Academy Awards 1948 Nominations

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Best Motion Picture	Best Director
Best Actor	Best Actress
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Original Screenplay	Best Motion Picture Story
Best Screenplay	Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short	Best Live Action Short Subject (One-reel)
Best Live Action Short Subject (Two-reel)	Best Short Subject (Cartoon)
Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture	Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
Best Song	Best Sound Recording
Best Art Direction (Color)	Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)
Best Cinematography (Color)	Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Best Film Editing	Best Special Effects

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Best Motion Picture

• Crossfire
• Gentleman's Agreement
• Great Expectations
• Miracle on 34th Street
• The Bishop's Wife

Best Director

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

Best Actor

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

Best Actress

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

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

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

Best Original Screenplay

• A Double Life
• Body and Soul
• Monsieur Verdoux
• Shoeshine
• The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

Best Motion Picture Story

• A Cage of Nightingales
• It Happened on Fifth Avenue
• Kiss of Death
• Miracle on 34th Street
• Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

Best Screenplay

• Boomerang!
• Crossfire
• Gentleman's Agreement
• Great Expectations
• Miracle on 34th Street

Best Documentary Feature

• Design for Death
• Journey Into Medicine
• The World Is Rich

Best Documentary Short

• First Steps
• Passport to Nowhere
• School in the Mailbox

Best Live Action Short Subject (One-reel)

• Brooklyn, U.S.A.
• Goodbye, Miss Turlock
• Moon Rockets
• Now You See It
• So You Want to Be in Pictures

Best Live Action Short Subject (Two-reel)

• A Voice Is Born
• Champagne for Two
• Climbing the Matterhorn
• Fight of the Wild Stallions
• Give Us the Earth!

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• Chip an' Dale
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse
• Pluto's Blue Note
• Tubby the Tuba
• Tweetie Pie

Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

• A Double Life
• Captain from Castile
• Forever Amber
• Life with Father
• The Bishop's Wife

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Fiesta
• Mother Wore Tights
• My Wild Irish Rose
• Road to Rio
• Song of the South

Best Song

• Good News ("Pass That Peace Pipe")
• Mother Wore Tights ("You Do")
• Song of the South ("Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah")
• The Perils of Pauline ("I Wish I Didn't Love You So")
• The Time, the Place and the Girl ("A Gal in Calico")

Best Sound Recording

• Green Dolphin Street
• T-Men
• The Bishop's Wife

Best Art Direction (Color)

• Black Narcissus
• Life with Father

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

• Great Expectations
• The Foxes of Harrow

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Black Narcissus
• Life with Father
• Mother Wore Tights

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Great Expectations
• Green Dolphin Street
• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Best Film Editing

• Body and Soul
• Gentleman's Agreement
• Green Dolphin Street
• Odd Man Out
• The Bishop's Wife

Best Special Effects

• Green Dolphin Street
• Unconquered