIGHTING SEABEES
Michel Michelet & Edward Paul - THE HAIRY APE
Robert Stolz - IT HAPPENED TOMORROW
Frederic E. Rich - JACK LONDON
Herbert Stothart - KISMET
C. Bakaleinikoff & Hanns Eisler - NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART
David Rose - THE PRINCESS AND THE PIRATE
Max Steiner - SINCE YOU WENT AWAY
Karl Hajos - SUMMER STORM
Franke Harling - THREE RUSSIAN GIRLS
Edward Paul - UP IN MABEL'S ROOM
Michel Michelet - A VOICE IN THE WIND
Alfred Newman - WILSON
Miklos Rozsa - WOMAN OF THE TOWN
Music: Scoring of a Musical Picture
Walter Scharf - BRAZIL
Carmen Dragon & Morris Stoloff - COVER GIRL
C. Bakaleinikoff - HIGHER AND HIGHER
Ray Heindorf - HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN
Alfred Newman - IRISH EYES ARE SMILING
Werner R. Heymann & Kurt Weill - KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY
Robert Emmett Dolan - LADY IN THE DARK
Edward Kay - LADY LET'S DANCE
Georgie Stoll - MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
Hans J. Salter - THE MERRY MONAHANS
Leo Erdody & Ferde Grofé - MINSTREL MAN
Mahlon Merrick - SENSATIONS OF 1945
Charles Previn - SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD
Louis Forbes & Ray Heindorf - UP IN ARMS
Music: Song
Jimmy McHugh - Music, Harold Adamson - Lyrics HIGHER AND HIGHER "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night"
Jule Styne - Music, Sammy Cahn - Lyrics FOLLOW THE BOYS "I'll Walk
Alone"
James Monaco - Music, Mack Gordon - Lyrics SWEET AND LOW-DOWN "I'm Making Believe"
Jerome Kern - Music, Ira Gershwin - Lyrics COVER GIRL "Long Ago
and Far Away"
Harold Arlen - Music, Ted Koehler - Lyrics UP IN ARMS "Now I Know"
Harry Revel - Music, Paul Webster - Lyrics MINSTREL MAN "Remember Me to Carolina"
Ary Barroso - Music, Ned Washington - Lyrics BRAZIL "Rio De Janeiro"
Lew Pollack - Music, Charles Newman - Lyrics LADY LET'S DANCE "Silver Shadows and Golden Dreams"
M. K. Jerome - Music, Ted Koehler - Lyrics HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN "Sweet Dreams Sweetheart"
Jimmy Van Heusen - Music, Johnny Burke - Lyrics GOING MY WAY "Swinging on a Star" 
Walter Kent - Music, Kim Gannon - Lyrics SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD "Too Much in Love"
Ralph Blane & Hugh Martin - Music & Lyrics MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS "The Trolley Song"
Short Subjects (Cartoons)
AND TO THINK I SAW IT ON MULBERRY STREET: George Pal - Producer
THE DOG, CAT AND CANARY
FISH FRY: Walter Lantz - Producer
HOW TO PLAY FOOTBALL: Walt Disney - Producer
MOUSE TROUBLE: Frederick Quimby - Producer
MY BOY, JOHNNY: Paul Terry - Producer
SWOONER CROONER
Short Subjects (One-reel)
BLUE GRASS GENTLEMEN: Edmund Reek - Producer
JAMMIN' THE BLUES: Gordon Hollingshead - Producer
MOVIE PESTS: Pete Smith - Producer
50TH ANNIVERSARY OF MOTION PICTURES: Ralph Staub - Producer
WHO'S WHO IN ANIMAL LAND: Jerry Fairbanks - Producer
Short Subjects (Two-reel)
Louis Harris - Producer BOMBALERA
Gordon Hollingshead - Producer I WON'T PLAY
Jerry Bresler - Producer MAIN STREET TODAY
Sound Recording
Daniel J. Bloomberg - BRAZIL
Thomas T. Moulton - CASANOVA BROWN
John Livadary - COVER GIRL
Loren L. Ryder - DOUBLE INDEMNITY
Bernard B. Brown - HIS BUTLER'S SISTER
Nathan Levinson - HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN
Jack Whitney - IT HAPPENED TOMORROW
Douglas Shearer - KISMET
Stephen Dunn - MUSIC IN MANHATTAN
W.M. Dalgleish - A VOICE IN THE WIND
E. H. Hansen - WILSON
Special Effects
Paul Detlefsen & John Crous (Photographic), Nathan Levinson (Sound) THE ADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN
Vernon L. Walker (Photographic), James G. Stewart & Roy Granville (Sound) DAYS OF GLORY
David Allen, Ray Cory & Robert Wright (Photographic), Russell Malmgren & Harry Kusnick (Sound) SECRET COMMAND
John R. Cosgrove (Photographic), Arthur Johns (Sound) SINCE YOU WENT AWAY
Farciot Edouart & Gordon Jennings (Photographic), George Dutton (Sound) THE STORY OF DR. WASSELL
A. Arnold Gillespie, Donald Jahraus & Warren Newcombe (Photographic),
Douglas Shearer (Sound) THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO
Fred Sersen (Photographic), Roger Heman (Sound) WILSON
Scientific Or Technical
Class I (Statuette):
No award given for 1944.
Class II (Plaque):
 Stephen Dunn (RKO Radio Studio Sound Department) - For the design and development of the electronic compressor-limiter.
