Date: March 7, 1946
Best Picture
Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Ray Milland for The Lost Weekend
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Joan Crawford for Mildred Pierce
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- James Dunn for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Anne Revere for National Velvet
Best Director
- Billy Wilder for The Lost Weekend
Best Original Screenplay
- Richard Schweizer for Marie-Louise
Best Original Story
- Charles G. Booth for The House on 92nd Street
Best Screenplay
- Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder for The Lost Weekend
Best Cinematography, Colour
- Leon Shamroy for Leave Her to Heaven
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
- Harry Stradling Sr. for The Picture of Dorian Gray
Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White
- Wiard Ihnen & A. Roland Fields for Blood on the Sun
Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Colour
- Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegté, Sam Comer for Frenchman’s Creek
Best Sound, Recording
- Stephen Dunn for The Bells of St. Mary’s
Best Film Editing
- Robert Kern for National Velvet
Best Special Effects
- John P. Fulton & Arthur Johns for Wonder Man
Best Original Song
- Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II for “It Might as Well Be Spring” from State Fair
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
- George Stoll for Anchors Away
Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
- Miklós Rózsa for Spellbound
Best Short Subject, Two-Reel
- Gordon Hollingshead for Star in the Night
Best Short Subject, One-Reel
- Herbert Moulton for Stairway to Light
Best Short Subject, Cartoons
- Fred Quimby for Quiet Please!
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
- Hitler Lives
Best Documentary, Features
- The True Glory
Honorary Award
- Frank Ross, Mervyn Leroy, Albert Maltz, Earl Robinson, Lewis Allen, & Frank Sinatra for The House I Live In
- Walter Wanger
- Daniel J. Bloomberg
Juvenile Award
- Peggy Ann Garner
