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 (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 (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 (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.

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.