Class III (Citation):
 Grover Laube (20th Century-Fox Studio Camera Department) - For the development of a continuous loop projection device.
Western Electric Company - For the design and construction of the 1126A Limiting Amplifier for variable density sound recording.
Russell Brown, Ray Hinsdale & Joseph E. Robbins - For the development and production use of the Paramount floating hydraulic boat rocker.
Gordon Jennings - For the design and construction of the Paramount nodal point tripod.
Radio Corporation of America & RKO Radio Studio Sound Department - For the design and construction of the RKO reverberation chamber.
Bernard B. Brown & John P. Livadary - For the design and engineering of a separate soloist and chorus recording room.
Daniel J. Bloomberg (Republic Studio Sound Department) - For the design and development of a multi-interlock selector switch.
Paul Zeff, S.J. Twining & George Seid (Columbia Studio Laboratory) - For the formula and application to production of a simplified variable area sound negative developer.
Paul Lerpae - For the design and construction of the Paramount traveling matte projection and photographing device.
Linwood Dunn & Cecil Love (Acme Tool and Manufacturing Company) - For the design and construction of the Acme-Dunn Optical Printer.
Special Awards
Margaret O'Brien - Outstanding child actress of 1944. Winner presented a Miniature Statuette.
Bob Hope - For his many services to the Academy, a Life Membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Darryl F. Zanuck
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| FIRSTS
· Producer/director/screenwriter Leo McCarey was the first to win 3 Academy Awards for the same picture.
· As a result of a change in the rules, this was the first and last time an actor (Barry Fitzgerald) would be nominated in two categories for the same film.
· Ceremony producer Mark Sandrich's Awards show contained a "cinemontage" -- film clips of every nominee in each category shown as the appropriate nominations were read.
· For the first time, the entire Awards ceremony would be broadcast nationally by the ABC radio network.
RULE CHANGES
· This was the first year in which the number of Best Picture nominees was limited to five.
· The Screen Extras Guild lost its voting privileges.
SINS OF OMISSION
Picture: Meet Me in St. Louis, Laura, Lifeboat
Director: Vincente Minnelli - Meet Me in St. Louis
Actor: Fred McMurray - Double Indemnity
Actress: Judy Garland - Meet Me in St. Louis, Tallulah Bankhead - Lifeboat
Supporting Actor: Edward G. Robinson - Double Indemnity
Song: "The Boy Next Door," "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," "Is You Is or Is You Ain't (My Baby)?"
UNMENTIONABLES
· Mark Sandrich never got to see if his innovations worked; a few days before the ceremony, the 44-year-old director died of a heart attack while playing gin rummy with his wife.
· Bing Crosby decided to attend the ceremony at the last minute. Tracked down by Paramount flacks to the 12th hole of the Lakeside Golf Course, Der Bingle told them to call his parents and they'd go in his place. They did phone his mother, who told him "You'll go or you'll never hear the end of it from me." So Crosby dutifully put on a suit -- but not his hairpiece -- and went to the Chinese Theatre.
· Margaret O'Brien's Special Oscar® recognized her work in Meet Me in St. Louis, Jane Eyre, The Canterville Ghost and Lost Angel.
· Accepting his Award for Best Actor, Crosby quipped, "I couldn't be more surprised if I won the Kentucky Derby. Can you imagine the jokes Hope's going to write about this in his radio show? This will give him 12 straight weeks of material for his radio program, talking about me."
· Hope couldn't wait for his radio show -- after Crosby and presenter Gary Cooper exited, Hope cracked that Crosby's winning an Oscar® was like hearing that Sam Goldwyn was lecturing at Oxford.
· Receiving her Best Actress Award from her friend Jennifer Jones, Ingrid Bergman commented, "Tomorrow I go to work in a picture with Bing and Mr. McCarey [The Bells of St. Mary's]. And I'm afraid if I didn't have an Oscar, too, they wouldn't speak to me."
· Norma Shearer came out of seclusion to present the Thalberg Award, named in honor of her late husband, to Darryl F. Zanuck.
· As in previous years, the studio head rather than the film's producer picked up the Oscar®. Bob Hope, standing at the side of the stage when Hal Wallis announced the Paramount film the winner, made the most of the opportunity. The comedian was temporarily on suspension at the studio, and when his boss, Buddy DeSylva, reached the stage, Hope got on his knees in a mock plea for forgiveness. He then took out a handkerchief and, to the audience's cheers, started shining DeSylva's shoes.
· Ethel Barrymore was not at the ceremony. When she learned that she had won the Academy Award, she told friends she was "not particularly impressed." In her autobiography, she was downright blasé: "And of course it was very pleasant later to get the Oscar®."
· Barry Fitzgerald's win proved more dramatic. After celbrating with his roommate -- his stand-in -- and friends at Barney's Beanery, the actor practised his golf swing at home, accidentally hitting his plaster statuette with a 4-iron and decapitating it. Paramount was forced to shell out ten bucks for a spare. So Fitzgerald did, in a way, end up with 2 Oscars® for the same role that year.
· Losing Best Actress nominee Barbara Stanwyck told the press she was a member of the Ingrid Bergman Fan Club: "I don't feel at all bad about the Award because my favorite actress won it and has earned it by all her performances."
· Darryl Zanuck was not such a good sport. Not content with another bust of the MGM Boy Wonder, he told friends and underlings that the Academy was obviously a corps of philistines if they could pass over Wilson as Best Picture. And until he died, he bitterly complained that his dream project did not receive the rewards he felt it so justly deserved.
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