1948 Oscars: Winners and Nominees

61 films were recognised at the 1948 Academy Awards, across 25 categories. 19 of them took home at least one award.

The biggest winner of the year was Miracle on 34th Street, with 3 awards, ahead of Gentleman's Agreement with 3. The categories below run from Actor, Actor in a Supporting Role and Actress to the smaller prizes, and in every one the winner is listed first, followed by the other nominees.

Each title links to the film's full award history at all four awards, and the links at the bottom step to the previous and next ceremony.

Last updated August 12, 2026

Actor

A Double Life(1947)
Ronald Colman
Winner
Body and Soul(1947)
John Garfield
Gentleman's Agreement(1947)
Gregory Peck
Life with Father(1947)
William Powell
Mourning Becomes Electra(1947)
Michael Redgrave

Actor in a Supporting Role

Miracle on 34th Street(1947)
Edmund Gwenn
Winner
Crossfire(1947)
Robert Ryan
Kiss of Death(1947)
Richard Widmark
Ride the Pink Horse(1947)
Thomas Gomez
The Farmer's Daughter(1947)
Charles Bickford

Actress

The Farmer's Daughter(1947)
Loretta Young
Winner
Gentleman's Agreement(1947)
Dorothy McGuire
Mourning Becomes Electra(1947)
Rosalind Russell
Possessed(1947)
Joan Crawford
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman(1947)
Susan Hayward

Actress in a Supporting Role

Gentleman's Agreement(1947)
Celeste Holm
Winner
Crossfire(1947)
Gloria Grahame
Gentleman's Agreement(1947)
Anne Revere
The Egg and I(1947)
Marjorie Main
The Paradine Case(1947)
Ethel Barrymore

Best Picture

Gentleman's Agreement(1947)
20th Century-Fox
Winner
Crossfire(1947)
RKO Radio
Great Expectations(1946)
J. Arthur Rank-Cineguild
Miracle on 34th Street(1947)
20th Century-Fox
The Bishop's Wife(1947)
Samuel Goldwyn Productions

Directing

Gentleman's Agreement(1947)
Elia Kazan
Winner
A Double Life(1947)
George Cukor
Crossfire(1947)
Edward Dmytryk
Great Expectations(1946)
David Lean
The Bishop's Wife(1947)
Henry Koster

Film Editing

Body and Soul(1947)
Francis Lyon, Robert Parrish
Winner
Gentleman's Agreement(1947)
Harmon Jones
Green Dolphin Street(1947)
George White
Odd Man Out(1947)
Fergus McDonell
The Bishop's Wife(1947)
Monica Collingwood

Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

A Double Life(1947)
Dr. Miklos Rozsa
Winner
Captain from Castile(1947)
Alfred Newman
Forever Amber(1947)
David Raksin
Life with Father(1947)
Max Steiner
The Bishop's Wife(1947)
Hugo Friedhofer

Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

Mother Wore Tights(1947)
Alfred Newman
Winner
Fiesta(1947)
Johnny Green
My Wild Irish Rose(1947)
Ray Heindorf, Max Steiner
Road to Rio(1947)
Robert Emmett Dolan
Song of the South(1946)
Daniele Amfitheatrof, Paul J. Smith, Charles Wolcott

Music (Song)

Song of the South(1946)
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah in "Song of the South" Music by Allie Wrubel; Lyrics by Ray Gilbert
Winner
Good News(1947)
Pass That Peace Pipe in "Good News" Music and Lyrics by Ralph Blane, Roger Edens and Hugh Martin
Mother Wore Tights(1947)
You Do in "Mother Wore Tights" Music by Josef Myrow; Lyrics by Mack Gordon
The Perils of Pauline(1947)
I Wish I Didn't Love You So in "The Perils of Pauline" Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser
The Time, The Place and The Girl(1946)
A Gal In Calico in "The Time, the Place and the Girl" Music by Arthur Schwartz; Lyrics by Leo Robin

Short Subject (Cartoon)

