21st Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1949)

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• Date of Ceremony: Thursday, March 24, 1949
• For films released in: 1948

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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 21st Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Motion Picture

• Hamlet
  J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films
• Johnny Belinda
  Warner Bros.
• The Red Shoes
  J. Arthur Rank-Archers
• The Snake Pit
  20th Century-Fox
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  Warner Bros.

Best Directing

• Hamlet
  Laurence Olivier
• Johnny Belinda
  Jean Negulesco
• The Search
  Fred Zinnemann
• The Snake Pit
  Anatole Litvak
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  John Huston

Best Actor

• Hamlet
  Laurence Olivier
• Johnny Belinda
  Lew Ayres
• The Search
  Montgomery Clift
• Sitting Pretty
  Clifton Webb
• When My Baby Smiles at Me
  Dan Dailey

Best Actress

• I Remember Mama
  Irene Dunne
• Joan of Arc
  Ingrid Bergman
• Johnny Belinda
  Jane Wyman
• The Snake Pit
  Olivia de Havilland
• Sorry, Wrong Number
  Barbara Stanwyck

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• I Remember Mama
  Oscar Homolka
• Joan of Arc
  Jose Ferrer
• Johnny Belinda
  Charles Bickford
• The Luck of the Irish
  Cecil Kellaway
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  Walter Huston

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Hamlet
  Jean Simmons
• I Remember Mama
  Barbara Bel Geddes
• I Remember Mama
  Ellen Corby
• Johnny Belinda
  Agnes Moorehead
• Key Largo
  Claire Trevor

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

• Hamlet
  Roger K. Furse [Art Direction] and Carmen Dillon [Set Decoration]
• Johnny Belinda
  Robert Haas [Art Direction] and William Wallace [Set Decoration]

Best Art Direction (Color)

• Joan of Arc
  Richard Day [Art Direction], Edwin Casey Roberts [Set Decoration] and Joseph Kish [Set Decoration]
• The Red Shoes
  Hein Heckroth [Art Direction] and Arthur Lawson [Set Decoration]

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• A Foreign Affair
  Charles B. Lang Jr.
• I Remember Mama
  Nicholas Musuraca
• Johnny Belinda
  Ted McCord
• The Naked City
  William Daniels
• Portrait of Jennie
  Joseph August

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Green Grass of Wyoming
  Charles G. Clarke
• Joan of Arc
  Joseph Valentine, William V. Skall and Winton Hoch
• The Loves of Carmen
  William Snyder
• The Three Musketeers
  Robert Planck

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• B. F.'s Daughter
  Irene
• Hamlet
  Roger K. Furse

Best Costume Design (Color)

• The Emperor Waltz
  Edith Head and Gile Steele
• Joan of Arc
  Dorothy Jeakins and Karinska

Best Documentary (Feature)

• The Quiet One
  Janice Loeb
• The Secret Land
  Orville O. Dull

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

• Heart to Heart
  Herbert Morgan
• Operation Vittles
  United States Army Air Force
• Toward Independence
  United States Army

Best Film Editing

• Joan of Arc
  Frank Sullivan
• Johnny Belinda
  David Weisbart
• The Naked City
  Paul Weatherwax
• Red River
  Christian Nyby
• The Red Shoes
  Reginald Mills

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

• Hamlet
  William Walton
• Joan of Arc
  Hugo Friedhofer
• Johnny Belinda
  Max Steiner
• The Red Shoes
  Brian Easdale
• The Snake Pit
  Alfred Newman

Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

• Easter Parade
  Johnny Green and Roger Edens
• The Emperor Waltz
  Victor Young
• The Pirate
  Lennie Hayton
• Romance on the High Seas
  Ray Heindorf
• When My Baby Smiles at Me
  Alfred Newman

Best Music (Song)

• Casbah "For Every Man There's a Woman"
  Harold Arlen [Music by] and Leo Robin [Lyrics by]
• The Paleface "Buttons and Bows"
  Jay Livingston [Music and Lyrics by] and Ray Evans [Music and Lyrics by]
• Romance on the High Seas "It's Magic"
  Jule Styne [Music by] and Sammy Cahn [Lyrics by]
• That Lady in Ermine "This Is the Moment"
  Frederick Hollander [Music by] and Leo Robin [Lyrics by]
• Wet Blanket Policy "The Woody Woodpecker Song"
  Ramey Idriss [Music and Lyrics by] and George Tibbles [Music and Lyrics by]

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• The Little Orphan
  Fred Quimby
• Mickey and the Seal
  Walt Disney
• Mouse Wreckers
  Edward Selzer
• Robin Hoodlum
  United Productions of America
• Tea for Two Hundred
  Walt Disney

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• Annie Was a Wonder
  Herbert Moulton
• Cinderella Horse
  Gordon Hollingshead
• So You Want to Be on the Radio
  Gordon Hollingshead
• Symphony of a City
  Edmund H. Reek
• You Can't Win
  Pete Smith

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• Calgary Stampede
  Gordon Hollingshead
• Going to Blazes
  Herbert Morgan
• Samba-Mania
  Harry Grey
• Seal Island
  Walt Disney
• Snow Capers
  Thomas Mead

Best Sound Recording

• Johnny Belinda
  Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department and Col. Nathan Levinson [Sound Director]
• Moonrise
  Republic Studio Sound Department and Daniel J. Bloomberg [Sound Director]
• The Snake Pit
  20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department and Thomas T. Moulton [Sound Director]

Best Special Effects

• Deep Waters
  Ralph Hammeras [Special Visual Effects by], Fred Sersen [Special Visual Effects by], Edward Snyder [Special Visual Effects by] and Roger Heman [Special Audible Effects by]
• Portrait of Jennie
  Paul Eagler [Special Visual Effects by], J. McMillan Johnson [Special Visual Effects by], Russell Shearman [Special Visual Effects by], Clarence Slifer [Special Visual Effects by], Charles Freeman [Special Audible Effects by] and James G. Stewart [Special Audible Effects by]

Best Writing (Screenplay)

• A Foreign Affair
  Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and Richard L. Breen
• Johnny Belinda
  Irmgard Von Cube and Allen Vincent
• The Search
  Richard Schweizer and David Wechsler
• The Snake Pit
  Frank Partos and Millen Brand
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  John Huston

Best Writing (Motion Picture Story)

• Louisiana Story
  Frances Flaherty and Robert Flaherty
• The Naked City
  Malvin Wald
• Red River
  Borden Chase
• The Red Shoes
  Emeric Pressburger
• The Search
  Richard Schweizer and David Wechsler