22nd Academy Awards Ceremony
(1950)
110 minutes
Drama / Family / News
March 23, 1950 at RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, California
Hosted by Paul Douglas, Narrated by Eve Arden and Ronald Reagan and Announcer Walter Winchell
Oscar Winners for the year 1949 listed first:
BEST PICTURE
All the King's Men
Battleground
The Heiress
A Letter to Three Wives
Twelve O'Clock High
BEST DIRECTOR
Joseph Mankiewicz – A Letter to Three Wives
Carol Reed – The Fallen Idol
Robert Rossen – All the King's Men
William A. Wellman – Battleground
William Wyler – The Heiress
BEST ACTOR
Broderick Crawford – All the King's Men
John Wayne – Sands of Iwo Jima
Kirk Douglas – Champion
Gregory Peck – Twelve O'Clock High
Richard Todd – The Hasty Heart
BEST ACTRESS
Olivia de Havilland – The Heiress
Susan Hayward – My Foolish Heart
Jeanne Crain – Pinky
Deborah Kerr – Edward, My Son
Loretta Young – Come to the Stable
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Dean Jagger – Twelve O'Clock High
John Ireland – All the King's Men
Arthur Kennedy – Champion
Ralph Richardson – The Heiress
James Whitmore – Battleground
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mercedes McCambridge – All the King's Men
Ethel Barrymore – Pinky
Celeste Holm – Come to the Stable
Elsa Lanchester – Come to the Stable
Ethel Waters – Pinky
BEST SCREENPLAY
A Letter to Three Wives – Joseph Mankiewicz
Champion – Carl Foreman
The Fallen Idol – Graham Greene
All the King's Men – Robert Rossen
The Bicycle Thief – Cesare Zavattini
BEST STORY AND SCREENPLAY
Battleground – Robert Pirosh
Jolson Sings Again – Sidney Buchman
Passport to Pimlico – T. E. B. Clarke
Paisà – Alfred Hayes, Federico Fellini, Sergio Amidei, Marcello Pagliero and Roberto Rossellini
The Quiet One – Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb and Sidney Meyers
BEST STORY
The Stratton Story – Douglas Morrow
Sands of Iwo Jima – Harry Brown
White Heat – Virginia Kellogg
Come to the Stable – Clare Boothe Luce
It Happens Every Spring – Shirley W. Smith and Valentine Davies
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
For Scent-imental Reasons
Canary Row
Hatch Up Your Troubles
The Magic Fluke'
Toy Tinkers
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Daybreak in Udi
Kenji Comes Home
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
A Chance to Live
So Much for So Little
1848
The Rising Tide
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM, ONE-REEL
Aquatic House Party – Jack Eaton
Roller Derby Girl – Justin Herman
So You Think You're Not Guilty – Gordon Hollingshead
Spills and Chills – Walton C. Ament
Water Trix – Pete Smith
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM, TWO-REEL
Van Gogh – Gaston Diehl and Robert Hessens
The Boy and the Eagle – William Lasky
Chase of Death – Irving Allen
The Grass Is Always Greener – Gordon Hollingshead
Snow Carnival – Gordon Hollingshead
BEST DRAMATIC OR COMEDY SCORE
The Heiress – Aaron Copland
Beyond the Forest – Max Steiner
Champion – Dimitri Tiomkin
BEST MUSICAL SCORE
On the Town – Roger Edens and Lennie Hayton
Look for the Silver Lining – Ray Heindorf
Jolson Sings Again – Morris Stoloff and George Duning
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Baby, It's Cold Outside" from Neptune's Daughter – Music and Lyric by Frank Loesser
"It's a Great Feeling" from It's a Great Feeling – Music by Jule Styne; Lyric by Sammy Cahn
"Lavender Blue" from So Dear to My Heart – Music by Eliot Daniel; Lyric by Larry Morey
"My Foolish Heart" from My Foolish Heart – Music by Victor Young; Lyric by Ned Washington
"Through a Long and Sleepless Night" from Come to the Stable – Music by Alfred Newman; Lyric by Mack Gordon
BEST SOUND RECORDING
Twelve O'Clock High – Thomas T. Moulton, Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Department
Sands of Iwo Jima – Daniel J. Bloomberg, Republic Studio Sound Department
Once More, My Darling – Leslie I. Carey, Universal-International Studio Sound Department
BEST ART DIRECTION, BLACK AND WHITE
The Heiress – Art Direction: John Meehan and Harry Horner; Set Decoration: Emile Kuri
Madame Bovary – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Jack Martin Smith; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Richard A. Pefferle
Come to the Stable – Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler and Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Thomas Little and Paul S. Fox
BEST ART DECORATION, COLOR
Little Women – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Jack D. Moore
Adventures of Don Juan – Art Direction: Edward Carrere; Set Decoration: Lyle Reifsnider
Saraband for Dead Lovers – Art Direction and Set Direction: Jim Morahan, William Kellner and Michael Relph
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BLACK AND WHITE
Battleground – Paul C. Vogel
Come to the Stable – Joseph LaShelle
Champion – Franz Planer
Prince of Foxes – Leon Shamroy
The Heiress – Leo Tover
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, COLOR
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon – Winton Hoch
Sand – Charles G. Clarke
Little Women – Robert Planck and Charles Schoenbaum
Jolson Sings Again – William Snyder
The Barkleys of Broadway – Harry Stradling
BEST COSTUME DESIGN, BLACK AND WHITE
The Heiress – Edith Head and Gile Steele
Prince of Foxes – Vittorio Nino Novarese
BEST COSTUME DESIGN, COLOR
Adventures of Don Juan – Leah Rhodes, Travilla and Marjorie Best
Mother Is a Freshman – Kay Nelson
BEST FILM EDITING
Champion – Harry Gerstad
Battleground – John Dunning
The Window – Frederic Knudtson
All the King's Men – Robert Parrish and Al Clark
Sands of Iwo Jima – Richard L. Van Enger
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Mighty Joe Young – Arko Production; RKO Radio
Tulsa – Walter Wagner; Eagle Lion
ACADEMY HONORARY AWARD
Fred Astaire
Cecil B. DeMille
Jean Hersholt
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Bicycle Thief (Italy)
ACADEMY JUVENILE AWARD
Bobby Driscoll
