20th Academy Awards
Held in 1948 · 18 categories
Best Picture
- Winner Gentleman's Agreement
- Nominee Crossfire
- Nominee Great Expectations
- Nominee Miracle on 34th Street
- Nominee The Bishop's Wife
Best Actor
- Winner A Double Life · Ronald Colman
- Nominee Body and Soul · John Garfield
- Nominee Gentleman's Agreement · Gregory Peck
- Nominee Life with Father · William Powell
- Nominee Mourning Becomes Electra · Michael Redgrave
Best Actress
- Winner The Farmer's Daughter · Loretta Young
- Nominee Gentleman's Agreement · Dorothy McGuire
- Nominee Mourning Becomes Electra · Rosalind Russell
- Nominee Possessed · Joan Crawford
- Nominee Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman · Susan Hayward
Best Supporting Actor
- Winner Miracle on 34th Street · Edmund Gwenn
- Nominee Crossfire · Robert Ryan
- Nominee Kiss of Death · Richard Widmark
- Nominee Ride the Pink Horse · Thomas Gomez
- Nominee The Farmer's Daughter · Charles Bickford
Best Supporting Actress
- Winner Gentleman's Agreement · Celeste Holm
- Nominee Crossfire · Gloria Grahame
- Nominee Gentleman's Agreement · Anne Revere
- Nominee The Egg and I · Marjorie Main
- Nominee The Paradine Case · Ethel Barrymore
Best Director
- Winner Gentleman's Agreement · Elia Kazan
- Nominee A Double Life · George Cukor
- Nominee Crossfire · Edward Dmytryk
- Nominee Great Expectations · David Lean
- Nominee The Bishop's Wife · Henry Koster
Best Original Screenplay
- Winner The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer · Sidney Sheldon
- Nominee A Double Life · Garson Kanin, Ruth Gordon
- Nominee Body and Soul · Abraham Polonsky
- Nominee Monsieur Verdoux · Charlie Chaplin
- Nominee Shoeshine · Adolfo Franci, Cesare Giulio Viola, Cesare Zavattini, Sergio Amidei
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Winner Miracle on 34th Street · George Seaton
- Nominee Boomerang · Richard Murphy
- Nominee Crossfire · John Paxton
- Nominee Gentleman's Agreement · Moss Hart
- Nominee Great Expectations · Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Ronald Neame
Best Documentary Feature
- Winner Design for Death · Richard Fleischer, Sid Rogell, Theron Warth
- Nominee Journey into Medicine
- Nominee The World Is Rich · Paul Rotha
Best Original Score
- Winner A Double Life · Miklós Rózsa
- Winner Mother Wore Tights · Alfred Newman
- Nominee Fiesta · Johnny Green
- Nominee Forever Amber · David Raksin
- Nominee Life with Father · Max Steiner
- Nominee My Wild Irish Rose · Max Steiner, Ray Heindorf
- Nominee Road to Rio · Robert Emmett Dolan
- Nominee Song of the South · Charles Wolcott, Daniele Amfitheatrof, Paul Smith
- Nominee The Bishop's Wife · Hugo Friedhofer
Best Original Song
- Winner Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah from Song of the South · Allie Wrubel, Ray Gilbert
- Nominee A Gal in Calico from The Time, the Place and the Girl · Arthur Schwartz, Leo Robin
- Nominee I Wish I Didn’t Love You So from The Perils of Pauline · Frank Loesser
- Nominee Pass That Peace Pipe from Good News · Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane, Roger Edens
- Nominee You Do from Mother Wore Tights · Josef Myrow, Mack Gordon
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
- Winner Great Expectations · Guy Green
- Nominee Green Dolphin Street · George J. Folsey
- Nominee The Ghost and Mrs. Muir · Charles Lang
Best Cinematography (Color)
- Winner Black Narcissus · Jack Cardiff
- Nominee Life with Father · John Peverell Marley, William V. Skall
- Nominee Mother Wore Tights · Harry Jackson
Best Film Editing
- Winner Body and Soul · Francis D. Lyon, Robert Parrish
- Nominee Gentleman's Agreement · Harmon Jones
- Nominee Green Dolphin Street · George White
- Nominee Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out · Fergus McDonell
- Nominee The Bishop's Wife · Monica Collingwood
Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)
- Winner Great Expectations · John Bryan, Wilfred Shingleton
- Nominee The Foxes of Harrow · Lyle R. Wheeler, Maurice Ransford, Paul S. Fox, Thomas Little
Best Art Direction (Color)
- Winner Black Narcissus · Alfred Junge
- Nominee Life with Father · George Hopkins, Robert M. Haas
Best Sound
- Winner The Bishop's Wife · Gordon E. Sawyer
- Nominee Green Dolphin Street · Douglas Shearer
- Nominee T-Men · Jack Whitney