22nd Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1950)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Thursday, March 23, 1950
  • For films released in: 1949
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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 22nd Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Motion Picture

  • All the King's Men
    Robert Rossen Productions
  • Battleground
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • The Heiress
    Paramount
  • A Letter to Three Wives
    20th Century-Fox
  • Twelve O'Clock High
    20th Century-Fox

Best Directing

  • All the King's Men
    Robert Rossen
  • Battleground
    William A. Wellman
  • The Fallen Idol
    Carol Reed
  • The Heiress
    William Wyler
  • A Letter to Three Wives
    Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Best Actor

  • All the King's Men
    Broderick Crawford
  • Champion
    Kirk Douglas
  • The Hasty Heart
    Richard Todd
  • Sands of Iwo Jima
    John Wayne
  • Twelve O'Clock High
    Gregory Peck

Best Actress

  • Come to the Stable
    Loretta Young
  • Edward, My Son
    Deborah Kerr
  • The Heiress
    Olivia de Havilland
  • My Foolish Heart
    Susan Hayward
  • Pinky
    Jeanne Crain

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

  • All the King's Men
    John Ireland
  • Battleground
    James Whitmore
  • Champion
    Arthur Kennedy
  • The Heiress
    Ralph Richardson
  • Twelve O'Clock High
    Dean Jagger

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

  • All the King's Men
    Mercedes McCambridge
  • Come to the Stable
    Celeste Holm
  • Come to the Stable
    Elsa Lanchester
  • Pinky
    Ethel Barrymore
  • Pinky
    Ethel Waters

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

  • Come to the Stable
    Lyle Wheeler [Art Direction], Joseph C. Wright [Art Direction], Thomas Little [Set Decoration] and Paul S. Fox [Set Decoration]
  • The Heiress
    Harry Horner [Art Direction], John Meehan [Art Direction] and Emile Kuri [Set Decoration]
  • Madame Bovary
    Cedric Gibbons [Art Direction], Jack Martin Smith [Art Direction], Edwin B. Willis [Set Decoration] and Richard A. Pefferle [Set Decoration]

Best Art Direction (Color)

  • The Adventures of Don Juan
    Edward Carrere [Art Direction] and Lyle Reifsnider [Set Decoration]
  • Little Women
    Cedric Gibbons [Art Direction], Paul Groesse [Art Direction], Edwin B. Willis [Set Decoration] and Jack D. Moore [Set Decoration]
  • Saraband
    Jim Morahan [Art Direction], William Kellner [Art Direction] and Michael Relph [Art Direction]

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

  • Battleground
    Paul C. Vogel
  • Champion
    Franz F. Planer
  • Come to the Stable
    Joseph LaShelle
  • The Heiress
    Leo Tover
  • Prince of Foxes
    Leon Shamroy

Best Cinematography (Color)

  • The Barkleys of Broadway
    Harry Stradling Sr.
  • Jolson Sings Again
    William Snyder
  • Little Women
    Robert Planck and Charles Schoenbaum
  • Sand
    Charles G. Clarke
  • She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
    Winton Hoch

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

  • The Heiress
    Edith Head and Gile Steele
  • Prince of Foxes
    Vittorio Nino Novarese

Best Costume Design (Color)

  • The Adventures of Don Juan
    Leah Rhodes, Travilla and Marjorie Best
  • Mother Is a Freshman
    Kay Nelson

Best Documentary (Feature)

  • Daybreak in Udi
    Crown Film Unit
  • Kenji Comes Home
    Paul F. Heard

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

  • 1848
    French Cinema General Cooperative
  • A Chance to Live
    Richard de Rochemont
  • The Rising Tide
    St. Francis-Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia
  • So Much for So Little
    Edward Selzer

Best Film Editing

  • All the King's Men
    Robert Parrish and Al Clark
  • Battleground
    John Dunning
  • Champion
    Harry Gerstad
  • Sands of Iwo Jima
    Richard L. Van Enger
  • The Window
    Frederic Knudtson

Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

  • Beyond the Forest
    Max Steiner
  • Champion
    Dimitri Tiomkin
  • The Heiress
    Aaron Copland

Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

  • Jolson Sings Again
    Morris Stoloff and George Duning
  • Look for the Silver Lining
    Ray Heindorf
  • On the Town
    Roger Edens and Lennie Hayton

Best Music (Song)

  • Come to the Stable "Through a Long and Sleepless Night"
    Alfred Newman [Music by] and Mack Gordon [Lyrics by]
  • It's a Great Feeling "It's a Great Feeling"
    Jule Styne [Music by] and Sammy Cahn [Lyrics by]
  • My Foolish Heart "My Foolish Heart"
    Victor Young [Music by] and Ned Washington [Lyrics by]
  • Neptune's Daughter "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
    Frank Loesser [Music and Lyrics by]
  • So Dear to My Heart "Lavender Blue"
    Eliot Daniel [Music by] and Larry Morey [Lyrics by]

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

  • For Scent-Imental Reasons
    Edward Selzer
  • Hatch Up Your Troubles
    Fred Quimby
  • The Magic Fluke
    Stephen Bosustow
  • Toy Tinkers
    Walt Disney

Best Short Subject (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 Short Subject (Two-reel)

  • The Boy and the Eagle
    William Lasky
  • Chase of Death
    Irving Allen
  • The Grass Is Always Greener
    Gordon Hollingshead
  • Snow Carnival
    Gordon Hollingshead
  • Van Gogh
    Gaston Diehl and Robert Haessens

Best Sound Recording

  • Once More, My Darling
    Universal-International Studio Sound Department and Leslie I. Carey [Sound Director]
  • Sands of Iwo Jima
    Republic Studio Sound Department and Daniel J. Bloomberg [Sound Director]
  • Twelve O'Clock High
    20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department and Thomas T. Moulton [Sound Director]

Best Special Effects

  • Mighty Joe Young
    ARKO Productions
  • Tulsa
    Walter Wanger Pictures

Best Writing (Screenplay)

  • All the King's Men
    Robert Rossen
  • The Bicycle Thief
    Cesare Zavattini
  • Champion
    Carl Foreman
  • The Fallen Idol
    Graham Greene
  • A Letter to Three Wives
    Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Best Writing (Story and Screenplay)

  • Battleground
    Robert Pirosh
  • Jolson Sings Again
    Sidney Buchman
  • Paisan
    Alfred Hayes, Federico Fellini, Sergio Amidei, Marcello Pagliero and Roberto Rossellini
  • Passport to Pimlico
    T.E.B. Clarke
  • The Quiet One
    Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb and Sidney Meyers

Best Writing (Motion Picture Story)

  • Come to the Stable
    Clare Boothe Luce
  • It Happens Every Spring
    Shirley W. Smith and Valentine Davies
  • Sands of Iwo Jima
    Harry Brown
  • The Stratton Story
    Douglas Morrow
  • White Heat
    Virginia Kellogg
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