Date: March 23, 1950
Best Picture
Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Broderick Crawford for All the King’s Men
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Olivia de Havilland for The Heiress
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Dean Jagger for Twelve O’Clock High
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Mercedes McCambridge for All the King’s Men
Best Director
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz for A Letter to Three Wives
Best Screenplay
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz for A Letter to Three Wives
Best Motion Picture Story
- Douglas Morrow for The Stratton Story
Best Story and Screenplay
- Robert Pirosh for Battleground
Best Cinematography, Colour
- Winton C. Hoch for She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
- Paul Vogel for Battleground
Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White
- John Meehan, Harry Horner, & Emile Kuri for The Heiress
Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Colour
- Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, & Jack D. Moore for Little Women
Best Costume Design, Black-and-White
- Edith Head & Gile Steele for The Heiress
Best Costume Design, Colour
- Leah Rhodes, Travilla, & Marjorie Best for Adventures of Don Juan
Best Sound, Recording
- Twelve O’Clock High
Best Film Editing
- Harry W. Gerstad for Champion
Best Special Effects
- Mighty Joe Young
Best Original Song
- Frank Loesser for “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” from Neptune’s Daughter
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
- Roger Edens & Lennie Hayton for On the Town
Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
- Aaron Copland for The Heiress
Best Short Subject, Two-Reel
- Gaston Diehl & Robert Hessens for Van Gogh
Best Short Subject, One-Reel
- Jack Eaton for Aquatic House Party
Best Short Subject, Cartoons
- Edward Selzer for For Scent-imental Reasons
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
- Richard De Rochemont for A Chance to Live
- Edward Selzer for So Much for So Little
Best Documentary, Features
- Daybreak in Udi
Juvenile Award
- Bobby Driscoll
Honorary Award
- Bicycle Thieves
- Fred Astaire
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Jean Hersholt