Tweetie Pie(1947)
Edward Selzer, Producer
Winner
Chip an' Dale(1947)
Walt Disney, Producer
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse(1947)
Frederick Quimby, Producer
Pluto's Blue Note(1947)
Walt Disney, Producer
Tubby the Tuba(1947)
George Pal, Producer

Short Subject (One-reel)

Goodbye, Miss Turlock(1948)
Herbert Moulton, Producer
Winner
Brooklyn, U.S.A.(1947)
Thomas Mead, Producer
Moon Rockets(1947)
Jerry Fairbanks, Producer
Now You See It(1947)
Pete Smith, Producer
So You Want to Be in Pictures(1947)
Gordon Hollingshead, Producer

Short Subject (Two-reel)

Climbing the Matterhorn(1947)
Irving Allen, Producer
Winner
A Voice Is Born(1947)
Ben Blake, Producer
Champagne for Two(1947)
Harry Grey, Producer
Fight of the Wild Stallions(1947)
Thomas Mead, Producer
Give Us the Earth!(1947)
Herbert Morgan, Producer

Writing (Motion Picture Story)

Miracle on 34th Street(1947)
Valentine Davies
Winner
A Cage of Nightingales(1945)
Georges Chaperot, Rene Wheeler
It Happened on Fifth Avenue(1947)
Herbert Clyde Lewis, Frederick Stephani
Kiss of Death(1947)
Eleazar Lipsky
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman(1947)
Dorothy Parker, Frank Cavett

Writing (Original Screenplay)

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer(1947)
Sidney Sheldon
Winner
A Double Life(1947)
Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
Body and Soul(1947)
Abraham Polonsky
Monsieur Verdoux(1947)
Charles Chaplin
Shoe Shine Jasper(1947)
Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, C. G. Viola, Cesare Zavattini

Writing (Screenplay)

Miracle on 34th Street(1947)
George Seaton
Winner
Boomerang!(1947)
Richard Murphy
Crossfire(1947)
John Paxton
Gentleman's Agreement(1947)
Moss Hart
Great Expectations(1946)
David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Ronald Neame

Cinematography (Black-and-White)

Great Expectations(1946)
Guy Green
Winner
Green Dolphin Street(1947)
George Folsey
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir(1947)
Charles Lang, Jr.

Cinematography (Color)

Black Narcissus(1947)
Jack Cardiff
Winner
Life with Father(1947)
Peverell Marley, William V. Skall
Mother Wore Tights(1947)
Harry Jackson

Documentary (Feature)

Design for Death(1947)
Sid Rogell, Executive Producer; Theron Warth and Richard O. Fleischer, Producers
Winner
Journey Into Medicine(1947)
United States Department of State Office of Information and Educational Exchange
The World Is Rich(1947)
Paul Rotha, Producer

Documentary (Short Subject)

First Steps(1947)
United Nations Division of Films and Visual Information
Winner
Passport to Nowhere(1947)
Frederic Ullman, Jr., Producer
School in the Mailbox(1947)
Australian News & Information Bureau

Sound Recording

The Bishop's Wife(1947)
Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon Sawyer, Sound Director
Winner
Green Dolphin Street(1947)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director
T-Men(1947)
Sound Service, Inc., Jack R. Whitney, Sound Director

Special Award

Bill and Coo(1948)
Special Award
Winner
Shoe Shine Jasper(1947)
Italy
Winner
Song of the South(1946)
Special Award
Winner

Art Direction (Black-and-White)

Great Expectations(1946)
Art Direction: John Bryan; Set Decoration: Wilfred Shingleton
Winner
The Foxes of Harrow(1947)
Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Maurice Ransford; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox

Art Direction (Color)

Black Narcissus(1947)
Art Direction: Alfred Junge; Set Decoration: Alfred Junge
Winner
Life with Father(1947)
Art Direction: Robert M. Haas; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins

Special Effects

Green Dolphin Street(1947)
Special Visual Effects by A. Arnold Gillespie, Warren Newcombe; Special Audible Effects by Douglas Shearer, Michael Steinore
Winner
Unconquered(1947)
Special Visual Effects by Farciot Edouart, Devereux Jennings, Gordon Jennings, Wallace Kelley, Paul Lerpae; Special Audible Effects by George Dutton